Not really, but it got you looking! I thought I'd document two or three niggles I had with my N770 and how I worked around them. There aren't many, and the solutions are very easy.

SSH

It seems the recommended way to get SSH on your 770 is to use dropbear. I tried it, and I have to say I was digging out OpenSSH soon after. The main reason for this is DSA keys. I much prefer to use private keys with passphrases on my portable devices so that even if you know the password to one, you won't know it to all of them. It spreads the security. Dropbear simply doesn't seem to support DSA at all, and RSA barely. You can get OpenSSH directly from Maemo.

Root Access

Root access is also something of a pain. There are packages you can install to give you root access but they have warnings like "Use with care or you will brick your device." I'm not sure how seriously to take this warning, because all it does is edit one text file, but there we go. The way I do it is:

$ ssh root@localhost
Password: rootme
# vi /usr/sbin/gainroot

At this point, change the line starting MODE to read:

# MODE=`/usr/bin/chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --get-rd-mode`
MODE=enabled

You can now gain root access at any time by typing `sudo gainroot`. You could even put this in a little shell script to save keystrokes.

Samsung X820 GPRS

I mentioned in a previous post that my Samsung X820 has some strange DUN bug that stops it working. Fortunately, the fix is trivial.

    $ sudo gainroot
    # echo receive-all >> /etc/ppp/options

That's it.

Video Encoding

The built-in video player is somewhat picky over what files it will play, even down to whether the frame size is divisible by 16! To get round this, a page on the Maemo wiki about Video Encoding has been created. I can heartily recommend Media Converter. I downloaded the OS X one and it literally 'just worked'.

Of course, you could also install MPlayer, which is a good plan for those bizarre videos you might download on your travels when you don't have a laptop or desktop machine to hand. The UI is clunky to say the least, but it works.

That's all, folks!

That is the sum total of the problems I have encountered so far. I did have one runaway process, but thanks to the fact that top and kill are standard command line utilities it was soon got rid of.