Predictive keyboard not actually predictive?

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Jerram
Hello everyone, this is my first openmoko email, so please be gentle! It seems clear to me that the so-called predictive keyboard is not actually predictive at all; it is actually fuzzy, in terms of how it maps your stylus or finger position to a set of possible intended letters. In particular,

Re: Predictive keyboard not actually predictive?

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/14 Shawn prjktdtnt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: I actually think of it as restrictive instead of predictive because it only allows me to write what it thinks I want, and should give up as soon as it couldn't match a word. Having to wait 2s per letter for

Re: qtopia, earphone and mediaplayer

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Jerram
English translation added... 2008/9/14 Oscar Casamitjana [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hola a todos, Hello everyone. probando el qtopia 4.3.3, me he dado cuenta de que si conecto los auriculares mientras está sonando una canción se activa el altavoz del freerunner a la vez que se oye por los

Re: distribution choice

2008-09-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi, just one query on this: 2008/9/15 Daniel Benoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You should be able to make software that runs on all the distributions, because they have X11 in common. If it can run on a Linux X11 PC with one mouse button and at 480x640, it should be able to run on any distribution

Re: Predictive keyboard not actually predictive?

2008-09-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/15 Yogiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can I take it that you both agree with what I was writing about? Yeah, you're right. Feel free to fix the wiki page. Thanks, I've done that now: http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Om_2008.8_Keyboarddiff=53993oldid=53456 Please let me know if you have

Re: Google Android

2008-09-16 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/16 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, AFAIK, Java is the de-facto standard programming language for the Android SDK. What is or not Free Software isn't yet known (again AFAIK) although it was rumoured to be about 20% non-free. Ah, Google's famous 20% ! :-) (For anyone

Re: Qtopia and VOIP

2008-09-16 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/16 Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, voip had to be removed from Qtopia. Something to do with Nokia's wider commercial interests/partnerships? Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

[debian] Can't type with matchbox keyboard

2008-09-18 Thread Neil Jerram
Using the matchbox keyboard to type on my FR, I found that I couldn't type a character into vi. Shift-, and Shift-. both produce . It looks like the problem is in /usr/share/matchbox-keyboard/keyboard-extended.xml: at line 276, it has two key entries which both have default display=. / I

Re: SD corruption(no suspend and sd_max_clk tested)

2008-09-19 Thread Neil Jerram
This is just another SD corruption data point, and a partial one, since I'm afraid I've lost any detailed logs. I am running Qtopia on flash, and Debian on the SD card. Two days ago I found that booting into Debian failed at the point of trying to mount the rootfs; the last message was Kernel

Re: [debian] Can't type with matchbox keyboard

2008-09-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/19 Joachim Breitner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Freitag, den 19.09.2008, 00:59 +0200 schrieb Neil Jerram: It looks like the problem is in /usr/share/matchbox-keyboard/keyboard-extended.xml: at line 276, it has two key entries which both have default display=. / I would guess

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Charles, 2008/9/21 Charles Pax [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm considering the plausibility of a little hardware project that would turn a Freerunner or any computer with an adequate sound card into a mimio [1] device. [...] Any input from the community? Assuming I've understood this even

Re: Audio Jack Sampling Rate?

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/21 Charles Pax [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All the Freerunner would be needed for is processing the input of the mic-in. The freerunner microphone isn't used. Imagine a stick with two microphones glued 400 cm apart and connected to a audio cable. There is more to it, but that's pretty much what

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] missing LAN tools

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/23 Christian Weßel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But from where can I get LAN tools for [EMAIL PROTECTED] In which package I will find it? ping is in inetutils-ping. Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/23 Alasal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've put it into a package, so it is easy to install/remove. see http://onlinedev.blogspot.com/2008/09/getting-duke-nukem-3d-on-your-neo.html Nice, but why not put it into the community repository, so it just shows up in the package manager without people

Re: [FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/24 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then I noticed that the rootfs.tar.gz doesn't actually have sbin/init in it. It has sbin/init.sysvinit. Should sbin/init be a symlink to that? Or is there another cause of this problem? Well, I created sbin/init as a symlink to init.sysvinit

[FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi there, trying to boot from FDOM on my SD card... So I downloaded the latest rootfs.tar.gz and uImage.bin from http://compartida.net/openmoko/FDOM/, unpacked the rootfs.tar.gz into /media/mmcblk0p2, and copied the uImage.bin to /media/card. I was previously running Debian on the SD card, so I

Re: [FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/24 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did you use -p in your unpack? I forgot it once and had similar issues. No, I didn't - because the Wiki (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD#Prepare_the_SD_card) doesn't say that. I'll update it. Thanks! Neil

Re: [FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/24 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can get this excitement if your SD card was mounted with nodev at unpack as well, usually that is complaining about no /dev/pts/* or other valid /dev bits needed. Thanks. I checked that at the time, though (because the Wiki covers it), and it

Re: [FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/24 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/24 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did you use -p in your unpack? I forgot it once and had similar issues. No, I didn't - because the Wiki (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD#Prepare_the_SD_card) doesn't say that. I'll update

Re: [FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/24 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/24 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can get this excitement if your SD card was mounted with nodev at unpack as well, usually that is complaining about no /dev/pts/* or other valid /dev bits needed. Thanks. I checked that at the time, though

Re: [FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/25 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did it at the end of last week. Don't remember exactly what I did but it didn't cause me any problems. I'm using the kernel from /boot on the SD. Did you have to change your bootloader configuration? Neil

[debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-09-25 Thread Neil Jerram
Is it possible to send an SMS (aka text message) in debian/zhone? If so, how? I couldn't work out how, or find any instructions anywhere. Thanks, Neil (wondering whether to move back to Debian, after failing to get going with FDOM...) ___

Re: [debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-09-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/25 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, den 25.09.2008, 12:29 +0100 schrieb Neil Jerram: Is it possible to send an SMS (aka text message) in debian/zhone? If so, how? I couldn't work out how, or find any instructions anywhere. http://docs.freesmartphone.org

Re: [FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

2008-09-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/25 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 25 September 2008, Neil Jerram wrote: Did you have to change your bootloader configuration? I had to add a menu entry to the NAND uboot if that's what you mean - see below. These are as in the wiki except for minor changes to account for my

Re: [debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-09-26 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/26 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh, the testing UI. Yes, you can send messages with that one as well. Push 'Messages', then chose a contact from your SIM, then compose your message, then it's going into the outbox and will be sent. Hm. I couldn't make anything like that

[debian] install failure, fso-frameworkd is not going to be installed

2008-09-28 Thread Neil Jerram
Just reinstalling debian, and the fso stage fails with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ./install.sh fso Running stage fso Installing FSO-specific packages Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done pkg-fso-keyring is already the newest version. Package

Re: [debian] install failure, fso-frameworkd is not going to be installed

2008-09-28 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/28 Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just for the record, I'm seeing precisely the same thing. Thanks. It's a Debian unstable issue, not Free Runner specific; see Testing status here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libc/libcaca.html. I'm in the process of trying to complete the install

Re: email

2008-09-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/30 W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cant handle 6-7000 messages going back 5 years (I regard this as medium, 5+ is large :) You may like to check the archives of the maemo-developers mailing list. There were similar discussions recently there, and IIRC with possible solutions.

Re: [debian] install failure, fso-frameworkd is not going to be installed

2008-09-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/28 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/28 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, it doesn't. Now I get: The following packages have unmet dependencies: [...] E: Broken packages Hmm. I'll try again tomorrow. Solution! - Put both testing and unstable in your sources.list. - Install

Re: email

2008-09-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/30 Petr Vanek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neil, would you mind sending a bit more direct link, i am having 0 luck googling this up... thank you Here is one: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2008-June/033990.html. Regards, Neil

Re: [debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-09-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/27 Jan Luebbe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 19:42 +0100, Neil Jerram wrote: 2008/9/26 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh, the testing UI. Yes, you can send messages with that one as well. Push 'Messages', then chose a contact from your SIM, then compose your

Re: [debian] install failure, fso-frameworkd is not going to be installed

2008-10-01 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/1 Tha_Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Great find! I ran into this yesterday as well, but I have another question: I'm using Om2008.9 to install Debian on my Freerunner, how do I 'install' libcaca0 and libcucul0? I know I can access the card, but how do I install these libs to it? You have to

Re: [debian] going to install - hints?

2008-10-02 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/2 Davide Scaini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: and what about the boot speed-up script: is that useful? Sorry, I haven't tried that, so can't say. Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Where is the SD card...

2008-10-03 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/3 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I only have to figure out why I can't ssh to the FR anymore. (FR can't ping to desktopmachine, while desktop does ping FR ;-) Always more fun. Sounds like routing. If you mean over Wifi, and your wireless network is 192.168.0/24 (as mine is), the routing

Re: Cannot ssh to Freerunner

2008-10-06 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/6 Nicolas Linkert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.100 dns-nameservers

Re: LED notification

2008-10-10 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/9 Jason Cawood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What I think I didn't communicate very well is: 1. phone is in suspend mode. 2. GSM wakes phone for sms notification 3. screen blanks after timeout 4. LED blinks while phone is not in suspend. Would that be a possible solution? I think I

Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-16 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/16 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here are my desired clients I want to develop: - Emacs phone services on top of dbus Hey, me too! Can we share / help each other out? That said, all I have so far is an attempt at an Emacs soft keyboard (attached). It's very clunky and basic right now, but I

Re: trouble connecting via wifi

2008-10-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/17 Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What step am I missing? It does detect my access point because i can see it's mac address in iwconfig but all packets are dropped when I try to use ping my access point. iwconfig eth0 mode managed channel 1 iwconfig eth0 essid madwifi ifconfig eth0

Re: One more rotate version

2008-10-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/22 clare johnstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Beware: http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7019/New-subscription-plans-Clarification-and-even-better-pricing.aspx (And never mind the content, just the .aspx is a strong hint of what we need to know.) Neil

Re: [Om2008.9] GPS pre-fetching maps from openstreetmap.org

2008-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/29 Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there somehow I structured way to pre-fetch maps without using tangoGPS and go virtually to the area and walking around there on the touch pad? I mean, can I say I wanna have the area with the coordinates X1-X2-X3-X4 and store them with zoom

[debian/zhone] Start up customization

2008-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
As they stand, I don't believe the zhone startup files support user customization. Such as (in my case) starting up fbpanel and openmoko-panel-plugin. Of course, you can change conf files under /etc, but then you'll have a conflict to resolve on next upgrade. I think what could work is - in

Re: [debian/zhone] Start up customization

2008-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/29 Joachim Breitner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what you describe has already happend, ans is renamed to nodm (for no display manager). It is basically zhone-session, with all zhone-specific parts removed. And it does indeed just start ~/.xsession (if no desktop environment is installed),

Re: [Debian] sound programs.. no sound from VLC

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/30 Matthew Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've installed Audacious, Noatun, Sonata, and VLC. Audacious is the only player I've been able to hear sound from, but it skips, and very frequently! Noatun will not play my music, and Sonata won't add my music to its library even though I redirect

Re: Determine Distro?

2008-11-03 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/1 Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does anyone know a way to determine which distro I have on my freerunner from the command line? As a rule, it's more robust to detect the particular thing (library, application, header file etc.) that you're interested in, rather than detecting the

Re: RFC: split away 'open sourced' Android in a new mailing list (was: Re: Android open sourced)

2008-11-04 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/4 Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Maybe it is worth to split away this 'open sourced' Android to its own mailing list to not flood the users of a free software project with this Google stuff? Just my personal view... I disagree. I'm not much interested in the Android

Re: DOOM For Neo Freerunner / 1973

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/5 Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: not relevant because debian doesn't use xglamo. At the moment it uses For some odd reason, the recommended install doesn't use it, but the OpenMoko wiki does mention that it's a good idea to install it. I hope Debian users all use xglamo, since

Re: [debian] openmoko-panel-plugin 0.5

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/5 Sebastian Ohl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, after the confusion on the last few days now i am happy to announce a new version of the openmoko-panel-plugin. Thank you for working on this, it's really useful! * new battery-icons I'm not sure I like the new icon better, but I

Re: TangoGPS svn/git ?

2008-11-07 Thread Neil Jerram
On 07/11/2008, Glen Ogilvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent Marcus an email on Monday and have not heard back, so figured he must be busy or on holiday.. or have a spam filter that does not like me :). So was just wondering if anyone here happened to know of a repository for it. You could

Re: [debian] openmoko-panel-plugin 0.5

2008-11-11 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/5 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My GSM icon is indicating off, even after I got notification windows correctly indicating my provider (T-Mobile) and a reasonable-sounding signal strength... I just updated to the latest version and now it is exiting after producing the attached output

Re: [debian] openmoko-panel-plugin 0.5

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Jerram
On 11/11/2008, arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - used kill to kill the old running version i experienced that sometimes myself, too. kill seems not to be the best way. looks like some cleaning up is not done and the frameworkd is left in confusion. restart frameworkd completely and

Re: [Debian][OM2008][FSO] Found an easy solution for universal right- and middle-click

2008-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/23 Paul Fertser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, everybody! I think i found a universal (not only GTK) and easy (without special tslib drivers) solution that should work on any X-server. I just added to my fbpanel two icons to launch xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 2 3' and xmodmap -e 'pointer = 2

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/23 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I must admit I had just started the upgrade command and went off to do different things... I've seen this too. But in my case I was OK again after a reboot. Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Survey about the Touchscreen

2008-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/22 Anton Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: He, actually you're right.. I withdraw that remark.. It's OK hardware, but with an excellent aesthetic design, and an innovative UI. A UI that would not have been possible if the multi-touch hardware was not in place. /Anton On Sat, Nov 22,

Re: [Debian][OM2008][FSO] Found an easy solution for universal right- and middle-click

2008-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/23 Paul Fertser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's an ugly hack to do what you suggest: bash -c 'xmodmap -e pointer = 2 3 1; /root/bin/waitclick.sh; xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3' where /root/bin/waitclick.sh: #!/bin/sh input-events 1 21 | ( grep -q -m 1 released kill $$ ) I couldn't find a

Re: [debian] state of enlightment and illume packaging

2008-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/23 Jesus McCloud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: rocks! compared to my xfce dekstop i now DO see what raster meant (desktops on diet) I'm liking it too, definitely has immediately become my default, replacing trayer+openmoko-panel-plugin. I especially like - the and buttons for switching apps

Re: [debian] state of enlightment and illume packaging

2008-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/23 Bernd Prünster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: do you really care about segv ? this si not a debian issue, e17 is still in development, but the recovery option is flawless (just my experience, but ALWAYS worked and it doesn't take more that a few seconds, so you can still answer a call if this

Re: [debian] state of enlightment and illume packaging

2008-11-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/23 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it's atypical. trust me. i do NOT like segv's! if i see them, i hunt them down with vengeance. the problem is reproducing them and getting a sensible backtrace and possibly getting it to do the same in valgrind so i can pinpoint the

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-01 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/30 John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Echo: Since there are different hw versions out there (a5, a6, a7), it's impossible to provide one alsa state file that suits all models. However, it seems you can always find appropriate values for your neo. My way is to adjust control.4 Speaker

[debian/e17] Noise on receipt of SMS

2008-12-02 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi there, Running debian and e17... occasionally I get a strange (but nice) noise from my phone, and I've just managed to correlate this with someone sending me an SMS. But I don't see any message appearing in the Zhone UI - where should I be looking? If I reboot into Qtopia, the new message

How to wear the headphones?

2008-12-05 Thread Neil Jerram
I find that the headphones quickly fall out of my ears. Is this a health feature, or am I doing something wrong? Regards, Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: How to wear the headphones?

2008-12-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/5 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/5 arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: aren't there spare ear pieces with different sizes? I thought so at first, but on closer examination, they all appeared to be the same size... (I assume you mean the flexible rubber-like bits

Re: How to wear the headphones?

2008-12-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/5 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 05 December 2008, Neil Jerram wrote: 2008/12/5 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/5 arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: aren't there spare ear pieces with different sizes? I thought so at first, but on closer examination, they all appeared

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/2 John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:29:48PM +, Neil Jerram wrote: Apologies in advance for what may be a dumb question - but does this statement represent the conclusion of your team's work on audio issues (buzz/echo/hiss etc.)? Or is there further work

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/2 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: buzz / echo / hiss... no software change can fix buzz. It's baked into the hardware and you will have to do fairly extreme meddling with your soldering iron to impact it. Thanks, I hadn't seen that so clearly stated before! (i.e. that buzz is known to

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-07 Thread Neil Jerram
Oops... 2008/12/7 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, but do you need to be so imprecise about this? What can't there be a definitive solution? What should have been why. Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Bad Customer support from Truebox.com about a Broken Battery

2008-12-11 Thread Neil Jerram
Not to deny or minimize anything that others have said in this thread, but just to provide a balancing data point... I personally had excellent service from TrueBox. No problems, and always courteous emails. I hope they will quickly make amends in ankostis' case, and I also hope that they will

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/17 Marcus Bauer marcus.ba...@gmail.com: Right now there are a couple of things which are not yet in a package, most notably the X session start. But for a clean future development it is a necessity that everything sits inside a package and then you can update directly from debian.

Re: Acustic 'empty battery warning' ?

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/17 Lothar Behrens lothar.behr...@lollisoft.de: Hi, I am asking me if it is not possible to get an acustic 'empty battery' warning some time before my phone really get's down. Is there a way to do this ? Qtopia 4.3.2 on FR does it, so I guess there must be a way. Neil

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/17 Marcus Bauer mba...@bearstech.com: Hackable:1 is based on the DebianOnFreerunner but packaging the OM2007.2 applications, extending and bugfixing them. It is intended to become a stable platform for the VAR market and fun to use for everybody else. Sounds cool! So, given that I

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/17 Joel Newkirk freerun...@newkirk.us: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:56:46 +, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: 2008/12/17 Joel Newkirk freerun...@newkirk.us: I find myself wondering how many V5 FreeRunners are in the field and whether the owners thereof would want

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/17 Mateusz Skowroński sko...@gmail.com: Hi, http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_find_out_what_version_of_hardware_I_have.3F Many thanks; I don't know how my googling missed that! Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/17 Joel Newkirk freerun...@newkirk.us: I find myself wondering how many V5 FreeRunners are in the field and whether the owners thereof would want the ability to 'update' to the V6 hardware fixes. Before that I'd like to know how I find out which version I have. Tried

[debian] enlightenment has no png loader?

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Jerram
I noticed that there are now e17 packages in debian unstable, and that these include -dbg packages. Since my current e17 (from the enlightenment-all-in-one deb that someone put together) always SEGV's on startup, and since Raster has asked for backtrace with symbols when that happens, I thought

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/19 Andreas Pokorny andreas.poko...@gmail.com: Lets add another information layer to open street map, containing discovered or already-tried-but-failed wpa-keys. Then each gta03 synchronize with the current state of your home town and start trying some new keys in the neighbourhood as

Re: [debian] enlightenment has no png loader?

2008-12-21 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/22 Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org: I don't know the details, but in any case you might get more inforation by either filing a big against e17 (using reportbug), or writing the pkg-e team (CC'ed). Thanks. For the moment I've moved on to playing with hackable:1, but I'll do this

Re: [Pkg-e-devel] [debian] enlightenment has no png loader?

2008-12-22 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/22 Albin Tonnerre albin.tonne...@gmail.com: There are no e17 packages in unstable (not in the debian archive, I mean) except eet. Maybe you're getting your packages from a third-party repository ? We put the image loaders and savers in the same package as libevas: libevas0, so

Re: How do you like to read a phone number?

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/29 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk: Note, however, that I would most always use 0207 or 0208 xxx yyy Need one more y there: 0207 or 0208 xxx . for London numbers - I personally would not use 020, or group the 7 or 8 with the next set of digits. This is probably because I

Re: Performance Issues using Neo wifi and WPA2

2008-12-31 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/30 john dowd jdowds...@gmail.com: The Neo registers (using linphone) with the PBX and I can see the registration happening but then there is a REQUEST NOTIFY coming from the PBX to linphone. Linphone responds with a 481: Subscription does not exist. I've attached this interaction in

Re: Pulster offer - Freerunner 299 eur

2008-12-31 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/29 Gothnet openm...@nastylittlehorse.net: I don't want to get into a pissing contest here, but the truebox price includes VAT, I bought mine from them at that price back in the summer. Unless somehow I managed to avoid paying VAT or just forgot to look at the actual price...

Re: Newbee need direction

2009-01-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/7 Robin Häggqvist robin.haggqv...@gmail.com: Hello Im a newbee. And would love some help to get in the right direction. I have looked in to pascal(not very useful but good fun) and java(really basic) when I was in school but that was a few years ago. Im most intrested in developing

Re: runaway proc events/0 automatic reboot

2009-01-09 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/9 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de: ... the CPU time is easy to read as: while true; do ps --no-heading -C events/0 -o time | awk -F : '{print $1*3600+$2*60+$3}' sleep 600 done Sorry, but I couldn't help feeling amused here by the fact that we have a different definition of

Re: [2008.12] problem flashing u-boot

2009-01-10 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/10 Harry L. Lee ha...@jonesnose.com: this command line: ./dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D uboot.bin yields dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Opening USB Device 0x:0x... That (0x:0x) doesn't look promising.

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/14 john dowd jdowds...@gmail.com: OK, it was a integration problem between the keyboard and my chair. :-) I haven't heard that one before! Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Is there an echo-free distro?

2009-01-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/15 Gabriel cont...@huau-gabriel.fr: Hackable1 is echo free no ? (personnaly i have no echo) I also have no echo with H1. Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Pub meet: Cambridge, UK, 30.1.2009

2009-01-16 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/16 Gothnet openm...@nastylittlehorse.net: Andy Kilner wrote: Not trying to usurp the thread but nothing happened with the plans to have a london meetup. Should we just go to this one instead or would anyone be interested in holding one of our own? Unfortunately I won't be able to

Re: Is there an echo-free distro?

2009-01-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/16 Tha_Man jeroenb...@hotmail.com: Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/1/15 Gabriel cont...@huau-gabriel.fr: Hackable1 is echo free no ? (personnaly i have no echo) I also have no echo with H1. Neil What version of H1 are you using? Rev 2 Regards, Neil

Re: Is there an echo-free distro?

2009-01-22 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/15 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: 2009/1/15 Gabriel cont...@huau-gabriel.fr: Hackable1 is echo free no ? (personnaly i have no echo) I also have no echo with H1. Correction: apparently I do still have a bad echo. No one had mentioned it for a while, so I thought it was fixed

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/24 Michael Sheldon m...@mikeasoft.com: You can speed up scrolling by switching to the Software_16 engine (Spanner - Advanced - Engine) and reducing the framerate to around 15 I'm probably being stupid, but I don't see any Advanced option in the dialog that comes up after touching the

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/24 Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz: You can speed up scrolling by switching to the Software_16 engine (Spanner - Advanced - Engine) and reducing the framerate to around 15 I'm probably being stupid, but I don't see any Advanced option in the dialog that comes up after touching the

Re: Is there an echo-free distro?

2009-01-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/23 ezuall ezu...@gmail.com: Thanks for that, I will give that new SHR distro a try this weekend. I am trying SHR-unstable now. I called my wife today, and she said something like ah, at last, a normal sound. She confirmed that the echo was much reduced; there was still something there,

Re: tangoGPS 0.9.5 is out

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/25 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: ps: please cut the mail to the necessary minimum when replying. Sure, didn't realise it was an issue. Is it for bandwith/storage, readibility or something else? well, it is a tad annoying -- to have mail that stretches over several pages with

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/25 wp wpmaill...@gmail.com: I'm using shr-unstable aswell, but from 13th january. Newer versions have not working gsm, and have that very annoying issue program crashed and left no error log when accesing contacts or messages. I'm flashing every new images to see if it is solved,

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/25 wp wpmaill...@gmail.com: Well, it's as I said: gsm is not working for me and these programs still crash. Maybe it's because of my provider, dunno. Since writing what I wrote earlier, I've had one of those crashes too, when writing a message. I think it was when I tried to switch

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/25 Tomas Riveros Schober trive...@enable.cl: until I tried to start numptyphysics (meaning I could send and receive calls without any issues, and they were echo-free). After starting numpty, the neo crashed badly i.e. screen not responding and filled with different colors vertical

Re: Over-quoting (was: Re: tangoGPS 0.9.5 is out)

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/25 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com writes: The right client could handle that for you; as Google Mail (for example) does. Are you serious? Quotes are needed to remember context but you suggest to quote the whole mail with no apparent reason

Re: tangoGPS 0.9.5 is out

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/25 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com writes: The right client could handle that for you; as Google Mail (for example) does. But gmail is proprietary software so it doesn't count :-) That is a good point, which I think I've been ignoring

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-26 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/26 Ivan Shirokoff ivanshirok...@gmail.com: Where can I get jffs2 file? I've found only jffs2. Huh? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: How to use other applications with Paroli fullscreen?

2009-03-08 Thread Neil Jerram
digger vermont dv_ml...@verizon.net writes: I find the decision frustrating. I guess I don't see why Illume and Paroli are at such odds. With Paroli's current direction it seems to mean that if I want to help develop Paroli, as it is meant to be used, I must give up using the FreeRunner for

[debian] unexpected troubles

2009-10-12 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi there... Is this generally the best place for Debian questions? Or is smartphones-userland better? I've just installed Debian again, and am surprised to be experiencing some low-level problems. Hopefully they are easily fixable. As context, what I'm aiming at is: - Debian - for the best

Re: [debian] unexpected troubles

2009-10-13 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/13 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com writes: I've just installed Debian again, and am surprised to be experiencing some low-level problems.  Hopefully they are easily fixable. I'll try addressing the issues that I can: Many thanks

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