Re: N810 GPS and bluetooth
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:06:36PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Related but different question: Can the N810 internal GPS be used by other devices as a bluetooth GPS? at least it should be possible to connect to its gpsd via IP. My solution a while back was to configure /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf so that my bluetooth GPS receiver was accessible as /dev/rfcomm0. I then created my own init script to start gpsd to, let it read from /dev/rfcomm0. Gpsd would only start reading from the device when there were clients requesting data; no problem in letting it run even when un-needed.. Maemo mapper, kismet, etc could then share the gps by reading from gpsd. I can't seem to get rfcomm to install from the apt-get or application manager. But I found it here and installed it with dpkg: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/diablo/free/b/bluez-utils/ -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: how to put apps in 'My Selection' tab
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0400, Ryan Abel wrote: NO! Do not do this. osso-version-rx*4 depends on skype-installer, so removing it will also remove that, and, tada, no more SSU updates. :) I removed that (and gizmo-installer, and a lot of other crud) as one of the first things when I upgraded to diablo. I don't remember whether osso-version-rx*4 got thrown out with the trash, but I do certainly still get the automatic Updates available icon regularly. Maybe I'm just too naiive, in expecting the dependencies to actually make sense? -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: how to put apps in 'My Selection' tab
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:25:01AM -0400, Ryan Abel wrote: 3rd-party upgrades don't have anything to do with SSU. Nokia hasn't pushed any SSU updates yet, but you wont get them when they do if you've removed osso-software-version-rx*4 (and trust me, it was removed). Alright, I stand corrected. I just tried installing osso-software-version-rx34 again, but obviously this package depends on stuff I specifically removed as I don't need it. Not just skype and gizmo, but some of the games and the handwriting input system. Any way to keep those off of my system and still get system updates? Seems rather silly to me if you're forced to have unimportant games installed if you want important system updates. I know you can just install and remove skype and gizmo to get their installers removed permanently, but can't I get to that state without installing them at all? -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:04:38AM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Jesper Cheetah wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 Are you sure that's still necessary? I'm fairly confident that for the last.. several firmware versions, at least since xterm became default, I've been able to just jump right in and do sudo gainroot. Are you using RD mode? I think RD mode setting is in the CAL area[1]. At least it's not cleared when you flash the device. Hmm, now that you mention it.. I vaguely remember setting that flag when flashing a long time ago. So that explains why I never need to jump through hoops just to get root :) Any negative effect of leaving RD on? -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Diablo released
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:10:46PM +0200, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Diablo has been released guys :) And it includes some ipv6 support! [Gain root] insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/ipv6.ko ip -6 addr show It seems to only be a half-hearted support, as ifconfig doesn't show the ipv6 addresses, and there's no such thing as ping6. The browser also seems to not be ipv6 compatible; while my laptop loads http://ipv6.google.com/ just fine, the browser in N800 says server not found. -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: anyone else notice a speed improvement with diablo?
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:43:18PM -0700, Joshua Layne wrote: I am just noticing a much snappier overall experience, particularly in the use of the app mgr, but really in all respects. now that could just be because I haven't finished hacking it up with all the garbage I like to install on it... anyone else notice this? So I'm not the only one.. I've also noticed a significant increase in speed and snappiness, particularly with inputting text using a USB keyboard. I've previously been rather frustrated at the delays and even degraded my N800 from being my cool pocket-sized laptop to being just my slow electronic calendar. That might change now :) But then, this could just be because I'm temporarily using the internal memory as rootfs instead of the class 2 SDHC card I used before flashing.. :) I'll be moving everything to an 8 GB class 6 SDHC card as soon as I can. Seems that fanoush has already updated the bootmenu system to support diablo: http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#initfs All in all I'm quite satisfied with diablo. Well done Nokia! -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 Are you sure that's still necessary? I'm fairly confident that for the last.. several firmware versions, at least since xterm became default, I've been able to just jump right in and do sudo gainroot. -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Postal address in Contacts?
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:34:09PM -0600, Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Kevin T. Neely But the tablet *can* send e-mail and it *can* initiate voice communications, which is a good reason for it to store e-mail addresses. I believe the RTcomm update allows you to initiate voice calls to phone numbers that are stored in the contacts database but I have not played with this. Let's see if I've got this straight: you're saying that it's somehow easier to drag out the tablet, start up Contacts, look up the person, make sure you're tethered to your phone with bluetooth, then use the tablet to tell the phone to dial the number, than to simply open the phone, press a few buttons and make the call? (Or better yet, press one button and use voice recognition to make the call.) Uh, I confess you've got me speechless over that one... Nope, you didn't get that straight. N800 (and I pressume the N810 as well) can do VoIP/SIP by itself, thanks to rtcomm. It would require that your N8x0 is online though, which admittedly isn't always the case. The internal contacts database also works with Modest, which is what I use. Therefore, the e-mail program I use /does/ use the the contacts database. ...and you don't have an address book in Modest? Or you don't use it? Again, you're saying that it's easier to open up a separate program and deal with it than to simply use the features of the program you're using. Modest's address book must really be a pile of crap!... Obviously you've not tried Modest. As Kevin tried to explain, Modest uses the Contacts database, not some silly seperate database, and thus integrates very nicely with all the other Maemo software. -- Jesper Cheetah ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: network priority and autoreconnect (OS2008)
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:08:27AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: ext Joshua Layne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The biggest problem for me is that if I am connected to my phone (say, on my commute...) it keeps the phone connection even if the Home wireless network is available. Same is true of the work network, although the work network never autoconnects. The real problem here is it drains my phone battery unnecessarily when a WLAN is available. I have no problem editing configuration files by hand, but is this even possible? It is really a source of irritation for me. Our current software implementation does not support this, not even with some tweaking. Sorry. I believe I have seen wpa_supplicant for the N800 somewhere (probably OS2007 at that time). Wouldn't that work, with the regular network selection set to a dummy AP? -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: offline installation request
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:29:47PM +0800, Josh Z wrote: I think you missed my point here. And yes, wired connection on regular PC/Laptop is way faster than wifi, and thus it saves time by downloading via ethernet cable, not to mention the fact that not every user has wifi as available as cable network, which is my case...sadly. So it's a question of wifi vs. cable? Then I'd suggest following one of the guides on the wiki for USB networking. That way you can download stuff to the N8x0 through USB. No wifi required :) -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: help!? my N810 seems dead(ish)
Ah yes, the fragile charger cable.. I think my charger lasted no longer than a month before it stopped working. Possibly due to the wear and tear of bringing it with me to and from work in a pocket every day, but really that shouldn't be a problem? I used the N800 a _lot_ so I didn't have time to deal with return services, and just bought a new one in the nearest phone shop. The exact same model, which I now leave at home as much as possible.. A few days after that, I had figured out that the problem was in the cable, no more than a few cm from the charger. Snipped off the charger and spliced the good end with a USB cable - Tada, instant DIY combined USB charger and data cable :) Works well, though it seems that the voltage or current delivered by USB isn't quite as high as the real charger. Sometimes, when the battery is really low, this makes the N800 refuse to charge, so I still need to bring the real charger when traveling or using the N800 for critical applications. -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
OS2008 Danish keyboard layout with bluetooth seems broken
It seems that changing the keyboard layout to Danish/Dansk doesn't do anything at all. The actual layout seems to be completely unchanged from the previously used layout. E.g. if I've just had it on English (USA), then change to Danish, the key left of shift continues to produce slash /, whereas I would expect dash -. Also, the key left of enter produces appostrophe ', whereas I would expect the Danish o-slash ø. Then I tried switching to Norwegian/Norge, as it should be fairly similar. Except, they don't have our combined a and e æ. And altgr-shift-z/x doesn't produce and as it used to do with Danish layout in OS2007, which means I can't do something as simple as redirecting output in the shell.. This is all quite frustrating as it means my keyboard is useless for most day-to-day tasks. I have to use the on-screen keyboard which is much slower to type on. Can anyone confirm this? Does the same problem exist with other keyboard layouts? -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: SIP with VPNC
Phillip Neumann wrote: Dear Maemos! Im trying out OS2008 (looks greate!). Im connecting to the office with vpnc (cisco client vpn). When when the connection is established, then the SIP phone seem to now know how to reach the remote SIP server. I've sniff my router, and i see the N800 is not sending any packets out. Can anyone confirm this bug? thanks! PS: SIP works just fine without VPNC. I think I have the same bug in OS2007 with OpenVPN. Works fine without VPN, but not with VPN. Web and email work fine through VPN, as expected. I haven't investigated it closer though. -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
Eero Tamminen wrote: Also lot of scrolling in launch menu will need getting used to. Is there some secret gconf setting to bring old stylus optimized menu layout with small items back? AFAIK no. The good side is that you can use it with thumb. This was posible in OS2007 too, thumb hit popped up large menu, stylus hit smaller menu which was consistent with behaviour or virtual keyboard. Looks like small menu just silently went away. I will miss that. AFAIK it was not possible to make thumb detection reliable enough. The detection was based on pressure information, but strong press with stylus gives as much pressure as light press with thumb (=larger area) and the touchscreen sensitivity might differ a bit between devices, different parts of the screen and that changes over time too. I don't use OS2008, but I know I'll miss the stylus-sized menus. If automatic detection isn't reliable enough, then I really think there should be an option somewhere to set choose either one or the other. It's all about giving the user the choice. I happen to maintain claws, pointy fingernails, that function as natural styluses. I don't need large thumb-sized icons, so why not give me the option to change it? And in general, this reflects one of the things I really don't like about N800/Maemo/OS2007. In too many places it seems like the author of the software designed it to fit his/her way of working with the device, ignoring the fact that others might have different ways. Please don't hardcode so many settings, give us the option to change them to our individual needs. The email-application is a really good example... -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: I have USB host!
James Sparenberg wrote: Ok. On OS2008 I did the following. 1. Got a femail to femail connector so I can attach keyboard cable to the IT USB cable. [...] On an N800, not using any power-injector? I was quite certain, based on what others said, that the USB-chip relied on external power to get powered up. Thus, even when working as a host, it still needed to have power injected from outside of the N800. -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: further beating on OS2008 beta
Martin Grimme wrote: I'm still wondering why Nokia now includes an X Terminal by default. Or is it just there in the beta releases? Maybe they listened to the crowd and figured it was best this way? Which I totally agree on. A Linux computer without some sort of terminal access makes me feel crippled. Thanks Nokia :) -- Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
