Re: QtMoko v44 for Freerunner now available
On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:04:54 PM francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote: Il 02/05/2012 18:29, Brian ha scritto: I'd be willing to bet it's something to do with your Qi setup or the SD card setup as IIRC Qi polls the SD card first for a bootable partition and only then boots from NAND. I think so too. IIRC i tried v44 from SD card and it worked, but i am now not 100% sure. Maybe it is my SD card that is broken. I tried Qi from QtMoko v38 and v44, installed QtMoko v38 and v44 on the SD, formatted the SD more than a time, I am able to mount it (both on my pc and my GTA02), read and write it, no errors shown by disk checks, but still no boot. Because Qi doesn't show any output I cannot say what is going on. Maybe I can use uboot but I don't know the parameters to select If POWER button is holded during qi initialization, it should make kernel more verbose. Maybe there will be something interesting. You can also play with /boot/append-GTA02 file and try rootdelay=10 instead of rootwait if that help. Regards Radek ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] [ANN] GTA04 Keyboard prototype
Am 03.05.2012 um 10:03 schrieb Butrus Damaskus: Very interresting, but I'm a little bit puzzled as how it should work in the real life... That is a task for further study and optimization. We have just built one unit and we need some 3D printed cases to do a better evaluation. Some more general thought: I am not sure how we should handle such ideas and how this community sees its role. Should we announce/publish immediately as soon as we have a prototype? And ask the community for comments and participation in improving it? Or should we silently finish some design and work with beta testers not on this list... I think this is a fundamental difference to open software development. There we can have a stable, a testing and an experimental branch and everyone can download the one he/she likes. With hardware we have to build physical protoypes and make experiments (which are not for free) to find out what a good solution is. Nikolaus On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Hi, we have developed a prototype for a 80 button QWERTY keyboard PCB that could eventually be connected/integrated into the GTA04. It should fit into a specially designed battery cover so that you can easily stow it away if not needed. Such battery covers could be produced individually through 3D printing solving the issue of manageing and stocking 20 different key layouts. But watch yourself how we think it can look like: http://youtu.be/WM94%5fR5eKcc There is also a new video showing a comparison with some other keyboards: http://youtu.be/wGASnE1zGh4 Pleas tell us if you like this idea and what you would like to pay for such an extension unit through the Wishlist function of our shop: http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%3AKeyboard Two issues are still to be developed: a) how to reliably connect it to the GTA04 PCB (soldering copper wires or a FFCs is a little difficult so it should have a tiny, flexible but robust B2B cable). Maybe, we can use a micro-USB socket or similar (we need to connect 6 wires). This may also need a redesign of the GTA04 board (for a nice plug) b) design a 3D printable case with key-caps that is robust enough If you want to support us for developing this idea, please give us a kickstart donation. Nikolaus PS: the keyboard driver for the TCA8418 is already part of Linux 3.3 - and has been backported to the 2.6.32-kernel. This has been tested to work on a BeagleBoard XM. http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=commit;h=f19d5c430458bbce8955bc9e04dd161f6a80347d It just needs platform data in the board file: http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=blobdiff;f=arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap3gta04.c;h=8a7e4b0803920f635e7101bfbd5a60b6b84b1107;hp=3e49efef2de0b42cd419a46a9cd45448fd04a44c;hb=4b2de3db742abce9212c1af2cc576e2a3a64b0d9;hpb=1d7c6b5f043661621ec374d96c3c4a4454f9bb7b ___ Gta04-owner mailing list gta04-ow...@goldelico.com http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo/gta04-owner ___ Gta04-owner mailing list gta04-ow...@goldelico.com http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo/gta04-owner ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] [ANN] GTA04 Keyboard prototype
Some more general thought: I am not sure how we should handle such ideas and how this community sees its role. Should we announce/publish immediately as soon as we have a prototype? And ask the community for comments and participation in improving it? Or should we silently finish some design and work with beta testers not on this list... From external point of view, having more information about what is going on is definitly better. However, it is you who is actually doing things, it's up to you to decide if to show your eraly prototypes and collect feedback or not. Nikita ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Serdar Dere Android on Freerunner Mirrors ?
Hi, I was looking back for the Serdar Dere's android installers. It was great, and I'm sad the site is empty now. Does anyone has any backup of those images/files ? Thanks a lot Thomas/AstHrO ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko servers
Hi Nikolaus, I know about one association which is willing to support development of Open Souce Hardware and Openmoko. It's Openmobility. Organizing annual conference is not our only agenda. We have legal statute of non-profit association with council elected each 2 years. Majority of our members are current or former Neo FreeRunner users. Currently we are looking for people capable of running their own Open Source mobile or hardware project. Anybody from Openmoko community can join. We can backup data from openmoko.org on our server and create new infrastructure on openmoko.cz, if Openmoko Inc. can't handle this anymore. Best Regards, Martin Martix Holec Dne 30.4.2012 20:21, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller napsal(a): Am 30.04.2012 um 19:18 schrieb Martix: Hi, docs.openmoko.org and svn.openmoko.org are still down. Shoud I be worried about destiny of other *.openmoko.org services like wiki.openmoko.org? Please provide at least backups and dumps for wiki. Best Regards, Martin Martix Holec Dne 22.4.2012 21:35, Bob Ham napsal(a): Mr Moss-Pultz, The server docs.openmoko.org (aka svn.openmoko.org) has been down for some time. Word around the camp fire has it that it is down because the hosting company has blocked access to the machine; that they require a signature from yourself in order to transfer control to the administrator; and that this signature has not been received. Could I ask: is there a particular reason that this signature has not been provided? Are you unwilling to relinquish control? The situation needs to be resolved so that we can get access to the data hosted on the server, and preferably as soon as possible. Kind regards, Bob Ham Looks like another example where some Openmoko.org association or foundation could be helpful. I.e. someone who is *clearly* responsible. BR, Nikolaus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QtMoko v44 for Freerunner now available
Hi, Am 03.05.2012 08:53, schrieb Radek Polak: On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:04:54 PM francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote: Il 02/05/2012 18:29, Brian ha scritto: I'd be willing to bet it's something to do with your Qi setup or the SD card setup as IIRC Qi polls the SD card first for a bootable partition and only then boots from NAND. I think so too. IIRC i tried v44 from SD card and it worked, but i am now not 100% sure. I installed v44 last week on my GTA02 on SD card without problems. Seems to run fine for me. :-) Regards, David ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Serdar Dere Android on Freerunner Mirrors ?
Hi Thomas I was looking back for the Serdar Dere's android installers. It was great, and I'm sad the site is empty now. Indeed yes Does anyone has any backup of those images/files ? I have android-on-freerunner-cupcake-daily-20110312.tar.gz and android-on-freerunner-cupcake-sd-daily-20110312.tar.gz Both work well, but eat battery even by freerunner standards; the sd card version is best if you want to customize things. I could stick either or both on a server temporarily if you like. -- David Matthews m...@dmatthews.org ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QtMoko v44 for Freerunner now available
Never mind, now it works. I'm pretty sure that something got wrong during unmounting operations of my SD. Thanks anyway! :) Best Regards Joif ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Serdar Dere Android on Freerunner Mirrors ?
On 03/05/2012 22:47, dmatthews.org wrote: Hi Thomas I was looking back for the Serdar Dere's android installers. It was great, and I'm sad the site is empty now. Indeed yes Does anyone has any backup of those images/files ? I have android-on-freerunner-cupcake-daily-20110312.tar.gz and android-on-freerunner-cupcake-sd-daily-20110312.tar.gz Both work well, but eat battery even by freerunner standards; the sd card version is best if you want to customize things. I could stick either or both on a server temporarily if you like. Ho yeah I'll be really happy ! I have a Moko with (I think) a 'hole' in the NAND, and Android on Sd is the best solution ... Let me know where you put them or if you want an account somewhere to drop it. Thanks alot by advance Thomas ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
