Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
well ... in tree years 3g chipsets will down the price ;), and also 8 Mpx cameras will be cheap XD, even microprojectors maybe affordable. Sean then I have time to teach kernel hacking to my two years daughter to hack the GTA04 2008/12/23 Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.com: On 12/23/08 AVee

Re: 2008.12 and USB network Ubuntu Intrepid

2008-12-23 Thread Simon Kagstrom
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:11:00 +0100 Pander pan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: What complete set of configuration changes and shell scripts are you using? Please update the Wiki if it is out of date because once I got it running and now (because I'm not a networking/iptables crack) it is not

Re: [Android]

2008-12-23 Thread Wendy
Hi, I did some Android image from Sean Mcneil review in devel list. http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-December/003877.html I don't know why, but for me i can't use the media player. The application is there and can lounch it, just can't play song (I'll try that more). Regards,

[2008.12] first impressions

2008-12-23 Thread To M
July 18th I received my FR and haven't been able to use it as a daily phone since that day. I have tried some distro's (including testing versions) and also Qtopia, everyone had some major issues that prevented me from using them. Basic gsm functionality: SMS, phone (receiving and calling), waking

Re: [Android]

2008-12-23 Thread Andreas Wallin
I think there has been some issues with software license, The multimedia codecs is not in the android software for the freerunner. Wendy wrote: Hi, I did some Android image from Sean Mcneil review in devel list. http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-December/003877.html I don't

Re: [2008.12] first impressions

2008-12-23 Thread flamma
For some this image might be good enough, I'm not there yet. It feels slow and still unreliable, I had a long time without using 2008.X (currently Qt Extended is my main stack), and I found 2008.12 sensible quicker, more responsive than 2008.9. Qtopia apps are the worst, and they seem still

Re: Enlightenment

2008-12-23 Thread Frederik Sdun
Hi, you missed to add which libraries you want to link. E.g.: -lewl Regards, Frederik Am Montag, den 22.12.2008, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Peter Stumm: Hi, i have installed enlightenment with the easy_e17.sh script from http://omicron.homeip.net/projects/#easy_e17.sh , first i can't compile

[2008.12] Repo information

2008-12-23 Thread Russell Hay
As per some of the other posts, this is the first distro that I've used as a normal phone for more than 24hrs. Well done! My only finding so far on the base functionality included is that the alarm doesn't wake the device from suspend. I did notice that the opkg configuration is still trying to

Re: [2008.12] Repo information

2008-12-23 Thread Pander
On Tue, December 23, 2008 14:19, Russell Hay wrote: As per some of the other posts, this is the first distro that I've used as a normal phone for more than 24hrs. Well done! My only finding so far on the base functionality included is that the alarm doesn't wake the device from suspend. I

Package categories for opkg

2008-12-23 Thread Pander
Hi all, At the moment these are the opkg categories (as seen on http://opkg.org): Audio Games GPS Graphics Internet Office PIM Settings System Utility Video Would it be more appropriate to use the relevant Debian/Ubuntu dpkg categories? Because most of the packages also exist and/or

Re: [All] tangogps - python scripts for .kml from/to sqlite

2008-12-23 Thread Carlo Minucci
Thomas des Courières ha scritto: Hi all, just wanted to share some scripts I used. The first one is for converting a list of points out of a kml file to a poi sqlite3 database which tangogps can read, and the other one is for doing the reverse operation : getting the pois of the tango gps

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Gothnet
Helge Hafting wrote: Making a good small lens is not a problem, a good small sensor is. Japanese tourists may be satisfied, but perhaps they just aren't that good photographers. Small-sensor images can be reasonable under ideal lighting conditions, but hopeless for most other cases. But

Re: [All] tangogps - python scripts for .kml from/to sqlite

2008-12-23 Thread Thomas des Courières
i have use your idea and your code in my gtkaddpoi http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gtkaddpoi :) nice to hear ! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Weather app: meooem 0.0.1

2008-12-23 Thread Yorick Moko
I don't know why, but I like it (probably just because it works ;-)) maybe also adding a possibility to launch a window with all our favorite places; or a gui to choose a location (and maybe even get forecasts?) On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Yann Neveu yann_m...@gabuzomeu.fr wrote: Here:

Re: [debian] LXDE?

2008-12-23 Thread mqy
Better to add a swap partition, or swap file. Else you will get out of memory error when for example apt-get install something. Here is my /etc/fstab: The 3rd line is for swap, make sure to change the first column to your partition device. If you can not create new partition for swap, just

Re: Package categories for opkg

2008-12-23 Thread Marc Bantle
Pander schrieb: Would it be more appropriate to use the relevant Debian/Ubuntu dpkg categories? Because most of the packages also exist and/or originate from .deb packages. They use the following (as seen on http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/intrepid/): Administration Utilities Base Utilities

Re: [Android]

2008-12-23 Thread C R McClenaghan
All, I think it is more that there is only one codec in the beta image - Ogg-Vorbis. If you join the forum then you can follow this link - http://forum.koolu.org/viewtopic.php?f=10t=34 - which seems to describe what works and what doesn't and how to install. Chris On Dec 23, 2008, at

GPS testing on 2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello all, I hope somebody here might have an idea or two that might shed some light. I've trawled for HOWTO's and recipes on how to get the GPS working on my FR, but to no avail, none of them worked at all. In order to to some low-level testing to acertain whether I have a possible hardware

Re: GPS testing on 2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Yorick Moko
you can cat the output... through terminal or just look at it in agpsui (the last tab lest you see a list of the recieved GPS information) On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Jan Henkins j...@henkins.za.net wrote: Hello all, I hope somebody here might have an idea or two that might shed some

Re: [2008.12] Repo information

2008-12-23 Thread Ray Chao
Hi, Since there are no major changes regarding package installation between Om2008.8, Om2008.9, Om2008.10 and Om2008.12; we use Om2008.8 for simplifying the directory structure. Later today, I will put some notes about repo info on the downloads server to make this clear. Best Regards and Merry

Re: GPS testing on 2008.12

2008-12-23 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Yorick, Yorick Moko wrote: you can cat the output... through terminal or just look at it in agpsui (the last tab lest you see a list of the recieved GPS information) Thanks for that, I captured the output and here follows a short snippet: ---start--- $GPTXT,01,01,02,u-blox ag -

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Ben
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote We perhaps will be most surprised how much a 3G modem will cost... If you live in an Australian city to get reliable coverage you need to be with 3 or Telstra, the competitors don't cut it. 3 is about 1/10th the

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Milos Mandaric
U Sri, 24. 12. 2008., u 15:02 +1100, Ben je napisao/la: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote Improving to 3G is therefore a nice to have for me. Not mandatory. You should mention what country you're in, as you can see, it makes a big difference.

Getting rid of Android

2008-12-23 Thread vsviridov
Hello everyone, Is there a way to get rid of Android on my OpenMoko? For some reason I cannot re-flash anything anymore. I always get an error message from dfu-util, saying that the 'alternate rootfs unavailable' or something very similar. And when I do 'dfu-util -l' i get about 7 partitions,

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Sargun Dhillon
Quick thing, what are you guys calling 3G. EDGE is considered 3G by the terrible company by the name of Apple, but as a CDMA (EV-DO) user, I consider UMTS/HS?PA as 3G. Please clarify. -Thanks. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Milos Mandaric mi...@manda.com.ba wrote: U Sri, 24. 12. 2008., u 15:02

Re: Getting rid of Android

2008-12-23 Thread Kosa
vsviri...@exceede.com escribió: Hello everyone, Is there a way to get rid of Android on my OpenMoko? For some reason I cannot re-flash anything anymore. I always get an error message from dfu-util, saying that the 'alternate rootfs unavailable' or something very similar. And when I do

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:24:01 -0800 Sargun Dhillon xbmodder +openm...@gmail.com babbled: 3g == umts+ (hd*pa etc.) Quick thing, what are you guys calling 3G. EDGE is considered 3G by the terrible company by the name of Apple, but as a CDMA (EV-DO) user, I consider UMTS/HS?PA as 3G. Please

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Milos Mandaric
U Uto, 23. 12. 2008., u 20:24 -0800, Sargun Dhillon je napisao/la: Quick thing, what are you guys calling 3G. EDGE is considered 3G by the terrible company by the name of Apple, but as a CDMA (EV-DO) user, I consider UMTS/HS?PA as 3G. Please clarify. -Thanks. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:19

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Ben Wilson
Gothnet wrote: 3G is an absolute must for the gta03, without it it's just a phone with a lousy connection most of the time. Or would be if I could be bothered to try getting GPRS working... I'm pretty sure the specs for GTA03 are set and it's 2.75G / edge. 3G will be in GTA04 at the

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Ben
that's a shame, guess I'll have to get an android then, as the minimum requirement for a phone for me is that I can call people on it, and in Australia, that means 3G if you want good coverage and/or a good price. On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz wrote: Gothnet