Re: [2008.9] Wifi now reliable

2008-10-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, October 03, 2008 a las 01:34:10PM -0400, Charles Pax escribió: > On 10/3/08, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I own the FR gadget now for 2-3 weeks, I think, and I'm so happy with it > > and I use it in daily work as I did with my normal cellphone, a BenQ > > Siemen

Invitation for Openmoko at the Southern California Linux Expo

2008-10-04 Thread Joe Smith
Greetings, I would once again like to formerly invite the Openmoko project to attend the 7th Annual Southern California Linux Expo. The show will be held February 20th-22nd, 2009 once again at the Westin LAX in Los Angeles, CA. SCALE 7x will be an excellent venue to increase awareness and showca

Re: [2008.9] Wifi now reliable

2008-10-04 Thread Paul
> Here you can find my step-by-step guide which puts together known stuff > from various Wiki pages and own scripts I wrote: > > http://www.unixarea.de/openmoko.txt > > comments/improvements are always welcome; and this was the result > yesterday: my small laptop connected to Internet with FR as t

Re: How to build qt-extended?

2008-10-04 Thread Nicola Mfb
2008/10/3 Lorn Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nicola Mfb wrote: > > 2008/10/3 Jim Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > It is activated in the released image. At least I can set the > > encryption on my email account. > > > > > > I just downloaded the updated toolchai

Re: Re: [FSO] losetup trouble

2008-10-04 Thread rhn
Wiadomość Oryginalna Od: Alex Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do: List for Openmoko community discussion Data: 4 października 2008 4:24 Temat: Re: [FSO] losetup trouble > Hello, > > On 04/10/2008, at 2:51 AM, rhn wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# touch /dev/loop0 > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Numptyphysics on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-10-04 Thread vale
sorry michele, which site do you mean? i don't find it :( thank you vale Michele Renda wrote: > > vale wrote: >> is there a working deb package around? >> >> couldn't find that one on the italian forum ... >> >> thanks in advance >> >> vale > > that I know... Still not exist. There is the

Re: installing debian without the freerunner?

2008-10-04 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/9/27 Arne Zachlod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i have some problems with my freerunner atm, but i want to install > debian on it. is there a way to do that with the computer instead with > the freerunner? also the freerunner has a very small connection, usb and > wifi are both too slow for me. so, i

Re: usb wifi device neo1973

2008-10-04 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/9/30 ashley elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > can anyone tell me if its possible to use wifi via usb for the neo 1973, if > so, is there a tutorial > anywhere to assist me? > any wifi dongle supported by linux with free drivers, will theoretically work with the neo1973. iirc, atheros chipsets a

[FSO] flash the FSO filesystem

2008-10-04 Thread Luca
As found on the documentation, I need to flash on FSO the .jfss2 file on my Freerunner (so I need the om-gta2 file). At this URL http://downloads.openmoko.org/framework/milestone3/ I found not a jfss2 file but a jfss2.summary file. Is this the same thing? What I need to flash? Thanks! -- -- luc

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-10-04 Thread vale
hi, i'm trying to use it with debian. i get it started (without sound) //open /dev/sequencer or /dev/snd/seq: No such file or directory hexdump of the 2 accels gives me data. but when i enter the game i get to the choose episodes menu and then i can't do anything, touchscreen not working and m

Re: duke3d on debian ?

2008-10-04 Thread vale
thank you! i installed xglamo package, and now screen rotates and resizes! duke3d then starts but i can't get through the menu because touscreen or accels don't do anything hexdump of /dev/input/event2 and 3 gives me some data, so thats ok i think. also the right click patch is not working wi

Re: [debian] openmoko-panel-plugin 0.4

2008-10-04 Thread Fox Mulder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My .deb doesnt appear to miss these icons, except brightness.png. > I cant find the brightness.png file in the src tgz. When i take a look at the .deb with "dpkg-deb -c openmoko-panel-plugin_0.4-1_all.deb" i can see that all my mentioned icons are missing. But maybe ther

Re: duke3d on debian ?

2008-10-04 Thread Fox Mulder
Right click patch isn't implemented in xglamo so far. It's also really bad that there exists the xglamo package which seems to work but no really progress is made to use it as default for debian. Only with xglamo rotation and other usefull stuff works right. I wish there would be some news about th

SSH (was: Re: Where is the SD card...)

2008-10-04 Thread Paul
> It must be a routing thing. > It was a patience thing. It takes a while before the SSH login from the FR appears... Patience is one of my lesser virtues. *grin* Paul -- Use the right word, not its second cousin. -Mark Twain http://www.nlpagan.net Running on Mandriva Linux 2008 and Ubun

RE: [debian] going to install - hints?

2008-10-04 Thread Matthias Camenzind
> (do you managed to follow the instructions? if you have hints for the wiki, > please tell us!) > I have no idea... i'm sorry. hoping for an answer from those who are in with > debian. > d > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Hire wrote: > > Now I get: > The following packages have unmet depe

Re: Mplayer,mplayer-svn and youtube

2008-10-04 Thread GNUtoo
> However check that mplayer is using oss and not alsa, since the first > one seems to be really faster... much better with oss...but still some little sync problem here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9rh5gV_dro (gta4(the game not the phone) trailer) ___

Re: A Call for community action

2008-10-04 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Steve Mosher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other day I was pondering all the things the community does for us. > They give us new ideas, test our product and give us honest feedback, > keep us true to our commitment for openness ( the idea to release the > CAD fi

[FSO] FSO repositories

2008-10-04 Thread Luca
I finally installed the FSO on my FR. First of all It seems that the repositories called when I run the opkg update aren't correct. I need to change those as I did for the ASU release? URL used are something like: http://my-distribution.org/remote-feed//om-gta02/Packages.gz I need some fix? --

Re: GPS Antenna

2008-10-04 Thread Christian Weßel
I have decided for the following antenna: http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=5;GROUP=G89;GROUPID=878;ARTICLE=74954;START=0;SORT=preis;OFFSET=16;SID=15aIVBFdS4AQ8AAGOwdwU13bbc4eccabc271cc42c8e96b13059d5 After tests I will report by wiki. christian Am Freitag, den 03.10.2008, 21:56 +0200 schri

Re: [FSO] flash the FSO filesystem

2008-10-04 Thread Luca
FIXED (I think) The .summary file worked. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As found on the documentation, I need to flash on FSO the .jfss2 file > on my Freerunner (so I need the om-gta2 file). > At this URL > http://downloads.openmoko.org/framework/milestone3/ >

Re: GPS Antenna

2008-10-04 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Christian Weßel wrote: > Hi folks, > > who has an external GPS antenna operating successfull with FR? > > Which brand? > Where to get? > > I check the first one without success, so I need to look for a fit one. I've got a HaiCom GPS Antenna with internal preamplifier, which works fine with my H

The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi! After my previous blog post [1] about Openmoko 2007.2 distribution and the Openmoko community I got some comments proving that like me, some other people feel that the community is lost and uninformed. This post is a follow up to the previous post and the comments I got. I've understood that

Re: Building FSO Wiki page

2008-10-04 Thread Previdi Roberto
building it is what makes all the difference, you have the source so you can modify one line of code, rebuild and test it.. I also think the building_fso page is confusing, because the second part of page talks about directories that don't exist using the makefile procedure, so you cannot gradually

Tango GPS shows GPS Times form 1999

2008-10-04 Thread Matthias Camenzind
I've installed Debian on microSD 2GB with Xfce, tangogps and fso-gpsd. The "Trip" section is normaly showing a GPS Time from 1999-11-30 00:00:00 somtimes GPS Time changes short to 2006 or 2007. Tangogps on Om2008.8 shows 1970. On both 0/0 Satellites HDOP 0.0. Is there something wrong with my GPS

Freerunner loading in USB host mode?

2008-10-04 Thread Peter Neubauer
Hi there, I am thinking about trying switch the FR (running Debian) to USB host mode, put in a USB hub and connect a external USB Disk, a keyboard, a mouse and the USB charger that comes with the FR. Would that work, that is, can the FR be charged while being in host mode so the battery doesn't get

Re: [FSO] FSO repositories

2008-10-04 Thread digger vermont
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 14:14 +0200, Luca wrote: > I finally installed the FSO on my FR. > > First of all It seems that the repositories called when I run the opkg > update aren't correct. I need to change those as I did for the ASU > release? > > URL used are something like: > http://my-distributi

[debian] State of annoying memory card corruption bug?

2008-10-04 Thread joakim
It is rather annoying to fix the memory card whenever it gets corrupted and wont boot. I know there are workaround scripts, but they dont work for me, since I most often get corruption after booting after unexpected power down. Is there any progress on this bug? Any working workarounds ? -- Joa

Re: [FSO] FSO repositories

2008-10-04 Thread rhn
Wiadomość Oryginalna Od: Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do: "List for Openmoko community discussion" Data: 4 października 2008 14:14 Temat: [FSO] FSO repositories > I finally installed the FSO on my FR. > > First of all It seems that the repositories called when I run the opkg > update aren'

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Tomas Riveros Schober
My brother feels exactly like you. he's not really a techie and depends on me for most stuffhowever i tought him how to report bugs and watch the tracker, but he gets dissapointed that whenever he tries to report something its either already there or he doesnt have the logs required. Thing i

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Michele Renda
Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > > Other community members: > > * How do you feel about the current situation? How happy are you > with the community? > * Do you feel well informed? Do you know what's the direction > we're heading to? > * How would you like to contribute? Hello Risto Thank

Re: duke3d on debian ?

2008-10-04 Thread Charles-Henri Gros
Fox Mulder wrote: > Right click patch isn't implemented in xglamo so far. > It's also really bad that there exists the xglamo package which seems to > work but no really progress is made to use it as default for debian. > Only with xglamo rotation and other usefull stuff works right. > I wish there

Re: duke3d on debian ?

2008-10-04 Thread Charles-Henri Gros
Charles-Henri Gros wrote: > Fox Mulder wrote: >> Right click patch isn't implemented in xglamo so far. >> It's also really bad that there exists the xglamo package which seems to >> work but no really progress is made to use it as default for debian. >> Only with xglamo rotation and other usefull s

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread vasco . nevoa
To all, but especially OM. I felt a little cheated when I saw the FR I had bought was not ready to be used as a daily phone. This had in fact been the publicity by OM at the time - GTA01 was for tinkerers, and GTA02 was for the public. Then people said "no, it was clear that GTA02 was also fo

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Hire
For me the solution is "simple": improve fso, paroli, tichy and say "goodbye qtopia". The actual stack, om2008.* sux. I find it absolutely not functional. Instead, it will be cool to see SHR on freerunner because merged the power of new framework with the old stack ( 2007.4 ) that seems to be alm

Re: [debian] openmoko-panel-plugin 0.4

2008-10-04 Thread arne anka
> You have to enable it in the openmoko-panel-plugin file. Just set ah, thanks a lot. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Michael Frandsen
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 15:56 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > Hi! > > After my previous blog post [1] about Openmoko 2007.2 distribution and > the Openmoko community I got some comments proving that like me, some > other people feel that the community is lost and uninformed. This post > is a follow

Volume on a phone call

2008-10-04 Thread Jason Cawood
on the 2008.9 distro, is there any way to turn up the microphone volume while on a call? When I'm talking to someone they always tell me they can't hear me. -Jason smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Openmoko community mailing l

Re: Tango GPS shows GPS Times form 1999

2008-10-04 Thread Fox Mulder
This seems to be a fso-gpsd bug. I also experienced this problem why i went back to use gpsd which always show the right time and satellites. Ciao, Rainer Matthias Camenzind wrote: > I've installed Debian on microSD 2GB with Xfce, tangogps and fso-gpsd. > The "Trip" section is normaly showin

Re: [debian] State of annoying memory card corruption bug?

2008-10-04 Thread Fox Mulder
Which kernel and from when do you use? This bug should be fixed in newer kernels. But i still use the apm suspend/resume script which works for me since i installed debian. Ciao, Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is rather annoying to fix the memory card whenever it gets corrupted > and

RE: Volume on a phone call

2008-10-04 Thread Matthias Camenzind
If you are connect over ssh to your phone you can in alsamixer set Mic 2 to 100 and Speaker to 88 this enables a normal call with near to no echo and much better understanding on the other side. But after disconnecting the settings are restored. May ou can also change during the call to a termi

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread t m
I think the guys from OM are really working hard to get us a great phone. I'm not always sure if they got the same priorities as we have. For me the most important thing right now is a working pone. Until I've seen some reports of more than 1 person that an image has got phoning, smsing and battery

RE: Tango GPS shows GPS Times form 1999

2008-10-04 Thread Matthias Camenzind
On Om2008.8 i used gspd and it didn't work. It looks more like working (the seconds changes form 0 to 9) sometimes is satellites changing to 1/0. Am I not recieving gsp signlas? How does it look like when there are to less singals? . > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 20

RE: Tango GPS shows GPS Times form 1999

2008-10-04 Thread Michael Frandsen
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 17:39 +, Matthias Camenzind wrote: > On Om2008.8 i used gspd and it didn't work. It looks more like working (the > seconds changes form 0 to 9) sometimes is satellites changing to 1/0. > Am I not recieving gsp signlas? How does it look like when there are to less > sing

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hi Risto, BUGS: I think the TRAC is for everybody, not just high-level hackers. I reported totally cosmetic bugs in the tracker, like "there is a spelling mistake in Assassin's package desctiption" or "xterm is missing an icon" and they got fixed simply and quickly. Nobody complains. It works

Re: Volume on a phone call

2008-10-04 Thread Petr Vanek
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:11:42 -0700 Jason Cawood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (JC) wrote: >on the 2008.9 distro, is there any way to turn up the microphone >volume while on a call? When I'm talking to someone they always tell >me they can't hear me. > >-Jason > Yes, there is a way by installing pymixer, p

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:42 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all, but especially OM. > I felt a little cheated when I saw the FR I had bought was not ready > to be used as a daily phone. This had in fact been the publicity by OM > at the time - GTA01 was for tinkerers, and GTA02 was for the pub

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le samedi 04 octobre 2008 à 13:22 -0600, Angus Ainslie a écrit : > Wifi is "working" as well as any basic distro install. You need to > edit /etc/network/interfaces and or wpa_supplicant.conf but it is > working. Nope. No amount of scripting and tinkering will change the fact that the kernel drive

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread David Samblas
When some body feels lost is because he doen't planned the trip enough, before come in strange territory you must have maps and read about uses and customs of the aboriginal and if the case earn enough of their language to , when if all plans fail, ask where you are and how to go any where. I'm a

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Kosa
Bravo! Kosa - Un mundo mejor es posible - David Samblas escribió: > When some body feels lost is because he doen't planned the trip enough, > before come in strange territory you must have maps and read about uses > and customs of the aboriginal and if the case earn enough of their > language to

How do I turn on wifi in QTextended?

2008-10-04 Thread Charles Pax
I'm using the new version of QTextended (was Qtopia) and I can't seem to find any way to turn on my wireless. I see where I can turn on/off the Bluetooth, but nothing for the wifi chip. Any advice? -Charles Pax ___ Openmoko community mailing list communi

Re: How do I turn on wifi in QTextended?

2008-10-04 Thread Lorn Potter
Charles Pax wrote: > I'm using the new version of QTextended (was Qtopia) and I can't seem to > find any way to turn on my wireless. I see where I can turn on/off the > Bluetooth, but nothing for the wifi chip. Any advice? Settings->Internet->Options (menu)->New->Wireless -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter

Re: [FSO] FSO repositories

2008-10-04 Thread Rod Whitby
rhn wrote: > The testing repo seems to be down at the moment. Does anyone know why? OpenEmbedded had a TMPDIR ABI increment, which meant that everything needs to be rebuilt. I've temporarily put the old build results back so people can continue using those while the rebuild is happening. -- Rod

Re: Building FSO Wiki page

2008-10-04 Thread Rod Whitby
Previdi Roberto wrote: > anyway, using the automatic procedure (the makefile) i have some problems: > 1) the build stops at the ttf-liberation-0.2-r2 package, install phase, > and the install log is empty This was fixed a couple of days ago. Did you run "make update" and try again? > 2) if i iss

Re: How do I turn on wifi in QTextended?

2008-10-04 Thread Charles Pax
I tried that already, but I went back and tried it again. After erasing everything I had done before and starting from scratch, it worked. Thanks. -Charles On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Lorn Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Pax wrote: > > I'm using the new version of QTextended (was

QT extended segfaults

2008-10-04 Thread Jonathan Schultz
After successfully installing Qt extended on my SD (no idea why it didn't work the first time) it worked well enough for a while. I installed the zoneinfo files,though that seems unlikely to be connected with the problem. Then at some point it stopped suspending, so I tried rebooting. Since

Re: A Call for community action

2008-10-04 Thread Steve Mosher
Nope. nobody signed up. Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Steve Mosher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The other day I was pondering all the things the community does for us. >> They give us new ideas, test our product and give us honest feedback, >> keep us true to our commi

[QTextended] how to select music directory in Media Player?

2008-10-04 Thread Craig B. Allen
I have been trying to setup to play files stored on my SD card but cannot find any way to select or enter a directory. - Craig ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [QTextended] how to select music directory in Media Player?

2008-10-04 Thread Lorn Potter
Craig B. Allen wrote: > I have been trying to setup to play files stored on my SD card but > cannot find any way to select or enter a directory. Put your files in a Documents directory on the sd card and qt extended will find them -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Qt Soft

Re: Building FSO Wiki page

2008-10-04 Thread Previdi Roberto
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) if i issue a make update openembedded complains that it don't know > > where to update from... > the Makefile was updated to match this. Did you run "make > update-makefile" and try again? > i tried but the makefile jus

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Stroller
Hi Risto, I think you depend upon Openmoko Inc. to "provide" the community. Or perhaps direction for the community. I don't know if that's possible. Community is, by definition, a bunch of different people, with different ideas and different requirements. Sure there may be some consensus,