openmoko io error

2010-01-04 Thread previdi . roberto
sometimes, with no particular cause, but always when the phone is in use (using gps, or while getting the gsm signal, or while playing mokomaze), the image on the screen become corrupted by white horizontal lines, then the enlightenment crash window appears, and if i click on the second button

a script to find broken packages before they break you!

2009-07-27 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello list. I wrote this little script taking inspiration from the powerful gentoo command revdep-rebuild. It scans all the binary files in /usr/bin and shows the broken ones (the ones linking non existent library) #!/bin/sh for i in $(find /usr/bin/*); do broken=$(ldd $i | grep not

Re: a script to find broken packages before they break you!

2009-07-27 Thread Previdi Roberto
for the script to work you may need to opkg install ldd, if it's not installed by default on your distribution. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Previdi Roberto previdi.robe...@gmail.comwrote: ... broken=$(ldd $i | grep not found) ... -- roby

fooling opkg

2009-07-27 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello list. i tried update/upgrade my shr-unstable, and unfortunately the phone frozen after having updated some packages. when i rebooted, i restarted with opkg upgrade but now the system is broken. i don't want to go into the details of why it broke.. what i now would like to do is to modify the

pythm - support for mp4 files?

2009-07-22 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello, i tried to use pythm to play an mp4 video. mplayer can play it, but pythm don't show it in his browser. is it possible to setup which extensions to list in the browser? -- roby ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

SD to flash

2009-07-21 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello list. I want to save the image installed on my sd card to the flash memory. is there any script already tested? what should i not forget? i was thinking to something like 1) boot from sd 2) format the flash partitions (how?) 3) copy the kernel to the kernel partition 4) copy all the other

[OM2009] reliable alarm application

2009-07-16 Thread Previdi Roberto
Hello list. Is there a reliable alarm which has been tested on the OM2009 distribution? For reliable i mean that it should sound even if - the phone is suspended (99,9% of the time it is) - the phone has waken up for some reasons and then resuspended (sms, missed calls) - the application stay open

[OM2009] gsm don't start after opkg update-upgrade

2009-07-15 Thread Previdi Roberto
thank you very much, this worked percfectly! How can i know the complete list of configuration files wich i should not update on updates? On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: The usaged and fsousage lines are the problem. You've overwritten the

[OM2009] gsm don't start after opkg update-upgrade

2009-07-14 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello list. I updated my OM2009 installation (3-4 days old) with opkg update - opkg upgrade. After having accepted the new config files and rebooted the gsm service cannot start anymore. here is my dmesg, if anyone can understand what's happening: r...@om-gta02:~# dmesg pr-ub-env

Re: [OM2009] gsm don't start after opkg update-upgrade

2009-07-14 Thread Previdi Roberto
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: On July 14, 2009 07:15:13 am Previdi Roberto wrote: hello list. I updated my OM2009 installation (3-4 days old) with opkg update - opkg upgrade. After having accepted the new config files and rebooted the gsm service

[OM2009] modules files with wrong version

2009-07-11 Thread Previdi Roberto
I downloaded the image at http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/testing/NeoFreerunner/ but the contained kernel (2.6.29-rc2) don't boot (it give a lot of i/o errors and then kernel panic). Then i downloaded the suggested kernel (2.6.28) and modules, but the modules package contain the folder

scripta

2009-05-03 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello list. I'm proud to present you my creation: scripta. you can see some screenshots herehttp://repo.or.cz/w/scripta.git?a=commit;h=72371a7f87407d36d52c361e31bdd1097cb6958a. Sorry,i know they are and fat ugly but my gimp is broken... scripta is a bash application which uses zenity as

zenity package with fingerscroll

2009-04-25 Thread Previdi Roberto
i made some changes to the zenity package and now you can use finger (or stylus) to scroll inside the list dialogs. the package is available for download at http://www.opkg.org/package_181.html -- roby ___ Openmoko community mailing list

[SHR-testing] problem connecting to pc, and solution

2009-04-19 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello. after having upgraded the shr-testing (reflash, wifi- opkg update, opkg upgrade) i wasn't able to connect to my pc, because the g_ether module insisted to use his default 00:1f mac address, and when connecting to pc the pc udev assigned to him an ethX interface name instead of usbX,

ePDFView package on opkg.org

2009-04-07 Thread Previdi Roberto
Hi list, i have made some little changes to ePDFView to scroll the pages in a more friendly way. You can find the package and the dependencies (from shr-testing) here: http://www.opkg.org/package_193.html To scroll the pages you can just scroll out of the actual page. I'm sorry for my english :)

shr screen lock

2009-04-05 Thread Previdi Roberto
Hello list. I would like to know if there is a way to change the image showed when i press the aux button to lock screen in SHR. Actually it prevents me both pressing something on the screen (good thing) and seeing what happens in the center of the screen (bad thing). I would like to use a little

zenity package

2009-04-02 Thread Previdi Roberto
I have uploaded the zenity package at http://www.opkg.org/package_181.html please let me know if you have dependency problems, i'll try to publish all the needed libraries. roby ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

FR getting ethx name instead of usb0 when connected to PC

2009-02-15 Thread Previdi Roberto
Hello. I recently updated both my PC kernel and my FR software. I'm using kernel 2.6.27 on my pc, and the last FDOM distribution. When i connect the usb cable the connection get the name eth1 instead of the old usb0. This makes all the scripts and automatisms useless, and, more, is unpredictable,

[FSO] official local.conf

2008-11-13 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello, i tried for some weeks to build and install the fso-testing-image from the fso-makefile with the procedure described in the wikihttp://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO, but i always had some problems ( for example i couldn't use the terminal the terminal application loaded, but

Re: [FSO] official local.conf

2008-11-13 Thread Previdi Roberto
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Previdi Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I always thought that it should have gone that way, being the testing version. but yesterday i downloaded and flashed the prebuilt image from http://downloads.openmoko.org/framework/milestone3/ and i have got many more

Re: Auto-reject incoming phone calls

2008-11-01 Thread Previdi Roberto
to interpolate with the gps signals for calibration or finer grain movement detection On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Am Wednesday 29 October 2008 03:13:25 schrieb Previdi Roberto: Is there a plan to access also the accelerometers through dbus

Re: Auto-reject incoming phone calls

2008-10-28 Thread Previdi Roberto
Is there a plan to access also the accelerometers through dbus? it seems to me that reading continuously from them without appropriate timing could be heavy for the battery. more, having to do the decoding part from each application who uses the sensor is complicated and error prone, while having

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-22 Thread Previdi Roberto
my 2 cents: if the porting of android will need the intervention of the low level developers this shouldn't be done. the kernel coders need all the time they need to understand and optimize the low level code. if meanwhile there are other developers who feel they can handle the port it could be

Re: Introducing http://www.opkg.org

2008-10-19 Thread Previdi Roberto
very good work, many thanks On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Tobias Kündig [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: [...] ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

[FSO] makefile - openembedded git repository not working

2008-10-16 Thread Previdi Roberto
hello, it's some days (4-5) that i am not able to update the fso tree. when i give make update i get this errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/openmoko/fso2 $ make update ( cd common ; git pull ) Already up-to-date. ( cd bitbake ; svn up ) At revision 1108. ( cd openembedded ; git pull ) fatal: The remote

Re: [FSO] makefile - openembedded git repository not working

2008-10-16 Thread Previdi Roberto
thank you, i didn't know that make update-common update the makefile On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previdi Roberto wrote: hello, it's some days (4-5) that i am not able to update the fso tree. OE moved from a trial git server to a production git

Re: numptyphisics

2008-10-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
good news, i'll try it soon.. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Shawn prjktdtnt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have installed the raster type keyboard (with the qwerty button in the upper left) then hit qwerty and then when the keyboard pops up hit the letter 'r' and you should

numptyphisics

2008-10-08 Thread Previdi Roberto
Hello community. I have a non technical but important question: is there a way to reset a screen of the numptyphisics game when you have filled it with heavy rocks and there is no more chance to put the red in the yellow or viceversa? A secondary question is: is there a way to make a calibration

Re: Building FSO Wiki page

2008-10-04 Thread Previdi Roberto
building it is what makes all the difference, you have the source so you can modify one line of code, rebuild and test it.. I also think the building_fso page is confusing, because the second part of page talks about directories that don't exist using the makefile procedure, so you cannot

Re: Building FSO Wiki page

2008-10-04 Thread Previdi Roberto
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) if i issue a make update openembedded complains that it don't know where to update from... the Makefile was updated to match this. Did you run make update-makefile and try again? i tried but the makefile just doesn't

Re: unable to read from Sandisk 8Gb SD

2008-09-15 Thread Previdi Roberto
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you confirm if you need the idle clock set to 1? What I think I understood about this issue is that it is timeout-related only, it means I didn't actually understand what is going on if it needs idle clocks too. i am

unable to read from Sandisk 8Gb SD

2008-09-14 Thread Previdi Roberto
Hello. I have a big problem: i cannot read a new 8Gb SD card from Sandisk. some details: - the 512 Mb card works without any problem, i've been able to reformat it, use ext2 on it, mount /usr in it - i have partitioned the 8Gb card from my pc card reader and i've put a kernel and a rootfs inside

Opkg: how to protect configuration files?

2008-09-12 Thread Previdi Roberto
When i make an update/upgrade opkg carefully protect my configuration files inside /etc, but he always destroy my changes in /opt/Qtopia/etc, causing qpe to search for documents in all the /usr (which i transferred on the memory card). Is there a way to tell to opkg to protect other directories

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-10 Thread Previdi Roberto
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: No loss of USE - see the Gentoo Embedded Handbook, in particular this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?part=1chap=5 Ok, i have read that document, i think you are referring to the part

Re: T-shirt store (was: Re: how to compile from source directly from a neo freerunner)

2008-09-10 Thread Previdi Roberto
good idea :) On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oooh! T-shirt! Perhaps with a picture of a compilation taking place on a FreeRunner! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
Following the http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gentoo guide i am trying to build my system, but i will not test it until i receive the 8Gb memory card i ordered. I will surely send a report and maybe an image (where should i send it?) when something works.. 2008/9/9 Dennis. Yxun [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I hope you guys don't mind killing your phone or uSD's memory sooner than everyone else :) Rui On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:16:47PM +0200, Previdi Roberto wrote: Following the http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gentoo guide i am trying to build my system, but i

Re: how to compile from source directly from a neo freerunner

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
i love you.. i've been able to compile wget from sources. i had to install the gettext package too, to get the msgfmt binary. the report of time make is: real 4m 54,26 user 4m 21.92 sys 0m 25,34 so it seems that the cpu is busy making qpe survive.. anyway less than 5 minutes to get a complete

Re: how to compile from source directly from a neo freerunner

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
yes it's slow, but it's all in the emotion.. You don't have a real linux system if you cannot compile code in it... On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Thomas Bertani wrote: I want to compile (with ./configure;make;make install) a software from

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
Sorry, i have to correct: the guide i am following is this one: http://gentoo-wiki.com/User:TuXXX On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Previdi Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Following the http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gentoo guide i am trying to build my system, but i will not test it until i

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
Yes you can use gentoo with binary packages, but you loose the great configurability given by the tuning of the USE flags... i think it's better if i can manage to crosscompile from my desktop, and then copy the generated binary on the moko. slower, but more flexible.. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:28

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
and with less priority on the neo... could work, and you could have a complete system just by mounting a couple of netdisks.. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Andreas Zuber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag 09 September 2008 18:45:09 schrieb Previdi Roberto: Yes you can use gentoo with binary

Re: Thanks to everybody at OpenMoko and all the contributers

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
i must add my thanks too, the number of updates in 2 weeks since i have received the FR is enormous, very good job.. i'm just waiting to accumulate enough knowledge to contribute something to this project.. roby ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: No loss of USE - see the Gentoo Embedded Handbook, in particular this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?part=1chap=5 glad to hear, i will take a look tomorrow.. (too late here now) You

Re: Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

2008-09-09 Thread Previdi Roberto
generally speaking, i think that what this project is based upon is freedom of choice at the higest possible level, so having a possibility to try each different linux flavour (and maybe other oss) just go in that direction. I admit too that a sort of mainstream line is needed to push the

unable to read from Sandisk 8Gb SD

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unable to read from Sandisk 8Gb SD

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