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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2012-09-30, 05:10
Replies: 1
Views: 2,764
Posted By johnpad
dm9601 module

Hi,
I am trying to get a wired usb ethernet adapter up and running (amazing what you can get from ebay for $3). I followed through the instructions on the wiki, but after a bit of playing I realised...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2012-02-08, 08:55
Replies: 12
Views: 5,714
Posted By johnpad
Smile Thank you Opera

The continued support of Opera for Diablo is just outstanding. Fantastic work and thank you letting us continue to use these wonderful little devices.

-John
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-09-26, 02:48
Replies: 4
Views: 3,622
Posted By johnpad
Re: [SOLVED] CSSU - Disable screen rotation

> I'm not sure I understand, if you don't want rotation can't you just not use it?
The rotation seems to be enabled by default and I could not find a way to disable it. Maybe I need to install...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-09-25, 19:54
Replies: 4
Views: 3,622
Posted By johnpad
Smile Re: CSSU and rotation

Brilliant! Works perfectly. As per your suggestion I added -extension RANDR at the end of the ARGS declaration and now everything is locked in landscape mode as I wanted.
(I just created a 0xFFFF...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-09-25, 14:45
Replies: 4
Views: 3,622
Posted By johnpad
[SOLVED] CSSU - Disable screen rotation

Hi,
I just successfully installed the CSSU on my old N810 and it looks great. The only problem is that I would like to disable the screen rotatation. I have searched and searched but have yet to...
Forum: Applications 2011-03-16, 02:15
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

Looks like it is failing launching the youtube-dl-x command.
What happens if you just run the download command directly?

/home/user/MyDocs/youtube-dl-x -f 5 -o /media/mmc1...
Forum: Applications 2011-03-15, 11:41
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

df is the "disk free" command which shows you how much space you have on your disk. The -m option displays the result in megabytes.
If you start an xterm just type in df -m to check you have enough...
Forum: Applications 2011-03-15, 03:52
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Forum: Applications 2011-03-02, 10:51
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

Do you mean the OSD (on screen display) which mplayer can show while playing a video?
If so, try the keyboard shortcut o which should toggle the OSD options.
-John
Forum: Applications 2011-01-10, 09:48
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

1 Browse to this thread on your tablet browser
2 Download the file to MyDocs (or copy it over from your computer)
3 Start up a terminal window
4 Type

cd /home/user/MyDocs
tar -xvf...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-01-10, 00:40
Replies: 13
Views: 8,111
Posted By johnpad
Re: MyTube help!!!!!! someone fix it

I had a go at fixing this issue and I have it working perfectly on my n810 (although I will be first to admit that the updates are a bit of a hack).

The discussion is over on the Applications...
Forum: Applications 2011-01-07, 19:59
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

Hi,

Here is the tar of my modified script which seems to be working for me. Good suggestion to drop it in a user area (though I think it will need to be a unix, not FAT, partition for the file...
Forum: Applications 2011-01-07, 13:26
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

But this is on my old N810. Anyone want to send me an N900 :)?
I was right, it is the .part file name.
Very quickly hacking out the .part filename:

return filename ...
Forum: Applications 2011-01-07, 13:06
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Smile Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

I had a go at fixing this after reading through the earlier threads, but I do not know Python.

If you put this in after line 379 and comment out line 380 it works better, but not perfectly. The...
Forum: Applications 2011-01-07, 11:45
Replies: 490
Views: 156,266
Posted By johnpad
Re: Youtube browser - mYTube - released

Hi,

I just had a play with this and I can get it working (partly).

Step 1: Head over to http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ and download the most recent youtube-dl script
(currently...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-10-23, 01:08
Replies: 6
Views: 3,012
Posted By johnpad
Re: Request - Boron

Hi Philip,

The Boron developer sent the following suggestion.

Thanks again,
John


The eventfd man page says it is available since Linux 2.6.22 and glibc 2.8.
If this API is not available...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-10-18, 12:58
Replies: 6
Views: 3,012
Posted By johnpad
Re: Request - Boron

Random trivial examples:
)> foreach character "maemo" [ print character ]
m
a
e
m
o
)> type? last [ 1 "maemo" 10:30 ]
== time!
)> type? second [ 1 "mameo" 10:30 ]
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-10-18, 08:15
Replies: 6
Views: 3,012
Posted By johnpad
Smile Re: Request - Boron

Fantastic, thank you. I'm running it now.

I have been using rebol for years and it is my language of choice for many simple (and complicated) tasks, but unfortunately it is closed source. This is...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-10-15, 00:02
Replies: 6
Views: 3,012
Posted By johnpad
Request - Boron

Hi,

This is a request for help to get the boron language built for diablo.
Boron is an open source rebol like functional language which would be a great fit for these tablets....
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-08-06, 13:09
Replies: 9
Views: 4,952
Posted By johnpad
Re: Bluetooth pairing to an iPhone

Bingo!

Changed the class with
hciconfig hci0 class 0x100114

Which gives us:
Nokia-N810-23-14:~# hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: UART
BD Address: XXXXXXX ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-08-06, 12:38
Replies: 9
Views: 4,952
Posted By johnpad
Re: Bluetooth pairing to an iPhone

I think I'm getting closer


Nokia-N810-23-14:~# hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: UART
BD Address: XXXXXXXX ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:11221 acl:0 sco:0...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-07-31, 05:00
Replies: 9
Views: 4,952
Posted By johnpad
Re: Bluetooth pairing to an iPhone

It is a 3GS which I bought as it was on a bargain contract. Equiv to 31USD per month including handset, calls and 300MB of data (24 month contract). This was the same rate that I was already paying...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-07-30, 06:20
Replies: 9
Views: 4,952
Posted By johnpad
Re: Bluetooth pairing to an iPhone

I think that this was true with the earlier devices, but the iOS4 release provides open tethering support where providers allow it and my provider does. I can find clear instructions to tether over...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2010-07-30, 03:47
Replies: 9
Views: 4,952
Posted By johnpad
Bluetooth pairing to an iPhone

Hi,

I recently acquired an iPhone but I am having difficulties with bluetooth pairing so I can use it with my N810 (Diablo) while I am out and about.

These are the steps I have followed:

1...
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2010-06-05, 05:58
Replies: 5
Views: 3,596
Posted By johnpad
Re: Minimo, mplayer, Fanoush kernel: Should I upgrade to 2007HE?

This might also interest you as an avenue to a lot more interesting s/w.
talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=13925
I have easy debian installed on my n810 and it is great.
If you do go down the 2008HE...
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