Re: Re: Openmoko Community Survey 2011 ? Results

2012-01-16 Thread neo
Hi Nikolaus, > The cheapest UMTS Android 2.2 device I can currently get in > Germany is at 129 EUR (most likely from some overstock clearance). > Has a 320x240 display, no sensors, no free and open software. No > hardware description, no schematics. Appears to be crap and much > less featured than

Re: Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-26 Thread neo
> Since it seems so hard to have a custom made case, why not use an > existing case for a HTC, nokia, iphone or the like? > (or a chinese replica) > The layout of the PCB needs to be alltered ofcourse, but it seems that > it might be an easier thing to do. Then, however you have the same problem

Re: let's launch a FR into space

2010-10-18 Thread neo
> And now think, what could be done if it was a freerunner? http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg49762.html -- n...@el-hennig.de Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. ___ Openmoko community

Re: Re: Openmoko Beagle Hybrid - was: [Community Updates] 2010-08-01 is out

2010-10-13 Thread neo
> we have won one of the new PandaBoards (OMAP4 / ARM Coretx A9) boards > through the PandaBoard Early Adopter Program: Congratulations! This is good news, indeed. -- n...@el-hennig.de Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.

Re: 2+4+2 timing seemed to disrupt access to the sdcard

2010-07-26 Thread neo
> All this crashing caused some filesystem trouble. And then the > second problem showed up. > > I got i/o errors reading from the sdcard. Sometimes, I didn't get > tiles for tangogps or pictures for my contacts. > > Unmounting the sdcard and running fsck ought to fix this. But the fix > was temp

Re: Re: Flashing qi broke my freerunner - SOLVED

2010-07-21 Thread neo
> Solution for recurring WSOD: That was no *OD, as the freerunner boots normally, except for not showing a display. So halting the system vie USB/ssh still works > The solution is to boot into NOR flash, and then select "Poweroff" from > the menu. After that, I get a normal reboot without

Re: at

2010-07-12 Thread neo
> Could someone please explain how does the the at_over_dbus work? > > How can i register a command to be executed at certain time? Place commands in a script in /var/spool/at and name it like TIMESTAMP.command.$$ where TIMESTAMP is the seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC when the command s

Re: Re: QtMoko v24

2010-06-01 Thread neo
> I'd like to see other distros goes like that. For example (and this is > only an example) why do SHR added a split screen function on the desktop > whereas a lot of (more usefull) other things where pending ? Maybe it was just there coming with illume2 and it needed to much work to remove i

Re: Re: Re: Re: latest SHR unstable: neo theme not working well, can't close apps anymore, qwo keyboard breaks starter

2010-05-05 Thread neo
> TAsn is checking > possibilities for shr_elm_softkey autostarted by e17 itself. That's probably the most elegant way. What I would like then, is to have the sliding shelf in the same style as the indicator, the capability of holding gadgets in the sliding shelf (like the IBar) and a possib

Re: Re: Re: latest SHR unstable: neo theme not working well, can't close apps anymore, qwo keyboard breaks starter

2010-05-05 Thread neo
> > For me it does not automatically, but as workaraound you can start > "shr_elm_softkey" from the terminal and then it works fine. I found an even better way to workaraounf this problem automatically: I created a wrapper /usr/bin/shr_elm_softkey.sh that is called from /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89shr

Re: Re: latest SHR unstable: neo theme not working well, can't close apps anymore, qwo keyboard breaks starter

2010-05-05 Thread neo
> And how you close an application in illume2?;-) > For me the top shelf does not slide down anymore (dunno, what should > be the method > to close the applications) For me it does not automatically, but as workaraound you can start "shr_elm_softkey" from the terminal and then it works fine. --

Re: little python script to clean up double entries in /usr/lib/opkg/status

2010-05-04 Thread neo
> for some reason I often suffer from double (or triple or...) entries in > my /usr/lib/opkg/status and decided to write a little script that > removes double entries. To be safe I opted to remove the newer entries > and keep only the oldest. This is a good idea! However, the script does to tak

Re: [shr-t] typing sms over ssh

2010-04-23 Thread neo
> Just a question : is there any way to launch phoneui-messages through > ssh -X ? It keeps ignoring $DISPLAY and displays itself on FR screen... > > IIRC I was able to do that previously... maybe an alterantive would be using thone... http://code.google.com/p/thone/ ___

Re: Openmoko list?

2010-03-23 Thread neo
Maybe it would be better to ask the admins of the ml - original Nachricht Betreff: Openmoko list? Gesendet: Di, 23. Mrz 2010 Von: Iain B. Findleton > Suddenly I get nothing from this mailing list. Has something happened? > > Iain f. > > --- original Nachricht Ende _

Re: Re: How to manually delete sms from sim using dbus2 or something else?

2010-03-19 Thread neo
> To list messages (latest shr-t): > mdbus2 -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device > org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.RetrieveMessagebook 'all' > > To delete messages one by one: > mdbus2 -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device > org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.DeleteMe

Re: [shr-t] Big update, safe or not ?

2010-03-18 Thread neo
> But today I've tried an 'opkg update' and now I see : > $opkg list-upgradable | wc -l > 682 > > Will such a big upgrade be ok or do I have to wait until Sunday (more > time to fix borken things) ? You should consider to upgrade in more than one step, as space in /tmp is limited. Read about th

Re: Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-26 Thread neo
> Martin fixed qt builds (thanks again), and Ben just reported that NWA > works again after upgrading. It starts up, yes. But when I close nwa I have to reboot my FR as it does not react on any input by pressing the power button. -- n...@el-hennig.de

Re: tangogps-0.99.3 ipk?

2010-02-22 Thread neo
> Is there a package file out there for this version? If so, where? There is one in the SHR--Unstable feed. http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/ipk/armv4t/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Re: [SHRu] Stuck @ language screen aka Contest of the day.

2010-02-16 Thread neo
> Last brick to find : how to SSH my FR ! Probably the only way not to install shr again, would be to boot from sd card and remove the file /etc/pointercal.xinput in the flash partition from that system. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@

Re: Re: [SHRu] Stuck @ language screen aka Contest of the day.

2010-02-16 Thread neo
> > If someone knows how to connect SSH or relauch the calibration utility > > I will send an "openmoko-fr" sticker. > > Can you try to run > > DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/xinput_calibrator > > from your ssh shell? you can also remove /etc/pointercal.xinput and reboot. __

Re: [SHRu] Stuck @ language screen aka Contest of the day.

2010-02-16 Thread neo
> If someone knows how to connect SSH or relauch the calibration utility > I will send an "openmoko-fr" sticker. Can you try to run DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/xinput_calibrator from your ssh shell? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openm

Re: Re: [qtmoko] New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-02-12 Thread neo
> Thanks, I made little test. I used this kernel with SHR-T. System loaded > fast (~30s) , applications loads fast, but all graphics related > activities like screen scrolling are painfully slow and look like a > slide show. Would you kindly advise me a better nodebug kernel for tests > with SHR-T

Re: QtMoko v19

2010-02-05 Thread neo
Hello Radek, > - Two kernels. Slow with debug, fast with nodebug > I have decided to do version 19 and skip 17 and 18. The reason is that i did > experimental kernel named v17 which could be confusing and i want to reserve > v18 for version with 2.6.32 kernel. Could you provide the modules for

OpenZim does not work with recebt SHR-U any more

2010-02-01 Thread neo
Hi all, unfortunately Marc Bantle's build of zimreader for openmoko does not work anymore on the latest SHR-U. As this is the best wikipedia offline reader I used so far (especially because of the fulltext index), I would really appreciate it, if somebody could rebuild it and maybe package it a

Re: Re: Latest SHR-?

2010-01-29 Thread neo
> Which kernel are you guys using (on shr)? Andy-tracking? I'm using this one: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/experimental/ Right now I switched back to the standard SHR-U kernel. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists

Re: Re: Latest SHR-?

2010-01-29 Thread neo
> I'm not using shr-t or any .29-rc3 kernel, so I cannot comment. But on > shr ML and trac there was few reports about not getting GPS lock or GSM > channel (even with debug kernel) and at least 3 people said that they > are having this problem more often with nodebug kernel. I am one of those peo

Re: Re: Re: [SHR-t] navit crashes with Reiseplanner maps while searching for a town

2010-01-28 Thread neo
> Please test it from this files and let me know.. if everything works > I'll push it to oe.dev and then build it in official shr-u feeds. The search works with MP maps. I could not test OSM, since I will update the map at home later this evening. The search with my current OSM map does at least

Re: Re: [SHR-t] navit crashes with Reiseplanner maps while searching for a town

2010-01-28 Thread neo
> Then this is probably another issue for you, because the regression in > M&G (reiseplanner) was caused by the use of new tags in OSM which > weren't added to M&G. > Does your OSM map version match navit's revision? If you use an old OSM > map, or a newer OSM map with a given revision of navit,

Re: Re: [SHR-t] navit crashes with Reiseplanner maps while searching for a town

2010-01-28 Thread neo
> There is a bug open at navit's bugtracker about that : > http://trac.navit-project.org/ticket/524 > > This is a regression since rev 2844. I'm personally using a rev26?? on > my FR, with reiseplanner maps, without this issue. > > The patch in the ticket has been applied, please try with rev 2

Re: Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread neo
> And sometimes, but only sometimes, when not registered on boot, I can force > > registration simply by rebooting libphoneui from shr-settings > Sometimes it doesn't matter what daemon you reboot. It doesn't register :( I just managed to force the registering by giving the FR sth. to work and

Re: Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread neo
> It did not work. Well, X came up and was nice and snappy, but > the phone never connected to the GSM network. I tried shr-settings, > and GSM could not be turned on! > > I tried booting several times, I tried restarting various fso daemons > that seemed phone-related. > > Nothing helped. In t

Re: [All] New version of the orrery program available

2009-12-01 Thread neo
> One of the most commonly cited bugs, which caused the program > to fail if it was run on a phone whose locale had been set > to a language which uses commas, rather than periods, as > the decimal place separator, has been fixed. Thanks a bunch > to Heiko Stubner, who submitted a patch that fixe

Re: Re: Tango-GPS, omgps: download maps?

2009-10-23 Thread neo
> I use yaouh to update them - its pretty good. Shame there isn't > something similar in tangogps. Like an option to check for updates of > the current tile. How do you initiate an offline map repository with yaouh? I thought it was "only" an updater for existing map tiles. BTW tangoGPS al

Re: Tango-GPS, omgps: download maps?

2009-10-23 Thread neo
> is it possible to download the map-tiles for offline use? I know that > the apps can download the current maps, but doing this via gprs is too > expansive for me. > Sorry if this question was ask before, but I didn't find the answer... Yes, there is Ator's download script: http://www.bikeato

Re: #1024-rework service available

2009-10-23 Thread neo
> > thanks for offering this service! (although too bad I already sent my > device once to Germany) > can you give us an indication on how much this would improve batterylife? > > I'm assuming it only extends standby-time. > > I once saw a graph that indicated that it was a huge boost, but can't

Re: Re: mplayer?

2009-09-18 Thread neo
Hi, what about xfs? I use xfs on several servers, desktop machines and laptops and it works perfectly. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [SHR] Missing icons after install

2009-04-18 Thread Neo Rart
Hi, This solution works: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-January/040537.html NeoRart 2009/4/18, Johny Tenfinger : > Full reflash or executing code snippet, which I'm going to post here ;) > > 2009/4/17, Tomas Riveros Schober : >> Great! thanks for the quick answer! >> should i

[SHR] Usage improvements - power

2009-03-15 Thread Neo Rart
Hi, I use SHR since January and it feels quite stable and fast. The only things I miss from Om2008.x is brightness setting and forcing higher charging current. I know brightness control is planned in SHR-settings but what to do in the mean time? I need also aplication similar to Battery.py avail