Re: [debian/fso] fsoraw no effect?

2009-11-26 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Mittwoch, den 25.11.2009, 22:44 +0100 schrieb A.A.:
 mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage
 org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy Display enabled
 ERROR:dbus.connection:Unable to set arguments ('Display',) according
 to signature u'ss': type 'exceptions.TypeError': More items found in
 D-Bus signature than in Python arguments
 
 How can I solve?

Can you grab the latest mdbus from python-helpers in
git.freesmartphone.org and try with that? I recall a patch being applied
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Re: FOSDEM 2010: Devroom for openmoko declined

2009-12-01 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
 http://fosdem.org/2010/list-devrooms-their-call-talks

Looking at this list, I really wonder about the criteria these folks
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Re: Experiment: better sound on remote end

2009-12-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 17:25 +0100 schrieb Matthias Felsche:
 Besides:
 I've implemented Dictator 0.3 as Dbus-Service and -Client. Will be
 released soon. Don't know lot about fso-progress of the last months. Do
 you already have something for recording sound I should rather use than
 to have another dbus-service next to fso? Would it be worth to integrate
 it into fso?

Absolutely. There's no code that yet, but I think simple recording at
least should eventually be provided by FSO as well.

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Re: [SHR-U] BT Keyboard

2009-12-07 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 19:04 + schrieb Al Johnson:
 On Sunday 06 December 2009, Christ van Willegen wrote:
  Hi everyone,
  
  I'm using a BT keyboard (right now! Yeah!).
  
  During this e-mail, the SHR today screen keeps popping up. Also, the
  Illume keyboard keeps popping up (I thought Raster fixed this...).
  
  Is there something I missed?
 
 
 FSO's idle detection isn't aware of the keyboard input.

Is this with fsodeviced? fsodeviced should recognize new input nodes on
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Re: dbus deb with increased timeout

2009-12-12 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Samstag, den 12.12.2009, 20:04 +0100 schrieb arne anka:
 hi,
 after hours of struggling with debian's djungle of ways to build a package  
 i finally succeeded to cross compile dbus with an increased timeout.
 reason: for months now i was fighting with zhone taking several attempts  
 (4 to 5 ususally, often at least one restart of frameworkd and sometimes  
 even reboots) to pop up the pin dialog.
 
 after installing the newly built packages, the dialog popped up at the  
 first try. i restarted to be sure and again it was there the first attempt.
 for those struggling with the same problem in debian, here's the debs:
 
  http://www.ginguppin.de/node/29

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Re: SHR-U Accelerometer data

2009-12-17 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2009, 11:59 -0500 schrieb Iain B. Findleton:
 Many tests appear to indicate that a complete report set read from
 /dev/input/event2 or event3 is a relative rarity. Looking at the code
 from the lis302dl driver in git.openmoko.org it appears to me that this
 should not be true, and if I recall correctly, proper output was couming
 out under OM2009.x at one point.

Let me remind you that the driver has changed wrt. RELATIVE and
ABSOLUTE. These days, upon opening the device, only the first report is
a full report. Subsequent reports only contain changed axes.

 
 Anybody with any thoughts on this issue? According to what I read,
 /dev/input/eventx interface should reliably handle every event and make
 it available.
 
 The other issue is that the first report from the driver following an
 open on the device should be complete and contain the axis calibration
 values. This appears to be not true in that the first report I get is
 often incomplete in that not all axes are supplied.

I can't confirm that. I'm running andy-tracking and when I call hexdump
inputnode the first three entries are always axes 0, 1, 2.

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Re: UBI success story

2009-12-26 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Thanks for sharing. How's speed and reliability for ubifs? I wonder
whether it's worth the hassle to switch, given that SD access should be
even faster and much more convenient.

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Re: SHR unresponsiveness

2009-12-27 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
What is [h]top telling?

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Re: [FSO] Activate GPRS more than once?

2009-12-28 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 28.12.2009, 12:38 + schrieb Tom Yates:
 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Neil Jerram wrote:
 
  Can anyone with an FSO-based system activate GPRS more than once?
  i.e. ActivateContext, DeactivateContext, ActivateContext again.
 
  For me - on Debian, and using openmoko-panel-plugin to do the
  activation and deactivation - the first ActivateContext and
  DeactivateContext are fine, but the second ActivateContext call fails.
  The openmoko-panel-plugin logs say that there was no reply to the
  ActivateContext call.  The frameworkd logs have no trace at all of the
  second ActivateContext call, even with logging level set to DEBUG.
 
  I'm wondering if this is just me, or just Debian, or affecting
  everyone?  All thoughts appreciated.
 
 i'm running SHR-U, and i'd noticed someting similar, and done a little 
 digging, and it seems to be FSO-related.  i summarised my problem and the 
 digging i'd done on the FSO list last month, see 
 http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2009-November/002201.html
  
 , but i got no replies.
 
 i'm not sure what to do about it.  possibly having more people log their 
 experiences in the FSO tracker at 
 http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/474 would help.  once i get home 
 after Christmas, and can bring up GPRS without paying humungous US roaming 
 charges, i'll try to do that.
 
 it's not fatal, but it's the last big thing in between me and a 
 fully-functional 'moko.  it'd be nice to get it resolved.

I'm afraid this is a strange combination of a problem in Python, the
Python glib bindings, and/or glib itself. When the ppp process gets
closed, the supervising process (frameworkd in that case) hangs forever.
I have not yet found a way to fix this, and these days I rather put all
my energy into finishing fsogsmd. Patches appreciated, of course.

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Re: [FSO] Activate GPRS more than once?

2010-01-01 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 31.12.2009, 23:33 + schrieb Neil Jerram:
 2009/12/28 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de:
 
  I'm afraid this is a strange combination of a problem in Python, the
  Python glib bindings, and/or glib itself. When the ppp process gets
  closed, the supervising process (frameworkd in that case) hangs forever.
  I have not yet found a way to fix this, and these days I rather put all
  my energy into finishing fsogsmd. Patches appreciated, of course.
 
 When fsogsmd is finished, will it be responsible for the ppp
 supervision instead of frameworkd?  If so, I presume that will fix
 this problem, because of fsogsmd not using Python and the bindings
 mentioned above.  Is that correct?

Yes.

 In that case, putting energy into fsogsmd sounds good to me; thanks!

:)

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Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-02 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
In the name of the FSO team, I wish all of you a Happy New Year!

2009 was a turbulent year for us, the year where Openmoko stopped
supporting us and we had to show our belief in the project by just
continuing with as much effort as possible. Thanks to all contributors
and users of our APIs.

2010 will be a very critical year for FSO, perhaps the most critical
ever -- since it's going to show whether we dive into oblivion being
overrun by the big guys, or whether we can establish and strengthen
our niche.

Middleware always has this problem of invisibility -- what people
recognize are applications, not so much the driving software layers
below. In order to be a bit more visible, I'd like all of you who are
using FSO to join Ohloh[1] and state that you are either a contributor
and/or using FSO.

If all goes well, 2010 will be the year where we finally migrate all
remaining FSO services to C (or Vala, to be exact), hence delivering a
significant speedup for your FreeRunner (or whatever device you run FSO
on).

Let me also remind you that we have a PayPal account for donations, and
are also available for contract work. Thanks for your support!

(1) http://www.ohloh.net/p/fso

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Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 03.01.2010, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Laszlo KREKACS:
 On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
 mic...@vanille-media.de wrote:
  (or whatever device you run FSO on).
 
 Btw how are going the Palm Pre reverse engineering effort?

Somewhat disappointing. Although some progress is being made (and we're
still working on it), the modem communication proved to be a complete
show stopper. Apparantly Palm is using one of Qualcomm's binary
protocols, which is very complex to reverse engineer :/

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Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 03.01.2010, 15:18 +0100 schrieb Laszlo KREKACS:
 On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
 mic...@vanille-media.de wrote:
   (or whatever device you run FSO on).
 
  Btw how are going the Palm Pre reverse engineering effort?
 
  Somewhat disappointing. Although some progress is being made (and we're
  still working on it), the modem communication proved to be a complete
  show stopper. Apparantly Palm is using one of Qualcomm's binary
  protocols, which is very complex to reverse engineer :/
 
 I had asked, because Im waiting to a device to replace my freerunner.
 My only requirement is nice audio quality (any mobile phone out there is ok),
 I want to run fso on it, and 3G.
 
 I hoped such device surfaces within a year (ie. until 2011) or even Palm Pre
 could be this device ...

There is still hope. I like the form factor of the Palm Pre very much.
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Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 03.01.2010, 15:42 +0100 schrieb Marcel:
 What about the Nokia N900? I don't know about the GSM modem, but at
 least its got a quite open Linux userspace...

AFAIK we can't even charge the battery N900 with FOSS, so I'd say
there's a whole set of different showstoppers lurking when attempting to
bring a free OS to the N900. The modem itself is using a binary protocol
as well, as opposed to the Palm Pre though it seems to be somewhat
documented.

Unfortunately this time I didn't seem to be eligible for a Nokia
developer discount, that's pretty much the reason why I don't have a
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Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 18:25 +0100 schrieb Esben Stien:
 Any way to extract the time from the GSM network and have the time set
 based on this?

FSO contains support for that but so far I have not managed to receive a
single NITZ report anywhere in the world. Might be a Calypso problem,
then again only very few providers support NITZ reports in the first
place. Timezone support is rare, but actual time support is extremely
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Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 20:08 +0200 schrieb Margo:
 The Officer S101 seems interesting:
 http://www.road.de/en/handypcs/officer.html
 http://blog.hackable1.org/2009/08/running-hackable1-on-the-road-officer-s101.html

Unfortunately it has been just around the corner and almost out for
about 5 years now and the scheduled price tag when it actually comes out
(of which I'm not convinced) will be way more than a N900 -- I doubt
that it will spread wide that way :/

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Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-07 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 17:28 +0100 schrieb Laszlo KREKACS:
 What do you think which mobile phone has the most likeliness to RE or
 somehow put fso on it?
 
 - Google Nexus
 http://www.google.com/phone/

Unlikely. Same as all other Android phones. Nightmare to get root and
after that, you have quite some work to remove the Androidisms. Or teach
FSO to use them as well. Modem-interface unclear.

 
 - Motorola MILESTONE (US version: Droid)
 http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/Motorola-MILESTONE-XW-EN

See Nexus.

 
 Already rooted the US version (Droid):
 http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=236t=567

See Nexus, minus rooting.

 - Nokia N900
 http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

Likely. It uses basic GNU/Linux, and the modem interface is at least
somewhat known. Advanced drivers (Wifi, BT, PowerManagement, Camera)
unknown though.

 - Palm Pre
 http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/

Very likely, if it wasn't for the completely obfuscated modem interface
which we're still working on.

 - Apple iphone
 http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Unrealistic. There won't be a Linux-port soon.

 Is there some site, who tracks the process of RE of each individual devices?

Not really, FSO has a page on the wiki, but since we're not in the
kernel business, but rather working on middleware, we rely on the
various reverse-engineering communities to do the grunt work.

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Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-07 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 18:55 +0100 schrieb Petr Vanek:
  It may be nice to organize a donation to provide such device to
  FSO/OE/SHR staff.
 
 
 
 Excellent idea.
 
 +1
 
 Wonderful.
 
 How do we get this going? Seems like 600€ in Germany, dunno if with
 contract or what... what service could we use?
 
 Mickey, would this be an option for you? If we get enough people...

Absolutely. I think I could get it here even for around 500.

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Re: [FSO] the Display resource

2010-01-07 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 21:57 +0100 schrieb Michal Brzozowski:
 Sorry this has been documented somewhere. I'm playing with the
 'Display' resource, and I'm totally confused.

I can understand that. The semantics of the Display (and CPU) resource
is somewhat different from the semantics of the other peripherals.

The display resource is _not_ controlling the display. What it does
instead is modifying the way the Idle Notifier works. When you claim the
display resource, then the Idle Notifier IDLE_DIM (and subsequent
states, such as LOCK and SUSPEND) will no longer be sent, hence the
display will stay on and the device will not go into suspend.

 If I put this into /etc/freesmartphone/oevents/rules.yaml:
 
 while: PowerStatus()
 filters: Not(HasAttr(status, discharging))
 actions: 
 -OccupyResource(Display)
 -OccupyResource(CPU)
 
 Does it mean that if the phone is plugged in the display will be
 always on, and the phone will not suspend ?

Yes, that's the idea.

 What's the right way to tell frameworkd that I've modified rules.yaml?
 pkill -HUP frameworkd or /etc/init.d/frameworkd restart?

I'm afraid the current frameworkd needs a restart after modifying the
rules. I promise to fix this in the FSO2.

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Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-14 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2010, 17:05 +0100 schrieb Patryk Benderz:
 [cut]
  Let me also remind you that we have a PayPal account for donations,
  and
 HI Mickey,
 I was looking at 
  (1) http://www.ohloh.net/p/fso
 but wasn't able to find PayPal account for FSO.

Our paypal address is coret...@freesmartphone.org -- this goes to the
whole FSO core team.

 BTW, are you really only one person developing/rewriting FSO to Vala?

Unfortunately yes, after Openmoko stopped funding us, my colleagues
started diving into their studies to finish those (which is a good
thing) -- so for the 6 months, I have been Mr. Lone Rider ... and due to
Vala's immaturity it has been a wild ride :)

In the last 6 months, I worked roughly 60 hours per week on FSO2. Thanks
to my wife having a full-time-job, I could do this without causing any
financial trouble. 

I really believe in the APIs and the architecture we have with FSO1, so
I just had to work so much to get the critical mass done, in order to
get more people on board then.

This year will be different, as I have some other contracts to work on
non-FOSS. We're still trying to gather any FSO-based jobs, but with us
lacking a showcase on (non-Openmoko) hardware, it's very tough.

Don't get me wrong, I love the FreeRunner as it got the whole movement
going, but if FSO wants to have a chance to survive, it's vital to
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Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-14 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2010, 22:52 +0530 schrieb rakshat hooja:
 Not really new hardware but have you seen Rafeal's attempt to get FSO
 working on the hardware that compulab exeda is based on. He should
 still have the compulab developer kit we gave him around. He is
 planning to shift to Brazil so in case you want the kit I will check
 with him if he can ship it to you

Sure, if he no longer is using it, I'd like to have a look at it.

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Re: [debian] illume/e17: relict after killing X/illume

2010-01-17 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Samstag, den 16.01.2010, 16:19 +0100 schrieb arne anka:
 every time after switching to a runlevel w/o X there's still one process  
 left:
 
 /usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/battery/linux-gnueabi-arm-ver-svn-05/batget  
 64
 
 and it's not even reused when restarting X, but a new one will be created.
 i am pretty sure, even that process has to be killed when shutting down  
 e17/illume (or whatever starts it).

I'd wish someone could write an e17 plugin to get the battery
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Re: debian/fso on freerunner

2010-01-20 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 11:45 + schrieb Neil Jerram:
 IMO Debian will eventually assimilate everything, including SHR.
 (Unless there is some major advantage of the OE build and packaging
 system that I haven't understood yet...)  It's the best combination of
 free software focussed build, tracking and package management that
 there is, and I really don't understand why anyone persists with other
 systems...

Well, I've been hearing that for almost a decade now, but still systems
like buildroot, OpenEmbedded, OpenWRT, t2-project, etc. are being
preferred on lots of embedded systems. Why do you think is that?

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Re: Which FSO interface is best to get battery state

2010-01-24 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Hi Christian,

I'm afraid I didn't update the docs after changing the semantics
slightly for FSO2. These days, for most applications, I advise to use
the aggregated power supply instance, which will provide what you need.

The individual supply objects are merely there for monitoring
applications.

 Also, is it certain Freerunner battery is always supply nr. 3?

The order of individual power supplies is not guaranteed to be fixed.

So which way is best to check my battery is discharging and below
requested level? Do I have to always also ask for GetPowerStatus and
make sure it is not charging?

 Or shall I use aggregate one?

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Re: Which FSO interface is best to get battery state

2010-01-24 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 24.01.2010, 23:29 +0100 schrieb Christian Rüb:
 So I need to use both - Get Capacity and GetPowerStatus - to make sure I do 
 not release a resource just because capacity is low as the device might be 
 charging?

Exactly. In your case, GetCapacity should only be evaluated, if
PowerStatus is discharging.

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Re: [debian] minor enhancements

2010-01-28 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 28.01.2010, 08:24 +0200 schrieb Timo Jyrinki:
 (forgot to answer to this)
 
 2010/1/12 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com:
  - In zhone, keep current SMS selected when returning from the SMS
  display screen.
 
  You could try to submit that to upstream [1] as well.
 
  I regard all of my patches as submitted upstream, by virtue of
  having been announced here.  Is there a specific further step that I
  should take to offer and flag them to git.freesmartphone.org ?
 
 Well, I think you could discuss with FSO team if you could commit
 rights to the zhone repository there. It's the most obvious/known
 place anyway, and I'd think it'd bring more visibility to the patches
 in your tree if they would be there.

Absolutely. If you want to get commit access to zhone, drop me your ssh
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Re: ar6000 (FR's wifi) bugs, workarounds and CLI usage tips, read this for stable wifi

2010-02-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 21.02.2010, 17:14 +0100 schrieb arne anka:
  please, explain power cycling.
 
  rebooting ar6000 (one of Freerunner's computers).
 
 that i did understand -- the question is, how to do that.

On FSO via releasing/requesting the WiFi resource.

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Re: [debian] phonfsod/phoneuid: fso-deviced killed when calling

2010-02-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
fsodeviced provides different plugins for audio routing. You want the
alsa one for the FreeRunner.

You're running debian, right? Do they ship the new alsa data files for
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Re: Mic volume extremely soft after buzz fix with SHR unstable

2010-02-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
 btw: What is the difference
 between /etc/freesmartphone/alsa/default/gsmhandset

This one is used by fsodeviced, i.e. the new stuff that's being used on
SHR.

 and /usr/share/shr/scenarii/gsmhandset.state ?

That's from the old days where we used to call alsactl to do the work.

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Re: [debian] phonfsod/phoneuid: fso-deviced killed when calling

2010-02-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 21.02.2010, 21:45 +0100 schrieb arne anka:
  fsodeviced provides different plugins for audio routing. You want the
  alsa one for the FreeRunner.
 
 well, as written, alsa kills fsodeviced.

Probably because of the missing alsa data files (see below).

 what kind of audio routing? call seems to work even with none (at least  
 i hear something when i call my box).

audio routing is necessary i.e. to switch between ring tone and in-call
audio. You might hear the ring tone, if that's the default routing, but
you will not have in-call audio without routing.

 
  You're running debian, right? Do they ship the new alsa data files for
  fsodeviced?
 
 what alsa data files?

http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/freesmartphone/fso-alsa-data/om-gta02

Those have to be copied to /etc/freesmartphone/alsa/.

Next week, I'll make fso ship them instead of putting them into OE.

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Re: [debian] phonfsod/phoneuid: fso-deviced killed when calling

2010-02-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 21.02.2010, 19:21 +0100 schrieb arne anka:
 investigating my core issue of the fr not suspending anymore after a call,  
 i see now that fsodeviced dies the moment i hit either call (outgoing)  
 or accept (incoming).
 since fso-deviced is dead, nothing, in terms of idle notification at  
 least, happens anymore.

A backtrace would be splendid. Could you install -dbg packages as well
as gdb, change params to have apps emit a coredump and then get us a
backtrace? Or just run fsodeviced directly under gdb and once it dies
get us a backtrace.

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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-23 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Awesome plan, Rakshat, thanks for your work!

We're probably not doing enough PR in general -- next week I'll work on
giving the FSO website a new couple of entry pages that document what
we're after and why we're better than the competition ;)

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Re: gta02-core (was Re: OM future)

2010-02-27 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 10:46 +0100 schrieb ri...@happyleptic.org:
 You can't just separate software from hardware. The fact is you can't have
 open software without hardware specs, so open soft and open hard comes close
 together. Go try to rebuild a kernel on a nokia open phone for instance,
 and see what part of the phone hardware still works.
 
 So what should we do ?
 
 a) crack open closed phones by reverse engeneering ?
 b) wait for a manufacturer to compromise its pot of gold by producing an open 
 phone ?
 c) put our head in a bag and pretend an iphone or an android is open enough ?
 d) aim at building one collectively despite all the unbelievers trying to 
 discourage
the effort ?

a), b) and d) can be parallized; it's different tasks anyways. FSO will
be ready for any whatever comes out of a), b), and d) :)

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Re: [PATCH] frameworkd battery status reporting

2010-02-27 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Hi Neil,

can you point me to an example why this patch is necessary?

On a related note, I think this code path is not in use since we moved
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Re: Thone 0.5

2010-03-31 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
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Re: [GTA02] disable resume on headphone jack removal?

2010-04-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 13:21 +0300 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors:
 Paul Wise pa...@bonedaddy.net writes:
  My FreeRunner resumes from suspend-to-memory if I remove the headphones
  from the headphone socket. Does anyone know if that is configurable or
  if the hardware just doesn't allow it to be changed?
 
 Just check the resume reason and put the phone back to suspend if the
 reason is headphone. Having the phone unsuspend for 1 second can't be
 that bad for energy consumption.

While that is true, in my opinion the proper way to do it is to expose
the wakeup reasons we're interested in to userland.

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Re: RFC: FSOSHRCON 2010 kickoff

2010-04-08 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
I'm afraid not much has been done. I for one certainly do not have the
time to take the wheel in organizing it. I'd love to see it happening
and I will take part in helping to run it, but someone else needs to
take the wheel.

Serdar, Frederik?

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Re: false stamentent on http://www.enlightenment.org ?

2010-04-14 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 15:55 +0200 schrieb mobi phil:
 On the page:
 http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=aboutl=en 
 
 The Openmoko Freerunner sold thousands of devices with EFL on them. 
 
 Maybe I am wrong, but the default software was never with EFL, or?

It was. The 2008 software release was a hybrid composed out of Qtopia/X
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Re: [E-devel] Fwd: Glamo secrets, acceleration, X11, directfb, was: X11 dependencies hardcoded in ecore_evas

2010-04-18 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2010, 13:38 +0200 schrieb mobi phil:
  dfb isnt common to fb and x11 - it is an enitre display system of its own.
  there is a specific xdirectfb server on top of dfb. but it is not a common
  component. i think you misunderstand directfb... :) \
 
 No!!! I do not misunderstand... Yourself you said the same... Indeed there
 is a simple xdirectfb on top of dfb. So If everybody, Qt based apps (QtMoko)
 and X would talk to directfb, then directfb would be an almost perfect
 lowest common denominator.

The lowest common denominator is already present, it's the dumb (but
almost always present) framebuffer. I'd appreciate a library that
implements an OSD in EFL.

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Re: git.openmoko.org / GTA02 kernel sources?

2010-04-26 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 18:09 +0200 schrieb Joachim Steiger:
 the repo got quite big so we hit memory as well as diskspace quotas at
 the same time ;)
 
 i just cloned the kernel repo and it went through fine at 800kbyte/sec
 
 kind regards
 

Thanks for continuously providing infrastructure support to us although
your contract has ended long ago!

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Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Congrats!

Will I get a fully assembled one for free if I promise to implement FSO
DBus APIs? :)

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Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-02 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 02.05.2010, 13:54 +0200 schrieb Michele Brocco:
 On 5/2/10, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de wrote:
  Congrats!
 
  Will I get a fully assembled one for free if I promise to implement FSO
  DBus APIs? :)
 
 Hey Mickey! In fact we planned to ship you one :) So the next one we
 will produce is yours. We should keep in touch regarding shipping
 information and later the API.
 
 Cheers
 
 Michele

Splendid! Thanks :)

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Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Yeah, unfortunately we didn't hear much of any of these projects.
With the progress in FSO2, I definitely want native support for at least
one of these, i.e. both for uploading newly found cells and also as 1st
or 2nd level geolocation provider.

Onen, what's new? :)

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Re: mdbus2 to check GSM firmware version in latest SHR-u

2010-05-09 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 09.05.2010, 19:46 +0200 schrieb Jan Girlich:
 Hi,
 
 in preparation for checking out android I wanted to see what my GSM
 firmware version is as described on this page:
 
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing
 
 Unfortunately I'm not familiar with mdbus2 and FSO and don't know what
 to do about this:
 
 r...@om-gta02 ~ # mdbus2 -s
 org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device
 org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.GetInfo
 [ERR]: No method org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.GetInfo found
 at /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device for org.freesmartphone.ogsmd
 
 I guess it got restructured. But how do I find the new GetInfo
 equivalent?

mic...@saphir:~$ mdbus2 -s
org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device
org.freesmartphone.Info.GetInfo
( { revision: GSM:
gsm_ac_gp_fd_pu_em_cph_ds_vc_cal35_ri_36_amd8_ts0-Moko11, imei:
354651011601806, model: Neo1973 GTA01/GTA02 Embedded GSM Modem,
manufacturer: FIC/OpenMoko } )

Hint: mdbus2 -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device
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Re: [pkg-fso-maint] [debian] recent navit packages?

2010-05-10 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 10.05.2010, 02:26 +0300 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors:
 Gilles Filippini p...@debian.org writes:
  I hope to upload one in a few days. But I'm currently busy making ogpsd
  a gpsd client. It takes me quite some time, /me being a python noobs :D
  I've something functional since today. Time to refactor / polish...
 
 Hmm, isn't upstream rewriting ogpsd in vala?

Yes, eventually FSO 2.0 will all be in Vala - C. As a matter of fact,
fsotdld (Time, Date, Location Daemon) is already working, but has little
support for GPS. After the drama with gpsd and gypsy, I did not decide
yet how to move on with GPS, either roll an own -- this time a something
that really feels like D-Bus -- API or integrate one of the existing
solutions.

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Re: [ANN][SHR][Debian] New Emacs interface for FSO

2010-05-15 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Paul, that's purely amazing.

iPhoners and Androids, do that! :D

Could you provide some screenshots? I'd love to add this to the
forthcoming section of 'Show Cases' on the new FSO website.

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Re: Openmoko on LinuxTag, Berlin

2010-06-08 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Christoph, will you be there in person?

Would love to say hi.

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Re: libmokoui2

2010-06-16 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Mittwoch, den 16.06.2010, 23:56 +0700 schrieb Chuck Norris:
 Hi, all!
 I'm writing transparent fullscreen keyboard in gtk. So I need finger 
 scroll control for some windows. I googled moko-finger-scroll widget but 
 I cannot find something like official site of libmokoui2... Maybe 
 anybody here know where I can get last sources of libmokoui2?

http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/OM-2007.2/libraries/libmokoui2/

Is kinetic scrolling _still_ missing in Gtk+?

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Re: FoxtrotGPS 0.99.4 available (also: looking forward...)

2010-06-19 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
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Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
 I don't know if my mail client uses these paramters - but it does not have
 an option to do line wrapping when sending.

Indeed. That's the one thing I really hate when using Mail.app.

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Re: Yocto for Openmoko?

2010-10-30 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Samstag, den 30.10.2010, 13:15 +0400 schrieb Nikita V. Youshchenko:
  Just saw the announcement on lwn.net for the Yocto Project.
 
  This aims to create a standard build system for embedded systems. Sounds
  like it might be an interesting way to build for the FreeRunner.
 
  Of course it also sound like 'yet-another-build-system' tool.
 
  Just wanted to high-lite this to the various people building various
  distros and hear their feedback on what this might, or might not offer
  for simplifying builds for the FreeRunner.
 
  Cheers, and let the flames ignite (-=
 
 Isn't that Yocto based on the same OpenEmbedded as current build system for 
 several distros is?

Yes, it is.

Although it might contain some higher-level shells that could simplify
dealing with the actual build process.

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Re: [gta04-devel] Fwd: FOSDEM 2011 Devroom on SHR/FSO declined

2010-10-31 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Sonntag, den 31.10.2010, 10:48 +0100 schrieb David Lanzendörfer:
 Seems as we lost our devroom after all.

Not surprising. That we got it last year was an exception thanks to
Xorg not being able to fill in their slot. Unfortunately FOSDEM
organizers fail to realize the importance of mobile technologies, hence
desktop stuff is still set and obviously if you had a room for 'n'
years, you will have it every year. *sigh*

 Sadly our project is still to small to get a room or so.
 Dunno.
 Mickey? Nikolaus? Do you wanna hold your presentation after all?

Not me. A lightning talk about the state of FSO on foreign hardware
makes no sense to me and the program of the embedded room seems to be
fixed to buildsystems, C libraries, and kernel tweakings for years now.

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Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
FWIW, let me state that I fully support this project and will do
my share to add FSO support once the necessary dependencies
(hardware verification, kernel drivers) have been solved.

This project is keeping the OM-spirit alive!

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Re: About QtMoko future

2011-05-11 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2011, 21:06 +0300 schrieb Timo Jyrinki:
 2011/5/9 Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz:
  qtopia = qt extended = qt extended improved = QtMoko
 ...
  From technical point of view QtMoko is using regular Qt as framework for 
  GUI,
  networking and other nice features that Qt supports. Qt is just compiled 
  with
  custom configure switches. We can upgrade Qt from upstream and receive new 
  Qt
  features quite easily.
 
 Great to hear that! I obviously thought Qt Exte... QtMoko is more
 stuck in the Qt 4.4 time than it it is in reality. Sounds pretty
 great, maybe actually at some point QtMoko or some part of it could be
 pushed back to upstream as part of the ongoing improvements in the
 Open Governance model :) Especially if there is something that would
 help maintaining QtMoko in the longer term.

For what it's worth... a bunch of folks and me have just started
working on a new featurephone-client (expect a formal announcement
later this week) which is going to use QML, so we can perhaps share
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Aurora

2011-05-16 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
NOTE: Cross-posted to three mailing lists, please keep it that way, if
you want to reply.

Dear FOSS-Telephony lovers,

today we want to announce something that has been brewing in our minds
for quite a while and will change the way we develop the
freesmartphone.org middleware.

In the past, FSO has been too much developed without considering how the
features will actually be used by the API consumers.
Apart from the great work our friends from SHR did, there has only been
a handful of special purpose FSO clients, such as
the Emacs client, Zhone, and Zhone2. Zhone (and its successor Zhone2) is
currently an oversimplified approach based on a
non-maintainable Edje file. We have therefore decided to develop a new
testing/demonstrator for FSO named Aurora that
is supposed to be the driving force for further development.

AURORA

The aim of Aurora is to replace zhone and zhone2 as development UIs for
FSO. From the viewpoint of a middleware architect,
it's essential to have clients available that use the various features
of the FSO services. On the other hand though, this
time we want to create something that is also suitable for day to day
use. Aurora is supposed to be something we call
a featurephone client – featurephones being those things we used for
telephony before smartphones were invented.

Aurora being a featurephone client does not necessarily mean it will
never get the smartphone features Android or iOS
are popular for, it rather describes our approach as being
as-simple-as-possible. So for now you will not be able to
install additional apps or features. Everything (you need) is part of
the Aurora client.

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

At the top of every application stack is the user. Pleasing him or her
is the topmost priority. Technology should not stand in the
 way, but rather support the user. Hence, Aurora releases will be done
as user milestones. For every user milestone, we will
pick a number of user stories to be implemented. We will then split a
user story into tasks and distribute among the contributors.

SUPPORTED DEVICES

We decided to only support the Palm Pre devices (Pre/Pre Plus/Pre 2) for
the first to-be-released version of Aurora. More
supported devices will join after the 0.1 release. This decision has
been forced by the fact that we are only very few people
working both on FSO and Aurora (and also on OpenEmbedded). Later on, we
expect to see the OpenEZX family of devices,
the Openmoko devices, the Nokia N900, and possibly also a bunch of HTC
smartphones supported.

TECHNOLOGY

Some words about the technology choices we have made for Aurora. The UI
components of Aurora will be based on Qt's QML
(Qt Markup Language) and will have parts written in C++ and Vala
(although we're going to use Python for prototyping as well).
We will support both Qt/X11 and Qt/Embedded, the latter being useful on
smaller systems, such as the OpenEZX family of devices
(48MB RAM, no GFX acceleration, etc.)
For the first release we will only provide Qt/Embedded based images for
the Palm Pre devices;
those flashable images will be based on OpenEmbedded, however we'd
welcome people taking care of creating releases based on Debian, Gentoo,
etc.

THE CODE

At the moment, there is not much to look at, but feel free
to download the current status via git.freesmartphone.org - aurora.

HOW TO HELP

Speaking about welcoming people, the major aim of this announcement is
to find people who want to share this vision
and give us a bit of a hand. We are especially lacking artists and folks
who can improve our user interaction.
Apart from the technical reasons, we chose QML to have a very low
barrier of entry. QML is easy to understand
and it also comes with a GUI design tool.

If you are interested and share our vision, please feel free to contact
us. We can then see how you could help us to get to the end goal (see
roadmap) even faster.

There are two possibilities to make us aware of you:

- IRC: irc.freenode.net; channel: #openmoko-cdevel
- Mail: smartphones-userl...@linuxtogo.org

Thanks for your attention,

Mickey  Morphis.

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Re: Aurora

2011-05-20 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Freitag, den 20.05.2011, 19:57 +0200 schrieb Enrico Zini:
 On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:02:58PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
 
  SUPPORTED DEVICES
  
  We decided to only support the Palm Pre devices (Pre/Pre Plus/Pre 2) for
  the first to-be-released version of Aurora. More
  supported devices will join after the 0.1 release. This decision has
  been forced by the fact that we are only very few people
  working both on FSO and Aurora (and also on OpenEmbedded). Later on, we
  expect to see the OpenEZX family of devices,
  the Openmoko devices, the Nokia N900, and possibly also a bunch of HTC
  smartphones supported.
 
 Thank you for the announcement, it sounds nice. This bit made me wonder,
 though: why must each different platform require a separate effort? Is
 there something in FSO which works differently on different kinds of
 phones?

Yes, unfortunately... but that's due to the nature of being
a middleware. Middleware is an abstraction layer on top of the
hardware which shields the applications from the underlying
differences. That means while FSO provides always the same
interface to the applications, the hard and daunting task
is to cope with the device specifics and make them disappear.

FSO has to deal with varying kernel-level interfaces, such
as to audio routing, GSM modem, accelerometers, LEDs, buttons,
peripheral control... to name just a few.

Although we have seen a welcome level of standardization
via kernel class devices in the past years, there are still
too many home-grown vendor solutions and interfaces developed
out of the kernel tree. All those we (FSO) have to adapt
to provide a unified experience to the application level.

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Re: Aurora

2011-05-20 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
 Although we have seen a welcome level of standardization
 via kernel class devices in the past years, there are still
 too many home-grown vendor solutions and interfaces developed
 out of the kernel tree. All those we (FSO) have to adapt
 to provide a unified experience to the application level.

And to expand on that... some of those device specifics
have to be reverse engineered. As a scaring prime example:
In September 2009, we launched the 'FSO on Palm Pre' challenge,
trying to get a GSM voice call running within one month.

Boy, how did we fail :)

It took us (or rather 'Morphis, our hero') the better part of 
12 months to get a proof of concept done. Even today, almost 20 months
after we started working on the Pre, we don't have full coverage,
e.g. we just started to work on SMS, and GPS is also still lacking.

Our friends over @ HTC-Linux can sing many songs on that as well.
And our friends from OpenEZX can tell a story as well... it has
been 6 years now since the A780 has been introduced with Linux 2.4.
Guess what, it's still not fully supported in kernel 2.6, i.e.
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Re: qtmoko and FSO

2011-06-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Excellent progress, Radek.

Thanks,

Mickey.



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