Re: [FSO] GSM Radar/AT Commands

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Osborne
Arigead wrote: I'm not using the FR as a daily phone as yet but thought I could simply use an AT command to do a quick check on the various signal strengths. I tried AT+WS46=? but it has not come back to me and just hangs there. Does anybody, with better knowledge of AT commands then me, know

Re: [Om2008.9] man pages??? killing events/0

2008-10-20 Thread Alex Osborne
Matthias Apitz wrote: $ man proc By the way, if you don't have them locally: http://www.google.com/search?q=proc+manpage Don't you think that this answer is too simple? I thought it was dead easy. Why, what sort of hoops do you prefer to jump through to find a man page? ;-) Second

Re: [Om2008.9] man pages??? killing events/0

2008-10-20 Thread Alex Osborne
Matthias Apitz wrote: I thing Linux/UNIX goes the wrong way if we depend on Google to lookup man pages; We don't. Well, at least anyone actually running Linux doesn't. Just typing man proc worked for me. ;-) I added the Google link as an after-thought in case you were running something

Re: [Om2008.9] man pages??? killing events/0

2008-10-19 Thread Alex Osborne
Matthias Apitz wrote: how can I ask for the actual CPU time of a proc? I was thinking in something like 'cat /proc/5/...' but have no man pages about the /proc layout :-( $ man proc [...] /proc/[number]/stat Status information about the process. This is used by ps(1). It is defined

Re: [Om2008.9] man pages??? killing events/0

2008-10-19 Thread Alex Osborne
Alex Osborne wrote: Matthias Apitz wrote: how can I ask for the actual CPU time of a proc? I was thinking in something like 'cat /proc/5/...' but have no man pages about the /proc layout :-( $ man proc By the way, if you don't have them locally: http://www.google.com/search?q=proc

Re: Using the neo as a Bluetooth external gps...

2008-10-12 Thread Alex Osborne
Nicola Mfb wrote: It may be interesting to serve raw nmea gps output over bluetooth to have it used by some other phones/pda with routing/navigation software. This will permit to test gps accuracy against usual bt gps antennas, and to eliminate another device, cable and battery from my car

Re: A Call for community action

2008-10-07 Thread Alex Osborne
Hi Steve, Steve Mosher wrote: My idea. throw these out to community and see if folks would pick a bug and try to fix it, actually sign up to try to fix it, so we get a coordinated effort. Sean liked the idea and I thought it was worth a try. I'm afraid I'm not using any of the Qtopia apps

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community: Official newsletter?

2008-10-06 Thread Alex Osborne
Steve Mosher wrote: Question: what functions do you see a community manager performing. Write his job spec. As I see it there's two main points that Risto and others have usually brought up on this topic, communication and leadership. Communication This is the big point that everyone always

Re: is fr usb host mode prone to damage from regular usb charging

2008-10-06 Thread Alex Osborne
Robin Paulson wrote: similarly, if i turn on host mode while it's plugged in, what can happen? i can't see anything in the kernel archives, but i'm not sure i'm looking in the right place Andy replied: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-October/005450.html So I

Re: Alasal's blog

2008-10-06 Thread Alex Osborne
Minh Ha Duong wrote: Please make sure that the feed is not syndicated without discussing it with Alasal (the author's blog) again. Two weeks ago we decided against including it because he had mixed feelings about the planet: http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-tt796556%7Ca1087886

Re: microSD single ext2 or ext3 partition boot?

2008-10-05 Thread Alex Osborne
On 06/10/2008, at 11:49 AM, feywulf wrote: setenv menu_9 Boot from microSD (ext2): setenv bootargs \$ {bootargs_base} rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootdelay=5 \$ {mtdparts} ro\; mmcinit\; ext2load mmc 1 0x3200 \$ {sd_image_name}\; bootm 0x3200 I think it would. For me

Re: [2008.9]Debugging the FreeRunner Kernel?

2008-10-03 Thread Alex Osborne
Helo Arigead, Arigead wrote: Does anybody have an opinion that it might not be the kernel? As it happens all the time for various apps I'm assuming that it's something core. When it locks up, does the device stop responding to ping over USB? That would indicate the whole kernel is

Re: [FSO] losetup trouble

2008-10-03 Thread Alex Osborne
Hello, On 04/10/2008, at 2:51 AM, rhn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# touch /dev/loop0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# losetup /dev/loop0 bigfile losetup: /dev/loop0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# ls -l /dev/loop0 -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Oct 3 16:31 /dev/loop0 I'm

Re: duke3d on debian ?

2008-10-03 Thread Alex Osborne
On 04/10/2008, at 12:25 PM, Charles-Henri Gros wrote: I tried once but it wouldn't resize or rotate (I believe the framebuffer version of X doesn't allow that) Install the xserver-xglamo package to get the version that can be resized and rotated with xrandr.

Re: [Om2008.9] xterm larger fonts

2008-10-02 Thread Alex Osborne
On 01/10/2008, at 2:07 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Any hint about the name of a larger font that could be used with 'xterm -fn ...'? I'm as well missing 'xlsfonts' in FR :-( xterm -fn -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ? Here's the xlsfonts binary from Debian. It's probably binary

Re: [debian] Sephora 0.2 pre alpha 1 - Impressions and suggestions needed

2008-10-02 Thread Alex Osborne
Hi Michele, Michele Renda wrote: About the sources: I will start to work in a decent deb-src, but for now you can download the sources from the bazaar repository of the project Have you committed the latest version to bazaar? I couldn't see anything about --preload in there, so I extracted

Re: FDOM and WiFi

2008-10-02 Thread Alex Osborne
Vince M. Clark wrote: If I open a terminal and run ifconfig all I have is eth0, lo, and usb0. The wifi is eth0. Is there an address associated with it there? Also check the output of iwconfig. If it has associated the AP then it should say Access Point: and then give the MAC address of

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Osborne
Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm trying to bring up the eth0 with # ifup eth0 this works very unreliable; in (let's say) 8 of 10 cases it can't associate to the AP, even not after fresh re-boots and independently if the AP at my home works with WEP or in my office with WPA; I found that with

Re: email

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Osborne
On 30/09/2008, at 3:36 PM, W.Kenworthy wrote: Tried it - at the small screen setting and smallest I could set font the email got only 2 -3 words per line! Almost useless. I guess you're not using Debian then. Here's what it looks like out of the box on Debian, which I suppose has a

Re: Dialer UI Design

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Osborne
On 30/09/2008, at 9:41 PM, Nishit Dave wrote: How about experience? I don't know about programming or system specifics, but as a user, Please don't take this the wrong way. There's a common misconception amongst non-programmers and even some less experienced programmers than anything

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Osborne
On 30/09/2008, at 10:37 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=18 Authentication with 00:04:e2:a1:76:0b timed out. Added BSSID 00:04:e2:a1:76:0b into blacklist Yeah. That's exactly the same sort of thing I was seeing, which clearing the essid seems to help with most of

Re: Dialer UI Design

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Osborne
On 30/09/2008, at 11:34 PM, Nishit Dave wrote: If a GUI is not responding it's a problem with how the program is structured, it should be doing something asynchronously instead of blocking the event loop. I just hope everybody follows best practices. At the end of the day, all I need is

Re: Windows CE on freerunner

2008-08-22 Thread Alex Osborne
On 22/08/2008, at 1:19 PM, Vikas Saurabh wrote: I would definitely give it a try. Not intereseted in font blitting, so would stick to the morse code idea :). Would send out the details (and wiki them). Here you go, I wrote an extremely simple example program:

Re: Windows CE on freerunner

2008-08-21 Thread Alex Osborne
On 22/08/2008, at 11:41 AM, Vikas Saurabh wrote: Why can't I fool the bootloader to think that I am a kernel. I always thought boot loaders just load the kernel image, pass it some parameters and start executing them. Indeed, that's exactly what it does. It loads the kernel image into