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Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work

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Originally Posted by Lullen (Post 783024)

I remember seeing that now but all I got was a black window if I do not remember correctly. In addition that was really laggy too... I will try again later today and say exactly what the problem was. But with ubuntu it lags when scrolling in pages, opening windows, looking at movies at 720p. The internet is slow too so kind of everything is slow :)

While I cannot help with the emulator question, I can probably help with this.
Ubuntu, like windows XP, has a decent "no-3d" graphics driver installed by default. This driver is very basic, and will work on most any hardware, as it doesn't use any GPU functions, and does everything on the CPU.
As a result, scrolling and other tasks are often jerky, and you have no video acceleration*
What you are going to want to do to solve your problem is install either the ATI or Nvidia binary drivers - Ubuntu provides a nice tool for doing so called "hardware drivers", which can be found in your main menu.

*Note: Video acceleration on linux is spotty, mainly because it involves proprietary code. Just like how only the default player on the N900 has good video acceleration(and not, say, mplayer), on desktop Linux you have the same basic thing.
Now, that being said, there is some acceleration possible, but you first need a proper binary driver, and even -then-, Nvidia cards are the only ones that support full acceleration via VDPAU.
(But, if you have a Nvidia card, Nvidia driver, and a VDPAU codec for Mplayer, you can offload it all to the GPU and get good 1080P bluray-size playback)

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work

Strange things happens to me! My windows was not working, I did change the sizes on the win partition and then linux stoped to work and windows started to work :D So now I am free from ubuntu!

But I have not still got the qthello to run and it is so EXTREMLY slow :(

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work

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Originally Posted by Lullen (Post 782168)

I have tried madde and the emulator in the Qt SDK with no success

Sorry just to clarify, did you install the "Nokia Qt SDK" or the "QT SDK". I ask cause the Nokia Qt SDK is for mobile applications while the QT SDK is for desktop applications (or at least that's what I've found out from trying both).

The Nokia Qt SDK comes with madde built in :)

Edit: Not sure how you ran the emulator with MADDE, but here is a thread about it incase you tried a different method. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...Madde+emulator
Edit2: Whoops, guess you did try the QEMU :o