Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

Recently I have felt no interest in developing my app qexercise. But so it happen, I talked with my friend who uses the app and he made me feel more interested in this project again. As some might know I do not have any phone to test it with like I did before. Now my only way to test it have been to upload it on extras and let others see if it works. This make a single test take almost an hour that way, if I was lucky and he was at his computer. So now I have decided to once again try to get the emulator working. I have tried madde and the emulator in the Qt SDK with no success. I have no idea on how to get this working or how the stuff works. With Qt creator I think the problem was the qt maemo stuff and with madde all I got was a black screen.

As I have not found any guides for this I would gladly hope someone could write a small guide on how to set it up, would anyone spend some time for me and maybe others to write this?

I am a windows 7 user mostly but as I got a virus on it I am not able to start it anymore so I currently use ubuntu(wich really do not work well for me). So guides for any of those OSes would be appreciated!


Yours,

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

Hi,

have you seen this page? Which version of MADDE did you use? What was the problem in Ubuntu? This might help to figure out, what the problem might be.

Daniel

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

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 :)

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

Now madde is installed on ubuntu but I can not start it as it says it not installed.

"Installation complete

Commands 'mad' and 'mad-admin' are now linked to '/home/ludwig/bin'.
Your current or next shell invocation may find these programs.
If not, please add '/home/ludwig/bin' to your PATH.

All done"

when I write "mad" or "sudo mad" it tells me I have to write "apt-get install mmv" Any clues?

When I go to that bin folder I see mad and mad-admin and both are in blue.

Edit: log out made it start

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

you may have to start a new shell
window (xterm). The mad and mad-admin progs
aren't on your PATH(environment varialbe
searched for executable progs)
The installer should add the bin path to
your PATH, but this is only recognized in a new
session.

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

Another problem "ludwig@ubuntu:~$ mad-admin create rx51-fremantle-pr12
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/ludwig/.madde/0.6.72/runtimes': Permission denied"

I tried with sudo before and then it do not find the command

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

Did you install madde as root?
I don't think this was necessary.
you can change the owner from root
to your user
sudo chown -r ludwig /home/ludwig/.madde

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

I did install it with sudo sh madname. I think I have put ludwig as root before as I wanted to open system files with the gui. But it did not work, it told me that it was a bad flag with the "-r"

edit: I looked at the help and it was a -R instead, thank you!

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

Gosh this is not going good for me today! I read http://wiki.maemo.org/MADDE/Device_r...device_runtime and now have the example qthello. I try to send it to the QEMU but nothing happens. It does not say that anything is wrong and the QEMU is up. What could I have missed? Have tried with both qexercise and qthello

Re: Getting a n900 emulator to work
 

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
 

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