Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810

2008-09-23 Thread David Greaves
Kalle Valo wrote: From now on I will not send any more stlc45xx news to maemo-developers. Everyone interested should subscribe to stlc45xx-devel or follow stlc45xx category from my blog[1]: Hi Kalle I'm delighted that you're doing this work - can I ask you to please continue to post to

How to use gstreamer in diablo?

2008-09-23 Thread Gerolf Ziegenhain
Dear mailinglist, How could I use gstreamer in the nokia tablet with diablo? Somehow the gst-... commands are not provided and it also seems, that even though I can load the python modules, its not possible to setup an audio test source: Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line

Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread Simon Pickering
Hi all, A few of us sat down with John Costigan (aka Gnuite) after his presentation at the Maemo Summit and as well as drinking a few beers/vodkas discussed how to achieve the end goal. I just thought I'd start the conversation going here and summarise my thoughts (John has probably not even made

Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810

2008-09-23 Thread Kalle Valo
ext David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo wrote: From now on I will not send any more stlc45xx news to maemo-developers. Everyone interested should subscribe to stlc45xx-devel or follow stlc45xx category from my blog[1]: Hi Kalle Hello David, I'm delighted that you're doing

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread pierre . amadio
Hola ! I have been looking at pyrender and did try recently to have a on the fly vector map rendering in python. It was so slow i decided to use pre made tiles instead. I also used most part of pyroute to try to make off line route calculation: http://sayhoo.garage.maemo.org/ It works but it

Re: How to use gstreamer in diablo?

2008-09-23 Thread Raul Fernandes Herbster
Hi Gerolf, there're some tutorials on Forum Nokia wiki: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_create_a_mp3_player_in_maemo http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Maemo_multimedia_applications_-_Part_II http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Maemo_multimedia_applications_-_Part_I Regards,

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread Simon Budig
Simon Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tile rendering == There's a list of OSM rendering programs here [0]. Mapnik [1] is the program which renders the map tiles currently downloaded by Maemo-mapper. This requires that the OSM MySQL database be processed and turned into a

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread Simon Pickering
Hi Pierre, I have been looking at pyrender and did try recently to have a on the fly vector map rendering in python. It was so slow i decided to use pre made tiles instead. Hmm, ok, well that's indicating that we should use C then. I also used most part of pyroute to try to make off line

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread Jamie Bennett
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 14:13 +0100, Simon Pickering wrote: Anyway, good to see that there are others interested in the topic :) Judging by the various discussions on/off line I think there are many people interested in navigation on the tablets. It's a very worthwhile project and one that I will

programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
Are there any ports available for programming languages so that development can be done on the n800 itself? Programming in the wild, so to speak, instead of cross-compiling at the desk? I have hopes for gcc, or lisp, or something that can handle data structures and static typing. I've

Re: programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Hendrik Boom wrote: Are there any ports available for programming languages so that development can be done on the n800 itself? Programming in the wild, so to speak, instead of cross-compiling at the desk? Well, there are some interpreted languages that are installed by default on

Re: programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread gary liquid
Hendrik, I build my application exclusively on the device in c. I have installed gcc and the primary development libraries required for my application and find the compile times for individual source files very acceptable. Of course when I need to rebuild the entire project I know its time to

Re: programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:48:47 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Hendrik Boom wrote: Are there any ports available for programming languages so that development can be done on the n800 itself? Programming in the wild, so to speak, instead of cross-compiling at the desk? Well, there are

Re: programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:06:02 +0100, gary liquid wrote: Hendrik, I build my application exclusively on the device in c. I have installed gcc and the primary development libraries required for my application and find the compile times for individual source files very acceptable. Of course

Packaging changes to base system.

2008-09-23 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
Hello, 1. The iptables package that is installed is missing a few .so files (MASQUERADE, DNAT, etc.). With a few changes to the files in debian/ directory of the source package, it now also generates a new package iptables-ext, which includes those missing files. The question is how to

Re: Packaging changes to base system.

2008-09-23 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 07:34:28PM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: Hello, 1. The iptables package that is installed is missing a few .so files (MASQUERADE, DNAT, etc.). With a few changes to the files in debian/ directory of the source package, it now also generates a new package

searching for volunteers: driver for stlc4370 (wifi in Nokia 770)

2008-09-23 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, as you might know the Nokia internet tablets are still very much encumbered because of the lack of free drivers and key system management software. Things are getting better for the N8x0 series because Nokia managed STMicroelectronics to publish the specs for the stlc45xx chipset used therein.

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread Till Harbaum / Lists
Hi, do you want an honest reply: Don't do that. Maemo-Mapper isn't meant to handle vector data. Period. These are my concerns: - Plenty of duplicate data will get stored that isn't required since Maemo-Mapper will locally cache tiles that have been generated on the device itself. -

Re: programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Hendrik Boom wrote: That's acceptable. How did you install gcc and those libraries in teh first place? apt-get, gcc is in SDK repository http://repository.maemo.org/pool/chinook/free/g/gcc-3.4/ As for reducing big memory requirements of gcc see

Re: programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Hendrik, 2008/9/23 Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know which system component uses guile? I've done guile stuff on the 770 and N800, including preparing packages for core Guile, g-wrap, slib and guile-gnome. I've lost track of what the latest status of those is, but I'll try

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread Andrew Zabolotny
From Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:29:06 +0100 Simon Pickering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My two cents. I would strongly suggest against using Python and MySQL for such a project. Python has a very large memory overhead compared to C/C++, and a NIT doesn't have much memory to waste (I'd rather use the

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread pierre . amadio
Hi there ! On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:13:34PM +0100, Simon Pickering wrote: http://sayhoo.garage.maemo.org/ It works but it eats too much memory. Thanks, I'll take a look at that - is it because it stores the data in memory rather than using a db? It stores the data in memory (to be

Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810

2008-09-23 Thread Trilok Soni
Hi Kalle, The archive for stlc45xx-devel should be open, so you can always check from there what's happening. And if something newsworthy has happened, I can always drop a note to maemo-developers as well. Better to use linux-omap ML . Let's not create one more mailing list for specific

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread nelson-lists
Till Harbaum / Lists writes: do you want an honest reply: Don't do that. Maemo-Mapper isn't meant to handle vector data. Period. True, but it does ... and it could do it better. I have a 200K point route (every railroad ever built in New York State) which takes about 20 minutes to load,

Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810

2008-09-23 Thread Kalle Valo
ext Andrew Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:46:56 +0300 Kalle Valo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion on stlc45xx might get very technical (at least I'm hoping so) and I doubt that very few people in maemo-developersare interested about that. As a