Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
Thanks for offering help. 2010-10-02 01:28:02 Alfa21: 2010-10...@20:04 Christian Rüb I partitioned my 16GB SDHC (class 2) card have you tried to use it as raw storage? (no filesystem) cat plaintextfile.txt /dev/mmcblk0p1 less -f /dev/mmcblk0p1 I could not read it back, but using /dev/mmcblk0 it showed up somewhere near the beginning (it was cat to /dev/mmcblk0p1 though) you should be able to read your contents of the original input file. if you fail to less it on the FR, try the second command on your PC. showed up at partition start try the same directly on /dev/mmcblk0 but this will destroy all your data on uSD (partition table Co.) I saw the contents only once and about at the same place when catting it to /dev/mmcblk0p1 (Freerunner) Once at the beginning and once about where 1 partitions starts (PC). have you tried with a whole different fs, like fat32? same result :( (Freerunner) On my PC FAT32 and ext3 work ... Note that I booted using Qi and system is on NAND (kernel 2.6.29) Christian ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
Thanks for offering help. 2010-10-02 01:28:02 Alfa21: 2010-10...@20:04 Christian Rüb I partitioned my 16GB SDHC (class 2) card have you tried to use it as raw storage? (no filesystem) cat plaintextfile.txt /dev/mmcblk0p1 less -f /dev/mmcblk0p1 I could not read it back, but using /dev/mmcblk0 it showed up somewhere near the beginning (it was cat to /dev/mmcblk0p1 though) you should be able to read your contents of the original input file. if you fail to less it on the FR, try the second command on your PC. showed up at partition start try the same directly on /dev/mmcblk0 but this will destroy all your data on uSD (partition table Co.) I saw the contents only once and about at the same place when catting it to /dev/mmcblk0p1 (Freerunner) Once at the beginning and once about where 1 partitions starts (PC). have you tried with a whole different fs, like fat32? same result :( (Freerunner) On my PC FAT32 and ext3 work ... Note that I booted using Qi and system is on NAND (kernel 2.6.29) Christian I now get all sort of weird behaviour: I created ext2 on 1st partition on FR, then tried a fsck and got many short read errors, after that the partition table was gone. I repartioned, created ext3 and after that could not even access SD card in any way. dmesg gave a lot of: [ 244.985000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 169 [ 244.995000] glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8120 [ 244.995000] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command, response 0x0, card status 0x400b00 [ 244.995000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 170 [ 245.01] glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8120 [ 245.01] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command, response 0x0, card status 0x400b00 Now even fdisk does not find the card anymore. As from the wiki I thought the card would work :( ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
Hi, Christian, В Вск, 03/10/2010 в 13:11 +0200, Christian Rüb пишет: [ 244.995000] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command, response 0x0, card status 0x400b00 [ 244.995000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 170 [ 245.01] glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8120 You can try to add something like glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=1500 to you kernel options. Try different values until your card will start working. Gennady. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
2010-10...@11:16 Christian Rüb cat plaintextfile.txt /dev/mmcblk0p1 less -f /dev/mmcblk0p1 I could not read it back, but using /dev/mmcblk0 it showed up somewhere near the beginning (it was cat to /dev/mmcblk0p1 though) mmh... maybe less is not installed by default, sorry :P ok, near the beginning maybe after the 512 stuff of mbr and the partition table if p1 is at the beginning of your device, it's ok and regular thing. (you'd imagine your device as a long tape with one thing after each other) strange you are not able to read the p1 but only the whole device you should be able to read your contents of the original input file. if you fail to less it on the FR, try the second command on your PC. showed up at partition start right I saw the contents only once and about at the same place when catting it to /dev/mmcblk0p1 (Freerunner) Once at the beginning and once about where 1 partitions starts (PC). right, once at the beginning of the whole device and one where was the beginning of the old p1 (data remains there until overwritten with new data, usually it's never cleared) same result :( (Freerunner) On my PC FAT32 and ext3 work ... also with fat32 directly on whole device? (no partition table) Note that I booted using Qi and system is on NAND (kernel 2.6.29) sorry but I do not know if 2-4-2 or default change anything, I use qi too but the plain one and with 8GB uSD. Now even fdisk does not find the card anymore. As from the wiki I thought the card would work :( me too.. I was about to buying a 16GB one! :P btw, maybe you should clear your uSD... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=2048 WARNING: THIS COMMAND IS REALLY DESTRUCTIVE!!! (this will totally blank the first 1MB on your device, so mbr, partitions, some data Co.) double check the of= value before return!!! try to build all your tables on a real PC instead of FR -- ALFA21 IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: qtmoko v27
Since i moved to the v27, my touchscreen is kind of weird ... I can't draw a straight line, and when i keep the stylus on the screen, it draws a tiny star (more or less 9mm²) It makes the docked keyboard pretty unusable as when press a key, one of the surrounding key often responds ... -- Gand' On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.plwrote: [cut] Also it can compare only system clock with RTC, so we always assume that system time is correct. Calypso time - do we need it at all? Maybe to correct drifting RTC? -- Patryk LeadMan Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ___ 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: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
Hi Gennady, thanks for your suggestions. [ 244.995000] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command, response 0x0, card status 0x400b00 [ 244.995000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 170 [ 245.01] glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8120 You can try to add something like glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=1500 to you kernel options. Try different values until your card will start working. Tried these and also showing results: 1500 - partition skipped (led + vib) 500 - red led forever 16373000 - red led forever Now I got newest Qi from SHR-U and tried these settings which also gave me nothing but a red LED :( I already read in some of the older ML threads, but I am getting really frustrated here. Christian ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
forgot one line im my last mail... [ 244.995000] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command, response 0x0, card status 0x400b00 [ 244.995000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 170 [ 245.01] glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8120 You can try to add something like glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=1500 to you kernel options. Try different values until your card will start working. Tried these and also showing results: 1500 - partition skipped (led + vib) 500 - red led forever 16373000 - red led forever Now I got newest Qi from SHR-U and tried these settings which also gave me nothing but a red LED :( glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=500 rootwait loglevel=8 I already read in some of the older ML threads, but I am getting really frustrated here. Christian ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: qtmoko v27
Den 03-10-2010 14:08, Gand' skrev: Since i moved to the v27, my touchscreen is kind of weird ... I can't draw a straight line, and when i keep the stylus on the screen, it draws a tiny star (more or less 9mm²) It makes the docked keyboard pretty unusable as when press a key, one of the surrounding key often responds ... -- Gand' That was also one of the things that Radek mentioned when releasing it: -- I have been testing 2.6.34 kernel for one week now and to me it looks ok. There can be issues with SD card [6], the touchscreen driver is missing filtering so it's a bit jittery and i think accelerometers are somehow strange now. -- As a work-around, for the keyboard, I have rotated my screen 90 degrees and now I don't hit the wrong key very often anymore. I would though prefer the possibility to personally decide the size of my keyboard. -- Ole @ Carlsen-web.dk ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
Alfa21: 2010-10...@11:16 Christian Rüb cat plaintextfile.txt /dev/mmcblk0p1 less -f /dev/mmcblk0p1 I could not read it back, but using /dev/mmcblk0 it showed up somewhere near the beginning (it was cat to /dev/mmcblk0p1 though) mmh... maybe less is not installed by default, sorry :P ok, near the beginning maybe after the 512 stuff of mbr and the partition table if p1 is at the beginning of your device, it's ok and regular thing. (you'd imagine your device as a long tape with one thing after each other) less is installed ;-) I just could not read back what I wrote in. I.e. i catted /etc/hosts but got back only garbage. But as i catted it into the device (not the partition) I could read the contents back from somewhere near (but not at!) the beginning. So this differs from my PC results strange you are not able to read the p1 but only the whole device you should be able to read your contents of the original input file. if you fail to less it on the FR, try the second command on your PC. showed up at partition start right I saw the contents only once and about at the same place when catting it to /dev/mmcblk0p1 (Freerunner) Once at the beginning and once about where 1 partitions starts (PC). right, once at the beginning of the whole device and one where was the beginning of the old p1 (data remains there until overwritten with new data, usually it's never cleared) same result :( (Freerunner) On my PC FAT32 and ext3 work ... also with fat32 directly on whole device? (no partition table) Note that I booted using Qi and system is on NAND (kernel 2.6.29) sorry but I do not know if 2-4-2 or default change anything, I use qi too but the plain one and with 8GB uSD. Now even fdisk does not find the card anymore. As from the wiki I thought the card would work :( me too.. I was about to buying a 16GB one! :P btw, maybe you should clear your uSD... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=2048 cleared WARNING: THIS COMMAND IS REALLY DESTRUCTIVE!!! (this will totally blank the first 1MB on your device, so mbr, partitions, some data Co.) double check the of= value before return!!! try to build all your tables on a real PC instead of FR Trying a fs on the whole device did not help either. It seems like writing onto the card works (partitioning, creating fs) but reading does not (fsck, mount). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
В Вск, 03/10/2010 в 14:38 +0200, Christian Rüb пишет: [ 244.995000] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command, response 0x0, card status 0x400b00 [ 244.995000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 170 [ 245.01] glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8120 You can try to add something like glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=1500 to you kernel options. Try different values until your card will start working. Tried these and also showing results: 1500 - partition skipped (led + vib) 500 - red led forever 16373000 - red led forever Strange. Are you booting from usd or NAND? if from nand how can it hang? Would be interesting to see kernel logs. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Help from Always Innovating ?
Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it writes: 2010-09...@00:16 Chuck Norris I've asked them about missing this feature. Here are answer: We do not have a 3G or GSM option because we do not want to force a subscription on customers. Instead we want to focus on using wifi and free Skype calls. force subscription?! LOL... maybe they do not know what actually the word option means? fool or fail? ;) Well, `not wanting to force subscriptions' is actually the right answer if it would have been an `either/or' choice. More probably, it's because it's just not viable to include it in a device that size at that price-range--there have been in-depths discussions about this as it pertained to the FreeRunner, previously; they're probably still applicable. As far as the full-sized tablet goes, you could look into getting a UMTS/HSDPA/whatever USB stick to connect to one of those internal USB ports. I've seen ones that may be small enough for as low as $50 US, though it's not obvious how well they'd work from inside the tablet. -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Help from Always Innovating ?
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: it's not obvious how well they'd work from inside the tablet. Just add an external antenna? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Help from Always Innovating ?
On 10/3/10, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: As far as the full-sized tablet goes, you could look into getting a UMTS/HSDPA/whatever USB stick to connect to one of those internal USB ports. I've seen ones that may be small enough for as low as $50 US, though it's not obvious how well they'd work from inside the tablet. Do you know such sticks which can provide *voice* communication? E.g. most of such usb dongles only provides data(internet), sometimes SMS but not voice/calls. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Help from Always Innovating ?
Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau maxpose...@gmail.com writes: Do you know such sticks which can provide *voice* communication? Huawei E169 at least does with asterisk. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com wrote: Strange. Are you booting from usd or NAND? if from nand how can it hang? Would be interesting to see kernel logs. and so begins the might fall of the freerunner sd card reader... life i bitter without one... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
Hi, Jeremy, В Вск, 03/10/2010 в 08:18 -0700, jeremy jozwik пишет: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com wrote: Strange. Are you booting from usd or NAND? if from nand how can it hang? Would be interesting to see kernel logs. and so begins the might fall of the freerunner sd card reader... I think possible something just terrible wrong in kernel driver. From my point of view it is worth to investigate, may be we can get x4 uSD speedup. life i bitter without one... Every thing has it's proper usage. FR is for learn, hack and experiments. Life depends on how you look to it ;) Gennady ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
I have problems with my uSD as well since 2.6.32 See this ticket: http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2364 I had no time to test the suggestion in this ticket yet. Best regards, Jan. On 10/02/2010 08:04 PM, Christian Rüb wrote: Hi, I partitioned my 16GB SDHC (class 2) card, so I had a 512MB ext3 primary partition as /dev/mmcblk0p1, but Qi would not boot from it. So I booted my NAND system (older SHR-U, 1.6.29 kernel) which shows me correct partition with fdisk -l but would not mount it. I recreated the filesystem with mkfs.ext3 on freerunner but it still would not mount it. fsck could not even check the fs: e2fsck -f -C0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/mmcblk0p1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device Trying the fsck suggestion to use an alternate superblock did not help either. I then created a partition and filesystem over the whole disk, but same result. No chance to even check the filesystem. I also tried to switch back from Qi with glamo 242 to the old one - still no success. In my 2 card readers the card does work though. Does anyone of you have any ideas? Thanks, Christian ___ 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: Help from Always Innovating ?
03.10.2010 21:05, Joshua Judson Rosen пишет: Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it writes: 2010-09...@00:16 Chuck Norris I've asked them about missing this feature. Here are answer: We do not have a 3G or GSM option because we do not want to force a subscription on customers. Instead we want to focus on using wifi and free Skype calls. force subscription?! LOL... maybe they do not know what actually the word option means? fool or fail? ;) Well, `not wanting to force subscriptions' is actually the right answer if it would have been an `either/or' choice. More probably, it's because it's just not viable to include it in a device that size at that price-range--there have been in-depths discussions about this as it pertained to the FreeRunner, previously; they're probably still applicable. As far as the full-sized tablet goes, you could look into getting a UMTS/HSDPA/whatever USB stick to connect to one of those internal USB ports. I've seen ones that may be small enough for as low as $50 US, though it's not obvious how well they'd work from inside the tablet. last answer from Always Innovating to me was: Thank you for your feedback. We are aware that many customers wish to have a GSM option available, and we do our best to satisfy as many customers as possible. Unfortunately, we currently do not have any plans to release a version of the Mini Book with GSM capabilities. If that possibility opens up to us in the future, we will be sure to make note of it on our website. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
