Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

2010-03-01 Thread Neil MacLeod
Niels Breet wrote: Hi, - Maemo 5 PR1.2 will ship with Extras enabled by default but will use distribution: fremantle-1.2 - 'older' devices will continue to fetch from distribution: fremantle - Autobuilder will be updated when PR1.2 is released and promotion will only happen to fremantle-1.2 S

Re: Advertisement (Was Ann: Nokia Internet Tablet group for multimedia content, files and more)

2008-03-18 Thread Neil MacLeod
Darius Jack wrote: > Copy goes to Chairman of the Board at Nokia Corporation > Mr Jorma Ollila > http://www.nokia.com/A4126351 > __ That was a bit OTT (over the top) wasn't it?? I think I'll pass on joining your Google Group just in case I u

Re: Using the scrollbar on the N810

2008-02-19 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil wrote: >> Bug 2961[1] now opened for what it's worth... I've >> inadvertently assigned it to the incorrect component (input >> method framework) when it should be Window Manager (I think) >> - perhaps someone would be kind enough to reassign? >> >> After further i

Re: Using the scrollbar on the N810

2008-02-19 Thread Neil MacLeod
Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Neil MacLeod wrote: >> Richard Booth wrote: >> >>> How do others find it? >>> >>> Rich >> Exactly the same as you - when I grab the scrollbar thumbtrack, instead of >> the events being processed by the scrollbar wi

Re: Using the scrollbar on the N810

2008-02-18 Thread Neil MacLeod
Richard Booth wrote: > How do others find it? > > Rich Exactly the same as you - when I grab the scrollbar thumbtrack, instead of the events being processed by the scrollbar widget the events appear to be processed by the main page of the application, such that when I drag the thumbtrack DOWN

Re: explanations of the recent download problems

2008-01-16 Thread Neil MacLeod
Ferenc Szekely wrote: > Hello, > > I owe you an explanation about the problems we faced with the firmware > downloads, repository.maemo.org and the windows update wizard server > backend since Xmas till the beginning of Jan. > Hi Ferenc, don't beat yourself up as mistakes happen and nobody is lo

Re: Contribution code, ...

2008-01-14 Thread Neil MacLeod
Quim Gil wrote: > I'm hoping to post a general summary tomorrow, hopefully full of good > news. :/ > > -- > Quim Gil > http://maemo.org I hope you will at some point over the next few days post a full and frank acknowledgement of the infrastructure disaster that befell this project during the

Re: n810: Light Sensor (?)

2008-01-14 Thread Neil MacLeod
Igor Stoppa wrote: > > iirc this was taken from some phone product, to save time (yes, that's > arguable but it's not the point here) and therefore it's considered not > viable for opening. > > I strongly suspect that if you just check the website of some > manufacturer of ALS devices, you'll pro

Re: RFC: Proposal to solve multiple repository, poor QA situation

2008-01-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
Andrew Flegg wrote: > Hi, > > This morning[1] I think I came up with a solution to the problems that > have recently been discussed on maemo-users of too many repositories > and not enough QA on packages. > > I'd like to raise it here for discussion to polish it, and then > volunteers to help imp

Re: n810: Light Sensor (?)

2008-01-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
Andrew Barr wrote: > Luca De Cicco wrote: > >> Hi there to the list. >> >> Sorry if ask something which has been already discussed... >> I was wondering if there is some specification about the >> small thing near the camera which appears to be a Light Sensor. > > Your best bet is to hook up SSH

Re: correct kernel source for RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2 ?

2008-01-02 Thread Neil MacLeod
Dave Neuer wrote: > Sorry, I don't see how what's preferable for users matters in this case at > all. > > Nokia is under legal obligation to distribute source w/ it's products > which contain GPL software or not distribute the software at all. > > Besides, there really is no excuse not to have

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-12-31 Thread Neil MacLeod
Quim Gil wrote: > > About fixed bugs reported in the public bugzilla, we know we owe to the > users and developers reporting those bugs a better response. The > progress done in the last 6 months is remarkable but we are still not > there. We tried but we couldn't have an updated report in the las

Re: Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

2007-11-07 Thread Neil MacLeod
Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Alex DAMIAN wrote: >> Does anyone else experience these issues ? > > Ahything random can happen with wi-fi connected 770 due to this > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006 > > It doesn't matter which system (2006 or 200HE) you use. > > Frantisek I'd really like

Sardine status update?

2007-10-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
Hi For some time now I've not been able to update the an N800 with Sardine - the hildon-application-framework has unmet dependencies, and continuing the upgrade results in an apparently upgraded device (ie. no major or obvious errors) however the device fails to boot - the progress bar gets to

Re: Sardine: unmet dependencies (on device)

2007-09-17 Thread Neil MacLeod
Marius Vollmer wrote: > There is some weirdness with the meta package right now, it is not > just you. I hope I find some time to correct it soonish. Sorry for > the problems. > No need to apologise - I just wanted to get some visibility on the issue. :) > Try uninstalling the broken packages a

Re: OT[maybe]N800 in stores

2007-09-17 Thread Neil MacLeod
Quim Gil wrote: > I have asked the right person and the answer is that you should avoid > regular phone shops and go instead to: > Quim Slightly OT but still Nokia sales related... Maybe you could mention to "the right person" that the official Nokia Case is impossible to purchase from the US

Re: Sardine: unmet dependencies (on device)

2007-09-16 Thread Neil MacLeod
This is still an issue for me more than 3 weeks later... Does anybody care about Sardine, or is this problem just affecting me (if so, anyone with any ideas why?) ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mail

Sardine: unmet dependencies (on device)

2007-08-22 Thread Neil MacLeod
Upgrading to Sardine on my N800 (4.2007.26-8) fails with unmet dependencies when updating hildon-application-framework. It's been failing for the last few days (4-5 at least). This is my sources.list: #maemo:essential deb http://repository.maemo.org/sardine unstable main non-fre

Re: Software categories

2007-08-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext Neil MacLeod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Perhaps if someone can identify the method currently being used by >> the Application Manager to group applications it can cut down on the >> guesswork, and give us a base from w

Re: Software categories (was do we need garage sandbox repos?)

2007-08-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:32:01 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > > There's no cli section in Debian. But anyway, what you did is incorrect, > as the Section from the '.deb' packages is not the authoritative > source. The Section:s are overriden on the archive, so you sh

Re: Software categories (was do we need garage sandbox repos?)

2007-08-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > Could you first define what you mean by "category"? > > I have a bug in Bugzilla about the terminology, and it's not very clear: > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524 > > This is the relevant part in Debian Policy: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-pol

Re: do we need garage sandbox repos?

2007-08-10 Thread Neil MacLeod
Igor Stoppa wrote: > I'd like to see some separation between tools that a casual user could > find interesting (for example extension of format previews for the file > manager / archive management / disk space graphical visualisation) and > what a power user would consider as tools (for example xt

Re: do we need garage sandbox repos?

2007-08-10 Thread Neil MacLeod
Ferenc Szekely wrote: > On 8/9/07, Vlad Vasiliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil raised a very important point in his mail: categories and control > of the repository. We could experiment with the categories in this > "extras-testing" repository. First we would need a proposal of > categories. Th

Re: do we need garage sandbox repos?

2007-08-10 Thread Neil MacLeod
Ferenc Szekely wrote: > Neil raised a very important point in his mail: categories and control > of the repository. We could experiment with the categories in this > "extras-testing" repository. First we would need a proposal of > categories. The best would be to write this on a wiki page. Neil, >

Re: GAUDEC 2007 Presentations?

2007-08-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Eduardo Lima wrote: > Hi Neil, > > On 8/9/07, Neil MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've seen several blog postings recently (such as this one by Carlos[1]) >> which reference GUADEC presentations (eg. Tko's "Maemo and gtk+: Past, >>

GAUDEC 2007 Presentations?

2007-08-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
I've seen several blog postings recently (such as this one by Carlos[1]) which reference GUADEC presentations (eg. Tko's "Maemo and gtk+: Past, present and future"[2]) and I'd like to view the presentations/slides that were given (if they are available). A whole bunch of Maemo and Nokia related

Re: do we need garage sandbox repos?

2007-08-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
Ferenc Szekely wrote: > Hi, > > The repo maintenance would be done with volunteers. I could establish > the basic environment, make sure that your uploaded packages are > processed etc, but I would like to get your help cleaning up the > sandbox every now and then. > > -ferenc Would the repo mai

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-08-03 Thread Neil MacLeod
Eero Tamminen wrote: > It's not so much "withholding" the information as getting > somebody spending large effort on collecting, filtering/reducing > and translating this information to publicly relevant/usable form. > "Someone" only has to spend a large effort on collecting, filtering etc. *IF*

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-08-03 Thread Neil MacLeod
Eero Tamminen wrote: > It's about the amount of work needed from reducing the "raw" > list of all internal bugfixes which: > - is way too large for anybody to digest as such > - 99% of it would be fixes to bugs that are not present in > _any_ of the public releases > - has items which don't tell

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-08-02 Thread Neil MacLeod
Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > We certainly know what we've fixed, but the issue is that there's > no reasonable way to know what part of that is relevant to you. > At the very least publish those bugs that are aliased to bugs in the Public bugzilla. You have the public bugs aliased to internal

Re: Sardine device upgrade failing for days now

2007-07-17 Thread Neil MacLeod
Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext Neil MacLeod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] it would be >> worth adding an extra step to the Wiki device upgrade instructions >> mentioning the need to "mkdir /tmp/.run" once the copy is completed >>

Re: Sardine device upgrade failing for days now

2007-07-16 Thread Neil MacLeod
Hi Marius Manually creating /tmp/.run has now resulted in a successful Sardine upgrade using the sardine rather than unstable repo. I still don't think dbus should care whether /var/run physically exists or not, but assuming that isn't going to change it would be worth adding an extra step to

Re: Sardine device upgrade failing for days now

2007-07-16 Thread Neil MacLeod
Marius Vollmer wrote: > I wouldn't be using such broad terms; _you_ haven't been able to > upgrade to Sardine unstable for a couple of days now, but that doesn't > mean that Sardine in general is broken. I (and others) actually use > it daily and it works great for me. > True, but it's been fail

Wireless problems since 4.2007 - need development help!

2007-07-14 Thread Neil MacLeod
In light of bug 1636[1], some users are having to manually edit a gconf2 setting in order to stabilise their WiFi connectivity. The solution for many seems to be the setting of the following gconf2 variable: gconftool-2 --set --type int '/system/osso/connectivity/IAP/wlan_sleep_timeout' '1000'

Re: NOKIA/MAEMO - SORT THIS OUT NOW

2007-07-14 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We are doing internal testing in order to determine the cause of this > issue and provide a solution. There is no a conclusion so far. We > acknowledge that some users are getting in trouble with some cards but > in the meantime we have done intensive testing o

Re: Sardine device upgrade failing for days now

2007-07-14 Thread Neil MacLeod
Kemal Hadimli wrote: > worked for me two days ago, after failing a few times. > > what I did was to try booting from it after a chroot upgrade, do the > upgrade again, then try another chrooted upgrade, etc. > Yes, it's possible to boot into the upgraded Sardine, but the fact remains the upgrade

NOKIA/MAEMO - SORT THIS OUT NOW

2007-07-14 Thread Neil MacLeod
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204 There are 35 comments against this blocker bug which is causing end users hardware failures, and there are only two pointless and unhelpful posts form a Nokia staffer. If you want to prove to us you are serious about communication, how about communic

Re: Sardine device upgrade failing for days now

2007-07-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
Neil MacLeod wrote: > Hi > > Sardine has been failing for about 12 days now, and maybe longer - I've been > trying to test Sardine since the beginning of July. The upgrade always fails > at the same point with osso-thumbnail0. This is the output from the upgrade: > >

Sardine device upgrade failing for days now

2007-07-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
Hi Sardine has been failing for about 12 days now, and maybe longer - I've been trying to test Sardine since the beginning of July. The upgrade always fails at the same point with osso-thumbnail0. This is the output from the upgrade: Preparing to replace osso-thumbnail0 0.7-1 (using ..

Re: Internet Tablet Power Management presentation from linux-pm summit 2007

2007-07-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
Neil MacLeod wrote: > Brian Waite wrote: >> So I have another request, Can we possibly have different profiles for >> battery/powered? I think it is really important to be able to say if I am >> plugged in do not go offline because I want to get my VOIP calls, but if I &g

Re: Internet Tablet Power Management presentation from linux-pm summit 2007

2007-07-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
Brian Waite wrote: > So I have another request, Can we possibly have different profiles for > battery/powered? I think it is really important to be able to say if I am > plugged in do not go offline because I want to get my VOIP calls, but if I am > on battery do something more miserly. Again, w

Re: Internet Tablet Power Management presentation from linux-pm summit 2007

2007-07-11 Thread Neil MacLeod
David Weinehall wrote: > On ons, 2007-07-11 at 15:16 +0200, ext Visti Andresen wrote: > > [snip] > >> I could suggest using a "double click" on the power button >> >> First click opens the "Device mode" dialogue. >> Second click "suspends" the device. > > The idea is great, IMHO, but I doubt tha

Re: Firmware 4.2007.26-8 has inferior SDHC performance than 3.2007.10-7 - why?

2007-07-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Kees Jongenburger wrote: > I guess the cards would not be lost , just the data. > Hopefully! But so far nobody has found any software that can recover the cards. > Apparently it's not a bug that can easily be triggers by everybody. > I have my rootfs running on sdhc with new "latest" release and

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-07-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
Quim Gil wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 18:41 +0100, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: > By Diablo, perhaps. We hope so. I should hope it should be possible to release something as basic as a changelog by v5 of a project. I know that sounds harsh, but seriously... if you don't what you'

Re: Firmware 4.2007.26-8 has inferior SDHC performance than 3.2007.10-7 - why?

2007-07-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
> It may be that MMC speed is limited to 24Mhz (wonder what NB#54313 is > about) for similar reason like N770 MMC speed being limited to 12Mhz - By the way, #54313 _is_ the MMC is bug #1204[1] in the public bugzilla (you can see this in the Alias field). So, the clock speed has been capped to p

Re: Firmware 4.2007.26-8 has inferior SDHC performance than 3.2007.10-7 - why?

2007-07-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
Frantisek Dufka wrote: > It may be that MMC speed is limited to 24Mhz (wonder what NB#54313 is > about) for similar reason like N770 MMC speed being limited to 12Mhz - > better compatibility by sacrificing speed. Sadly this makes perfect > sense for Nokia. > I suspected that to be the situation

Re: Firmware 4.2007.26-8 has inferior SDHC performance than 3.2007.10-7 - why?

2007-07-07 Thread Neil MacLeod
Daniel Stone wrote: > > The kernel has also had other changes, which IIRC include blacklisting > some cards, so if you could list exactly which card you're using in the > bug report, that would help. (Some cards were believed to run okay at > higher speeds, but would show up data corruption et al

Re: Firmware 4.2007.26-8 has inferior SDHC performance than 3.2007.10-7 - why?

2007-07-07 Thread Neil MacLeod
Daniel Stone wrote: > > Hi, > Depends which sort of card you're using. IIRC, some cards had problems > running at a higher frequency, so they have to fall back to lower > speeds. > > Cheers, > Daniel > Hi Daniel - same card before and after. The only thing that has changed is the SDHC support

Firmware 4.2007.26-8 has inferior SDHC performance than 3.2007.10-7 - why?

2007-07-07 Thread Neil MacLeod
Can anyone from explain why the performance of SDHC cards is reduced when compared with the performance of the patches made available for the 3.2007.10-7 firmware? The new firmware achieves only 50% of the read performance possible with the old patched kernel (5.6MB/s when 11.99Mb/s is possible)

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-07-07 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Did you (or anyone else) manage to make any progress on a >> changelog for 3.2007.10-7? > > I have started the internal discussion with the aim of having a > changelog linking to maemo's bugzilla being published together with the > next IT OS release notes. And improve

Re: 419 scams using my Maemo Bugzilla email address

2007-07-04 Thread Neil MacLeod
Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, did you get more scams of these? > > Apparently that was a dark weekend in terms of spam, everybody got lots > from many places. > > In the meantime we have also improved a couple of details that might > have let spambots to sniff some email addresses. If you still find hole

Bugzilla Database errors - cannot update bugs

2007-06-20 Thread Neil MacLeod
Hi I'm submitting a new comment on an existing bug (bug 1522 in my case) and I get the following error text (also see screenshot[1]) - this same problem has been confirmed by another user (thoughtfix) on IRC: --- Software error: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Access denied for u

Re: Feature request for Application Menu In Thumb To Take 2 Columns

2007-06-18 Thread Neil MacLeod
You might want to look at bug 990[1] and the comments from Nokia which suggest that Thumb mode will become the default (certainly for the Home menu, though not sure about the Application menu). In 3.2007.10-1, the Application menu in Thumb mode is very poor if applications with long textual des

Re: maemo.org performance (was RE: Features to improve the platform)

2007-06-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Neil, > >> Quim - If you want to improve the Maemo platform, stop messing >> about in public with maemo.org > > Discussing new features has no relation with fixing maemo.org in terms > of tasks or people responsible. I fully agree that the maemo platform > will go n

Re: Features to improve the platform

2007-06-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
Neil MacLeod wrote: > It's 2.35am (1.35am GMT) in London and for the last 25 minutes at least... > > DOWN: > > Planet Maemo (http://planet.maemo.org/) - connection refused (err 503, Squid > error page). > > Maemo Bugzilla (https://maemo.org/bugzilla/) - not res

Re: Features to improve the platform

2007-06-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
It's 2.35am (1.35am GMT) in London and for the last 25 minutes at least... DOWN: Planet Maemo (http://planet.maemo.org/) - connection refused (err 503, Squid error page). Maemo Bugzilla (https://maemo.org/bugzilla/) - not responding (no server?) App Downloads (http://maemo.org/downloads/) - th

Re: Features to improve the platform

2007-06-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You know about _http://maemo.org/intro/roadmap.html_ > > We have been putting more flesh into it at a platform level. We will > keep making each entry a link describing details about the feature and > facilitating focused discussion around it. > > At the end of the ro

Re: wifi of 770 goes blind

2007-06-05 Thread Neil MacLeod
I asked the OP via a PM on the ITT forum to post an update to the mailing list, and he replied that he had replaced the battery which resolved the issue... quote: "I got the wifi working by replaced a battery, therefore I think it's a power suppily problem." Not really sure why a new battery w

Re: Kismet on the N800/Maemo Platform?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil MacLeod
Acadia Secure Networks wrote: > All, > > has anyone been working on getting the Kismet 802.11 layer2 wireless > network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system running on the > Maemo platform? > > For those not already aware of Kismet here is the url to the www page > for the product

Re: wifi of 770 goes blind

2007-05-29 Thread Neil MacLeod
Kalle Valo wrote: > "ext Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> my 770 wifi goes blind all in a sudden, I use a Dlink D614 without >> any encry. reflash to OS from 2007 hack to 2006 betas and final, the >> wifi remains blind all the time. tried to power off and detached the >> battery for a day, s

Re: RSS reader bug?

2007-05-23 Thread Neil MacLeod
Donn Morrison wrote: > I've long noticed a bug in the RSS reader and finally thought I'd ask > about it. Often the RSS applet shows interesting tidbits from my > various feeds that I want to read. However, upon opening the actual > feed reader (and I assume depending on their age), they disappear.

Re: maemo.org is down

2007-05-21 Thread Neil MacLeod
Ferenc Szekely wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/11/07, Neil MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Maemo site has been down for several hours. >> >> This affects bugzilla and more importantly several of the essential Maemo >> repositories are now offline. >&g

maemo.org is down

2007-05-10 Thread Neil MacLeod
The Maemo site has been down for several hours. This affects bugzilla and more importantly several of the essential Maemo repositories are now offline. Are there moves afoot to make maemo.org more resiliant? I appreciate that there are ongoing updates at the moment, but if the Internet Tablets

Re: maemo.org update + call to bugzilla expertise

2007-05-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > - Do not hesitate filing more reports even if they are minor things or > matter of taste. We are happy agreeing with you the next moves. We are > working on the fixes since the very minute the site was launch and we > have just agreed to put some more resource

Search new Wiki - how?

2007-05-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
Silly question, but how do I search the new Wiki? I'm trying to find the Bluetooth DUN compatability Wiki page so I've navigated to the Maemo Wiki http://maemo.org/community/wiki/ and entered "Bluetooth DUN" in the Search box in the top right of the page. Having clicked Search, I'm the

Re: Download page broken again?

2007-05-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
Henri Bergius wrote: > I'll try to kick the Squid process (which runs in port 80) a couple of > times to see what is wrong. > Looks like a good kicking has done the trick - thanks Henri! :) ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org h

Re: Download page broken again?

2007-05-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
Neil MacLeod wrote: > Neil MacLeod wrote: >> http://maemo.org/downloads just returns a blank page. > > Scratch that - the whole of http://maemo.org is returning a blank (zero byte) > page. Home Page, Planet, whatever I had bookmarked is now a blank page. :( Actually I'

Re: Download page broken again?

2007-05-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
Neil MacLeod wrote: > http://maemo.org/downloads just returns a blank page. Scratch that - the whole of http://maemo.org is returning a blank (zero byte) page. Home Page, Planet, whatever I had bookmarked is now a blank page. :( ___ maemo-develop

Download page broken again?

2007-05-08 Thread Neil MacLeod
http://maemo.org/downloads just returns a blank page. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: 419 scams using my Maemo Bugzilla email address

2007-04-26 Thread Neil MacLeod
Quim Gil wrote: Hi, did you get more scams of these? Apparently that was a dark weekend in terms of spam, everybody got lots from many places. In the meantime we have also improved a couple of details that might have let spambots to sniff some email addresses. If you still find holes please sub

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-04-15 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of ext Neil MacLeod Would it be possible to provide a detailed change log for 3.2007.10-7, ideally cross-referenced with the public Bugzilla so that we (the users) known which of those bugs we have raised have been addressed? The published change log is

419 scams using my Maemo Bugzilla email address

2007-04-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
Since I have my own domain I registered with Maemo Bugzilla using a unique email address. Unfortunately in the last few days I have begun receiving several 419 scam emails that are being sent to my Maemo Bugzilla email address. Are the scammers harvesting email addresses from Maemo Bugzilla, an

OT: Re: No more 770 bug activity?

2007-04-04 Thread Neil MacLeod
Frantisek Dufka wrote: Rainer Dorsch wrote: Is there any chance to have a community maintained release? If I remember correctly some drivers are missing to get there, Yoe can get clear picture of current state (i.e. what are those closed parts) from http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Os2007On770 Of

Re: No more 770 bug activity?

2007-04-04 Thread Neil MacLeod
Dave Neuer wrote: On 4/3/07, Acadia Secure Networks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What enterprise wants to use a device that may be abandoned by the vendor for even fixes for known bugs after 1 and 1/2 years?? Dave The reality is that the 770 has been abandoned after just 13 months. The last

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-03-28 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Do not give up on it just yet, it is changing for better. We have a real person behind [EMAIL PROTECTED] If not counting enhancement requests and reports on closed applications then almost all new bug reports get handled. Jakke is quite active! :) What is still

No more 770 bug activity?

2007-03-28 Thread Neil MacLeod
Can anyone from Nokia explain a recent comment[1] posted by a Nokia employee in Bugzilla? Does the comment apply specifically (and only) to the game, or to the entire OS 20066/770 platform? According to Ari Jaaksi, 770 support is continuing yet this comment suggests otherwise. 1. https://mae

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-03-27 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This sounds like something technically easy to do (for Nokia): 1) get all the internal bugs we have fixed 2) extract the referrences to public bugzilla 3) make sure all the public bugzilla bugs are marked as FIXED the same day we release the update And as a bonu

Maemo Downloads - a couple of points, a question and a broken URL

2007-03-25 Thread Neil MacLeod
Hello Nokians On this page http://test.maemo.org/intro/bora/ 1. There is a large red rectangle containing a warning to users that they should not flash OS 2007 on their _old_ Nokia 770 device. Please don't refer to the Nokia 770 as _old_ - that really does send out a bad message to 770 own

3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-03-24 Thread Neil MacLeod
Would it be possible to provide a detailed change log for 3.2007.10-7, ideally cross-referenced with the public Bugzilla so that we (the users) known which of those bugs we have raised have been addressed? The published change log is extremely inadequate, unfortunately. Many thanks... ___

Re: N800 won't start

2007-03-19 Thread Neil MacLeod
Eero Tamminen wrote: Below I'll go through all bootup problems found so far and tell how to deal with them before the next release (where these are fixed) is released. Thanks Eero - very helpful to have a concise list of workarounds. I've created a thread on ITT which references your posting

Re: How to get RW access to the Maemo wiki

2007-03-17 Thread Neil MacLeod
मयंक जैन (makuchaku) wrote: The wiki seems to be locked - I cannot create new pages, cannot edit them... nothing. If spamming is an issue, cant the wiki commits be moderated? Or atleast the commits can be channelized through a person/group? Looking forward to hear comments & suggestions... Rega

Re: Touchscreen right scrollbar area dead-pressure zone

2007-03-11 Thread Neil MacLeod
Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, I was talking about a differen tissue, where the top right-hand corner is insensitive in some devices. Not to the degree that you've suggested, and not degrading over time, but simply that sometimes you need to tap twice to close a window or something. So, different issu

Re: Touchscreen right scrollbar area dead-pressure zone

2007-03-11 Thread Neil MacLeod
Kon Wilms wrote: I was wondering if anyone could shed more light on the hardware issue regarding the dead pressure zone on the right side of some N800's. Mine has been gradually deteriorating to the point that I now have to apply a lot of force to the screen to get the right scroll bar to even

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-10 Thread Neil MacLeod
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: That's why I asked this question in the mailing list. I hope that somebody in a position to make such decision is reading it. Nokia did some beta releases of OS2006 before, so maybe it could be possible to continue this tradition? I asked the same question - "...any ch

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Daniel Stone wrote: Thanks, that's a very good news. We all are looking forward for this firmware update. By the way, is it possible to get an early access to the updated kernels in the future for the purpose of testing and ensuring compatibility? It's a kernel and large X server update. Unfor

Re: Impact on 770/N800 Software on DST change in the US?

2007-03-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Acadia Secure Networks wrote: All, as most on this list are aware, the U.S. is changing its schedule for Daylight Savings Time (DST) starting this year and, the change occurs this coming weekend. Are there any updates to the 770/N800 software that are needed to support this change or has it a

Re: DVD content playback possible or not? Re: Wishlist (was:Re: N800 and USB host mode)

2007-03-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
Hanno Zulla wrote: Hi, But MPEG4 needs more CPU power AND you have to transcode the existing material we already have on DVD or DVB before you can watch it. It's kind of pointless to waste desktop CPU power to transcode existing material if you could watch it in original form. I'd rather trans

Re: N800: Loss of touch screen sensitivity/pressure detection

2007-02-20 Thread Neil MacLeod
Tuukka Tolvanen wrote: Note that the feedreader content responds differently to tap-hold.5s-drag than e.g. the browser or pdfreader; the former does not pan unless you drag very quickly after pressing, the latter two do. 't. Do you have any idea whe the feed reader behaves differently to the

Re: N800: Loss of touch screen sensitivity/pressure detection

2007-02-20 Thread Neil MacLeod
Daniel Stone wrote: Honestly, I have no idea, and I'm not keen to have an uninformed guess in public, lest a torrent of returned devices be traced back to my encouragement. :) Understood :) I'll contact my local Nokia Repair center for advice (not holding out much hope but hey, worth a shot).

Re: N800: Loss of touch screen sensitivity/pressure detection

2007-02-20 Thread Neil MacLeod
Daniel Stone wrote: The other is hardware: as far as I can tell, some touchscreens just don't have much sensitivity in that area, so we never get the appropriate events. Oh dear that's not good, I'm definately suffering from this rather than the firmware issue - I can click on the left part of

Re: N800: Loss of touch screen sensitivity/pressure detection

2007-02-20 Thread Neil MacLeod
inode0 wrote: I see this too when using the newsreader especially. I have noticed that if I just move the stylus around a little bit it helps. If I try in the same place I also see the need to hit it 3 or 4 times. Most taps take the first time if I just move to a slightly different location on th

N800: Loss of touch screen sensitivity/pressure detection

2007-02-20 Thread Neil MacLeod
A number of users, including myself, have reported a loss of touch screen sensitivity which can be visualised by using the Maemopad+ application. In my case, I've lost touch screen sensitivity in the right hand part of the screen covered by the vertical scroll bar meaning that page scrolling by

Re: N800 WLAN driver sources

2007-02-20 Thread Neil MacLeod
Frantisek Dufka wrote: This is interesting. Which internal RAM you mean? Do you mean that chip inside N800 mentioned in the driver as 'STLC4550, aka gen2.5 ' (the one which needs 3826.arm firmware) is different from chip inside N770 which needs firmware with same name (and is also mentioned in N7

[maemo-developers] Re: [Fwd: First release of OS 2007 / 770 hacker edition out]

2007-02-03 Thread Neil MacLeod
Carlos Guerreiro wrote: A first release of the OS 2007 / 770 hacker edition (http://www.notacloud.com/blog/?p=26) is now available for download at http://maemo.org/downloads/os2007_hacker_edition.php. Great news Carlos - and thanks to Markku for all his efforts so far. OS 2007 for 770 isn't

[maemo-developers] Re: Span filesystem across both SD cards?

2007-02-03 Thread Neil MacLeod
Jon Smirl wrote: On 2/1/07, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your own time isn't free, I'd just buy a 2GB card instead spending five or six hours trying to merge two 512MB ones. I'm not sure the size of the cards really matters though - you can find yourself short of sufficient space on a

[maemo-developers] Re: Span filesystem across both SD cards?

2007-02-02 Thread Neil MacLeod
sebastian maemo wrote: I'll write again in three days or so to give a definite opinion. Salut. Sebas. Probably best if you start a new thread as your investigation is somewhat off topic for this thread, thanks! :) ___ maemo-developers mailing li

[maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-announce] New Application Catalog

2007-02-02 Thread Neil MacLeod
Nice job, looks great! I've logged 329 in the tracker (clicking "Application Catalog User Manual" prompt for a site cert then a username/password) What is the relevance of the silver, orange and green vertical bars to the left of each application? Is it green for OS 2007, orange for OS 2006 an

[maemo-developers] Re: SDHC Flash Support...

2007-02-02 Thread Neil MacLeod
Marius Gedminas wrote: What does /proc/bootreason say? It says "sw_rst": ~ $ cat /proc/bootreason sw_rst ~ $ ls -la /var/lib/dsme/stats drwxr-xr-x2 root root0 Feb 1 00:37 . drwxr-xr-x3 root root0 Jan 1 1970 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root

[maemo-developers] Re: SDHC Flash Support...

2007-02-02 Thread Neil MacLeod
Mark Lee wrote: At least one person on the Internet Tablet Talk forums initially thought that a reboot they'd encountered was down to the patch but then later reported it was running seemingly stable. Mark One of those people might have been me - I did get a reboot fairly early on, then it se

[maemo-developers] Re: SDHC Flash Support...

2007-02-02 Thread Neil MacLeod
Neil MacLeod wrote: is there more than one SDHC kernel floating around? My bad, looking bad through the thread I see we are discussing the same SDHC kernel referenced from ITT. I stand by my concerns that it may be more flakey than the stock kernel, unless something else is causing it to

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