**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Apr 04 02:59:58 2013 Apr 04 07:24:22 like the caps lock indicator idea, shame it's not that easy to impl. Apr 04 10:38:04 Anyone have any experience with 3rd party laptop chargers? Apr 04 10:38:32 Not sure if I should go for the Müller or GP one http://en.ksp.co.il/?select=.268..1070..681.&list=1&sort=2&glist=0&uin=0&txt_search=&buy=&minprice=0&maxprice=0 Apr 04 10:38:55 (90W ones) Apr 04 10:45:27 I just had q generic one die of 'old age' after 12 months or so Apr 04 10:45:33 not impressed Apr 04 10:46:44 to be fair, the cpuiple of laptop chargers - third party - I've diasasembled - are not as unsafe as cheap usb chargers Apr 04 10:47:23 that is saying about as ,much as 'may contain traces of dog' in a beefburger though Apr 04 11:16:02 my left earbud broke :( Apr 04 11:16:08 i have to buy new headphones Apr 04 11:18:50 SpeedEvil: so you'd suggest I get an OEM one? Apr 04 11:19:33 Need a battery too, mine doesn't hold charge and my POST says I have to replace iy Apr 04 11:19:50 Thinking of a 12 cell extended battery if I can find it in Israel Apr 04 11:20:51 ~moo Apr 04 11:20:52 * infobot mooooooooo! I am cow, hear me moo, I weigh twice as much as you. I am cow, eating grass, methane gas comes out my ass Apr 04 11:21:23 for older laptops, a small percentage chance of issues with a power supply doesn't matter Apr 04 11:21:39 for a new £1800 one, it does Apr 04 11:21:42 MohammadAG: you can't probably change # of cells of your laptop battery Apr 04 11:22:03 DocScrutinizer05: HP has a standard and extended battery Apr 04 11:22:07 6 vs 12 cell Apr 04 11:22:08 there tend to be different sized batteries ... Apr 04 11:23:00 12 = 2* 6 I suppose Apr 04 11:23:11 I tried using a netbook adapter that has the same plug but a lower current and W rating, laptop refused it Apr 04 11:23:24 ~6*3.7 Apr 04 11:23:24 22.2 Apr 04 11:23:37 sounds familiar, eh? Apr 04 11:23:47 ? Apr 04 11:23:51 ~12*3.7 Apr 04 11:23:51 44.4 Apr 04 11:23:57 not so much Apr 04 11:29:27 Don't get your point tbh :p Apr 04 11:33:10 Well the OEM charger is out of stock and I kind of need to power on my laptop Apr 04 11:33:18 nm, you'll not find "wrong" number of cells anyway Apr 04 11:35:01 my 6 cell laptop battery is 7.2V, 3 in parallell in series with 3 in parallell Apr 04 11:36:29 wow, weird Apr 04 11:39:13 Hmm, its $160, makes me reconsider Apr 04 11:41:35 A battery I disassembled from a HP laptop was 2P * 3 for 11.1V Apr 04 11:42:13 One pair was totally dead and had ejected its guts, second pair was dubious, and third pair was worn, but had acceptable voltage Apr 04 11:42:50 * DocScrutinizer05 glares at that eeePC Apr 04 11:43:40 series /parallel is usual in laptops Apr 04 11:43:59 it been ~6 months old, when I left it in suspend-to-RAM for a week, to find battery *dead* after that Apr 04 11:46:39 :s Apr 04 11:46:52 smartbatts ftw Apr 04 11:47:08 but, you know, sometimes shit just fails Apr 04 12:04:57 my samsung netbook has about 15% remaining after STR for a week Apr 04 15:16:48 hello Apr 04 15:19:22 ye Apr 04 15:19:28 bye Apr 04 15:20:09 is it possible to prevent the n900 from almost freezing when doing large writes to eMMC Apr 04 15:20:45 after the first 500 to 2000mb it goes to 99% IO time in top and even simple shell commands take a while to execute Apr 04 15:27:55 ~botsnack Apr 04 15:27:56 DocScrutinizer05: :) Apr 04 15:36:28 ~ping Apr 04 15:36:29 ~pong Apr 04 15:36:51 bloody phone line Apr 04 15:42:25 ~ping Apr 04 15:42:25 ~ping Apr 04 15:42:25 ~pong Apr 04 15:42:25 ~ping Apr 04 15:42:25 ~ping Apr 04 15:42:34 ~ping Apr 04 15:50:02 ~ping Apr 04 15:50:03 ~pong Apr 04 15:50:12 sixwheeledbeast: ha, infobot likes me more than you Apr 04 15:50:19 ~botsnack Apr 04 15:50:19 kerio: aw, gee Apr 04 15:51:45 kerio: doubt it's infobot, how many ping's can you see? I count 15 Apr 04 15:51:52 4 Apr 04 15:51:56 no, 5 Apr 04 15:52:41 phone line issues when windy, drops the dsl. Apr 04 15:53:02 loose contact somewhere lol Apr 04 15:53:38 does your country still use those above-ground phone lines? Apr 04 15:56:45 anyone got a solution for the slowing down of emmc writes Apr 04 15:58:18 mmh Apr 04 15:58:56 loose contact plus miles away from the exchange Apr 04 15:59:30 peterbjornx: ShadowJK has some tweaks Apr 04 15:59:54 high queue/nr_requests and 0 queue/iosched/slice_idle Apr 04 16:00:07 high as in 1024 or more Apr 04 16:03:48 what does that mean Apr 04 16:04:13 i thought the issue was it queueing too much before blocking the write and writing Apr 04 16:04:50 36473+0 records in 36472+0 records out 149389312 bytes (142.5MB) copied, 15.103608 seconds, 9.4MB/s 195422+0 records in 195421+0 records out 800444416 bytes (763.4MB) copied, 515.061280 seconds, 1.5MB/s Apr 04 16:04:58 is just ridiculous Apr 04 16:05:28 peterbjornx: what are you writing there? zeroes? Apr 04 16:06:55 yes Apr 04 16:07:06 making a fs image Apr 04 16:07:42 set slice_idle to 0 and make the queue bigger Apr 04 16:08:39 peterbjornx: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5677102/ i have this at the end of my /etc/init.d/rcS Apr 04 16:08:43 right before the "exit 0" Apr 04 16:08:54 1268776960 bytes (1,3 GB) copied, 72,0904 s, 17,6 MB/s Apr 04 16:08:56 writing zeros Apr 04 16:09:00 on ext4, though Apr 04 16:32:47 keiro, thanks: it sped it up a LOT Apr 04 16:55:32 my apt sources.list has some problems. Its throwing me a conflicting dsitribution error and KEYEXPIRED errors ever since the repo change. Apr 04 16:55:48 what would be the best way to fix this? Apr 04 18:12:27 why i can't receive large file from my ubuntu computer Apr 04 18:18:23 psych, how are you trying to transfer them? maybe the connection times out. Apr 04 21:16:01 hello, I'm in the process of trying to install a new screen on my n900 and I thought maybe someone here might be able to help. Apr 04 21:17:46 yigal: the only tricky bit is make sure you don't get any detrious between the touchscreen and the lcd Apr 04 21:17:50 I've watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDQ81cahD1c but I can't remove the lcd from the camera found at about ~3:00 Apr 04 21:18:13 zeq1: I can't open these two touch screen/lcd Apr 04 21:18:18 I don't know why either Apr 04 21:18:58 s/camera/touch screen Apr 04 21:19:01 the touchscreen and lcd slider is held on by screws Apr 04 21:22:31 should I just be following along in N900 service manual 1&2 for the disassembly? Apr 04 21:22:57 I see 6 screws cool Apr 04 21:23:38 the 2 hidden from view by the slider either all the way up or down I need to remove Apr 04 21:23:47 zeq1: ty Apr 04 21:28:05 man the insides are dirty Apr 04 21:28:07 so shameful Apr 04 21:45:39 any hints on getting the touchscreen and lcd connected again? Apr 04 21:46:15 how forcefully should I have to push the connectors, male digitizer and female display? Apr 04 21:46:21 together Apr 04 21:57:00 great so no one is here now :P Apr 04 21:57:03 cool Apr 04 21:57:14 i'm Apr 04 21:57:22 I have not disassembled my n900 though Apr 04 21:57:29 did you check for videos on youtube? Apr 04 21:57:44 of course that was the link I provided above Apr 04 21:57:45 oh I see the logs Apr 04 21:57:46 you did Apr 04 21:57:49 sorry Apr 04 21:58:05 no worries Apr 04 21:58:09 this is rather irritating Apr 04 22:00:21 I think I damaged it Apr 04 22:00:24 this is such a bummer Apr 04 22:00:54 it just wont stay!! Apr 04 22:01:42 F* Apr 04 22:54:28 hi Apr 05 01:38:02 Good luck Maemo community. See you when I get back. :) **** ENDING LOGGING AT Fri Apr 05 02:59:58 2013