On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:30 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Kenworthy [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sun 12/27/2009 10:58 AM > To: Helge Hafting > Cc: SHR-user > Subject: Re: [Shr-User] Tried the new unstable > > >Has the dimming been fixed? - try running the ffalarms clock or manually > >changing brightness - the dimmer subtracts something from the brightness > >value and after a couple of iterations you have zero brightness - and > > No such problem now. I did not use the image, I did an "opg upgrade" as soon > as > it booted after flashing. There were lots of updated packages, probably many > fixes. > I am building my own :) - the first version (same day as release) was what most of my comments were against. The current testing wont build without manual intervention which I did yesterday and the new image is much improved.
> I change brightness a lot - it is winter here so I turn down the brightness > when driving in the dark. > > > Also, in daylight (its peak summer here in Australia), the screen > > disappears as once the dimmer cuts in, the screen isnt bright enough to > > be seen (and starting at 80% brightness means it is only barely visible > > in the shade anyway). > > Moving the default away from 80% seems to work well, and the new setting is > remembered. > > > And try reading an ebook without disabling the dimmer :( > Seems fixed - the older version didnt seem to honour the display reservation by fsoraw, this one does. Its still annoying as I only use fsoraw for things like gps and FBReader - everything else keeps disappearing when the display dims when outdoors. The brighten when touching the keyboard, and dimming when you are looking at something is really distracting and annoying - think I'll go back and disable it anyway. > I see the problem, but fortunately, the dimmer can be disabled. I use this > command for keeping the display on when using the FR as a car gps: > > fsoraw -r CPU,Display tangogps > > You may want to use "fsoraw" similiarly for starting your ebook reader > software. > > > The new shr-today is only a little faster when I tried it, but seems > > very flaky in that it often stops working and needs a reboot before it > > will work again. > > Perhaps only a little faster, but also more stable. At least so far. > Still flaky - shr-today doesnt always turn up when it should. Currently I can turn (mostly, sometimes not) it on using the aux button, but it doesnt appear on resuming. It does work on resuming after a reboot, but comes and goes seemingly randomly - wierd. > > > Do you have a clock, GSM and battery readings? - they were not present > > when I tried and none of the suggested fixes worked? > > Yes. I thought the battery meter was broken, because it showed 100% all the > time. > My batter was never over 65% before - it is partially worn out. (Happens to > all lithium > batteries unfortunately.) But I guess they merely changed the indicator, so > it shows 100% when > the battery is as full as it gets. It goes down when I take the phone off the > charger for some time. > Had all items after latest install on first boot, but since then some dont appear at times, and the signal strength bars just show the circle with a bar through it and the vodafone text. Its registered and the desktop shows normal signal strength. > I have seen one new problem though. When I disconnect GPRS networking (in > order to use > USB networking for free), the name resolution doesn't work. Well, that is not > new. The > fix for this was always to copy /etc/resolv.conf from the attached PC, to > make name > resolution work again. The real problem is that GPRS cannot be brought up > again after messing > with /etc/resolv.conf. The connection is in "UNKNOWN" state, and the button > just says "unkown" > so neither connect or disconnect is possible. IT was not like that before - > no matter what happend to the > resolv.conf file, I could bring up GPRS again later. > > Helge Hafting > I tried gprs twice - phone crashed and required reboot (didnt power on until battery removed/replaced - once, cant remember what second was but also required battery removal. Rarely use gprs due to cost anyway so not that important to me. BillK -- William Kenworthy <[email protected]> Home in Perth! _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
