Re: [QtMoko] New images with experimental X support

2009-07-06 Thread HouYu Li
Thanks. I will v4 on FSO is coming..

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Radek Polak  wrote:

> HouYu Li wrote:
>
> > Hi, Radek. Is there any difference in Qtmoko binary for X and non-X??
>
> Hi HouYu,
> no it's the same binary. The difference is in rootfs. You only need to
> make Qtopia and X running at the same time (i start qpe from .xinitrc).
>
> Radek
>
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Re: [QtMoko] New images with experimental X support

2009-07-06 Thread Radek Polak
HouYu Li wrote:

> Hi, Radek. Is there any difference in Qtmoko binary for X and non-X??

Hi HouYu,
no it's the same binary. The difference is in rootfs. You only need to
make Qtopia and X running at the same time (i start qpe from .xinitrc).

Radek



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Re: [shr-unstable] missing dependency for latest update

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Pilgermann
Petr,
have you found a solution to get around these problems.
I have tried a couple of things - including some re-installation of 
libframeworkd packages; not ending up in a GSM capable status (error message 
with new handler or what ever) ...

Any ideas?
Mike

 Original-Nachricht 
> Datum: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:35:27 +0200
> Von: Petr Vanek 
> An: community@lists.openmoko.org
> Betreff: Re: [shr-unstable] missing dependency for latest update

> >When I launch Shr Setttings after a reboot, I get a message "openkitd
> >not running, would you like to start it" or something like this. So I
> >click on the button start, and then after a while, I get the gsm
> >network back.
> 
> tried several times during the day... will see tomorrow...
> 
> Petr
> 
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Re: Happy Birthday Freerunner

2009-07-06 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez

> David (et all)
>
> The end of July is a super busy time for us here in Taipei. So I won't
> be able to travel much until mid-late August and then a lot in
> September. Anything going on then?
Give us a day you can sure will come, and you will have the best
Openmokers meeting we can organize(of course Openmokers will have the
best Openmokers meeting we can organize too :))

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Re: [QtMoko] New debian images V3

2009-07-06 Thread HouYu Li
Well, qtmoko v3 on FSO is ready,

Downloads:
http://dashi-x02.karadog.net/~lihouyu/qtmoko/snapbuild/20090707/

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Radek Polak  wrote:

> Gennady Kupava wrote:
>
> > Hello, Radek.
>
> Hi Gennady,
>
> > Problems I noticed so far:
> >
> > 1. Booting with Qi fails somehow. Last and only thing i see
> > [21474549.34] INFO: RCU detected CPU 0 stall (t=4294909868/2000
> > jiffies). NOR uboot is fine, i seen same message but INIT:... after
> > that.
>
> Same problem here. Qi can boot only for SD card. I use u-boot in NOR for
> booting from NAND.
>
> > 2. I see kernel backtraces near that message:
> > (see attachment)
> >
> > 3. It hungs for me several times while I was trying to setup network -
> > wifi and other types.
>
> Yes, this is known problem. Must be something missing in debian rootfs
> or some other small diference, because it should be working on FSO based
> rootfs. I use terminal and iwconfig for wifi connections now.
>
> > 4. I can't setup GPRS. Is it a problem with me or with QtMoko? I got qpe
> > hung with high cpu load then I am trying to connect. GPRS works fine for
> > me in SHR. Did someone try it?
>
> GPRS works for me. I just set APN, dummy username and login. This time
> it connected on the first try. Sometimes i have to retry.
>
> > 5. Bug in voice notes application - if you remove record while listening
> > it, audio device will be clocked be blocked until pkill -9 that
> > application. It's easy to click one more time.
>
> Patches are welcome :)
>
> > 6. Font... Terminal font is not just inappropriate. It is antialiased
> > non-monospace truetype font, without possibility to change it. So all
> > sort of problems where.
>
> Yup i also noticed that the cursor position is not correct.
>
> > Also, please can you answer some question:
> >
> > 1. Do QtExtened have a future?
>
> I am working in my spare time (so it's not very much). I am planning
> possibility to run X apps. If that works out we will get a lot of
> applications. I will fix all regressions, but probably not enough time
> to fix all bugs. I see the future quite bright. We are regulary
> importing new QT releases so QtMoko will keep to be easy-to-develop
> platform for QT applications.
>
> > 2. About using truetype fonts. As we have such a... slow hardware might
> > it be better to use bitmap fonts? Any time I see that antialiasing,
> > imagine that hinting, kerning and so. Anyone tried to measure impact of
> > font rendering system on performance?
>
> Would be nice to see the results.
>
> Cheers
>
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Re: [SHR-unstable] Neote 0.1.0 released

2009-07-06 Thread jeremy jozwik
looks great, are the notes path savable or does neote just toss them
in some corner of the system?

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Alex Teiche wrote:
> That is very cool!  I have been looking for an app like this, thank you!
>
> Is it possible to import pictures or annotations(allow for a quick drawing
> maybe) into notes?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Alex
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Valery Febvre 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce the first working release of Neote.
>>
>> Neote is a note taking application.
>>
>> Its interface aims to be easy and finger friendly.
>> It's written in Python/Elementary and uses SQLite for storing data.
>> Notes can be organized using custom categories that you can add, rename
>> and delete at any time.
>>
>> Currently, only text note type is available.
>> Future plans:
>> * Search
>> * Draw notes
>> * Record voice notes
>>
>> It should run on any system with a revision of python-elementary equal
>> or greater to 40756.
>> I think that SHR-unstable is the only candidate.
>>
>>
>> Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/neote/
>>
>> Screenshots: http://code.google.com/p/neote/wiki/Screenshots
>>
>> Package: http://neote.googlecode.com/files/neote_0.1.0-r0_all.ipk
>>
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Re: [SHR-U] Dead Intone

2009-07-06 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Ugh, this isn't over yet. It's still locking up as soon as it starts playing
a song. Plays to the end of the track (because mplayer is a separate
process) but doesn't continue after that. Intone has to be killed, but I
noticed that it's eating up 10-20% CPU as long as it's running, causing my
music to cut and skip.
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Re: [SHR-unstable] Neote 0.1.0 released

2009-07-06 Thread Alex Teiche
That is very cool!  I have been looking for an app like this, thank you!

Is it possible to import pictures or annotations(allow for a quick drawing
maybe) into notes?

Cheers!

Alex

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Valery Febvre wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm happy to announce the first working release of Neote.
>
> Neote is a note taking application.
>
> Its interface aims to be easy and finger friendly.
> It's written in Python/Elementary and uses SQLite for storing data.
> Notes can be organized using custom categories that you can add, rename
> and delete at any time.
>
> Currently, only text note type is available.
> Future plans:
> * Search
> * Draw notes
> * Record voice notes
>
> It should run on any system with a revision of python-elementary equal
> or greater to 40756.
> I think that SHR-unstable is the only candidate.
>
>
> Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/neote/
>
> Screenshots: http://code.google.com/p/neote/wiki/Screenshots
>
> Package: http://neote.googlecode.com/files/neote_0.1.0-r0_all.ipk
>
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[SHR-unstable] Neote 0.1.0 released

2009-07-06 Thread Valery Febvre
Hello,

I'm happy to announce the first working release of Neote.

Neote is a note taking application.

Its interface aims to be easy and finger friendly.
It's written in Python/Elementary and uses SQLite for storing data.
Notes can be organized using custom categories that you can add, rename
and delete at any time.

Currently, only text note type is available.
Future plans:
* Search
* Draw notes
* Record voice notes

It should run on any system with a revision of python-elementary equal
or greater to 40756.
I think that SHR-unstable is the only candidate.


Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/neote/

Screenshots: http://code.google.com/p/neote/wiki/Screenshots

Package: http://neote.googlecode.com/files/neote_0.1.0-r0_all.ipk

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Re: [QtMoko] New images with experimental X support

2009-07-06 Thread HouYu Li
Hi, Radek. Is there any difference in Qtmoko binary for X and non-X??

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Radek Polak  wrote:

> Hi,
> i am just uploading new QtMoko images that are based on debian and that
> now support running X application from Qtopia.
>
> You can download from:
>
> http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/uImage-x4.bin
> http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/qtmoko-debian-x4.jffs2
> http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/qtmoko-debian-x4.tar.gz
>
> MD5 sums:
>
> f64f5ff2e7dad0202e7cb69d263d006d  uImage-x4.bin
> f475d010bc020b9290d7c07b54584860  qtmoko-debian-x4.jffs2
> feb42b7f9e1881bdcea9799edd8e4dce  qtmoko-debian-x4.tar.gz
>
> Changes from previous version:
>
> - images are called x4 (because of X windows support), images without X
> will be called v4
> - logging should now work
> - better UI speed
> - rotation should work
> - apt-get should work out of the box
> - new application QX which is used as launcher for X applications
> - included tangogps and scummvm
> - /dev/mmcblk0p1 mounts to /media/card now and /dev/mmcblk0p4 as swap.
>
> X applications:
>
> I have howto [1] for building QtMoko debian rootfs so some details are
> there.
>
> As I said you have to use QX launcher which will allow you to start X
> application in fullscreen. You can exit the application when you press
> the touchscreen for 5 seconds. The application will be then paused and
> you can either kill it or continue. The support for switching tasks
> between Qtopia and X application is still missing.
>
> If you have problems with X applications on first boot, reboot should
> fix it.
>
> You should also have swap enabled because there is not much memory left
> when running Qtopia and X application side by side. QtMoko defaultly
> counts with swap on /dev/mmcblk0p4 (4th primary partition on your SD
> card).
>
> Btw as you can see the images are getting really big now. I will work on
> this but i would be glad for any help in this area. If you take a look
> what takes most of the space then we have this list:
>
> 1/ Kernel modules - i use packaging config so that we can use both Qi
> and uboot. But packaging modules take 30MB space. So we probably need
> slimmer config. Any ideas?
>
> 2/ Python - i would prefer to get rid of this package. Takes like 10+
> megabytes. It's dependency for alsa-utils package - which is bug (or
> relict from old times) in debian (and should be fixed in next debian).
> We can either use custom or newer alsa-utils.
>
> 3/ Perl - i guess we cant get rid of this one.
>
> 4/ Locales - how to get rid of locales that are not needed?
>
> 5/ cc1 - do we need compiler as default package in phone?
>
> So i will be glad for comments and maybe tips for other useful
> applications and also for tips how to make the images smaller.
>
> Cheers
>
> Radek
>
> PS: going to sleep, images should be there in like 2 hours.
>
>
> [1]
> http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/debian_rootfs_howto.txt
>
>
>
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RE: which gps app can do this?

2009-07-06 Thread Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio
Hello, Lanzo. In which area will your boat be navigating? I mean, which coast 
are you talking about? It should be easy to get a reasonably good shapefile of 
that shoreline and you would be permanently informed of the distance to the 
nearest vertex.
 
Regards,
Juan Lucas
 
 




De: community-boun...@lists.openmoko.org en nombre de Joseph 
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Enviado el: lun 06/07/2009 17:58
Para: List for Openmoko community discussion
Asunto: Re: which gps app can do this?



gvSIG Mobile 0.1.4 was released today, here's a guide that 
should help you:

http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/download/

Create a shapefile of your coast line (or download a shapefile 
for a
country) and you should be good to go.


http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/unofficial_gvsig_mobile_0_1

Cheers, Joseph




2009/6/28 lanzo :
>
> Hi!
> I'd like to be using my FR on my little boat as marine GPS. I 
was curious
> if, in your opinion, it could be possible to constantly show  
the distance
> between me and the nearest point on the coast line. This 
would be important
> because in my country (and i guess everywhere) there are 
rules about the
> little boats distances from the coast and I cannot overcome 3 
nautical
> miles.
>
> I know it should be possible to show the distances between my 
present
> position and any given point, but what about something always 
displaying the
> distances between my position and the nearest point on the 
coast?
>
> is there maybe any more in-topic forum where i can ask this?
>
> Thank you very much for any answer!
> bye! :)
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OpenWrt on your Neo - some updates...

2009-07-06 Thread Mirko Vogt
Hey,

long time no news regarding OpenWrt <-> the Openmoko Neo devices; but it
happened much!
We think we now reached a state which justifies providing
 - an update what's up 
 - an image and environment to play around with

== So, what happened last 6 months?

- kernel 2.6.30.1 is running 
we extracted all neo-specific patches from the OM-kernel-tree and
created an atomic and maintainable patchset for the Neo (Lars did great
work here)

- clean, stable and accelerated graphics system
thanks to the gorgeous work of the xf86-video-glamo developers, finally
there's no need for  anymore - acceleration is done from within
an usual  with the glamo-driver used. The infamous WSOD should be
ultimately purged out.

- GPS works
the amazing application  is also available as an
OpenWrt-package now

- performance tuned
due to it's architecture itself, fixed bugs and found ways for
optimizations through all layers, OpenWrt now boots in less than 1
minute into illume (very first boot excluded)

- software added/upgraded
besides lot's of just OpenWrt-related improvements, also typical
OM-community-used packages were added and upgraded to recent versions
(e.g. tangogps, enlightenment/the whole efl-suite, paroli, fso, connman,
etc.)

- a beautiful bootsplash
real beauty can't be described by words

- phone calls are still possible
thanks to paroli, the basic phone stuff is (still) working (phone calls,
messages, contacts, etc.)

== Images / environment

Images can be found here: http://nanl.de/files/openwrt/openmoko/
Mind - that, as usual for OpenWrt - the default IP of your device will
be "192.168.1.1" and the only running service will be  on port
23.
After logging in and setting a password,  is getting replaced
through  (port 22).
The mentioned files/images have the prefix "20090706_r16709_1", based on
svn-revision 16709.

It seems there are some problems with "Qi" at the moment; in case you're
using Qi please try using u-boot from NOR-flash until this issue is
fixed.

== In case of errors/failures and resulting aggressions, ultimate
happiness or just questions and criticism...

...please do not hesitate to tell us your thoughts and feelings.
There's also a wiki-page about OpenWrt on the Neo:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenWrt (thanks to Romuald "neomilium"
Conty at this point, for his great work of co-maintaining the wiki-page,
testing and making lot's of great suggestions what could be done
(better)).

Try it out :)

Love

mirko (the other one)


On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 19:58 +0100, Mirko Vogt wrote: 
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'm glad to announce that OpenWrt now has basic support for the Openmoko 
> GTA02 "Freerunner"!
> 
> There's still lot's of work to do but let's see what's already working for 
> now:
> 
>  - kernel (2.6.28) is building and booting (merging the Openmoko and OpenWrt 
> patchsets, whereof one (and that's not ours ;)) consists of either over 620 
> little non-atomic patches or one 10MB patchblob [kudos to git!], is no picnic 
> (thanks to the work of Michael "mb" Buesch at this point!)
>  - D-Bus and the freesmartphone.org reference implementation (they import the 
> libc.so.6 via ctypes - I was really puzzled when python told me it can't find 
> my libc, because I was using the uclibc)
>  - Xglamo with acceleration (in the beginning Xglamo just crashed, even JTAG 
> wasn't available anymore; it took us weeks to figure out that a compiler bug 
> was the cause (thanks to Felix Fietkau, Holger Freyther and Lars Clausen) - 
> Lars btw. is currently making good progress to get glamo acceleration working 
> within Xorg)
>  - the EFL (enlightenment foundation libraries) and enlightenment including 
> illume (needs some more love to make it really fit into the 
> OpenWrt-environment - currently  and  are required as 
> pre-installed host tools)
>  - paroli phone application suite (in case it's working ;))
> 
> A few days ago we established the first OpenWrt<->OpenWrt phone call which 
> worked out of the box after flashing our devices - so we thought that might 
> be a good occasion for an announcement :)
> 
> We're pleased for all of your feedback and any kind of help is highly 
> appreciated!
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
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> 


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[QtMoko] New images with experimental X support

2009-07-06 Thread Radek Polak
Hi,
i am just uploading new QtMoko images that are based on debian and that
now support running X application from Qtopia.

You can download from:

http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/uImage-x4.bin
http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/qtmoko-debian-x4.jffs2
http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/qtmoko-debian-x4.tar.gz

MD5 sums:

f64f5ff2e7dad0202e7cb69d263d006d  uImage-x4.bin
f475d010bc020b9290d7c07b54584860  qtmoko-debian-x4.jffs2
feb42b7f9e1881bdcea9799edd8e4dce  qtmoko-debian-x4.tar.gz

Changes from previous version:

- images are called x4 (because of X windows support), images without X
will be called v4
- logging should now work
- better UI speed
- rotation should work
- apt-get should work out of the box
- new application QX which is used as launcher for X applications
- included tangogps and scummvm
- /dev/mmcblk0p1 mounts to /media/card now and /dev/mmcblk0p4 as swap.

X applications:

I have howto [1] for building QtMoko debian rootfs so some details are
there.

As I said you have to use QX launcher which will allow you to start X
application in fullscreen. You can exit the application when you press
the touchscreen for 5 seconds. The application will be then paused and
you can either kill it or continue. The support for switching tasks
between Qtopia and X application is still missing.

If you have problems with X applications on first boot, reboot should
fix it.

You should also have swap enabled because there is not much memory left
when running Qtopia and X application side by side. QtMoko defaultly
counts with swap on /dev/mmcblk0p4 (4th primary partition on your SD
card).

Btw as you can see the images are getting really big now. I will work on
this but i would be glad for any help in this area. If you take a look
what takes most of the space then we have this list:

1/ Kernel modules - i use packaging config so that we can use both Qi
and uboot. But packaging modules take 30MB space. So we probably need
slimmer config. Any ideas?

2/ Python - i would prefer to get rid of this package. Takes like 10+
megabytes. It's dependency for alsa-utils package - which is bug (or
relict from old times) in debian (and should be fixed in next debian).
We can either use custom or newer alsa-utils.

3/ Perl - i guess we cant get rid of this one.

4/ Locales - how to get rid of locales that are not needed?

5/ cc1 - do we need compiler as default package in phone?

So i will be glad for comments and maybe tips for other useful
applications and also for tips how to make the images smaller.

Cheers

Radek

PS: going to sleep, images should be there in like 2 hours.


[1]
http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/debian_rootfs_howto.txt





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Re: External GPS antenna question

2009-07-06 Thread Ruben Leote Mendes
BTW, anyone have any info on the radiation pattern of the internal antenna?

Rúben

Em Seg, Julho 6, 2009 13:31, Helge Hafting escreveu:
> Tomasz Suchan wrote:
>> Hi Armin,
>>
>>> I use the atenna for GPS Tracking during biking and car tours.
>>> As the FR is always running (no sleep) and with activated GPS
>>> module - the battery last about 4h - then it's empty.
>>
>> Is accuracy much better with external antenna?
>
> If the external antenna can be placed in a better location than the
> internal one - or if it gets better signal strength.
>
> An external antenna on the car roof may see more satellites than the
> FR sitting on the dashboard, because that metal roof block radio
> transmission.
>
> Now, the FR will see many satellites even inside a car, but those
> signals cannot penetrate directly through the roof. Some satellites will
> be seen directly through windows. Signals from the rest may bounce off
> the hood and come in through windows, or diffract (bend) around the roof
> edge. Such redirected signals are weaker, and they give greater position
> error. The latter because they really give the position where your FR
> would have been, _if_ the signal had not been diffracted or reflected.
>
> The GPS receiver is smart, and will discard data from satellites that
> seem to disagree with the rest. But there are two problems with this:
> * An extra satellite that gets discarded no longer helps improving
>accuracy.
> * If two groups of satellites seems to disagree on position, then the
>receiver could lock onto the wrong group for a while.
>
> An external antenna see all the satellites directly, and
> don't suffer such problems. Unless you are near tall buildings or
> mountainsides, which cause the same kind of problems.
>
>
> So an external antenna is great if you have a roof above you.
> Such as in a car or boat. The problems above don't happen on a bike.
> Still, an external antenna might help, it may be bigger/better than the
> internal antenna and get more from a weak signal. For example, if you
> move around in heavy rain in a forest.
>
> Helge Hafting
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Re: PISI 0.3 released

2009-07-06 Thread Petr Vanek
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:13:49 +1200
Robin Paulson  (RP) wrote:

>2009/6/24 Petr Vanek :
>> - calendar sync: Pimlico->Google: seems to sync nicely one way -
>>  pimlico to google but not the other way.
>
>how did you get pisi to sync pimlico data - it's not in the options
>for my install of 0.3?

it was in my install:

[pimlicodates]
description= Pimlico Dates
module=calendar_ics
path=/home/root/.evolution/calendar/local/system/calendar.ics

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Re: [SHR-unstable] screen flickering

2009-07-06 Thread mqy

hehe, I'm not alone :)

My problem is similar to the second one you described -- whole screen image
moves back and forth frequently.
I saw colored vertical bars 5 months ago, it is triggered drawing part of
pixmap to window.

regards,
  mqy


rhn-2 wrote:
> 
> I saw two incarnations of that.
> 
> The first one I encountered was the screen flickering, but not getting
> blurred. It happened several times, each time (save one or two) the FR was
> charging and feeling a bit hot. On powering off, the screen was black at
> first, then, slowly, grey vertical bars appeared in various shades of
> gray.
> 
> The other one seemed more like a software failure - half of the screen was
> blurred. It seemed like the image was being shifted a feww pixels in some
> direction and then back to normall all the time.
> 
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Re: [all] navit install problems

2009-07-06 Thread Marcel
I experienced that behaviour, too, 100% reproducible, so probably no 
coincidence. But I'd like to know what the hell opkg does there which 
fills all the memory?!

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Am Montag, 6. Juli 2009 20:38:17 schrieb Yorick Moko:
> or disable xserver
> I also have seen the strange behaviour that with xserver stopped and a
> swapfile of 128MB, i could not opkg upgrade navit, but when I typed
> "opkg install navit" it did work
>
> but that can be 100% coincidence
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Xavier Cremaschi 
wrote:
> > Robin Paulson a écrit :
> > > 2009/7/6 Christ van Willegen :
> > >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey
> > >>
> > >> Ratcliffe wrote:
> > >>> It works if you set up a swapfile.
> > >>
> > >> Having to set up a swap file for an .ipk file of 3M in size still
> > >> seems unreasonable...
> > >
> > > the ipk i installed was over 5MB - i presume it expands to some
> > > huge size and is stored in ram. i tried the --tmpdir switch (which
> > > i assumed would unpack it straight to disk rather than to ram) but
> > > that didn't help at all
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1M count=128
> > mkswap /path/to/swapfile
> > swapon /path/to/swapfile
> >
> > then retry.

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Re: [all] navit install problems

2009-07-06 Thread Yorick Moko
or disable xserver
I also have seen the strange behaviour that with xserver stopped and a
swapfile of 128MB, i could not opkg upgrade navit, but when I typed "opkg
install navit" it did work

but that can be 100% coincidence

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Xavier Cremaschi wrote:

> Robin Paulson a écrit :
> > 2009/7/6 Christ van Willegen :
> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey
> >> Ratcliffe wrote:
> >>> It works if you set up a swapfile.
> >> Having to set up a swap file for an .ipk file of 3M in size still
> >> seems unreasonable...
> >
> > the ipk i installed was over 5MB - i presume it expands to some huge
> > size and is stored in ram. i tried the --tmpdir switch (which i
> > assumed would unpack it straight to disk rather than to ram) but that
> > didn't help at all
>
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1M count=128
> mkswap /path/to/swapfile
> swapon /path/to/swapfile
>
> then retry.
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Re: [SHR-unstable] screen flickering

2009-07-06 Thread rhn
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:58:52 -0700 (PDT), mqy 
wrote:
> hi:
> 
> SHR unstable version is 20090624. I've seen this problem for several
times
> when omgps running.
> I often switch current page to "menu" which avoid refreshing views -- to
> save power.
> 
> The whole screen gets blur. Fortunately in this case I can click the
'exit'
> button, but have to restart.
> 
> Each time I saw the problem the only thing I'm sure that 
> 1) the outdoor air temperature is high (>30 centi degrees)
> 2) the phone was put in a portable bag, I have to say the color is black
:)
> 
> I'm wondering it is caused by high temperature? Anybody has similar
> problem?

I saw two incarnations of that.

The first one I encountered was the screen flickering, but not getting
blurred. It happened several times, each time (save one or two) the FR was
charging and feeling a bit hot. On powering off, the screen was black at
first, then, slowly, grey vertical bars appeared in various shades of gray.

The other one seemed more like a software failure - half of the screen was
blurred. It seemed like the image was being shifted a feww pixels in some
direction and then back to normall all the time.

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[SHR-unstable] screen flickering

2009-07-06 Thread mqy

hi:

SHR unstable version is 20090624. I've seen this problem for several times
when omgps running.
I often switch current page to "menu" which avoid refreshing views -- to
save power.

The whole screen gets blur. Fortunately in this case I can click the 'exit'
button, but have to restart.

Each time I saw the problem the only thing I'm sure that 
1) the outdoor air temperature is high (>30 centi degrees)
2) the phone was put in a portable bag, I have to say the color is black :)

I'm wondering it is caused by high temperature? Anybody has similar problem?
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Re: Toolchain-VM for C/Vala programs?

2009-07-06 Thread Marcel
Am Dienstag, 30. Juni 2009 14:11:19 schrieb Aapo Rantalainen:
> I made VirtualBox image for starting openmoko developing easily. This
> hosting site contains ads, but this is just rc1:
> http://www.2shared.com/file/6504056/3835d89/openmoko-base-devvdi.html
>
> For user who know how VirtualBox works:
> It is ubuntu 9.04 with openbox (virtualbox guest additions installed).
> Use right mouse button to launch menu and terminal.
> Compile first program (hello.c is ready there)
> . /usr/local/openmoko/arm/setup-env
> arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc hello.c -o hello
>
> Some instructions:
> http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/freerunner/vboximage/
>
>
> It is not big deal to copy compiled binaries out from virtual machine,
> but do You need some preinstalled http/ssh servers and manuals to map
> host ports to guest? I need comments.
>
>
> I have plan to add installed qemu-moko to image. What is situation of
> qemu-neo1973? Automatic_emulation_on_ubuntu have worked foolproof one
> year ago, but now it got stucked with kernel missing error.
> And is it possible to run 'Freerunner' on qemu or only GTA01?
>
>
> -Aapo Rantalainen

It would be nice if you included the whole e17 stuff including elementary 
from svn with their builddeps preinstalled so we can svn update the code 
and build against most recent e-libs. Provided the binaries still run on 
Om2009 et al

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Re: Happy Birthday Freerunner

2009-07-06 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Rafael Campos  wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:35 PM, David Reyes Samblas
> Martinez wrote:
> > I would love to have you there Sean :)
> Me too :)
> >
> > 2009/7/6 Jose Luis Perez Diez :
> >> El Saturday, 4 de July de 2009 16:49:07 Sean Moss-Pultz va escriure:
> >>> I always forget to say it, but I'm so impressed every time I see you
> >>> all organize one of these buzz fix parties and user meetings. When
> >>> things slow down a bit more for me in Taipei, I'll drop by and check
> >>> one out.
> >>
> >> The Debconf9 buzz fix party has been scheduled on Saturday the 25th of 
> >> july.
> >> https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/376.en.html

David (et all)

The end of July is a super busy time for us here in Taipei. So I won't
be able to travel much until mid-late August and then a lot in
September. Anything going on then?

  -Sean

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Re: Anyone know a store that sells FreeRunner accs in the US

2009-07-06 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Hi Laszlo

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Laszlo KREKACS
 wrote:
>
> > If somebody wants to start a Wiki page and vote on accessories that
> > you all want to buy,
>
> I was always wondering, why openmoko dont ship an adapter like this[1],
> instead of the big (hard to carry) cable.

Yeah I have one of those. I really liked the design, but they don't
seem to fit in many of the new netbooks that are so popular these
days. So we decided to make something more flexible.

As for the existing design, we spent a ton of money to make the
adapters...they had a huge minimum order quantity. Mainly because of a
patent issues with the design. So we won't be able to custom make
anything anytime soon. But if you know of an existing one you like,
please add it the wiki page and we'll keep track of demand and try to
source them once it reaches around 100 units.

[snip]

> ps: I would also like to hear any news about your new company Sean.
> Just how things are going,
> are stumped somewhere, etc, etc.

Well Openmoko is still Openmoko. Nothing fundamentally new here yet.
The changes to our company have been more in size and scope, than
anything else. Our vision of making great open devices is still the
same. We're a much smaller team now. All hyper-focused moving towards
our next product. We're very optimistic about the future.

To transform an idea into a business takes a lot time and luck. 2009
is year three for our company. This is really the make-or-break year
for a startup. At least it works that way in my past experiences.
We've been through a lot of turbulence these past six
months...personally it was extremely hard on me. I can't help but feel
that we're close to getting lucky.

Probably your interested in hearing more about "Project B". Please
give me a few more months to talk about that. We're in the middle of
some sensitive negotiations. So we can't share project details
publicly yet - at least without jeopardizing important future
relationships for us. Exclusivity and non-disclosure agreements are
realities of the business world. I hope you all can understand our
secrecy at times around product development. Rest assured, the results
will be open for everyone.

If there's anything specific you're interested in, please feel free to
ask. I'll do my best to share what I can.

  -Sean

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Re: which gps app can do this?

2009-07-06 Thread Joseph Reeves
gvSIG Mobile 0.1.4 was released today, here's a guide that should help you:

http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/download/

Create a shapefile of your coast line (or download a shapefile for a
country) and you should be good to go.

http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/unofficial_gvsig_mobile_0_1

Cheers, Joseph




2009/6/28 lanzo :
>
> Hi!
> I'd like to be using my FR on my little boat as marine GPS. I was curious
> if, in your opinion, it could be possible to constantly show  the distance
> between me and the nearest point on the coast line. This would be important
> because in my country (and i guess everywhere) there are rules about the
> little boats distances from the coast and I cannot overcome 3 nautical
> miles.
>
> I know it should be possible to show the distances between my present
> position and any given point, but what about something always displaying the
> distances between my position and the nearest point on the coast?
>
> is there maybe any more in-topic forum where i can ask this?
>
> Thank you very much for any answer!
> bye! :)
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Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-06 Thread Vibhav Sharma
Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> I believe the gsmhandset.state.new ("the one") file is not good
> enough, even though it was toutet as such. The speaker and mic levels
> are too high, and apparently it may cause too high amplification of
> mic (ie. when mic2 is 3, mono sidetone is 7 and mono playback is 127 -
> all maxed out). I've lowered speaker volume to 115 and mono playback
> volume to 100, otherwise keeping everything intact. Try those.
>
> Using Debian.
>
> -Timo
>   
Thanks a lot. People I call are reporting that my voice is much clearer now.

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Re: [all] navit install problems

2009-07-06 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Robin Paulson a écrit :
> 2009/7/6 Christ van Willegen :
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey
>> Ratcliffe wrote:
>>> It works if you set up a swapfile.
>> Having to set up a swap file for an .ipk file of 3M in size still
>> seems unreasonable...
> 
> the ipk i installed was over 5MB - i presume it expands to some huge
> size and is stored in ram. i tried the --tmpdir switch (which i
> assumed would unpack it straight to disk rather than to ram) but that
> didn't help at all


dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1M count=128
mkswap /path/to/swapfile
swapon /path/to/swapfile

then retry.


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Re: Happy Birthday Freerunner

2009-07-06 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
I would love to have you there Sean :)

2009/7/6 Jose Luis Perez Diez :
> El Saturday, 4 de July de 2009 16:49:07 Sean Moss-Pultz va escriure:
>> I always forget to say it, but I'm so impressed every time I see you
>> all organize one of these buzz fix parties and user meetings. When
>> things slow down a bit more for me in Taipei, I'll drop by and check
>> one out.
>
> The Debconf9 buzz fix party has been scheduled on Saturday the 25th of july.
> https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/376.en.html
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Re: Happy Birthday Freerunner

2009-07-06 Thread Rafael Campos
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:35 PM, David Reyes Samblas
Martinez wrote:
> I would love to have you there Sean :)
Me too :)
>
> 2009/7/6 Jose Luis Perez Diez :
>> El Saturday, 4 de July de 2009 16:49:07 Sean Moss-Pultz va escriure:
>>> I always forget to say it, but I'm so impressed every time I see you
>>> all organize one of these buzz fix parties and user meetings. When
>>> things slow down a bit more for me in Taipei, I'll drop by and check
>>> one out.
>>
>> The Debconf9 buzz fix party has been scheduled on Saturday the 25th of july.
>> https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/376.en.html
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Re: PISI 0.3 released

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/24 Petr Vanek :
> - calendar sync: Pimlico->Google: seems to sync nicely one way -
>  pimlico to google but not the other way.

how did you get pisi to sync pimlico data - it's not in the options
for my install of 0.3?

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Re: External GPS antenna question

2009-07-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Tomasz Suchan wrote:
> Hi Armin,
> 
>> I use the atenna for GPS Tracking during biking and car tours.
>> As the FR is always running (no sleep) and with activated GPS
>> module - the battery last about 4h - then it's empty.
> 
> Is accuracy much better with external antenna? 

If the external antenna can be placed in a better location than the 
internal one - or if it gets better signal strength.

An external antenna on the car roof may see more satellites than the
FR sitting on the dashboard, because that metal roof block radio
transmission.

Now, the FR will see many satellites even inside a car, but those
signals cannot penetrate directly through the roof. Some satellites will 
be seen directly through windows. Signals from the rest may bounce off
the hood and come in through windows, or diffract (bend) around the roof 
edge. Such redirected signals are weaker, and they give greater position 
error. The latter because they really give the position where your FR 
would have been, _if_ the signal had not been diffracted or reflected.

The GPS receiver is smart, and will discard data from satellites that 
seem to disagree with the rest. But there are two problems with this:
* An extra satellite that gets discarded no longer helps improving
   accuracy.
* If two groups of satellites seems to disagree on position, then the
   receiver could lock onto the wrong group for a while.

An external antenna see all the satellites directly, and
don't suffer such problems. Unless you are near tall buildings or 
mountainsides, which cause the same kind of problems.


So an external antenna is great if you have a roof above you.
Such as in a car or boat. The problems above don't happen on a bike. 
Still, an external antenna might help, it may be bigger/better than the 
internal antenna and get more from a weak signal. For example, if you 
move around in heavy rain in a forest.

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Re: no wifi on openmoko fso

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Fertser
flecktor  writes:
> i got fso installed on the free runner and i cant get the wifi to
> work. same result for hackable:1. can anyone tell me how to check
> the wifi? (other then connect to another network or open network).

Distro independent way:
if ar6000 is a module, load it; if it's compiled in, do

echo s3c2440-sdi > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/s3c2440-sdi/bind

to bind relevant drivers.

FSO-specific way:
mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage
org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy WiFi enabled

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Re: [all] navit install problems

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/6 Christ van Willegen :
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey
> Ratcliffe wrote:
>> It works if you set up a swapfile.
>
> Having to set up a swap file for an .ipk file of 3M in size still
> seems unreasonable...

the ipk i installed was over 5MB - i presume it expands to some huge
size and is stored in ram. i tried the --tmpdir switch (which i
assumed would unpack it straight to disk rather than to ram) but that
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Re: no wifi on openmoko fso

2009-07-06 Thread Alexander Lehner


On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, flecktor wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> i got fso installed on the free runner and i cant get the wifi to work. same 
> result for hackable:1. can anyone tell me how to check the wifi? (other then 
> connect to another network or open network).
>
> i do iwconfig and the result is
> lo no wireless extensions.
> usb0 no wireless extensions.
> pan0 no wireless extensions.

It seems that you have to power on the WiFi card first.
You might find this in the settings or try the following python script 
which works for me under SHR.

Alex.

-

#!/usr/bin/python
import elementary, os, dbus

def getDbusObject (bus, busname , objectpath , interface):
 dbusObject = bus.get_object(busname, objectpath)
 return dbus.Interface(dbusObject, dbus_interface=interface)

dbusObj = getDbusObject (dbus.SystemBus(),
 "org.freesmartphone.odeviced",
 "/org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/WiFi",
 "org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerControl")

dbusObj.SetPower( True );

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Re: [SHR-unstable]

2009-07-06 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/5 Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann :
>> shr team chooses which packages to include, so yes they are
>> responsible for what they produce.
> yep, we're responsible for deciding to bump the revision of E we use.

right, good. we can work with that

>> as raster's pointed out, these releases aren't for public consumption
>> but for testing only. you could very easily stick to the blessed
>> releases, and not break every shr install out there on every update.
> quoting raster:
> "Eina, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, E_Dbus, Efreet and Enlightenment have had a
> snapshot release (snapshot 061), Elementary 0.5.0, and can be downloaded from
> http://download.enlightenment.org/snapshots/2009-06-14 . If
> you are taking source from SVN - http://svn.enlightenment.org, then
> use SVN revision 41040."
>
> We're taking E source from SVN - so we did what he recommended and upgraded E
> to 41040.

i don't know then - the last discussion i was involved in on this, i
interpreted what he said differently. that might be my fault though

>> fixing this. it's really frigging annoying.
> believe me - it frigging annoys me too. Just the way you phrased your mail it
> sounded like it is SHR deliberately deciding to rename libraries. Which is not
> true.

yeah, i was partly being flippant. guess it doesn't carry on email

> The real problem might just be that SHR has no stable release yet. Because in
> the end we're talking about SHR *unstable*. And we have to bump the

yes, that's true. i can totally accept an unstable release which has
unknown bugs - that's part of using unstable. but a team repeatedly
releasing packages with the *same* bug and saying "we know it's
broken, we're not going to fix it, it's a good decision" (to
paraphrase mwester iirc), but not explaining why is something else
entirely, particularly when several make the same complaint

also of course, many are using unstable because in a lot of ways, it's
so much better than testing. i switched because it was *more* stable
than testing. if testing could be relied upon, i'm sure plenty would
dwitch, and you wouldn't get people like me complaining about this

> enlightenment version we use from time to time to get fixes and enhancments,
> don't you agree?

yes, but if i can't use the software written against enlightenment,
it's not much use getting those enhancements, is it? we can't file bug
reports if the ABI is changing more rapidly than the software written
to use it. i've got to the point now where i can't be bothered getting
any of the e stuff to work. it seems to break so often, with no
discernible improvement.

> So, this time we took care to rebuild all packages that needed rebuilding.
> This fixes the packages which are in our feed only though. Problems come from
> packages you install from other sources.

> What could we do about that? Yes, we could add some compatability lib package
> that adds symlinks from for example libevas-ver-svn-02.so.0 to libevas.so.0.
> Raster would hate us for that btw. because this could theoretically lead to

yes, i understand that now. it's what everyone does anyway though

> bogus bugreports from programs linked against an older lib but running with
> the newer one. The ABI in enlightenment world is *not stable* yet. Don't know
> how probable that would be though...\

well, stable is what you make of it. if you want to bless svnrev 40894
or whatever, then do that. then, rather than releasing a new blessed
svn every two weeks with different names, skip some. is it more
important to shr team to get shr stable via bug reports, or to get e
stable via bug reports? you're not obliged to follow what e team
wants. an yes, raster would hate that idea.

> I would propose two things:
>
> a) bug us to get all those packages you want into the SHR feed. This gives us
> the possibility to cleanly rebuild them whenever needed (and spank us if we
> fail to do so :)

right, everything made by c_c: intone, tasks, launcher

> b) find a volunteer to do a script adding those links or even a package. We
> certainly could ping that volunteer *before* doing such an upgrade - to give
> him/her time to do that script

b) is me. tell me what you want, and i'm glad to help. better than
trying to get endless users fixing it each upgrade by individually
creating symlinks

i realise now that what you're doing is not entirely insane - until
now no-one's explained it and the reasons behind it anywhere near as
well as you have.

cheers

rob

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no wifi on openmoko fso

2009-07-06 Thread flecktor

hi, 

i got fso installed on the free runner and i cant get the wifi to work. same 
result for hackable:1. can anyone tell me how to check the wifi? (other then 
connect to another network or open network).

i do iwconfig and the result is 
lo no wireless extensions.
usb0 no wireless extensions.
pan0 no wireless extensions.

thanks

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Re: [Om2009 t5] Some issues & ideas

2009-07-06 Thread Andreas Fischer
Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just upgraded my recently buzz-fixed Freerunner from Om2008 to
> testing release 5 and so far, things look quite good. There's a couple
> of minor issues I'm currently experiencing, though:
> 
> * I can log into home WLAN through Paroli's Wifi GUI and also ping my
> router, but I can't reach any IP address on the internet.

Check your kernel routes. For me the default route wasn't set. Setting
it with
# route add default gw 
fixed my connection.

Regards,
Andreas Fischer

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Re: [om2009] Perfect for holidays

2009-07-06 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Laszlo KREKACS a écrit :
> "if self.LetterDict and len(value):"
> The len(value) part is not needed, because you already fixed it before.
> And if the value is None, the len(value) fails with a TypeError exception.

I was not sure (and am still not) the two 'if' before this one represent 
all the possible cases...
But I was sure of one thing : this code block wants to use string[0], 
therefore len(string) have to be true.


> ps: Im wondering how people manages to add empty contacts and with
> value None(!).

We are the geeks, we can do everything (**)
More seriously, my old Nokia 9210 seemed to use an internal convention 
for contacts. If I put for John Smith a phone number (001), a fax number 
(002) and a private gsm number (003), I will see on my SIM card :
Someone before John Smith : XXX
John Smith : 001
'' : 002
'' : 003
Someone after John Smith : YYY


Additional bug report : suspend -1 does not prevent suspending.


Conclusion : Om2009 is really usable and reliable, and Paroli is fuck*ng 
great... the perfect solution for your FR if you want to go on holidays !


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Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 05 July 2009 19:44:43 Ben Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Michael Zanetti 
wrote:
> > Judging from the time when other people complains started I think it
> > happened after an upgrade of my SHR unstable. But I'm not really sure.
>
> Yes, SHR-unstable is the culprit.  I'm currently dual booting
> SHR-testing and SHR-unstable, and SHR-unstable is utterly unusable
> because people can't understand me.  (Which I'm not complaining about,
> by the way.  It is called "unstable" for a reason.)  I'd bet that if
> you revert to SHR-testing, everything will be hunky-dory again.
>

OK. I'll check it out with SHR-Testing and will let you know if it works 
there. But as I said... It happens also with OM2009 Testing 5... So it seems 
to be a problem with latest versions of frameworkd?

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