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Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post
so...
wicket..
I have a spare n800 for you ...
it is one I used to loan out to a friend until he managed somehow to literally break the steel stand for it.
purely a cosmetic issue.

I may or may not be able to help much...depends...
But I can send you an n800 ...possibly an n810 as well ...(upon finding them)
a battery (of dubious charge....at worst a few hours...but that matters little since usb and power are two separate cables...unlike the n900 n950 and n9...so such issues surrounding cable connections and charging are rather moot..)
And a power cable...(which works for both the n800 and n810)
usb cable for the n810 is the same as the n900...
usb for the n800 is mini...not micro...which is quite common..as well.

So wicket...
I can send at the very least ...an n800 ...if not an n800 and a n810...
Give me a few days...(even a week...to hunt down all my n8x0 stuff)
and I can find out the cost to ship to you..
You spring for the shipping and they are yours to work with ..
I may or may not be much help...
but I can donate ..

once you play with 'em you're hooked...believe me...
for example...just install xmms (LOVE xmms!)
and play with that for a bit...and you'll see...
Thank you endsormeans, that's very kind of you to offer, but let's just hold off for the moment though. After shipping and import duty, it often works out cheaper to get hold of one locally. So I'll have a look to see if I can get one here first.

I'd also want to make sure I'd at least have a serial console before accepting any donation or it could be a complete waste of time and money. Lack of a serial console is what's hindering my N950 progress right now.

as far as doing leste for the n950 and n9 first...
well...
perhaps it is possible that my judgement is clouded and I am biased...
But I don't think so...
do the n950 and n9 first?
No man...
Fcuk 'em ...
those ugly buck - toothed fourth - cousin - removed b-tards have had it good long enough...let 'em wait.
Do the n8x0's first.
Sorry to disappoint but I'm doing the N950 first as I already have one (well, on loan from Nokia ). I've already started it and I want to finish it. My intention is to attract more developers and I believe there are potentially more N9 developers than N8x0 (it will be easy enough to enable N9 builds once N950 is done). I'm nearly there, I have mainline Linux booting with the display using Pali's 0xFFFF, I just need to figure out what's going wrong with ubiboot.

Originally Posted by NX500 View Post
Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post
Do the n900 first.
Fix‘d

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I hope it didn't sound like the N900 is being neglected for other devices because that certainly isn't the case. We already have builds for the N900 and although they aren't yet ready for general use, rest assured there are more experienced people than me working to improve it everyday. What we lack right now is developers and by me looking at enabling other devices, I hope we can attract more developers. That will benefit the N900 in the long run as there is plenty of device agnostic stuff still to be fixed.
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DebiaN900 - Native Debian on the N900. Deprecated in favour of Maemo Leste.

Maemo Leste for N950 and N9 (currently broken).
Devuan for N950 and N9.

Mobile devices with mainline Linux support - Help needed with documentation.

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Last edited by wicket; 2018-03-12 at 20:47.
 

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