Abwesenheitsnotiz support Digest, Vol 6, Issue 58

2008-12-23 Thread Oguz Varol

Betrifft: Ihre Nachricht vom 23.12.08 12:00:04


Ich bin ab dem 29.12.08 wieder im Hause der WGZ Bank erreichbar. In
dringenden Fällen wenden
Sie sich bitte an meine Kollegen aus dem IT-PM.

I am currently out of office and will be back the 29.12.2008. For any
urgent matter, please contact
the usual suspects.


Mit freundlichem Gruß / Best Regards
Dr. Oguz Varol

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Re: Illume keyboard breaks on om2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
uff -- to avoid people asking over and over again I've put a little hint
into wiki page which seems everyone manage to find

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Keyboard_Toggle#In_base-image_.28testing.29

actually section is
 Englightments segfaults with Illume theme too often?

feel free to extend/correct

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Re: Not supporitng GTA01? [Was: [openmoko-announce] Om 2008.12 Beyond]

2008-12-23 Thread Gothnet



Craig Woodward wrote:
 
 I disagree for one simple reason: There has yet to be a stable kernel and
 interface for any GTA* phone from which to build.  There are releases that
 are labeled stable, but most of them crash after a short time, or have
 major bugs that prevent the hardware from working like a normal phone for
 any length of time.
 

This is the same concern I have had when developers talk about improvements
and not doing anything FR specific because they want to concentrate effort
on stuff that will improve the experience on the 03

I've got this horrible feeling we'll be left with an unsupported device that
never really did the basics properly. I hope the FSO/OM2009 release next
year will get us there, but I'm lacking in faith right now. I'd be pretty
annoyed if I owned a 1973.
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Suspend in om2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Marcus Stong
Is it just me, or does suspend freeze on om2008.12. I flashed the latest
stable images to my freerunner, but it won't wake up when in suspend. I've
rebooted several times. Any suggestions?

Marcus
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Re: Suspend in om2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Ian Darwin
Is it just me, or does suspend freeze on om2008.12. I flashed the
latest stable images to my freerunner, but it won't wake up when in
suspend. I've rebooted several times. Any suggestions?
Marcus

It often, but not always, wakes up for me, on a GTA02v5 with stock Om2008.12.

I just re-created this.  Just for fun I plugged it into USB and was
able to SSH in.  XGlamo and E were still running, but nothing showed
up on screen. This sounds familiar; it may be a known bug...


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Re: Suspend in om2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin wrote:
 It often, but not always, wakes up for me, on a GTA02v5 with stock 
 Om2008.12.

 I just re-created this.  Just for fun I plugged it into USB and was
 able to SSH in.  XGlamo and E were still running, but nothing showed
 up on screen. This sounds familiar; it may be a known bug...
   
And after I rebooted for other reasons and did another suspend, similar 
situation
but also a handful of these on the console:

xset: unable to open display :0



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Re: Not supporitng GTA01? [Was: [openmoko-announce] Om 2008.12 Beyond]

2008-12-23 Thread Markus Fischer
...at least the NEO 1973 will for sure be a collectors item!

OpenMoko was and still is for developpers purpose. Let's see what round 03 
will bring ;-)

Cheers

Am Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008 15:57:29 schrieb Gothnet:
 Craig Woodward wrote:
  I disagree for one simple reason: There has yet to be a stable kernel and
  interface for any GTA* phone from which to build.  There are releases
  that are labeled stable, but most of them crash after a short time, or
  have major bugs that prevent the hardware from working like a normal
  phone for any length of time.

 This is the same concern I have had when developers talk about improvements
 and not doing anything FR specific because they want to concentrate effort
 on stuff that will improve the experience on the 03

 I've got this horrible feeling we'll be left with an unsupported device
 that never really did the basics properly. I hope the FSO/OM2009 release
 next year will get us there, but I'm lacking in faith right now. I'd be
 pretty annoyed if I owned a 1973.


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Re: Not supporitng GTA01? [Was: [openmoko-announce] Om 2008.12 Beyond]

2008-12-23 Thread Paul
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Markus Fischer i...@flyingfischer.ch wrote:
 ...at least the NEO 1973 will for sure be a collectors item!

Why?  I got a drawer full of non functional hardware.  How much do you
think I could get for that?

 OpenMoko was and still is for developpers purpose.

The Freerunner was marketed as  the Consumer Ready Version with the
software to complete the readiness soon to follow.  The 1973 was
marketed as the same way (Hence the developer's box).

Point in case, Openmoko needs to stabilize the framework on ALL their
devices.  The community has provided awesome apps, Midori, Minimo,
Tango, Navit,  FBReader just to name a few that I use.  FIC needs to
fulfill their promise of creating a stable platform so the community
doesn't die.

-- 
Paul
Email - pault...@gmail.com

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through
which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Re: Phone wont boot Android

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Ancona
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:44 AM, xiangfu xian...@openmoko.org wrote:

 i have format the SD card in two partition VFAT(200M) EXT3(200M)
 with Andy's Kernel and Sean's Image:
 it's just stop at :
 
ANDROID [... ...] init: Unable to open persistent property directory
 /data/property errno:2
 [... ...] init: cannot find '/system/bin/playmp3', disabling 'bootsound'
 -


You may want to try again with the Koolu beta image and kernel. See this
announcement:
http://forum.koolu.org/viewtopic.php?f=10t=34sid=4db9bea769ada58363c03235d8454313

Jim
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Re: Not supporitng GTA01? [Was: [openmoko-announce] Om 2008.12 Beyond]

2008-12-23 Thread Peter Rasmussen
Funny comment, as are too many of those from the OpenMoko camp :-(

My Neo1973 was from one of the first, if not the first batch sent out to 
regular people and nobody was more excited about OpenMoko than I. Sean 
probably doesn't remember it, but if he has saved his mails, he'll have 
the mail trail.

1.The Neo1973, the GTA01, was promoted as the final developer's version 
of a platform that would be the open source version of iPhone. When it 
shipped, it couldn't even boot the image it was shipped with!?!
2.The follow up to the Neo1973, then just known as the GTA02 was 
supposed to be a general available phone for the masses, in September 2006.
3.Let me repeat that: The GTA02 was supposed to be a general available 
phone for the masses, in September 2006!
4.However, since then, the GTA01 and the GTA02 were rebranded as 
developer's versions of a platform that will be OK, real soon now!
5.The GTA01 was apparently orphaned and is now a 'collectors item'. So I 
paid $500USD for a potential collectors item? (item cost+handling +tax) 
for which I am not happy, as I appreciate it's potential huge value in 
the hardware it is made up of.
6.The OpenMoko camp failed miserably in many ways, of which the most 
obvious, as is unfortunately the usual scene, the management failed to 
understand their task.
7.If the GTA0? was to be a developer's platform, then why wasn't it 
developed as such?
   7.A A developer's platform will contain elements as 'focus on making 
it easy to produce an environment to develop the kernel and platform 
software'
   7.B A developer's platform will produce easy communication between 
*all* developers and not just the primadonnas that are good enough to 
make *something work, *but apparently not to talk with the lesser able 
in order to make a whole team work for the whole.
8.I am not a highly efficient core developer type, but more on the later 
wave, and as a tester. I can do module and system test very well with 
reports that will be useful for core system developers, see for example 
Openmoko Bug #1158.

So, if the OpenMoko team at FIC is serious about supporting the 
community, please communicate it much more clearly, and don't think you 
have the backing the size of the Linux kernel!

You see, apparently you haven't been able to after now several years, 
create an image on the Neo 1973 that will not run out of juice even when 
apparently shut off, after 12 hours. Colour me unimpressed! The calorie 
meter you have on the GTA02 should only be able to tell you better 
values to show on the display, but if you had better control of the 
actual electric consumption it should last better than 12hours, after 
apparently shutting off the device.

Colour me unimpressed!

Then, you are apparently trying to develop this device to the whole 
world, but aren't able to, after more than a year able to produce 
support for anything else than the US ASCII character set when writing 
SMS. And FIC being in a Chinese country that actually needs double byte 
character sets, I am amazed that it wasn't in the first image!

Colour me unimpressed!

So, the whole situation reeks of a top management problem to recognize 
the issues of making a platform that has the basic problems at issue, 
instead of letting everyone on the FIC/OpenMoko payroll know that 
producing a working platform for everyone else is important.

Sean Moss-Pultz hasn't done his job.

I work as a developer for Motorola, but with infrastructure not the 
mobile handset divisions, and there a number of people have also lately 
not done their job well, but we still sell multi-million handsets a year 
and have since 1973, so at least a history has been made. OpenMoko still 
has to.

My Neo1973 looks more an more like a door stop, and my friends with 
iPhones, HTC Touch and such understands my original excitement less and 
less!

Peter


Markus Fischer wrote:
 ...at least the NEO 1973 will for sure be a collectors item!

 OpenMoko was and still is for developpers purpose. Let's see what round 03 
 will bring ;-)

 Cheers

 Am Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008 15:57:29 schrieb Gothnet:
   
 Craig Woodward wrote:
 
 I disagree for one simple reason: There has yet to be a stable kernel and
 interface for any GTA* phone from which to build.  There are releases
 that are labeled stable, but most of them crash after a short time, or
 have major bugs that prevent the hardware from working like a normal
 phone for any length of time.
   
 This is the same concern I have had when developers talk about improvements
 and not doing anything FR specific because they want to concentrate effort
 on stuff that will improve the experience on the 03

 I've got this horrible feeling we'll be left with an unsupported device
 that never really did the basics properly. I hope the FSO/OM2009 release
 next year will get us there, but I'm lacking in faith right now. I'd be
 pretty annoyed if I owned a 1973.
 


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Re: Suspend in om2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Marc Bantle
Marcus Stong schrieb:
 Is it just me, or does suspend freeze on om2008.12. I flashed the 
 latest stable images to my freerunner, but it won't wake up when in 
 suspend. I've rebooted several times. Any suggestions?
To me it seems that suspend as well as
shutdown hang for a while and therefore
a manual resume is not honored. If I give
it the time to suspend (estimated 5 min.)
it will resume properly.

While suspend can be initiated by a short
click on the power button, I need to press
for 3 seconds or more to resume. I personally
prefer resuming by a simple click of the
power button as in  om-testing.

Cheers,
Marc



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Re: Not supporitng GTA01? [Was: [openmoko-announce] Om 2008.12 Beyond]

2008-12-23 Thread Marc Bantle
Peter Rasmussen schrieb:
 My Neo1973 was from one of the first, if not the first batch sent out to 
 regular people and nobody was more excited about OpenMoko than I. Sean 
 probably doesn't remember it, but if he has saved his mails, he'll have 
 the mail trail.

 1.The Neo1973, the GTA01, was promoted as the final developer's version 
 of a platform that would be the open source version of iPhone. When it 
 shipped, it couldn't even boot the image it was shipped with!?!
 2.The follow up to the Neo1973, then just known as the GTA02 was 
 supposed to be a general available phone for the masses, in September 2006.
 3.Let me repeat that: The GTA02 was supposed to be a general available 
 phone for the masses, in September 2006!
True! I second your impression, that this twist was not
communicated in a upright manner.
 6.The OpenMoko camp failed miserably in many ways, of which the most 
 obvious, as is unfortunately the usual scene, the management failed to 
 understand their task.
 7.If the GTA0? was to be a developer's platform, then why wasn't it 
 developed as such?
7.A A developer's platform will contain elements as 'focus on making 
 it easy to produce an environment to develop the kernel and platform 
 software'
7.B A developer's platform will produce easy communication between 
 *all* developers and not just the primadonnas that are good enough to 
 make *something work, *but apparently not to talk with the lesser able 
 in order to make a whole team work for the whole.
   
This is not fair. The number of developers of OM
is marginal compared to those at proprietary vendors.
 So, if the OpenMoko team at FIC is serious about supporting the 
 community, please communicate it much more clearly, and don't think you 
 have the backing the size of the Linux kernel!

 You see, apparently you haven't been able to after now several years, 
 create an image on the Neo 1973 that will not run out of juice even when 
 apparently shut off, after 12 hours. 
   
True, but GTA01 was never advertised as anything else
but a developers platform, even in Openmoko wording.
 Then, you are apparently trying to develop this device to the whole 
 world, but aren't able to, after more than a year able to produce 
 support for anything else than the US ASCII character set when writing 
 SMS. And FIC being in a Chinese country that actually needs double byte 
 character sets, I am amazed that it wasn't in the first image!
   
I think I understand where you getting at. Currently the focus
has to be reliability. But I believe those things will be a topic,
as soon as there's is a basic default PIM suite for Openmoko,
the concept of which has been changing so many times and
will hopefully have a happy end in paroli.

And, it is important for Openmoko to have that default
PIM suite to be a fully functional basic phone stack. So
many potential future killer applications need to base
on a solid PIM software concept with all that goes
along with it: Storage. Search, Synchronization.
 So, the whole situation reeks of a top management problem to recognize 
 the issues of making a platform that has the basic problems at issue, 
 instead of letting everyone on the FIC/OpenMoko payroll know that 
 producing a working platform for everyone else is important.

 Sean Moss-Pultz hasn't done his job.
   
That again is not fair. There have been decisions not quite transparent
to the community and there have been communication flaws.
But I am happy about the core decisions, because they preserve the
open nature of the OM stack not forcing anybody into anything.
There's X, there's Linux, there's GTK, there's EFL ... .
 My Neo1973 looks more an more like a door stop, and my friends with 
 iPhones, HTC Touch and such understands my original excitement less and 
 less!
   
Fortunately I was aware of that option in the moment I bought my GTA01
(Mid 2007). Possibly it will give a decent touch screen gui for my heating
control or something similar (When I find the time ;-)

-Marc

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Re: Not supporitng GTA01? [Was: [openmoko-announce] Om 2008.12 Beyond]

2008-12-23 Thread Craig Woodward
 Paul pault...@gmail.com wrote: 
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Markus Fischer i...@flyingfischer.ch wrote:
 OpenMoko was and still is for developpers purpose.

The Freerunner was marketed as  the Consumer Ready Version with the
software to complete the readiness soon to follow. 

Bingo.  Because FIC/OM haven't been able to produce a working core, they've 
instead re-defined what the GTA02 is supposed to be.  The GTA01 was marketed as 
a base to start working from, and agreeably was never guaranteed to be a 
production level phone.  The GTA02 was marketed as _consumer_ready_, or really 
close to it with only battery life being an issue.  Yet the loadable cores 
can't sustain the phone as a phone, even if it's plugged into an outlet its 
whole life.

And we're being told the focus is now shifting to an as yet un-produced GTA03?  
Who's going to buy it when it comes out?  You've already hit most in the market 
that want an open source phone, and disappointed them.  Most of them aren't 
going to buy a GTA03 when their previous version didn't get to a working point. 
 And the current 2 models are already spoken of poorly in open source circles 
because of the lack of functionality and support.  (Dropping GTA01 won't help 
that image, btw.)

I have several linux-based chip solutions that I work with all the time, 
personally and professionally, all of which cost less for the dev kit than the 
GTA02 did.  Most come with a CD or DVD that includes a *stable* base OS image 
and a snapshot of the source used to make that image.  The better ones come 
with a VMWare image that has a pre-built environment (usually debian based), 
with tool chains and pre-targeted source control.  Load up the environment, log 
in, setup a few variables and build. Most go from box to built in under an hour.

I was shocked when the GTA02 arrived and there was NO software with it outside 
of the installed image, which was months old, and crashed within minutes 
because of suspend issues.  It took me almost a week to figure out how to get a 
current snapshot of the source and properly setup the tool chain to do base 
development.  Part of that was a learning curve on using the rather non-obvious 
source control system chosen.  But as a developer that's worked on several open 
source projects, this one is hands down the hardest to get into even as a 
developer, yet alone as a newbie.

I'm also amazed with all the current focus on suspend mode and saving battery.  
If the battery lasts all day, but I don't get my calls or SMS messages, or the 
phone crashes every 2 hours, how useful is that?  Can we get an image that 
sucks energy, but can at least reliably make and receive dozens calls and SMS 
messages?  Maybe one that can connect to more than one wifi point without a 
reboot?  With time running out on the GTA02 I'd much rather have a functioning 
phone that eats it's battery in two hours than have a non-functional toy device 
that runs for days on a charge.


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