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#53
Let me just start by giving my usual rant about how there's a reason there's 'extras-devel' and 'cssu-testing' repositories, and it's so that things like this can be there, instead of users having to track threads down whenever they want to check for a new version, or reinstall.

On the other hand, I understand not wanting to throw something really experimental into an official repository, especially if time is limited, so I can't get too irritated by this, but still. Wish all you people producing useful software would shove it into -devel as soon as it compiles and is packageable, and doesn't auto-self-destructs the device as soon as you install it.

Other than that though, this looks awesome. Mainly because this is a lot more intuitive than the h-e-n version. AND the auto-mount and file-manager auto-open make the experience of using USB devices with the N900 a lot more typical-computer-like.

Though I would say ideally having led patterns configurable would be better (why not make red led the standard color for power being output from the N900's USB? By default, blue is new messages, green is full charge, orange is charging, yellow is 'emergency' charging and the like, and white is normal idle. Reds, purples, and blue-greens, are really the only colors left unused by default, and anyone already modding their LED colors/patterns can easily adjust the patterns brought in by this package as well, if they don't like one of those colors as a default.

And I imagine everyone would want auto-mounting behavior, but might not want auto-open-file-manager to happen all the time as soon as you plug in a USB stick (unless there's a way to open windows in the background completely without interrupting what the user is doing, in which case that should be a configurable option somewhere).

Originally Posted by Helmy View Post
i looked quickly at the src and one thing i noticed was the usbmode.sh in the package is not the same as the one downloaded from http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pali/usbmode.sh
found on Pali's page at
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pal...o/bq2415x.html
i did not compare it line by line but i noticed a sleep for 1 second has been added in many places.
are the changes to usbmode.sh needed only for USB Mode, or the usbmode.sh found at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pali/usbmode.sh is an old version?
also i'm curious why a sleep for 1 second was added?
I'd like answer to this too (though my by-default assumption when I see sleep commands inside a script is that they're unnecessary overprecaution).

Originally Posted by mrover View Post
Would I be able to use this hub?

http://www.solarsshop.com/dtech-dt40...tery-p-47.html
Should work just fine, I think. I mean, all hubs ultimately do the same thing, and the kernel driver should be able to handle them all just fine?

Originally Posted by mrover
And more general question: can N900 work in host mode and charge at the same time?
I think based on what i know/remember this is possible, although I am not 100% certain.
 

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