Re: QtMoko v37 for GTA04

2011-12-02 Thread Ranjit Pillai
"Are any of GTA02 owners interested in changes since v35, so that i should do this release also for GTA02?" Hello Radek, I am most certainly going to be using my GTA02 as long as I can for various purposes. I am very much aware of the progress made in the QtMoko arena and can build my own images

Re: QtMoko v37 for GTA04

2011-12-02 Thread robin
Dear Radek, thanks (as ususal) for your great work. Yes, please do a GTA02 release if possible. Especially the keyboard was one reason why Qtmoko may have not been as popular as it deserves to be. With the big landscape keyboard this will all change! BR Robin __

QtMoko v37 for GTA04

2011-12-02 Thread Radek Polak
Hi, qtmoko for Goldelico's GTA04 has just been released. You can download it from sourceforge [1]. Sources are on github in master_gta04 branch [2] and instructions how to make rootfs are here [3]. Kernel is based on hw_validation [4]. For installing you need standard bootloader on SD card. The

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Michael Sokolov
Radek Polak wrote: > i am rather saying: > (shortage of existing GTA02 units) -> (GTA04 is the solution) It is *a* solution for some classes of users. It is not *the* solution for all use cases. > Also pool graphics performace of GTA02 make the user experience very bad - > hardly acceptable f

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Radek Polak
On Friday 02 of December 2011 17:53:15 msoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: > So I still disagree with your reasoning chain of > > (shortage of existing GTA02 units) -> (GTA04 is the only solution) i am rather saying: (shortage of existing GTA02 units) -> (GTA04 is the solution) Also pool graphics

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Michael Sokolov
Radek Polak wrote: > With my wooden case i had fully working phone - only single part > that was from GTA02 was the speaker + microphone. I really dont > think this is big problem. Yes, and if I wanted to do the same thing (use a self-made wooden case), I could have done it just as well with my

Re: GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
>What is the status of the GTA04 graphics chip implementation. I have >done a lot of work on the GTA02 with my graphics based apps, and the >main issue for me is the very poor graphics performance with the chip in >use on that platform. I run the apps over the USB link to any PC using >X, and t

Re: GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Iain B. Findleton
What is the status of the GTA04 graphics chip implementation. I have done a lot of work on the GTA02 with my graphics based apps, and the main issue for me is the very poor graphics performance with the chip in use on that platform. I run the apps over the USB link to any PC using X, and the pe

Re: GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread rixed
Please everyone be prudent before claiming that this could be ready for general users as a conventional phone. Last time we pretended the openmoko was acceptable as a end-user product some non technical people bought it, then had tons of troubles (buzz, bad sound quality), then were responded that

Re: GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread ml
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:45:16 +0100, Radek Polak wrote: On Friday 02 December 2011 13:21:34 lukp...@o2.pl wrote: The most important question is whether it can work as a daily phone, which means for me a solid hardware: no buzz and good quality sound during the call. On gta02 people where complai

Re: GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Radek Polak
On Friday 02 December 2011 13:21:34 lukp...@o2.pl wrote: > The most important question is whether it can work as a daily phone, > which means for me a solid hardware: no buzz and good quality sound > during the call. On gta02 people where complaining on the sound from > my gta02 even after buzfix

SHR future and way for better stability

2011-12-02 Thread Martin Jansa
Hi, in last few days we were talking a lot about state of shr-testing, shr-unstable, shr-core and how to improve stability and usability for our users while not slowing down development in our latest version which is shr-core. For details and reasons you can read log from #openmoko-cdevel (13:3

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 13:22, wrote: > Nice to hit main page. Thanks! > Although it's always depressing to read the comments on /. Yes, it is :-( Ah well, this may tickle a few more people to buy a new main board for their GTA02 cases... Christ van Willegen -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 5

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread rixed
Nice to hit main page. Although it's always depressing to read the comments on /. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Łukasz Pankowski
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller writes: > Dear all, > > now, several days after the announcement of the "GTA04 group > tour", the first subscriptions have arrived (thanks you to all who > have already subscribed!). > > And we have already seen many improvements by the kernel > and distro developers that

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 03:18, Dave wrote: > Hi, The article on /. won't hurt :) > http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/01/1910213/openmokos-freerunner-rises-from-the-ashes Article? _Article_? Just 2 lines! Pathetic! Oh, it's my own ;-) I never thought it would hit the main page, though! Chris

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani
[cut] > Here, I want to add that a friendly enthusiast (who wants to > stay anonymous) has spent close to 1 EUR to support > the project. He just believes in the idea of an open moko. Thank you anonymous enthusiast, your are spending your money wisely:) +1 -

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Le 01/12/2011 19:10, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller a écrit : > While I was formulating another mail, > there were two more subscription! Thank you very much! > >> Yes, everyone has his/her own decisions to take. And I know that it >> is a quite huge amount of money for our passion (having myself spent

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Radek Polak
On Friday 02 December 2011 05:26:16 msoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: > But seriously, swapping PCBAs between GTA02 and GTA04 is a zero-sum > game. The number of existing {case + LCM + GSM antenna + other bits} > sets is finite, and it stays the same whether you leave the original > GTA02 PCBAs in

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status

2011-12-02 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] > Here, I want to add that a friendly enthusiast (who wants to > stay anonymous) has spent close to 1 EUR to support > the project. He just believes in the idea of an open moko. Thank you anonymous enthusiast, your are spending your money wisely :) -- Patryk "Lea