so i try manually starting the x server with:

[Tom Yates]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Harry L. Lee wrote:

> thanks! I was at the boot menu and tried dfu, thus:
> harry at galaxy:~$ .//dfu-util -l
> dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc.
> This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> 
> harry at galaxy:~$
> 
> which does not look encouraging.

i found that it needed privilege, ie has to be run as root, to do the 
operations it needs on the USB bus.

one of my writeups is at 
http://www.teaparty.net/technotes/openmoko-2.html#Upgrading-the-OS and may 
or may not be helpful.


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