[maemo-developers] Game implementation on Hildon or SDL? And what about my project

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel Monteiro
Hi folks its been a long since I last posted this mailing list (but Ive been reading it on since then). Im developing a 3D game engine having mobile devices in mind (and the 770 is the perfect testbed). My engine has a system layer called System Abstraction Layer ,responsible for abstracting

Re: [maemo-developers] Game implementation on Hildon or SDL? And what about my project

2006-05-05 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
Daniel Monteiro wrote: SDL would have a faster hardware access. On the other hand , Maemo wold be better integrated with the system, would not need the GameLauncher, etc. I'm sorry to interfere, but is GameLauncher really needed? SDL applications seem to run fine enough or I'm missing

Re: [maemo-developers] Game implementation on Hildon or SDL? And what about my project

2006-05-05 Thread Kuisma Salonen
Hi! ext Daniel Monteiro kirjoitti: Hi folks its been a long since I last posted this mailing list (but Ive been reading it on since then). Im developing a 3D game engine having mobile devices in mind (and the 770 is the perfect testbed). My engine has a system layer called System Abstraction

[maemo-developers] Re: uffff

2006-05-05 Thread Kasper Souren
Sending this to maemo-developers, maybe someone there knows more about how to tackle this issue. Now my feeling is that it is definitely python-related, coz' last night I made one more experiment, installing the following things on a fresh German machine (who knows...!) 1. ossoXterm, FBReader,

[maemo-developers] Interested in developing applications for the Nokia 770 with Maemo...

2006-05-05 Thread Redefined Horizons
I work as a developer for a company thatneeds to createa mobile mapping system. We will be developing the software for the system in house, (which will be released under an open source license), and we are looking for a dedicated hardware platform. We would prefer Linux, and are trying to avoid

Re: [maemo-developers] Interested in developing applications for the Nokia 770 with Maemo...

2006-05-05 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:23:34AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: [1] What are Nokia's future plans for supporting a handheld with a Linux OS? Have the made any indication as to their commitment to the open source community, and how had the 770 worked out for the company? (I hope there

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: uffff

2006-05-05 Thread Kasper Souren
I know app-installer-tool is suppsed to run as user, It is actually supposed to run as the user install, like so Aha.. What about ownership in /var/lib/install? but I tend to always use it as root. That might leave files behind that can not be modified by the install user, and thus can

Re: [maemo-developers] Interested in developing applications for the Nokia 770 with Maemo...

2006-05-05 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:05 -0700, Ralph Giles wrote: [snip] The screen is fine in the shade, but like most backlit lcd screens, it's hard to read in direct sunlight. Of course, you're unlikely to do better for a reasonable price; it's just a pity so many people use computers in dark

Re: [maemo-developers] Interested in developing applications for the Nokia 770 with Maemo...

2006-05-05 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 07:41:51PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: The screen used in the OLPC gives hope. It's meant to be readable in direct sunlight, in a reflected-light black/white mode, I believe: http://laptop.org/faq.en_US.html Thanks for the pointer. Is this actually two modes in the

[maemo-developers] machine not loading display properly anymore -- blank screen with vertical lines?

2006-05-05 Thread Christine Liu
hi all - i was in the process of 'becomingroot' (which i had some issues with) and in the midst of turning it from R+D mode into production mode and vice versa, my machine all of a sudden went into a display disaster. the effect: a white screen with very very faint lines running through. the