Comments on: Some Joggler Updates

By: Oli-O

Oli-O — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:51:07 +0000

Hi, I’m having trouble getting xbmc to install, I always get the following error:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn31718-karmic1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-confluence (= 1:10.08~svn31718-karmic1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web (= 1:10.08~svn31718-karmic1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any chance you can help me out?

Cheers

By: Nathan Chantrell

Nathan Chantrell — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:53:51 +0000

No, you don’t need to log out, you start it windowed (so you can still see the top panel, menu etc) and then use a menu item to switch it to fullscreen. You can’t switch back to another app without quitting XBMC first though, at least not with the touchscreen only.

In the video above you can see me start XBMC in windowed mode and then use the menu item I’ve added to switch it to fullscreen.

By: JoeyJoeJoe

JoeyJoeJoe — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:24:56 +0000

i’m having problems running xbmc on my joggler. Forgive me but i’m brand new to ubuntu so itsd all a ltille foriegn to me. I’ve managed to get disc’a image working on mine and have installed xbmc onto it too. My issue is still getting the touchscreen working.
I followed Madeos instructions but i’m under the impression that once his way of getting it to run is done, then I am left unable to browse on the (im guessing) GNOME browsers eg. chrome.
Does your method allow me to stay on the initial screen or would I need to log out of that too?

By: Nathan Chantrell

Nathan Chantrell — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:57:26 +0000

This looks like a reasonable approach to backing up the partitions: Method to backup Joggler internal flash.The 3rd partition is actually a backup of the 2nd used for the built in factory restore option so you could also just boot from USB and dd the 3rd one across as described in this post: Bricked Joggler, Recovered.For backup and recovery of the EFI see Recovering a bricked EFI on the Joggler Wiki. De-bricking requires another working Joggler to flash the bricked chip.

By: simon

simon — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:37:43 +0000

Great

On the other hand , what is the best method of creating an image of the original partitions(4 i believe) and restore them in the future if you wanted to bring the O2 joggler in a virgina state? ( i know this doesnt touch the original files but trying to establish proper backup recovery procedure)

regards

By: Nathan Chantrell

Nathan Chantrell — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:49:41 +0000

It runs entirely off the USB stick and doesn't touch the original O2 software at all so you can't do any harm to it. If you boot it without the USB stick in you will still get the O2 stuff as before.This is the Ubuntu image I am using: Ubuntu Desktop Image Base.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:25:16 +0000

Do you have any restore to the original virgin state method if/once things go wrong so joggler can run with the original O2 stuff on it? Many regards I am tempted to it but as a Linux noob a bit scare

By: ed grant

ed grant — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:26:23 +0000

nice post. thanks.

By: Nathan Chantrell

Nathan Chantrell — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:48:13 +0000

It's an excellent bit of kit for the money, definitely worth £50.The GMail iPad interface seems to be using some iPad specific hackery to allow the scrolling of split panes with a single finger, the only thing I could find along those lines was this but I would think Google are using something of their own.

By: Stuart Elmore

Stuart Elmore — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:07:12 +0000

Fantastic resource for the Joggler! Well done! I’m actually attempting to purchase one at the moment (they’re half price – £49.99!) just for this reason!
RE: Chrome / iPad skin on Joggler;
“Whilst it looks great, scrolling doesn’t work so it’s not particularly useful unfortunately. Would be nice if this could be fixed somehow.”
Using Greasemonkey for Chrome – “Greasemetal” (http://greasemetal.31tools.com/) you’d be able to set up a jQuery gesture script (for example) to sort the problems out with scrolling… Well if Greasemetal was available for any other platform than Windows… The source code is available but I’ve not had chance to look through it to see how easy it’d be to port to Unix.

Just a thought anyway!