Smart Q7 Tablet

[Nation.A.List]

Originally Posted by alilxmas

Hi could someone d/l these 3 images to their Q7 stock OS and tell me if there is any difference in quality (such as text readability, crispness, etc. ), using just the included photo viewer program.
And also see if there is any difference between the (2) files named medium one is 96dpi other is 300dpi.
I might try the comix reader program, but might not and just use jpg in folders.
I've ordered my Q7 already and would like to start getting my comic and start scanning them as I have quite a few, and I do mean alot.
Thanks to anyone that can help.

Using the included Gpicview prog at 'full-screen - fit to screen' the 2 medium jpg's were crisper and the text more readable than the small jpg. However the difference between the two medium jpg's to my eyes was negligible.

[alilxmas]

Good, glad to hear that Nation, and thank you for testing.

Makes scanning a little faster on the old Epsom, now that I don't have to worry about resolution.

[Project]

Originally Posted by Nation.A.List

Using the included Gpicview prog at 'full-screen - fit to screen' the 2 medium jpg's were crisper and the text more readable than the small jpg. However the difference between the two medium jpg's to my eyes was negligible.

I could not notice any difference between the 2 medium jpegs (they are also the sime size, btw). The smaller jpeg was more difficult to read.

Hope this helps

Project

[Project]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

Read this thread. Down the thread I describe how to add the Debian repository from handhelds.org. It may be slightly different if you've flashed 4.0 -- my machine is in warranty repair, so I cannot test.

Once you have that sorted, just type:

sudo apt-get install epdfview

It should show up in the menu once it's all set. When in doubt, answer yes in the terminal (usually just tap the enter key.)

If you decide to remove Evince:

sudo apt-get remove evince

Linux is case-sensitive, so don't type Evince.

You've got some stuff to learn about linux, but it's good stuff.

Luck!

m a r

Thanks a lot Rogue Ronin!
Your tutorial is really good, even a linux impaired person like has been able to install epdfview! Unfortunately, even this software quit after reading a few pages of graphic rich pdf files, so it seems that there's no solution to my problem.

Thanks again

Project

[rogue_ronin]

Originally Posted by Project

Thanks a lot Rogue Ronin!
Your tutorial is really good, even a linux impaired person like has been able to install epdfview! Unfortunately, even this software quit after reading a few pages of graphic rich pdf files, so it seems that there's no solution to my problem.

Thanks again

Project

It's probably a memory issue. The Q7 has only 128 MB of memory. PDFs are great fat pigs with memory -- giant pics, SVGs, etc.

There is a way to make the SD card (or a partition of it) function as virtual memory -- but I don't know it off the top of my head, I'd have to use Mr. Google. And without my machine, I cannot experiment.

Or it could be corrupted PDFs, I suppose. If you can convert them to smaller files, it might help, too.

Luck,

m a r

[Chopchurch]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

.....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.

[rogue_ronin]

Originally Posted by Chopchurch

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.

Nice tips. I think there are a lot of folks that can use them.

As for the distro, I'm not surprised -- Jaunty is available for ARM, (but I have no idea how to add it -- maybe just add a repository? That would be the simplest.)

Mer is based on Jaunty, I believe -- but until it supports a USB keyboard at the command prompt, it is unusable as-is. I crashed out several times with recent builds, and all you can do is reboot. Kinda sucks.

If you know how to get Jaunty onto these, and you can explain it, you'd be a hero. You'd be my hero if you figure out how to get a keyboard working in Mer.

m a r

[yukop4]

Originally Posted by Chopchurch

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.

hi
have you tried streamtuner and streamripper

i tried loading it but no luck

ed

[Chopchurch]

Originally Posted by yukop4

hi
have you tried streamtuner and streamripper

i tried loading it but no luck

ed

Hi ed, streamtuner is horribly broken, and the project has basically been left to die. I think I may have installed it out of habit since i have it in a partially workable form on my netbook.

[Chopchurch]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

Nice tips. I think there are a lot of folks that can use them.

As for the distro, I'm not surprised -- Jaunty is available for ARM, (but I have no idea how to add it -- maybe just add a repository? That would be the simplest.)

Mer is based on Jaunty, I believe -- but until it supports a USB keyboard at the command prompt, it is unusable as-is. I crashed out several times with recent builds, and all you can do is reboot. Kinda sucks.

If you know how to get Jaunty onto these, and you can explain it, you'd be a hero. You'd be my hero if you figure out how to get a keyboard working in Mer.

m a r

Sorry I'm just a veteran linux tweaker and not a coder. I'll leave that to the much more capable folks at Mer.

[yukop4]

Originally Posted by Chopchurch

Hi ed, streamtuner is horribly broken, and the project has basically been left to die. I think I may have installed it out of habit since i have it in a partially workable form on my netbook.

i also have a n810 and it works perfectly

what could be the problem

[Chopchurch]

Originally Posted by yukop4

i also have a n810 and it works perfectly

what could be the problem

The problem is Streamtuner development ended in 2007, and so the Live365 and Shoutcast feeds are broken due to bad pointers.

You could try installing Ario I think it does Shoutcast feeds.

[Project]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

It's probably a memory issue. The Q7 has only 128 MB of memory. PDFs are great fat pigs with memory -- giant pics, SVGs, etc.

There is a way to make the SD card (or a partition of it) function as virtual memory -- but I don't know it off the top of my head, I'd have to use Mr. Google. And without my machine, I cannot experiment.

Or it could be corrupted PDFs, I suppose. If you can convert them to smaller files, it might help, too.

Luck,

m a r

I'm suspecting a memory problem too, but I've tried with no success to shrink the size of the incriminated pdf files. I tried several applications, on mac and pc (pdf shrink and pdf compress on the mac are the ones that I remember now, but I tried a couple on pc too), but usually the size does not change that much and evince quits anyway after a few pages reading the (slightly) smaller pdfs.

Do you have any hint on a software that could do a good job on reducing pdf size and, or, can you give me a few more indications regarding googling about the use of the sd card as virtual memory? (I tried googling but I could not find anything related, so I probably did not use the right terms)

thanks in advance

Project

Rome, Italy

[rogue_ronin]

Originally Posted by Project

I'm suspecting a memory problem too, but I've tried with no success to shrink the size of the incriminated pdf files. I tried several applications, on mac and pc (pdf shrink and pdf compress on the mac are the ones that I remember now, but I tried a couple on pc too), but usually the size does not change that much and evince quits anyway after a few pages reading the (slightly) smaller pdfs.

Do you have any hint on a software that could do a good job on reducing pdf size and, or, can you give me a few more indications regarding googling about the use of the sd card as virtual memory? (I tried googling but I could not find anything related, so I probably did not use the right terms)

thanks in advance

Project

Rome, Italy

I almost never use PDFs for this very reason. Sometimes on my desktop for a few pages, or if I want a printout of something.

I found this.. Since you're on a Mac, you can probably use the command line, which is BSD, I believe. The script is mostly compressing images. Or perhaps you could try converting the PDFs to something else, HTML or EPUB or something.

As for virtual memory, it's probably going to involve swapon or some similar thing. You would likely have to make a swap partition on your SD card, then enable swap, and possibly reboot. Since you can just reflash, it might be worth it to experiment.

Do a search for virtual memory and "nokia internet tablet" or "nokia 770". I remember enabling it in my 770, and I expect that the process would be similar. However I don't remember the details, it was several years ago.

I'd help more, but I still don't have my machine.

m a r

EDIT: Oh, and try xpdf, it's pretty barebones, might save enough memory.

[serwei]

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