i did all the step by step things , and when i flashed the kernel and rebooted my nokia stopped ... just stopped ... the blue text Nokia is just sitting there and nothing happens ... :\ i can't start it , can someone help me what to do ?
It is possible to extract kernel from firmware image (flasher-3.0 -u -F firmwareimage.bin) and flash kernel over usb again, as explained in jott's instructions http://sse2.net/rotate/.
Just wondering what exact 'step by step things' you did and which kernel you flashed. If you flashed from the device by kernel_flasher and used my tarred and gzipped kernel than I don't know how this happened. The flasher checks some bytes in kernel image header and won't flash files with wrong header or shorter length. Such bad flash may happen only when header and size is ok but the zImage file is still corrupted and have some bad data inside. This should not be possible when the kernel is inside .tar.gz. At least you would see some error when extracting the archive. Still, maybe I should add some additional checking. Not sure if there is some checksum to compute and verify but maybe I could just strip the header and try to decompress the kernel via gzip somehow (kernel image is gzip compressed). That would probably catch some random corruption inside.
It is possible to extract kernel from firmware image (flasher-3.0 -u -F firmwareimage.bin) and flash kernel over usb again, as explained in jott's instructions http://sse2.net/rotate/.
Just wondering what exact 'step by step things' you did and which kernel you flashed. If you flashed from the device by kernel_flasher and used my tarred and gzipped kernel than I don't know how this happened. The flasher checks some bytes in kernel image header and won't flash files with wrong header or shorter length. Such bad flash may happen only when header and size is ok but the zImage file is still corrupted and have some bad data inside. This should not be possible when the kernel is inside .tar.gz. At least you would see some error when extracting the archive. Still, maybe I should add some additional checking. Not sure if there is some checksum to compute and verify but maybe I could just strip the header and try to decompress the kernel via gzip somehow (kernel image is gzip compressed). That would probably catch some random corruption inside.
i used kerneel_flasher and had no error message , i reflashed the os and everyything is ok now, but i still can't rotate my screen... i'm thinking of trying again but i don't want to lose my things again
i installed everything succesfully, but i can't see the applet...
If i try in a terminal: xrandr i get:
"Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". RandR extension missing
I have the xserver-xomap installed following the qwerty instructions, and also i flash my kernel (i try with the two fixed kernels) with your instructions too.
i used kerneel_flasher and had no error message , i reflashed the os and everyything is ok now, but i still can't rotate my screen... i'm thinking of trying again but i don't want to lose my things again
Well, I don't know what happened so I don't know if it may happen again. I flash kernels directly from device quite often and so far this did not happen to me (at least with kernel image that was tested to be working :-). Also you should always be able to boot linux and flash just kernel, not full firmware. I'd suggest to try again, the chance of success is quite high. Just make sure you have at least 2 megabytes free in current directory and don't run too many applications when flashing.
I just threw it onto my 810 and it worked perfectly. Like everyone else says, the internet is mostly a wonderful thing in portrait mode. Plus, now, xournal is even more useful.
Its too bad that some of the menus dont exactly align themselves correctly, but I bet that a little more poking around will lead to a config file to tweak which will fix it. I imagine that somewhere the amount of padding for each menu is set or somesuch.
I read about this.
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Important update:
As fanoush pointed out, xv was broken with my initial patch. The updated patch should fix this. He also noted that due to the broken package structure in maemo, the osso-software-version package breaks when changing package versions of packages dependend of it. Hence I renamed the xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202-randr01_armel.deb package back to xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202_armel.deb, I also removed the libxrandr2 package as you can use the one in the maemo repositories. To fix your osso-software-version package please install
xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202_armel.deb
and libxrandr2_1.2.1-1_armel.deb
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and then there are these files..
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kernel-rx-34_2.6.21.0-osso71-randr2 (md5: c64d48d731b5bd2007f0d836cd25b977)
xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202_armel.deb
rotate-sb-plugin_0.1-1_armel.deb
xrandr_1.2.2-0_armel.deb
rotate-sb-plugin-0.1.tar.bz2 (Source of the rotation plugin)
Updated_blizzard_rotation_support_v2.diff (Kernel patch used)
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I know that I need the kernel, the xserver (the same on both of the above), and the rotate plugin. But what about xrandr, which one do I install?
how far away or what is the possibility of just having a one click install to be able to do screen rotation???
edit: ok , i found all the files on one of the given links , but what i need is a step by step instruction on how to do it.... im not sure how to flash the kernel.... someone please be kind and give me detailed instructions
