Re: [FSO] latest upgrade disabled my phone

2008-10-10 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Dear Rhn, I don't know what's wrong, but let me suggest that you do not unconditionally opkg update && opkg update when you're on an unstable distribution. In contrast to Debian, where millions of eyes are looking, an Openmoko unstable distribution is _really_ unstable. I suggest individually upd

What should a community manager do?

2008-10-10 Thread Rod Whitby
Steve Mosher said: > Sean asked me what I thought of having a community manager. ... > I have my ideas about what a community manager would do to organize > and mobilize, But before I put those ideas down, I'd like to throw it > open to the community. > Question: what functions do you see a communi

Re: NetworkManager port

2008-10-10 Thread Peter Neubauer
Hi there, I use wifi-radar under debian, works fine for me, if I don't click too fast. /peter GTalk:neubauer.peter Skypepeter.neubauer ICQ18762544 Phone +46704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer ht

Re: NetworkManager port

2008-10-10 Thread Christian Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wicd on debian is functional but for me it eats up to much mem and often cpu .. since i found no mem-savy alternative i got back to manually ifup/ down wifi .. ciao, morlac Am 11.10.2008 um 03:48 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): > Michele Renda

Re: Fun using power button LEDs as battery indicator

2008-10-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have written other script for that LEDs some time ago, it's called > ledd and it's indicating charging state and transferring data over > wifi. http://openmoko.opendevice.org/~dos/ledd Look also at openmoko-led [1]; it was the first led implementation, it's written in

Re: [OM2008] Documentation for .kbd-files?

2008-10-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Konstantin wrote: > Is there any documentation available that describes the format of the > .kbd-files > the Illume-Keyboard uses? I'd like to build a german qwertz-layout (comes in > handy for writing SMS ;) ), but don't quite understand the format of the > corresponding keyboard config files.

Re: NetworkManager port

2008-10-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda wrote: > There is already Network manager available on Debian @ Armel4. It is > running, but seem to be it doesn't recognize the Wifi card of FR. What would you use as a Network manager in Debian? Months ago I got wicd working in Om2008, but it wasn't so good for the finger usability

Re: 2.6.26 kernel testing?

2008-10-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:11:12PM +1300, Glen Ogilvie wrote: >> Does anyone have some pre-built 2.6.26 kernels that could be tested? I am >> wondering if I should compile something from the git kernel tree. I don't >> care if wifi does not work, but need someth

Re: 1/3: Openmoko community feelings

2008-10-10 Thread Charles Pax
The most important piece of information for me was down there are the bottom. Weekly Engineering News: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Weekly_Engineering_News -Charles Pax ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openm

1/3: Openmoko community feelings

2008-10-10 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi! It's great to see all the discussion (see http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/thread.html#32465) on the list about the community. I've not had time to comment on the posts earlier so I now wrote three blog posts to keep up the discussion. You can read the full text of th

Qemu question

2008-10-10 Thread Joel Newkirk
Got an odd one. When updating with 'make qemu' (mokomakefile) I see it skipping four bad blocks. What constitutes a 'bad block' when it's just flashing to a file on the host?? j ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http:/

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:01:47 +1300, "Robin Paulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/10 Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Just wanted to post that I received >> http://www.cross-mark.com/charger-adapter-black-1000mah-p-962.html in > the >> mail today. The FreeRunner automatically kicks into

Re: Fun using power button LEDs as battery indicator

2008-10-10 Thread seba . dos1
I have written other script for that LEDs some time ago, it's called ledd and it's indicating charging state and transferring data over wifi. http://openmoko.opendevice.org/~dos/ledd On polish wiki (http://openmoko.opendevice.org/wiki/) you can find other interesting stuff. On 10/10/08, Nick Van

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:05:09 -0700, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Garabana Barro wrote: >> On Friday 10 October 2008 12:50:57 Cédric Berger wrote: >>> Ok, thanks... >>> Would be interesting if by chance you could check between the ID pin >>> and ground if you have a resistance c

Fun using power button LEDs as battery indicator

2008-10-10 Thread Nick Van Fossen
Some of you probably knew this, but I just found out that the Freerunner actually has a couple LEDs under the power button, but they don't seem to be used yet in 2008.9 stable. So, I thought it would be helpful to use them as an external battery power indicator. If you are like me, I let my p

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:22:39 +0200, Michele Renda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you tell to me how do you find out the charge rate? > > Thank you > Michele Renda One easy way: cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/chgmode j > Joel Newkirk wrote: >> Just wanted to po

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-10 Thread John Lee
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:00:05AM -0700, Hire wrote: > > For me the solution is "simple": improve fso, paroli, tichy and say "goodbye > qtopia". With my FOSS developer's hat on instead of OM employee's, I agree with what you said here. Our resource is very limited so it's better to focus on the

[OM2008] Documentation for .kbd-files?

2008-10-10 Thread Konstantin
Hi there! Is there any documentation available that describes the format of the .kbd-files the Illume-Keyboard uses? I'd like to build a german qwertz-layout (comes in handy for writing SMS ;) ), but don't quite understand the format of the corresponding keyboard config files. Regards, Konstanti

Re: LED notification

2008-10-10 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/9 Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert Norton wrote: > > 2008/10/9 Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> the main cpu is suspended, like in the neo, but the power management > unit is not > > I'm sure I recently read a datasheet for a PMU which supported various > > flash patterns for

Re: Accelerometer question [preliminary report]

2008-10-10 Thread Fox Mulder
Andy Green wrote: > The issue is "what does idle mean". Suspend for Freerunner should last > a week. Sitting there with CPU up even with backlight down is 60-90mA > on battery, suspend is 5 - 10mA and that's why you get battery life > reduced accordingly if you stay out of suspend. That's a kern

[FSO] latest upgrade disabled my phone

2008-10-10 Thread rhn
Hi Today, opkg upgrade behaved wildly from the very beginning. After issuing the command the first time, the screen went blank (major downloading had taken place, ut I was not paying attention to it); I thought it maybe stalled so I did opkg upgrade once more - it upgraded fso-gpsd among other t

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
David Garabana Barro wrote: > On Friday 10 October 2008 12:50:57 Cédric Berger wrote: >> Ok, thanks... >> Would be interesting if by chance you could check between the ID pin >> and ground if you have a resistance close to 4.7Kohm ...? > > I will look at it, and post the results. Anxiously awaiti

[OM2008.9][GTA02] a simple and quick GPS logger v0.1

2008-10-10 Thread vasco . nevoa
I wanted something simple, reliable, and fast to load and stop. So I cooked up a couple of shell scripts and desktop shortcuts to allow me to just press a button and get the Neo to log the GPS track on a file. The scripts take care of turning on the GPS receiver, avoiding suspension during l

[FDOM] dialer crash

2008-10-10 Thread julien cubizolles
As of yesterday's updates from testing, the dialer won't start with an Enlightenment message : qcop service send Launcher execute\(QString\) dialer Any ideas ? Julien. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.open

Re: [Om2008.9] How to export Vcf Contacts from FR?

2008-10-10 Thread Paul
Timo Jyrinki wrote: > Does anyone know how to not only make a backup, but to export back to > VCF format from Qtopia/Om2008.8? I now added a section for it at > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts - the 2007.2 section > has a script that handles it. > > I wouldn't want to actively cha

Re: [Om2008.9] How to export Vcf Contacts from FR?

2008-10-10 Thread Cédric Berger
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 16:05, Timo Jyrinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/10 Steven Goyvaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does anyone know how to not only make a backup, but to export back to > VCF format from Qtopia/Om2008.8? I now added a section for it at > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Impo

Re: [Om2008.9] How to export Vcf Contacts from FR?

2008-10-10 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/10/10 Steven Goyvaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Pre-Flash_Backup Pre-Flash Backup Does anyone know how to not only make a backup, but to export back to VCF format from Qtopia/Om2008.8? I now added a section for it at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contact

Re: [FSO-testing] FR now wake up

2008-10-10 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Freitag, den 10.10.2008, 09:25 +0200 schrieb yves mahe: > Hi, > > This night, "opkg update" brings me: > - suspend mode seems to work (kernel update). My FR sleeps all the night >and now wake up on call > - E update with new ETK widgets : check buttons, radio buttons and text >view > >

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Freitag, den 10.10.2008, 00:55 -0400 schrieb Joel Newkirk: > AFAIK by default they're always powered up. Certainly apart from the times > I hit 'dead accelerometers' that took a few reflashes to get going again, > I've never had to power them up unless I'd previously powered down. They're only

Re: [Om2008.9] How to export Vcf Contacts from FR?

2008-10-10 Thread Steven Goyvaerts
Hi, I found this on the wiki. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Pre-Flash_Backup Pre-Flash Backup Greetings, Steven -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-Om2008.9--How-to-export-Vcf-Contacts-from-FR--tp1315905p1316029.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive a

Re: [qtextended] After 4 days...

2008-10-10 Thread Jelle De Loecker
Paul schreef: it's really very easy & fast to use. Too bad you're experiencing all that crap! Maybe try an older image like 4.3.2 ? (Just an idea, I own the freerunner for almost a full week now...) /Met vriendelijke groeten,/ En vriendelijke groeten terug... Paul I'm afrai

Re: [FSO] How to develop with Qt

2008-10-10 Thread Nicola Mfb
2008/10/10 macebre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I began a Howto based on the Wiki Article "Development with Eclipse" > (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Development_with_Eclipse) how i got C++ and > Qt4 > with Eclipse and Toolchain work on my ubuntu-system. > > It's just my experience and i have onl

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Thanks for all the other explanations, I'm more relieved as to accelerometer wasting energy or not :) On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > > Anyway suspend is definitly not reliable :) which I suspect in great > > part has to do with the blasted NDA over the graphics card

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alastair Johnson wrote: > I suspect the 'bouncing gsm' has a lot to do with it. I intermittently > see repeated reregistrations. If the phone is near the PC speakers I can Yes if you're in suspend, the gross differences in consumption are coming ou

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:33:19AM +0100, Andy Green wrote: >> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >>> The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file >>> handle is opened, and stops when it's closed

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Anyway suspend is definitly not reliable :) which I suspect in great > part has to do with the blasted NDA over the graphics card documentation. > > Remember the White Screen of Death? > > Maybe OM inc guys nee

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Friday 10 October 2008 12:50:57 Cédric Berger wrote: > Ok, thanks... > Would be interesting if by chance you could check between the ID pin > and ground if you have a resistance close to 4.7Kohm ...? I will look at it, and post the results. ___ Open

[Om2008.9] How to export Vcf Contacts from FR?

2008-10-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've recently moved from a normal cellphone to FR and punched out of the old cellphone all my contacts to a CSV file, converted this to Vcf (which is easy using the KDE application 'kontact' because it supports both formats on import/export); than I've loaded the resulting addr.vcf file in

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:33:19AM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file > > handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? > > This is the case, the interrupts are quenched when no file handles are > o

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Alastair Johnson
Andy Green wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > >> The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file >> handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? > > This is the case, the interrupts are quenched when no file h

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Cédric Berger
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:43, David Garabana Barro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, no... > I only use that script to see current charge mode: > > fast_charge_gta02.sh status > > I can assure you that Neo puts itself into 1A charge mode when plugged to > tomtom car charger. > > I have never force

Sound from mediaplayer in Qt Extended 4.4.1 is bad

2008-10-10 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Hello The sound from the Qtopia mediaplayer is "on and off" the is breaks in the song, like if someone is pause the song every now and then. It can also suddenly change song, or stop the song, pause the song. I believe that the bad guy here is the new controllpanel that isn't fully implemented

Re: [qtextended] After 4 days...

2008-10-10 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:32 AM, David Garabana Barro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't work for me too. Every call received with phone suspended is a > missed call. > > Mi SIM is VERY antique (december 1999). Might be this the problem? Mine isn't quite new either (like mid-2000), and it's

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Friday 10 October 2008 11:24:49 Cédric Berger wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:03, David Garabana Barro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 10 October 2008 10:22:39 Michele Renda wrote: > >> Can you tell to me how do you find out the charge rate? > > > > I use this one: > > http://wiki.

Re: LED notification

2008-10-10 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/9 Jason Cawood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What I think I didn't communicate very well is: > > 1. phone is in suspend mode. > 2. GSM wakes phone for sms notification > 3. screen blanks after timeout > 4. LED blinks while phone is not in suspend. > > Would that be a possible solution? I think I

Re: [FSO] How to develop with Qt

2008-10-10 Thread macebre
Hi, I began a Howto based on the Wiki Article "Development with Eclipse" (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Development_with_Eclipse) how i got C++ and Qt4 with Eclipse and Toolchain work on my ubuntu-system. It's just my experience and i have only tried to compil some example programms, but they

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Cédric Berger
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:03, David Garabana Barro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 10 October 2008 10:22:39 Michele Renda wrote: >> Can you tell to me how do you find out the charge rate? >> > I use this one: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Forcing_fast_charge_mode#Beni.27s_fast_charge_gta0

Re: [qtextended] After 4 days...

2008-10-10 Thread Russell Hay
I just got a new sim in the last two weeks - and it doesn't wake up for that. My provider is O2, UK - GSM. Can anyone comment on what logs I should be looking in for clues to the problem? System: default uBoot, qtextended-4.4.1-gta02-rootfs-release-10022309.jffs2, uImage-gta02-g291a9d50_mwester-st

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Friday 10 October 2008 10:22:39 Michele Renda wrote: > Can you tell to me how do you find out the charge rate? > I use this one: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Forcing_fast_charge_mode#Beni.27s_fast_charge_gta02.sh ___ Openmoko community mailing list c

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Friday 10 October 2008 09:43:49 Cédric Berger wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:25, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wanted to post that I received > > http://www.cross-mark.com/charger-adapter-black-1000mah-p-962.html in the > > mail today. The FreeRunner automatically kicks

Re: OpenMoko codesprint at FSCONS, 24th Oct

2008-10-10 Thread Mirko Lindner
Hi Fredrik, thanks for the kind words, I thought I'd chip in with an article on http://www.linux-magazine.com[1]. Looking forward to seeing you and other Openmoko enthusiasts and freedom activists at FSCONS [2] ;) /mirko [1] http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/ openmoko_invitation_to

Re: Charging and USB host mode

2008-10-10 Thread Peter Neubauer
Ahh, a Nokia battery did the trick! Thanks for the help! /peter GTalk:neubauer.peter Skypepeter.neubauer ICQ18762544 Phone +46704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - New E

Re: [qtextended] After 4 days...

2008-10-10 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Thursday 09 October 2008 18:02:57 Cédric Berger wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 17:48, Russell Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found it lasted around three hours (moderate usage) BUT I did have > > Bluetooth and wifi turned on. Will try again tomorrow! > > > > Disappointed that it doesn't w

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-10 Thread Christian Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 10.10.2008 um 09:31 schrieb Matthias Apitz: > El día Thursday, October 09, 2008 a las 09:20:05PM +0100, Arigead > escribió: > >> Steve Mosher wrote: >>> We should allow for links to peoples pages. >>> >>> >> >> Hate to throw a spanner in the wor

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, October 10, 2008 a las 10:07:25AM +0200, Christian Adams escribió: > >btw: the last days I have moved around a lot with my FR between home, > >office and a hospital, ... but without any reboot: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uptime > > 09:31:05 up 2 days, 27 min, 1 user, load averag

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Michele Renda
Can you tell to me how do you find out the charge rate? Thank you Michele Renda Joel Newkirk wrote: > Just wanted to post that I received > http://www.cross-mark.com/charger-adapter-black-1000mah-p-962.html in the > mail today. The FreeRunner automatically kicks into 1000ma charge mode. > :) B

Repositories missing after update to testing feed.

2008-10-10 Thread abatrour
Hey guys I need help. After I upgraded from stock 2008.9 to the latest testing feed and rebooted I noticed most of my *feed.conf files are gone. All I have left are: arch.conf fic-gta02-feed.conf Multiverse-feed.conf Has anyone else encountered this problem? -- View this message in context: ht

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Arigead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is an external link on the GPRS wiki page to a German site for > installing the GSM Multiplexor and a GUI. I've been trying to get those > instructions to work for the last couple of days. I assume I'm getting > somethin

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Cédric Berger
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:25, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wanted to post that I received > http://www.cross-mark.com/charger-adapter-black-1000mah-p-962.html in the > mail today. The FreeRunner automatically kicks into 1000ma charge mode. Automatically 1A? Isn't it only possib

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file > handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? This is the case, the interrupts are quenched when no file handles are open on them. > I'm

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 09, 2008 a las 09:20:05PM +0100, Arigead escribió: > Steve Mosher wrote: > > We should allow for links to peoples pages. > > > > > > Hate to throw a spanner in the works but I think ideally the information > should be on the wiki and maintained there. How up to date i

[FSO-testing] FR now wake up

2008-10-10 Thread yves mahe
Hi, This night, "opkg update" brings me: - suspend mode seems to work (kernel update). My FR sleeps all the night and now wake up on call - E update with new ETK widgets : check buttons, radio buttons and text view Bad news: - no sound on call - no more red/blue LED while charging Good wor

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-10 Thread Arigead
Steve Mosher wrote: > We should allow for links to peoples pages. > > Hate to throw a spanner in the works but I think ideally the information should be on the wiki and maintained there. How up to date is the info on an external site, if it isn't maintained, or how do you know it is maintain

Re: [qtextended] After 4 days...

2008-10-10 Thread Paul
> I have posted two .state files sometime back, but the message still > awaits moderator approval. If it does not get through, try changing > the settings mentioned here: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_Freerunner_audio_subsystem > under Alsamixer channel controls in /usr/share/openmoko/sce

Re: car charger

2008-10-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/10/10 Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just wanted to post that I received > http://www.cross-mark.com/charger-adapter-black-1000mah-p-962.html in the > mail today. The FreeRunner automatically kicks into 1000ma charge mode. > :) Best $3.00 (delivered) I've spent in a while. $3? bloody h