Changing Ubuntu resolution from the command line….
Now this should be an easy feat. Right? No.
So, what happened was that my test “server” died one night. I started it, but couldn’t remote login to the desktop for some reason. Connected the server to a monitor, but the signal was wrong. I had changed it to better suit my VNC needs.
So off to [...]
USB OTG goes webcam
This time in my mini series of testing USB on the N810 tablet - I bring you external webcam. The following video shows mplayer playing v4l stream from the device. See details after the jump.
Nokia N810 + Creative webcam + USB OTG + mplayer on Vimeo.
Arduino interaction
As promised in my previous post. So this one was a bit harder to implement, because I couldn’t find working kernel modules, and had to compile them myself. There is a good discussion about arduino in ITT forums, and other blog posts, but still this was something I wanted to try.
Nokia N810 meets an [...]
Expanding your storage
I know this is and old topic by blogging standards, but because I found so simple and cheap to use external usb flash-drives with N810, I decided to write a quick walktrough.
Get yourself a female-female usb adapter. I ordered from this funny sounding store on eBay, and it took 1-2weeks for it to ship to [...]
GPE Calendar + Erminig + Google calendar installation
A few days back there was great a blog post by linuxuk.org about syncing GPE Calendar with Google calendar and further with Outlook.
I wanted to try just the GPE Calendar to Google synchronization on OS2008 , and realised that it needed some fiddling to get it working. Here are the steps:
Find and decide where to [...]
Mediaserv on Fedora core 8
Installing mediaserv on Fedora 8 is simple, but doesn’t work exactly like mediaserv Readme indicates. Here are the few steps needed to make it work.
To install all the needed mplayer/mencoder-packages, you might need the livna repository.
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
After that, all the transcoding and xml-stuff are installed.
yum install mencoder mplayer perl-XML-RSS
That last part perl-XML-RSS [...]
IRC with N800
For reasons not specified here, I had to get IRC working on some level with my N800.
The easiest way would’ve been to use web-irc, but I wanted a better solution. First I tried to find an irc-client, but didn’t. The I tried using gaim with irc-protocol, and ended up cursing the program to the hottest [...]
A few MPlayer tips for the weekend
The MPlayer from maemo has become a higly usable and pretty stable piece of software. I’m using the currently latest version 1.0_rc1-maemo.14.800 in my N800 thats available from the garage. I use a modified 770-encode.pl to transcode vidcasts etc. in my linux server.
This is the trascoding setting in the script that i use:
n800 [...]
Windows Xp on a Nokia N800
Well, sort of
This hack includes virtual display driver from ZoneOS called ZoneScreen and a VNC server for windows. For testing I used RealVNC. The Idea is, that you create a virtual screen in windows that shows up in Display settings as a normal screen. So you can drag programs and use [...]
Grsync without password using Public Key authentication
Update:Rsync is available for 770 here.
For N800 use this repo:
repo_name = mg
repo_deb = deb http://mg.pov.lt/770 mistral user other
package = rsync
Thins you’ll need:
rsync
Grsync
dropbear ssh
Xterminal
First you have to gain root access. In Nokia N800 it works pretty much the same as in 770. I used the ssh-method explained in Maemo wiki.
Next you have [...]