Re: USB keyboard and Nokia N 810

2010-06-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 04/06/10 11:06, En/na COURTAUD Didier ha escrit: Hello all Is it possible to connect and use a USB keyboard to the Nokia N 810 using its mini-USB adapter ? yes http://wiki.maemo.org/USB_host_mode Bye -- Luca ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-use

Re: N810: How to avoid white?

2010-03-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni ha escrit: Hi, have a strange problem with the N810. Whenever the color white is displayed, the display is flickering. I already asked here about this behaviour. I installed a grey theme which already helped a lot. Now my questions: I don't know the answer to you

Re: New N900 user - Few ideas...

2009-12-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Craig Woodward ha escrit: > That said, I do want to make a few tweaks and fix up bugs with the core > system, and haven't found a way to express those, or get at them. There are > bug trackers for garage projects, but there's none for the core (haldon?) and > it's shipped apps that I cou

Re: Some buttons not working properly on N800

2009-09-09 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Stephen Gadsby ha escrit: > There was a kernel bug (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097) > along these lines, but it was fixed long ago. Maybe it wasn't Bye -- Luca ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.o

Re: Some buttons not working properly on N800

2009-09-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na João Marcelo ha escrit: > > Is it a hardware problem or by any chance is it related with software? I'd say it's a software issue. It happens to me but only from time to time, but I couldn't isolate the exact cause. I'm sure it depends on something at the time of locking the screen. Bye

Re: Displaying N810 Apps on a PC Connected to N810 via ssh

2009-09-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na R. A. Bilonick ha escrit: > I can connect to my N810 using: > >> ssh -X -C u...@192.168.0.107 > > But when I try to run the browser: > >> browser & > > the browser opens on the N810, not the PC (which is running Ubuntu > 9.04). In the ssh_config, I have X forwarding enabled. How can I get

Re: Skype or Gizmo

2009-08-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Dave Neary ha escrit: > Hi, > > Gizmo is a SIP client, Skype isn't. You might want to try Twinkle which > is a Free SIP client. I didn't know that Twinkle was available for the tablet. It's not in extras or extras-devel, where can I find it? Bye -- Luca ___

Re: Installing Mer

2009-07-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Fernando Cassia ha escrit: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM, sean wrote: >>I have an N800 running Diablo with a 32GB internal memory card and I >> am >> thinking of installing Mer to the card, > What is the minimum SD card size to install Mer ? > > It's funny but nowhere on the pro

Re: Installing Mer

2009-07-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na sean ha escrit: > I have an N800 running Diablo with a 32GB internal memory card and I am > thinking of installing Mer to the card, leaving Diablo on the internal > flash. > I already went through the steps some time ago to partition the card > and copy Diablo onto it to have the

Re: Fwd: mer users?

2009-07-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na sean ha escrit: > David Greaves wrote: > >> Essentially, now that Diablo is end-of-life with no upgrades, Mer is a >> candidate >> to replace it. Mer aims (amongst other things) to provide a Fremantle >> backport >> to Mer devices. > > > Do the upgrades require a full tablet re-flash? >

Re: Default Contact Application

2009-06-16 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark ha escrit: > > I wasn't very clear: what I meant to say was that IIRC the built-in > apps can't be defeated as the defaults for their particular actions, > but there may be hope for some types of files that aren't already > associated with the as-shipped apps. Or maybe they all can be

Re: N810 for $180

2009-06-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: > > So maybe I should have been more precise in my original question: Is > there (or will there be soon) a pocket computer from some manufacturer > (not necessarily Nokia) running a Unix-type OS of some description (not > necessarily Maemo) that is broadly speaking

Re: damaged power connecter

2009-02-13 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Aniello Del Sorbo ha escrit: > For this solution you can buy the original Nokia USB charger. If you're buying it just for the plug, the original one is *not* good, since it has a step-up voltage converter.. > It's very expensive if you buy it from Nokia itself, but very cheap on > eBay (wh

Re: damaged power connecter

2009-02-13 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mike Sherman ha escrit: > Eero Tamminen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> ext Mike Sherman wrote: >>> The other day I tried to push my N810 out of the car mount forgetting >>> that I had plugged the charger in. After that stress on the power >>> jack the N810 won' t charge unless you apply a downward for

Re: Facing Dilemma about N800/N810

2009-01-03 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:37:12 -0600 David Hagood escribió: > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 08:06 -0800, Tim Ashman wrote: > > On Saturday 03 January 2009 06:28:07 am Ryan Abel wrote: > > I ended up purchasing a replacement screen from mytrendyphone. > > Looks like an overseas (in in usa) company so I'll be

Re: Facing Dilemma about N800/N810

2009-01-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Tim Ashman ha escrit: > I guess I hadn't thought about that. I did ask nokia's support if there was > either a flat rate repair cost or a user parts/self install and they said no > to both... > > Anyone every take about these devices, hard to do. I do have a long history > of electron

Choppy video from usb thumb-drive [was Re: Itouch v N8x0]

2008-12-22 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Matt Emson ha escrit: >> I know that my N800 can't power >> USB memory drives, > > Works for me. Maybe it's size related? I've mounted unpowered USB keys > (Americans would say "thumb drive" I'm guessing) up to 2Gb. The only brand I > remember ottomh is PNY, which would have been 1Gb. I u

Re: Headset plugged in disables ringtones

2008-11-27 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:48:35 +0200 Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > So, in which all situations it in your opinion should switch? Always route the alarms to the loudspeakers and route "normal" audio to the headphones if connected or to the loudspeakers if not? Or make the alarm outpu

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-30 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Ryan Abel ha escrit: > On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote: > >> El Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:35:17 + >> "gary liquid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> >>> Shall we expect Nokia to simply cease development work and stop &g

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-28 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:35:17 + "gary liquid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Shall we expect Nokia to simply cease development work and stop > everything because they have users of a current generation who can't > use the newer faster better way of doing something? > Should Sony have remained

Re: Good News - WIFI NOT Borked after Update

2008-10-19 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na John Holmblad ha escrit: > Maybe I was lucky this time but, for my N800 the OS update seems to have > worked although there is a new window on my "IT top" that informs me > that "Video Center is here". I will figure out what that means when I > get some time to do so. Luck or you didn't

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:53:40 -0600 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > The discussion is about "real" mail servers My server is as real as it gets, in fact I'm using it every day. > that are running on the > Internet somewhere else check > and serving large numbers of accounts, with why? I do

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-09 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:15:21 -0600 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > The crux of the matter is in specifically *what* resources are in > question. IMAP may have an initial savings in network bandwidth (which > is debatable), but ultimately uses much more in the way of every other > type of compu

Re: WiFi analyzer

2008-09-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:19:02 -0400 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Does anyone know of a WiFi analyzer, similar to Kismet or NetStumbler > for the N800? Kismet runs on the tablet, unfortunately is not in extras, but either as a standalone deb or in the eko.one.pl repository. See, e.g

Re: modest does not update newmail in imap folder

2008-08-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:15:19 +0300 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > Note that Modest won't recurse into IMAP subdirectories to check for > new mails; > this is for efficiency reasons. Status can be used to just update the message count and it's quite efficient (at least with cyrus as a se

Re: Cant access connectivity settings

2008-07-28 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni ha escrit: > To my other question: The $DISPLAY is set by default to the N810 "X" and > starting a graphical app over ssh will automatically run on the N810. > Just mentioned for other newbies.. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2494 Bye -- Luca

Re: browser/browserd combo unpredictable and unreliable behaviour

2008-07-27 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Andre Klapper ha escrit: > Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2008, 22:09 +0200 schrieb Luca Olivetti: >> I cannot even report a single bug report, so it's an exercise in >> futility to try to report more than one. >> Don't worry though, I won't bother you with mo

Re: browser/browserd combo unpredictable and unreliable behaviour

2008-07-27 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:29:08 +0200 Daniel Martin Yerga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:01:06 +0200 > Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This was meant to be a bug

Re: browser/browserd combo unpredictable and unreliable behaviour

2008-07-27 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:53:13 +0100 Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Please learn how to file bug reports correctly. Only file ONE report > per issue, I cannot even report a single bug report, so it's an exercise in futility to try to report more than one. Don't worry though, I won't bo

browser/browserd combo unpredictable and unreliable behaviour

2008-07-27 Thread Luca Olivetti
This was meant to be a bug report, but since the bugtracker is following the fate of the repositories (i.e. it's currently borked) here it goes. SOFTWARE VERSION: 4.2008.23-14 The new combo browser/browserd is very unreliable. Things that happened to me so far: 1) Browser apparently hangs or c

Repositories borked (as usual)

2008-07-26 Thread Luca Olivetti
Understandably apt-get has some difficulties interpreting the following as a Packages.gz file. Folks, if you want people to use maemo-extras (a goal that I completely agree with) nokia's repositories have to be a little more reliable, don't you think? System error error: read_file: could

Re: New 810 user - a few questions

2008-07-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mike Sherman ha escrit: > Hello, > I'm a new user. I just got an N810 not two days ago. > > One of the apps I really wanted is gnumeric spreadsheet. Now > I see it in the OS2007 listing but not on the OS2008 list and > it doesn't appear in the package manager. Can you run OS2007 > apps on

Re: Chinook or Diablo port of gpsdrive?

2008-07-22 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na R. G. Newbury ha escrit: > > gpsdrive will import tiled slices of map images as georeferenced png or > tif files. You can try maemo mapper Bye -- Luca ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Cheap UMTS connection for a week in Spain? Ideas and suggestion are wellcome :)

2008-06-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Álvaro J. Iradier ha escrit: > You could buy a prepaid card from Yoigo[1]. It's maximum 1,2€ + taxes > per day if you use it (no limit), 0€ if you don't. > Notice that Yoigo coverage is not very good, depending on where you'll > be staying, but it connects to Vodafone or Movistar network in c

Re: External Keyboard Recommendations

2008-06-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Hal Vaughan ha escrit: > I'll have to keep tabs on it and see when they get them back in stock. Don't count on it, it's been out of stock for months. It is possible that they get a different one though. > > Is that site a reliable one to order from -- judging from anyone's > experience

Re: External Keyboard Recommendations

2008-06-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark ha escrit: > > Correct. There are some "roll-up" keyboards, but those aren't ideal > for the reasons discussed, and I've never seen a hard plastic USB > keyboard that folds up. There's this one (it's sold out but probably looking around you can find it somewhere else): http://www.dea

Re: Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business

2008-06-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Theodore Tso ha escrit: > I could have a working system (including, by the way, using binary > drivers), I wasn't throwing rotten tomatoes and screaming at laptop > vendors who chose to use closed hardware which didn't support Linux. Neither do I: I *bought* an Internet Tablet after all. St

Re: Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Theodore Tso ha escrit: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:51AM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> In the case of the wifi chip you could buy it from atheros or ralink >> (and I'm sure there are other), that at least have open drivers, and >> don't base their

Re: Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business

2008-06-13 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Theodore Tso ha escrit: > a custom chip to becoming FAR more expensive than simply buying a CPU > from Intel or AMD --- or a wifi chip from Broadcom or a Video chipset > from Nvidia. In the case of the wifi chip you could buy it from atheros or ralink (and I'm sure there are other), that a

Re: Battery life VERY short on N810, last OS2008...

2008-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Giacomo Tufano ha escrit: >> What applets you have enabled in Home? > > Internet search, web link (no change on standard URI), Tableteer info, > clock and Internet Radio (never used, sitting idle). > Are you using rtcomm with a voice (sip) account enabled? Bye -- Luca _

Re: Is OS2006 still supported?

2008-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Quim Gil ha escrit: > Luca Olivetti wrote: >> Well, yes, but a company that buys chipsets in the millions has a lot >> more bargaining force with its suppliers than a lone hacker in a >> basement, hasn't it? > > In theory yes, in practice the game do

Re: Can't become root :-(

2008-04-20 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark ha escrit: > These problems remained even after I uninstalled fennec, so I figured > the only way to get it back to the way it was before was to reflash > the OS. Strange, I had no such problems while trying fennec (though I later uninstalled it) > > BIG MISTAKE #2 > > Afte

Flash vulnerability - are the tablets affected?

2008-04-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
I just read about an apparently nasty vulnerability in flash, and it seems it's cross-platform, however it's not clear to me (I'm not as bright as the people that discovered it) if for "cross-platform" they mean between linux-x86 and windows-x86 or that other cpus could be affected. Slashdot st

Re: Is OS2006 still supported?

2008-04-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Quim Gil ha escrit: >> The community sure can do many things, but cannot do some *core* things, >> like replacing the kernel with a newer one (once the binary blobs stops >> working since the vendor lost interest in providing it), or replacing >> some nokia applets to control those things

Re: Is OS2006 still supported?

2008-04-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Quim Gil ha escrit: >>> Do these binaries impede the community getting what they want? What do >>> they want, by the way? >> working wireless lan, battery charging, screen dimming and watchdog >> pinging would be a good start. > > Do you mean that the community can't do a thing unless this

Re: Is OS2006 still supported?

2008-04-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Quim Gil ha escrit: > - The community is empowered to keep over time hardware and software as > fit as they wish and are able to. Quite difficult when some critical hardware parts are only usable with binary blobs. Bye -- Luca ___ maemo-users

Re: N810 European Power Adapter

2008-03-20 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Matt Emson ha escrit: > Our pugs are actually safer because you can't pull them out by the flex, > so you don't stress the chord or pull the wires out of the plug. All > plugs are easily removed though. They just pull out. The switch turns > off the power when not in use. Otherwise the ou

Re: N810 European Power Adapter

2008-03-20 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:11:06 + Matt Emson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I find US and European outlets scary as heck, because they usually > have no on/off switch. It's fairly rare to find an outlet int he UK > without a on/off switch. Maybe that's because your huge plug it's too difficul

Re: Bluetooth keyboard?

2008-03-20 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark ha escrit: > What are they calling it? I tried a couple of different searches. Try this search: mini usb keyboard -motorola -vacuum -vaccum -flexible -silicone -silicon -numeric -kitty -numpad > Those adapters are harder to find than you might think. I refuse to > pay more for ship

Re: N810 European Power Adapter

2008-03-19 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kip Warner ha escrit: > Thank you, I think I will do that. I haven't been to Europe, but is > there just one standard plug across the EU, or do they vary? The do vary but generally only the earth plug, so if you use a 2 prongs adapter (i.e. with no earth plug, enough for the tablet), it wi

Re: Bluetooth keyboard?

2008-03-19 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:19:41 +0200 Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Mark wrote: > > Has anybody tried one of those Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboards > > with their IT? > > Yes; it works fine, mostly. > > Every now and then a key gets repe

Re: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Adam Parsons ha escrit: > Luca Olivetti wrote: >> It's easier and safer to just install the "becomeroot" package, then >> in a terminal issue "sudo gainroot". >> Search for becomeroot here: http://www.gronmayer.com/it/ > > Found it for

Re: Bluetooth keyboard?

2008-03-19 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark Haury ha escrit: > Unfortunately, they are apparently sold out, and I can't find another > source for either the keyboard or the USB adapter. I see plenty of that same keyboard on ebay, unfortunately they're a bit more expensive that the one in the forum, but not that much. > I need

Re: Bluetooth keyboard?

2008-03-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark ha escrit: > But if I could find something the size of my IR keyboard for a > reasonable price that's compatible, I'd jump at it. You can check this one: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18034 It's usb and it seems too small to me, but for the poster seems to w

Re: startup questions

2008-03-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Chuck Robey ha escrit: > with --disable-rd-mode. Is this the method I gotta use, or is there > possibly some easier way to go about getting the root password? I mean, > when I flash OS2008, what the heck did it set the root password to? This > can't be true, it really seems to be an incre

Re: How do i uninstall the default Email program?

2008-03-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > Oh, there's no problem to uninstall Claws and use Modest instead, Well, in that case I wouldn't be able to access my big folders anymore, lose threading and some hair ;-) (sorry, I tried modest but it didn't work for me, claws, albeit slow, works). > or did

Re: How do i uninstall the default Email program?

2008-03-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > - you can use > gconftool-2 --set /apps/modest/is_default --type Boolean 1 > to improve integration with the system -- note, this is not perfect, > but > at least some system-wide things will now prefer modest > use: > gconftool-2

Re: bugzilla not editable

2008-03-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Jussi Kukkonen ha escrit: > Just in case no-one's reported this yet: bugs.maemo.org has been > read-only for four days. Below is an example of what happens when I try > to vote (at around 11:05 UTC today). I also reported it to the address in the error last Friday, but it appears it didn't

Re: Audio connection noise - NOT SOLVED! [was: Audio connection problem]

2008-03-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark ha escrit: [resending to the list, sorry Mark for sending to you directly] > From the sound of it, though, I'm the only one having this problem, > which leads me to believe that the problem is more serious, and that > it's a defect in my particular unit. That's a possibility, yes. It

Re: Audio connection problem

2008-03-13 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark ha escrit: > were actually the vehicle, then why is it that factory stereos _never_ > have that problem? There clearly is a design issue that the > aftermarket engineers are ignoring. I connect my nokia n800 to the line input of my car stereo (the factory one) and I don't hear such a

Re: N800/OS2008 lingering issues

2008-02-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:11:48 -0600 inode0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > because (1) I have to restart it to continue and (2) since it didn't > get all the images it often will try to start the wifi even though > with or without the images I just want to read off-line. It also seems to be re-fet

Re: init file for ash

2008-02-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Jeffrey Mark Siskind ha escrit: > Is there an init script that is automatically run upon login or starting ash? > Something like ~/.login or ~/.profile? If so, what are they called? I do things in ~/.profile, so definitely ~/.profile is sourced by the shell, *but* it is sourced also by som

Re: installing skype on N810

2008-02-01 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na DrFredC.com ha escrit: > I also have $20, down to $7 on Gismo. Still works. But then I use it > every couple months. It could be 6 months of dormancy, not 6 months > since purchase -- that would seem to make more sense. Well, if it so, they'd better state it in their policies. They cl

Re: installing skype on N810

2008-02-01 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Giacomo Tufano ha escrit: > Il giorno 01/feb/08, alle ore 16:05, Luca Olivetti ha scritto: > >> I know one sip provider that has no expiration and it worked right out >> of the box with the tablet, I haven't bought credit yet, but I'll do it >> soon

Re: installing skype on N810

2008-02-01 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kevin T. Neely ha escrit: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:39:25PM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: >> >>> Not free, but pretty close. Also, the minutes don't disappear at the >>> end of the month... >> According

Re: installing skype on N810

2008-01-31 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > Not free, but pretty close. Also, the minutes don't disappear at the > end of the month... According to http://www.gizmoproject.com/e-commerce-policies.html credit expires 180 days after purchase. Bye -- Luca __

Re: ssh-agent

2008-01-26 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:13:56 -0800 Erik Hovland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Has anyone experimented with having ssh-agent launch for the default > user (also called 'user')? > > I have been crawling around /etc/osso-af-init trying to figure out a > plan of action that would be reasonable. Of

Re: Updating maps N810

2008-01-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:22:15 -0800 "DrFredC.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > One must gather that this is the sort of stuff one must come to > expect when depending upon open source freeware support? Map is commercial. The only seriuos problems I had in 10 years of linux use have been with c

Re: DO NOT RESTORE FROM A (BETA) BACKUP

2008-01-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Matt Emson ha escrit: > The annoying thing is the lack of finger keyboard detection and the > unresponsiveness (mis reading of taps and constant doubling of typing) > for the finger keyboard. And for the stylus keyboard too. Bye -- Luca ___ ma

Re: List of Repository for OS2008

2008-01-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:58:57 -0500 Austin Che <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > This also makes > it easy for you to find the list of official categories. No more > searching on wikis. Just open up the application manager. Nope, categories are localized so the wiki page is still needed. B

Re: List of Repository for OS2008

2008-01-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Austin Che ha escrit: > For example, if it added all the > repositories listed at http://www.gronmayer.com/it/, the end-user > doesn't need to know the difference that n repositories were added > versus one. But he would then have to know the difference between, say, wirele

Re: fm radio

2008-01-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: > "ext Luca Olivetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Just what I was thinking. My first guess would be that there's a GPIO >>> for this. Anyone interested should check the kernel sources. And with >>> luck there

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: >> This can be seen by the fact that the FM radio application allows >> audio to be output through the speakers when a pair of headphones is >> acting as aerial. > > Just what I was thinking. My first guess would be that there's a GPIO > for this. Anyone interested sho

Re: camera

2008-01-06 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: > Luca Olivetti wrote: >> En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: >> >>> Even a basic camera app that takes still photographs would be good. >> there's an app called camera for that, it can take photos or video, I >> think it's in

Re: camera

2008-01-06 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: > Even a basic camera app that takes still photographs would be good. there's an app called camera for that, it can take photos or video, I think it's in maemo-extras, though the quality of the camera is really bad, and it reboots my tablet after a short while (it m

Re: Email imap client that understands directories

2008-01-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na David Dyer-Bennet ha escrit: > Steve Yelvington wrote: >> http://modest.garage.maemo.org/ >> > > Haven't tried this yet, but may soon since claws-mail has a display > problem that makes my list of directories unreadable (scrolling doesn't > notice they exist, so they go off the bottom of t

Re: help!? my N810 seems dead(ish)

2007-12-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: > These chargers seem to be very fragile, which is disappointing for > something that cannot be replaced easily (not in stores), and the > closest (N95 charger) costs €25. They also cannot be opened for a > simple rewiring repair, even after removing the two retain

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-13 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: >> Why it was used instead of, say, resolvconf? > > To be able to update DNS servers without restarting applications. With > resolvconf you would have to restart the applications, or the > application would need to poll /etc/resolv.conf for changes (which is > ugly and

Re: (update) Re: OS2008: beta version of Modest e-mail client available

2007-12-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > * about IMAP-IDLE: in principle there is no network traffic at all > (or after 30min) but in practice there are some timeouts; we are > currently tuning those to find the optimum reliability / battery > usage (some GPRS connections are not very nice).

Re: OS2008: beta version of Modest e-mail client available

2007-12-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na James Sparenberg ha escrit: > > Ok Jonathan was kind enough to point out where the setting was to set > a limit on the number of e-mails it will grab. This is progress. well, real progress with imap would be downloading just enough headers to fill the screen, then download more only w

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: >> Just so I can understand more clearly what you are saying, is the >> problem you are talking about the way dnsmasq is used or the fact >> that dnsmasq is used at all? > > I mean the latter (used at all). Why it was used instead of, say, resolvconf? To avoid wear

Re: Nokia_Siemens_Networks_launches_pocket-sized_VoIP

2007-12-06 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Fred Pacquier ha escrit: > Gotta love press releases. After reading oodles of that thickest of > marketingspeak, I'm still not sure what this thing is supposed to do for > me -- except cost me money :-) I didn't event need to read the press release: "siemens" in the url is enough for me

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-12-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Andrew Flegg ha escrit: > Many of you use my script 770-encode to transcode videos for your Hi, I sent you off list a couple of patches for mediaserv and tablet-encode. Since I got no feedback (but then these last 2 days my adsl connection doesn't last for more than 5 minutes at a time) I

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Andrew Flegg ha escrit: > Luca, does VDR provide the languages through to mencoder, so that > -alang ... works as well as -aid ...? Nope, I tried with "-alang es" and "-alang esl" (esl is the dvb encoding for es) but I got the english soundtrack. "-aid 0" gives me the spanish soundtrack.

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Brad Midgley ha escrit: > Luca > >> could you try "-m -aid -m 0" instead of "-m -alang -m en" ? > > the result was no audio... the audio id was 128 on the title I > noticed. Not sure if that's typical. too bad, it means there's no suitable option that can be used as a default valid for ev

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Brad Midgley ha escrit: > Marius > > That was a good idea to look at mencoder. For some reason it gets the > wrong audio track sometimes. I think this might be best for a dvd and > it works on that problematic title: > > tablet-encode -m -alang -m en -2 -p average dvd://4 out.avi could you

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Marius Gedminas ha escrit: >> Well, in my case it isn't: I have some vdr recordings that are spanish >> (first language) and english (second), and with no track specified >> mencoder selects the second one (english). Hard coding "-aid 0" solved >> my problem. > > I'm just wondering, does

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Andrew Flegg ha escrit: >> I'd try -aid 0 as a default (just to check if it works). > > Presumably this is what mencoder is doing already though? I might have > to dig through its code and find its default aid selection algorithm - > a quick Google isn't being particularly helpful. Well, i

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Andrew Flegg ha escrit: > However, you /don't/ need to hack the script. You can use the "-m" > option on tablet-encode to pass things through to mencoder: > > tablet-encode -m-aid -m1 dvd://3 ep3.avi well, in that case I would have had to hack mediaserv instead, so no big difference ;

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Brad Midgley ha escrit: > Hey > > I'll reask since I meant to ask on-list. > > dvd://1 and dvd://2 get the english audio, but for some reason dvd://3 > and dvd://4 came out spanish. This disk has csi-ny tv series... I had the same problem with vdr recordings, maybe some weirdness in the w

Re: Wayfinder Navigator Nokia 810 Edition

2007-11-08 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Christian Stelter ha escrit: > Hi! > > The Wayfinder description says that it supports real-time traffic > information (see [1]). Does anyone in here know whether the Wayfinder > has also support for TMC[2] or how it gets its traffic information updates? Since the n810 apparently doesn't

Re: USB keyboard on n800?

2007-11-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Frantisek Dufka ha escrit: > Luca Olivetti wrote: >> Good to know, thank you! >> With a simple female-a to female-a adapter or a specially crafted cable? > > Yes, just a simple female to female adapter. For more details search > this list for "N800 experimen

Re: USB keyboard on n800?

2007-11-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Frantisek Dufka ha escrit: > Mostly as in "I have it working right in front of me". I haven't tried > USB keyboard (no such thing in our house) but I have tried usb stick > which claims to require 80mA and it works just fine powered from N800. Good to know, thank you! With a simple femal

Re: USB keyboard on n800?

2007-11-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Larry Battraw ha escrit: > On 11/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Does anyone know if your typical USB keyboard will work in the n800, > assuming you get the connector to convert from regular to small US

Re: N800 headphone

2007-11-03 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:14:15 -0400 "Michael Wiktowy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > It is an Nokia part number HS-48 Stereo Headset (1) ... which is also > compatible with the N76 phone (2). So the link I posted previously should really be compatible (since it was a stereo headset for the n76).

Re: N800 headphone

2007-11-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:41:56 -0400 "Jonathan Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I use my iPod earbuds instead of the headphones from Nokia as > everything is so much quieter using the headphones from Nokia, what am > I missing? The stock headphones have a microphone and a button (supposedly to

Re: N800 headphone

2007-11-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: > Does anyone know of a place to buy a replacement? The Nokia web site is > all Flash about phones and doesn't seem to deal with spares. I suppose this one should be compatible: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7396 Disclaimer: I just bought one car-charger

Re: n800 user reviews

2007-10-30 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Jonathan Greene ha escrit: > You'll be able to pair and use a headset for VOIP ... works great! What about A2DP for normal stereo sound output by any application? I thought of buying an A2DP receiver to leave in my car and connect to the car stereo, so to lessen the wear & tear on the head

Re: need a community board?

2007-10-30 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Paul Dundas ha escrit: > But what about a mail to nntp gateway? Usenet (remember news, anyone) > is a good server-based system with client caching for fast access. > And dialup users can pick the threads they want to download. Never heard of gmane.org? http://gmane.org/about.php http://new

Re: need a community board?

2007-10-29 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: > I can only speak for myself but the last thing on earth I want is a > web-based message-board. I want the messages to come to me, not me have > to go to the messages. The forms-based mechanism for replies is horribly > clumsy on all the ones I have used, and the r

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