rwhitby.net » Nokia N800 http://www.rwhitby.net The Internet Presence of Rod Whitby Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Using vncserver on the Nokia N800 http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/using-vncserver-on-the-nokia-n800.html http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/using-vncserver-on-the-nokia-n800.html#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:09:11 +0000 Rod Whitby http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/using-vncserver-on-the-nokia-n800.html There is a VNC Server available for the Nokia N800.

Some key bindings that I have found:

  • F3
    • Selects the Applications icon in the task navigator
  • F4
    • Opens the menu for the current application
  • F6
    • Toggles full screen mode
  • F7
    • Same as the + button
  • F8
    • Same as the – button
  • F9
    • Selects the application switcher (the >> button in the left hand bottom corner)
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http://box.mmapps.net/~keesj/

http://www.guardiani.us/index.php/N800_custom_packages

http://pierre.droids-corp.org/maemo/

http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/mine/emacs-for-maemo/

]]> http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/maemo-links.html/feed 0 Setting up my Nokia N800 http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/setting-up-my-nokia-n800.html http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/setting-up-my-nokia-n800.html#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:54:50 +0000 Rod Whitby http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/setting-up-my-nokia-n800.html I’m going to use this blog entry to capture everything I do to my new Nokia N800 when setting it up. Hopefully this will serve as a resource to other N800 users, but will also serve as a record for my own use in case I need to reinstall everything at a future date.

  • Download the latest firmware (latest at time of writing is OS 2008 edition v. 2.2007.51-3).
  • Flash it using the Nokia Internet Tablet Software Update Wizard.
  • Set up an internet connection.
  • (Optional) Enable Red Pill Mode (New Application catalogue, Web address: matrix, Cancel).
  • Add the Maemo Repositories to the Application Manager
  • Update all packages
  • Install openssh-server (so you can do the rest of this more comfortably from a remote ssh client window)
  • Install some necessary applications that are not in the Maemo repositories:
    • becomeroot (you only need this if you aren’t able to ssh in – use “sudo gainroot” in an xterm instead)
  • Change the host name in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname
  • Install a suitable authorized_keys file for password-less ssh login
  • Reboot and log back in as root
  • Reformat the internal SD card (/dev/mmcblk0, /media/mmc2):

    • # apt-get install e2fsprogs
    # umount /media/mmc1
    # umount /media/mmc2
    # sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk0
    /dev/mmcblk0p1 :0,6000,0C
    /dev/mmcblk0p2 :6000,,
    /dev/mmcblk0p3 :,,
    /dev/mmcblk0p4 :,,
    # mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1
    # mke2fs -j /dev/mmcblk0p2
    # shutdown -r now

  • Note that to mount the new ext3 filesystem, you need to:

    • # cd /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/
    # insmod mbcache.ko jbd.ko ext3.ko

  • Setup booting from the internal SD card

    • # cd
    # curl -o initfs_flasher.tgz http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.tgz
    # tar zxvf initfs_flasher.tgz
    # cd initfs_flasher
    # cp bootmenu.conf.n800.example bootmenu.conf
    # vi bootmenu.conf
    # ./initfs_flash

  • Add the timezone for Adelaide and set it as my Home city.
  • Modify the mmc mount script (/usr/sbin/osso-mmc-umount.sh) to ignore a mounted root directory
    • grep “$MP ” /proc/mounts | grep -v ” / ” > /dev/null
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Luckily, I’ve worked out how to add one (the following is an example for my home city of Adelaide):

  • Edit /usr/share/osso-clock/wdb-parsed.txt and add the following line:
    • Adelaide|AU|Australia|Australia/Adelaide|1280|650|en_AU
      • (The 1280 and 650 numbers are pixel coordinates on the osso-clock map of the world)

You should be able to use the same method to add any other city that already exists in /usr/share/zoneinfo.

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