Re: Possible incompatible change in behaviour of accelerometers - EV_ABS rather than EV_REL - and other thoughts.

2009-03-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday March 10, a...@openmoko.com wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > | Hello fellow developers. > | > | I have be turning my attention to the accelerometers in the Freerunner > | recently, and I would like to make a number

Re: FSO & Paroli

2009-03-10 Thread Nicolas Dufresne
Le mardi 10 mars 2009 à 18:43 +, Arigead a écrit : > I could pick and choose applications and fit > them together as and how I liked. I guess this is the SHR view of FSO. Maybe you should have a try with SHR. Nicolas ___ devel mailing list devel@li

Re: Touch based Dual Boot Menu

2009-03-10 Thread Werner Almesberger
Petr Vanek wrote: > Werner, you might recognize this tkinter script :) Looks familiar indeed :) Already Tkinter sounded like a clue. I think I'm the only one in Openmoko using it. > http://vanous.penguin.cz/files/om/menu/menu.jpg Nice and simple :) If the uSD choices had a little more descriptiv

FSO & Paroli

2009-03-10 Thread Arigead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I know that the Paroli team took a bit of flack on the email lists about the "full screen" version of the application, but since I installed that image I've been making and receiving calls without any issue. I've had FSO installed for mo

Re: Touch based Dual Boot Menu

2009-03-10 Thread Petr Vanek
WA> Sounds cool. Screenshots, for those of us with more curiosity WA> than time to play ? WA> WA> - Werner Werner, you might recognize this tkinter script :) http://vanous.penguin.cz/files/om/menu/menu.jpg Petr ___ devel mailing list devel@lists.ope

Re: Touch based Dual Boot Menu

2009-03-10 Thread Werner Almesberger
Petr Vanek wrote: > upsides: Sounds cool. Screenshots, for those of us with more curiosity than time to play ? - Werner ___ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Werner Almesberger wrote: >> And even if they release one, the firmware is unstable and unsupportable. > > Huh, where did I say that ? This is the main problem, as even if the driver is open source, if there is a closed fat firmware, we will never be able to work

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Werner Almesberger
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > So if I understand correctly, as long as atheos does not release mac80211 > driver there is little hope in making the wifi work properly Not necessarily. Also a better debugged version of their driver and firmware would help. > And even if they release one, the firmware

Re: Openmoko Bug #2255: xf86-video-glamo/703acea13: xrandr -o 1; xrandr -o 3 causes distortion

2009-03-10 Thread Openmoko Public Trac
#2255: xf86-video-glamo/703acea13: xrandr -o 1; xrandr -o 3 causes distortion -+-- Reporter: lindi| Owner: openmoko-devel Type: defect | Status: new Priority: highest | Milest

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
OK. So if I understand correctly, as long as atheos does not release mac80211 driver there is little hope in making the wifi work properly And even if they release one, the firmware is unstable and unsupportable. Well... I am very sad, as it was one of the main peripherals I hoped to use (ex

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Werner Almesberger
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Hmmm... so who is maintaining the driver now? It's still being maintaind inside Atheros but AFAIK, that work would only be useful for us if we could also upgrade the firmware. At the moment, we can't (not even inside Openmoko). It's uncertain if we will ever be able to do so

Re: Information regarding FSO framework

2009-03-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 10 March 2009, sandilya b wrote: > Hi all, > > I just got a new Openmoko Neo Forerunner phone to perform some > development for a class project. I am very excited about it as I can > perform many operations on it. Now I want to write a program in python that > can give me details about

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Werner Almesberger wrote: >> Does anyone know why the wireless driver is not based on standard >> kernel wireless interfaces (MAC80211 or IEEE80211)? > > Atheros presumably did this for power saving reasons. MAC80211 may > also not have been in a good enough shape

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Peter Kraker wrote: >> I'm getting this with every firmware since at least 20090209. Happens >> almost every time you set interface to ad-hoc mode with iwconfig. > > Oh, this is interesting. Alon, are you also using ad-hoc mode ? No...

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Peter Kraker wrote: >> I'm getting this with every firmware since at least 20090209. Happens >> almost every time you set interface to ad-hoc mode with iwconfig. > > Oh, this is interesting. Alon, are you also using ad-hoc mode ? No...

Halt "make fso-gta02-milestone5-image"

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel.Li
Dear List, My fso build has been halt at following place for more then 1 hour. Do u have any idea about this? blabla. NOTE: Running task 3193 of 6602 (ID: 2635, /home/daniel/freerunner/fso/fso-milestone5/openembedded/packages/linux/linux-openmoko-2.6.28_git.bb, do_fetch) NOTE: pack

Re: Touch based Dual Boot Menu

2009-03-10 Thread Petr Vanek
AG> Not 100% certain but stripping the 64-byte U-Boot header that we add AG> will certainly devolve it somewhat. AG> AG> | I am not really sure i understand what happens here (build AG> script): | AG> | ${CROSS_COMPILE}objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S AG> | $1/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vm

FSO autobuild kernel versions

2009-03-10 Thread Gergely Imreh
Hi, I was checking the (I think auto-build) images at http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/unstable/NeoFreerunner/ Extracted the fso-paroli-image-om-gta02.tar.gz onto an SD card, but something about the kernel versions does not add up: The image includes uImage-2.6.24 and -2.6.28, however the

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Peter Kraker
To be sure, I flashed a fresh image. It says 20090305 at boot, but I've got it from here: http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/unstable/daily/om-gta02/20090309/ r...@arwen:/home/ccfly/openmoko# md5sum unstable/* c39077a6acb28256c6eba654e40a6074 unstable/fso-console-image-om-gta02.jffs2 211ab0546

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Werner Almesberger
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > I am using git latest, and decided to recompile minimal kernel based > on the micro configuration, > Some setting were required in order to make the ar6000 load, and now > after the wmiconfig > it actually works Yippee ! So now we just have to find out why you need the wm

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Werner Almesberger
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > No the wmiconfig is not working... :-( > Even if I can workaround the issue at my home AP, what will happen in > other places...? It still won't work, but understanding the problem better may help to find a suitable workaround or even solution. > Does anyone know why the w

Re: Wifi not working

2009-03-10 Thread Werner Almesberger
Peter Kraker wrote: > I'm getting this with every firmware since at least 20090209. Happens > almost every time you set interface to ad-hoc mode with iwconfig. Oh, this is interesting. Alon, are you also using ad-hoc mode ? - Werner ___ devel mailing

Re: Possible incompatible change in behaviour of accelerometers - EV_ABS rather than EV_REL - and other thoughts.

2009-03-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hello fellow developers. | | I have be turning my attention to the accelerometers in the Freerunner | recently, and I would like to make a number of improvements. | I'll give a bit of an overview below for t