Re: [ASU 2008.9] Is it required to reflash, or opkg update upgrade is enough?

2008-09-21 Thread Yogiz
Why won't we just invent cool codenames for the distros? Maybe because they are not really distributions, but just point releases / milestones of the same branch ? Distribution = ASU ASU release point zéro = Om 2008.8 ASU release point one = Om 2008.9 ASU 2008.8 + updates = ASU 2008.8

Re: new version of the openmoko-panel-plugin 0.3

2008-09-21 Thread Olivier Berger
Sebastian Ohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, here is a new version of the panel plugin. Care to be more explicit on what this can be ? ... either you're addressing the community at large and most probably want to provide a more detailed description of what the program is... or it's

Re: 2008.9 Basic questions

2008-09-21 Thread Tom Yates
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Hire wrote: Instead I find it very usable and better stability. The only thing that I find totally useless is the OM-Locations... we need a very usable gps sotfware like navit ( with complete maps as navteq o telealtas and a routes engine ) so why don't port it onto

Re: About OpenMoko Rotate

2008-09-21 Thread Yogiz
1. The touchscreen calibration is fine when the screen is in normal rotation, to left or to right but if it's upside down then the calibration goes way off for me. When I click somewhere the action actually takes place above and to the right of the actual click. Which version are you

Re: Om2008.9-gta02-20080916.rootfs.tar.gz

2008-09-21 Thread Yogiz
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:29:42 +0200 Robin Häggqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello and I just need to say thanks to all great minds here in the community. Im a new Linux geek who have played with the phone for just a few weeks now. It works ... ok. Echo here and there but it will solve.

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Charles, 2008/9/21 Charles Pax [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm considering the plausibility of a little hardware project that would turn a Freerunner or any computer with an adequate sound card into a mimio [1] device. [...] Any input from the community? Assuming I've understood this even

Freerunner Review

2008-09-21 Thread rakshat hooja
Techtree - one of the leading Indian technology related websites has done a detailed (and what I feel balanced) review of the freerunner. The review can be found at http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/Freerunner/551-93139-612-7.html Rakshat -- -- Please use Firefox as your web

Splash Issue

2008-09-21 Thread Armin ranjbar
after Upgrading to om2008-update , it seems to i lost my 'splash' image , today i have tried to write down om2008.9 splash by dfu-util -a splash -R -D Om2008.9.splash.gz but no luck , when i turn on device images from last state before shutdown appear and no splash screen , any idea ? --

Re: new version of the openmoko-panel-plugin 0.3

2008-09-21 Thread Fox Mulder
I think he doesn't say more about the openmoko-panel-plugin because the older versions are floating around this mailing list for quite some time. :) It is a small xfce plugin to show and change the status of wlan, gps, bluetooth, battery, gsm, usb and keyboard. It is like the indicator bar of

Re: 2008.9 Basic questions

2008-09-21 Thread Fox Mulder
For a complete and working routing solution just use navit. It uses maps from openstreetmaps.org compiled to a binary format which consumes just ~90MB for whole germany. It also supports speach output for directions. I tested it between two cities where i live and it routed me very well. The

Re: 2008.9 Basic questions

2008-09-21 Thread Fox Mulder
I also experienced the problem that the FR slowes down to a point where it freezes when the memory consumption goes to the limit of the internal ram. And this happenes quite often when using many programs. To solve this problem i created a swap file with 64MB on my sd-card (vfat, but this

Re: help compiling gnu chess game, project with subfolders

2008-09-21 Thread Yorick Moko
I'd like the ipk but why nog make it available to everyone? 2008/9/19 Nicolas LAURANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I'm having my first try at compiling programs for the FR. I've a python background mostly, and I'm not familiar at compiling stuff beyond the configure make make install

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Fox Mulder
Here's another approach: Why not use two freerunner on different locations which do have one ir input attached. They synced the clock with ntp and both of them save the time difference between mic and ir data. You know the exact location of both and you could sync the data over wlan/gprs and

The wifi antenna

2008-09-21 Thread Yogiz
Hello, How good is the Freerunner's wifi supposed to be. If I do an iwlist scan with my laptop two meters from the AP, I get link quality of 96/100. However with the Freerunner, even if I hold it right next to the AP's antenna I get a maximum of 51/100. Most APs that my laptop finds just fine

Re: The wifi antenna

2008-09-21 Thread Joseph Reeves
You really shouldn't be attempting any tests whilst holding any wifi gear right next to other bits of kit. It's like getting two people to scream in each other's ears and wondering why they didn't report a good experiance. I'd re-run the tests from a different room to the one the access point is

Re: SDL and status of 3d Acceleration?

2008-09-21 Thread Per Jonsson
Al Johnson skrev: You understand correctly - currently there is no 3D acceleration in the Glamo drivers. The documentation is under NDA so only Openmoko staff can write the driver, and there are more important things for them to work on. duke3d is just 2d, same as always. Ok, thanks

Re: SD corruption(no suspend and sd_max_clk tested)

2008-09-21 Thread GNUtoo
by the way...should I bugreport or is there others things to try such as the SD strength? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: The wifi antenna

2008-09-21 Thread Yorick Moko
i got stuff like 294/100 On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really shouldn't be attempting any tests whilst holding any wifi gear right next to other bits of kit. It's like getting two people to scream in each other's ears and wondering why they

Re: The wifi antenna

2008-09-21 Thread Marcel
Same here. Afaik, the wifi driver is far from reliable in things like signal strength measuring... -Marcel Am Sunday 21 September 2008 12:54:24 schrieb Yorick Moko: i got stuff like 294/100 On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really shouldn't

how to change the ring tone on 2008.9 ?

2008-09-21 Thread Glen Ogilvie
Hi, I know this must be simple, but, I can't see how to change the ring and sms tone on om 2008.9. Could someone that knows please tell me. I will update the Ringtones section of the wiki to include details once I know. Regards Glen Ogilvie signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: how to change the ring tone on 2008.9 ?

2008-09-21 Thread Andreas Fischer
Hi Glen, I think the relevant ringtones are in /opt/Qtopia/etc/SystemRingTones/ - there are two .wav files in there: phonering.wav and alarm.wav. I tried to change the default ringtone a while back, but had problems with extremly laggy sound. However, that may be due to the size of the ringtone I

Re: how to change the ring tone on 2008.9 ?

2008-09-21 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:12:40 +1200 Glen Ogilvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know this must be simple, but, I can't see how to change the ring and sms tone on om 2008.9. Could someone that knows please tell me. I will update the Ringtones section of the wiki to include details once I

Re: The wifi antenna

2008-09-21 Thread Yogiz
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:00:04 +0200 Marcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. Afaik, the wifi driver is far from reliable in things like signal strength measuring... -Marcel Okay thanks everybody. At least I know it's not my problem then yet. I'll try to actually get the wifi working. I

Memory usage and swap (was Re: 2008.9 Basic questions)

2008-09-21 Thread Marcel Wirth
Alex Fitzpatrick wrote: Iain B. Findleton wrote: And of course, the buggy software can hurt. Surprisingly, I activated swap on my FR and stability and periodic slowing have improved. Don't know why that should be, but there you are. The answer there is to run top while using the phone...

Re: Freerunner Review

2008-09-21 Thread rakshat hooja
Correcting the url http://www.techtree.com/India/Reviews/Freerunner/551-93139-612-1.html Rakshat On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:21 PM, rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Techtree - one of the leading Indian technology related websites has done a detailed (and what I feel balanced) review of

[ASU, 2008.8/.9] remove bottom section

2008-09-21 Thread Geoff Ruscoe
I have removed the assassin installer so it doesn't show up any more (I do everything command line while ssh'd in) and I want to get rid of the bottom thing with the little pluses. Is this a possibility? I know that it's used in some weird and inconsistent ways, so this may cause problems, but

From C, how do I know the screen is locked?

2008-09-21 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi, Can anyone help with a way to check, in C, wether the screen is locked or not? Thanks, Rui -- Grudnuk demand sustenance! Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 45th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be

Re: About OpenMoko Rotate

2008-09-21 Thread Yogiz
Hmm, you're right. I last updated yesterday and both problem were there. I did a quick update a minute ago and it only updated angstrom but now both problems are gone. I take that back. Both problems still persist but not constantly. I can't connect their appearance with anything. Yogiz

which Om2008 version changing the keyboard

2008-09-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Yesterday I've received my FreeRunner and with the help of the Wiki I'm investigating it; I can already connect fine with SSH from my FreeBSD laptop into the gadget and configured in FreeBSD that the interface gets the correct IP addr automatically on device ATTACH (I will put the details

[ASU] Is git available for freerunner

2008-09-21 Thread Geoff Ruscoe
Need I say more? Oh what about svn? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Charles Pax
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You probably want to look at these two. The main limitation is that you've only got one input channel via the jack, but you might be able to get round that using the mic switch detection. I incorrectly assumed there is

Re: Problems with SD boot of FSO, OM 2008.8, add /dev/mmcblk0... to distros?

2008-09-21 Thread Simon Matthews
card driver not reading some cards. The mmcblk0p1, p2, etc. device files actually will be autocreated whenever Linux thinks there are partitions there, but the problem is that sometimes when it tries to read the partition table of the card it fails to get any data, so it doesn't think

[fdom][om2008.8] gpg-failure

2008-09-21 Thread Davide Scaini
Hi guys! after testing 2007.2, 2008.8 i got fdom, and i'm quite happy (i want to try debian)... but i have a problem after downloading a package opkg is not able to install it because of an error: Faild. Please try again.The error message is 'gpg-failure' any hints? thanks d

Re: [fdom][om2008.8] gpg-failure

2008-09-21 Thread Davide Scaini
gnupg not installed... maybe is this my problem? d On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Davide Scaini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! after testing 2007.2, 2008.8 i got fdom, and i'm quite happy (i want to try debian)... but i have a problem after downloading a package opkg is not able to

[EMAIL PROTECTED] missing LAN tools

2008-09-21 Thread Christian Weßel
Hello, I have installed Debian successfull on my FR. Now I try to install further SW. But I get allways debian-gta02:/# apt-get install tangogps Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Recommended packages: gpsd The following

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] missing LAN tools

2008-09-21 Thread Fox Mulder
In my debian installation were no ping, traceroute and nslookup preinstalled. Everything needs to be installed after installation like many other nice things. I would suggest that you take a look at your resolv.conf because it seems that your name resolving doesn't work. Try adding a working dns

Re: [ASU, 2008.8/.9] remove bottom section

2008-09-21 Thread Vikas Saurabh
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Geoff Ruscoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I have removed the assassin installer so it doesn't show up any more (I do everything command line while ssh'd in) and I want to get rid of the bottom thing with the little pluses. Is this a possibility? I know that it's

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/21 Charles Pax [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All the Freerunner would be needed for is processing the input of the mic-in. The freerunner microphone isn't used. Imagine a stick with two microphones glued 400 cm apart and connected to a audio cable. There is more to it, but that's pretty much what

New rotate for OpenMoko

2008-09-21 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi, As said before, since I’m not entirely happy with the previous version of Rotate for OpenMoko, also using it as a way to learn how to write programs for it, I’m writing a new version of Rotate for OpenMoko. I’m now announcing the first results: release 0.1.0 is out (signature)! The tar.gz

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Nicolas Laurance
why not try this technique through the bluetooth ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKCrGvShZs that is, using a wiimote regards NiL ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: help compiling gnu chess game, project with subfolders

2008-09-21 Thread Nicolas Laurance
see http://www.zindep.com/blog-zindep/openmoko-chess/ for info and download direct access for the package http://www.zindep.com/blog-zindep/openmoko-chess/gnuchess_0.1_armv4t.ipk/view ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

[FSO] a couple of things

2008-09-21 Thread Fredrik Wendt
image of 20080921 (the 09:xx build) I can't get my phone into USB host mode. The steps I normally take is * boot Fr * ssh in via USB * start bluetooth and set up IP connection * dump USB cable * try to get it into host mode (used to work) * Finally, the lack of locale support for sv_SE.UTF-8

Re: [FSO] a couple of things

2008-09-21 Thread Fredrik Wendt
sön 2008-09-21 klockan 22:23 +0200 skrev Fredrik Wendt: * I still can't use a keyboard via USB in X. This means I need a computer to enter code. Actually with FSO testing image of 20080921 (the 09:xx build) I can't get my phone into USB host mode. Hmm. Don't know what I was on. What happens

Neopwn

2008-09-21 Thread Joseph Reeves
I'm sure others have seen the Slashdot article, but in case you haven't: http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/08/09/21/1730256.shtml I'm just looking forward to being able to download the code to run on one of my phones :) Joseph ___ Openmoko community

Dead Accelerometers? (was Re: accelerometer jitte r)

2008-09-21 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:44:34 -0400, Joel Newkirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:36:00 -0400, Michael Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Joel Newkirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you run a test while driving/riding in the car and post what the

g_file_storage

2008-09-21 Thread Christian Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 moinmoin, did anyone manage to get the usb-gadget g_file_storage to work properly? for me it's no problem to do: ifconfig usb0 down rmmod cdc-ether rmmod g_ether modprobe g_file_storage file=... but what - at least for me - not works is: rmmod

Re: accelerometer jitter

2008-09-21 Thread Vasco Névoa
Joel Newkirk wrote: Sorry. ;) Near-stationary, power consumption immaterial, as accurate as possible. As a project to get my feet wet doing ground-up development (probably Python, which I need to learn) for the Freerunner (instead of just cross-compiling and fixing issues therein) I wanted

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 21 September 2008, Charles Pax wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You probably want to look at these two. The main limitation is that you've only got one input channel via the jack, but you might be able to get round that using the mic

Re: how to change the ring tone on 2008.9 ?

2008-09-21 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: Install the packages qtopia-phone-x11-ringprofile and qtopia-phone-x11-ringprofile-app-data. Then you can go into illume-config and select profiles, where you can change your ringtone per profile, even use mp3's (remember that these play too loud, so edit your mp3

Re: The wifi antenna

2008-09-21 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Yogiz wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:00:04 +0200 Marcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. Afaik, the wifi driver is far from reliable in things like signal strength measuring... Okay thanks everybody. At least I know it's not my problem then yet. I'll try to actually get the wifi working.

Re: [ASU, 2008.8/.9] remove bottom section

2008-09-21 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Vikas Saurabh wrote: I have removed the assassin installer so it doesn't show up any more (I do everything command line while ssh'd in) and I want to get rid of the bottom thing with the little pluses. Is this a possibility? Anyone know how to do this? I am not exactly

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Charles Pax
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Can I record audio from the mic input and the built-in microphone at the same time? Yes. Route headset (mic1) to the left ADC and handset (mic2) to the right ADC, then set the record mode to stereo. This is good news.

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Charles Pax
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Nicolas Laurance [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: why not try this technique through the bluetooth ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKCrGvShZs that is, using a wiimote I think I will investigate this option. I've thought about it before, but couldn't find any Linux

Re: DeadAccelerometers?

2008-09-21 Thread Dima Kogan
working on it presumably, but if you want something NOW, this may fix your woes. On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:07:00 -0400 Joel Newkirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, I flashed as follows, both rootfs and kernel from each: testing-om-gta02-20080921, 'base/empty' - seems a bit TOO empty, as I was unable

Re: g_file_storage

2008-09-21 Thread Dale Maggee
Christian Adams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 moinmoin, did anyone manage to get the usb-gadget g_file_storage to work properly? for me it's no problem to do: ifconfig usb0 down rmmod cdc-ether rmmod g_ether modprobe g_file_storage file=... but what - at least

Re: DeadAccelerometers?

2008-09-21 Thread roguemoko
Joel Newkirk wrote: Then I checked again under 2008.9 (fresh flash) at ten minutes uptime, after composing this message, and suddenly both are reading dynamic data again!! I'm happy, but now I'm thoroughly confused, and somewhat worried as to what could have caused this in the first place...

problems while installing remoko. (Erros on python-textutils)

2008-09-21 Thread Orlando
While reading this document. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Bluetooth_remote_controller I tried to install the dependecies first. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# opkg install remokoserver python-ecore python-edbus python-edje python-evas python-dbus python-textutils Package remokoserver (0.2)

Make util not getting the toolchain

2008-09-21 Thread Shaz
Hi, I am compiling a small package which does not have any autoconf so has only a simple recursive Makefile. When I try to build it with the OM toolchain it gives me the following error message: make[1]: /usr/local/openmoko/arm/bin/arm-angtrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc: Command not found The