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Old 07-28-2009, 05:01 AM   #531
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Location: Philos Adelphos
Device: SmartQ 7, Wikireader, G1
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Originally Posted by rogue_ronin View Post
.....Or it could be corrupted PDFs, I suppose. If you can convert them to smaller files, it might help, too.
First thing I did was upgrade my unit to the 4.0 firmware and change the wallpaper, then I deleted software I was never going to use. Thing I realized right away was that this unit couldn't handle large PDFs so I used Calibre to convert a ton of PDFs to Epub. I've got a no-name 16GB SDHC card I got off a Chinese vendor on eBay for $20, it works perfectly.

Here are a few code hints for anyone who needs them. Having hacked an LXDE centered distro onto two OLPC laptops I've had a lot of previous experience with it.

If you want to edit the unit's clock, change the %R value to %r and this will give you the standard 12 hour format complete with am/pm.

to add a super user password
sudo su
passwd root
<password>
sudo usermod -d /root root


And to change the unit's name, the default is "Mojo".
sudo su
leafpad /etc/hostname (opens file with text editor leafpad)
fill in your desired hostname to rename unit
save and close leafpad
sudo -k (kill super user mode)
close terminal


My unit's apps. I wanted to replace Abiword with Ted but there's no way to do it right now.
apt-get update
apt-get install userinfo

apt-get install audacious
apt-get install orage
apt-get install tinyirc
apt-get install streamtuner
apt-get install gpodder
apt-get install mirage
apt-get install comix
apt-get install epdfview
apt-get install flite
apt-get install mtpaint
apt-get install gparted
apt-get install samba
apt-get install pysol

apt-get remove claws-mail
apt-get remove transmission
apt-get remove evince
apt-get remove sonata
apt-get autoremove


I've been probing and fine tuning this thing for almost two weeks now, and I love it. I'll wait to see how stable the Mer builds get and then upgrade to Mer. I was able to get in touch with one of the Handheld Mojo devs and that distro is pretty much dead, Mer is the only option I see with the flexibility I want.

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