Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi, as I recently struggled with the same issues I'd like to comment on some of the suggestions On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: ... Most importantly: How should I keep up with work that you're doing upstream between releases? Maintaining the

Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Stefan Fröbe
suggestions or give you a hand. Marcus On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:46:46 +0200 Stefan Fröbe frob...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, as I recently struggled with the same issues I'd like to comment on some of the suggestions On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-05 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Don't know about any configuration options, but had the same issues and changed it in my geocaching patch: change this line in src/gps_functions.c after setting global_font_scale to sth like 40: @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ osd_speed(gboolean force_redraw) layout = pango_layout_new (context); desc

Re: Towards paperless geocaching - Advanced Geocaching Tool for Linux

2009-09-02 Thread Stefan Fröbe
What about using the original GC.com cache icons for GCs? Of couse one would have to download them separately (licensing issues iirc from the TangoGPS geocaching extension). After several requests to l...@groundspeak.com and cont...@groundspeak.com I finally got permission to include the

Re: Towards paperless geocaching - Advanced Geocaching Tool for Linux

2009-09-02 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, D. Fett fett_mokoker...@fragcom.de wrote: What about using the original GC.com cache icons for GCs? Of couse one would have to download them separately (licensing issues iirc from the TangoGPS geocaching extension). Sorry, but i absolutely don't want

Re: Om 2009, NWA, keyboard?

2009-08-28 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Just put the following into a script to run after an update: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/keyboards rm Default.kbd ln -sf Terminal.kbd Default.kbd HTH Stefan On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Carsten Gerlach daswaldh...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, Am Mittwoch 26. August 2009

Re: [TangoGPS] POI coordinates as WGS84 deg and min

2009-07-09 Thread Stefan Fröbe
AFAIK, tangogps should accept the other formats happily if you enter them correctly, I do not know if it works in all input fields, though. For geocaching ( which is the main use of my Freerunner ) I added a bunch of extras to tangogps waiting to be included - if you're interested, check

Re: Debuzzing

2009-06-02 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Thanks to a very special delivery service by Dr.N himself (thanks again, and sorry for the inconvenience that followed!) I was able to test my Buzz-Fixed FR over the weekend and must say I am quite impressed: With a new alsa statefile nobody was complaining about buzz, echo or general lack of

Re: tangogps + geocaching (DL-link inside)

2009-05-28 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: have you sent it also to marcus bauer? Of course I have, and even prior to the 0.9.6 release in february already - but as there haven't been any updates to TangoGPS since then I wanted to get this as it is now so maybe

Re: tangogps + geocaching (DL-link inside)

2009-05-28 Thread Stefan Fröbe
be possible.. r On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Stefan Fröbe frob...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: have you sent it also to marcus bauer? Of course I have, and even prior to the 0.9.6 release in february already

tangogps + geocaching (DL-link inside)

2009-05-27 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi all, as previously announced on freeyourphone.de here is my enhanced TangoGPS that I used exclusively for geocaching since I received my FR about a year ago. Due to time constraints I will not be able to keep up its separate development from mainline tangogps anymore, and since my changes

Re: [SHR] vim, ntpclient... a repository ?

2009-03-25 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Works, but not perfectly for me. In particular, when i SSH into my freerunner from a linux laptop, the cursor keys don't work in vim insert mode. They insert C and D and such instead. They only work in command mode. adding set nocompatible your ~/.vimrc file should fix this

Re: Yet Another Screen Of Death

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Fröbe
create a file /etc/apm/resume.d/01display: ... As I was one of the first promoters of this fix I want to just update that ( as announced by Andy in the associated ticket ) the git commit Fix jbt6k74 qvga_normal state handling 83cf37799009 from Feb. 25th fixed all resume issues I had - no more

Re: Re: Yet Another Screen Of Death

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:40 PM, jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 12, 2009 3:25pm, Stefan Fröbe frob...@googlemail.com wrote: As I was one of the first promoters of this fix I want to just update that ( as announced by Andy in the associated ticket ) the git commit Fix jbt6k74

Re: Re: Yet Another Screen Of Death

2009-03-12 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Stefan Fröbe frob...@googlemail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:40 PM, jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 12, 2009 3:25pm, Stefan Fröbe frob...@googlemail.com wrote: As I was one of the first promoters of this fix I want to just update

Re: [FSO/Illume] Program icons not showing up

2009-03-05 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi, I tried out FS0-ms5.1 and switched to the experimental feeds - and the icons also disappeared after upgrading to the newer e-* packages (e-wm - 0.16.999.050+svnr39300-r4 ) The following message in /tmp/x.log had already been mentioned on the list and still occurs: EDJE ERROR: file

Re: [Om2008.9] updating OSM data for tangoGPS

2009-02-05 Thread Stefan Fröbe
My script as well honours the existence of a file '.../OSM/lastrun' and one can just create this file with $ touch -t 02050724 lastrun ## MMDDHHMM to exclude, in this example, all tiles which are already newer then February 5, 7:24; for example if you have to restart the script during a

Re: Freesmartphone.org Milestone 5 'Calling All Stations' Release

2009-02-03 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote: ... the trouble is that i don't know how to change the ro flag for qi (i can imagine i could place a kernel on my card and add append file with rw and root=/dev/mtd device and of the nand flash?) Hi Petr, Just create a

Re: Freesmartphone.org Milestone 5 'Calling All Stations' Release

2009-02-03 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi Andy, | rw rootdelay=3 glamo_core.slow_memory=1 that's for a SHR kernel mentioned somewhere on this list ( uImage-2.6.28-rc4-ms5-fixes_34240a1c06ae3618.bin ) but not fixing the White/Noisy SOD for me. glamo3362.slow_memory=1 Your latest compiled kernel

Re: Freesmartphone.org Milestone 5 'Calling All Stations' Release

2009-02-03 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote: ... i understand that this is when you run system from sd card. i run system from NAND and for that i need to edit the boot environment ... I had flashed u-boot back but would love to use qi again as it can start the neo on

Re: [FSO][M4] DOOM Running slow.

2008-11-13 Thread Stefan Fröbe
I've noticed extremely slow performance while running Doom on FSO M4. I tracked it down to the accelerometer code. (I turned off accel control in the opendoom.cfg file and that fixed the speed issue). The code basically opens /dev/event3 and reads from this. Should I be approaching the

Re: TangoGPS svn/git ?

2008-11-06 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Friday 07 November 2008, Bastian Feder wrote: Hey! since it is a one man show I think there is no public repository. But the guy behind it, Marcus Bauer, is a really friendly german guy. Have you contact him already? this might be the best way to find out ;) Can only confirm this

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Stefan Fröbe
The FR still takes some minutes to get a fix when in a moving vehicle, and anywhere inside a building, it is as if it never worked. Nothing new Speaking from daily experience the FR is in no way less sensitive than any other GPSr I have used or was around with while geocaching, and that is

Re: problem accessing SD Card SanDisk SDSDQ-8192-E11M

2008-09-09 Thread Stefan Fröbe
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Kevin Squire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Kevin Squire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have problems accessing my 8Go SD Card snip snip For my disk, my thoughts are that the first sector is bad. I'll try to confirm this

Re: Get spare parts in NYC (batteries)

2008-09-09 Thread Stefan Fröbe
2008/9/9 Stefan Fröbe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'll be in New York beginning of October and would like to purchase 2 spare batteries for my FR - any hints on where I could get them? Is there a local distributor or buyers group with active orders, by any chance? Thanks, Stefan

Get spare parts in NYC (batteries)

2008-09-08 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi, I'll be in New York beginning of October and would like to purchase 2 spare batteries for my FR - any hints on where I could get them? Is there a local distributor or buyers group with active orders, by any chance? Thanks, Stefan ___ Openmoko

Re: problem with SD Card

2008-09-05 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi Nicolas, search the list(s) or the wiki for the various parameters in ( I think ) /sys/module/glamo_mci/parameters/ : It boils down to either setting idle_clk=1 prior to suspend to avoid getting the MBR trashed, and/or reducing the sd cards max speed on bootup to get the card recognized

Re: problem with SD Card

2008-09-05 Thread Stefan Fröbe
What helped me was setting up another menu entry in u-boot adding to the bootargs: glamo_mci.sd_drive=3 glamo_mci.sd_idleclk=1 glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=500 rootdelay=5 The relevant part was sd_max_clk ( might work with higher value, but is ok as is for me) and the rootdelay, after that the card

Re: SDHC 16GB 15MB/s card

2008-08-20 Thread Stefan Fröbe
in case you loose it again, do dd if=boot.backup of=/dev/mmcblk0 that's on your host! i don't know, if that works from fr, though. I can confirm this works for the bootsector corruption, but after seriously struggling with unreadable SDHC cards under Ubuntu _AND_ the FR I finally figured

Re: GPS rework: Please test and report on software fix prior to attempting any hardware fix

2008-08-05 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi all, Just to let you know, I tried the above script and am not quite sure the gpsr is completely reset ( e.g. a real cold start occurs ) . However, since I DID apply the HW cap fix that might also be a reason for the results... In short, no matter which settings are used I get a TTFF of

Re: strange problem with Intenso 4GB SDHC card

2008-07-24 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi all, I can now reliably reproduce the issue, as dd'ing the mbr back to the card so far restores sane behaviour : If sd_drive is set to 0, then after a resume from sync apm -s the MBR of my 4GB SanDisk is wiped - so far I haven't noticed any other errors, but have not looked very closely. To

Re: strange problem with Intenso 4GB SDHC card

2008-07-24 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi David, After the the card settles (see above in this thread), i can do the following: 1) fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 Result: error ... No matter how often I call this, it never changes as the MBR is completely zeroed out. To re-ead the partition table just start fdisk /dev/mmcblk0, verify

Re: strange problem with Intenso 4GB SDHC card

2008-07-24 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi Andy, sd_drive setting isn't actually used until next time we access the card, so provoking an access will do it, eg, touch /something ; sync. Good point, but now it is getting really strange (all with sd_drive=0 prior to suspend): Adding a touch /media/mmcblk0p4/suspending and it works,

Re: Tangogps pre-cache?

2008-07-24 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi Vinc, I'd like to put the maps on the SD card. Is there a sensible path on the SD card I should use? Use whatever you like - all a matter of personal preference! I used /media/mmcblk0p4/Maps/OSM as I have several partitions and most space on the 4th, and /Maps/OSM was already typed in so I

Re: InvisibleShield discounts!

2008-07-23 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi, can anyone with the mentioned screen protector tell me whether it is exactly the visible size of the screen, or larger ( requiring removal of front plate to put on, but possibly a better fit ) Thanks, Stefan On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Bastian Feder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, thx

Re: strange problem with Intenso 4GB SDHC card

2008-07-23 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Hi, just a quick observation from my side that could possibly be related: Until yesterday, my 4GB SanDisk card worked fine with a recent (e.g. 2008-07-22 or 21) kernel - after an opkg upgrade this morning that got me a new kernel I was surprised to see the card not beeing recognized anymore -

Re: strange problem with Intenso 4GB SDHC card

2008-07-23 Thread Stefan Fröbe
Thanks for the link, seems to be quite valuable to me as it explains the background quite well! Something similar has been happening with SD cards on the OLPC laptop (another example of hardware specifically designed for the FOSS world) for at least the last six months. Last time I checked,

Re: GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-21 Thread Stefan Fröbe
the mapping begin ;-) Stefan On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Stefan Fröbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great work, and I can confirm this to be working just fine !!! That's an advantage of working in a company in the semiconductor business: enough people with the skills and tools able to try