Re: Will software compatible in google phone?

2008-09-24 Thread Russell Sears
Scottie wrote: Google phone seems to come out soon. Will you guys concern software compatibility between the pioneer neo1973 (which I can't get one from the market) and gphone from daily news paper? Compatibility is a two way street. Google has announced that it will open source the entire

Motor oil eats through the finish on GTA02

2008-09-10 Thread Russell Sears
I just mucked up the finish on my freerunner's case. I'm not sure this is the right place to report it... I'm writing in since OM might want to use a different type of paint in the future, or dye the underlying plastic black. (Nokia played this trick with my old cell phone's case...) I was

2008.8 + international roaming: tickles qpe dialer/registration bugs

2008-09-10 Thread Russell Sears
I noticed that 2008.8 couldn't register for the first few boots each time I moved my freerunner from one country to another. First I'd see one of these three GSM messages (typing from memory) each time I booted and tried to make a call. (Each started with something like Can't make call;

Re: Does the GPS work on opentango.

2008-09-08 Thread Russell Sears
-stacy wrote: Orlando wrote: I tried this... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# opkg list_installed | grep gpsd gpsd-conf - 2.34-r9 - That confirms that gpsd is not installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# opkg install gpsd An error ocurred, return value: 2. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# opkg install gps An error

http://shr.bearstech.com/Makefile - 403 forbidden

2008-09-06 Thread Russell Sears
Can someone fix the file permissions? Thanks! -Rusty ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: http://shr.bearstech.com/Makefile - 403 forbidden

2008-09-06 Thread Russell Sears
Thanks! I'm actually just updating the wiki right now, so I'll document the fso-makefile repository. -Rusty Rod Whitby wrote: Russell Sears wrote: Can someone fix the file permissions? In the meantime, you can use the following workaround: git clone git://git.freesmartphone.org/fso

Re: 2007.2 media player

2008-08-23 Thread Russell Sears
The media player doesn't really understand file formats. Instead, gstreamer handles the actual playback, so you'll probably need to install one of the gst-plugin-* packages. What error message does it give on the command line? Does the log conclude a plausible looking mime type? -Rusty

Re: Partitioning 8GB uSD

2008-08-22 Thread Russell Sears
arne anka wrote: I'm trying to dual boot with 2008.8 or debian on my uSD but fdisk tells ... qtopia's latest 20080808 image from their website. now, i am confused. do you use 2008.8 _or_ qtopia? afair w/ 2008.8 there were no problems, but w/ qtopia qpe block the sd card. some days ago a

Re: Partitioning 8GB uSD

2008-08-22 Thread Russell Sears
Matthew Lane wrote: arne anka wrote: div class=moz-text-flowed style=font-family: -moz-fixed I'm trying to dual boot with 2008.8 or debian on my uSD but fdisk tells ... qtopia's latest 20080808 image from their website. now, i am confused. do you use 2008.8 _or_ qtopia? afair w/ 2008.8

Re: Compiling single package

2008-08-22 Thread Russell Sears
Lothar Behrens wrote: Hi, after some tries to compile the complete distribution (2007.2) on my openSuSE 11.0, I must say that either my notebook has a hardware problem or openSuSE 11.0 is not as stable as my old 9.1 installation. It freezes after long time in screen saving mode while

Re: 29 hours in suspend = 70% battery left

2008-08-22 Thread Russell Sears
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Yorick Moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I presume sound works after suspend? Yep. What about incoming phone calls during suspend? -Rusty ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Switching Screenmode an Freerunner

2008-08-22 Thread Russell Sears
xrandr -q and xrandr -s 240x320 work for me (and effectively crash X, since you can't use the keyboard any more, and illume doesn't adjust very well... Also, the touch screen doesn't seem to understand that the resolution change, which makes using it pretty difficult. Finally, display looks

Re: 29 hours in suspend = 70% battery left

2008-08-22 Thread Russell Sears
Fox Mulder wrote: I suppose you installed debian on the sd-card. So you have no problem with any data corruption with suspend/resume actions? I disabled suspend because i read so much about the sd-card problem when suspending. :/ So far, I've only noticed corrupted copies of sector 0. So,

Re: Acoustic Position Measuring Device

2008-08-19 Thread Russell Sears
Charles Pax wrote: The problem with having an external speaker or microphone is that such a solution does not simplify the situation. Sure, it would make the Freerunner (plus some stuff) into a measuring device, but if we need a second piece of hardware to take measurement, we may as well just

Re: Phone that works on all networks? Not necessarily symotaniously.

2008-08-19 Thread Russell Sears
Jeff Sadowski wrote: I understand the openmoko phone works on GSM networks? I think I read somewhere that Verizon uses CDMA and not GSM. Are there plans to have a phone that will connect to a CDMA network? Is there a way to incorporate say like a module to add/remove to use any cellular

Re: FSO: how to disable zhone screen locking?

2008-08-18 Thread Russell Sears
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Sonntag 03 August 2008 00:57:01 schrieb Craig B. Allen: I've been using FSO milestone 2 and liking it. Is there a setting to disable the zhone screen locker? If I want to lock I can just press the Aux button. You can specify the timeouts in seconds

Re: dfu_upload error -84 when trying to backup images

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Sears
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:36:43PM +0530, Vikas Saurabh wrote: I dont think this is related to the architecture. I had faced similar issue on core duo (i had put a comment on the wiki for the same). Btw, i didnt have to flash the back up image so i dont know if it

Re: dfu_upload error -84 when trying to backup images

2008-08-16 Thread Russell Sears
I tried this once and got the same error. Then I ran grep on the image file it produced with words that I knew were present in the filesystem like headphone mono and state. I couldn't find any words in the image, so I don't think the files it produces contain real data. It could be that it's

Re: Intel Atom

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Sears
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:54:34 -0700 Russell Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: though we need to accept that we need to move beyond SDR into DDR/DDR2 ram and higher clockrates anyway - we need more

Re: GPRS under FSO [Was: Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?]

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Sears
The package I'm using (and dependency packages) is now up at http://hedora.ath.cx/moko/ Let me know if you hit any problems. -Rusty Russell Sears wrote: There are a bunch of manual steps right now: - openmoko-mediaplayer is hardcoded to use pulseaudio. Switching to alsa is a one-line

Re: GPRS under FSO [Was: Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?]

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Sears
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Donnerstag 14 August 2008 19:08:39 schrieb Russell Sears: Anyway, [music|gps] + gprs + phone seem to play nice in FSO. (I hacked up a openmoko-mediaplayer package. Cool. Headphone insertion isn't detected yet, but it does mute/stop the music when you

Re: GPRS under FSO [Was: Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?]

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Sears
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Freitag 15 August 2008 09:02:42 schrieb Russell Sears: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Donnerstag 14 August 2008 19:08:39 schrieb Russell Sears: Anyway, [music|gps] + gprs + phone seem to play nice in FSO. (I hacked up a openmoko-mediaplayer package. Cool

GPRS under FSO [Was: Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?]

2008-08-14 Thread Russell Sears
Benito wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 14:06 (-0700), Russell Sears wrote: It works immediatly with FSO and I could phone while GPRS is on. Really?!? How? Is there a GUI somewhere, or did you edit the PPP scripts to enter your provider settings? See http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPRS_FSO

Re: Use gps for clock correction

2008-08-14 Thread Russell Sears
Bastian Muck wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GPS would be perfect for updating time, cause the time sent is more exact then the times, you can get by any other way. What about ntpd, can it handle gps-data? Yes, with some work: http://time.qnan.org/ Does the FR

Re: GPRS under FSO [Was: Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?]

2008-08-14 Thread Russell Sears
. My home server is down at the moment, so I don't have anywhere to stick the modified binary... I'll figure out what's going on with it and post better directions and the binary tonight. -Rusty Benito wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:08 (-0700), Russell Sears wrote: Anyway, [music|gps] + gprs

Re: Intel Atom

2008-08-14 Thread Russell Sears
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: though we need to accept that we need to move beyond SDR into DDR/DDR2 ram and higher clockrates anyway - we need more performance to do the things people want, we just need to do it with the right generation of SOC that has reigned these power

Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?

2008-08-13 Thread Russell Sears
Mike Baroukh wrote: Trust me, to avoid it, for a while I really considered shipping a console-image for the framework image, forcing people to ssh into to start getting familiar with the dbus services... Why try to avoid it? Isn't it the shortest path to a working phone? If the

Re: FSO 20080812 not recommended

2008-08-13 Thread Russell Sears
Craig B. Allen wrote: This is personal opinion only, I have no special connection to FSO. The 20080812 build has these issues found in a brief trial: - no sound (no ring on incoming call, no sound in or out in call) - no suspend - no config I understand that daily builds are not

Re: FSO 20080812 not recommended

2008-08-13 Thread Russell Sears
John Reese wrote: Russell Sears wrote: Thank you! There should be a wiki page for this. Perhaps a table with columns: Image name | Date | Recommended | URL downloaded from | Calls work? | SMS works? | GPS? | Wifi? | Bluetooth | Suspend works? | ... | Your name | Comments It's linked

Re: Battery Charge Solution(Not)

2008-08-12 Thread Russell Sears
Scott wrote: I attempted to install the two solutions to the Neo FreeRunner not charging when connected to a laptop or car charger. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Forcing_fast_charge_mode Even though both sources can easily handle a 500ma charge. You shouldn't need to do anything special

Re: Testing for audio playback

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Sears
Just a heads up: I think that checking the status won't work with pulseaudio running under 2007.2, since pulseaudio continuously sends a stream of zeros to the sound card. I haven't tested it though. (there is a pulseaudio configuration option for this.) Also, I think having the applications

Re: /media/card corrupted?

2008-07-31 Thread Russell Sears
When this happened to me, it actually corrupted the partition table. I didn't think to try to mount the existing filesystem after I restored the partition table, but before I reformatted... Anyway, I disabled suspend/resume, and it hasn't happened since. -Rusty arne anka wrote: that's a

Re: How can I hear Music with A Headphone

2008-07-25 Thread Russell Sears
You probably have the wrong adaptor. You need one that goes from 2.5mm stereo + mic - 3.5mm stereo. You probably bought a stereo - stereo adaptor. I've been looking for the correct adapter so I can use my good headphones with the FR, but no one seems to sell it... I almost bought a stereo -

ANNOUNCE: Software equalizer for openmoko

2008-07-23 Thread Russell Sears
I've modified gst-plugin-equalizer to use fixed-point arithmetic. This means that it's (barely) fast enough to provide bass, midrange and treble control for ogg files played back via alsa. Here's a link to binaries (compiled for the factory image) and the patch: http://hedora.ath.cx/moko/

Re: ANNOUNCE: Software equalizer for openmoko

2008-07-23 Thread Russell Sears
Andy Green wrote: That's pretty cool and short patch. I always assumed that we need to lift the low end so much relative to high end to make a difference, that we would routinely clip even at medium volume levels. Is it actually OK? Thanks! The gstreamer code is really clean; I thought it'd

Re: ANNOUNCE: Software equalizer for openmoko

2008-07-23 Thread Russell Sears
Andrew Burgess wrote: On 7/23/08, Russell Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've modified gst-plugin-equalizer to use fixed-point arithmetic. very cool This means that it's (barely) fast enough to provide bass, midrange and treble control for ogg files played back via alsa. Do you

Re: ANNOUNCE: Software equalizer for openmoko

2008-07-23 Thread Russell Sears
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Mittwoch 23 Juli 2008 09:11:20 schrieb Russell Sears: I've modified gst-plugin-equalizer to use fixed-point arithmetic. This means that it's (barely) fast enough to provide bass, midrange and treble control for ogg files played back via alsa. Here's a link

Re: Influence of WiFi on GPS readings (200m error)

2008-07-21 Thread Russell Sears
I've had this problem when the initial fix was obtained while I'm inside a vehicle (such as a bus or car) or near a lot of metal. Going to a complete stop, then moving a few times (in the car) seems to give the chipset a better chance to realize it's got a bogus fix. -Rusty Yaroslav

Re: Rules based policy engine

2008-07-21 Thread Russell Sears
I fell out of this discussion for a while, but I'd much rather see a very simple C API that delivers events from DBUS with bindings for python / your favorite language. The event system and programming model (rule based, prolog, python, ...) should be completely separate modules. That way,

Re: Proper mixer settings for music playback, or hardware fixes?

2008-07-21 Thread Russell Sears
See bug #1614 https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1614 I've uploaded a patch that bypasses pulseaudio and a difficult to install ipk file (sorry). This ~ halves mediaplayer's CPU utilization. Can you check to see if the change fixes distortion in mediaplayer? -Rusty Dylan Reilly wrote:

Re: Provider missed calls messages

2008-07-19 Thread Russell Sears
It's probably related, but when the freerunner fails to ring, it doesn't realize that I've missed a call. My old phone (same sim card) tells me that I've missed calls even if it was turned off when the call came in. Also, I am not getting the you've got voicemail messages that I used to

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-17 Thread Russell Sears
I did an opkg update on the factory image last night (~7-8 PM PST), and now GPS fix times are less than a minute. The update downloaded a new kernel: # opkg status kernel Package: kernel Version: 2:2.6.24+git20+287b292cf95edbd82dc63085ae5f0167a6e8141f-r0 Depends: kernel-2.6.24 Status: install

Re: GPS problems, summary

2008-07-17 Thread Russell Sears
I changed the part that says you can't read from SD when GPS is being turned on. The patch doesn't work that way. Instead, it turns off the SD clock when the SD card isn't being accessed, right? -Rusty Ben Batt wrote: /lurk Justin Wong wrote: Great post. Maybe you can put it on the

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-17 Thread Russell Sears
Russell Sears wrote: I did an opkg update on the factory image last night (~7-8 PM PST), and now GPS fix times are less than a minute. The update downloaded a new False alarm; the satellites must have been aligned last night... Fix times are multiple minutes again... -Rusty

Re: SIM recommendation pls

2008-07-17 Thread Russell Sears
I have an old (5 years old) white T-Mobile sim card. I've had no problems. I'll pull it and write down the numbers next time I reboot the phone, but I don't think it'll help much, since if you don't already have one you're probably not going to get one as old as mine... -Rusty Josh Monson

Re: Rules based policy engine

2008-07-17 Thread Russell Sears
I agree with most of what Alexey said, but I would love to see some sort of easy to use scripting / gui environment. I think the FSO stuff is working on some sort of d-bus event notification system. Presumably there's a set of python / c libraries that know how to talk to dbus, and provide a

Re: wifi

2008-07-16 Thread Russell Sears
Stephen Shelton wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:36:29PM +0200, Christophe Badoit wrote: For WEP, I'm currently connecting with : ifconfig eth0 up iwconfig eth0 essid any iwconfig eth0 key 'mykey' iwconfig eth0 essid 'myssid' ifup eth0 Something strange, I am unable to set the key

Re: GPS

2008-07-13 Thread Russell Sears
Yes, there is still hope. The current software drivers do not save any state between GPS locks, so the GPS device is needlessly re-downloading information from the satellites each time it turns on. Downloading the data seems to require a much better/more consistent signal than calculating the

Re: GPS

2008-07-13 Thread Russell Sears
opkg install gpsd. - The GPS device usually works, but sometimes tangoGPS sees zero satellites after 5 minutes. If you to power down the GPS device, then power it back up, it starts seeing satellites. -Rusty Ole Kliemann wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:48:14AM -0700, Russell Sears wrote

Re: USB Networking - Freerunner Mac OS X 10.5.4

2008-07-12 Thread Russell Sears
The neo's IP address is 192.168.0.202; the Mac's IP should be 192.168.0.200, so you're trying to ssh to the laptop, not the phone. I have no idea why you're getting the cannot allocate memory errors. The ubutu error messages make more sense, so I'd try troubleshooting it from there first.

Re: GPS

2008-07-11 Thread Russell Sears
I'm in the san francisco bay area, and am seeing very slow GPS fixes. It took 5 minutes to get the time code from the satellite this morning (didn't get a fix in 12 minutes...), and I've only gotten a fix once so far (after 10 minutes...), and it's failed to get a fix during a few ~10 minutes

Re: GPS

2008-07-11 Thread Russell Sears
This might help too (I should add myself to it...): http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPS_Problems I've only gotten a fix using the agps diagnostic tool gui. I did it in the middle of a clear night with nothing near by, by going to the signal strength screen, and slowly rotating the phone until

Re: Fast questions (email, GPRS, WiFi...)

2008-07-11 Thread Russell Sears
I do this: ifdown eth0 iwconfig eth0 essid TheEssid ifup eth0 ifdown usb0 I haven't setup wpa or even wep though... - What does iwconfig say before you do udhcpc? Did the card associate with the access point (non-zero link quality)? Did the card discover the access points MAC address? -

Re: GPS

2008-07-11 Thread Russell Sears
information... It would have saved me a few hours; hopefully someone else will find it useful. Someone familiar with GPS should probably check it for errors. Most of what I wrote is based on things I learned today by word-of-mouth and skimming wikipedia articles. -Rusty Russell Sears wrote

Re: OpenMoko is the only 100% F/OSS-based Linux smartphone project

2008-07-08 Thread Russell Sears
Paul Wouters wrote: Now imagine the OS being linux with no restrictions, fully GPLv3 compatible. Now imagine one propretary binary running on that GPLv3 platform, which sends a signature based on the OS/kernel contents to the baseband via serial. If it is not a known good signature, the

Re: Openmoko Webshop Reopen NOW!!!

2008-07-03 Thread Russell Sears
It just worked for me. :) Good luck! -Rusty Lon Lentz wrote: Can someone look at your CC processing site? And let us/me know when it's working again? Gateway Error Error from the Hi Trust gateway: Back to openmoko | previous page On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Harry

Re: Error while paying

2008-07-03 Thread Russell Sears
My bank just called to see if the charge was valid. I asked why it was flagged. They said that it's because it's an overseas internet/phone charge. Perhaps OM should make it look like the money is going to California, or tell Visa that they have a physical presence in the US or something...