Nokia N900

Hardware

Schematics

Service Schematics 2.0 (2JH_21a)

TV out

TRRS: audio, audio, TV, GND. To make N900 produce the composite video signal, pull TV to GND using a ~75Ohm resistor.

Camera

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=26145&d=1336029243

USB

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22138&stc=1&d=1313476041

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=23905&stc=1&d=1323409775

Software

Kernel

FOSS kernel feature matrix

Maemo

Necessary fixes

https://web.archive.org/web/20230708205136/https://wiki.maemo.org/N900_The_Perfect_Setup 

# apt-get install flashlight-applet
$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/xterm/key_labels -t list --list-type=string "[Tab,Esc,PgUp,PgDn,|]"
$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/xterm/keys -t list --list-type=string "[Tab,Escape,Page_Up,Page_Down,bar]"

Share internet over USB: /etc/default/usbnetwork

Sensible cyrillic layout

FIXME: 'э' instead of '.' on latin 

# wget --no-check-certificate 'https://web.archive.org/web/20100406091539/http://erudenko.com/N900/rx-51' -O /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51
# md5sum /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51
46a3a565871aa1ccf1093e113ac61c7e  /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51