Tag Archives: Google Nexus 7

Jabber/XMPP with latest Plasma Active on Nexus 7

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

With the latest Plasma Active rootfs tarball for Nexus 7 there is also working Jabber/XMPP. I didn’t notice this at first as the system time was set two years in the past and due to this the certificate for the … Continue reading →

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New Rootfs Tarball of Plasma Active for Nexus 7

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

I uploaded a new rootfs tarball of Plasma Active for Nexus 7. You can get it from here: http://files.kde.org/plasma/active/3.0/images/nexus7/ The latest version is “plasma-active-nexus7-testing-mer-latest-2013-03-12.tar.gz“. There you can also get the according .ks files. Some changes are: Integrated nemo-compatibility (You can … Continue reading →

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Video: Plasma Active on Nexus 7

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

I just uploaded a video that shows the current state of Plasma Active on Nexus 7. In this video different things are shown: The Plasma Active GUI Hardware-accelerated Video Playback (1080p) Emumaster (an emulator for gaming consoles like SNES etc.) … Continue reading →

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Plasma Active on Nexus 7 with Bluetooth

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

I just succeeded in getting Bluetooth working on Nexus 7 with Plasma Active. In order to get Bluetooth running you need the latest kernel from the hardware adaptation repository and install the new “nexus7-fw-installer” package, which can also be found … Continue reading →

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Suspend/Resume in Plasma Active on Nexus 7 3G with WWAN

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

In a previous post I wrote about using WWAN (UMTS/3G) in Plasma Active on Nexus 7. What I forgot to mention there was that there may be problems with suspend/resume when using UMTS. In order to circumvent these issues I … Continue reading →

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Plasma Active on Nexus 7 with 3G/UMTS

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

Finally, success in getting 3G in Plasma Active on Nexus 7 to work. I uploaded a patched version of ModemManager to the Nexus 7 hardware-adaptation repository. So far, it seems to work pretty reliable. Please note that I disabled the … Continue reading →

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Update: Nexus 7 & PlasmaActive vs. 3G

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Just a small update to (partly) answer my own question: apparently, the 3G modem in the Nexus 7 can be accessed via the cdc_acm Linux kernel driver. Great thanks to whoever activated that option in our hardware-adaptation kernel (I suspect … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Nexus 7 3G Linux Driver?

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

This time I am not announcing something but want to ask a question: is there a driver for the Nexus 7 3G/UMTS/HSPA module/chip for Linux? Here is what I could gather so far: according to some sources the WWAN chip … Continue reading →

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New Rootfs Tarball of Plasma Active for Nexus 7

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

A new rootfs tarball of Plasma Active for Nexus 7 is available: http://download.kde.org/unstable/active/3.0/images/nexus7/plasma-active-nexus7-testing-mer-latest-2013-01-07.tar.bz2.mirrorlist In this snapshot sound and hardware-accelerated video playback (at least for mp4 videos) should work out of the box. Note that you might need to un-mute the … Continue reading →

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Plasma Active for Nexus 7: Running the touch-optimized Plasma Active Linux Distribution on Nexus 7

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

We are very happy to announce the first testing release of Plasma Active for Nexus 7. Plasma Active, in a nutshell, is a Linux distribution (based on Mer as a core) that is specifically optimized for tablet computers. Tuomas Kulve … Continue reading →

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