Re: [maemo-developers] upgrading base packages from third party repositories

2006-12-05 Thread Ralph Giles
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:45:30PM +0200, Jussi Kukkonen wrote: > I finally managed to get ogg playback on my device, thanks to > N770-Freak and the "Getting started with multimedia"-document at > maemo.org. Now, I could upload the packages I put together out there > (e.g. on Garage), but I'm wond

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: RE: sorry, i forgot the title, it's a newbie question(no new mesage in here)

2006-11-25 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 05:38:34PM +, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > (Don't use the non-"advanced" version, backspace key is broken there) Hmm. Works for me. > Dear Nokia, could we automate > 1) uploading an ssh key > 2) obtaining the IP address > > For 2) does it announce availability via re

Re: [maemo-developers] Unresolved issues (Week 46)

2006-11-22 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:47:45PM -0600, Ed Okerson wrote: > The iLBC implementation on the DSP is closed source, but is bitstream > compatible with the one on ilbcfreeware.org. Since people seem confused: iLBC is a semi-proprietary voice codec. The design is documented as RFC 3951, and a refer

Re: [maemo-developers] Missing maemo downloads (e.g. developer root fs)?

2006-11-18 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 12:20:54PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > If you want to update to the latest Nokia image, follow the steps below. > PC: Download the Linux flasher at [WWW] > http://maemo.org/downloads/d3.php > > since that points to an empty file. So I can't download the flasher.

Re: [maemo-developers] Summary of my ogg adventures (still unresolved)

2006-11-09 Thread Ralph Giles
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:58:28AM +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > 1) How does osso_media_streamer decide which audio schema to use for a > file? (e.g. how does it get from mime-type: audio/x-vorbis to the > application/ogg schema. That connection seems to be never made) I've not tried this in

Re: [maemo-developers] speeding up MMC (with success)

2006-10-06 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:28:50PM +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > you can test card speed like this > Nokia770-26:~# time dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/null bs=8192 count=10240 Thanks for your excellent work on this. I tried the timing above with the zImage-su-18-200625-2gb-mmcplus52Mhz kernel: 6

Re: [maemo-developers] Scratchbox on OSX

2006-09-30 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 01:16:43AM -0400, Michael DeCaro wrote: > I forgot to mention that I want to do this on an intel iMac, not the > PPC. That part helps with dual boot/virtual machine installations, but to run scratchbox natively you'd need to recompile the toolchain and scratchbox utilit

Re: tremor for DSP Re: [maemo-developers] API of the DSP's avs_kernel

2006-09-25 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:31:45PM +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Then definitely google for "sandvall thesis pdf". If you cannot find the > source patch with DSP code on the net, let me know. Got it from one of > rockbox developers. At the time I searched for it, it was a bit hard to > find.

Re: [maemo-developers] [Q] 770 GTalk client STUN server

2006-08-02 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:47:02PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews-Levine wrote: > Does the IM (as opposed to the VOIP) portion of the 770 GTalk client > use a STUN server (either auto-detected or set manually)? I know that > STUN seems to be talked about almost solely in a VOIP context[...] I believe

Re: [maemo-developers] Hatari (Atari ST) emulator for N770

2006-08-01 Thread Ralph Giles
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:15:34PM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Um, what "2006 image" is missing the C-library and zlib? > About all programs need them to work. The above list is > all the dependencies that Hatari package has. Hmm. I was thinking you'd just added a depends on packages whose dat

maemo-developers@maemo.org

2006-07-24 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:09:05AM -0700, George Farris wrote: > How about DSP information? Has Nokia opened this info up yet? Really > holding back such information is well not very helpful at best to > put it in friendly terms. I'm not sure what you mean. TI doesn't have any docs for the

Re: [maemo-developers] Hatari (Atari ST) emulator for N770

2006-07-23 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:08:29AM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > I've ported and packaged the Hatari (Atari ST) emulator for N770. > For more information, see: > http://koti.mbnet.fi/tammat/hatari/index.shtml Cool. The package doesn't install for me on the 2006 image though. Missing Depend

Re: [maemo-developers] VMware image for development environment

2006-07-19 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:55:55PM -0400, Andrew Barr wrote: > http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=2424 > > Expect download rates to be about 50 KB/sec until more people join in. That's going to take a while considering it blocks new users for 24 hours. What a terrible site. -r __

Re: [maemo-developers] VMware image for development environment

2006-07-19 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:28:05AM -0400, T L Holaday wrote: > Would anyone besides me be interested in a virtual machine with the Maemo > development environment installed and configured? Absolutely! -r ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-develop

Re: [maemo-developers] Interested in developing applications for the Nokia 770 with Maemo...

2006-05-06 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:39:30PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > It's two modes for the same display. They even anticipate that, for some > people, the display will be the only source of electric light after > dark. Cool. I look forward to seeing one! -r ___

Re: [maemo-developers] Interested in developing applications for the Nokia 770 with Maemo...

2006-05-05 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 07:41:51PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > The screen used in the OLPC gives hope. It's meant to be readable in > direct sunlight, in a reflected-light black/white mode, I believe: > http://laptop.org/faq.en_US.html Thanks for the pointer. Is this actually two modes in the

Re: [maemo-developers] Interested in developing applications for the Nokia 770 with Maemo...

2006-05-05 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:23:34AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > [1] What are Nokia's future plans for supporting a handheld with a Linux OS? > Have the made any indication as to their commitment to the open source > community, and how had the 770 worked out for the company? (I hope there > a

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo 2.0 API changes, signals and properties (was: ANN: Eagle)

2006-04-19 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:01:27PM -0700, Shawn Gordon wrote: > I'm totally against DRM, see my iTunes competitor www.mindawn.com > that I started a couple years ago, we use FLAC and OGG formats. My > company was the first one to make a portable ogg player by producing > software to play Ogg o

Re: [maemo-developers] Core-iSCSI/Nokia 770

2006-03-29 Thread Ralph Giles
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:33:07PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Things have been moving along well getting iSCSI running and usable on > the Nokia 770. Around 95% of the functionality of core-iscsi and > core-iscsi-tools is up and stable on the 32-bit ARM-OMAP device. MPEG1 > and MPEG4

Re: [maemo-developers] gcc on 770

2006-03-08 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:27:06PM -0700, A. Mukherjee wrote: > Is it possible to install gcc tools on the 770? If so can someone please show > me how. > I found some binaries at > http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo1.1rc7/free/g/gcc-3.3. When I try to > install them I get another error m

Re: [maemo-developers] first commercial app from theKompany

2006-03-01 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:45:48AM -0800, Shawn Gordon wrote: > We've just released our first commercial game for the 770 called > tkcPanels. You can see the screenshots at > http://www.thekompany.com/embedded/tkcpanels/screenshots.php3 and > read about the product and purchase at > http://ww

Re: [maemo-developers] Audio on scratchbox and 770

2006-02-03 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 04:18:02AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > I don't understand why esound is still around at all (even on desktops). > What good does it do? IIRC the story went something like this: Most desktop (and perhaps otherwise) applications would would like to be able to just p

Re: DSP vs CPU for multimedia, Re: [maemo-developers] Audio enabled dev-platform?

2006-01-12 Thread Ralph Giles
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:42:38PM +0200, Devesh Kothari wrote: > But I think it should still be possible to construct a gstreamer pipeline > which would for example do ogg decoding on arm side and feed to the > DSP PCM sink or something. But I am just reasonably guessing :) This is my understan

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:33:41PM +0200, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: > > You'd have to hack a lot around crontab to enable all this and I doubt > > that would be significantly less error prone than implementing that > > stuff e.g. in the Desktop application or a new demon specific to that > > task. >

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth headset - not really working?

2006-01-09 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:29:38PM -0700, Brad Midgley wrote: > The latency for every stereo set out there is so bad (>500ms!) that > you'd lose every game or just throw yourself out the nearest window. Oh dear. And I thought USB audio was bad... I wasn't actually aware that there were dual mode

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth headset - not really working?

2006-01-09 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:04:35PM -0700, Brad Midgley wrote: > low-latency voice-quality mono audio uses a special transport (SCO) and > is delivered from the bluetooth chip either over the regular data > connection to the cpu (HCI) or it is connected to dedicated audio/analog > hardware (PCM). T

Re: [maemo-developers] OMAP 1710 Processor docs?

2005-12-17 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:36:24PM +0100, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > As for the docs - DSP related ones are all inside the CCS demo download, > as for those specific to ARM926EJ-S core they are on TI site - google > for DVI0035B_926_PO.pdf and DDI0198D_926_TRM.pdf Cool, thanks for the details. I

Re: [maemo-developers] OMAP 1710 Processor docs?

2005-12-16 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:53:23AM -0500, Eric Jonas wrote: > I was attempting to look into the hardware acceleration capabilities > of the OMAP1710 to see if I could accelerate my app under maemo, and I > couldn't find anything on the TI site. Are they intentionally > restricting access to their

Re: [maemo-developers] Building Maemo from scratch

2005-12-16 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Russell Geldmacher wrote: > The trick is going to be building the packages from source. Is there > something out there for the packages which is analogous to SRPM? I'm not sure if this is the sense you mean SRPM, but you can do 'apt-get source ' and apt

Re: [maemo-developers] New version of Evince Package for Nokia 770

2005-12-15 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:44:19PM -0200, Eduardo de Barros Lima wrote: >Very good news... I tried to make the evince package including gs > and fonts, and the main problem i found was to find a way to register > the fonts automatically (which can not be done with app installer > current versi

Re: [maemo-developers] New version of Evince Package for Nokia 770

2005-12-15 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:36:52PM -0200, Eduardo de Barros Lima wrote: >The ghostscript you have working on the device was installed with > app installer (in /var/lib/install)? It would be nice if you sent us > the debian package. I haven't packaged it up yet, but will post packages as soon

Re: [maemo-developers] New version of Evince Package for Nokia 770

2005-12-14 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:15:30AM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: > If it's not network printer which would do all the hard work > remotely, nor something like Bluetooth XML printing protocol, > one would need at least Ghostscript and its deps etc... Ghostscript works fine on the device. :-) -r __