Re: looking for used (or broken) GTA02 (whole or PCB) to purchase

2012-12-23 Thread Denis Johnson
I also have a complete gta02 a5 with buzz fix, screen intact. It used to work fine but laid unused uncharged for over 12 months and now does not show any signs of life even when plugged in and power button pressed, so it is difficult to know its state. I'm in Australia. Any reasonable offers. Den

Re: Server upgrades / docs and svn are back

2012-05-19 Thread Denis Johnson
Harald, wow, thanks for all your efforts. So good to see someone make the time and step up. Regards Denis On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Harald Welte wrote: > Hi again, > > as the way outdated projects.openmoko.org has been down for something > like two years now, I have removed the links in

Re: Broken FR

2012-04-13 Thread Denis Johnson
I'm sorry I don't have a repair recommendation for you, however I do have a GTA-02 A05 with buzz fix which I simply have not had time to do much with. It was one of the first group purchases into Aus. It has been sitting on my desk for many months uncharged waiting for some love. Batteries might be

Re: a recipe for qt4-plugin-phonon-backend-vlc

2010-08-30 Thread Denis Johnson
As a user, yes it would be interesting to have option of vlc backend. Although I must admit that I would probably be more interested if I could actually use vlc as client for streamed video i.e. I have a MythTV machine in the house and would like to stream recording to FR, but that's probably OT. S

Re: [QtMoko] FR dying unexpectedly?

2010-06-10 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Brolin Empey wrote: > Sometimes (at least once per month?) my FR dies unexpectedly:  sometimes > it happens when I receive a phone call, even if my FR does not die when > the same phone number calls before and after the Call of Death.  Other > times, my FR is susp

Re: QtMoko v24

2010-06-07 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Radek Polak wrote: > Hi, > new QtMoko images v24 are out! You can download from our sourceforge [1] > or visit our homepage [2][3]. Now that I have been trying V24 for some days, I can confirm the following: 1. I now have good call volumes and no distortion after

Re: QtMoko v24

2010-06-01 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Petr Vanek wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:48:41 +0200 > Radek Polak (RP) wrote: > >>Hi, >>new QtMoko images v24 are out! You can download from our sourceforge >>[1] or visit our homepage [2][3]. > Hi Radek and all QtMoko contributors, > this sounds really great, t

Re: QtMoko v22

2010-05-23 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Radek Polak wrote: > Hi, > i have uploaded new stable QtMoko debian images [1]. > .. > - workaround for the GSM (restart not needed now) > .. > As for the fixes: first two are quite clear. The problem with GSM not > registering can be partially solved by pu

Re: QtMoko v22

2010-05-11 Thread Denis Johnson
Thanks for all your hard work and efforts. I re-flashed with latest v23 files and my first call, although I could hear the other party pretty well (although I would like to increase the volume), the other party complained of bad distortion so I guess it is time to find the correct mix of state fil

Re: Is Neo Freerunner a phone?

2010-03-30 Thread Denis Johnson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Martin Šenkeřík wrote: > I can recomend you android. I was looking for reliable phone, I tried > "everything", and my last try - android is total winner. Give it a > try. Can you confirm what freerunner and android versions please cheers Denis _

Re: QtMoko v19

2010-02-07 Thread Denis Johnson
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Alishams Hassam wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 16:17 +0200, Margo wrote: >> If I use the nodebug kernel I can't boot with qi (I use qi installed >> by qtmoko v16d installer). It just vibrates once and flashes the red >> led but doesn't start to boot. But it does boo

Re: QtMoko webkit related crash in v16 and multiplexing

2010-02-04 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Denis Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:40 PM, ghislain wrote: >> You don't need to unpack the kernel-modules because they are already >> unpacked and depmodded in the rootfs.img. > Prior to flashing the image I also used qtbackup

Re: [QtMoko] No GSM network after buying new battery

2010-02-04 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Margo wrote: > If I reinstalled the QtMoko (v16d) and used the QtBackup utility to > restore my settings and files, then I still had the same problem ("No > network"). But now I did clean install without restoring from backup > and now everything seems to work. I re

Re: QtMoko webkit related crash in v16 and multiplexing

2010-02-04 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:40 PM, ghislain wrote: > You don't need to unpack the kernel-modules because they are already > unpacked and depmodded in the rootfs.img. Excellent thanks. Prior to flashing the image I also used qtbackup while v16b was loaded. However after I flashed v16d and then 'tar

Re: QtMoko webkit related crash in v16 and multiplexing

2010-02-03 Thread Denis Johnson
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:14 PM, ghislain wrote: > > You can just dfu-util the 'kernel.img' and the 'rootfs.img', there is no > conversion needed. Thanks for your efforts. I have flashed both but it seems to be struggling with GSM and possibly WiFi but have not checked. Don't we still need kernel

Re: thanks to authors of Podboy, NIDE, and openmokontrol

2010-01-25 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Josh Thompson wrote: > NIDE is working really well to control MythTV.  I had been thinking of writing > something to control it via MythTV's remote control interface.  This works > just as well and works for other apps too. I have wanted to get NIDE running on my

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-22 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Helge Hafting writes: >> That ticket seems to describe a similiar problem with wifi, it doesn't >> mention GSM. Or are both handled by a common piece of hardware? > > No. GSM runs on a separate ARM processor and is accessed over a se

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-21 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nicola Mfb wrote: > You may try > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NIDE/NIDED I'm still trying to find suitable NIDED package to install and run on QTMoko v16b. Any ideas where and how. Do I need to add a special feed ? cheers Denis ___

Re: [QtMoko] Call volumes

2010-01-18 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Brolin Empey wrote: > I think you mean this post:> > Indeed that is the one I was referring to, thanks. I also found this one http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-December/05818

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: > and my FR's date and time is always back to 1st Jan 1970 after a > reboot.  It looks to me as though the RTC device isn't working: > > debian-gta02:~# hwclock --show > RTC_RD_TIME: Invalid argument > I my case on QtMoko V16B and this kernel I

Re: [QtMoko] Call volumes

2010-01-18 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Radek Polak wrote: > You can install qalsamixer under settings->software packages if it helps. I > dont have buzzfix so cant help more. Thanks, I installed that however it is difficult to tie together all those sliders to the various control numbers in the state

[QtMoko] Call volumes

2010-01-17 Thread Denis Johnson
I have switched to using QTMoko, currently running V16b and I cannot seem to get the call volumes right. Caller is not loud enough and caller struggles to hear me. do I need to fiddle with teh gsmhandset.state file manually or is there a better way ? I have a GTA02 A05 with buzzfix. Anyone have a s

Re: AW: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-14 Thread Denis Johnson
e, which should soon be available in the >> Hackable:1 feeds. >> > > It will be available tomorrow at > http://build.hackable1.org/debian/dists/wip/main/binary-armel/ (and for > some other archs too) > > I tested it, it's awesome :D > > David > >>

Re: AW: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-12 Thread Denis Johnson
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:13 AM, David Wagner wrote: > It will be available tomorrow at > http://build.hackable1.org/debian/dists/wip/main/binary-armel/ (and for > some other archs too) > > I tested it, it's awesome :D You tested on QTMoko ? ____ &

Re: [qtmoko] New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-12 Thread Denis Johnson
Excellent thanks, Does this include a normal flashable image I can put straight to nand or is this an SD card install only ? cheers Denis On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:34 PM, ghislain wrote: > > I've created a new installer-image for QtMoko V16B, it can be downloaded > here:  http://www.openmobile.

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-12 Thread Denis Johnson
Any idea if it is possible or how I can install this on QTMoko V16 ? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nicola Mfb wrote: > You may try > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NIDE/NIDED > Regards >      Niko ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.op

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Denis Johnson
Thanks to Radek, I indeed also needed to download an untar the modules. All good, great work. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Denis Johnson wrote: > Good work, > > Do I only need the .bin or the config and modules also. I have tried > just the .bin using qtMoko v16 image and it

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-10 Thread Denis Johnson
Good work, Do I only need the .bin or the config and modules also. I have tried just the .bin using qtMoko v16 image and it boots quite quickly to qt ui then cycles to black screen with blinking cursor then after some time back to qt screen then back to black screen. etc cheers Denis On Sat, Jan

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-07 Thread Denis Johnson
lient running. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Denis Johnson wrote: > Now I am really straying OT, but now that I have followed the make and > make install steps for nided and modprobe for uinput, I seem to have > hosed my mythtv frontend which boots through to X but then sits there >

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-06 Thread Denis Johnson
mouse or keyboard. Anyway won't bore this group and I'll go an debug what's up or take it to mythtv group. cheers Denis On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nicola Mfb wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Denis Johnson wrote: >> Does anyone know if there is something a

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Denis Johnson
Sounds perfect !! you have me salivating, many thanks for the link and prompt response... something to play with tonight :-) cheers Denis On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nicola Mfb wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Denis Johnson wrote: >> Great work, thanks for this. >>

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Denis Johnson
Just as a data point, I have checked the default settings in shr-t but I know I have to use the date command in an ssh session to get date and time set correctly and also do a hardware sync. Strangely it seems to keep the time until I re-connect via usb and ssh in, from there the time goes out. I

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Denis Johnson
Great work, thanks for this. At the risk of straying somewhat off topic, I would love to have an app on the FR to allow me to use the FR as a remote control for my MythTV front-end albeit accelerometers not really needed, although some gestures could be useful down the track. Does anyone know if

Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-02 Thread Denis Johnson
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > In the name of the FSO team, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! Thanks to you and the rest of the FSO team for what you have achieved to date and hope 2010 is indeed the year for FSO to prevail and go from strength to strength. re

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-29 Thread Denis Johnson
yes yes shr-t latest On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? > Do you use FR as your primary PDA? > > What distribution you run most of the time? > > If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change > over to, and

Re: Bluetooth PBAP support for FSO

2009-12-23 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > So is someone out there who owns a handsfree, car or sth else that supports > showing contacts and/or missed calls over bluetooth? I have a Ipaq 4150 running Windows CE and CoPilot Navigator which uses bluetooth gps and software supports

Re: [Shr-User] [shr-latest] fso or phonefsod borked (?) no resume

2009-12-17 Thread Denis Johnson
Yes. I upgraded to moko11 firmware earlier this year, and later also sent it off for buxzfix. It came back with Android on it and I have since re flashed to QTMoko V14 and now to shr-t. I haven't checked but I doubt it has gone backwards. Denis On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:13 PM, William Kenworthy

Re: [Shr-User] [shr-latest] fso or phonefsod borked (?) no resume

2009-12-17 Thread Denis Johnson
I'm not sure if this is related, but I have certainly had sms go missing until a reboo. This is on shr-t . However I also noticed this behaviour on QTMoko v14 which is what prompted me to switch to latest testing SHR. Is this possibly a kernel related issue or perhaps common FSO base ? On Thu, Dec

Re: [shr-t] Contacts crash upon startup

2009-12-12 Thread Denis Johnson
I'm have the lite image with no additional installed packages, and I have been experiencing various crashes of the contacts app, sometimes just scrolling, sometimes if you just remove a field label and save. It started to just crash on startup so I rebooted and now it starts but is completely blank

Re: [Shr-User] ANNOUNCE: new shr-testing image

2009-12-08 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Betreff: [Shr-User] ANNOUNCE: new shr-testing image Just re-flashed after using QTMoko for some time. Using lite image and while I have not tested all functionality this looks and feels nice and so far has been stable. Nice work and many

Re: [QtMoko] Call quality

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Denis Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:17 PM,   wrote: > Fortunately I have a backup on my desktop machine. The > gsmhandset.state file I used in SHR is attached. But I am yet to try > it on QtMoko sorry to reply to my own mail but I want

Re: [QtMoko] Call quality

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:17 PM, wrote: > -[ Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:09:30PM +1000, Denis Johnson ] >> > You should probably copy your mixer settings from SHR to QtMoko >> > if it was better under SHR. >> >> Oops, already blown away :-( > > Yes but if

Re: [QtMoko] Call quality

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM, wrote: > -[ Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:52:00PM +1000, Denis Johnson ] >> I'm not sure if this is characteristic of QtMoko or just bad luck call >> quality, however my previous experience with SHRU was fine. > > You should probably cop

Re: [QtMoko] mediaplayer issue

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Radek Polak wrote: > On Wednesday 28 of October 2009 03:37:34 Denis Johnson wrote: > >> How does one play a mpeg stream uing a link from qmplayer such as >> http://192.168.0.105//mythweb/pl/stream/1003/1256644800 > > You can try the "

Re: [QtMoko] glamo mplayer

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Radek Polak wrote: > Yes, the binary that QMplayer downloads from internet is using glamo > acceleration. > > Btw QMplayer has also PC version [1]. On your PC you can scan for media and > start http server which will offer videos encoded for Freerunner for streamin

Re: [QtMoko] glamo mplayer

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Dan Staley wrote: > I was thinking about this the other day.  There are arm4 ports of > myth-frontendso I wonder how well the frontend would run on the > freerunner. > It is designed to look good on low res screens > I may try installing the front-end after

Re: [QtMoko] glamo mplayer

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Matthias Huber wrote: > did someone already try to port vlc media player ? +1 I have asked this months ago and got no replies, I hope the answer has changed as vlc works fine enough for playback on my desktop and was my first thought. ___

[QtMoko] Call quality

2009-10-29 Thread Denis Johnson
Just made my first QtMoko V14 based call, FR A5 with buzzfix -> IPhone and the other party struggled to understand me, they said somewhat faint and very crackly/broken up. I heard the other party clearly although I think I would have preferred a little more volume. I'm not sure if this is characte

Re: [QtMoko] mediaplayer issue

2009-10-27 Thread Denis Johnson
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Radek Polak wrote: > It's known problem. If you need good quality playback, you can use qmplayer > program. How does one play a mpeg stream uing a link from qmplayer such as http://192.168.0.105//mythweb/pl/stream/1003/1256644800 _

[QtMoko] glamo mplayer

2009-10-27 Thread Denis Johnson
I want to use my FR to watch a stream from my MythTV recordings using http stream (I think it is mpeg 2) using my wireless. Is the glamo enhanced mplayer available in QtMoko/Denian ? cheers Denis ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openm

CorePy: Assembly Programming in Python

2009-10-22 Thread Denis Johnson
http://www.corepy.org/ I came across this while researching other development related stuff and I thought it may be interesting for some of the Python aficionados here who may have not heard of it. For those that want or need some raw performance or access access to lower level stuff on the FR che

Re: [shr-u] Latest update failed and connectivity lost

2009-09-17 Thread Denis Johnson
Thanks, but neither has corrected the problem. I guess it is looking like a reflash On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > 2009/9/17 Christ van Willegen : >> I searched some mailing list archives, and this magic incantation let >> me connect to the network again (I had the same

[shr-u] Latest update failed and connectivity lost

2009-09-16 Thread Denis Johnson
I'm not quite sure where to report this so I apologize if it does not belong here. I did an 'opkg update && opkg upgrade' today as I have many other times. I received the following errors: Collected errors: * Package libldap-2.3-0 wants to install file /usr/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so.0 But tha

Re: [elementary] How to get evas object out of elementary.Window

2009-09-08 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Laszlo KREKACS wrote: > And please paste the result here. My results via ssh session: python Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Sep 7 2009, 00:26:26) [GCC 4.1.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import elementary >>> ele

Re: Device Orientation API

2009-09-07 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:36:21PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: >> I'm sketching a simple device orientation API for FSO. The purpose is to be >> informed about changes in the physical device orientation. My first take is >>

Re: Launcher 0.30 release

2009-08-20 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:49 AM, c_c wrote: > > Hi, > Well, here's the latest release. > > http://n2.nabble.com/file/n3480288/launcher_0.30_arm.ipk > launcher_0.30_arm.ipk > I guess this is a feature request. How hard would it be to optionally allow finger swiping from category to category ? Th

Re: testing Litephone, new phone interface

2009-08-20 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Michal Brzozowski wrote: > Hi, > > I gave it a try and wrote an FSO based phone app in Qt. It's using the new > PIM service, and since that's not completely stable yet, there are a few > problems. I'm releasing this anyway, to help test FSO, and meanwhile get > som

Re: Launcher 0.30 release

2009-08-20 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM, c_c wrote: > > Hi, > Well, thats one issue. Could you copy all the icons from > /usr/share/icons/shr/86x86/apps to /usr/share/pixmaps ? > Yes that fixed it thanks. cheers Denis ___ Openmoko community mailing list com

Re: Launcher 0.30 release

2009-08-20 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:28 AM, c_c wrote: > > Please post bugs / problems / inconsistencies you've faced. There are a > lot of db changes and things will take a little while to settle. I set the dialer and contacts into the home category and they show on the bottom of the screen only as lab

Re: Freerunner audio channels

2009-08-07 Thread Denis Johnson
+1 2009/8/8 Vasco Névoa > I think you're all missing the point. > > David's initial post is a breath of fresh air into a long debated but > (AFAIK) non-resolved issue. > > I deeply welcome his investigation into this subject, and support his > questions (which I also would like to see answered).

Re: [SHR-U] Bluetooth and GSM... Again.

2009-07-13 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Paul Fertser wrote: > Denis Johnson writes: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Paul Fertser wrote:\ >>> BT support for FSO already works for quite some time (several >>> months). Lack of interest from end-users is something that clear

Re: [SHR-U] Bluetooth and GSM... Again.

2009-07-13 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Paul Fertser wrote:\ > BT support for FSO already works for quite some time (several > months). Lack of interest from end-users is something that clearly > shows the developers that they shouldn't waste time improving it. On the contrary, I feel this is one of the

Re: Openmoko Neo FreeRunner GTA02 versions A5 & A6 Audio Buzz - Quality Enhancement Service

2009-07-07 Thread Denis Johnson
Also I am somewhat concerned that from Australia we will struggle to make the cut-off date considering it is already the 8th here. cheers Denis On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Fri, June 5, 2009 4:32 pm, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> He wrote that he is in the US. >> >>

Re: Why is it so slow ?

2009-07-01 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: > Just set ELM_ENGINE env variable to x11-16. You must know about > /etc/profile, didn't you? ;> Just to demonstrate my lack of familiarity in this area, could someone please provide exact example of the line that needs to be added to /

Re: App for remotely controlling jukebox software

2009-06-17 Thread Denis Johnson
I have a SqueezeBox Duet http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/products/squeezebox-duet.html and run SqueezeCenter (OSS) on my NAS but I notice that Duet hand controller which uses WiFi for remote control, runs linux and a LUA based UI for remote control http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/. As far as

Re: How to get buzz fix in Australia

2009-06-17 Thread Denis Johnson
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Chris Samuel wrote: > I guess the first question to ask yourself is "do I have the buzz problem" ? > > I've been really happy with mine in the UK, US and here in Australia and > nobody has complained about any buzzing (yet).  I think I'd only consider this > if it

Re: How to get buzz fix in Australia

2009-06-15 Thread Denis Johnson
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > You can send it to sdgsystems.com. > You first purchase the "freerunner audio quality enhancement" on the > website.  This costs $0 plus postage. > Their postage price is around $AU100 sent by international > courier.  If you ask, they will sent i

How to get buzz fix in Australia

2009-06-15 Thread Denis Johnson
I have asked this before but the thread seems to have fizzled. I have a GTA02 V5 one of the first group purchases into Australia and I would like to know if anyone in Australia is planning a buzz fix party or if there is somewhere overseas I can send my Freerunner to get fixed. I do not have the

Re: a new keyboard - discuss and critique

2009-06-13 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: >   They call it qwo[1] and I think it rules. It takes many hours to get used > to it, but I think it is definitely worth it. +1 After trying many keyboards, qwo rocks. I am yet to try dasher but I'm pretty sure that the minimal scr

Re: Interest for C#/.Net/Mono wrapper of FSO Api?

2009-05-15 Thread Denis Johnson
> Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 20:34:49 schrieb Andreas Willich: >> So I was thinking of writing a wrapper around FSO so I do not have >> everywhere in my applications dbus calls to fso. >> >> Is there interest for such a wrapper? I was under the impression that FSO already had a high level Python wra

Re: Finger friendly keyboards

2009-05-09 Thread Denis Johnson
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jon Levell wrote: > Hi, > > So far on my FR, I've mostly been typing non-dictionary words so the > predictive keyboard has been getting in my way. I knew a few people > had created finger friendly keyboards so I had a bit of a play. Have you tried Qwo ? http://www

Re: [New Mokomaze] Coming soon

2009-05-07 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > Using gmeter for resetting suspend-timer is useless here as I may hold the > game steady and still don't want the screen to blank. > The only correct way to handle this is to stop screenblanking as long as > mokomaze is running. > I sugge

Re: [Mokomaze 0.5.0] is released

2009-05-04 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:30 AM, ANT wrote: > Actually, I am following this way. I am sure that the game itself is more > important than a tons of statistic and sub-menus: just launch the game and > start playing. So, if the feature of showing information about level time > and retries count will b

Re: [QtExtended] Latest and greatest, progress mail 11

2009-05-04 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > * keyboard: now that the keyboard prediction can be turned off, it is > already much more usable, but still needs a lot of "dragging > left/right/up/down" to make a real sentence with punctuation and > stuff. So some extra buttons and

Re: [SHR-Testing] Ebook reader?

2009-04-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Johny Tenfinger wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 20:12, Russell Dwiggins wrote: >> I recommend you use the fbreader from opkg.org too…has the ellopatches that >> make books actually readable. ;) > > SHR version has that patches included. I'm running SHR testing

Re: NEW e-tasks Alpha release

2009-04-29 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM, c_c wrote: > Hi, >  20 odd views and no feedback? Seems like PIM apps aren't really on very > many people's radar :-) > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/NEW-e-tasks-Alpha-release-tp2740524p2744591.html On the contrary, I would lobe a full int

Buzz on GTA02v5 with latest SHR-Testing, do I need buzz fix ?

2009-04-28 Thread Denis Johnson
Currently running SHR Testing from around 22 April, on my GTA02V5 in Australia. While on a mobile to mobile call, the other party complained about buzzing. 1. Could someone please confirm that this is the hardware caused buzzing problem and not related to the distro or alsa state settings. 2. Are

Re: USB Kernel problem with latest SHR unstable

2009-04-27 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > no, there was nothing wrong with the port or cable - someone at shr > hadn't run depmod before creating the tarball, and the modules for > communicating over usb weren't being loaded. if you run depmod on your > phone, it should clear it up

Re: USB Kernel problem with latest SHR unstable

2009-04-23 Thread Denis Johnson
worked. However, repeating the exercise as described bellow, also fails on the Kernel from the 9th. So something else is still at play here and it may be Ubuntu/host related. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Denis Johnson wrote: > I'm not sure who or how to report this but since I h

USB Kernel problem with latest SHR unstable

2009-04-23 Thread Denis Johnson
I'm not sure who or how to report this but since I have gone through the test and it has taken some time to resolve. Flashing the latest SHR image and kernel from http://shr.bearstech.com/shr-unstable/images/om-gta02/ 23 April uImage-2.6.29-oe10+gitr119800+0b9d21bf5d05d5dd909425a67a8be2eb1c1fc579

Re: [ubuntu host] NetworkManager improvements

2009-02-22 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Joel Newkirk wrote: > I know several people here have had problems with the NetworkManager > bugs in Intrepid. Although slightly OT in regards to your FR question, I have found many recommend to install Wicd, http://www.wicd.net/ which removes Network Manager and

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-02-16 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Dylan Reilly wrote: > One of my primary uses for the openmoko is a music player Just as a general question, and I apologize to the community if this has been discussed here previously. I wonder if anyone has tried to run VLC from http://www.videolan.org/ on the

Re: Optimization team update (11/30 ~ 12/06)

2008-12-07 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it has something to do with hardware revisions. I get the same kind of > battery life. I have a GTA02V5 and I'm also experiencing 36-48 hour battery life with QTExtended 4.4.2. This is with suspend enabled. cheers Denis _

Re: First impressions on new Android rootfs

2008-12-03 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Matthias Camenzind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried this with 512MB SD (it works): > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/mmcblk0p1 17814 250040 6 FAT16 > /dev/mmcblk0p27815 15568

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale Maggee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * It's my Hard drive that doesn't support FLAC! If I used flac, my music > library (I guess "mp3 collection" will soon become a misnomer!) would be > *enormous*! Yes, I realise it's lossless etc etc, but 320kpbs mp3s are > cl

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-26 Thread Denis Johnson
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Atilla Filiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mp3 is also a lossy format. so other formats are not lower quality. The > thing is, converting from one format to another is also a lossy operation > itself. So if you convert an ogg music to mp3, you may also end up with >

Gerrit and Repo, the Android Source Management Tools for GIT

2008-11-23 Thread Denis Johnson
I'm uncertain if this is the right list to post to, however, I came across this in ccontext of Android, but since it seems that most of the distros are using GIT then this may be of broader general interest. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/11/gerrit-and-repo-android-source.html cheers

Re: USB Networking

2008-11-06 Thread Denis Johnson
u, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Denis Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I have had this setting for months it does not work for me. >> >> Whenever I want to connect my FR, I must first plug it in into the usb >> and then run the following script which someo

Re: USB Networking

2008-11-06 Thread Denis Johnson
I have had this setting for months it does not work for me. Whenever I want to connect my FR, I must first plug it in into the usb and then run the following script which someone once posted here or on the #openmoko irc. Until I run ths script I cannot ping and hence ssh into the FR. Unfortunately

Re: GTA03 - buttons or touchscreen

2008-10-26 Thread Denis Johnson
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:39 AM, JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok Community, > > vote and tell OM what you want for the next phone > > [also realise this is still a long time away and Freerunner is available to > buy > now!] > > 1) touchscreen (no qwerty buttons) - freerunner, HTC Orbit, iphon

Re: Virtualized developer system (was Re: Back to the basics:improving user experience)

2008-10-20 Thread Denis Johnson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Jisakiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ¿May I suggest the image being a virtualbox one instead of vmware? Virtualbox > is quite fast as well, and there are free (as in speech) versions available > for all major distros. Only problem is that the open source does no

Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th

2008-10-20 Thread Denis Johnson
Excellent summary, many hours saved. Much appreciated, please keep it up. Cheers Denis On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Minh Ha Duong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > welcome to the unofficial Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th > issue. The two big news are the l

Re: LED notification

2008-10-19 Thread Denis Johnson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Jason Cawood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My reason is because if I suspend my phone then I walk away and return > to it, I have no visible notification I missed an event unless I touch > the screen and see if my phone is still suspended. If I'm not > constantly to

Re: OpenMooCow 0.1

2008-10-14 Thread Denis Johnson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Thomas White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pleased to be able to announce version 0.1 of my "advanced > accelerometer and audio framework testing system", OpenMooCow. > Available from http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~taw27/openmoko/openmoocow/ Sounds like fun, what dis

Re: volume phone very low after upgrade to qtopia-4.3.3-snapshot-09012242

2008-09-24 Thread Denis Johnson
I have also experienced the same. The incoming sound volume is barely audible, it sound like an ant in the distance. However the outgoing volume is excellent. Can someone please post the correct set of alsa state files and instructions on where to put them. regards Denis On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Denis Johnson
FWIW, I have a laptop with 2gig ram and the host if Windows XP. I know I know, but for work that's what I need. So I use the free http://virtualbox.org and run a virtualized Ubuntu on my Windows XP SP3 box, but I'm sure it is fine in Vista also. That way one does not have to shutdown one or the oth

Gestures now working on fso-testing

2008-08-17 Thread Denis Johnson
Those who may be interested in the gestures project http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer-based_Gestures. After some assist today kudos to rwhitby to get some prerequisite packages built into the feeds, I have successfully installed the gestures package on latest fso-testing image. Gesture tr