Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
As there are now many Tangogps patches that seem to struggle to get to the official tangogps - would it be possible to collect them all on a single (wiki?) page? Maybe even provide a new .ipk with these patches - I for example don't have the skills to compile it again for some patches.. Just to make the patches usable for as many as possible. r On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:10 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:55 +0100, Stefan Fröbe wrote: Don't know about any configuration options, but had the same issues and changed it in my geocaching patch: change this line in src/gps_functions.c after setting global_font_scale to sth like 40: @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ osd_speed(gboolean force_redraw) layout = pango_layout_new (context); desc = pango_font_description_new(); - pango_font_description_set_size (desc, 60 * PANGO_SCALE); + pango_font_description_set_size (desc, 60 * PANGO_SCALE * global_font_scale /100); pango_layout_set_font_description (layout, desc); pango_layout_set_text (layout, buffer, strlen(buffer)); HTH, Stefan On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:39 PM, vancel35 van...@thespazcat.com wrote: I've noticed that each version that I've upgraded of TangoGPS has increased the font size for the speed display on the map screen. I don't need or want it to take up 1/4 of the screen as it does now. I've looked inside the TangoGPS config file (~.gconf/apps/tangogps/%gconf.xml), but I couldn't see any options to set the font size. Although I have to admit that some of the config option names are slightly cryptic. Is there a setting to reduce the font size? Thanks for any info. -Laura -- This could be a very useful fix! I am currently rebuilding tangogps but one thing I am not sure of - where do you after setting global_font_scale to sth like 40? I gave feed back to Martin that the digits were too large (the tangogps developer) about the font size on early versions, but the digits keep getting bigger each version (it seems :( Here, many road systems run nw-sw so its real display stealer when driving. BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: tangogps 0.99.1
Hi Vasco, On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:13:22 + Vasco Névoa vasco.ne...@sapo.pt wrote: Hi Marcus and all others. Is there a way to remove or make smaller the speed indicator (big numbers) on tangogps? I'll make that configurable in one of the next versions of tangoGPS. I find it very irritating and it does cover a large portion of the screen... That is due to a suboptimal dpi setting of your screen. The fact that the screen is physically 285dpi does not mean that the Xserver has to be set to this value - I guess nobody is professionally using the Neo as a CAD front end. For a normal user the right size is a mix between screen dpi and distance of the screen to the eye. The Freerunner's screen dpi is very high but you will roughly hold it half an arm length away from your eyes while your desktop monitor will be about twice that far away. Taking this into account a dpi setting of ~140-150 will result in a well readable 10-12pt font. But instead some distributions chose to use silly values like 3.5 for the terminal font which result in device dependent settings. Compare it to a huge billboard advertising: they are printed with very low dpi but due to the much larger viewing distance this is compensated. tangoGPS is made to be device independent and given reasonable values it should always display well. Also, while you're at it, the numbers on the scale (bottom left corner) have non-transparent background and this covers up a little of the map and most of the scale ruler. This is the same problem, some distributions have insane settings for the dpi which makes the font appear too big. Just a note. ;) All righty, I'll make it configurable :^) Cheers, Vasco. Regards, Marcus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:39:53 -0800 (PST) vancel35 van...@thespazcat.com wrote: I've noticed that each version that I've upgraded of TangoGPS has increased the font size for the speed display on the map screen. Nope. I just had a quick look: it was 72pt in the beginning and now is at 60pt since version 0.9.8. I've looked inside the TangoGPS config file (~.gconf/apps/tangogps/%gconf.xml), but I couldn't see any options to set the font size. You should never fiddle with a text editor anything in ~/.gconf - bad things may happen. I'll add an option for configuring it. Regards, Marcus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:21 +0800 Bill bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I gave feed back to Martin that the digits were too large (the tangogps developer) Hi Borat, I will tell Martin once I meet him :p but the digits keep getting bigger each version (it seems :( They got smaller. I may change them from point to pixel size so they remain the same indepentenly of changing screen dpi settings of the distribution. Marcus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: why GPS is not in resources list ? (devs see framewrokd log)
In The Name Of God The compassionate merciful hello; OS : SHR testing (Rootfs ver.http://build.shr-project.org/shr-testing/images/om-gta02/shr-full-eglibc-ipk--20091218-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2 ) App : Navit that is installed with opkg instal navit . (ver. 0.2.0) FR : A7 Regards dehqan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:52:13 +0200 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: As there are now many Tangogps patches that seem to struggle to get to the official tangogps Stop your FUDing, Risto. There is a great video about poisonous people on google lectures made by the devs of svn and you, Risto, are certainly one of them. Not enough that you have been harrassing me in private mails to a point that I was close to stop development on tangoGPS you have now hijacked #tangogps in freenode against the policies of freenode.net. You haven't done anything for tangogps but molesting me and spreading FUD where ever possible. You haven't even done a translation which needs no programming skills whatsoever. It is poisous people like you who only talk and demand in an offensive way but never do anything. You have aggressed me when I put the donate button on the website but rest assured I have got less dontations overall than Dr. Lauer has earned in one single week while working for openmoko. And yet tangogps is apart from the phone functions the most used app on the Freerunner. It is poisonous people like you who make developers turn their back to open source / free software. Nobody likes to constantly being pissed on. But luckily there are many people who appreciate all the work that developers of open source / free software do for them. The countless hours they spend without being paid. The idealism and the motivation they have. tangoGPS today is what it is because of it users. Because of those users that appreciate it. Because of those users who send in their friendly feedback. Because of those users who do an effort of getting it to run on an older version of an eeePC. Because of packagers doing a great job of packaging it. Because of translators translating it. Because of people writing their experiences with it. Because of people donating 5$ for buying me a virtual pizza. Marcus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 10:23 +0100, Marcus Bauer wrote: On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:21 +0800 Bill bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I gave feed back to Martin that the digits were too large (the tangogps developer) Hi Borat, I will tell Martin once I meet him :p but the digits keep getting bigger each version (it seems :( They got smaller. I may change them from point to pixel size so they remain the same indepentenly of changing screen dpi settings of the distribution. Marcus heh heh, sorry, I should have looked up your name to be sure. This is my most used GPS app and the digit size is my only real beef with it - it works well. On the FR in landscape mode, the digits (at anything over 100km/h - (spent two long days travelling at ~110km/h speed recently!) take up almost a quarter of the screen (in X and Y) - I just tried with the suggested patch/change and a global_font_scale of 40 was still a bit large. 30 is perhaps a touch small (text height is the same as the buttons), but I'll live with it for awhile and see how it goes. One plus, the display updates are now smooth and almost unnoticeable - before the screen would often partially update and then catch up a couple of seconds later. The changing to red at 50km/h affects the visibility of the digits at the smaller sizes and is a pretty useless thing anyway (our limit is 110kmh in the country, 60 on city roads and 50 in backstreets so you hardly ever/rarely stay in the black zone - kinda defeats the purpose!). A presettable limit would be nice. These things are always a tradeoff with different users having different ideas so user preferences would be the best way to go I think. a shr-t ipk with global_font_scale=30 is at http://wdk.dyndns.org/shr-testing/ipk/armv4t/tangogps_0.99.1-r0.4_armv4t.ipk; for the adventurous :) BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?
Em 03-01-2010 06:10, Ken Young escreveu: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Yes. Do you use FR as your primary PDA? There's no decent PDA software for the FR, and I have no other, so No. What distribution you run most of the time? SHR-u Rui ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: why GPS is not in resources list ? (devs see framewrokd log)
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:37 +0330, dehqan65 wrote: In The Name Of God The compassionate merciful hello; OS : SHR testing (Rootfs ver.) App : Navit that is installed with opkg instal navit . (ver. 0.2.0) FR : A7 Regards dehqan Does it work without navit? - settings/location/manual mode and turn on. It will eventually get lock if its working and doesnt have a corrupt agps data file. Have you removed the pickle file? - settings/locations/remove agps data Have you removed the battery for a few minutes? - I find that when gps dies, this is sometimes the only thing that will get it back. BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
2010/1/6 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: This is my most used GPS app and the digit size is my only real beef with it - it works well. I'd like to second that. tangogps (+ GPRS) was fantastically useful during my post-Christmas tour of the relatives. The new routing function especially rocks. I just set it up, hand the phone to my wife or 6 year old son, and they just make sure we stay on the green line. (I plan to make a donation shortly.) The changing to red at 50km/h [...] Just an amusing note here... The changing to red thing happens at 50 even when the speed is in _miles_ per hour. It would make better sense for the change to happen at 30mph, since 30mph is (roughly) the same as 50km/h. Finally, FWIW, on Debian I haven't noticed any problem with the font size. Regards, Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:50:49 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On the FR in landscape mode, the digits (at anything over 100km/h - (spent two long days travelling at ~110km/h speed recently!) take up almost a quarter of the screen (in X and Y) - I just tried with the suggested patch/change and a global_font_scale of 40 was still a bit large. 30 is perhaps a touch small (text height is the same as the buttons), but I'll live with it for awhile and see how it goes. Can you put up somewhere a screenshot or send me one? It really differs from distro to distro... One plus, the display updates are now smooth and almost unnoticeable - before the screen would often partially update and then catch up a couple of seconds later. The changing to red at 50km/h affects the visibility of the digits at the smaller sizes and is a pretty useless thing anyway (our limit is 110kmh in the country, 60 on city roads and 50 in backstreets so you hardly ever/rarely stay in the black zone - kinda defeats the purpose!). A presettable limit would be nice. Ah yes. I have totally forgotten about it. I can add that in too. Marcus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Batteries for sale
Just a quick plug to say we've currently got batteries on offer, £14.69 including uk pp and vat, or 2 for £26.44 https://www.truebox.co.uk/trueboxportal/index.php?wk=Shopthiscat=8 We've got a small number of phones and debug kits left too - A7 version. We can probably do a deal for quantities - send a message via our website if you are interested. -- Antony King Systems Consultant www.truebox.co.uk ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR
What do you think which mobile phone has the most likeliness to RE or somehow put fso on it? - Google Nexus http://www.google.com/phone/ - Motorola MILESTONE (US version: Droid) http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/Motorola-MILESTONE-XW-EN Already rooted the US version (Droid): http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=236t=567 - Nokia N900 http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ - Palm Pre http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/ - Apple iphone http://www.apple.com/iphone/ Maybe apple iphone seems unrealistic, but the hardware is quite similar to the other ones. Almost all of the aboves uses omap3430 processor. Google Nexus uses snapdragon... Is there some site, who tracks the process of RE of each individual devices? Best regards, Laszlo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
dfu_download error -110
when I tried to flash my FR with the latest SHR and after the kernel was successfully installed, I got (somewhere in the middle of the process): dfu_download error -110 please note, that I did try to re-install the latest qi bootloader ( http://people.openmoko.org/andy/qi-s3c2442-master-hist_3b8513d8b3d9615e.udfu) but still get the same error! Thanks Tony ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [SHR] QVGA and WSOD
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:38:28PM +, Ole Kliemann wrote: I figured it out this far: The problem is independent of X. If you stop the Xserver and do # echo qvga-normal /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi2.0/state # fbset 240x320 with /etc/fb.modes as follows mode 240x320 geometry 240 320 240 320 16 timings 10 8 88 2 2 8 2 endmode then there is a high probability that the screen will fade to WSOD. This is on latest shr-unstable. If I flash this kernel [1] from September, keeping the rootfs at latest shr-unstable, the problem does not occur. You can then start X and have 240x320 resolution, suspend works without problems. Just there are still some horizontal stripe like from bad timings. What could be the right timings? I have so far encounter no problems from using the older kernel. [1] http://buildhost.shr-project.org/shr-obsolete/images/om-gta02/uImage-2.6.29-oe11+gitr119844+a3587e4ed77974adfb057af261aaeea4022018e8-r3.5-om-gta02.bin Problem remains with kernel-image-2.6.29-rc3_2.6.29-oe11+gitr119861+b90406de472c1aa5371ab593a2bb79136d5de658-r7.4_om-gta02.ipk from the unstable feed. Reflashing [1] fixes it again. pgpRxmnOTWr8i.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Whither open hardware ?
Hi Werner, Werner Almesberger wrote: There are many component choices for future phones. Things to consider when choosing chips include: snip - are they available (to us) ? What's the yard stick for measuring against here? I.e. are we talking about one-off from digikey/farnell, samples direct from the manufacturer, or limited-run (couple of hundreds) quantities? - what are the integration costs ? is this things like placement of awkward (small pitch etc.) parts, FPC's etc., or ancillary parts such as partner chips? - do they work as intended ? Hehehe. :-) Is the normal route of sourcing via a factory (even for prototypes etc.)? From a few searches it seems that getting hold of some parts (i.e. screens / touch layers) is incredibly difficult for one-offs. Dave ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] UBI success story
could you make a wikientry with step by step-instructions for interested peobles (like me?) how much faster it is about? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com wrote: What do you think which mobile phone has the most likeliness to RE or somehow put fso on it? - Google Nexus http://www.google.com/phone/ The Nexus One has an unlockable bootloader built-in--just agree to the risks of modifying firmware and you're in, no hacking required: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/49595 That's certainly a step in the right direction. Jim - Motorola MILESTONE (US version: Droid) http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/Motorola-MILESTONE-XW-EN Already rooted the US version (Droid): http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=236t=567 - Nokia N900 http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ - Palm Pre http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/ - Apple iphone http://www.apple.com/iphone/ Maybe apple iphone seems unrealistic, but the hardware is quite similar to the other ones. Almost all of the aboves uses omap3430 processor. Google Nexus uses snapdragon... Is there some site, who tracks the process of RE of each individual devices? Best regards, Laszlo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation
a) the group free software is nothing but a combination of an adjective and a substantive, the adjective qualifying the substantive That might be the case, but in the context of distributing a piece of software in the context of GNU/Linux, free software refers to the FSF's notion. Any other use is a misuse, Stefan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Openmoko projects page down
Dear all, I have experienced problems in accessing the Openmoko Projects web page (http://projects.openmoko.org/) for a couple of days now; always receiving the following error message: OpenMokoProjects Could Not Connect to Database: I am using this page for my development projects; any idea, whom to contact to getting this resolved? Thanks in advance; best regards Michael PS: I heart rumours, that the maintainer has disappeared.? Any more input on that? How could (instead) restart the web- and database servers? PPS: Do you know any other good place to host projects for the Freerunner / SHR? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QMokoPlayer - QtMoko v16
I have reinstalled the package and now works good, I dont know because the scan button dont appears. Thanks -- http://nuevaeracr.blogspot.com Linux user number 478378 Linux machine number 386687 Tec. Esteban Monge Marín Tel: (506) 8379-3562 “No habrá manera de desarrollarnos y salir de la pobreza mientras los pocos negocios grandes de nuestro medio se entreguen a las economías foráneas y nosotros nos quedemos con solo negocios de pobre, mientras en vez de ser propietarios de nuestro propio país nos convirtamos en un ejército de empleados del exterior” José Figueres Ferrer, 1952. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] why GPS is not in resources list ? (devs see framewrokd log)
In The Name Of God The compassionate merciful hello; Problem solved . it occured with bad device name in /var/log/frameworkd.log Regards dehqan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?
Hi Brolin, Just a few things to remember: 1. This list is public; these posts will remain available through search engines for quite some time. You have posted many details that may cause you trouble or embarrassment in the future. 2. Think about what others need to know, or would like to know, before writing. Brevity both in writing and speech is important. You don't want to annoy or bore others with irrelevant information, nor seem boring by giving away all your thoughts. All the best to you and your endeavours :) Best Regards, Ben Cadieux ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko projects page down
to your pps.. if you want, you could use a place on my server.. or sourceforge is also nice and for versioncontrolling, i personaly could recommend github.. greets --- Michael schrieb am Mittwoch 06 Januar 2010: Dear all, I have experienced problems in accessing the Openmoko Projects web page (http://projects.openmoko.org/) for a couple of days now; always receiving the following error message: OpenMokoProjects Could Not Connect to Database: I am using this page for my development projects; any idea, whom to contact to getting this resolved? Thanks in advance; best regards Michael PS: I heart rumours, that the maintainer has disappeared.? Any more input on that? How could (instead) restart the web- and database servers? PPS: Do you know any other good place to host projects for the Freerunner / SHR? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:28:07 Laszlo KREKACS wrote: What do you think which mobile phone has the most likeliness to RE or somehow put fso on it? - Nokia N900 http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ The N900 runs a debian like linux with an X11 server. I'm pretty sure it would be possible to put FSO on it. It is pretty much open. You can reflash it with the official nokia flasher and get root access without any hazzle. Basically everything running on debian-arm will run on the n900 (after re-packaging - no recompiling). http://maemo.org There is also a community based Distro called Mer. It is completely open source and based on ubuntu. There is also a freerunner port of it somewhere around the net. - Palm Pre http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/ I had the chance to play around with a Palm Pre. You can activate a serial terminal through USB by pressing some fancy key combos. After that you can install usb networking and dropbear ssh. You'll find an openembedded linux with a very limited version of ipkg. However, you can activate openembedded repositories and have pretty much everything you have on an openwrt router. No X11 though. http://www.webos-internals.org - Apple iphone http://www.apple.com/iphone/ IIRC there is a linux distribution for the iPhone. I have no idea what state they have reached... I wouldn't hope too much that FSO is useful on iPhones MacOS though... Anyways, IMHO the constant locking/jailbraeking race with apple isn't worth it. About android. Just install it on your FR and play a little around. It is pretty much the same you can expect from any android phone I guess (except better stability and performance then on the freerunner)... From what I've seen every manufacturer (except Apple) lets you reflash the phone selecting your own image and getting root access without big hazzle. But they are all trying to hide the linux side as much as possible except Nokia. The N900 comes with X11 and x-term preinstalled and you have the possibility to add devel-repositories where you can even contribute your own projects. gcc is just an apt-get install away :) Cheers, Michael signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Marcus Bauer marcus.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:52:13 +0200 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: As there are now many Tangogps patches that seem to struggle to get to the official tangogps Stop your FUDing, Risto. There is a great video about poisonous people on google lectures made by the devs of svn and you, Risto, are certainly one of them. It must be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSFDm3UYkeE Looks interesting, I'll watch it some day. You haven't done anything for tangogps but molesting me and spreading FUD where ever possible. You haven't even done a translation which needs no programming skills whatsoever. It's true, I haven't contributed to the code nor translations, Timo Jyrinki translated Tangogps into Finnish. Kustomizer, the script I wrote to turn OM2008.12 into full distro, installed Tangogps (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Kustomizer I don't have stats from longer period, but the various versions of the script have been downloaded 5 times already in January 2010 although Kustomizer's been discontinued for almost 10 months already.. Stop using it people, go to SHR! ;) I reviewed Tangogps, liked it a lot and gave it good grades: http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2008/09/freerunner-compatible-gps-software/ (178 hits) I passed on the word about a new release to the Freerunner community: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-August/028535.html In co-operation with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation I started a mailing list to discuss FOSS-GPS related topics to connect the users developers: http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2008/09/a-mailing-list-for-the-floss-gps-community/ (tangogps linked, 675 hits) http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/invitation-for-all-open-source-gps-software-developers-and-users-to-join-foss-gps-mailing-list (671 hits) Not enough that you have been harrassing me in private mails to a point that I was close to stop development on tangoGPS you have now hijacked #tangogps in freenode against the policies of freenode.net. Yes, I started the IRC channel and now feel very sorry for doing it. http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/11/two-new-irc-channels-tangogps-and-smile-slideshow/ (255 hits) I did it to enable the users devels to discuss it real time. We've had some nice discussion there about some new tools other users have written and helped other Tangogps users for example to configure map repositories. When I started the channel, I notified you about it (e-mail 11/15/09) asking you to join so I could pass on the admin rights to you. At that time, I didn't know you need to be the author or similar to start a channel at Freenode. When someone pointed that out to me, I was immediately co-operative to do whatever's needed to get things straight. So if you think it's the best, I can leave the channel any time, but I cannot force other people to do the same. It is poisous people like you who only talk and demand in an offensive way but never do anything. Thank you Marcus for Tangogps. It's still maybe the most used single application I use on my Freerunner. The community shall be the judge and point me where did I go wrong. r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator
Marcus Bauer wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:39:53 -0800 (PST) vancel35 van...@thespazcat.com wrote: I've noticed that each version that I've upgraded of TangoGPS has increased the font size for the speed display on the map screen. Nope. I just had a quick look: it was 72pt in the beginning and now is at 60pt since version 0.9.8. You mention the DPI in other posts, so that may be what's happening. I always update the DPI to make everything smaller, and this time I reflashed didn't change it. I'll have to update my DPI when I leave work today and see if the speed font is smaller. However, it would still be nice if it were configurable. :D The larger issue about DPI is that everything is too big on the screen. I like the icons to be finger-friendly, but the text below them doesn't need to be readable from across the room... but that's not what we're discussing here... just an explanation why I always fiddle with the DPI. ;) Marcus Bauer wrote: I've looked inside the TangoGPS config file (~.gconf/apps/tangogps/%gconf.xml), but I couldn't see any options to set the font size. You should never fiddle with a text editor anything in ~/.gconf - bad things may happen. I'll add an option for configuring it. Regards, Marcus I was in vi, and if I don't change anything, I always do a :q! to lose anything that might have accidentally changed. I learned my lesson long ago. Did you change anything in the position / speed algorithm? It doesn't seem to have as much jitter when stopped as it did before. But I've also updated my distro of SHR-U to the December 5th release, so it may have been something upstream or maybe just a coincidence. Keep up the good work. TangoGPS is an awesome program. :) -Laura -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/TangoGPS-font-size-for-speed-indicator-tp4256370p4263566.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?
Hi Ben, i think it is clear that you want to tell him this in a positive way, but it quite sounds like you think it is a absolute and inevitable law to act as you propose. Maybe you don't see it that strict and you just want to give him good advice. Well, it is right, that nobody wants to bore others with one's stuff and feelings - just because nobody has benefit from a monologue. But this is a mailing list and not a discussion with on or more persons face to face, and so you don't have a fixed number of listeners, nor have you direct feedback from their face or words. On a mailing list, you have as much listeners, as there are people who read the mails from Brolin just because they have interest. If there is only 1, that would be enough. Me for my self, i find a part of me in the thoughts and things Brolin describes. And i have interest. You also said, that he could run into trouble because of the things he writes here. Well, that may be. Myself i think, only people, that are not able to deal with that amount of info and openness, would generate trouble out of this writings. I don't really see, where one can be too open and honest about himself. Is that really possible? We are all human beings, why would we want to hide parts of our existence? Why would we want to let taboos about what to say and what not to say stay? If someone don't want to read some specific stuff, then he should go on and do not read it. If someone (in 10 years for example) will make decisions or estimations on the basis of Brolins writings here and now - well, as i said, that may happen. Often people say imagine they google you and don't give you a job. I would say: Gladly, Brolin don't have to work and talk with people, who are just lost in the age of information. I don't know if i am expressing my self correct, as english is not my mother tongue. What i want to say is: If more people are more open and honest and tell others about themselves, the only thing that happens is, that we get to know each other better and better. In my opinion, it can in no way be a good advice, to not say what you want to say. Hm, i hope i made my self understandable. Please ask me, if not. Cheers, Fabian ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
FR as USB keyboard
Dear List Does anyone know of a simple way to let the FR act like an USB keyboard? (connecting it another machine with usb cable) optional trackpad would also be nice of course maybe http://hid-gadgetfs.sourceforge.net/ could help? regards, y ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Koolu's Qi fork (was: Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)
Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk writes: I only know about Android needing forked Qi. Which other distro also requires you to have custom bootloader? I guess Android only needs a forked Qi because it needed different boot parameters, and Qi can't read them from file when booting from NAND. I find uboot very easy for multibooting. First of all, i do not exactly understand why koolu decided that they really need another MTD partitioning scheme. There was never any discussion about that. Second, they should have warned their users in a big bold letters. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Handset sound volume issues (Re: Buzz fix)
-= Apertum =- i...@apertum.it writes: The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other issues like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be addressed with software. The same happened to me, but i didn't find a viable software cnfiguration to use the fr as a phone. What about you? I'm really looking forward to replace my nokia N70 with fr for calls... I agree. Me too i have especially the low volume problem (i'm with QtMoko). I tried everything via mixer software, but without any success: phone calls are always with tiny volume, in an open space or also in a car, it's really difficult to ear the call. My phone it's a V6 release and without any buzzfix. Do you all understand that buzzfix has nothing to do with the volume of sounds _you_ hear? If you cramp up the volume really high but the handset speaker is still low it just means you have a unit with useless caps (R3004/R3005 which are sometimes 1uF caps). There were plenty of those. And no one can tell what hardware revisions affected. Inability to get the handset speaker emit loud sound is a clear sign. Just short those useless caps (0402 size iirc). HTH -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Handset sound volume issues (Re: Buzz fix)
* Paul Fertser wrote, Il 06/01/2010 23:20: And no one can tell what hardware revisions affected. Inability to get the handset speaker emit loud sound is a clear sign. Just short those useless caps (0402 size iirc). Thanks a lot for the info. And where is exactly located these caps, how to recognize it? (I tried to find this info on the wiki, without success :-( ) -- Andrea ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] UBI success story
I just understand, that its wrong to test via boniee++ with default params, which required write 300Mb data, neo have mtd just 256mb, and both fs becomes **very** slow near ENOSPC. So, I rerun all tests with -s 32 -m 16, also I tested ext3, and ext2 in sync/async mode. === ubifs === --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP localhost 32M 1531 78 7594 73 4318 76 2195 98 42904 99 2805 87 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 887 94 2802 99 859 98 914 97 18084 99 659 98 localhost,32M,1531,78,7594,73,4318,76,2195,98,42904,99,2804.8,87,16,887,94,2802,99,859,98,914,97,18084,99,659,98 === ext3, async === --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP localhost 32M 1122 69 1911 40 2288 28 1832 82 43012 99 2923 98 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 111 96 18460 95 1315 85 111 95 20824 99 258 75 localhost,32M,1122,69,1911,40,2288,28,1832,82,43012,99,2923.0,98,16,111,96,18460,95,1315,85,111,95,20824,99,258,75 === ext2, sync === --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP localhost 32M70 5 122 3 970 11 2196 98 42969 99 56.1 1 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 1618 12 17609 8914 218 12 20165 98 6 1 localhost,32M,70,5,122,3,970,11,2196,98,42969,99,56.1,1,16,18,12,17609,89,14,2,18,12,20165,98,6,1 === ext2, async === --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP localhost 32M 1319 70 2637 29 1997 16 1904 86 42504 99 3151 98 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 166 95 19707 98 2588 97 170 96 20644 99 321 63 localhost,32M,1319,70,2637,29,1997,16,1904,86,42504,99,3151.4,98,16,166,95,19707,98,2588,97,170,96,20644,99,321,63 Can somebody run bonnie\+\+ -u 0:0 -s 32 -r 16 on jffs2 with at least 64Mb free space? Also I want repoint people about http://shr-project.org/trac/ticket/445, we should ALWAYS mount uSD/usb-etc async. On 1/6/10, Vinzenz Hersche hers...@puzzle.ch wrote: could you make a wikientry with step by step-instructions for interested peobles (like me?) how much faster it is about? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Handset sound volume issues (Re: Buzz fix)
-= Apertum =- i...@apertum.it writes: And no one can tell what hardware revisions affected. Inability to get the handset speaker emit loud sound is a clear sign. Just short those useless caps (0402 size iirc). Thanks a lot for the info. And where is exactly located these caps, how to recognize it? Under the main shield (can take as long as 20 minutes to dismount :/). At the bottom right of the sound IC, the component placement pdf is now searchable (thanks to lindi-), so you should have no problems locating those. While you're at it probably do a bassfix as well. And i really advice to provide additional isolation between the upper can lid and the components. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net wrote: The N900 runs a debian like linux with an X11 server. I'm pretty sure it would be possible to put FSO on it. It is pretty much open. http://maemo.org You cant use FSO, because the key parts are closed. The modem handling or even the battery charger daemon is closed source. http://wiki.maemo.org/Free_Maemo The situation is only better, because it happen to have more open source developers who are willing to really free the maemo platform. IE reverse engineer the closed source programs. Best regards, Laszlo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[shr] gwaterpas
Is there anyone of you having a working gwaterpas package? I'm trying to install it on latest shr-u but i get r...@om-gta02 ~/packs $ opkg install gwaterpas_0.3.1_armv4t.ipk *** glibc detected *** opkg: double free or corruption (out): 0x00cd0aa8 *** thanks d ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [shr] gwaterpas
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Davide Scaini dsca...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone of you having a working gwaterpas package? I'm trying to install it on latest shr-u but i get r...@om-gta02 ~/packs $ opkg install gwaterpas_0.3.1_armv4t.ipk *** glibc detected *** opkg: double free or corruption (out): 0x00cd0aa8 *** i poster on opkg a while ago that gwaterpas will not install on 20091205, seems no one is working on it at the moment, ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: New project openmokontrol
Now I am really straying OT, but now that I have followed the make and make install steps for nided and modprobe for uinput, I seem to have hosed my mythtv frontend which boots through to X but then sits there waiting and never brings up the main myth menu and no longer responds to my usb attached mouse or keyboard. Anyway won't bore this group and I'll go an debug what's up or take it to mythtv group. cheers Denis On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Denis Johnson denis.john...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is something already available which I could get going on the FR ? The following thread [...] You may try http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NIDE/NIDED ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
openmoko to computer calls
i've previously been using skype on my desktop to call other people via their computers. i'd like to investigate other options for calling - asking the other user to install different software is not necessarily a problem i'm not sure where to start; what software is available (i'm using shr-u) to do this? cheers ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Maintain(er) OpenMokoProjects [was: Openmoko projects page down]
Dear all, the OpenMokoProjects page is back online - thanks to whoever did this. But in fact, I got a bit concerned about carrying on to host my projects there. What is the status of this site - and who is the maintainer? Could you please do any statement about the future of OpenMokoProjects? (if it is unlikely to be continued, I would rather start migrating the content from there) ... Bringing me to my next question (all?) - what would be an adaquate location for hosting application level projects for Openmoko? Any experience? - I really liked the idea and functionality (SVN, WIKI and docs, News, File releases, Tracker) OpenMokoProjects provided - and in the end, you could easily browse through a bunch of applications for the Freerunner / Openmoko. I can think of (but): - sourceforge.net (for my taste has become too much marketing touchy) - google code (well; it's still Google) - some corner on SHR web side?? - github.com (I have no experience at all; but it looks like providing most of the functionality I mentioned before - feshmeat.net (would only be for the front page I guess) Writing all this; I remember discussions on these lists here about an Openmoko application directory.? I can't remember the outcome of this discussion - has anything evolved from it? Please, I would be thankful for any input ... thanks in advance; Best Michael Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0100 Von: Michael Pilgermann kichka...@gmx.de An: community@lists.openmoko.org, shr-u...@lists.shr-project.org, shr-de...@lists.shr-project.org, de...@lists.openmoko.org Betreff: Openmoko projects page down Dear all, I have experienced problems in accessing the Openmoko Projects web page (http://projects.openmoko.org/) for a couple of days now; always receiving the following error message: OpenMokoProjects Could Not Connect to Database: I am using this page for my development projects; any idea, whom to contact to getting this resolved? Thanks in advance; best regards Michael PS: I heart rumours, that the maintainer has disappeared.? Any more input on that? How could (instead) restart the web- and database servers? PPS: Do you know any other good place to host projects for the Freerunner / SHR? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
