FSO unstable upgrade errors alsa-states and initscripts-openmoko

2009-01-14 Thread qhaz

Upgrading from
http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-unstable/images/om-gta02/ repos I
get the following errors.

Downloading
http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-unstable/feeds/om-gta02/task-boot_1.0-r46_om-gta02.ipk
Installing initscripts-openmoko (1.0-r0) to root...
Configuring zhone
Configuring mtd-utils
Collected errors:
 * Package alsa-states wants to install file /etc/asound.state
But that file is already provided by package  *
openmoko-alsa-scenarios
 * ERROR: The following packages conflict with initscripts-openmoko:
 *  initscripts *


Has anyone else had this problem?  Or any suggestions?

thanks in advance.

qhaz 
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Re: Illume finger scrolling probs

2009-01-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:56:28 -0500 Joel Newkirk  babbled:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:35:22 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
>  wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:18 -0500 Joel Newkirk 
> > babbled:
> > 
> >> all distros I've tested.  (2008.x, FSO, SHR)
> >>
> >> Selecting the Illume (or Illume-SHR, or my in-development 'Serenity'
> > based
> >> off Illume) theme instead of ASU causes finger scrolling to be almost
> >> unbearably slow.   WHY?
> > 
> > its just much more complex ui/layout. drawing a single black rectangle is
> > faster than scaling and blending 5 layers of images to get an effect.
> 
> I'd wondered about that, and in Serenity want to reduce it to just a
> rectangle - personally I don't like the look of the extra layers. (granted
> I've still got a ways to go before I've finished the theme, and many
> remnants of the Illume theme still remain)  Bit by bit I've broken out
> portions of the Illume edc and #include them (keyboard, config, shelf, etc)
> which has made a huge difference in my ability to figure things out.  
> 
> Once I'm fairly happy with Serenity I have an ever-growing blog article on
> the process that I'll post for anyone interested.  (as with my other
> OM-related posts it will be released for cut'n'paste to wiki if someone
> wishes)  My overall goal for the look of my FR is lightweight and dark
> (similar to ASU theme) with digital clock, Illume battery, keyboard and
> config, etc, plus 128x128 Oxygen icons.  (I plan to opkg the icons soon,
> probably this weekend - given the scale I prefer I'd like to use the
> 256x256 but they're just too damn much to display and scroll well)
>  
> >>
> >> Also, a bug:  I usually have icon size set to 'very large' for the
> >> launcher, (which makes this problem far more apparent) and have noticed
> >> that if I try to finger-scroll too close to the bottom and hit an icon
> >> whose icon image is not fully on-screen, it will ALWAYS select and
> > launch
> >> instead of scroll.  If the image is fully on-screen but the icon text is
> >> off-screen, it will scroll, as it will 'grabbing' any icon that is fully
> >> visible.  This is becoming a significant frustration for me as I
> > constantly
> >> launch unwanted programs with my thumb trying to scroll.
> > 
> > this is a leftover of the flaunch (the 3 boxes at the bottom of om's asu
> > setup
> > that i just have as invisible in the illume theme), so events go thru
> > without
> > going thru the finger-scroll object that is over the region above this.
> > (and
> > this object basically modified events so they get special flags so other
> > objects can hold off on launching stuff as they know the event is to be
> > ignored
> > and just used for information - not actions).
> > 
> > i need to totally fix up illume and split it up - it is still basically
> > the
> > design that om wanted with almost no changes.
> 
> 
> :\  What is this identified as in the edc, do you recall?  

flaunch ... :)

> Also, while I've got you 'on the line' as it were, where is the power
> control themed?  (IE when I press power button, the menu that appears with
> suspend, lock, etc)  So far I've been unable to locate it... :(  

in e's core theme - syscon :)

> And finally, what would it take to display each icon in the launcher as an
> icon with text to the right, one per line?  not sure if I'd be happy with
> it or not, but wanted to try and haven't figured it out yet.

code changes to use the list view for the fm, not icon view.

> Many thanks.  (for E, Illume, etc as well as the swift response)
> 
> j
> 
> -- 
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> http://jthinks.com  (blog)
> http://newkirk.us/om (FR stuff)
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Re: Illume finger scrolling probs

2009-01-14 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:35:22 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
 wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:18 -0500 Joel Newkirk 
> babbled:
> 
>> all distros I've tested.  (2008.x, FSO, SHR)
>>
>> Selecting the Illume (or Illume-SHR, or my in-development 'Serenity'
> based
>> off Illume) theme instead of ASU causes finger scrolling to be almost
>> unbearably slow.   WHY?
> 
> its just much more complex ui/layout. drawing a single black rectangle is
> faster than scaling and blending 5 layers of images to get an effect.

I'd wondered about that, and in Serenity want to reduce it to just a
rectangle - personally I don't like the look of the extra layers. (granted
I've still got a ways to go before I've finished the theme, and many
remnants of the Illume theme still remain)  Bit by bit I've broken out
portions of the Illume edc and #include them (keyboard, config, shelf, etc)
which has made a huge difference in my ability to figure things out.  

Once I'm fairly happy with Serenity I have an ever-growing blog article on
the process that I'll post for anyone interested.  (as with my other
OM-related posts it will be released for cut'n'paste to wiki if someone
wishes)  My overall goal for the look of my FR is lightweight and dark
(similar to ASU theme) with digital clock, Illume battery, keyboard and
config, etc, plus 128x128 Oxygen icons.  (I plan to opkg the icons soon,
probably this weekend - given the scale I prefer I'd like to use the
256x256 but they're just too damn much to display and scroll well)
 
>>
>> Also, a bug:  I usually have icon size set to 'very large' for the
>> launcher, (which makes this problem far more apparent) and have noticed
>> that if I try to finger-scroll too close to the bottom and hit an icon
>> whose icon image is not fully on-screen, it will ALWAYS select and
> launch
>> instead of scroll.  If the image is fully on-screen but the icon text is
>> off-screen, it will scroll, as it will 'grabbing' any icon that is fully
>> visible.  This is becoming a significant frustration for me as I
> constantly
>> launch unwanted programs with my thumb trying to scroll.
> 
> this is a leftover of the flaunch (the 3 boxes at the bottom of om's asu
> setup
> that i just have as invisible in the illume theme), so events go thru
> without
> going thru the finger-scroll object that is over the region above this.
> (and
> this object basically modified events so they get special flags so other
> objects can hold off on launching stuff as they know the event is to be
> ignored
> and just used for information - not actions).
> 
> i need to totally fix up illume and split it up - it is still basically
> the
> design that om wanted with almost no changes.


:\  What is this identified as in the edc, do you recall?  

Also, while I've got you 'on the line' as it were, where is the power
control themed?  (IE when I press power button, the menu that appears with
suspend, lock, etc)  So far I've been unable to locate it... :(  

And finally, what would it take to display each icon in the launcher as an
icon with text to the right, one per line?  not sure if I'd be happy with
it or not, but wanted to try and haven't figured it out yet.

Many thanks.  (for E, Illume, etc as well as the swift response)

j

-- 
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http://jthinks.com  (blog)
http://newkirk.us/om (FR stuff)


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Re: Roll The Dice

2009-01-14 Thread Alex Tsui
Kind of cool, I fetched it to check out the code. I tried it with
om2008.12, after installing pygtk etc. I ran the program, but shaking
the phone gets no response. Only touching the screen starts it off
vibrating. I also tried the modified ko-dice with same result. I think
the shakes are not getting registered for me somehow.

--Alex

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:59 PM, The Digital Pioneer
 wrote:
> OK, to any who are interested, I have made some modifications to the python
> script to make it not shake as easily (I was having a lot of accidental
> shakes). Now it has to be shaken twice within 3 seconds to actually roll the
> dice. It may not be pretty, but it works. :)
>
> My modded ko-dice is here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/453116/ko-dice
>
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>
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Re: Illume finger scrolling probs

2009-01-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:18 -0500 Joel Newkirk  babbled:

> all distros I've tested.  (2008.x, FSO, SHR)
> 
> Selecting the Illume (or Illume-SHR, or my in-development 'Serenity' based
> off Illume) theme instead of ASU causes finger scrolling to be almost
> unbearably slow.   WHY?

its just much more complex ui/layout. drawing a single black rectangle is
faster than scaling and blending 5 layers of images to get an effect.

> 
> Also, a bug:  I usually have icon size set to 'very large' for the
> launcher, (which makes this problem far more apparent) and have noticed
> that if I try to finger-scroll too close to the bottom and hit an icon
> whose icon image is not fully on-screen, it will ALWAYS select and launch
> instead of scroll.  If the image is fully on-screen but the icon text is
> off-screen, it will scroll, as it will 'grabbing' any icon that is fully
> visible.  This is becoming a significant frustration for me as I constantly
> launch unwanted programs with my thumb trying to scroll.

this is a leftover of the flaunch (the 3 boxes at the bottom of om's asu setup
that i just have as invisible in the illume theme), so events go thru without
going thru the finger-scroll object that is over the region above this. (and
this object basically modified events so they get special flags so other
objects can hold off on launching stuff as they know the event is to be ignored
and just used for information - not actions).

i need to totally fix up illume and split it up - it is still basically the
design that om wanted with almost no changes.

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Illume finger scrolling probs

2009-01-14 Thread Joel Newkirk
all distros I've tested.  (2008.x, FSO, SHR)

Selecting the Illume (or Illume-SHR, or my in-development 'Serenity' based
off Illume) theme instead of ASU causes finger scrolling to be almost
unbearably slow.   WHY?


Also, a bug:  I usually have icon size set to 'very large' for the
launcher, (which makes this problem far more apparent) and have noticed
that if I try to finger-scroll too close to the bottom and hit an icon
whose icon image is not fully on-screen, it will ALWAYS select and launch
instead of scroll.  If the image is fully on-screen but the icon text is
off-screen, it will scroll, as it will 'grabbing' any icon that is fully
visible.  This is becoming a significant frustration for me as I constantly
launch unwanted programs with my thumb trying to scroll.

j

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Re: Roll The Dice

2009-01-14 Thread The Digital Pioneer
OK, to any who are interested, I have made some modifications to the python
script to make it not shake as easily (I was having a lot of accidental
shakes). Now it has to be shaken twice within 3 seconds to actually roll the
dice. It may not be pretty, but it works. :)

My modded ko-dice is here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/453116/ko-dice


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Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread W.Kenworthy
because the qtopia indexing stops with it ...

Its probably possible to just stop the app doing the indexing
(mediaserver I think), but I am not sure if it would create problems to
knock out a low level part of qtopia or not.

An alternative is to change the config so on the next boot, it wont
index the SD card at all (best fix in fact)

Billk



On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 21:46 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Al Johnson  writes:
> > /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop
> 
> Hmm, why is stopping X server necessary?
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Re: [0m2008-9] Trying to partition the uSD card but unable to umount the partition that has been created

2009-01-14 Thread W.Kenworthy
lsof will tell you that qtopia uses the file.

Stop the xserver and it should free up.

By the way, it would be worth your while to read up on the qtopia
indexing problem which the sqlite file is a result.

BillK


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:22 -0500, john dowd wrote:
> Would anyone know which application I would have to kill to be able to
> unmount the partition that was created on the uSD card? I want to
> backup my current kernel & rootfs to the uSD card since it is now
> stable. Apparently the Qtopia_db.sqlite file was created for the
> Qtopia apps but I can't easily see who is using the partition.
> 
> Cheers!!


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Re: GPSDproxy: send GPS data from gpsd to a remote server

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Niccolo Rigacci  writes:
> I released a little software to proxy GPS data read from gpsd to 
> a remote server. I use it to store my live track on a Postgres 
> database (running on my home server) via GPRS connection.

Interesting idea. I looked around the code:

/* Fork into background */
if (be_daemon) {
pid = fork();
if (pid == -1) {
perror("Could not fork() into background");
} else if (pid > 0) {
exit(0);
}
}

shouldn't this use two fork()'s? See Stevens's "Advanced Programming
in the Unix Environment" book or take a look at how e.g. tor makes
itself a daemon:

start_daemon(void)
{
  pid_t pid;

  if (start_daemon_called)
return;
  start_daemon_called = 1;

  if (pipe(daemon_filedes)) {
log_err(LD_GENERAL,"pipe failed; exiting. Error was %s", strerror(errno));
exit(1);
  }
  pid = fork();
  if (pid < 0) {
log_err(LD_GENERAL,"fork failed. Exiting.");
exit(1);
  }
  if (pid) {  /* Parent */
int ok;
char c;

close(daemon_filedes[1]); /* we only read */
ok = -1;
while (0 < read(daemon_filedes[0], &c, sizeof(char))) {
  if (c == '.')
ok = 1;
}
fflush(stdout);
if (ok == 1)
  exit(0);
else
  exit(1); /* child reported error */
  } else { /* Child */
close(daemon_filedes[0]); /* we only write */

pid = setsid(); /* Detach from controlling terminal */
/*
 * Fork one more time, so the parent (the session group leader) can exit.
 * This means that we, as a non-session group leader, can never regain a
 * controlling terminal.   This part is recommended by Stevens's
 * _Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment_.
 */
if (fork() != 0) {
  exit(0);
}
return;
  }
}

Also it could be useful to implement --pid-file option that writes the
pid of the process to a file so that you don't need to resort to
"killall gpsdproxd" in the stop script.



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Re: GPRS unreliable: long lasting connection fail

2009-01-14 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:53:16PM -0700, Eldon Koyle wrote:
> 
> If you have the 'persist' option in /etc/ppp/peers/,
> pppd will reconnect after errors.  To reconnect, it closes the device then
> reopens it.  With gsm0710muxd, when /dev/pts/N gets closed it is
> deallocated.  Then, pppd is trying to reconnect to a device that doesn't
> exist.

This is very interesting and disappointing :-(

But I experienced a different problem, because I don't use 
gsm0710muxd, so the device should be always valid.

What I noticed is that pppd release the lock file of the serial 
line, then it stays in a select loop, without retrying.

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GPSDproxy: send GPS data from gpsd to a remote server

2009-01-14 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
Hi,

I released a little software to proxy GPS data read from gpsd to 
a remote server. I use it to store my live track on a Postgres 
database (running on my home server) via GPRS connection.

The software is hosted here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsdproxy/

This is the announce:

This is the first release of GPSDproxy, a small program which 
reads GPS data from a running gpsd process 
(http://gpsd.berlios.de/) and forwards it to a remote server via 
an UDP connection.
 
GPSDproxy is intended to be run on GPS enabled mobile devices. 
The main features are: 
 
* Very low traffic: can upload the position every 10 seconds, 
24h/24h, 7days/week and consume less than 100Mb/month (telco-plan 
friendly). 
 
* Assume an unreliable connection, like GPRS mobile. Uses UDP 
protocol without TCP/IP retransmission overhead. No akwnoledgment 
from the server is required. Assumes that some data can be lost 
(future versions can implement some sort of 
aknowledge/retransmit). 
 
* Firewall friendly: mobile GPRS connections are often placed 
behind a NAT firewall, gpsdproxy works with just one outgoing UPD 
port. 
 
* Written in C for performance and small footprint. 
 
Included in this release there is the source code of a simple 
server (written in Python), which receives position data from 
several GPSDproxy clients and store it into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS 
database. 

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Firenze - Italy

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Re: GPRS unreliable: long lasting connection fail

2009-01-14 Thread Eldon Koyle
On  Jan 13 12:25-0700, Eldon Koyle wrote:
> I was looking at this once and I think the problem might be that pppd
> closes the device and re-opens it before reconnecting, and the mux
> device is no longer usable once it has been closed.
> 
> I didn't verify this, but it seemed logical to me ;).

I decided to take another look, and here is what happens:

If you have the 'persist' option in /etc/ppp/peers/,
pppd will reconnect after errors.  To reconnect, it closes the device then
reopens it.  With gsm0710muxd, when /dev/pts/N gets closed it is
deallocated.  Then, pppd is trying to reconnect to a device that doesn't
exist.

A hack-around for this might be to turn off the 'persist' option and make a 
script like:

identvar=$(date +%s)
while true; do
# code ripped of from somewhere to get a mux device
ptsvar=$(dbus-send --system --print-reply --type=method_call 
--dest=org.pyneo.muxer /org/pyneo/Muxer org.freesmartphone.GSM.MUX.AllocChannel 
string:$identvar | grep string | awk -F '"' '{ print $2 }')
[ -z "$ptsvar" ] && exit 1
logger -s "gprsd.sh[$$]: starting pppd using $ptsvar"
pppd "$ptsvar" 115200 call  nodetach
logger -s "gprsd.sh[$$]: connection closed, waiting 10 seconds"
sleep 10
done

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Re: Roll The Dice

2009-01-14 Thread The Digital Pioneer
OK, more results: the exit button does indeed work A. Before rolling the
first time B. During a roll or C. If you press it, then roll the dice.

I noticed in your CLI output that it seems to be looking for a left or right
movement. Perhaps you should make it shake on 2 or three left-right combos,
since it seems to be rolling a bit too easily. Not a problem at all, really,
just a personal preference.

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Re: Roll The Dice

2009-01-14 Thread The Digital Pioneer
4 stars. I just tested it on SHR, and it works with exception to one thing:
it doesn't close. The exit button doesn't work, and using Illume's close
button on it makes it lock up. Have to kill it.

I'd love to see a game like Zilch (on Kongregate) put on the FR, which also
rolls the dice by shaking. Zilch is at
http://www.kongregate.com/games/gaby/zilch if you want to give it a look.

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Re: Dual touch display

2009-01-14 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Lothar Behrens
 wrote:
> Hi,
> if not yet posted: I have found a dual touch / multi touch input device for
> pens and fingers.
> It may be interesting, if GTA3 design not finished yet. But I don't know
> about availability :-)
> http://www.n-trig.com/Default.aspx
> Lothar
>
> -- | Rapid Prototyping | XSLT Codegeneration | http://www.lollisoft.de
> Lothar Behrens
> Heinrich-Scheufelen-Platz 2
> 73252 Lenningen

Hi,
This looks good. I wonder about the openness of the hardware as well
as the drivers. I don't have any experience with the iPhone type
screen input, but I have had a Palm Z22 for two or three years now.
Its claim to fame is the "Graffiti" stylus entry feature. I can enter
the usual English alphanumeric characters including common punctuation
marks by fairly simple strokes. Entering additional characters (and
punctuation) requires a two step process. There is a special area,
about the bottom quarter of the screen which accepts only these
strokes.

It would be great to have the functionality of the dual touch / multi
torch input in an open development environment.

Cheerio!

-- 
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dba Iceworm Enterprises
Debian GNU/Linux Lenny
User Number 269482

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Roll The Dice

2009-01-14 Thread kris Occhipinti
I wrote this Dice Rolling Application in Python for the FreeRunner
I've tested it on both om2008.9 and Hackable1

Just shake the phone and it rolls 2 dice using random numbers.

you can download it at
http://filmsbykris.com/freerunner-debian/ko-user/ko-dice.tar.gz

Once untared you will see where it files should go.
everything installs under "/usr"

I only made a .deb files once and it was a while ago.
Once I review how to make a .deb file I will post that.
For now you should be able to just un-tar it.
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Re: shr- GPS howto?

2009-01-14 Thread Fernando Martins
Very nice, thanks. It's indeed working, sort of:

- on my SHR image (08.12.16), settings has no option for GPS

- it took at least 4 minutes to get a fix. Last time, I gave up after 10 
min. All tests this evening, same place, tallest buildings almost 100mt 
away; my house is ~10mt high.

Regards,
Fernando

Helge Hafting wrote:
> Fernando Martins wrote:
>   
>> No luck:
>>
>> - I've setup date and timezone;
>> - GPS is on, per /sys/class... incantation
>> - demon fso-gpsd is on, checked with ps
>> - telnet comunicates with gpsd but no good data
>> - tangoGPS doesn't find GPS device
>>
>> I have no idea of the reception capabilities of om (or GPS devices in 
>> general): is it supposed to work indoors?
>> 
>
> Open shr settings (one of the icons) and make sure
> gps is on there.  I don't need any sys/class stuff
> to use the gps with SHR. SHR image of dec.16 should be ok,
> one of the earlier ones had gps not working. Also,
> not all "alternative" kernels have working gps.
>
>
> Go outside, get away from tall buildings.
> Start tangogps, stand still.
> It may take 2 minutes to get a fix with some bad luck.
> Moving around makes this worse. Tall buildings make this worse.
> Starting tangogps indoors and then going outside may take
> more time. So if you look at the map indoors, restart tangogps
> when you get outside.
>
> The gps may or may not work indoors - if you come in from
> outside. Don't expect the gps to start up indoors though.
> don't expect gps to work at all in a building with several floors
> above you.
>
> Gps units generally need a stronger signal to start up,
> then they can follow weaker signals in less
> than ideal areas. But it won't start up in "bad" places.
>
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Re: [Hackable:1] trouble booting

2009-01-14 Thread Tha_Man


Greg Bonett wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm having some trouble booting hackable:1.  I downloaded the tar balls
> and extracted them to fat and ext2 partitions on a 2GB micro sd card.  I
> then tried to boot using the NOR uboot.  It gets stuck after the
> message: " s3c2410_udc: debugfs dir creation failed -19"
> has anyone else had this problem?
> is there an easy way to check if I properly extracted to tar balls to my
> SD card?
> Thanks.
> -Greg
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I'm having the same problem, although only with the latest daily hackable1
build. The rev2 tarball extracted to my SD card gives normal operation,
independently of the kernel.
I noticed on a French site (
http://openmoko-fr.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=383 ) the last post mentions
an update/change to the uboot. 
Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? 

H1-Rev2 looks really cool, but has some annoying bugs which I hope are fixed
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Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote:
> The communication works fine with neocon. Thanks.
>
> My problem now is that I follow the wiki for setting up the SD to be a
> backup system. I get into the boot loader and add the menu line:
>
> setenv menu_2 Boot from microSD part2 (ext2+ext2): setenv bootargs
> \${bootargs_base} rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5
> \${mtdparts}\; mmcinit\; ext2load mmc 1 0x3200 \${sd_image_name}\;
> bootm 0x3200

Looks right from memory. I tend to keep the kernel on the same partition as 
the rootfs rather than having a separate boot partition as I find it easier 
when managing multiple rootfs partitions, but that's just preference.

> I also check it with the "printenv" command and then use the "saveenv"
> to write it to NAND. What happens is that the command returns :
>
>
> GTA02v6 # saveenv
> Saving Environment to NAND...
> Erasing Nand...GTA02v6 #
>
> and when I restart to the boot loader menu, my menu entry is not there.

Check that you're doing this in the NAND uboot (Pwr then Aux) not the NOR 
uboot (Aux then Pwr). I don't think the NOR one can save its environment, but 
I don't know what the message is if you try, so it could be unrelated.

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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 :
> OK, it was a integration problem between the keyboard and my chair.

:-)

I haven't heard that one before!

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

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
The communication works fine with neocon. Thanks.

My problem now is that I follow the wiki for setting up the SD to be a
backup system. I get into the boot loader and add the menu line:

setenv menu_2 Boot from microSD part2 (ext2+ext2): setenv bootargs
\${bootargs_base} rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5
\${mtdparts}\; mmcinit\; ext2load mmc 1 0x3200 \${sd_image_name}\;
bootm 0x3200

I also check it with the "printenv" command and then use the "saveenv"
to write it to NAND. What happens is that the command returns :


GTA02v6 # saveenv
Saving Environment to NAND...
Erasing Nand...GTA02v6 #

and when I restart to the boot loader menu, my menu entry is not there.

Cheers!!

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Al Johnson
 wrote:
> I just use minicom, connect to /dev/ttyACM0 and enable line wrap. If you could
> be more specific about what's wrong then perhaps I could help.
>
> On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote:
>> Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message
>> [closed] printed out for every key and no joy talking to the device.
>>
>> Is there a console program out there that works right now and that
>> people are using to communicate with the Neo Freerunner?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Gora Mohanty  wrote:
>> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST)
>> >
>> > Gothnet  wrote:
>> >> john dowd wrote:
>> >> > I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
>> >> > that they would like to share.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >> Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > Haven't tried using serial terminal software with OpenMoko,
>> > but in general, have found cutecom to have a nice GUI
>> > interface.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Gora
>> >
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Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
I just use minicom, connect to /dev/ttyACM0 and enable line wrap. If you could 
be more specific about what's wrong then perhaps I could help.

On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote:
> Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message
> [closed] printed out for every key and no joy talking to the device.
>
> Is there a console program out there that works right now and that
> people are using to communicate with the Neo Freerunner?
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Gora Mohanty  wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > Gothnet  wrote:
> >> john dowd wrote:
> >> > I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
> >> > that they would like to share.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Haven't tried using serial terminal software with OpenMoko,
> > but in general, have found cutecom to have a nice GUI
> > interface.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gora
> >
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Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Al Johnson  writes:
> > /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop
>
> Hmm, why is stopping X server necessary?

Apps using frameworkd can get upset if you restart frameworkd while they are 
running. This would include zhone, and possibly some illume bits (battery 
monitor maybe?) This is a relatively clean and easy way to get frameworkd 
restarted without problems, but isn't strictly necessary.

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

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
OK, it was a integration problem between the keyboard and my chair. I
ran it as root and voila it works.

Thanks everyone who responded.

Cheers!!

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, john dowd  wrote:
> Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message
> [closed] printed out for every key and no joy talking to the device.
>
> Is there a console program out there that works right now and that
> people are using to communicate with the Neo Freerunner?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Gora Mohanty  wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST)
>> Gothnet  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> john dowd wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
>>> > that they would like to share.
>> [...]
>>> Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.
>> [...]
>>
>> Haven't tried using serial terminal software with OpenMoko,
>> but in general, have found cutecom to have a nice GUI
>> interface.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gora
>>
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Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message
[closed] printed out for every key and no joy talking to the device.

Is there a console program out there that works right now and that
people are using to communicate with the Neo Freerunner?


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Gora Mohanty  wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST)
> Gothnet  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> john dowd wrote:
>> >
>> > I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
>> > that they would like to share.
> [...]
>> Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.
> [...]
>
> Haven't tried using serial terminal software with OpenMoko,
> but in general, have found cutecom to have a nice GUI
> interface.
>
> Regards,
> Gora
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[zomg] imporant

2009-01-14 Thread Bernd (Jesus McCloud) Prünster
if you are using ZOMG! please update. there was a really bad bug in 
prior version which could break you feeds - dont't panic it is 
reversible. just check opkg.org or the wiki page for more info

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

2009-01-14 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST)
Gothnet  wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> john dowd wrote:
> > 
> > I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
> > that they would like to share.
[...]
> Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.
[...]

Haven't tried using serial terminal software with OpenMoko,
but in general, have found cutecom to have a nice GUI
interface.

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

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
john dowd  writes:
> I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
> that they would like to share.

"picocom /dev/ttyACM0" under screen with ^a : slowpaste set to 20







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Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Al Johnson  writes:
> /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop

Hmm, why is stopping X server necessary?

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Re: [fso]is there any way to accesswifi eitherthrough the ui? the shell?

2009-01-14 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/15 Jakob :
> regarding browsers i prefer minimo http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Minimo
> it has a quite nice interface

second that

dillo has problems with ssl, and midori is awful - menus and so on
weren't set up for a small screen, at least in the package i tried

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

2009-01-14 Thread Gothnet



john dowd wrote:
> 
> I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
> that they would like to share.
> 
> Cheers!!
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 


Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.

or at least it did until my linux box stopped showing the /dev/ttyACM0
device, now I just have dfu-util
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[no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
that they would like to share.

Cheers!!

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Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Olivier Migeot wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Al Johnson
>
>  wrote:
> > Disable ogpsd in /etc/frameworkd.conf by adding 'disable = 1' to the
> > [ogpsd] section, then restart frameworkd nicely:
>
> Whoa, that was quick, thank you.
>
> That'll be ok for some testing, but I sure wouldn't want to do that
> everytime I need to switch navigational models ;)

You could always patch ogpsd to accept a dbus command for changing 
navigational models ;-)

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Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Al Johnson
 wrote:

> Disable ogpsd in /etc/frameworkd.conf by adding 'disable = 1' to the [ogpsd]
> section, then restart frameworkd nicely:

Whoa, that was quick, thank you.

That'll be ok for some testing, but I sure wouldn't want to do that
everytime I need to switch navigational models ;)

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Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread Hendrik Siedelmann
2009/1/14 Olivier Migeot :
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM, VirtuAlex  wrote:
>
>> 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
>> application should receive them
>
> Well, unless we decide of a new kind of focus ("accel-focus" or
> something), this should be more flexible. For example, some background
> apps might want to get accel' data : auto-rotation tools (yeah I know,
> the whole point of managing accelerometers through the WM would be to
> bury this practice), HDD-parkers (yeah I know, there's not HDD in
> Neo's), ... Seriously, I can't get anything serious as an example, but
> I think you got my point.

Get higher gps accuracy using accelerometer data (or use it when driving
through a tunnel) would be a nice example.

> This apart, I'm all for the WM-based path. This should be a
> freedesktop standard or something, actually. Or has it more to do with
> Linux' input layer? Or Xorg's? I don't know...

I also don't know which is the best way to get the data to the apps, but we
shouldn't forget that different apps will need the data in different ways:
- as gestures (like keyboard events), this could also be events like
orientation changes
- raw data as often as possible or averaged over small time intervalls
(games, ...)
- preprocessed to give only orientation, or accelleration ...

A point agains the WM way would be that the data should be available over
network, so the FR could be used for example as a joystick. Also there might
be programs that want to use the data without being dependent of an WM-stack.

So perhaps a daemon wich communicates over dbus?
I'm actually thinking of writing one, I  want to use accellerometers in omview
and I want to do it the right way.
Needs to be fast though.

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Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Olivier Migeot wrote:
> I guess I should shut down FSO's GPS handling first, but how? Is
> stopping fso-gpsd enough? (I tried, but it didn't seem better)
>
> Any insights, somebody? Thanks.

Disable ogpsd in /etc/frameworkd.conf by adding 'disable = 1' to the [ogpsd] 
section, then restart frameworkd nicely:

/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop
/etc/init.s/fso-gpsd stop
/etc/init.d/frameworkd restart
/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm start

You might like to take the fso-gpsd startup link out of /etc/rc5.d too.


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[Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Olivier Migeot
Hi ev'ryone,

I'm currently experimenting things with the Antaris chip, and I'm
starting to like it - at least through FSO and it's gpsd compatibility
layer. I've been browsing through the UBX protocol specification, and
I stumbled upon one interesting parameter : the dynamic platform model
of the navigational unit.

Simply put : using this, we should be able to explain our chip that we
are either by car or by foot, and get more serious tracklogs
(providing this is doable, 'cause the doc states "(SW Versions 3.04
and higher)", so I'm not sure whether or not we qualify).

I did some quick tests, using my work phone as a reference (an HTC
Trinity with a Sirf chip) : when logging car trips, both tracks are
pretty close. Like a few meters. Far better than what I expected, at
least. But when logging pedestrian trips (and I do quite a few), the
Antaris starts to behave like ... a car. Every steep turn I took is
throughly rounded on the Neo-based log. So I guess the current setting
of our chip is "car". So I wonder : does anyone here know whether we
got "version 3.04 or higher" of the software?

Hoping that we do (well, ignoring that maybe we don't, actually), I
tried to feed the setting to the chip. The CFG-NAV2 UBX message that
does that is 40 bytes long, and contains lt of more or less
related information, which I certainly don't know how to feed. So I
tried to first _get_ the setting, and re-set it verbatim (give or take
the said parameter). But though there is a tool to generate UBX
messages (ubxgen.py, on
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GPS ), I can't find a
(successful) way to get the result from the chip. From my view, I
should cat the commands to ttySAC1 and then read it. But I get nothing
exciting that way...

I guess I should shut down FSO's GPS handling first, but how? Is
stopping fso-gpsd enough? (I tried, but it didn't seem better)

Any insights, somebody? Thanks.

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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 
responsible for reading the input of a device and forward pre-computed 
information as events to whoever might be concerned. 

Side-effect: If the accelerometer get's replaced by another model only this 
part has to be rewritten and not all software using the feature.

While writing these lines: I think Gestures 
(http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gestures) may do exactly this already.



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RE: buzz fix

2009-01-14 Thread KaZeR
 

> -Message d'origine-
> [mailto:community-boun...@lists.openmoko.org] De la part de 
> Christoph Pulster
> Envoyé : mardi 13 janvier 2009 08:20
> À : community@lists.openmoko.org
> Objet : Re: buzz fix
> 
> Hello,
> 
> thanks for asking about hardware fixes (I read this list daily).
> At the moment I'm working out a solution with Openmoko how to 
> handle any repair (buzz SOP, GPS fix etc).
> In any way I want to offer my customers best service and we 
> try to find a solution which does avoid time-consuming return 
> shipments to Taiwan.
> Please allow us some days to work that out.
> 

Thanks Christoph. 
It's nice to see that you are so involved.
I hope that you will lead the way for other resellers. 
Bearstech maybe? :)


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Re: [fso]is there any way to accesswifi eitherthrough the ui? the shell?

2009-01-14 Thread Jakob
regarding browsers i prefer minimo http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Minimo
it has a quite nice interface

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Re: [om2008-9] Never able to successfully backup the jffs2 partition...

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote:
> Well I tried the NeoTool but it has its limitations. I was going to
> copy my current configuration to the uSD card as the backup. I tried
> the wiki page "Booting From SD" and was going to prepare the uSD card
> by partitioning it. I then saw that there is an entry:
>
> /dev/mmcblk0p1  49792048497872   0% /media/card
>
> when I do a "df". When I go to the mount point I found this file:
> qtopia_db.sqlite
>
> What the heck is this file doing there?

qtopia has an option to index media files on the SD, and this is enabled by 
default on the 2008.x images for the first partition. IIRC this ends up in 
the file you describe.

> From what I understand, I must partition the uSD and then copy kernel
> & rootfs to the various partitions. Why would an app. have grabbed the
> uSD card?

See reason above. You can blow the file away without problems. It may get 
recreated on your first partition if you use 2008.x again, but that shouldn't 
cause any problems. If you really don't want it you can disable the indexing, 
but I can't remember the file this option is defined in.

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Re: QT goes LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Well if you read your own link you would see that that RMS actually 
recommend the LGPL in cases like Qt, I quote:

"The most common case is when a free library's features are readily
available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries.
In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular
advantage, so it is better to use the Lesser GPL for that library."

I think it would be hard argue that a UI toolkit is not readily
available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries.

Christian


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:20 +0200, Aapo Rantalainen wrote:
> Read what Richard Stallman/FSF says about LGPL:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
> 
> (But it is Nokias business what license they use)
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[0m2008-9] Trying to partition the uSD card but unable to umount the partition that has been created

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
Would anyone know which application I would have to kill to be able to
unmount the partition that was created on the uSD card? I want to
backup my current kernel & rootfs to the uSD card since it is now
stable. Apparently the Qtopia_db.sqlite file was created for the
Qtopia apps but I can't easily see who is using the partition.

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Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM, VirtuAlex  wrote:

> 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
> application should receive them

Well, unless we decide of a new kind of focus ("accel-focus" or
something), this should be more flexible. For example, some background
apps might want to get accel' data : auto-rotation tools (yeah I know,
the whole point of managing accelerometers through the WM would be to
bury this practice), HDD-parkers (yeah I know, there's not HDD in
Neo's), ... Seriously, I can't get anything serious as an example, but
I think you got my point.

This apart, I'm all for the WM-based path. This should be a
freedesktop standard or something, actually. Or has it more to do with
Linux' input layer? Or Xorg's? I don't know...

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Re: Out of date, please update me

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Spies
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:02:02 +0100, Daniel Spies
 wrote:
> Dear community,
> 
> I am in the list now since before the release of GTA01 and used to read
> most of the messages. After the release of GTA02 a huge flame war started
> and after some mails regarding the future of OM I was unsettled and
decided
> to wait for a while. The amount of mail per day increased and I could not
> read all of them any more. So now I'm really not up to date and am not
sure
> what's all about.
> 
> I hope someone could answer me a few questions... :)
>  - I'm developing a lot with OpenGL these days, is there any way to get a
> usable 3d performance on the GTA02 today/plans for the future?
>  - Is there any major issue with the GTA02 hardware (e.g. possibility of
> getting destroyed hardware by the battery or whatever)
>  - I know staff won't tell me much about GTA03, but I hope to just get
the
> information if the case design will be different? I'm fine if one could
> tell me if it will be _not_ egg-shaped and will have _no_ hardware
keyboard
> (just like the GTA01/02 but not egg-shaped). I don't like the design...
> Maybe there is a rough painting or something?
>  - What about the OS thing? When I stopped reading there were messages
> saying the "core" of OM will be decided and programmed by OM internals.
> What is the status now, what is done by OMs only? 
>  - Maybe there is a information page about the GTA03 and I just didn't
find
> it, is there?

Okay I found http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA03 in the meantime, sorry. 
So what about the case, any paintings already?

By the way, I just ordered my Freerunner! :)

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Dual touch display

2009-01-14 Thread Lothar Behrens

Hi,

if not yet posted: I have found a dual touch / multi touch input  
device for pens and fingers.


It may be interesting, if GTA3 design not finished yet. But I don't  
know about availability :-)


http://www.n-trig.com/Default.aspx

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Re: [om2008-9] Never able to successfully backup the jffs2 partition...

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
Well I tried the NeoTool but it has its limitations. I was going to
copy my current configuration to the uSD card as the backup. I tried
the wiki page "Booting From SD" and was going to prepare the uSD card
by partitioning it. I then saw that there is an entry:

/dev/mmcblk0p1  49792048497872   0% /media/card

when I do a "df". When I go to the mount point I found this file:
qtopia_db.sqlite

What the heck is this file doing there?

>From what I understand, I must partition the uSD and then copy kernel
& rootfs to the various partitions. Why would an app. have grabbed the
uSD card?

Cheers!!

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:48 AM, john dowd  wrote:
> Thanks guys!!
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Dale Maggee  wrote:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> john dowd wrote:
>>> I've alway been able to backup the kernel partition of my Neo FR but
>>> not the jffs2 partition. Here's the error that is reported:
>>>
>>> Opening USB Device 0x:0x...
>>> Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=4, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=6, name="rootfs"
>>> Claiming USB DFU Interface...
>>> Setting Alternate Setting ...
>>> Determining device status: state = dfuERROR, status = 14
>>> dfuERROR, clearing status
>>> Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
>>> dfuIDLE, continuing
>>> Transfer Size = 0x1000
>>> dfu_upload error -84
>>>
>>> This is not a terrible big deal right now but will be in the future.
>>> Any ideas? Questions comments or rude remarks?
>>>
>>> Cheers!!
>>> --
>>
>>
>> NeoTool will backup your root partition to a flashable jffs2 without
>> using dfu-util"
>>
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NeoTool
>>
>> Regards,
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Re: On the Enlightenment Bleeding Edge

2009-01-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Helge Hafting wrote:
> Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
> 
>>  - Now you may also configure E, from the wrench, to use the
>>"software_16" rendering engine (it causes less quality, but more
>>speed) and a lower framerate value...
> 
> Where exactly would that be? I tried the wrench, and waded through a
> multitude of options. But I didn't find this software_16 thing. Or does
> it require something beyond your /usr/e17/ tree?
> Something that might be lacking from SHR?

SHR should use that rendering setting by default, in illume-.svn you've
to go to the wrench -> Advanced -> Engine -> Default Engine ->
SOFTWARE_16 ;)

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Re: QT goes LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Aapo Rantalainen
Read what Richard Stallman/FSF says about LGPL:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

(But it is Nokias business what license they use)

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Out of date, please update me

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Spies
Dear community,

I am in the list now since before the release of GTA01 and used to read
most of the messages. After the release of GTA02 a huge flame war started
and after some mails regarding the future of OM I was unsettled and decided
to wait for a while. The amount of mail per day increased and I could not
read all of them any more. So now I'm really not up to date and am not sure
what's all about.

I hope someone could answer me a few questions... :)
 - I'm developing a lot with OpenGL these days, is there any way to get a
usable 3d performance on the GTA02 today/plans for the future?
 - Is there any major issue with the GTA02 hardware (e.g. possibility of
getting destroyed hardware by the battery or whatever)
 - I know staff won't tell me much about GTA03, but I hope to just get the
information if the case design will be different? I'm fine if one could
tell me if it will be _not_ egg-shaped and will have _no_ hardware keyboard
(just like the GTA01/02 but not egg-shaped). I don't like the design...
Maybe there is a rough painting or something?
 - What about the OS thing? When I stopped reading there were messages
saying the "core" of OM will be decided and programmed by OM internals.
What is the status now, what is done by OMs only? 
 - Maybe there is a information page about the GTA03 and I just didn't find
it, is there?

To prevent people from flaming about my questions about GTA03: It's 90%
sure that I will buy a GTA02 as I was searching the web for weeks and could
not find any other device like the FR. And as I still use my Nokia 3410
it's time to get a new mobile device now. GTA03 is not available yet, so
there's only the GTA02 left. I just hope to have a preview on the GTA03 to
decide if I will look for different devices or just wait for the GTA03 to
come out after getting the GTA02.

Thanks for all your comments!

Cheers,
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Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread VirtuAlex



VirtuAlex wrote:
> 
> the window manager should dispatch accelerator events
> 

I meant accelerometer events.
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Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread VirtuAlex



Thomas Otterbein wrote:
> 
> 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 the others would just not receive 
> further events.
> 
> So, problem's solved! Could we please get a working demo by tomorrow? ;-)
> 

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
application should receive them and decide what to do with them - rotate
screen, or move some goblin. Screen rotation should be also function of
window manager. Apps should only set hints to the window manager regarding
preferred orientation if they have one, and change the hint according to
their own algorithms. The window manager should decide screen orientation
based on focused app. In short, there's no need for daemon, cause the only
software which talks directly to proposed daemon is actually window manager.
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Re: QT goes LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Jeff Tranter
Yes, this is great news and should greatly accelerate the use of Qt, 
both on desktop and embedded platforms now that the cost of Qt for most 
people will be zero even for developing commercial applications.


At ICS, as Qt Software's largest consulting partner we are very excited 
about the new opportunities this will bring.


We have a whitepaper on our web site at http://www.ics.com/ that talks 
about the implications of Qt being available under the LGPL.


Risto H. Kurppa wrote:

"Espoo, Finland -- Nokia today announced that its Qt cross-platform
User Interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded
platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License
(LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for
March 2009. Previously, Qt has been made available to the open source
community under the General Public License (GPL) license. In addition,
Qt will now be available from the new domain, www.qtsoftware.com. "

http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt


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QT goes LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
"Espoo, Finland -- Nokia today announced that its Qt cross-platform
User Interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded
platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License
(LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for
March 2009. Previously, Qt has been made available to the open source
community under the General Public License (GPL) license. In addition,
Qt will now be available from the new domain, www.qtsoftware.com. "

http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt


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Re: [Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

2009-01-14 Thread arne anka
> With 'debian unstable' you mean perhaps the 'weekly builds' from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/
> and do I need all 5 DVD or only the first one?

debian basically exists in three flavours:
- stable
- testing
- unstable (sid == "still in development")

stable is, as the name suggests, the thoroughly tested and usually  
recommended flavour with regular security updates and little updates above  
that. with a expeted life span of maybe 2 years and more it is  
softwarewise rather conservative.
testing is the upcoming stable, ie when tested fully and w/o (grave) bugs,  
it will be promoted to stable and the current stable will be phased out.
unstable is more or less bleeding edge, a lot of software is very up to  
date -- but not yet fully tested. additionally there are no security  
updates (whith the unstable policy they are not needed since the packages  
are updated very often anyway).

you can install every flavour with the minimal netinst iso, which  
i8nstalls everything from inet -- thus no need to download big images of  
which only a fraction is used.

ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/debian-mirror/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r6-i386-netinst.iso

should be the stable netinst image.

depending on the netinst image you choose, either stable or testing are  
installed.
install the minimal system (ie until debian wants you to restart after  
installation), after reboot edit your /etc/apt/sources.list, remove the  
line for secutity updates and change every occurence of "stable" to  
"unstable" like

deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

to

deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

and make sure you got a deb-src line like

deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free


i do not have emdebian in my sources.list on this computer (only at home),  
but according to google add the following line to your sources.list

deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ testing main

and then you can start with lindi's steps.

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Re: [om2008-9] Never able to successfully backup the jffs2 partition...

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
Thanks guys!!

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Dale Maggee  wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> john dowd wrote:
>> I've alway been able to backup the kernel partition of my Neo FR but
>> not the jffs2 partition. Here's the error that is reported:
>>
>> Opening USB Device 0x:0x...
>> Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=4, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=6, name="rootfs"
>> Claiming USB DFU Interface...
>> Setting Alternate Setting ...
>> Determining device status: state = dfuERROR, status = 14
>> dfuERROR, clearing status
>> Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
>> dfuIDLE, continuing
>> Transfer Size = 0x1000
>> dfu_upload error -84
>>
>> This is not a terrible big deal right now but will be in the future.
>> Any ideas? Questions comments or rude remarks?
>>
>> Cheers!!
>> --
>
>
> NeoTool will backup your root partition to a flashable jffs2 without
> using dfu-util"
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NeoTool
>
> Regards,
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Re: [Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Matthias Apitz  writes:
> With 'debian unstable' you mean perhaps the 'weekly builds' from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/
> and do I need all 5 DVD or only the first one?

There is hardly any point in fetching any DVD images at all. Just use
debootstrap to fetch the packages you need. If you really need some
image for emulation then take any netinst image and upgrade to
unstable by putting something like

deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ sid main

to sources.list and issuing

aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade

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Re: [Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

2009-01-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, January 14, 2009 a las 12:22:02PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors 
escribió:

> Matthias Apitz  writes:
> > the point to start from to create my own Om2008.x kernel and userland or
> > some other/better places to start? Thx
> 
> I do
> 
> 1) ssh to a PC with debian unstable. You can easily install it to a
>chroot with http://iki.fi/lindi/schroot.txt if you don't want to
>break your normal installation.
...

With 'debian unstable' you mean perhaps the 'weekly builds' from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/
and do I need all 5 DVD or only the first one?

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Re: Watching videos on neo freerunner (openmoko 2008.12) mplayer-glamo

2009-01-14 Thread Yorick Moko
I agree

thought that by now there should be a +/- reliable video player gui
and mpeg4 hw accelerated mplayer ipk standard available
same for mp3 player...
there are a few that work, and those that work are rather extremely basic

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM, kimaidou  wrote:
> Hi
> +1 for the package in opkg
> thanks in advance
>
> 2009/1/11 Pander 
>>
>> can someone package this in an opkg?
>>
>> pottwal4 wrote:
>> > Hi again.
>> >> pottwal4 wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> r...@om-gta02:~# mplayer -vo xover:glamo -fs
>> >>> /media/card/big_buck_bunny_320.avi
>> >>>
>> >> mplayer doesn't know on which display it should open the video.
>> >> Try (one line):
>> >> DISPLAY=:0 mplayer -vo xover:glamo -fs
>> >> /media/card/big_buck_bunny_320.avi
>> >
>> > Thanks Daniel, you was right! There was a problem concerning the
>> > $DISPLAY-Variable. But there was an other one, which I fixed, choosing
>> > the output device "-vo glamo" instead of "-vo xover:glamo".
>> >
>> > So for everyone, how cares this what I do to get the example video
>> > running on the freerunner (inspired by
>> > "http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Video_Player";):
>> >
>> > 1. Download an unpack mplayer-glamo
>> > (http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/openmoko/mplayer-glamo.tar.bz2)
>> >
>> > 2. Write a short bash-script "vidplay" to start the video (and save it
>> > on the Freerunner and make it executable (with chmod +x vidplay)):
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> > DISPLAY=:0
>> > xrandr -display :0 --output default --mode 240x320
>> > mplayer -vo glamo "$1" > /dev/null
>> > xrandr -display :0 --output default --mode 480x640
>> > reset
>> >
>> > 3. Encode a video-file on my PC with:
>> > mencoder video-file -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=300
>> > -vf scale=320:240,eq2=1.2:0.5:-.025,rotate=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts
>> > br=64:cbr -o video-file-FR.avi
>> >
>> > 4. Transfer this file from PC to Freerunner (using scp)
>> > scp video-file r...@phone:/media/card/
>> >
>> > 5. Considering that the video-start-script and the video-file are now
>> > both located on the Freerunner in directory /media/card/, start the
>> > video with:
>> > cd /media/card
>> > ./vidplay video-file
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Re: Watching videos on neo freerunner (openmoko 2008.12) mplayer-glamo

2009-01-14 Thread kimaidou
Hi
+1 for the package in opkg
thanks in advance

2009/1/11 Pander 

> can someone package this in an opkg?
>
> pottwal4 wrote:
> > Hi again.
> >> pottwal4 wrote:
> >>
> >>> r...@om-gta02:~# mplayer -vo xover:glamo -fs
> /media/card/big_buck_bunny_320.avi
> >>>
> >> mplayer doesn't know on which display it should open the video.
> >> Try (one line):
> >> DISPLAY=:0 mplayer -vo xover:glamo -fs
> /media/card/big_buck_bunny_320.avi
> >
> > Thanks Daniel, you was right! There was a problem concerning the
> > $DISPLAY-Variable. But there was an other one, which I fixed, choosing
> > the output device "-vo glamo" instead of "-vo xover:glamo".
> >
> > So for everyone, how cares this what I do to get the example video
> > running on the freerunner (inspired by
> > "http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Video_Player";):
> >
> > 1. Download an unpack mplayer-glamo
> > (http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/openmoko/mplayer-glamo.tar.bz2)
> >
> > 2. Write a short bash-script "vidplay" to start the video (and save it
> > on the Freerunner and make it executable (with chmod +x vidplay)):
> > #!/bin/sh
> > DISPLAY=:0
> > xrandr -display :0 --output default --mode 240x320
> > mplayer -vo glamo "$1" > /dev/null
> > xrandr -display :0 --output default --mode 480x640
> > reset
> >
> > 3. Encode a video-file on my PC with:
> > mencoder video-file -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=300
> > -vf scale=320:240,eq2=1.2:0.5:-.025,rotate=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts
> > br=64:cbr -o video-file-FR.avi
> >
> > 4. Transfer this file from PC to Freerunner (using scp)
> > scp video-file r...@phone:/media/card/
> >
> > 5. Considering that the video-start-script and the video-file are now
> > both located on the Freerunner in directory /media/card/, start the
> > video with:
> > cd /media/card
> > ./vidplay video-file
> >
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Re: Function - Plotter for OM,

2009-01-14 Thread Aapo Rantalainen
I tryed to build arm version of gnuplot with mokomakefile, but it
doesn't believe that I'm crosscompiling it.

./configure \
 --build=i486-linux-gnu \
 --host=${TARGET_SYS} \


configure log says:
checking whether we are cross compiling... yes

But error is:
| ./doc2gih: ./doc2gih: cannot execute binary file

I tested what happens if I change doc2gih from my local gnuplots
doc2gih, then it passes this steps, but gives another 'cannot execute
binary file'-error, and I'm afraid this is endless way.
(I have succesfully compiled e.g openttd, which also compiles some
helper binaries for local architecture and only final binary is for
target, so gnuplot has something weird.)

-Aapo Rantalainen

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Re: buzz fix (was: Pulster offer - Freerunner now 249 eur)

2009-01-14 Thread Marcel
Am Tuesday 13 January 2009 22:57:57 schrieb Martin Bernreuther:
> Hello,
>
> Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009 schrieb arne anka:
> > > I am kind of not understanding why the OM team is not helping on this
> >
> > PLEASE, STOP THAT IMMEDIATELY AND READ THE ARCHIVES!
>
> PLEASE no more "READ THE ARCHIVES" platitudes! But more Wiki Links ;-)
> On the other side please no baseless accusation of the OM team!
>
> No. This should be no offense and I can understand that it's
> annoying, if people always ask the same questions. But...
> Recently I was searching for a solution to one of my various
> FR problems and Google pointed me to a archived email
> of someone asking the same on this list. Great! But
> when I read the answer "read the archives" (from "arne anka")
> my problem was still not solved!
> If you watch somebody drowning, will you tell him it's wise to
> learn swimming or throw a lifesaver?
> Do you really expect a newbie to read all archived emails
> of the past (most of them maybe outdated). And this list is "noisy"!
> The focus might also change. Starting with distro A,
> someone might not follow a discussion with a problem of distro B.
> Changing to distro B, it's also hard to get all the information from
> the archives.
>
> Looking at the wiki, it's sometimes hard to find the right entry.
> With all these distros it's also sometimes confusing, which method
> works for which setup. It's hard to keep everything up to date with
> this sometimes fast development.
>
> If there's some outcome of a discussion, it should be
> gathered on the wiki. IMHO it's a waste of time, if all people
> read all these emails in the archives in the first place.
> Usually people first read books to get a basic knowledge
> and articles as a supplement for the latest news. It's not
> common e.g. to learn the basics of physics reading all the
> letters between physicist of the last centuries, but reading
> a book accumulating  the results.
>
> Sorry for that off-topic email (no one should feel offended)
> and special thanks to the wiki writers!
>
> Regards,
>   Martin Bernreuther

Martin, you just said what was floating around my mind (in one shape or 
another...) since a few days. We should _always_ stimulate people to add 
their knowledge to the wiki when a problem gets solved or when news get 
announced here. Actually finding something on a wiki is wy easier than 
searching in millions of mails, each month on its own. Especially on such a 
high-traffic (and kinda noisy, as you said. That's is nothing bad, that's why 
its a mailinglist and not a wiki!)

I repeat myself: We successfully got so far and nearly every distro-specific 
thread is tagged accordingly - now it would be helpful to tell people that 
editing the wiki is no sin. :)

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Re: [Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Matthias Apitz  writes:
> above line ' to wiki under Development_Environment' which let me
> think that it was truncated, maybe because of a single dot "." on a line
> which terminates SMTP??? just to clarify...

Nope, it was complete mail.

> I have no PC with Debian, but I will setup a VM in Qemu for that or look
> for an older laptop in my house;

Qemu will be quite slow for that btw. Just adapt the instructions to
your own OS.



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Re: shr- GPS howto?

2009-01-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Fernando Martins wrote:
> No luck:
> 
> - I've setup date and timezone;
> - GPS is on, per /sys/class... incantation
> - demon fso-gpsd is on, checked with ps
> - telnet comunicates with gpsd but no good data
> - tangoGPS doesn't find GPS device
> 
> I have no idea of the reception capabilities of om (or GPS devices in 
> general): is it supposed to work indoors?

Open shr settings (one of the icons) and make sure
gps is on there.  I don't need any sys/class stuff
to use the gps with SHR. SHR image of dec.16 should be ok,
one of the earlier ones had gps not working. Also,
not all "alternative" kernels have working gps.


Go outside, get away from tall buildings.
Start tangogps, stand still.
It may take 2 minutes to get a fix with some bad luck.
Moving around makes this worse. Tall buildings make this worse.
Starting tangogps indoors and then going outside may take
more time. So if you look at the map indoors, restart tangogps
when you get outside.

The gps may or may not work indoors - if you come in from
outside. Don't expect the gps to start up indoors though.
don't expect gps to work at all in a building with several floors
above you.

Gps units generally need a stronger signal to start up,
then they can follow weaker signals in less
than ideal areas. But it won't start up in "bad" places.

Helge Hafting

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Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Fielder George Dowding
 wrote:
> Apologies to Christ, that is two l's in Willegen.

I hadn't noticed, no offence taken, and my phone now boots with ASU
again. Thanks!

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Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
 wrote:
> William Kenworthy  writes:
>> *  app-arch/rar
>>   Latest version available: 3.8.0
>>   Latest version installed: 3.8.0
>>   Size of downloaded files: 1,576 kB
>>   Homepage:http://www.rarsoft.com/
>>   Description: RAR compressor/uncompressor
>>   License: RAR
>>
>> *  app-arch/unrar
>>   Latest version available: 3.8.5
>>   Latest version installed: 3.8.5
>>   Size of downloaded files: 132 kB
>>   Homepage:http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
>>   Description: Uncompress rar files
>>   License: unRAR
>
> These two sound non-free so beware.
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Thank you. I will take a look.

Apologies to Christ, that is two l's in Willegen.

Cheerio!

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Re: [Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

2009-01-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, January 14, 2009 a las 12:22:02PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors 
escribió:

> Matthias Apitz  writes:
> > the point to start from to create my own Om2008.x kernel and userland or
> > some other/better places to start? Thx
> 
> I do
> 
> 1) ssh to a PC with debian unstable. You can easily install it to a
>chroot with http://iki.fi/lindi/schroot.txt if you don't want to
>break your normal installation.
> 1.2) sudo aptitude install emdebian-tools
> 1.3) sudo emsetup --arch armel
> 1.4) sudo emsetup --arch armel
> 1.5) verify that arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc works:
> 
> $ cat > hello.c < #include 
> int main(void) {
> printf("Hello world\n");
> return 0;
> }
> EOF
> $ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -o hello hello.c
> $ file hello
> hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked 
> (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.14, not stripped
> 
> 2) git clone git://git.openmoko.org/git/kernel.git linux-2.6
> 3) git branch lindi origin/stable-tracking
> 4) modify ./build to use your compiler:
> -export CROSS_COMPILE=../../cross/bin/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-
> +export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
> 5) ./build dummy
> 6) suggested change:
> @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ if make -j5 ARCH=arm CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y 
> EXTRAVERSION=$VERSION; then
> if [ ! -z "`grep CONFIG_USB_USBNET=y .config`" ] ; then
> rm -f uImage-moredrivers*-$PRODUCT.bin 
> modules-*$PRODUCT.tar.gz
> cp uImage-$PRODUCT.bin uImage-moredrivers$VERSION.bin
> +   cp arch/arm/boot/zImage zImage$VERSION
> +   cp .config config$VERSION
> rm -rf staging
> mkdir -p staging
> if [ ! -z "$1" ] ; then
> 
> I have added these instructions to wiki under Development_Environment

Hello Timo,

Thanks for your kind reply and instructions; your mail terminates in the
above line ' to wiki under Development_Environment' which let me
think that it was truncated, maybe because of a single dot "." on a line
which terminates SMTP??? just to clarify...

I have no PC with Debian, but I will setup a VM in Qemu for that or look
for an older laptop in my house;

thx again

matthias

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Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
William Kenworthy  writes:
> *  app-arch/rar
>   Latest version available: 3.8.0
>   Latest version installed: 3.8.0
>   Size of downloaded files: 1,576 kB
>   Homepage:http://www.rarsoft.com/
>   Description: RAR compressor/uncompressor
>   License: RAR
>
> *  app-arch/unrar
>   Latest version available: 3.8.5
>   Latest version installed: 3.8.5
>   Size of downloaded files: 132 kB
>   Homepage:http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
>   Description: Uncompress rar files
>   License: unRAR

These two sound non-free so beware.


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Re: Multiple internet connections

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Leonti Bielski  writes:
> Say I want to use ssh via GPRS, and all other programs via WLAN or
> usb. Is it possible?

Sure, see advanced routing and traffic control howto for examples on
how to use multiple uplinks.



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Re: [Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Matthias Apitz  writes:
> the point to start from to create my own Om2008.x kernel and userland or
> some other/better places to start? Thx

I do

1) ssh to a PC with debian unstable. You can easily install it to a
   chroot with http://iki.fi/lindi/schroot.txt if you don't want to
   break your normal installation.
1.2) sudo aptitude install emdebian-tools
1.3) sudo emsetup --arch armel
1.4) sudo emsetup --arch armel
1.5) verify that arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc works:

$ cat > hello.c <
int main(void) {
printf("Hello world\n");
return 0;
}
EOF
$ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -o hello hello.c
$ file hello
hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked 
(uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.14, not stripped

2) git clone git://git.openmoko.org/git/kernel.git linux-2.6
3) git branch lindi origin/stable-tracking
4) modify ./build to use your compiler:
-export CROSS_COMPILE=../../cross/bin/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-
+export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
5) ./build dummy
6) suggested change:
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ if make -j5 ARCH=arm CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y 
EXTRAVERSION=$VERSION; then
if [ ! -z "`grep CONFIG_USB_USBNET=y .config`" ] ; then
rm -f uImage-moredrivers*-$PRODUCT.bin modules-*$PRODUCT.tar.gz
cp uImage-$PRODUCT.bin uImage-moredrivers$VERSION.bin
+   cp arch/arm/boot/zImage zImage$VERSION
+   cp .config config$VERSION
rm -rf staging
mkdir -p staging
if [ ! -z "$1" ] ; then

I have added these instructions to wiki under Development_Environment


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Re: [Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

2009-01-14 Thread Fox Mulder
Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, January 13, 2009 a las 02:38:45PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors 
> escribió:
> 
>> Matthias Apitz  writes:
>>> only; perhaps there are more o complexer situations cuasing that problem :-(
>> In any case, try compiling linux from andy-tracking branch.
> 
> Until now I have only compiled kernels and apps in FreeBSD or Linux on x86
> and I've no experience how to compile and build a kernel for Om2008.x on 
> armv4;
> 
> Is the Wiki page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_developer_guide
> the point to start from to create my own Om2008.x kernel and userland or
> some other/better places to start? Thx

For compiling the kernel you neet the toolchain first. On the toolchain
wiki page [1] is the installation of it and compilation of andy-tracking
kernel described. I would suggest to start there first.

Ciao,
 Rainer

[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain

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Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread William Kenworthy
Try the links here - this list is from gentoo where its built from
source, plus there are freeware packages (I looked at the unrar link)
for most operating systems.

*  app-arch/rar
  Latest version available: 3.8.0
  Latest version installed: 3.8.0
  Size of downloaded files: 1,576 kB
  Homepage:http://www.rarsoft.com/
  Description: RAR compressor/uncompressor
  License: RAR

*  app-arch/unrar
  Latest version available: 3.8.5
  Latest version installed: 3.8.5
  Size of downloaded files: 132 kB
  Homepage:http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
  Description: Uncompress rar files
  License: unRAR

*  app-arch/unrar-gpl
  Latest version available: 0.0.1_p20080417
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of downloaded files: 135 kB
  Homepage:http://home.gna.org/unrar/
  Description: Free rar unpacker
  License: GPL-2




On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 00:26 -0900, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Christ van Willegen
>  wrote:
> > Minh,
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Minh Ha Duong  
> > wrote:
> >> 6. Tips and tricks
> >>
> >>* Howto get the wrench and QWERTY buttons in 2008.12 with the ASU theme.
> >
> > I followed the instructions, but misread the second step. It told me
> > to 'put asu in /etc/enlightenment/default_profile'.
> >
> > So, I did 'mv asu /etc/enlightenment/default_profile' and borked
> > my default_profile file.
> >
> > Could anyone put this file either on the mailing list, or on the Wiki for 
> > me?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Christ van Willegen
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> I have been very disappointed with the predictive input method. I have
> no trouble using the "terminal" virtual keyboard with a plastic
> stylus, the pointy top of a ball-point pen, or the point of a
> sharpened wooden lead pencil. Note: I do have a protective cover over
> the touch screen. I have been trying to figure out how to get the
> choice to use the "terminal" virtual keyboard to no avail. The
> instructions referred to above require a non-free (shareware) utility
> to extract a file (rar archive???). Surely the FreeRunner can be kept
> Free and Open.
> 
> Note to Christ van Wilegen: my default_profile contains one line:
> E_PROFILE="-profile asu" with a couple of line-feeds.
> 
> I do hope we can have this choice. Cheerio!
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Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Christ van Willegen
 wrote:
> Minh,
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Minh Ha Duong  
> wrote:
>> 6. Tips and tricks
>>
>>* Howto get the wrench and QWERTY buttons in 2008.12 with the ASU theme.
>
> I followed the instructions, but misread the second step. It told me
> to 'put asu in /etc/enlightenment/default_profile'.
>
> So, I did 'mv asu /etc/enlightenment/default_profile' and borked
> my default_profile file.
>
> Could anyone put this file either on the mailing list, or on the Wiki for me?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Christ van Willegen
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I have been very disappointed with the predictive input method. I have
no trouble using the "terminal" virtual keyboard with a plastic
stylus, the pointy top of a ball-point pen, or the point of a
sharpened wooden lead pencil. Note: I do have a protective cover over
the touch screen. I have been trying to figure out how to get the
choice to use the "terminal" virtual keyboard to no avail. The
instructions referred to above require a non-free (shareware) utility
to extract a file (rar archive???). Surely the FreeRunner can be kept
Free and Open.

Note to Christ van Wilegen: my default_profile contains one line:
E_PROFILE="-profile asu" with a couple of line-feeds.

I do hope we can have this choice. Cheerio!
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Re: buzz fix (was: Pulster offer - Freerunner now 249 eur)

2009-01-14 Thread Torsten Sievers
Hi Arne,

On Tuesday 13 January 2009 16:26:00 arne anka wrote:
> > Please don't get me wrong, but one should not write e-mail in capital
> > letters;
>
> you don't think, there might be reasons?

no there aren't any. THERE IS ABSOLUTLY NO REASON (to put in pure caps, as you 
just did)
i read the list about this  buzz-issue since months. And i fully agree 
drac2000. There isn't ANY recent update from OM regarding this. 
So please OM update about the current technical state of the fixes and the 
current state of the purposed procedure.


Greetings
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