Thread: Ubuntu-N8x0 2.2 - released
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swajime is offline swajime
2009-05-26 , 12:14
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I have to admit, I'm reminded of my first ever linux installation ... I tried every linux version I could find on a system with an unsupported SiS video chipset. It took me several tries before I realized that I needed to stick with a pure text installation, and completely skip anything and everything gooey (GUI). Nothing more fun than being a blind software developer.

Then ... using rpm to upgrade ... worked fine until rpm was snuck into the long list of what was going to be upgraded. You can guess what happened. Rpm failed to upgrade. Being that it was using shared libraries, and some of those libraries were upgraded and some weren't, I couldn't run the rpm from my cd, or the one that I had downloaded. Nothing would compile. Stayed that way for years because it was my main firewall/gateway and still functioned as such. Just couldn't upgrade or downgrade, or install or uninstall anything at all. And guess what... it's still running RH 7.0. A system crash finally forced me to figure out how to manually downgrade the system from the broken 7.1. And it still has no gooey GUI.

Now I am quite ubuntu-prone.

Originally Posted by meizirkki View Post
This how-to so needs to be updated. I have once installed Ubuntu by following these instruction, result was: wrong stylus driver (stuck pressed), no Wlan PowerSave, no n810 hw-keyboard, no usable system. Gnome never started up. I had to install a huge bunch of software from Mer repo to get all the n8x0 specific features to work correctly.

I haven't now installed ubuntu for a month or so, i am totally bored with ugly and slow Gnome.

This howto really is "left behind"
So ... here now, I've got xubuntu installed on my n810. I'm able to log in because I changed my password to one with no numbers. The mouse pointer doesn't much care what my stylus is doing. And none of the icons seem to function.

But with a little patience, and very slowly dragging the stylus the wrong way, I am able to reach and activate the Icons at the top of the login screen before logging in and run the terminal. I thought that was awesome, until I tried modifying the system. Can't use cd to get to /etc because the / character is not accessible. Can't use ifconfig to set the ip address of wlan0 because the numbers are not accessible.

At least now I can access the Reboot icon and not have to pop the battery ...

And I think I figured out what's causing the boot from flash to fail. It seems it works fine if you use the button in the middle of the cursor pad to activate the flash option. But if you use the enter key, it says it's going to boot, and then power-cycles.

I guess I need to give it a rest for a while.