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#521
Originally Posted by lenoch View Post
By a chance, do you still have sources for this? I would love to test the BFQ scheduler also on my N900. If not, we could start by repackaging kernel-power to get the best from Arch and Maemo (if I get it right that this is your intention).
Yeah, I have the sources, I may even have it packaged, I need to take a look at it.

We cant use kernel-power, systemd requires >= 3.0 (Mer 2.6.37 kernel has something backported, it worked last time I checked.) and there are few other issues too. Not saying it's not possible though, someone should investigate that option more in-depth.


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Leds work fine. For calls you need pulseaudio and modules from Nemo. Camera is possible if someone fixes drivers. GPS I do not know, there is some example code around showing how to access it but I have no more knowledge about it. I don't support overclocking, N900 is fast enough without it. It just requires a bit of thinking/learning to find the right software to run on such hardware.

As an offtopic sidenote, I was given an old laptop, Fujitsu Lifebook C-6555, which has 650MHz Pentium 3 (and the most awesome 440BX chipset), 320MB of RAM and ATI Mach64. I installed Arch Linux, of course, and with my usual choice of software (dwm, dmenu and urxvt) the system just flies. It's a beauty in so many ways, and I just love using it. Soo, with some tinkering, it should not be that complicated to get smooth user experience out of N900, with or without overclocking.
 

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@skry do you have phone functionality? sms ,calls and gprs? could you upload that archive?
thank you
it's a pitty , if the n900 kunbuntu guys will get involved , the arch os on our n900 will become much more
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#523
Originally Posted by Alecsandru View Post
@skry do you have phone functionality? sms ,calls and gprs? could you upload that archive?
thank you
it's a pitty , if the n900 kunbuntu guys will get involved , the arch os on our n900 will become much more
SMS and calls work, I have not tested GPRS. Configuration is a bit tricky though. Sources can be downloaded from wherever Mer and Nemo keep their files nowadays. Cant comment about Kubuntu.
 
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...use mer kernel...
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2. satisfactory development, growth, or advance she is making progress in maths
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new kernel breaks usability , new fixes ,new configs , new etc (new kernel but no drivers , what would be the purpose of that? some guys here on TMO said that the kernel version above n900's one handles requests in a different way , that's why the kernel remained the same , the new stuff was patched , like hw sync , filesystems , etc),by the way what are the advantages of the new kernel? those can't be backported?
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Calls and sms working i woud be messing my device seriously after reflash though gprs is in my proirity . Srky will do something about that i know . So i did apt get install and sucessfuly installed a irritating dependency for some program an hour ago so i think thatS enough experience to delve in the mud
 
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#527
Originally Posted by Skry View Post
Yeah, I have the sources, I may even have it packaged, I need to take a look at it.

We cant use kernel-power, systemd requires >= 3.0 (Mer 2.6.37 kernel has something backported, it worked last time I checked.) and there are few other issues too. Not saying it's not possible though, someone should investigate that option more in-depth.
I don’t know if I’m insane, need to ask the right people, but theoretically the kernel-power patches could be forward-ported and some magic done so closed-source modules work, right? Now this is how to waste a lot of time :-D This is just talking for now, I’m taking some time off off-line. I will try to find out more about kernels floating around.

Good job getting Arch running well on that laptop, I’m glad to hear that.

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#528
Originally Posted by Alecsandru View Post
@skry do you have phone functionality? sms ,calls and gprs?
GPRS has always worked for Arch (or any alternative distro), as long as phonet device is around, and ofono works. I tested this with a couple of 2.6.x kernels, as well as some 3.x
 

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skry any plans for wayland?
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Skry, may I howto to run X on Alarm?
I have try install xf86-video-fbdev-sgx-git-20130319-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz or the unaccelerated xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.3-3-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz, but still can't run X
I got this error message when I try run #X -configure: (WW) module ABI major version (13) doesn't match the server's version (14)
When I just run #X it just show blank screen and then rebooted.
This the error complete log:
Code:
[  2788.290] 
X.Org X Server 1.14.2
Release Date: 2013-06-25
[  2788.295] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[  2788.298] Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.34-1-FARM armv7l 
[  2788.300] Current Operating System: Linux alarm 3.5.7.5-n900 #1 PREEMPT Sun Feb 17 05:44:07 EET 2013 armv7l
[  2788.301] Kernel command line: root=/dev/mmcblk1p6 rootwait init=/bin/systemd omapfb.vram=0:3M,1:3M,2:3M quiet
[  2788.307] Build Date: 01 July 2013  07:12:46AM
[  2788.310]  
[  2788.313] Current version of pixman: 0.30.2
[  2788.320] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[  2788.321] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[  2788.341] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Aug 10 08:10:49 2013
[  2788.342] (II) Loader magic: 0x1c0e58
[  2788.342] (II) Module ABI versions:
[  2788.342] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[  2788.342] 	X.Org Video Driver: 14.1
[  2788.342] 	X.Org XInput driver : 19.1
[  2788.342] 	X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
[  2788.353] List of video drivers:
[  2788.358] 	fbdev
[  2788.358] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[  2788.361] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[  2788.365] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  2788.365] 	compiled for 1.13.2.901, module version = 0.4.0
[  2788.365] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[  2788.366] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.1
[  2788.372] (EE) module ABI major version (13) doesn't match the server's version (14)
[  2788.372] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[  2788.372] (II) Unloading fbdev
[  2788.373] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
[  2788.379] No devices to configure.  Configuration failed.
[  2788.379] (EE) Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.
This is the error when I run e17:
Code:
# starte17 
E - PID=8448, valgrind=0
ESTART: 0.00000 [0.00000] - Begin Startup
ESTART: 0.00354 [0.00354] - Signal Trap
ESTART: 0.00412 [0.00058] - Signal Trap Done
ESTART: 0.01071 [0.00659] - Eina Init
ESTART: 0.07205 [0.06134] - Eina Init Done
ESTART: 0.07288 [0.00082] - Determine Prefix
INF<e>e_prefix.c:25 =================================
INF<e>e_prefix.c:26 Enlightenment relocation handling
INF<e>e_prefix.c:27 =================================
INF<e>e_prefix.c:28 PREFIX:  /usr
INF<e>e_prefix.c:29 BINDIR:  /usr/bin
INF<e>e_prefix.c:30 LIBDIR:  /usr/lib
INF<e>e_prefix.c:31 DATADIR: /usr/share/enlightenment
INF<e>e_prefix.c:32 LOCALE:  /usr/share/locale
INF<e>e_prefix.c:33 =================================
ESTART: 0.14020 [0.06732] - Determine Prefix Done
ESTART: 0.14087 [0.00067] - Environment Variables
ESTART: 0.14154 [0.00067] - Environment Variables Done
ESTART: 0.14203 [0.00049] - Parse Arguments
ESTART: 0.14255 [0.00052] - Parse Arguments Done
ESTART: 0.14301 [0.00046] - Eet Init
ESTART: 0.24542 [0.10242] - Eet Init Done
ESTART: 0.25989 [0.01447] - Ecore Init
ESTART: 0.26233 [0.00244] - Ecore Init Done
ESTART: 0.26300 [0.00067] - EIO Init
ESTART: 0.28461 [0.02161] - EIO Init Done
ESTART: 0.31189 [0.02728] - Ecore Event Handlers
ESTART: 0.31247 [0.00058] - Ecore Event Handlers Done
ESTART: 0.31290 [0.00043] - Ecore_File Init
ESTART: 0.38342 [0.07053] - Ecore_File Init Done
ESTART: 0.38406 [0.00064] - Ecore_Con Init
ESTART: 0.38440 [0.00033] - Ecore_Con Init Done
ESTART: 0.38477 [0.00037] - Ecore_Ipc Init
ESTART: 0.38513 [0.00037] - Ecore_Ipc Init Done
ESTART: 0.38550 [0.00037] - Ecore_X Init
<<<< Enlightenment Error >>>>
Enlightenment cannot initialize Ecore_X!

E17: Begin Shutdown Procedure!
This starte17 file:
Code:
# cat /usr/bin/starte17 
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment_start
How can I successfully run e17 on Alarm?

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