[Debian] installing snapshot: installing kernel 2.6.29 manually

2011-09-25 Thread e.waelde
Hello, as told before, I had to reinstall my openmoko freerunner with a Debian snapshot. HOSTNAME=neo \ SD_SWAP_SIZE=256 \ FSO_MIRROR=http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian \ INST_MIRROR=http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110101T031503Z/ \ RDATEHOST=192.168.10.1 \ VERBOSE=1 \ ZHONE=tru

Re: [Debian] installing snapshot fails: Release file expired

2011-09-21 Thread e.waelde
Hi Timo! On 09/21/2011 12:08 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: "e.waelde" writes: So I was wondering what the exact reason for this message could be. It occurs towards the end of stage "debian". I suspect some key signing stuff being expired, but I don't know where to l

[Debian] installing snapshot fails: Release file expired

2011-09-21 Thread e.waelde
Hello, I'm trying to install Debian on a freerunner using INST_MIRROR=http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20101011T024950Z and changing the date on the freerunner back to 2011-01-01 12:00:00. I have tried different older versions of install.sh (retrieved from git), but they fail with this

Re: [Debian] install from scratch: partial success

2011-08-24 Thread e.waelde
Hello, On 08/24/2011 08:42 PM, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2011/8/24 e.waelde: First, fix the xorg.conf (and hopefully report success). I have "translated" the snippets in Ricos post to this: # apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-tslib # apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-glamo

[Debian] setting up navit on freerunner --- in reply to: navit in QTmoko: Map don't follow actual position

2011-08-24 Thread e.waelde
Hello, http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2011-August/003021.html On 08/15/2011 10:33 AM, Frank wrote: > >> If my Navit works (i.e. has current position), I can see actual >> coordinates in "Action" menu below the car icon (in the middle of left >> row). > > The position a

Re: [Debian] install from scratch: partial success

2011-08-24 Thread e.waelde
Minor correction: On 08/24/2011 05:18 PM, e.waelde wrote: X starts, the trayer appears with the familiar icons. They are, however, left justified. They used to be on the other side. But: zhone does not start, the AUX and POW buttons do not trigger any visible action. Touching trayer's

[Debian] install from scratch: partial success

2011-08-24 Thread e.waelde
(?) zhone does not request the PIN, POW and AUX buttons remain dead. Details below. On 08/17/2011 12:12 PM, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2011/7/20 e.waelde: as of yesterday evening, installing a neo from scratch fails. I compiled again the 2.6.34 kernel yesterday evening, and uploaded it and got it finally

[Debian] install from scratch failed with my particular micro SD cards

2011-08-03 Thread e.waelde
Hi, On 07/30/2011 01:57 PM, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2011/7/20 e.waelde b. However, zhone cannot be installed, which leave the system in a fairly unusable (for me) state: Have you tried the new zhone 0-git20110224+6bcb7fc4-1 from experimental? Unfortunately it relies on newer Python E17 bindings

openmoko neo --- install from scratch fails

2011-07-19 Thread e.waelde
Hello, as of yesterday evening, installing a neo from scratch fails. a. package tangogps is not available any more. That is easy to fix. Replace the string with foxtrotgps in install.sh. b. However, zhone cannot be installed, which leave the system in a fairly unusable (for me) state: * Zhone

Installing debian on openmoko --- using snapshot archive fails

2011-07-06 Thread e.waelde
Hi, i stupidly got myself into an unusable neo (touch dead), so I decided to give this a try. see http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2011-May/002982.html > Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: > > Eric Smith writes: > > IT would be nice to provide an install routine against a s

Re: [debian] Xorg fails to start after upgrade to 1.7.7

2010-07-11 Thread e.waelde
Hi Gilles, On 07/11/2010 06:35 PM, Gilles Filippini wrote: e.waelde a écrit , Le 11/07/2010 09:26: (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap XKB: Failed to compile keymap Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkey

[debian] Xorg fails to start after upgrade to 1.7.7

2010-07-11 Thread e.waelde
Hello, I had an adventureous moment yesterday and did a apt-get upgrade on my freerunner running debian. I noticed xserver-xorg and related packages were being updated. Unfortunately, X now fails to start 1. missing lib /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so that is easily solved by # apt-get install libgl

Re: [Debian] gpsd woes, almost solved.

2010-04-24 Thread e.waelde
Hi Giles, On 04/24/2010 09:36 AM, Gilles Filippini wrote: e.waelde a écrit , Le 23/04/2010 22:35: So I installed gpsd, disabled ogpsd in /etc/frameworkd.conf, You shouldn't have to disable ogpsd. Hm, as suggested by Al Johnson in this thread: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartp

[Debian] gpsd woes

2010-04-23 Thread e.waelde
Hello, I did a full apt-get upgrade today on the freerunner after installing from scratch as reported before. I'm still not in a position to use gps. I understand that the neo is installed with ogpsd/fso-gpsd, the latter translating ogpsd output to gpsd format. In that situation the gps part

[debian] neo running zhone dies when being called was: 2010-03-25 installation from scratch

2010-03-26 Thread e.waelde
Hello Kai, Kai Lüke wrote: Hello! I have a debian-installation too and can call people with zhone, but when I get called, the whole phone dies and needs a restart. How can I make a bug report? What packages and config files have you installed? fso-abyss or the alternative package? Maybe it is zh

Re: [debian] 2010-03-25 installation from scratch

2010-03-26 Thread e.waelde
Hi, Sebastian Reichel wrote: I'm not a big fan of zhone, but you may be interested in the fact, that mickey currently writes zhone2 in vala using the cornucopia daemons: http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=aurora.git;a=summary I know, however, if someone wants to use it as a *phone* *now*, there

Re: [debian] 2010-03-25 installation from scratch

2010-03-26 Thread e.waelde
Hi, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Hi, thanks a lot for your detailed report. "e.waelde" writes: 2. PATH Variable http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571086 Ok. Thanks for the information. If you comment please Cc: Santiago Vila who maintains the base-files packa

Re: [debian] 2010-03-25 installation from scratch

2010-03-26 Thread e.waelde
Hi, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2010/3/26 e.waelde : 2010-03-25 Installing debian from scratch on openmoko freerunner tangogps did start but not switch on gps. Nor did it help to switch it on manually. It does help to install fso-gpsd and start it. --> should fso-gpsd go into

[debian] 2009-09-20 install from scratch: successful with some tweaks

2009-09-20 Thread e.waelde
Hello, new day, new luck. It seems indeed that my last installation (yesterday) was broken somehow, today everything worked well --- thanks to Steffen for fixing install.sh :-) md5sum install.sh 39119984983268b3e91d098562285170 install.sh summary: HOSTNAME=neo \ SD_SWAP_SIZE=512 \ INST_MIRROR=h

Re: [debian] 2009-09-18 install from scratch: starting zhone fails: ImportError: No module named cairo

2009-09-20 Thread e.waelde
Hello, arne anka wrote: >> sounds indeed like the installation was incomplete. Maybe the python >> library was not registered correctly? Did you try "apt-get -f install" >> or "apt-get --reinstall install python-cairo"? >> >> If that does not help, running "strace -e file zhone" should give you a

[debian] 2009-09-18 install from scratch: starting zhone fails: ImportError: No module named cairo

2009-09-19 Thread e.waelde
Hello, e.waelde wrote: > Hello, > > installing from scratch again today: > after this workaround > > Workaround: > in made the restart) section in /mnt/debian/etc/init.d/dropbear inactive > (doing > nothing, really). Then stage "apt" completes. the i

[debian] 2009-09-18 install from scratch: stage apt fails on dropbear restart

2009-09-18 Thread e.waelde
Hello, installing from scratch again today: on OM2009.x # opkg install perl to make debootstrap happy. Yes I found the hint in the script help :-) # date Fri Sep 18 18:19:36 CEST 2009 # ls -l install.sh -rwxr-xr-x1 root root49998 Sep 18 18:19 install.sh # md5sum install.sh c4e6

Re: [debian] GPS unusable after install from scratch? NMEA instead of UBX formatted data?

2009-09-04 Thread E.Waelde
Hi, Quoting Jonathan Schultz : ... so moving the pickle file out of the way ... rm /var/lib/freesmartphone/ogpsd.pickle ... restoring /etc/frameworkd.conf ... [ogpsd] device = GTA02Device ... going outside ... and theres a fix within 60 seconds! I didn't have quite this much success. Did y

Re: [debian] 2009-08-28 install from scratch: Internal error: install

2009-08-29 Thread e.waelde
Hello, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Timo Jyrinki wrote: >> Meanwhile, is there any way to install Debian on the FreeRunner, to >> give users a tip? Even http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manual_Debian >> uses cdebootstrap. > sure, use debootstrap with > > --variant=minbase instead of --flavour=minimal >

[debian] 2009-08-28 install from scratch: Internal error: install

2009-08-28 Thread e.waelde
Hello, new day, new install.sh, new try: + md5sum install.sh f886be8f22cbfb54f176558b3f4575db install.sh stage "install" fails HOSTNAME=neo \ SD_SWAP_SIZE=512 \ INST_MIRROR=http://192.168.10.1:/debian \ LOCALEPURGE=true \ FSO_MIRROR=http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian \ RDATEHOST=192.1

Re: [debian] GPS unusable after install from scratch? NMEA instead of UBX formatted data?

2009-08-24 Thread e.waelde
Hello, Al Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 23 August 2009, e.waelde wrote: >> Hello, >> >> after my "install from scratch" (reported here: >> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2009-August/00186 >> 1.html) I can't get anyth

Re: [debian] 2009-08-09 install from scratch: KEYEXPIRED 1249744278

2009-08-23 Thread e.waelde
Hello, e.waelde wrote (2009-08-09): > Hello, > > new day, new try, different result: > > installing debian from scratch on neo freerunner, 4GB microSD: > > 6. POWER Button > Pressing POWER shortly will show the button menu but send the neo to > suspend again. Wh

[debian] GPS unusable after install from scratch? NMEA instead of UBX formatted data?

2009-08-23 Thread e.waelde
Hello, after my "install from scratch" (reported here: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2009-August/001861.html) I can't get anything useful from GPS. This used to work without a problem, so I exclude a possible hardware problem at the moment). I did install the firmware

Re: [debian] 2009-08-09 install from scratch: KEYEXPIRED 1249744278

2009-08-16 Thread e.waelde
forgot the list, sorry... Original Message Subject: Re: [debian] 2009-08-09 install from scratch: KEYEXPIRED 1249744278 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:25:42 +0200 From: e.waelde To: Steffen Moeller References: <4a7eed0b.6030...@nassur.net> <4a7f5480.2000...@gmx.de>

Re: [debian] 2009-08-09 install from scratch: KEYEXPIRED 1249744278

2009-08-16 Thread e.waelde
Hi, Steffen Moeller wrote: > e.waelde wrote: > >> installing debian from scratch on neo freerunner, 4GB microSD: <...snip...> >> 3. openmoko-panel-plugin / trayer >> is missing the icons for "battery" and "usb" > > confirmed. but yo

[debian] 2009-08-09 install from scratch: KEYEXPIRED 1249744278

2009-08-09 Thread e.waelde
Hello, new day, new try, different result: installing debian from scratch on neo freerunner, 4GB microSD: 1. stage "install" fails with ... P: Configuring helper cdebootstrap-helper-apt E: Internal error: install continue using workaround from http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-us

Re: [debian] install.sh during debian phase ends with: Internal error

2009-08-08 Thread e.waelde
Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 19:09 +0200 schrieb schu mi: >> I get this at the moment (most recent install.sh): >> >> "P: Configuring helper cdebootstrap-helper-apt >> E: Internal error: install >> r...@om-gta02 ~ $ " >> >> I'm not sure what's wrong. > > This seems to be

[Debian] zhone currently not installable

2009-07-10 Thread e.waelde
Hello, I did a fresh install of my neo freerunner. I added "ZHONE=false" to the installation command line, which at least gives me a bootable Debian install :-) However, zhone is still not installable: neo:~# apt-get install zhone Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading sta

[Debian] E: Package libevas-engines has no installation candidate

2009-07-05 Thread e.waelde
Hi, I'm installing Debian on the neo from scratch. Currently (2009-07-05 11h UT) this fails with * Zhone GUI: true Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation

[debian] "offline" or "airplane" or "pda-only" use case

2009-02-22 Thread e.waelde
Hello, after talking briefly with Luca and Alex(?) on FOSDEM I would like to "promote" one more use case for the openmoko. I personally do not use the openmoko as a phone. I don't want to be available, and I do not have another mobile phone anyway. Ok, I admit, I'm a strange person :-) Therefor

Re: [debian] ms5: mdbus org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (was Re: [debian] ms5: openmoko-panel-plugin silent, mdbus dies)

2009-02-15 Thread e.waelde
Hi Arne, there was some mention in this list, that dbus fixed their security stuff, and that's why it's not working any more. To fix it, a new config file is needed. Partial fixes were mentioned on the list, too. I'm not a dbus person, and maybe that is only half of the story or less :-) Cheers,

Re: openmoko-panel-plugin dies ...

2009-01-14 Thread e.waelde
Tach auch! Christian Adams wrote: moinmoin, Am 13.01.2009 um 21:50 schrieb e.waelde: Hello, after updating to the latest packages, openmoko-panel-plugin does not start any more. This is what I get on the shell: m...@neo:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.0; openmoko-panel-plugin libnotify-Message

openmoko-panel-plugin dies ...

2009-01-13 Thread e.waelde
Hello, after updating to the latest packages, openmoko-panel-plugin does not start any more. This is what I get on the shell: m...@neo:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.0; openmoko-panel-plugin libnotify-Message: GetServerInformation call failed: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by

Re: pkg-e and zhone packages updated in my repo

2009-01-13 Thread e.waelde
Hello, Sebastian Reichel wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:07:50PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Exactly same packages have been uploaded to pkg-fso repository. Hi, I just installed and started them on my Freerunner. First: there are no keyboard information files in illume's module di

Re: [debian] zhone segfaults after upgrade

2009-01-12 Thread e.waelde
e.waelde wrote: Hello, I have updated my freerunner to the latest packages (made by Nikita). This breaks zhone for me: neo:~# export $DISPLAY=:0.0 neo:~# zhone GUI init x11-16 is not supported, fallback to x11 [evas module] error loading the module /usr/lib/evas/modules/engines

[debian] zhone segfaults after upgrade

2009-01-12 Thread e.waelde
Hello, I have updated my freerunner to the latest packages (made by Nikita). This breaks zhone for me: neo:~# export $DISPLAY=:0.0 neo:~# zhone GUI init x11-16 is not supported, fallback to x11 [evas module] error loading the module /usr/lib/evas/modules/engines/software_x11/linux-gnueabi-arm

Re: setup encrypted partition on FreeRunner?

2008-12-16 Thread e.waelde
Ciao Luca, thanks for your comments! Luca Capello wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:07:02 +0100, e.waelde wrote: I would like to have encrypted store (1GB partition, say) for private files. Have you evaluate how to provide the encryption passphrase? I am mostly a CLI guy, which means that it

[docu] Running X as a normal user (when nodm is used)

2008-12-06 Thread e.waelde
Hello, the wiki page at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian needs slight adjustments when /etc/init.d/nodm is used rather than /etc/init.d/zhone-session to start X. Cheers, Erich Howto: Running X as a normal user Slight changes, wh

installing Xglamo disables [Alt][Ctrl][x] to launch xterm?

2008-12-06 Thread e.waelde
Hello, I'm running Debian on an OM Freerunner. When installing xserver-xglamo as outlined here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian then the keyboard shortcut [Alt][Ctrl][x] to launch xterm does not work any more. When removing xserver-xglamo again, it does work again. Any ideas where to loo

setup encrypted partition on FreeRunner?

2008-11-29 Thread e.waelde
2nd. attempt Hello, I bought a freerunner and started to play with it. I got a bigger microSD card (8GB) stuck it into my freerunner and installed Debian :-) Thanks for the install.sh script! I would like to have encrypted store (1GB partition, say) for private files. I'm would prefer to