FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Is anybody aware of some 'magnifying glass' (in plastic perhaps) which fits exactly in the rectangle of the touch screen of the FR and serves to view better (bigger) for example if you use tangoGPS? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH

Re: no icons in 2008.testing

2008-10-30 Thread Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes
His question was not about flashing though - it was about whether running opkg update will get you these fixes. I also thought the testing images corresponded to the latest packages you can get from opkg update with the testing repositories setup as specified here:

Re: Has anyone tried Qi?

2008-10-30 Thread arne anka
I have tried it and i liked it. It was definitively faster. I might stick with it for a while i hope. how does it play with the dead battery issue? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

strange ML behaviour

2008-10-30 Thread Sébastien Lorquet
hi, sometimes I get a bunch of bugtracker related emails directly in my inbox. However I totally unscubscribed from this ML. Can someone from openmoko check my subscription status within trac? I never used it, but I feel I get messages from it without requesting it. thanks sl

Re: FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread arne anka
ever asked your local optician? the usually have both the common kind (like a bubble) and the fresnel kind (like those some cars have in the rear windows) which probably fits your needs better (flat and thin). ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: no icons in 2008.testing

2008-10-30 Thread Benedikt Schindler
W.Kenworthy schrieb: Flashing the images for 26/27 and 28 showed icons. Unusable for me though as only the 26th ever registered (rarely, seems to be due to installing the gsm mux by default - none of the distros I tried that uses it works for me) and then the illume theme continually segv's

Re: FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 30, 2008 a las 10:42:30AM +0100, arne anka escribió: ever asked your local optician? the usually have both the common kind (like a bubble) and the fresnel kind (like those some cars have in the rear windows) which probably fits your needs better (flat and thin).

Re: no icons in 2008.testing

2008-10-30 Thread Benedikt Schindler
i also have the illume theme installed, because of the keyboard. no icons. but the phone works fine. if i start start an application like qtmail it works. it also recives calls etc. and brings up the right application for all that. just no icons on the desktop, and no entrys in the running

Re: Has anyone tried Qi?

2008-10-30 Thread Petr Vanek
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:26:00 +0100 arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AA) wrote: I have tried it and i liked it. It was definitively faster. I might stick with it for a while i hope. how does it play with the dead battery issue? well, this i cannot answer as i have three batteries and just swap

Re: New home for the New FDOM

2008-10-30 Thread Vasco Névoa
I've also tried FDOMizer yesterday, and I had to patch it by hand in a few cases. Mainly, I had to update a few download links from angstrom-distribution.org . Citando Jonathan Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just tried updating my FDOM using FDOMizer from the 20080927 version and have had

Re: New home for the New FDOM

2008-10-30 Thread David Samblas
Please send it to me and I will upload it, :) El jue, 30-10-2008 a las 11:07 +, Vasco Névoa escribió: I've also tried FDOMizer yesterday, and I had to patch it by hand in a few cases. Mainly, I had to update a few download links from angstrom-distribution.org . Citando Jonathan

Re: LED and vibrator testing GUI

2008-10-30 Thread David Samblas
El jue, 30-10-2008 a las 04:19 +0100, Bastiaan Hovestreydt escribió: Hi, sorry, but I couldn't stop Apache from trying to execute the script other than renaming it, so its now here [1]. Bastiaan [1] http://openmoko.hovestreydt.com/download/leds Bastiaan Hovestreydt wrote:

Re: no icons in 2008.testing

2008-10-30 Thread William Kenworthy
Yeah did that, both manually and cutpasted the FDOM equivalent. I can talk to the mux and chipset at times, but at others it seems unresponsive. BillK On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:45 +0100, Benedikt Schindler wrote: W.Kenworthy schrieb: Flashing the images for 26/27 and 28 showed icons.

Re: DIY Audioadaptor

2008-10-30 Thread Alastair Johnson
Michael Zanetti wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:31:25 Konstantin wrote: If this happens with your normal OM headset, too, then your mixer settings are probably wrong. I had the same problem too at the beginning, but fiddling around with the 'Left Mixer Left' and 'Right Mixer Right'

Re: LED and vibrator testing GUI

2008-10-30 Thread Natanael Arndt
Bastiaan Hovestreydt wrote: Hi, sorry, but I couldn't stop Apache from trying to execute the script other than renaming it, so its now here [1]. Bastiaan [1] http://openmoko.hovestreydt.com/download/leds Hey Bastiaan, you can put the script in a .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz or simply .tar, so

Latest and stable images

2008-10-30 Thread Pander
Hi all, I've created a start of an overview of the latest and stable images combinations for each major distribution. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions#Images Feel free to extend, improve and add alternatives. Regards, Pander ___

Re: opreferences rules (was Re: Some debian questions)

2008-10-30 Thread Benedikt Bär
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 01:06 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: Hi there! Please continue this discussion on the smartphones-standards mailing list [1], I think it belongs there and I set R-T and M-F-T accordingly. On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:21:01 +0100, Guillaume Chereau wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at

Re : gsm and freerunner

2008-10-30 Thread François Rigaudie
Same problem for me. I could only fix once in Ireland but never in Paris where I live. After the first fix two weeks ago my FR could never do it again in France. I let it run for more than an hour. My FR has the tiny capacitor in it's Micro SD slot and I also tried it without any SD Card in

Openmoko Planet (How to post)

2008-10-30 Thread SCarlson
Hello everyone, I'm looking to release a piece of software this weekend, I'd like to include a post on the Planet. How can I go about this? Thanks in Advance, Scott -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Openmoko-Planet-%28How-to-post%29-tp1399199p1399199.html Sent from the

Re: Openmoko Planet (How to post)

2008-10-30 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
File a new ticket here telling your blog rss address: http://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Navit questions...

2008-10-30 Thread Lothar Behrens
Hi, now I have played around a little with navit and tried to reduce the recalculation when speed is under 4. It's my assumption that a walk is at last about 5 km/h, thus I added some lines of code to handle this case. But before I am really do too much that propably has been done I would

[FDOM] opkg install pidgin fails with 'An error occured, return value: 2.'

2008-10-30 Thread Tim Churchard
Hi All, I've been using FDOM on my Freerunner as my primary phone for a couple of weeks now- it's all working nicely except that I am unable to install some applications. I have not touched the contents of /etc/opkg since flashing FDOM 20081023 opkg update hits

General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Camenzind
Shouldn't it be possible to get the own position from three signals from the same satellite? The result would not be as exactly as from three or more but even better then no result. Why should it not work? _ Die neue Generation der

Re: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Michele Renda
Matthias Camenzind wrote: Shouldn't it be possible to get the own position from three signals from the same satellite? The result would not be as exactly as from three or more but even better then no result. Why should it not work? No, because GPS run calculation triangulation from the

Re: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread member kamituel
You can only get current time from one satellite. It is not possible to compute your current position. It would be possible, though, to find out what is the distance between GPS receiver and the satellite. This distance is the radius of one sphere. When you combine signals from three or fours

RE: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Camenzind
You get time and ID, out of this two things you'll get position. . If you change first 'time' and thrid 'time' to second time it should be possible to get a position out of that. Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:03:16 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Camenzind
The satellites are moving around. So on a different time the position is different. Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:00:29 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: General GPS Question Matthias Camenzind wrote:

Re: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Thomas White
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:09:47 + Matthias Camenzind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The satellites are moving around. So on a different time the position is different. There is a number called the dilution of precision which quantifies the factor by which the accuracy of the GPS reading is reduced

Re: no icons in 2008.testing

2008-10-30 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
While this problem is not solved, maybe you could downgrade to 'stable'. I have never done this, it is a bit rough, but you could try if you want : First put Om2008.8 in your /etc/opkg/*conf files (instead of testing) Then 'opkg update' to update your list of packages Then create the list of

Re: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 30/10/2008 19:09, Matthias Camenzind wrote: The satellites are moving around. So on a different time the position is different. First the satellites are not moving fast enough, and they are moving in the same direction of course, so you cannot really do triangulation (the three

RE: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Camenzind
I thought right now near same like you. I thought about the speed of satellites, But also right now i had another idea. With the signal form two satellites, and a known high over sea it should be possible to locate you on north or south of earth (only two possibilities). This would be nice if

Re: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/30 Matthias Camenzind [EMAIL PROTECTED] This would be nice if you go on a mountain and you are standing in front of a signpost (google translated) with meters over Sea value Or if you have an altimeter with you. ___ Openmoko community

RE: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Camenzind
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:51:14 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: General GPS Question 2008/10/30 Matthias Camenzind This would be nice if you go on a mountain and you are standing in front of a signpost (google

Re: [Om2008.9] found the best gsmhandset.state file in FDOmizer

2008-10-30 Thread Margo Koppelmann
I was using FDOM 20080927 and there was no echo problem. I updated to FDOM 20081023 and if I call someone, he/she hears echo. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [debian/zhone] Start up customization

2008-10-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
As they stand, I don't believe the zhone startup files support user customization. Such as (in my case) starting up fbpanel and openmoko-panel-plugin. Of course, you can change conf files under I don't know how it works in FSO, but in Debian, I just have % cat ~/.xsessionrc fbpanel

[Debian] sound programs.. no sound from VLC

2008-10-30 Thread Matthew Lane
Dear community, I'm running Debian under xfce, and I love it. I've installed some new software and I love the great options of standard Debian software, but I'm running into troubles when it comes to playing an MP3. I've installed Audacious, Noatun, Sonata, and VLC. Audacious is the only

Re: FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
Is anybody aware of some 'magnifying glass' (in plastic perhaps) which fits exactly in the rectangle of the touch screen of the FR and serves to view better (bigger) for example if you use tangoGPS? How 'bout a software one? Stefan ___

Re: [Debian] sound programs.. no sound from VLC

2008-10-30 Thread Greg Bonett
have you tried mplayer or mpg321? I bet you're running out of resources... Dear community, I'm running Debian under xfce, and I love it. I've installed some new software and I love the great options of standard Debian software, but I'm running into troubles when it comes to playing an MP3.

Re: Has anyone tried Qi?

2008-10-30 Thread Petr Vanek
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:35:40 +0100 Petr Vanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PV) wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:26:00 +0100 arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AA) wrote: I have tried it and i liked it. It was definitively faster. I might stick with it for a while i hope. how does it play with the dead battery

Re: [FDOM] opkg install pidgin fails with 'An error occured, return value: 2.'

2008-10-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/10/31 Tim Churchard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So my questions are: What's happened for opkg to give a return 2? And where should my /etc/opkg/*conf files be pointing? i'm pretty sure that means it isn't found in the repo, at least under that name ___

Re: [Debian] sound programs.. no sound from VLC

2008-10-30 Thread Didier Ptitjes
Hi! I had to renice mplayer to -10 to get it playing an ogg file with no trouble at all... (with pythm under FDOM - BTW there is a conf option to tell the mplayer backend the nice level for the mplayer instance) Best regards, Didier. Matthew Lane wrote: Dear community, I'm running Debian

Re: FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/10/31 Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is anybody aware of some 'magnifying glass' (in plastic perhaps) which fits exactly in the rectangle of the touch screen of the FR and serves to view better (bigger) for example if you use tangoGPS? How 'bout a software one? how about changing the

Re: FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread Ben
Umm, is there not some kind of zoom in function? and how is a magnifying glass that's the size of the screen going to make the whole screen bigger? On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is anybody aware of some 'magnifying glass' (in plastic perhaps)

RE: [FDOM] opkg install pidgin fails with 'An error occured, return value: 2.'

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Camenzind
Try this: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2007/ipk/glibc/armv4t/base/pidgin_2.2.1-r0_armv4t.ipk or add Angstrom Repository to your opkg source: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Repositories#Angstrom_Repository adding repository should be the better way, cause after you can install also

[Om2008.9] found the best gsmhandset.state file in FDOmizer

2008-10-30 Thread Jonathan Schultz
Strange... I originally had the echo problem with 22080927 but got rid of it using the fix described here: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033312.html After updating to 20081023 using FDOMizer I confirmed that the file in question

Re: FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, October 31, 2008 a las 10:41:08AM +1300, Robin Paulson escribió: 2008/10/31 Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is anybody aware of some 'magnifying glass' (in plastic perhaps) which fits exactly in the rectangle of the touch screen of the FR and serves to view better (bigger)

Re: FR magifying glass (for tangoGPS, but not only)

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, October 31, 2008 a las 08:46:28AM +1100, Ben escribió: Umm, is there not some kind of zoom in function? I've not seen this and how is a magnifying glass that's the size of the screen going to make the whole screen bigger? for example:

Re: [Debian] sound programs.. no sound from VLC

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/30 Matthew Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've installed Audacious, Noatun, Sonata, and VLC. Audacious is the only player I've been able to hear sound from, but it skips, and very frequently! Noatun will not play my music, and Sonata won't add my music to its library even though I redirect

RE: [FDOM] opkg install pidgin fails with 'An error occured, return value: 2.'

2008-10-30 Thread David Samblas
be carefull, if you add the angstrom repo opkg will try to upgrade some core libraries of the system like dbus or gtk, this will put FDOM and any 2008.X in a even more unestable state :) El jue, 30-10-2008 a las 21:49 +, Matthias Camenzind escribió: Try this:

Re: no icons in 2008.testing

2008-10-30 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Ok it works, you just have to remove your ~/.e because it has been upgraded to svnr36882 version Xavier. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

New home for the New FDOM

2008-10-30 Thread Jonathan Schultz
I believe it is a combination of inestability of accelerometers and sound if any of those elementes doesn't work mookow, still silent on even it doesn't open at all, it uses to work with the Neo just rebooted. as experiment you can execute the Moocow throug terminal and if no detect any

FSO Control - New Project and Initial Package

2008-10-30 Thread digger vermont
Hey, Here's a package for fso-control. A finger-friendly Edje GUI to control your phone with frameworkd. https://projects.openmoko.org/frs/download.php/459/fso-control_0.1.0_all.ipk First time making a package. Oh Boy! I started a project for it at http://fso-control.projects.openmoko.org/ And

Re: New home for the New FDOM

2008-10-30 Thread nick d.
A screen should show up. It won't if your accelerometers aren't working. To check this run: hexdump /dev/input/event2 which should give you output from the accelerometer that openmoocow uses. If you're using FDOM try replacing neod with a different copy to see if that solves it. Some people

Re: Has anyone tried Qi?

2008-10-30 Thread Pander
Does Qi have an issue tracker or does an existing issue tracker have a label or a component to track Qi issues? Petr Vanek wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:35:40 +0100 Petr Vanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PV) wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:26:00 +0100 arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AA) wrote: I have

Re: Has anyone tried Qi?

2008-10-30 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Does Qi have an issue tracker or does an existing issue tracker have a | label or a component to track Qi issues? For now stick them under the somewhat ambiguous System Software thing with Qi in the

Re: Has anyone tried Qi?

2008-10-30 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:35:40 +0100 | Petr Vanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PV) wrote: | | On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:26:00 +0100 | arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AA) | wrote: | | I have tried it and i liked it. It was