[maemo-users] Re: [maemo-developers] Future features for Maemo Desktop

2006-08-27 Thread David D. Hagood
Integration of the Festival Text to speech engine as an optional component, with hooks into the RSS feed reader and mail client would be nice - that way you could download an RSS feed and have it read to you while you are doing something else. Integration of a calendaring app (e.g. GPE) with t

Re: [maemo-users] Best place to post tips

2006-08-20 Thread David D. Hagood
David McCan wrote: Thanks for the reply. Isn't that wiki geared for developers? There is a howto and a tips section - and as far as I can see, the whole reason for this to be a wiki is so that we all can contribute. I have no official relationship with maemo.org other than being an owne

Re: [maemo-users] Best place to post tips

2006-08-20 Thread David D. Hagood
David McCan wrote: I got my 770 a few days ago and spent a good deal of time searching the web for answers and with trial and error. I have figured out several things that would be useful to others. Where is the best central place to post this information? I don't want to create yet another

[maemo-users] Handy script for using ntpdate

2006-08-13 Thread David D. Hagood
Here's a little script I knocked up to allow easy syncing of the Nokia's time to an NTP server. It has the following prerequisites: 1) ntpdate must be installed. 2) the /usr/bin/ntpdate executable must be marked as SUID root. 3) /etc/sudoers must have the following line added: user ALL = NOPASS

Re: [maemo-users] how to reinstall original osso applications?

2006-08-06 Thread David D. Hagood
Marc Baaden wrote: Hi, I am running IT2006 and have added some apt-sources and upgraded to the latest "stable" versions. This went more or less smoothly, except that now the musicplayer doesn't play any music any more. It returns the error message "Operation impossible. Reessayer" (operation imp

Re: [maemo-users] apt-get upgrade?

2006-08-01 Thread David D. Hagood
Raf D'Halleweyn (list) wrote: When run as root, apt-get upgrade shows a list of possible updates that are not offered through the Application manager. Are these safe to install? certs clinkc0 gcc-3.4-base gst-plugins-farsight lessertunjo0 libcst When I did this, I got into a perpetual rebo

[maemo-users] Another IT2006 question: Bluetooth keyboard

2006-06-19 Thread David D. Hagood
Here's another question I've not seen the answer to - does the IT2006 release directly support Bluetooth input devices, without the BT keyboard plugin? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

[maemo-users] IT2006 mail client - are IMAP folders supported

2006-06-19 Thread David D. Hagood
I haven't yet tried the 2006 release (as I am waiting for VNC to be ported), so I cannot directly answer this question for myself - are subfolders now supported in the IMAP side of the mail client? Rant { I know that this feature was requested multiple times on the Maemo bugzilla but each time

Re: [maemo-users] Playback of video served by Apache.

2006-05-10 Thread David D. Hagood
John Hennessy wrote: Using the video player and selecting "Open Stream" results in an Unknown Format. Using the web browser to access the content then agreeing to open the content in the video player works. Well, I've no problem streaming Real format video from Apache, but I cannot stream MP

[maemo-users] When will the limits on swap file size be removed?

2006-04-25 Thread David D. Hagood
Even in the latest software image, if I add more than about 15M of swap - be it in one file or many - it is an instant reboot. What is causing this, and how can it be fixed? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/l

[maemo-users] JFFS errors on rootfs - how to fix

2006-04-25 Thread David D. Hagood
I've noticed my Nokia rebooting a lot more than I think it should - even rebooting in the middle of the night, with its cover on and (theoretically) idle. I've looking in the dmesg log and I am seeing a lot of "Inode # was a directory with children - removing those too..." as well as "jf

Re: [maemo-users] Bug in clock with the last firmware

2006-04-21 Thread David D. Hagood
Israel Herraiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just installed the last firmware (released yesterday), and it seems that there is a bug in the clock application. The timezone files in /usr/share/zoneinfo are missing, except for Europe/Helsinki. Adding this files from one of my other Linux boxe

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-15 Thread David D. Hagood
Hilary Miller wrote: Thats exactly what happened to me. I didn't mention it, but my mmc card went mysteriously read-only and I had to reformat it sometime during my playback troubleshooting. It seems to me that the system needs to be notified if the file system fails consistency check (e.g. t

[maemo-users] usb_storage

2006-04-12 Thread David D. Hagood
It did create the device - there just wasn't the usual /proc/scsi/scsi file to tell me where the device was. Now, has anybody created a plug-in to automount mass storage devices, and to allow them to be safely unmounted from the UI? ___ maemo-users m

[maemo-users] usb-storage.ko for the Nokia

2006-04-11 Thread David D. Hagood
Having switched my Nokia into USB master mode, and having hacked up a hub to provide power to the Nokia so that it will "see" the connection, I can now connect a USB storage device and the Nokia will scan it (I have a USB analyzer that shows me the traffic between the two). However, since the

Re: [maemo-users] Quick review of the Nokia 770

2006-03-21 Thread David D. Hagood
Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) wrote: > Why can't I have access to the MMC card when USB is plugged ? You (actually your PC) _has_ access to the MMC card, I thought that was the whole point (apart from for flashing) but why is concurrent access not possible? Because of how USB mass storage devic

[maemo-users] Mic input - is it available on the headphone jack

2006-02-21 Thread David D. Hagood
Is it possible to feed the mic input through the headphone jack? In other words, did Nokia either a) design the headphone jack with a 4 conductor connector (like a camcorder's audio/video connector), or b) did they make a software switch that switches the jack from stereo out to mono out/mono i

Re: [maemo-users] IMAP folders

2006-02-20 Thread David D. Hagood
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: I've found a few places on the web that say IMAP folders are not supported by the email client but I've yet to find this being official from Nokia. Is this true? If yes, is there anybody with a workaround, or another email client? It is true - at this time the only IMAP

Re: [maemo-users] Automatic WIFI connection @ home vs office

2006-02-16 Thread David D. Hagood
Laurent MARTIN wrote: Hi! I'm using my N770 at home and at the office, and I'd like it to automatically connect to the proper available WIFI network depending from where I am. I explain: I've filed a bug report against this behavior: https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=367 __

Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-developers] Gnumeric 1.6.2 and goffice 0.2 Released

2006-02-03 Thread David D. Hagood
Armin M. Warda wrote: (Cross post to maemo-developers@maemo.org from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi, unfortunately this release of gnumeric lacks the ability to put an icon into the taskbar of the Nokia770, thus if you 'accidentally' minimize the running gnumeric app, you cannont maximize it and th

[maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-26 Thread David D. Hagood
It seems to me that adding a 20M swap file makes my Nokia *less* stable, not more. I've tried both swap files on a MMC card as well as swap partitions, and in both cases it seems that I am more likely to crash the browser with swap enabled than with swap disabled. Has anybody else seen this? _