[Pkg-n900-maint] Screen freezes at bootmenu

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hi Srikant,

Am Tuesday, 28. June 2011 schrieb srikant patnaik:
> Hello Friends,
> 
> Glad to see such mailing list.Let me introduce myself.

I saw very little activity on the list, you might not get the help you need...

> I am 'Srikant Patnaik' from Mumbai,India.I am working at
> IITB<http://www.iitb.ac.in/>in
> FOSSEE <http://fossee.in/> Project.
> Our govt. has introduced a project similiar to OLPC(One Laptop per Child)
> and we need to convince them to go for open source OS.The project is '
> sakshat
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakshat>'.(link<http://www.sakshat.ac.in/> )
> The sad part is that we don't have actual hardware in our hands so that we
> can install debian over it and show ministry people its limitless
> possibilities.
> 
> So to prove our point we are trying with two Nokia N900 one with 'Android'
> & other with 'Debian with e17'. We think that android environment is not
> open completely
> and ofcourse its not a learning platform.We are also facing problems with
> Licensing with Google.

I have not heart of your government project before, but I like that you try to 
position a device with an open system. The downside of the N900 though is that 
a lot of drivers are closed source and which makes it of limited use for an 
open source system like Debian.

I am wondering if you are aware of GTA04: 
http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/

The final product is not yet ready, but they have early adopter hardware. As an 
additional benefit it comes with "open" hardware, i.e. it should be easier to 
build customized systems for your need.

Rainer
> 
> So coming to my point.We already ported 'NITDroid' on one of N900.On second
> device we are trying Debian.
> We have done all the steps properly as described in site
> https://elektranox.org/n900/index.html but no luck.We have tried both
> Manual & Tarball installation.
> 
> In tarball we didn't get any log messages and screen freezes with message 
> " Booting from debian (mmcblk0p1 ext3)..."
> 
> In Manual Installation after getting screen freeze with same above message
> we checked the /var/log and got  'xorg.0.log'(attached) file which says
> "Could not open '/dev/fb0': No such file or directory".
> 
> Any suggestion will be helpful.We are very desperate because we have to
> show it before Friday.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Srikant Patnaik


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