[debian] FSO/e17

2010-09-30 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I'd be really interested to hear how people are using Debian with FSO and e17. After installing both, my .xsession now has just #!/bin/sh enlightenment_start I've set the theme to Illume (how do I get Illume2?). 1. The resolution seems doubled that of SHR, and makes everything hard to read. 2.

Re: Using the Freerunner as a modem for a laptop

2009-11-30 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:04:28PM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > > Use DHCP now to connect to your device, that should be it. > > Sorry, what do I type or launch exactly? Well, as I said, with network-manager, or equivalent, it is trivial. Without, you probably need a section in /etc/network/int

Re: Using the Freerunner as a modem for a laptop

2009-11-27 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:50:09AM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > How can I setup the Freerunner (SHR of 2009-09) as a modem for a laptop > (so that the Freerunner acts like a surfstick or similar)? I've just updated the http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Tethering page to include the FSO method, whi

Re: Bounty for Navit delopment - Free freerunner - anyone?

2009-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/6/8 Yorick Moko : > I suggest you all try the new navit > (http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn/navit-svn-2308_armv4t.opk) > it has a few improvements which MAKE IT USABLE WITH OSM (seems like it > was already usable with map&guide reiseplanner): > *added a 20 MB cache for the

Re: Best graphics performance?

2009-05-26 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On May 26, 2009 10:42pm, Sten Kvamme wrote: What distro will give the best graphics performance? I've been wondering about this, specifically because Navit seems really slow on SHR or Debian. I'm using a OSM of Germany, although I'd like to have the whole of Europe covered if it were usabl

Re: [OT] 85-ifupdown.rules

2009-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/5/19 Chris Syntichakis : > opps.. it was the /etc/udev/rules.d that I looked! > > there are only: > > 10-vboxdrv.rules                                70-persistent-cd.rules   > README > 40-basic-permissions.rules.dpkg-bak  70-persistent-net.rules > 45-libsane.rules                            

Re: [OT] 85-ifupdown.rules

2009-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/5/19 Chris Syntichakis : > I have the 9.04 but there is no such file under the /etc/rules.d Not /etc/rules.d, but /etc/udev/rules.d/85-ifupdown.rules Thanks for trying. Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmo

[OT] 85-ifupdown.rules

2009-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Is there anyone out there running Jaunty? I modified my /etc/udev/rules.d/85-ifupdown.rules file as per the wiki whilst I was still running Intrepid, but it kept the changes with the update to Jaunty, and this has killed my network. If someone running Jaunty could post their /etc/udev/rules.d/85-

Re: Re: The myth of missed phone calls (was: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?)

2009-05-14 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On May 15, 2009 4:24am, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: I really wonder how you may get different results on this procedure than the ones supposed, when using NOR uBoot and the unmodified uSD-image according to the README and wiki-instructions. I suspect I let it boot from Qi. Could you please c

Re: Re: Qi causes WSOD (was Re: [2008.testing] WSOD)

2009-05-13 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On May 13, 2009 11:11pm, einstein wrote: i have the same problem. i switch to uboot back so i can use the suspend. where i can find the 2.6.29 kernel? with the 2.6.29 kernel the problem is fixed? I use the 2.6.29 kernel from SHR-testing, and with that and Qi, suspend/resume works properly.

Re: Qi causes WSOD (was Re: [2008.testing] WSOD)

2009-05-13 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/5/13 Chris Jenks : > I've been playing with the beta Om 2009 consisting of fso-paroli-image, > uImage 2.6.38 and Qi 1.0.2 dated 5/8-5/9 but was getting the WSOD when > resuming from suspend. I replaced Qi with u-boot 1.3.1 and can now resume > properly. Although, from what I understand, 2.6.2

Re: The myth of missed phone calls (was: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?)

2009-05-10 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/5/10 Johny Tenfinger : > You can also use SHR Settings -> Phone -> Modem information. So I can. Thanks Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: The myth of missed phone calls (was: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?)

2009-05-10 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/5/10 Ali : > In QtE it's under the modem tab of the hardware settings. Or you can use > mickeyterm http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenmokoFramework/mickeyterm > I got the login prompt with a hint of green so I was worried as well, > but it turned out fine. Excellent. Thank you for the pointer.

Re: The myth of missed phone calls (was: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?)

2009-05-10 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/5/3 Joerg Reisenweber : > # scp location-of-image /dev/mmcblk0 This seemed to work. Booting from the uSD then took the requisite ~6min. I didn't get the green d_o_n_e, however, and it took me to a login prompt. How can I verify the version of the firmware? Regards Jeff ___

[debian] xfce startup problems

2009-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I'm getting the following errors in .xsession-errors when starting xfce: matchbox-wm: unable to open theme: /usr/share/themes/Xfce/matchbox/theme.xml (xfce4-panel:2373): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: xfce4-panel is not running (xfce4-settings-helper:2374): xfce4-settings-helper-CRITICAL **: XI is not pr

[debian] can't install zhone

2009-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
# apt-get install zhone Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet

Re: The myth of missed phone calls (was: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?)

2009-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/5/1 Joerg Reisenweber : > Am Fr  1. Mai 2009 schrieb Jeffrey Ratcliffe: >> 2009/4/23 Joerg Reisenweber : >> > We recommend flashing MOKO11 using the uSD method described in >> > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing#uSD-card_Image >> >> I&#

Re: The myth of missed phone calls (was: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?)

2009-05-01 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/4/23 Joerg Reisenweber : > We recommend flashing MOKO11 using the uSD method described in > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing#uSD-card_Image I'd like to do this, but my uSD card isn't recognised by my host machine. How can I mount a directory on my host machine from the FR? Regards

Re: [SHR testing] opkg error

2009-04-25 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/4/23 D. Gassen : > I did force it: > >> opkg install -nodeps task-shr-minimal-x > > I don't think that the "missing dependency" on glibc-binary-localedata- > en-gb does break things (I haven't noticed anything) it made "opkg > upgrade" stop complaining. Thanks. Jeff

Re: [SHR testing] opkg error

2009-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/4/23 Yorick Moko : > don't know about the localedate thingy, > > but try > opkg remove -force-depends e-wm-menu > opkg install e-wm-menu-shr Thanks. That sorted out the one error. Anyone else with ideas on the other one? Regards Jeff ___ support

[SHR testing] opkg error

2009-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I'm getting the following errors after opkg update;opkg upgrade: Collected errors: * ERROR: The following packages conflict with e-wm-menu-shr: * e-wm-menu * * ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for task-shr-minimal-x: * glibc-binary-localedata-en-gb * What can

Re: Re: [SHR testing] Phonelog borks Dbus

2009-04-23 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On Apr 23, 2009 12:49pm, Adam Jimerson wrote: Which SHR-Testing are you using? In the release prior to the 4/16 one I have noticed that and got use to restarting my phone at the first sign of something crashing. In the latest release this seems fixed, I am able to use the phonelog just fine,

[SHR testing] Phonelog borks Dbus

2009-04-22 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
If I start Phonelog, it crashes, borking Dbus along the way. I seem to have to reboot the phone to sort things out. What can I do to fix this? Regards Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinf

[SHR testing] Phone vibrates but doesn't ring on wake from suspend

2009-04-22 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
The phone vibrates but doesn't ring on wake from suspend. If the phone is not suspended, then it rings OK. What can I do to fix this? Regards Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/suppor

[SHR] Vibrate only on alarm

2009-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
ATM, the alarm app rings a nice old alarm clock ring. Is there any way of getting it to honour the profile, and when needed only vibrate? Regards Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/suppo

Re: Re: [FSO 5.1] Preventing screen blanking

2009-04-07 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On Apr 7, 2009 9:50am, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote: I've read the manual/wiki and I read the mailinglist but I cant recall when I read about that stuff so here it comes again... I looked before posting too... You can use 'mdbus' for this kind of stuff by using the dbus-methods provided by t

[FSO 5.1] Preventing screen blanking

2009-04-06 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
Whilst using the FR for navigation, it would be helpful if the screen didn't blank. In illume's power setup menu, there are two options, blank time, and suspend time. However, blank seems to affect only the backlight, and suspend turns off the screen. If I switch both to off, the backlight

Re: [FSO 5.1] WSOD on resume

2009-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/3/11 Andy Green : > Sure, although I think at least one of them will be false / gone away in > HEAD. Unfortunately, its worse than that. With the andy-tracking kernel (+ modules - I hope I installed them correctly by simply unpacking them in /), I get no USB - no power, no networking, nothing

Re: [FSO 5.1] WSOD on resume

2009-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/3/10 Andy Green : > uImage-2.6.28-oe1+gitr34240a1c06ae36180dee695aa25bbae869b2aa26-r3-om-gta02.bin > > Well it's from Jan 5th. > > If you're feeling adventurous (you can back out using that uImage > anyway) try this kernel > > http://people.openmoko.org/andy/uImage-moredrivers-GTA02_andy-track

[FSO 5.1] WSOD on resume

2009-03-10 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
I've just flashed Qi, 2.6.28 and FSO 5.1. When the FR resumes, the screen goes white and then slowly fades to black. Any ideas what I can do to get it working? Regards Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.or

Re: Re: Qi causes WSOD (was Re: [2008.testing] WSOD)

2009-02-23 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On Feb 24, 2009 2:31am, Andy Green wrote: Suspend and resume on 2.6.24 only works by luck, it's not telling us much. OK. You are saying that with uBoot+2.6.24, it wasn't suspending properly, hence resume worked, but with Qi+2.6.24, suspend worked, but resume is broken. Why does Qi/uBoot

Qi causes WSOD (was Re: [2008.testing] WSOD)

2009-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/2/22 Jeffrey Ratcliffe : > The only other thing I did around the same time was to replace uBoot with Qi. To test this, I booted into NOR, thereby using uBoot, and then booted the 2.4.24 image again (which I had reflashed). Resume then works without WSOD. i.e. Qi, for me at least, cau

[2008.testing] WSOD

2009-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
My FR suffers from the buzzing problem, and so I got a friend of mine who does that sort of soldering every day as part of his job to do the big-C fix, and whilst he was at it, the SD/GPS fix. Ever since the fixes were done, my FR gets the WSOD, i.e. on resume, the screen goes white, and then fade

Re: [Debian] Can't shutdown

2009-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/2/1 Jeffrey Ratcliffe : > shutdown now Figured it out. This should be: /etc/init.d/halt stop Regards Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support

[debian] navit

2009-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I can't find any recent navit packages for Debian. Do I have to roll my own? Regards Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: [Debian] Can't shutdown

2009-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/2/1 arne anka : > as what user are you logged in when launching shutdown and what commando > exactly are you using? as root: shutdown now Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support

[Debian] Can't shutdown

2009-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
If I shutdown now, the ssh session is kill, and the wm closes down. init sends a kill signal, and then asks for either the root password or ctrl-d, neither of which of course are possible because of the lack of keyboard. Therefore the shutdown hangs. How do I get around this? Regards Jeff _

Re: Qi

2009-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/2/1 Joachim Ott : > And while you're on the converting trip: convert your obsolete mmcblk0p1 > into a swap partition: Excellent idea. The trouble is that it is only 8Mb, rather than the 64Mb or 128Mb I see recommended. My SD card reader doesn't seem to recognise uSD cards in adapters, and I

Re: Qi

2009-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/1/31 Andy Green : > Ext3 is better IMO because it can soak up a lot of casual damage that > ext2 can't. With my usage pattern I am randomly powering things off all > the time I appreciate how ext3 never makes any difficulty for me about > that. Whereas after a day of it ext2 is on its knees.

Re: Qi

2009-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/1/31 Andy Green : > So need to remove what you have in partition 1, and add a kernel named > /boot/uImage-GTA02.bin into partition 2 (since that's your rootfs), > which should be ext2 or better ext3. Thanks. The Debian installer had put the kernel in the root of /dev/mmcblk0p1, not in a boot

Qi

2009-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I bought myself an 8Gb uSD and installed Debian on it, but it wouldn't boot. u-boot simply said it couldn't find the uImage.bin, which is in /dev/mmcblk0p1, with the rest in /dev/mmcblk0p2. I read that Qi might work better, so I flashed the latest from the /andy directory (18.12.08). I added root

Re: Bootloader

2008-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Having booted from U-boot with the the parameters suggested in https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1743, I tried the Debian installation on my 2Gb SD. The only warning message of interest was: Warning: invalid flag 0x00,0x00 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) until it stopped wi

Re: Bootloader

2008-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/10/26 xiangfu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > if you plug you Freerunner and there is /dev/ttyACM0. i think it is work. > i always use cu. > there is what i always do : > - --- > chown uucp.uucp /dev/ttyACM0 > > cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 > GTA01Bv4 # setenv boot_menu_timeout 65000

Re: Bootloader

2008-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/10/26 Lin Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > for the SD issue, kernels in > http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/ (I was useing > testing-om-gta02-20081024.uImage.bin) > and > http://moko.mwester.net/download/uImage-gta02-g291a9d50_mwester-stable.bin > fix the problem, while others(om2008.9, debian,..

Bootloader

2008-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
In order to use the workaround in https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1743, I'm trying to access the bootloader, following the instructions in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Bootloader. I boot into U-boot OK, but when I select Set the console to USB I get press AUX to get back to boot menu for

Re: NetworkManager in Intrepid breaks my FreeRunner's Internet connection

2008-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/10/12 Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've just upgraded my Hardy desktop to Intrepid and now have network problems. I worked around this by sudo apt-get remove network-manager and then adding auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp to my /etc/netw

Re: NetworkManager in Intrepid breaks my FreeRunner's Internet connection

2008-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/10/13 digger vermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Recently something changed with NetworkManager in Intrepid, don't know > what. With the "auto usb0" line in the interfaces file NM decided that They started using the 0.7 version of NetworkManager, which isn't quite finished. > it to make it the d

NetworkManager in Intrepid breaks my FreeRunner's Internet connection

2008-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I've just upgraded my Hardy desktop to Intrepid and now have network problems. This is my /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto usb0 iface usb0 inet static address 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 up iptables -A POSTROUTING

Re: opkg upgrade FATAL

2008-08-13 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/11 arne anka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> or should a file a bug? > > yes. i think the module is not necessary anymore and no package should > have a dependency upon it. https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1819 ___ support mailing list support@lists

opkg upgrade FATAL

2008-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On my GTA02, I'm getting from opkg upgrade: Configuring kernel-module-snd-soc-neo1973-gta02-wm8753 Configuring kernel-module-snd-soc-neo1973-wm8753 FATAL: Error inserting snd_soc_neo1973_wm8753 (/lib/modules/2.6.24/kernel/sound/soc/s3c24xx/snd-soc-neo1973-wm8753.ko): No such device Is this not a

Re: sms when asleep

2008-08-06 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/6 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The sms didnt wake the phone as I am sure it would when I first got it. > The message seemed to have been received by the phone (the rx sound came > immediately I woke it), but the message itself didnt wake the FR and > sound the ring tone. I could

Re: Buzzing sound

2008-08-05 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/5 Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Like Ole says when I started looking at it, by calling a landline in the > same room and listening to its receiver lying on the desk, it varied > tremendously and not in a repeatable way. Eg, it appeared to vary by > orientation of the phone, but when I t

Re: Buzzing sound

2008-08-05 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/5 Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Do they say the buzzing is consistent, or it comes and goes? I've not asked in any detail. What frequency of coming and going has been reported? Are we talking seconds or minutes? Jeff ___ support mailing list

Re: Buzzing sound

2008-08-05 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/5 Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Only thing you may try for now is changing GSM-provider, as it seems to be > very clear the issue is to be found on some GSM-networks, and not (or less) > on some others. Generally the 1800/1900 networks seem to be more likely to > cause this proble

Re: Worrisome output from "opkg -test update" in 2007.2

2008-08-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/2 Olivier Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Doing an opkg remove gtk+-fastscaling and opkg upgrade gtk+ solved the > issue, I think. YMMV though. I needed opkg remove -force-depends gtk+-fastscaling but otherwise this sorted out the error messages. ___

Re: Factory-fresh phone and dropbear

2008-07-22 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Is there any mileage in including opkg update and upgrade in a line in /etc/network/interfaces, so that it is automatic on being connected? Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: Qtopia

2008-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/7/21 Jim Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I just flashed Qtopia (Because my up-to-date 2007.2 wouldn't start x >> anymore, lost sound etc etc). Is there a downside to Qtopia over 2007.2? Regards Jeff ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko