Re: [maemo-developers] SDL vertical blank (vbl) sync.

2006-05-29 Thread Juha Yrjölä
Kuisma Salonen wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone knows how to sync. the SDL_Flip to the vertical blanking of the display. While it is nice to get 47+ FPS while memset'ing the display, I would rather be synced to the display and avoid the tearing at the cost of FPS. This is actually gener

Re: [maemo-developers] 770 display failure workaround

2006-03-29 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:57 +0200, ext Philippe Laporte wrote: > Just because you want to cover your ass does not mean people have to > shut up. At least not outside Nazi Germany... *Bling* You won! [1] Really quickly, too! Cheers, Juha [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law ___

Re: [maemo-developers] 770 display failure workaround

2006-03-29 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:25:39PM +0200, ext Philippe Laporte wrote: > >Because you have been told numerous times that what you are asking for > >simply does not exist. > > > Still, you are not justified in your attitude. You're the one with the attitude problem. If we say there is no magic dis

Re: [maemo-developers] Flasher Documentation -- In Progress.

2006-01-31 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:30:49PM +0200, ext Ed Bartosh wrote: > > * -load, -l I cannot figure out the value of just loading a file without > > flashing it. Do I follow on with another command to flash? How so? > > All other options look to flash and load in one pop from the host PC. > > How do

Re: [maemo-developers] swapfile is a huge improvement!

2006-01-16 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:12 -0500, Dave Neuer wrote: > But, where a developed market for the device doesn't exist, one has to > seriously ask the question whether simplicity and reliability are a > substitute for flexibility and openess to experimentation, with the > risk that the complexities inh

Re: [maemo-developers] swapfile is a huge improvement!

2006-01-16 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:55 +0200, ext Urho Konttori wrote: > This is just a suggestion, but could the following be safe enough for > consumer grade swap use on Nokia 770: > > If user has swapon. User opens MMC door. System pops up a large RED > GUI that states: You have swap active. Please turn

Re: [maemo-developers] swapfile is a huge improvement!

2006-01-15 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:10 -0500, ext Dave Neuer wrote: > > Not really, since the flash controller on an MMC card is supposed to do > > wear-levelling. The FAT blocks, for example, would die pretty quickly > > otherwise, since they're written to very often. > > So, is there any benefit to JFFS2

Re: [maemo-developers] swapfile is a huge improvement!

2006-01-15 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 11:55 -0500, ext Vladislav Grinchenko wrote: > with swap on, what happens to the system when you manually remove the > mmc card? Or when you connect the USB cable to the unit? Removing the MMC card will definitely cause Bad Things to happen. It's also very tricky to protect

Re: [maemo-developers] swapfile is a huge improvement!

2006-01-14 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:33 +, ext Clemens Eisserer wrote: > But keep in mind that a swap-file means meany reads/writes to the same > areas of flash which will for sure lead to the death of the mmc later > or sooner. Not really, since the flash controller on an MMC card is supposed to do wear

Re: [maemo-developers] Huge bundle O' year-end questions

2006-01-02 Thread Juha Yrjölä
Hi Jason, On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 02:53 -0800, ext Jason Mills wrote: > * How does one get access to the hardware Random Number Generator? (Is that > what /dev/urandom is pinned to?) No way with the current kernel. At the moment we just populate the kernel entropy pools with some amount of random

Re: [maemo-developers] R&D flags

2005-12-20 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 13:38 +0200, ext Ilkka Poutanen wrote: > Slightly offtopic, but it'd be great if someone with Knowledge of all > the R&D flags could document them in the Maemo wiki. The flasher tool > usage page[1] could do with an overhaul anyway, it'd be a nice place for > this information

Re: [maemo-developers] Issues with using flasher utility on Linux and eventual solution

2005-12-19 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:23:52AM -0800, ext Aaron Levinson wrote: > 1. I turned of the 770 (switch off!). > 2. I plugged in the USB cable to the 770 and the computer. > 3. I turned on the 770 and held down the home key (to be more precise, > the hardware button that has the picture of a house

Re: [maemo-developers] OMAP 1710 Processor docs?

2005-12-17 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:03:39PM -0800, ext Ralph Giles wrote: > Last time I went digging I found a reference that claimed it was > binary-compatible with the OMAP 5912, which does have some docs > (best just to try searching for them). Also, you can look at the > block diagram that is availabl

Re: [maemo-developers] OGG support

2005-10-31 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 +0100, ext Koen Kooi wrote: > What's nokia's position on EABI[1]? At least this part of Nokia thinks that EABI is cool. Cheers, Juha ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/li

Re: [maemo-developers] XIP, CELinux collaboration

2005-10-21 Thread Juha Yrjölä
Hi, On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:36:37PM -0200, ext Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > 1) Why not use eXecute In Place? Since XIP on NAND isn't very useful... Cheers, Juha ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mai

Re: [maemo-developers] Audio-in onboard?

2005-07-04 Thread Juha Yrjölä
Hi, On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:40 +0200, ext Timo Steuerwald wrote: > I'm not sure if this were already asked, but are there plans that the > device will also have a common audio-in connector? It's been answered, although with a confusing message subject, here: http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-d

Re: [maemo-developers] external usb devices

2005-06-29 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:45 +0300, ext Paul Mundt wrote: > You won't be able to use USB OTG out of the box, but it's easy to get > going with some trivial modifications. This has already been outlined > though: Just to clarify, true OTG is out of the question since it requires some things which o

Re: [maemo-developers] external usb devices

2005-06-29 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:02 +0200, ext Nils Faerber wrote: > Do I get this right that if one modifies an active (self powered) USB > HUB so that the +5V VBUS is not connected to the 770 and a transgendered > cable between the 770 and the USB HUB the 770 will then, host mode > enabled, see the HUB

Re: [maemo-developers] Wish list - was plucker viewer for 770

2005-06-15 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 02:05 +0400, ext Mikhail Sobolev wrote: > 2. Quite standard extension -- Xrandr as it was mentioned in the other > post, but this is not available (as far as I understood due to the > memory constraints). > > 3. Not so standard extension. And this seems to become available >

Re: [maemo-developers] api to write to the rs-mmc

2005-06-08 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:22 +0930, ext Chris Warren-Smith wrote: > Also, is the retail hardware finalised yet. Is it too late to add a line-in > jack? With this the 770 could become a nice multi-track recorder. It'd also work nicely as a guitar effects processor due to the powerful DSP. The line

Re: [maemo-developers] tun device for openvpn?

2005-06-07 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:40 -0400, ext Brad Clements wrote: > But, all my email is at the office, so to check it I need to use imap over > openvpn. > > Will the kernel have a tun or tap device so I can port openvpn? It will. We have the same needs here. =) Cheers, Juha _

Re: [maemo-developers] 800x480

2005-05-30 Thread Juha Yrjölä
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:46 +0300, Asko Kauppi wrote: > Ability to swap horizontal/vertical (at least in full screen mode) > would be an almost must-have for this device. I know SDL could do > it, at some level, but there are issues s.a. blitting images on the > screen that might be more el