Have you put the *.pak files where they should be? These are data files FROM the PC version of
Quake 2. Unlike say OpenArena, Q2 and Q3 does not come with the required data files (as that would result in indirect Jack Sparrow-ing).

Also, if you already have the data files, check if the pak files are in upper or lower case. Linux is terribly case-sensative.

@Chicaman: Not 100% perfect, more like 90%. But it's largely game dependant. I have Front Mission and Earthbound on DrNokSnes and they work fabulously. Not sure about GBA though.

@nicholasong: Did you install MSCIM or MCIM? Did you also install the input-tables (chinese) and Google Pinyin? I'm not terribly familiar with MSCIM for Chinese input though, I only used it (for a short while) for Japanese.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 19 2010, 11:43 AM

Try this

sudo gainrooto

dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/libxss(filename).deb

dpkg -i chromium(filename).deb

IINM your first dpkg syntax is wrong, unless you CDed AND THEN DPKGed.

USB OTG no, not without extensive hardware mods. Even THEN it may very well not work.

USB HOST, however, is on the way, as soon as the HEN project gets a good kernel coder to update the kernel modules needed for hostmode to work reliably. It already works for the devs, mind you, only not consistantly.

Honestly, I'd take proper hostmode over OTG any day to begin with lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 19 2010, 10:47 PM

Precisely.

Though, OTG is actually quite smart - I mean two USB slaves playing the chicken dance to see who gets to be host lol.

Only problem is it's too smart for it's own good and requires some complex voodoo.

I remember the days when I tried hard to get a USB host CF card for my Axim. And leered jealously at the Fujitsu Loox guys who have it built in.

I actually find the opposite to be true really, but my N900 is OCed = faster response?

But really, what do you mean by "sensitive"? Faster? More precise?

Ladies and gents, my ultra hacked, no-more-warranty N900 is bricked... And by that I mean REALLY bricked.

Reflash = no go, it's stuck in the loading indicator. Holy schmoly. Now that's a heavy paperweight.

Now I have to go get a replacement, as I don't think anyone would wanna repair it already (with the warranty stickers being all torn up and all).

Oh well. How much for an ori set these days and anybody selling em at Lowyat? A shame there's no other equally powerful keyboard equpped mobiles out there NOW though.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 21 2010, 11:05 AM

Well, thing is, I was surfing the net. As always, it was lagging a bit so I restarted.

Then kapoof, it died and just refused to restart, no matter what I did. Reflash, R&D mode. I guess I'm one of the FIRST guys to FRY the CPU then...

Even greater shame is that I was SURE it would last me a good couple of years. Looks like I was wrong.

Anyhow, any chance Nokia Care would repair an out of warranty N900 - AP set summore - with payment? Or do I have to wait for an 3G version of the EPIC 4G...

Well, back to my old W810i then, for now, though it has been dead for a loooooooooooooooooooong time nowadays.

Now, where's the charger...

Will do.

Well, it starts fine UP to the boot loading indicator, which sticks in an endless loop. Something tells me the either RootFS or the eMMC (or both) might have permanently corrupted bad sectors. CPU seems fine though.

Oh well, I'd say we're looking at a full motherboard replacement at least.

And no, device was NOT hot at all, and DID not show any CPU-OC related artefacts AT ALL. Which leads me to believe that the CPU DID NOT DIE and the RootFS/eMMC simply died. Hard.

Though it COULD be reflashed, which is strange. Will try reflashing RootFS+eMMC later. Will be losing a lot of important data though.

Now reflashing again, STILL stuck on the loading screen.


This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 21 2010, 12:25 PM

Will do, I'm thinking it's fsck-ing as well. Worse comes to worst will reflash eMMC and see how - if nothing off to the nearest Nokia Center (which is a good 2 hours away by bus darnit).

It's completely fscking my day up real good though...

Darnit, it's been fscking for nearly an hour now.

I say the eMMC is toast. Reflashing both...

Lol... Software damage yeah, but this is some fscking hardcore damage we're talking about here lol.

Update on the reflash, eMMC reflash cannot be done simply because it NEVER gets into eMMC flash mode. Which would effectively mean that the eMMC is dead. For good.

Which is not good really.

So, CPU is fine, GPU should be fine, rootFS looks OK and eMMC is dead... Ugh, haveta go on the next bus to kl then.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 21 2010, 01:53 PM

Did that already.

Three times.

But to flash eMMC, the Flasher needs to start the phone to a point where it can mount the eMMC to be flashed. This is where it fails as the Flasher NEVER detects the eMMC, at all.

All three times. The phone seems to not be able to detect it either, thus sticking at the loading indicator (endless fsck).

Guess it's confirmed then, I'm the proud owner of the first fully and irreversibly bricked Malaysian N900. Now let's see if NCC can help with that. Anybody know NCC office hours are like how?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 21 2010, 02:38 PM

Something I'm not really proud of, lol. Though it's also a shame that right now in the market, there's no other phone that can do what I need as well as the N900(except maybe the Droid 2/Milestone 2). And going back to my trusty W810i is killing me, really.

@jananan: roger that, will try. Though I'm kinda thinking that the eMMC is already corrupted beyond repair lol.

And really, I haven't been dropping it all THAT much, but it's all up to the repair guys to make heads or tails of what's going on. I DID operate on it again a while back, and everything looks normal to say the least. No burnt circuit board, no discoloured heat shields - so it's not something burnt out at least.

I did think often of getting myself a second N900, but not THIS soon and not like this.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 21 2010, 07:35 PM

What didcha buy?

Anyway, next step seems to be a repair shop of some kind, NCC or (if NCC repairs costs are too prohibitive) my neighbourhood repair guys. Have also started an analysis thread up on Maemo.org to try to figure out what actually went wrong.