Re: Who has multiple devices?

2008-09-15 Thread Dale Maggee
Al Johnson wrote: On Monday 15 September 2008, Dale Maggee wrote: Hi, as per the 'DFUScript' thread, I've made a change to my flashing / backup utility to enable support for more than one attached DFU-capable device, but I'm interested to know what happens if you have more than one

Re: Who has multiple devices?

2008-09-15 Thread Dale Maggee
Al Johnson wrote: I can't think of a situation where I would accidentally have two freerunners sitting in uboot. If -l shows more than one suitable device you could just suggest they remove all but the one that needs programming and try again. Agreed, that seems like the easiest way to

Re: Who has multiple devices?

2008-09-15 Thread Dale Maggee
Iker Berasaluce wrote: I can't think of a situation where I would accidentally have two freerunners sitting in uboot. If -l shows more than one suitable device you could just suggest they remove all but the one that needs programming and try again. Is that always possible? I mean, I

Re: *new version* A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-14 Thread Dale Maggee
Ilja O. wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Charles Pax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So at some point here I'm guessing Zenity will have to be dropped in favor of maybe a Python + Glade combination. Is anyone out there capable and willing to do such a thing? It should probably happen

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-14 Thread Dale Maggee
Risto H. Kurppa wrote: try to run it in 2007.2. I tried killing pulseaudio with no luck, see my other message in this thread. I changed the config file to turn off audio as suggested, and got a bit further, but still no luck: output: --- Checking sound inits. Checking music

Re: DFUScript v0.1 - Script to help flashing

2008-09-14 Thread Dale Maggee
Shawn, I don't have multiple devices which support DFU, but I'd love to add support for this in my utility, so can you give me some advice on how this might work? - is there a way to list attached devices which are DFU-capable? - how are these hex codes obtained? - since you have them

Re: FSO milestone3 my view (ON gta01)

2008-09-14 Thread Dale Maggee
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: the only problem I have with zhone is missing features, such as an internal PIM database - at present it only uses contacts stored in the sim card. Also the fact that you can only send sms's to existing contacts , and can't just type

Re: FSO milestone3 my view (ON gta01)

2008-09-14 Thread Dale Maggee
Fredrik Wendt wrote: Hi. fre 2008-09-12 klockan 12:24 +0200 skrev Tilman Baumann: I found the new fso milestone and tried it out on my Neo 1973. Here is what i think of it. [...] And i would say it is time for some gui guidelines for new world etk, efl apps. We have a great looking

Re: DFUScript v0.1 - Script to help flashing

2008-09-14 Thread Dale Maggee
Bill, On my work laptop with an external sun usb keyboard, I get two codes, so have to specify the FR when flashing. I can get a list (dfu-util -l) from it tomorrow afternoon if you wish. that would be great ./dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a kernel -R -D uImage BillK Thanks for the

Re: DFUScript v0.1 - Script to help flashing

2008-09-14 Thread Dale Maggee
Shawn, replies inline. Shawn prjktdtnt Thompson wrote: Dale, I would be honored to see my code used in a project that serves a wider audience. I wrote the script mainly for my own use and figured I would submit it as a community project for those who wanted to use and/or improve upon

Re: FSO milestone3 my view (ON gta01)

2008-09-12 Thread Dale Maggee
Tilman Baumann wrote: Zhone works well, but it's hideous. The integrated apps approach does not work any more in a window managed environment. And the UI is clunky. strange, I think that zhone is *gorgeous*, and I don't find it clunky at all! IMHO it's *very* pretty, and runs nicely - in

Re: distro nightmares ... can fdom help?

2008-09-11 Thread Dale Maggee
Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: Hi all, (to be fare: I compare with my 4 years old sony ericsson P900 phone, and that one wins without problems for now) (Warning: no ranting please, I'm just summing up all current bugs I encounter and hope to get some pointers for fixes) For the moment I seem

Re: *new version* A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-11 Thread Dale Maggee
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2Database=*Query=transmogrificationOk, so I've been slaving away over my (not so) little script, and it's about time for another release. Changes - Utility now has the ability to flash the splash image as per request - Utility can now also backup your

Re: *new version* A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-11 Thread Dale Maggee
I'm an idiot, ignore the dict.org link. I pasted it into the email accidentally, and I thought I'd deleted it, but apparently not. damn HTML-format emails... :( Dale Maggee wrote: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2Database=*Query=transmogrificationOk, so I've been slaving away over my

Re: distro nightmares ... can fdom help?

2008-09-11 Thread Dale Maggee
replies inline.. Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: Dale, I *know* the state of the software, but I don't claim to be a kernel or qtopia developer. I have some knowledge in linux (enough to maintain some companies with it) but that doesn't mean I can do kernel development. I'm no kernel hacker

Re: distro nightmares ... can fdom help?

2008-09-11 Thread Dale Maggee
On a sidenote: why do all my mails appear twice on the list? Or am I subscribed twice by accident? http://n2.nabble.com/Duplicates-td1078411ef1958.html#a1078411 http://n2.nabble.com/Duplicates-td1078411ef1958.html#a1078411 I amuse myself... ;) -D

Re: new user issues

2008-09-09 Thread Dale Maggee
arne anka wrote: I don't suppose you could tell me what file to look at? I've not seen look below /etc for pulseaudio. there's a config file with sample in it. the community archives of juni should contain a few messages describing how to do it. you're referring to

Re: new user issues

2008-09-09 Thread Dale Maggee
arne anka wrote: this I knew, but Russell mentions changing the ringtone *format*, not just the tone. I've not seen anything about this. sorry, must have missed that. re format i remember somebody posting a patch for python, that enabled something. and i think, it was for 2007.2

Re: FDOM (FAT and Dirty Openmoko) Distribution ready to download

2008-09-09 Thread Dale Maggee
wow, very cool stuff, a hug back! I haven't checked it out yet, but I will tomorrow (it's 2am here, past bedtime) ;) David Samblas wrote: Hi there, you have aviable on http://compartida.net/openmoko/FDOM a rootfs/kenel image ready to flash of an OM2008.08-updates distribution with some apps

Re: A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-08 Thread Dale Maggee
Charles Pax wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Joel Newkirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you did a cut'n'paste from email. The problem is that long lines are wrapped, which breaks programs/scripts. There's at least three places in the script that suffer from word-wrap,

Re: A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-08 Thread Dale Maggee
Minh Ha Duong wrote: Hi, According to this mail: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/001726.html the boot image is flasheable too, and the next upgrade will upgrade it. Does this look like something that zenity-gui could do ? Yes, it is. I'll update the script

Re: new user issues

2008-09-08 Thread Dale Maggee
Russell Sears wrote: On 2007.2, you needed to edit a text file to change the ringtone format. I don't suppose you could tell me what file to look at? I've not seen any mention of changing ringtones in 2007.2, the only way I've come up with is to overwrite the wav file. this would be a great

Re: A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-07 Thread Dale Maggee
Rorschach wrote: Hi, I was bored and just wrote a little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo: http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/391300/ . For the zenity-gui you need of course zenity and a bash-shell. To make the progress-bar work you need to patch dfu-util: Hi, I was more bored and

Re: A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-07 Thread Dale Maggee
Joel Newkirk wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:50:20 -0400, Charles Pax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I was more bored and wanted to exercise my scripting skillz, so I made some changes to this script. I saved your code

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-06 Thread Dale Maggee
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Dale Maggee ha scritto: I suspect that it won't run on 2007.2, because the accelerometers seem to be broken. I get Unknown Multivoc error code. when i try to run it in 2007.2. -Dale Shawn Thompson wrote: I'm SO installing that when my openmoko

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-06 Thread Dale Maggee
Alexander Elbs wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 03:55:53PM +1000, Dale Maggee wrote: I suspect that it won't run on 2007.2, because the accelerometers seem to be broken. I get Unknown Multivoc error code. when i try to run it in 2007.2. Hi, you need to kill pulseaudio. It seems

Re: usb mass media storage

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Petr Vanek wrote: I have spent a while googling this up and have no wiki skills but someone might find this useful: to make FR act as a memory stick, here is what my script does: #!/bin/sh

Qtopia-Phone-X11 on 2007.2?

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Hi, I'm using 2007.2. When I do 'opkg list | grep qtopia' I see a whole lot of packages, including 'qtopia-phone-x11' and 'qtopia-phone-x11-bluetooth ' - will installing these break things? - If not, This would mean I have more than one dialer installed, which one will be the default? how

Re: usb mass media storage

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Petr Vanek wrote: I have spent a while googling this up and have no wiki skills but someone might find this useful: to make FR act as a memory stick, here is what my script does: #!/bin/sh

Re: Qtopia-Phone-X11 on 2007.2?

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Al Johnson wrote: On Friday 05 September 2008, Dale Maggee wrote: Hi, I'm using 2007.2. When I do 'opkg list | grep qtopia' I see a whole lot of packages, including 'qtopia-phone-x11' and 'qtopia-phone-x11-bluetooth ' - will installing these break things? Probably. You will have

Re: usb mass media storage

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
: mkfs.ext3 mem_stick.fs from FR you can mount this filesystem with: mount -o loop mem_stick.fs some_mount_point and for exporting via usb: rmmod g_ether # if mount - umount! modprobe g_file_storage file=mem_stick.fs regards, morlac On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Dale Maggee

Re: Chancing SIM card without reboot

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/8/25 Fredrik Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In Sweden we have three GSM network operators (those with licenses to actually put GSM equipment to use) and having to wait 3-4 minutes after each SIM change really kills productivity and flow ... Would it be reasonable

Re: usb mass media storage

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
arne anka wrote: try to put your echo strings in quotes: echo -n ifdown usb0... did that, no luck. this time is froze after echoing ifdown usb0... ...? -D ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Building FSO Wiki page

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
John Whitmore wrote: Hello all, http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO#Create_local_configuration Looking at that just confuses, me I'm afraid. I looked to see was there a wiki mailing list as I thought that was going to be set up. No such list so I'll post here, hope somebody can

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Rafael, I just wanted to tell you that I love you! :D -Dale Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: Hello people, I want to share a simple duke nukem 3d port for Neo which you can play using the accelerometer :) You can get all the files at: http://fz.hobby-site.org/om/duke-nukem-3d/ and the link

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
I suspect that it won't run on 2007.2, because the accelerometers seem to be broken. I get Unknown Multivoc error code. when i try to run it in 2007.2. -Dale Shawn Thompson wrote: I'm SO installing that when my openmoko shows up! That is freakin sweet!. Will it run on 2007.2 or do you have

Re: Problem with usb cable: device descriptor read/64, error -110

2008-09-02 Thread Dale Maggee
Sarton O'Brien wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2008 10:32:17 sledgeas wrote: Please, refer to this http://n2.nabble.com/Can-bad-NAND-blocks-cause-USB%27s-%22device-descriptor -read-64%2C-error--110%22---tp835094p835094.html for more full info. A guy in #openmoko suggested my flash blocks

Re: contacts: lookup on incoming call

2008-08-31 Thread Dale Maggee
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:33:00PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Tom Yates wrote: but when i'm in the UK, and a UK call comes in, it shows up as just having a local

Re: Cpoying image to internal flash

2008-08-31 Thread Dale Maggee
William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying out 2008.9 and am impressed that its almost usable. Before I put too much effort into configuring the image I have on the SD card, is it possible to move an SD card image to the phone itself? BillK Bill, Care to define almost usable a little more

Re: contacts: lookup on incoming call

2008-08-30 Thread Dale Maggee
b) I'd call it a bug, or maybe a feature... By calling it a feature I feel compelled to ask, are you a Microsoft employee? hehehe, Does VB Programmer count as a Microsoft Employee? it's almost as bad, apparently... ;) ___ Openmoko

Re: Is 2008.9 usable?

2008-08-30 Thread Dale Maggee
Olivier Berger wrote: William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this correct: Will 2008.9 make phone calls (2008.8 never connected once over the few days I tried it) What's your definition of 2008.8 : upgraded with the stable upgrade feeds ? Also, can you point at a

Re: some hardware suggestions

2008-08-29 Thread Dale Maggee
Nishit Dave wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Genuine People Personality Module Would you prefer aaah...thanks for using me as your phone, or life, don't talk on me about it modes? I'd have to go with 'marvin mode', if my phone had

Re: contacts: lookup on incoming call

2008-08-29 Thread Dale Maggee
Tom Yates wrote: using ASU (specifically, 20080826-asu-stable-uImage.bin and 20080827-asu-stable-rootfs.jffs2) i have a contacts database full of friends, imported via vcard, in which almost all the phone numbers are in internationally-qualified form (eg fred friend, +44 7971 123456). that

Re: some hardware suggestions

2008-08-29 Thread Dale Maggee
Shawn Thompson wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Nishit Dave wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Genuine People Personality Module Would you prefer aaah...thanks for using

Re: GTA05 suggestions

2008-08-29 Thread Dale Maggee
Lally Singh wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Radek Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Card accesible from outside would be great too. Disassembling hood and SIM card is really annoying so far. A second USB port would be nice, too. There's a lot of fun to be had in hooking

Re: GTA04

2008-08-29 Thread Dale Maggee
Steven Kurylo wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Alex Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yogiz wrote: known features of GTA04: - DBI (Direct Brain Interface) - trans warp gate projector - battery is replaced with a blackhole for infinite power - timemachine - build in

Re: some hardware suggestions

2008-08-28 Thread Dale Maggee
you forgot: - Kitchen sink - Matter Transporter / replicator (makes coffee machine redundant!) - Warp Drive - Holographic emitters - Laser cannons - Genuine People Personality Module ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Getting rid of echo for callers.

2008-08-28 Thread Dale Maggee
Daniel Selinger wrote: I've experimented with alsa settings for the last 3 hours and want to share my experience now. I was doing this on top of QTopia 4.3.2 and it's default gsmhandset.state file. The relevant mixer settings i found to, in my case completely eliminate the echo for the

Re: wrong architecture error after changing repositorities

2008-08-24 Thread Dale Maggee
Michael Tansella wrote: Hi, I installed FSO milestone 2, then I removed all .conf files in /etc/opkg/ and added a selfmade one with the following content: src/gz bearstech-fso-testing-all http://shr.bearstech.com/fso-testing/ipk/all src/gz bearstech-fso-testing-armv4t

Krells!

2008-08-23 Thread Dale Maggee
If you're like me, you're a big fan of gkrellm, and you always have it running so you can keep an eye on what your system is doing. I wanted to have a remote display of my FR CPU usage on my host, for the same reason - to be able to see at a glance what's going on. Looking at gkrellm's man

Re: Headphones, Adapters

2008-08-23 Thread Dale Maggee
Matt wrote: Hi all, I tried to use headphones with my FR but I only get sound in one ear. I've tried a phone set with a mic and a normal set with a 3.5 - 2.5 adapter. If I move the plug I can get sound to one or other ear, so I guess it's not a software issue. Do I need to buy a special

Re: Krells!

2008-08-23 Thread Dale Maggee
Benito Torres wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 17:25 (+1000), Dale Maggee wrote: http://users.on.net/~antisol/gkrellmd.tar.gz Um... There seems to be something wrong: -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 45 23. Aug 08:53 gkrellmd -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 177 23. Aug 08:55 gkrellmd.tar.gz It's

Re: Migration to 2008.08

2008-08-21 Thread Dale Maggee
1. I don't think so, mainly because of bug # 1766 - can't be used as a phone. YMMV. 2. negated by 1. Maciej Piechotka wrote: 1. Is it worthy to migrate to 2008.08 from 2007.02+daily feed? 2. How to import data (SMS + Phone Book) from 2007.02 into 2008.08. Regards PS. BTW how to delete

Re: Migration to 2008.08

2008-08-21 Thread Dale Maggee
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: 1. I don't think so, mainly because of bug # 1766 - can't be used as a phone. YMMV. Try using the workaround I've posted [1] using the attached libficgta01vendor.so. It seems it makes telephony working in 2008.08 too. [1] http

Re: SDHC 16GB 15MB/s card

2008-08-20 Thread Dale Maggee
arne anka wrote: I have a sandisk 8gb card, and it works just fine. I seem to recall reading somewhere that 8gb was the biggest a FR could handle? or was it that 8gb is the biggest that is known to work? what means fine exactly? - no bootsector corruption? - no sudden data corruption?

Re: SDHC 16GB 15MB/s card

2008-08-20 Thread Dale Maggee
Fox Mulder wrote: Nobody can say exactly if 8GB cards are supported or not because there exists no bigger cards to try with. ;) aha, thanks for clarifying :) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Navit patch for faster map dragging

2008-08-20 Thread Dale Maggee
Marcus Bauer wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:04 +1000, Dale Maggee wrote: so I tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/navit# /etc/init.d/gpsd start and got: Starting gpsd: No GPS device, aborting gpsd startup. Check /etc/default/gpsd The line in /etc/default/gpsd needs to read

Re: Lock version of package with opkg

2008-08-20 Thread Dale Maggee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:09:15PM +1000, Dale Maggee wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the scaredycat repo and gpsd doesn't seem to work right. Is there any way to lock the old version so I can do an 'opkg upgrade' without upgrading gpsd

Re: SDHC 16GB 15MB/s card

2008-08-20 Thread Dale Maggee
arne anka wrote: fine means with no troubles ;) - bootsector corruption? I haven't tried booting off it yet that's not necessary -- it manifest itself by total loss partition informations aah. Well, no trouble with that then. :) did you still want to know about my kernel? was my

Re: Can't get the phone registered (ticket #1766)

2008-08-20 Thread Dale Maggee
julien cubizolles wrote: There is at the moment a very nasty bug on the phone software of ASU and FSO images. Basically most of the time (more than 9 out of 10) you can't get the phone registered after the PIN code is entered. This means you can't make a call but strangely you can always

Re: Navit patch for faster map dragging

2008-08-19 Thread Dale Maggee
these * look odd. did you put them in there or are the really from navit? The problem is that the navit package contains only so.0.0.0 libs and .so.0 symlinks - navit trys to open the libs with a simple .so Broken package. Flo changing navit.xml from plugin

Re: Lock version of package with opkg

2008-08-19 Thread Dale Maggee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the scaredycat repo and gpsd doesn't seem to work right. Is there any way to lock the old version so I can do an 'opkg upgrade' without upgrading gpsd? ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: SDHC 16GB 15MB/s card

2008-08-19 Thread Dale Maggee
Mikko Rauhala wrote: ti, 2008-08-19 kello 18:06 -0400, Geoff Ruscoe kirjoitti: I am looking to upgrade my Micro SDHC card and I found: a 16GB Sandisk w / 15MB/s speeds. This sounded like a winner to me, but I wasn't sure if it would work. The model number is: SDSDRH-016G-A11

Re: Navit patch for faster map dragging

2008-08-17 Thread Dale Maggee
PS: Please download the ipk using wget and then invoke opkg on the downloaded file (instead of invoking opkg using the URL). There seems to be a problem with opkg and the apache gzip compression. Yeah, it gives the somewhat cryptic message: opkg: invalid magic This is great, two of the

Re: Navit patch for faster map dragging

2008-08-17 Thread Dale Maggee
Florian Hackenberger wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2008, Lothar Behrens wrote: I had the same issue, but doing the same with -nodeps worked here too. Sorry, forgot to mention that the ipk dependencies are a mess. You need the -force-depends option (-nodeps is similar). Thanks, but

Re: Adding libraries/packages to the toolchain using bitbake / openembedded

2008-08-15 Thread Dale Maggee
Florian Hackenberger wrote: Hi! I'm trying to build navit using the openmoko toolchain. The problem is that it seems to require the libgps include files for gpsd support. Ideally I'd like to add a package to the toolchain using a bitbake recipe from the openmoko git repository. I have

Re: Adding libraries/packages to the toolchain using bitbake / openembedded

2008-08-15 Thread Dale Maggee
Florian Hackenberger wrote: On Friday 15 August 2008, Dale Maggee wrote: You may want to have a look at this earlier thread about Navit: I didn't manage to compile it in the end, but there are links to compiled versions there which I ended up using. Thanks, I'm using the compiled

Re: Navit OSM Map Convert

2008-08-14 Thread Dale Maggee
carcinoma wrote: Hi Community, i'm in progres to convert the OSM Map of Berlin into an Navit Binary map File. Does anyone have some experiences with that? The Map i created and loaded into navit looks more like a fuzzy map. I followed the instructions on the wiki. used the python script

Re: [ Software Testing Report : 2008.08.07 ]

2008-08-13 Thread Dale Maggee
Wendy, I'd really like to be notified when these bugs are fixed, specifically: - Some of the testing phone can not make phone calls but can receive/send SMS??? (With alert messageno network) - Two of our phone can not wake up from suspend time. These are the two major issues which made me

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Dale Maggee
Cool! Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: Hi, As Google Summer of Code 2008 is almost at its end, here's a video showing what you should expect out of the accelerometer-based gestures project: http://digg.com/gadgets/Openmoko_Neo_Freerunner_Motion_Gestures_Screen_Orientation_2 There still are some

Re: 2008.08 - First Impressions

2008-08-09 Thread Dale Maggee
The graphical installer is great! I really like this, although I agree with the opinion stated elsewhere that the text is too big, and I'd really like to see the 'description' text on the package details screen, so that I know what the package is (names aren't always that informative).

Re: Usable Keyboard

2008-08-09 Thread Dale Maggee
2) can choose the word I actually typed. Yeah, This would improve the usability immensely! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Usable Keyboard

2008-08-09 Thread Dale Maggee
please check the mail list archives about terminal and asu, and check the keyboard in FSO. the keyboard in ASU is the qtopia keyboard. for better or worse. illume has it's own internal keyboard that does give you all these things, but it was decided that this was not what was wanted. i've

Re: Usable Keyboard

2008-08-09 Thread Dale Maggee
Press and hold the letter for about 1.5-2 sec. I'm aware of this Quite easy to form words this way. Granted, it's not difficult, but it's damn time-comsuming! typing my name takes nearly 10 seconds this way! :O Using FSO image these days but i used to type on the terminal in Qtopia

Re: Usable Keyboard

2008-08-09 Thread Dale Maggee
Michael Sheldon wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: Press and hold the letter for about 1.5-2 sec. I'm aware of this Quite easy to form words this way. Granted, it's not difficult, but it's damn time-comsuming! typing my name takes nearly 10 seconds this way! :O

Re: 2008.08 - First Impressions

2008-08-09 Thread Dale Maggee
ted braak wrote: Thanks for your impression. Really helpful in deciding NOT to install this. I am pretty amazed you claim that the OM team have made a big leap forward and also saying this version still has issues with the basic functionality of the phone.. Power management, calling, sms

Re: FSO ringtone

2008-08-08 Thread Dale Maggee
Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * IK+ Music * R-Type Theme * Maniac Mansion Theme * RoboCop Music * Bubble Bobble Theme where is skate or die? /me loves the 4 bit samples. clemens Wow, it seems that there's a C64 game I haven't played! :O

2008.08 - First Impressions

2008-08-08 Thread Dale Maggee
I've been playing with 2008.08 for a little while now, and I thought I'd share some first impressions. Firstly, it's *gorgeous* - eyecandy city! I *really* like the look and feel of it! It's much more friendly and less 'clunky' feeling than 2007.2. I had a couple of issues on first boot - It

Re: Om 2008.8 doesn't ask for my pin so no gsm available

2008-08-08 Thread Dale Maggee
Peter Mogensen wrote: I flashed the new kernel and image but if I boot now I'm not getting asked for a pin. There's no gsm in 2008.8 for me... This seem to be a common problem. The PIN-dialog does come up once in a while though. Restarting the X-server can make it appear. But even

Re: FSO ringtone

2008-08-07 Thread Dale Maggee
Guillaume Chereau wrote: Just for your information, with the new events system, it will soon be different. You will have to edit the rule.yaml file. It looks like this now : - # This rule will play a ring tone when a call is incoming trigger: CallStatus() filters:

Re: FSO ringtone

2008-08-07 Thread Dale Maggee
Aaron Sowry wrote: SIDs for a ringtone? . . . *THAT'S* . . . *AWESOME*! . . I can't wait to have my phone play the Bubble Bobble theme song to me when it rings :) Yeah, Bubble Bobble works, but my favorite has always been the music from R-type... I also loved the

Re: Some commentary on the new Openmoko direction, and a review of FSO

2008-08-07 Thread Dale Maggee
Wolfgang, I just wanted to say thanks for this very informative response! :) -Dale Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Dear Kevin, thanks for writing your review, for us at Openmoko nothing is better than a genuine reality check from outside. Executive summary first: I understand that we have not done

Re: FSO ringtone

2008-08-07 Thread Dale Maggee
:) This may be insane to a lot of people, but being forced into WAV or MP3 has been one of my strongest motivations for joining Openmoko Inc on their struggle to create an open mobile communications platform. I *want* my SIDs and MODs. Now we're there. MODs Too?!? doubly awesome!

Re: FSO: settings and profiles

2008-08-07 Thread Dale Maggee
Matt Joyce wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Fredrik Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there is a profile switcher planned I hope? I just can't let go of the idea of having several profiles activated at the same time, so I'll spam you all once more (last time, I promise).

Re: Navit?

2008-08-06 Thread Dale Maggee
Michael Sheldon wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: do you have an ipkg? did you get gpsd support to compile? I've tried compiling the svn version, but I get the following during 'make': /usr/local/openmoko/arm/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.1.2/../../../../arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld

Re: Navit?

2008-08-06 Thread Dale Maggee
Harald Koenig wrote: On Aug 05, Dale Maggee wrote: Thanks, but I've got the map problem sorted out, I think... now I just need to get it working with gpsd... when I first compiled navit for openmoko I had to add libgps devel to my (cross) build environment to make ./configure

Re: Navit?

2008-08-06 Thread Dale Maggee
arne anka wrote: Forgive what is probably a dumb question (I'm not a coder), but how do I install the libgps devel stuff? I noticed the section in the ToolChain use your distro's package management to find libgps and devel this should give you one or more package names like

Re: Navit?

2008-08-06 Thread Dale Maggee
05, Dale Maggee wrote: Thanks, but I've got the map problem sorted out, I think... now I just need to get it working with gpsd... when I first compiled navit for openmoko I had to add libgps devel to my (cross) build environment to make ./configure add the gpsd support (check

Re: Navit?

2008-08-06 Thread Dale Maggee
arne anka wrote: gpsd-devel.i386 2.34-3.fc7 development this should be the right one -- lock inside (yum might be able to list the content), it should have some or more files ending with .h I can't see a yum option to list files, but

Re: wrong offset of mouse in landscape mode (and scummvm)

2008-08-06 Thread Dale Maggee
Evan wrote: Is there more to the setup than meets the eye? the image setup isn't really documented. i ended up downloading all the ipk files, and doing opkg install on them (with the scummvm ipk being installed last), and everything appeared good until i tried running scummvm. from

Re: wrong offset of mouse in landscape mode (and scummvm)

2008-08-06 Thread Dale Maggee
Mike Montour wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: /bin/sh: /usr/bin/scummvm: not found which is very odd, because I can type /usr/bin/scum[TAB], and it autocompletes to scummvm. the file is marked as executable. I can't see anything wrong. does anyone have any Ideas? For binaries

Re: Navit?

2008-08-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Dale Maggee wrote: Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: 2008/8/5 Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anybody managed to get Navit working on their freerunner? I've been working on this, but unfortunately, Real Life has been preventing me sorting out the problem I had

Re: Openmoko presentation

2008-08-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi Michael and others! --- On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This is quite wonderful. Thanks! Can we put a copy on our downloads | page? (I know it's CC but still want to check with you) \-- Sure! Feel free to

Re: Navit?

2008-08-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Wolfgang Silbermayr wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: I've decided to just go the excessive route and download planet.bin (I could kiss my 8gb SD card!), we'll see how that goes. If you are inside europe (I don't know if you are), you could also head over to http://download.geofabrik.de

Re: Navit?

2008-08-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Wrightson, Barney (Contractor) wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: OK, so I've tried building the maps myself, but I just keep getting 'bad request' when I use wget. I expect that this is because I'm in the southern hemisphere, as the example wget command on the website works fine

Re: Navit?

2008-08-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Thanks, but I've got the map problem sorted out, I think... now I just need to get it working with gpsd... Gilles Casse wrote: Le mar 05/08/08 08:09, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Dale Maggee wrote: OK, so I've tried building the maps myself, but I just keep getting 'bad request

Re: Bike/motorcycle mount - was: Re: GPS application

2008-08-04 Thread Dale Maggee
with the universal mount PDA-VAR for my N73, but maybe this would fit for the Freerunner also. Waterproof bags with mount are available also: PDA-Tasche Not very cheap but very useful... Kind regards! Jens Dale Maggee schrieb: For car mount, the mount I have for my (now deprecated!) iPAQ

Re: Testing for audio playback

2008-08-04 Thread Dale Maggee
somewhere. For example, mediaplayer mutes/pauses when a phone call comes in... -Rusty Really? In 2007.2? It doesn't do that for me! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Navit?

2008-08-04 Thread Dale Maggee
Has anybody managed to get Navit working on their freerunner? I managed to set up the toolchain but when i run om-conf, it tells me that it can't find gps.h and disables gpsd support. I proceeded to compile and built an ipkg anyway, and set up a vehicle in the navit.xml file telling it to read

Re: Navit?

2008-08-04 Thread Dale Maggee
Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: 2008/8/5 Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anybody managed to get Navit working on their freerunner? I've been working on this, but unfortunately, Real Life has been preventing me sorting out the problem I had - that the build was failing in the tool chain

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