Re: GSoC OpenMoko Bluetooth remote controller - First beta package

2008-08-08 Thread Fredrik Wendt
Valerio Valerio wrote: Hi, the first beta package of ReMoko are available now in: [..] Feel free to send me comments and features requests. Awesome! Very fun to play with. :) Question: Would it be possible to emulate the Wii Remote? Suggestion: Write mac address on the screen when it

Quasar - Mediaplayer for Openmoko?

2008-08-08 Thread Bernt
Patrick Beck wrote: Hello Lorn, thanks for your answer. It's a pity. with kind regards Patrick Beck Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 04:30 +1000 schrieb Lorn Potter: Patrick Beck wrote: Hello, i have no Neo Freerunner yet, but i look forward for a good mediaplayer. I have

FSO and GSM instability

2008-08-08 Thread Fredrik Wendt
2008-08-07 22:38 -0700, C R McClenaghan: [gprs part cut out] does anyone else experience gsm instability with FSO MS2? Chris Yes, though I have yet to do some basic testing/debugging to see when and how I get disconnected. But basically I see that the blue bar below the network's name/id

external keyboard

2008-08-08 Thread Greg Bonett
Is anyone using their FreeRunner with an external USB or Bluetooth keyboard? If so, how hard was it to get working? -Greg ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Upgrading on Qtopia

2008-08-08 Thread Matthew Lane
Lorn Potter wrote: Matthew Lane wrote: Hey all, I've read that opkg can't upgrade qtopia, but it should be able to upgrade my kernel, correct? Thats correct, Qtopia's 4.3 build system does not make a complete ipkg for easy upgrade. This will change in 4.4 Well, when I do

Re: Om 2008.8 doesn't ask for my pin so no gsm available

2008-08-08 Thread Peter Mogensen
I flashed the new kernel and image but if I boot now I'm not getting asked for a pin. There's no gsm in 2008.8 for me... This seem to be a common problem. The PIN-dialog does come up once in a while though. Restarting the X-server can make it appear. But even though to enter the correct PIN

Re: Upgrading on Qtopia

2008-08-08 Thread Cédric Berger
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 23:13, Matthew Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lorn Potter wrote: There is a new image at qtopia.net. This new one _should_ be able to upgrade the system. after having locked my previous qtopia install via upgrade... I just tried the new image (just kept my /home). opkg

Re: Om 2008.8 doesn't ask for my pin so no gsm available

2008-08-08 Thread Dale Maggee
Peter Mogensen wrote: I flashed the new kernel and image but if I boot now I'm not getting asked for a pin. There's no gsm in 2008.8 for me... This seem to be a common problem. The PIN-dialog does come up once in a while though. Restarting the X-server can make it appear. But even

Re: Upgrading on Qtopia

2008-08-08 Thread Lorn Potter
Cédric Berger wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 23:13, Matthew Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lorn Potter wrote: There is a new image at qtopia.net. This new one _should_ be able to upgrade the system. after having locked my previous qtopia install via upgrade... I just tried the new image

Re: external keyboard

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Sheldon
Greg Bonett wrote: Is anyone using their FreeRunner with an external USB or Bluetooth keyboard? If so, how hard was it to get working? I am, it's pretty simple, just run: echo host /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode echo 1 /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode

Re: GSoC OpenMoko Bluetooth remote controller - First beta package

2008-08-08 Thread Valerio Valerio
Hi, 2008/8/8 Fredrik Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valerio Valerio wrote: Hi, the first beta package of ReMoko are available now in: [..] Feel free to send me comments and features requests. Awesome! Very fun to play with. :) Question: Would it be possible to emulate the Wii Remote? Yes

Re: Upgrading on Qtopia

2008-08-08 Thread Lorn Potter
Cédric Berger wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 23:13, Matthew Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lorn Potter wrote: There is a new image at qtopia.net. This new one _should_ be able to upgrade the system. after having locked my previous qtopia install via upgrade... I just tried the new image

om2008.8

2008-08-08 Thread xaos x
OK, I really want to like it, but it has some deal killers some of which are beyond my ability to fix. 1. it only connects to the phone network on every fourth boot or so. Not sure if that's a provider problem or not. It works fine in 2007.2. there doesn't seem to be a libgsm-util utility or

Re: external keyboard

2008-08-08 Thread Valerio Valerio
Hi, 2008/8/8 Greg Bonett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone using their FreeRunner with an external USB or Bluetooth keyboard? If so, how hard was it to get working? Use a BT keyboard with FreeRunner is simple, just type in the terminal : 'hidd --connect keyboard_mac_address' (the keyboard should

Re: SF User's Group - Meetup?

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
Consulting Goat wrote: Hi - I'm new to OpenMoko (I don't even have a device yet) Personally I'm interested as an end-user; I know we're not there yet, but I'm fairly techie so I thought I'd jump in early. The company I work with is a supporter of OpenMoko and open source - and we

Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-08 Thread Jay Vaughan
People, please don't forget Neo 1993! +1 from me .. i have two neo's, one of them is broken, and i -still- hang on to hope that they will be useful somehow .. ; -- Jay Vaughan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-08 Thread Jay Vaughan
a tar.gz file would be very useful for booting from SD card... yeah in fact i would favour a less dfu-util'y approach to these public releases, and say .. make the boot-from-SD the norm, rather than an exception, leaving dfu-.. for 'factory default boot config'. ; -- Jay Vaughan

Re: 2007.2 Multitap-pad toggle?

2008-08-08 Thread Steven **
Where is the xml file supposed to go? -Steven On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Dylan Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you go. You still need the other two matchbox keyboard packages. Use the button in the lower right to switch profiles. There are even more characters in the numbers layout

Re: Could someone explain me the + + + and the * at the bottom of the screen (Om 2008.8) ?

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen Shelton
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:09:23PM +0200, Rorschach wrote: Hi, in every menu I have at the bottom of the screen three + and left a * sign. I can't find out any funcionality with these things? What is their puprose? I was wondering the same thing. These pluses seem particularly meaningless

Re: Could someone explain me the + + + and the * at the bottom of the screen (Om 2008.8) ?

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Sheldon
Stephen Shelton wrote: I'm still yet to understand how to exit an application on the 2008.8 that doesn't itself provide an out. Bring down the application list by pressing the top of the screen and a REMOVE button will appear on the bottom left of the panel, this will exist the currently

Re: external keyboard

2008-08-08 Thread Dan Staley
I have a Think Outside/iGo bluetooth keyboard and it works great! http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias% 3Dapsfield-keywords=igo+keyboardx=0y=0 Connecting from the command line is easy with hidd (see wiki or man on use) and even easier with scaredycat's btkb script! (A gui

Re: Could someone explain me the + + + and the * at the bottom of the screen (Om 2008.8) ?

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen Shelton
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:13:32AM +0100, Michael Sheldon wrote: Stephen Shelton wrote: I'm still yet to understand how to exit an application on the 2008.8 that doesn't itself provide an out. Bring down the application list by pressing the top of the screen and a REMOVE button will

Re: tangospg and 2008.8 - gui not drawing

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen Shelton
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:12:33AM -0700, Steven Kurylo wrote: Hi, I just installed the latest tangogps (0.9.2-r1) on 2008.8. Several GUI widgets aren't drawing properly, which were fine on other distributions. On the bottom left hand corner I see maps but none of the other tabs to the

Re: Community contributions to core apps features. (Was: Terminal for ASU)

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
rakshat hooja wrote: It is already linked from the front page, but clearly from not those places it should be from :) But you have good points. Openmoko is open, but its development is not exposed in the open as much as I'd like for an open source project to be.

A very sad story...

2008-08-08 Thread John Koenig
Hey all, Usually my first post to a community mailing list is some basic question that I could find if I just read 15 more mins on a wiki, but I am sad to say that this isn't the case for this posting. I have been an openmoko user for 4 days now, and a happy one at that. I was getting

Re: A very sad story...

2008-08-08 Thread Ben Wilson
There's probably a few people here that have dead phones with other faults. Maybe one of them could sell you a dead phone cheap and you can swap the lcd panel with your phone. Ben John Koenig wrote: Hey all, Usually my first post to a community mailing list is some basic question that I

Re: A very sad story...

2008-08-08 Thread Jeffrey Malone
From what I can tell on the wiki, both the Neo 1973 and the Neo Freerunner use the same LCD. Finding someone willing to part with their Neo 1973 -- or finding someone with a dead 1973 (but good LCD) is probably not going to be a difficult task. Good luck On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Ben

External WiFi Antenna

2008-08-08 Thread Jeffrey Malone
I've seen no mention of this elsewhere, but forgive me if this is a topic that's been covered already. But after disassembling my Freerunner, I noticed that near the external GSM antenna connector is an identical connector -- on the wifi module (about 1cm above the GSM one). I don't have a

Re: A very sad story...

2008-08-08 Thread John Koenig
That certainly sounds better than any of the other options I have been researching. Is there anyone out there that has older Neo 1973 hardware (with a functional LCD display) they would be willing to sell or get rid of? Or even perhaps someone with a dead freerunner? John Jeffrey Malone

Re: tangospg and 2008.8 - gui not drawing

2008-08-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
2008/8/8 Michael Sheldon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Yes, the gtk theme is a bit buggy, attached my own fixed gtkrc which reduces the inner button borders to a reasonable size and fixes the background colour of inactive notebook tabs. This makes both tangogps and some other GTK apps much more

Re: A very sad story...

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
John Koenig wrote: Hey all, Usually my first post to a community mailing list is some basic question that I could find if I just read 15 more mins on a wiki, but I am sad to say that this isn't the case for this posting. I have been an openmoko user for 4 days now, and a happy one at

Re: A very sad story...

2008-08-08 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
guys -- you are very kind but that is sad that there is no official OpenMoko parts store -- it is like having opensource OS where you can't unload a driver and load a new one - what good opensource hardware gives you then if you can't replace it? (please don't follow up disgusting this statement

opkg: Could not obtain administrative lock (Om2008.8)

2008-08-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
Installed the Om2008.8 images announced today and so far I'm very impressed. I think this is probably good enough for me to start using the Freerunner as my daily mobile device. However, I just ran into a small issue that I thought I'd post here in case someone else runs across it. To test the

Re: can't connect to internet after ASU upgrade

2008-08-08 Thread Dimitri
Thank you for everyone's help. Indeed, I was no longer able to connect to the internet because of an empty /etc/resolv.conf This script that was suggested worked perfectly: http://svn.openmoko.org/developers/tick/Test_env_script_GTA02A5/setneo Cheers. Dimitri Dimitri wrote: I installed

Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-08 Thread Noah Romer
William Lai wrote, On 08/08/08 04:03: http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8/Om2008.8.uImage.bin Is this not the u-boot image? I thought it was and tried to flash it using `dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D Om2008.8.uImage.bin`, but that failed and on the screen of my Freerunner, it says, End of

maps for others country?

2008-08-08 Thread alessio chemeri
hi there, i noticed that there is no map for italy for the app. locations, is possible to use the OSM maps? and need something to do? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: 2008.8 password.

2008-08-08 Thread nickd
Deep breaths Bill deep breaths ;-) William Kenworthy wrote: ignore me - too excited. Was trying to ssh back into the PC :) BillK On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 20:21 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I have just installed 2008.8, looks pretty and fast compared to 2007.2. I can ssh to the

Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-08 Thread nickd
uImage is the kernel not uBoot. dfu-util -a kernel -R -D Om2008.8.uImage.bin -Nick Noah Romer wrote: using `dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D Om2008.8.uImage.bin`, but that failed and on the screen of my Freerunner, it says, End of write exceeds partition end. Should I just re-flash the 2007.2 u-boot

Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
2008/8/8 Noah Romer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: William Lai wrote, On 08/08/08 04:03: http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8/Om2008.8.uImage.bin Is this not the u-boot image? I thought it was and tried to flash it using `dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D Om2008.8.uImage.bin`, but that failed and on

Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-08 Thread rakshat hooja
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Noah Romer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Lai wrote, On 08/08/08 04:03: http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8/Om2008.8.uImage.bin Is this not the u-boot image? I thought it was and tried to flash it Thats the kernel. Rakshat

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