On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:42 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all, but especially OM. > I felt a little cheated when I saw the FR I had bought was not ready > to be used as a daily phone. This had in fact been the publicity by OM > at the time - GTA01 was for tinkerers, and GTA02 was for the public. > Then people said "no, it was clear that GTA02 was also for tinkerers > only"... well, whatever; I decided to ignore that, be positive, and
So the fact that you ignored it is OM's fault ? OM (the company) should have only sold the GTA02 when the hardware and > kernel and drivers where tested and ready. Why there are plenty of people very happy to have a phone they can ssh into. > Or, if that was not > possible due to time-to-market constraints, then it should have called > for the community's help for doing just that: getting the device to > work. Instead, it went ahead telling us "the Neo is a blank slate, a > canvas to paint on"... and the people who have painted, have lost many > of their paintings, and even the will to paint. At least, they won't > paint with OM brushes. It is too frustrating and time-consuming. If what you paint ends up being useful to the community it'll get kept. > Personally, I need a working device. Kernel, drivers, daemons, system > scripts, all of this must be in place to allow the device's hardware > to be controlled at the flick of a software switch. GPRS+GSM muxing > must be included by default. WIFI must work correctly by default. > Bluetooth must work as well as in any other distro by default. And for > god's sake, AUDIO must work as intended by default (it IS a phone > after all). Only after OM guarantees these minimum requirements can it > ask the community to go ahead and innovate... Don't waste your time > on GUIs or eye-candy apps; give us a device with a rock solid > subsystem and a command shell, and we will fill in the blanks and > build from there. > Wifi is "working" as well as any basic distro install. You need to edit /etc/network/interfaces and or wpa_supplicant.conf but it is working. Bluetooth also has all of the tools to make it work like dbus and hcitool. Again you need to edit a file here of there and do some reading. Alsa is working a designed as well. You can use alsactl or alsamixer to control every single part of the alsa subsystem. Again a little reading and tinkering will get it to do what you want. It sounds like you don't want to do any tinkering or reading. Why did you get a phone where that is a requirement ? Angus
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