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Skry	2013-04-01 , 17:25
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Originally Posted by ayazpak

I booted into Archlinux, but in command mode instead of GUI mode. Any solution?

That's how it's intended to be. Read the instructions.

Last edited by Skry; 2013-04-01 at 17:34.

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AhmadMhd	2013-04-03 , 03:52
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Originally Posted by Skry

Approx 20MB. I'll be moving it to new host asap, and after that anyone willing can keep a mirror IF he is ready to keep it up to date.

20MB is pretty small and easy to handle
Tell us when you have the hosting

I'll try to have a look at the driver source.

Thanks!

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Skry	2013-04-03 , 13:52
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Originally Posted by AhmadMhd

20MB is pretty small and easy to handle
Tell us when you have the hosting

Will do.

Originally Posted by AhmadMhd

I'll try to have a look at the driver source.

You probably will need to look at the kernel driver source too, available on the same location.

Btw, everyone, if you feel you can help with something like the above, don't be shy. I'm increasingly busy with other stuff so, can't do everything by myself.

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Keneraali	2013-04-04 , 11:08
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What's the best desktop engine to use with Arch? And how to get right click working?
I've tried E17, lxde and I'm now using Xfce

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caveman	2013-04-04 , 13:09
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Originally Posted by Keneraali

What's the best desktop engine to use with Arch? And how to get right click working?
I've tried E17, lxde and I'm now using Xfce

The desktop is a matter of taste. Currently I am using e17.

right mouse button emulation: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=299

Code:

        Option "EmulateThirdButton" "1"
        Option "EmulateThirdButtonTimeout" "750"
        Option "EmulateThirdButtonThreshold" "30"

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Skry	2013-04-04 , 14:57
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Originally Posted by Keneraali

What's the best desktop engine to use with Arch?

Depends on what you are intending to do with it, what kind of functionality you need and are used to. Many seem to like E17 and I too find it quite good. Personally I don't have any DE installed, and I mostly use tiling window manager everywhere I actually need to do something: dwm, spectrwm and awesome being my usual choices. Naturally these require some creativity, especially with keyboard shortcuts.

Originally Posted by Keneraali

And how to get right click working?

In addition to what caveman described, it's possible to map right and middle clicks to shift+click and fn+click with xbindkeys and xdotool.

Originally Posted by Keneraali

I've tried E17, lxde and I'm now using Xfce

Isn't that a bit heavy?

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Skry	2013-04-08 , 21:49
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New repo is now functional.

Code:

$ cat /etc/pacman.d/alarm-n900 
Server = http://alarm-n900.org/$repo
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49989728/arch-n900/$repo

Also, I noticed that X crashes appear even with the regular fbdev driver. Not sure what to do about this, might need to revert to 1.13.

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caveman	2013-04-09 , 12:53
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Originally Posted by Skry

Also, I noticed that X crashes appear even with the regular fbdev driver. Not sure what to do about this, might need to revert to 1.13.

I have been experiencing this as well. Here are the partial logs for reference:

Code:

(EE) 
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 
(EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x4
(EE) BUG: triggered 'if (inSignalContext)'
(EE) BUG: log.c:502 in LogVMessageVerb()
(EE) Warning: attempting to log data in a signal unsafe manner while in signal co
ntext.
Please update to check inSignalContext and/or use LogMessageVerbSigSafe() or ErrorFSigSafe().
The offending log format message is:

Fatal server error:

Attached Files

Xorg.0.log.txt (15.6 KB, 203 views)

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sojab0on	2013-04-09 , 16:38
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I have got an problem i just managed to extract the arch rootfs to my 16gb micro sd card and i created an u-boot menu item file with following in it

ITEM_NAME="Arch Linux ARM (SD Card)"
ITEM_KERNEL="/boot/uImage"
ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p1"
ITEM_FSTYPE="ext4"
ITEM_OMAPATAG="1"
ITEM_CMDLINE="root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait
init=/bin/systemd omapfb.vram=0:3M,1:3M,2:3M quiet"

now when i use the u-boot-update-bootmenu command from xtem in root it give back then following

configuration file: /etc/bootmenu.d/20-archlinux.item
'rror: unkown file system 'ext4

what can i do to correct this and be able to run arch linux on my n900

thanx for the advance

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caveman	2013-04-09 , 18:01
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Originally Posted by sojab0on

now when i use the u-boot-update-bootmenu command from xtem in root it give back then following

configuration file: /etc/bootmenu.d/20-archlinux.item
'rror: unkown file system 'ext4

My guess is that you are running maemo's kernel. You may try installing kernel-power-bootimg, as it supports ext4, and retry under kp.

Or use ext3 on the uSD.