Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hallo Christoph, ich habe einen GTA02, schon mit 1024-Rework (durch Golden Delecious, die auch einen Extra-Akku dazu gepackt haben), den ich praktisch nicht benutzt habe. Meine Versuche mit verschiedenen Distributionen waren eher bescheiden und so tief einsteigen konnte ich aus zeitlichen

Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi Folks, sorry for my previous email. In deed it was intended for Christoph Pulster as response to his request for GTA02-devices. Best Regards thomas On Friday 02 November 2012 13:50:04 Patryk Benderz wrote: Dnia 2012-11-02, piÄ… o godzinie 13:04 +0100, Thomas Otterbein pisze: Hallo

Re: QtMoko v18 - based on 2.6.32

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi Radek, Hi Thomas, sure, i can modify xorg.conf. My configuration can be found in this document: http://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/doc/txt/debian_rootfs_howto.txt But i dont understand where to put the void. In you case it would go into line 333: Driver mouse

Re: QtMoko v18 - based on 2.6.32

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi Radek, is it possible to modify the xorg.conf file? At my company we run our system on All-in-One Desktop Machines equipped with Touchscreen. To turn of the mouse enter void as the mouse driver instead of mouse or auto. Even if the corresponding module xserver-xorg-input-void (i.e.

[ALL] Freerunner GTA02v5 for Sale in Hungary

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Otterbein
daily phone. Every try lasted only for a couple of days until it did not answer calls anymore, did not wakeup from suspend, lost SMS etc. - you know... I'd like to receive 100,- EUR for it + Shipping Cost that may apply. I'm located in Hungary (Budapest). Best Regards thomas -- Thomas

Re: QtMoko v15

2009-12-17 Thread Thomas Otterbein
image and the problem is gone. So thank you for doing what ever you did to solve this issue. :-) Best Regards thomas -- Thomas Otterbein th.otterb...@gmx.net ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) against HTML e-mail X www.asciiribbon.org / \ ___ Openmoko

Re: Congratulation, Wikireader! 7th in Amazon TOP 100

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Thursday 29 October 2009 14:35 Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Thomas Otterbein th.otterb...@gmx.net writes: On Wednesday 28 October 2009 22:08:00 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172594/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_ e_1_ 3_last Wow, just wow

Re: Congratulation, Wikireader! 7th in Amazon TOP 100

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 22:08:00 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172594/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_e_1_ 3_last Wow, just wow! It's an interesting device, not for me, but quite interesting. What I never expected is such a success. Quite a comparison

Re: Showroom hosting , roadmap draft design

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Thursday 27 August 2009 10:23 Risto H. Kurppa wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:38 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinezda...@tuxbrain.com wrote: As next stept for the next version, I will say: Including Debian(no mod needed) as distro and see how we can share/discriminate info of same apps

Re: Showroom hosting , roadmap draft design

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Otterbein
with stuff from and for OpenMoko. ;-) most of the packages are at debian repositories already. Ok, openbmap and pypennotes, mokomaze, remoko are the only ~popular/famous apps in this repository). I really don't know, I let the devels decide what's best. r -- Thomas Otterbein th.otterb...@gmx.net

Re: bicycling with OpenMoko

2009-04-28 Thread Thomas Otterbein
FR is designed to withstand a droptest of 80cm (iirc) to concrete. There are no moveable parts inside except battery (which might be a good idea to add a *thin* layer of foam to fix it for good) and vibrator (and speaker membranes). I don't think bicycle vibrations / impact is a big issue.

Re: USB Kernel problem with latest SHR unstable

2009-04-24 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Friday 24 April 2009 15:16:38 Nelson Castillo wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Thomas Zimmermann zimmerm...@vdm-design.de wrote: Am Freitag 24 April 2009 12:20:00 schrieb Robin Paulson: 2009/4/24 Ben Thompson b...@york.ac.uk: ok, i'm confused now. why do i want to run this on my

Re: FreeRunner, most used distributions

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Friday 13 March 2009 11:06:37 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote: Hello, I was wondering: anyone has an idea or stats about which distributions are used by the FreeRunners out there? Something like: === Om 2007.x: 50% Om 2008.x: 20% SHR: 10% [...] Other hacks: 5%

Re: [All] FR survey and locations

2009-02-04 Thread Thomas Otterbein
To take part in the survey click here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p2ZQdcRSVg9XfYLwBVsZicg I can't answer the question What band does your provider use, because mine uses both 900 and 1800. But the FR uses only one of them at the same time, doesn't it? And of course you

[All] FR survey and locations

2009-02-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Dear all, questions about buying a FR now or later, waiting for this or that software and using this or that distribution arrive on a regular basis on this list. I read them all although I'm usually quite unhappy with the answers that happen to arrive on such a mailing. IMHO they represent

Re: Questions about the usability of GTA02

2009-02-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Maybe we could setup some kind of map where you could register, so if someone wants to try a FR it would be easier to find someone close? Here it is: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8hl=enmsa=0msid=115352610340426907999.000461ec26b35ac3fad63z=17 I've already entered the daily location of

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Fully exclusive access is not a solution. It just defeats the purpose of multitasking. Actually I think the window manager should dispatch accelerator events, like it dispatches the mouse events. Only focused Okay, that's basically what I meant with deamon. A piece of software that's

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi all, I plan to have a toggling script for use in the desktop icon, instead of a starter script. This is the sort of thing that might be useful to have on the illume top shelf. autototate on/off, and rotate now when auto is off. Rotation is useful with maps. It depends on what the

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
How about running two apps then, if they're both using accelerometers and each requires its own orientation? Perhaps a Accelero-Deamon? Applications could register for receiving, probably even already pre-processed, events. And an application could also request exclusive access in which case

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
FYI: On my kubuntu (ubuntu with KDE installed by default) using the KDE NetworkManager I followed the advices on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Networking#Debian.2C_Ubuntu_and_others but insereted auto usb0 into /etc/network/interfaces as suggested by arne. It looks now like that: auto

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Which version of Kubuntu are you running ? 8.10 I seem to remember some people commenting that with Intrepid (8.10) that stopped working, though I've not attempted to use this on my Intrepid laptop yet (I just do the ifconfig by hand). yes I had the same issue but the described method solved

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
You should only use auto usb0 or allow-hotplug usb0 but not both at the same time. For me it only works with auto and not hotplug but don't ask why. ;) Yes but it seems that entering both does not do any harm. The networking configuration uses the latest statement (allow-hotplug) while stupid

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
only sense when a usb networking capable device is plugged in -- so allow-hotplug seems the only sensible option, to me, that is. Yes, but you both leave the OpenSource-Factor out. The (K)Ubuntu NetworkManager does not accept the allow-hotplug as a sign to keep it's fingers out of the

Re: Default IP Address on All Distributions

2009-01-06 Thread Thomas Otterbein
wrote: fla...@correo.ugr.es wrote: Sure. And if we go that way, why not use the proper way of setting a link-local address? * Pick a random address * check that it is free (arp, ping,...) * take it. That has a good chance of working, even for those who routinely connect two

Re: Default IP Address on All Distributions

2009-01-06 Thread Thomas Otterbein
:03 Helge Hafting wrote: Thomas Otterbein wrote: Now when it comes to real users I believe the discussion about the best fixed IP-Number or a pool of dynamic numbers is far too short-sighted. As a true linux user by hard for many year now I have no problem in running a couple of commands

Re: OpenVibe is out

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas Otterbein
A completely new era for telephone sex :-) What a pity that the FR doesn't have a camera module (yet)... Come to think of it an apache web server would be useful too, so users of the FR could serve their clients on the run. ___ Openmoko community