Re: How to wear the headphones?

2008-12-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 05 December 2008, Neil Jerram wrote: 2008/12/5 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/5 arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: aren't there spare ear pieces with different sizes? I thought so at first, but on closer examination, they all appeared to be the same size... (I assume you

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Neil Jerram wrote: 2008/12/2 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: buzz / echo / hiss... no software change can fix buzz. It's baked into the hardware and you will have to do fairly extreme meddling with your soldering iron to impact it. Thanks, I hadn't seen that so

Re: [u-boot] Environment garbled after setenv?

2008-12-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Evgeniy Karyakin wrote: Joachim Breitner: I modified (shorten) your script for my needs and it works without an error, although I haven't really got my end station. After flashing environment with your script and then reading it back I see that environment

Re: [u-boot] Environment garbled after setenv?

2008-12-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 08 December 2008, Evgeniy Karyakin wrote: Al Johnson: On Sunday 07 December 2008, Evgeniy Karyakin wrote: Joachim Breitner: AFAIR, the NOR uboot and the NAND uboot don’t share the environment – is that right? Then I don't know what u-boot_env points to. If we update NAND

Re: Optimization team update (11/30 ~ 12/06)

2008-12-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 08 December 2008, Esben Stien wrote: John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: opkg is obviously not very efficient, both in memory and in speed I don't care much about opkg since I use debian, but is there some rationale for developing a new package management system that I can read?

Re: Funding Global Domination Mk II The Console

2008-12-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Stroller wrote: On 8 Dec 2008, at 12:23, Arigead wrote: ... So you'd have a PC Motherboard, TV out don't know what standard. Do all modern TV's take the same digital connection all over the world? Then you'll have a TV in signal for recording TV. Again I've

Re: [debian] choice of root filesystem type?

2008-12-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 09 December 2008, arne anka wrote: Are there other fs types that are more suitable, and work with debian? the supposed wear of ext3 is caused by the journalling imo -- since journalling is, what you are after, there's nothing else. otoh there where a while ago some postings

Re: ALSA

2008-12-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Clemens Dörrhöfer wrote: Marcel wrote: Am Wednesday 10 December 2008 21:23:06 schrieb Clemens Dörrhöfer: Is there any useful Information in the net, which tells me a little something about the big mistery ALSA on openmoko? After installing the pymixer I can

Re: kismet on freerunner

2008-12-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 14 December 2008, Joop Boonen wrote: On Wed, November 26, 2008 2:26 pm, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: snip FATAL: Failed to set monitor mode: Invalid argument. This usually means your drivers either do not support monitor mode, or use a different mechanism for

Re: new sim(ATT:SKU 71247)

2008-12-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Mathieu Dube wrote: Hi, I just got my neo freerunner and I got a sim from ATT, its a 3G the sku is 71247. Its not in the list here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Carriers/ATT It fits on the contacts physically but it only says Registering... when I boot

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:13:39 +0100 Leonti Bielski prishe...@gmail.com babbled: I don't think closing such information (which is not any dangerous inside info) would be a good policy for a company which main goal is creating an OPEN

Re: FR not charging after 2 weeks of inactivity

2008-12-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Robin Paulson wrote: 2008/12/17 Diego Fernández Durán di...@goedi.net: The last two weeks I've been very busy and meanwhile I put the FR in a high shelve to avoid the distraction. Now, after two weeks my FR appears to be in a deep sleep. I can't turn it on.

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Joel Newkirk wrote: I don't know what the physical difference is for the power tweak. (V6 can power up from wall power without battery) It's a bigger C1767 - according to the schematics it's 4.7uF on A5, 47uF on A6 and 100uF on A7. Werner's writeup of the

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Paul Wouters wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Marcus Bauer wrote: * GPS works out of the box It comes as a tarball, thus you need a 2 GB SD card (SanDisk work well) Is the GPS+SD card problem solved yet? That was solved a long time ago.

Re: [FSO] How to make a beep in C++/Qt

2008-12-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Michael Tansella wrote: Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2008 16:27:43 schrieb Sargun Dhillon: Please don't send HTML e-mail to list. I'm sorry it's default at kmail. I hope it's turned off now. Just add a sound with an annoying enough beep and use the proper FSO

Re: [QTExtended] cannot store alsa state

2008-12-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 18 December 2008, Giorgio Marci wrote: I adjust the volume on QTExt 4.4.2 using alsamixer and then i'd like to store its state, but the command alsactl -f path_to_file.state store doesn't seem to work and, after that i make or receive a call, the state returns to default! How

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 18 December 2008, Joel Newkirk wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:00:34 +, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Joel Newkirk wrote: I don't know what the physical difference is for the power tweak. (V6 can power up from wall power

Re: [QTExtended] cannot store alsa state

2008-12-18 Thread Al Johnson
are stored these files? there is a specific file state to store or can i store any file in any directory? and if yes, how can i set alsa to use that particular file? thanks - Original Message - From: Al Johnson To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: [QTExtended

Re: Trying to get support for some Neo setup problems...

2008-12-19 Thread Al Johnson
The structure of the config files for the linphone CLI and GUI are the same, so you should be able to take the working one for the CLI and copy it over the GUI one. At the very least you should be able to copy the registration details from one and paste it into the other. On Friday 19 December

Re: Trying to get support for some Neo setup problems...

2008-12-19 Thread Al Johnson
of the registration. In the configuration files of the cli version its set correctly. I tried to run strace on the GUI version to watch and see when it tried to open a configuration file but no joy. Didn't seem to even try. Cheers!! On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Al Johnson openm

Re: Trying to get support for some Neo setup problems...

2008-12-19 Thread Al Johnson
that it installed various png files to use. Any ideas what I should look at as to why its not displaying the proper icon file? Thanks for all your help Al. Cheers!! On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: Which version are you running? It used

Re: Performance Issues using Neo wifi and WPA2

2008-12-19 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 19 December 2008, john dowd wrote: I have a Neo freerunner running the 2008.9 load. I have it configured to connect using Wifi to my access point using WPA2 encryption. I do NOT have a SIMM card in my phone. I have managed to make a connection to the PBX sitting on the other side

Re: Bluetooth headset GUI configuration

2008-12-19 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 19 December 2008, Simon Kagstrom wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:52:08 +0300 Denis Shulyaka shuly...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/19 Simon Kagstrom simon.kagst...@gmail.com: I've tried these instructions on both FSO and SHR now, and it works on neither of them. BtConfigure.py never

Re: om-manager 0.1.0 released

2008-12-20 Thread Al Johnson
You probably need Python 2.x as 3.0 has some major changes which cause code written for 2.x to fail. IIRC the print syntax is one of those changes. Follow the link if you want to see the details. http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html On Saturday 20 December 2008, Yorick Moko wrote: I

Re: Importing Contacts from Thunderbird

2008-12-21 Thread Al Johnson
If I understand the sed command it is changing some of the syntax from vCard v3.0 to vCard v2.1. I guess the addressbook app doesn't handle v3.0 but doesn't check the VERSION entry in the vCard either. On Sunday 21 December 2008, Dennis Wollersheim wrote: Hey Will Can you tell me what you

Re: Performance Issues using Neo wifi and WPA2

2008-12-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, john dowd wrote: I'm wondering if someone could verify the following SIP interaction between linphone and the s/w PBX that I'm running. This would be better directed to the linphone list as it's unlikely to be openmoko-specific. It might help to say which PBX it is

Re: www.opkg.org - Relaunch!

2008-12-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Yogiz wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:46:33 +0100 Tobias Kündig tobias.kuen...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Community, After hours of coding I can present you my little christmas gift for Openmoko and the whole community: The relaunch of www.opkg.org. The whole

Re: [2008.testing] GPS after resume

2009-01-05 Thread Al Johnson
Yes, and I think ogpsd is supposed to do this. Almanac and ephemeris is saved when preparing for suspend, and loaded on resume, along with current time. If things haven't changed too much while suspend then resume should be faster than from cold. On Sunday 04 January 2009, Yorick Moko wrote:

Re: Car Charger?

2009-01-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 05 January 2009, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:40:34PM +, Vasco Névoa wrote: I bought a Trust car lighter adapter (5V/1A) with its own cable, and it doesn't charge the freerunner. Shouldn't it have to be 2A ? Rui That depends on what you're going

Re: Database applications practical on mobile device ?

2009-01-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 05 January 2009, lollisoft wrote: Hi, I like to ask if anyone is wishing to have some database applications on their phone. Or would it practical on such a small device ? I am a developer of an rapid database prototyper capable of generating any source code when prototyping is

Re: [2008.testing] GPS after resume

2009-01-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 05 January 2009, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: 2009/1/5 Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk: Yes, and I think ogpsd is supposed to do this. Almanac and ephemeris is saved when preparing for suspend, and loaded on resume, along with current time. If things haven't changed too much

Re: Dying battery

2009-01-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Chris Samuel wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 2:26:00 pm The Digital Pioneer wrote: GTA02 with SHR and mwester kernel. How often does mwester release a new kernel? Maybe it could use updating... I think that's a userspace work around to issue: AT%SLEEP=2 to the

Re: so i try manually starting the x server with:

2009-01-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 09 January 2009, arne anka wrote: a small program or the dbg command to get to that menu. i've tried holding power and using my desk to press aux to no effect THE OTHER WAY ROUND! sorry for yelling, but you seem to repeatedly miss the point (which is perfectly normal,

Re: so i try manually starting the x server with:

2009-01-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 09 January 2009, Harry L. Lee wrote: thanks! I was at the boot menu and tried dfu, thus: ha...@galaxy:~$ .//dfu-util -l dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY ha...@galaxy:~$ which does not look encouraging. As others

Re: nandwrite from inside fr: u-boot, boot-env, flash? was: Re: [2007.2 fr] boot prolems

2009-01-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 10 January 2009, arne anka wrote: for booting from sd: to get there you still need the boot menu -- unles even the boot env could be flashed from inside fr and, additionally, the menu could made show up by default (and boot the first entry after a timeout). I don't think that's

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 12 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Is it possible to let several apps use the accelerometers, similiar to how several apps may share the gps unit? I noticed that omnewrotate seems to monopolize the accelerometers, so openmoocow and duke can't use them. Omnewrotate is useful to

Re: buzz fix (was: Pulster offer - Freerunner now 249 eur)

2009-01-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Yorick Moko wrote: buzz and gsm fixes are even documented on the wiki (no need to search in the e-mails) only the audio-fix (big capacitator to provide more bass isn't; hoping to see that one documented as well There's some fairly detailed discussion of audio mods

Re: which SHR image

2009-01-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 12 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: The .tar.gz file is not an image for flashing. It is simply an archive with all the files. It is useful in that you can extract the files on a pc easily. You may then copy single files to the freerunner in order to fix a botched customization

Re: [om2008-9] Never able to successfully backup the jffs2 partition...

2009-01-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 13 January 2009, john dowd wrote: To be clear, you are saying that this is a u-boot issue? There was an issue with u-boot failing to transfer correctly from phone to PC, usually when trying to back up the rootfs. I remember mention of a patch, but I can't confirm that it's now fixed

Re: Multiple internet connections

2009-01-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Leonti Bielski wrote: Hello! Is it possible to use multiple internet connections on Freerunner at the same time? There are several possible ways depending on circumstances. Bridges, routes or iptables rules could all do this to some degree. Now would be a good time

Re: [om2008-9] Never able to successfully backup the jffs2 partition...

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote: Well I tried the NeoTool but it has its limitations. I was going to copy my current configuration to the uSD card as the backup. I tried the wiki page Booting From SD and was going to prepare the uSD card by partitioning it. I then saw that there

Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Olivier Migeot wrote: I guess I should shut down FSO's GPS handling first, but how? Is stopping fso-gpsd enough? (I tried, but it didn't seem better) Any insights, somebody? Thanks. Disable ogpsd in /etc/frameworkd.conf by adding 'disable = 1' to the [ogpsd]

Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Olivier Migeot wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: Disable ogpsd in /etc/frameworkd.conf by adding 'disable = 1' to the [ogpsd] section, then restart frameworkd nicely: Whoa, that was quick, thank you

Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk writes: /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop Hmm, why is stopping X server necessary? Apps using frameworkd can get upset if you restart frameworkd while they are running. This would include zhone

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
I just use minicom, connect to /dev/ttyACM0 and enable line wrap. If you could be more specific about what's wrong then perhaps I could help. On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote: Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message [closed] printed out for every key

Re: Is there an echo-free distro?

2009-01-15 Thread Al Johnson
The echo heard by the other party is influenced by the entire loop from their mic through the telco(s) to the Freerunner earpiece, through the air and/or casework to the Freerunner mic and back through the telco(s) to their earpiece. If there isn't enough gain around the loop then they won't

Re: FSO unstable upgrade errors alsa-states and initscripts-openmoko

2009-01-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 15 January 2009, qhaz wrote: From this site images have been posted on a fairly regular basis. For example, the current kernel image is uImage-2.6.28-oe1+gitr34240a1c06ae36180dee695aa25bbae869b2aa26-r2-om-gta02. bin which appeared on Jan 13th. The latest rootfs image is . . .

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-26 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 26 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Hendrik Siedelmann wrote: Get higher gps accuracy using accelerometer data (or use it when driving through a tunnel) would be a nice example. That'd be interesting. Do anyone know the precision of the accelerometers? Assuming, of course, that

Re: shr- GPS howto?

2009-01-26 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 26 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: arne anka wrote: slot. If it isn't there, then your phone have this problem. not necessarily. in fact, if you really have this problem you didn't update your kernel a very long time. the gps/sd card fix is in all kernels available for a

Re: Alsa state chooser

2009-01-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, TL Mieszkowski wrote: I'm not sure what the status of the Dbus sound stuff is, but I wrote a little program to choose the alsa state file with a simple gui. Attached is the code in anyone is interested. All it is is 1 button for each state file, very simplistic,

Re: buzz fix

2009-01-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 26 January 2009, Christoph Siegenthaler wrote: are there any updates from resellers, FIC or any half-official DIY-tutorials on the hardware problems, i.e. the buzzing? The current tutorial is here: http://people.openmoko.org/joerg/GSM_EMI_noise/big-C_rework_SOP_rc2.pdf This appears

Re: what tests for (non working) 3G SIM?

2009-01-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Chris Syntichakis wrote: Hi, I see.. Today I tested the card with a Nokia 1110i , it said card rejected, then I did a test with a samsung c170 and I got the message SIM crashed (LOL) That mirrors my experience with a friend's 3 SIM last week. This one was bought

Re: buzz fix (was: Pulster offer - Freerunner now 249 eur)

2009-01-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Yorick Moko wrote: buzz and gsm fixes are even documented on the wiki (no need to search in the e-mails) only the audio-fix (big capacitator to provide more bass isn't; hoping to see that one

Re: Bass fix

2009-01-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Paul Fertser wrote: Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com writes: I propose to look at the page where i outlined my rework: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_bass_fix Of course, that's only my take on implementation, the rework itself was proposed and evaluated by

Re: Alsa state chooser

2009-01-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, TL Mieszkowski wrote: WM8753.pdf pg 27: MICBIAS CURRENT DETECT The WM8753L includes a microphone bias current detect circuit which allows the user to set thresholds for the microphone bias current, above which an interrupt will be triggered. I think this

Re: handset volume,,

2009-01-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Chris Syntichakis wrote: I know the low handset volume is mentioned on the wiki too, but is there any patch/solution? I out the alsa setting to 127 (the high value) but I am not too happy... The reason for there not being a patch is that everyone's preferences are

Re: Alsa state chooser

2009-01-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, TL Mieszkowski wrote: KaZeR wrote: First example on top of my head : you are listening to music via your headset, and you unplug it : if in a public place, it might be convenient to pause media player to avoid bothering your neighboors. My other phone

Re: [SHR] illume predictive keyboard is too slow

2009-01-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2009/1/29 Olof Sjobergh olo...@gmail.com It did not mean all possible misspellings should be included, only the normalisation which removes accented chars etc. So for normal English, there would be almost no extra size compared to now.

Re: [SHR] Miscellanious minor issues

2009-01-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Pander wrote: Found it now. Was looking with another person who also knows the Om2008 release for over 10 minutes without any luck. But we overlooked the qwerty on the 'right' side. We were really fooled by only looking on the left side

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: Any idea where I can find python-pyalsaaudio? not found on SHR, can't find a package anywhere. (except armv7a at angstrom) http://openmoko.truebox.co.uk/repos/mazikeen/fso-testing/ipk/armv4t/python- pyalsaaudio_0.3-ml0_armv4t.ipk

Re: [SHR] could SHR play streaming mp3?

2009-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 30 January 2009, Giorgio Marciano wrote: Hi to all, is SHR capable of playing streaming mp3? my idea is to create a client for the seeqpod.com service! The problem is that SHR doesn't include mp3 support...am i right? It doesn't out of the box, but you can always build the

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:31:21 +, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: Any idea where I can find python-pyalsaaudio? not found on SHR, can't find a package anywhere. (except

Re: [SHR] latest unstable does really work???

2009-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
I have a vague memory of the busybox ping working with addresses but not with names. It might be worth trying with an IP address instead. On Friday 30 January 2009, Alexandre Girard wrote: same result: r...@om-gta02 ~ $ ping www.google.com ping: bad address 'www.google.com' On 30/01/2009,

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-31 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 30 January 2009, Al Johnson wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:31:21 +, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Friday 30 January 2009, Joel Newkirk wrote: Any idea where I can find python-pyalsaaudio? not found

Re: Qt Extended update ?

2009-02-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 31 January 2009, Joerg Lippmann wrote: Am Montag 26 Januar 2009 schrieb HouYu Li: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: Does anyone know if there's any updates for Qt Extended in the pipeline ? I am looking forward to it. Does the

Re: [FSO] unable to install zhone

2009-02-02 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 02 February 2009, Kosa wrote: Hi there, I saw waiting for MS5 to try FSO, but since it's not ready yet I decided to try MS4, but it does not come with any phone SF and I wanted to try zhone, but I just can't. MS4 and MS4.1 both had zhone when I tried them, but you have to pick the

Re: [Report] - Buzz fix

2009-02-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, arne anka wrote: btw: what exactly means SOP? Standard Operating Procedure ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [Om2008.x] UMTS based on USB adapter

2009-02-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: is there any way to use something like an USB-splitter to connect the USB of the FR to the modem and at the same time to a laptop? I don't think that'll be possible. You need the FR to be a USB host to connect to the modem, but a USB client to

Re: microsoft patent with idea's from this list

2009-02-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Gothnet wrote: Peter Nijs wrote: I'm almost sure someone suggested hooking up an external screen to it. That's technically not possible Isn't it? You can get external USB gfx cards these days. Whether FR has the power to drive one, or if there are FOSS

Re: MyPaint 0.6

2009-02-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Konstantin wrote: Michele Renda schrieb: On 02/02/2009 23:05, Joachim Breitner wrote: these look as if the FreeRunner’s touch screen actually gives pressure input to the application. Is that really the case? I read from [1] it support pressure input and on

Re: Accelerometers in Kernel 2.6.28-rc4

2009-02-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Michael Tansella wrote: ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.202 netmask 255.255.255.0 up Finally this made my day. I never had to do that before. Assuming MS5 is similar to recent SHR this is because connman is taking over management of the network interfaces, and trying

Re: MyPaint 0.6

2009-02-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Michele Renda wrote: On 03/02/2009 17:18, Al Johnson wrote: It seems there is pressure info available from the hardware, but that it's not been possible to get it consistent over the whole screen. For more on what's actually being done see: http

Re: [All] FR survey and locations

2009-02-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Joel Newkirk wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:46:09 -0200, Pablo Miño pablodanielm...@gmail.com wrote: How do I find out what version my neo is? Do I have to open it? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Finding_hardware_revision That page has

Re: microsoft patent with idea's from this list

2009-02-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: arne anka wrote: (http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/description?CC=WONR=2009012 344A2KC=A2FT=Ddate=20090122DB=EPODOClocale=en_US) i didn't read it fully, but how does that differ from a simple hub or the common docking station

Re: Camera and 3G

2009-02-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Javier Garcia wrote: any plan for a smartphone with camera and 3G? I doubt you'll get a solid answer on that one until close to release (Osbourne effect has been mentioned) but GTA03 was rumoured to have camera, but EDGE (2.5G) rather than 3G. See the link below,

Re: Camera and 3G

2009-02-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 06 February 2009, cruz wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: reason 3G is unlikely in the near future. 3G will have to come at some point though, as telcos in some countries are hoping to turn off 2G. The 2G frequency

Re: 2.6.28 kernel and modutils

2009-02-06 Thread Al Johnson
On recent SHR and probably FSO (haven't got MS5 going yet) connman is taking control of usb0 and trying o use dhcp to get an address. Since I have a bridged configuration on the machine I plug it into this actually succeeds, but for most people it will fail to get an address. In either case

Re: [SHR] Why is the Powerbutton sometimes red and sometimes blue while loading

2009-02-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 07 February 2009, arne anka wrote: well, it's short for akkumulator -- replace kk with cc and, according to my dictionary, it is part of english too -- with the same meaning. It does exist, but is rarely used. 50 to 100 years ago it was more common.

Re: [FSO m5] Cannot register to network (KPN-NL SIM) but can make phonecalls.

2009-02-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 07 February 2009, arne anka wrote: Ok, i have the logging. I dont see anything strange, i, otoh, do: 2009-02-07 19:38:36,517 INFO network status changed: dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'strength'): dbus.Int32(89, variant_level=1), dbus.String(u'cid'): dbus.String(u'3539',

Re: [FSO m5] Cannot register to network (KPN-NL SIM) but can make phonecalls.

2009-02-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 07 February 2009, Bas wrote: Al Johnson wrote: The Dictionary looks like the content of a GSM network status update signal from the framework, and the values indicate it's registered to the home network for that SIM. I don't know why it thinks registration failed. Zhone

Re: More pictures of the leather case.

2009-02-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, February 07, 2009 a las 11:11:41PM +0100, David Reyes Samblas Martinez escribió: I have uploaded more detailed pictures of the leather case here http://www.tuxbrain.net/shop/product_info.php?products_id=42language=en I hope

Re: Questions about the usability of GTA02

2009-02-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Erland Lewin wrote: 2009/1/31 Tschaka stuff4tsch...@gmx.net 2) Calls My main problem with the FR at the moment is that the volume in the built-in earpiece, and wired headset as well are way too low. It works in a quiet indoor environment, but on a busy street I

Re: [SHR unstable] Openmoko headset

2009-02-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 13 February 2009, Tony Berth wrote: Dear List, how can I avoid to have the Openmoko headset AND the speaker working at the same time? Where I plug-in the headset, people around me can listen to the conversation from the speaker! Also, how can I increase the volume in the headset

Re: Opensatnav project requires help, especially from a coder (or 2).

2009-02-13 Thread Al Johnson
There are already a number of open satnav apps that work on multiple platforms, handheld ones included. pyroute and navit spring immediately to mind as ones that have been shown working on Openmoko handsets. I guess the problem for you is that they won't run under Android, but they might be

Re: Bicycle Power adaptor for Freerunner

2009-02-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Alexander Mueller wrote: Hey all, is anybody out there who is using the FR on longer trips for navigation and/or geocaching? How did you solve the power problem? I would love to have an adapter from my hub generator for the Freerunner. Should not be too

Re: thoughts on A-GPS offline

2009-02-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Cédric Berger wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 16:52, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: mqy meng.qing...@gmail.com writes: It is not a problem that user account is required when download u-blox online aiding data. It is

Re: Best thing to run on Freerunner and Neo1973 machines today?

2009-02-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Daniel Benoy wrote: I'm having lots of fun with Debian. I put an 8GB card in my freerunner, [snip] I'm also interested trying to set up some VoIP stuff but I've yet to find any really suitable software. linphone should be available for debian. It won't switch

Re: yaml rule to stop suspending when using gps

2009-02-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Johny Tenfinger wrote: Now you can enable and disable auto-suspending and auto-dimming in shr-settings (under Power settings there are two toggles). That's the answer to a different question though. ___ Openmoko

Re: Introducing CellHunter

2009-02-23 Thread Al Johnson
As I understand it the reason for OSM changing license is that in some parts of the world copyright does not protect the content of a database because it is considered to be a collection of data not a creative work. To protect the database in those jurisdictions a contractual agreement is

Re: [SHR-Unstable] Cannot get ophonekitd to use SIM

2009-02-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 22 February 2009, The Digital Pioneer wrote: Hi. I just installed SHR unstable, and when I run ophonekitd, it dies with: Unknown SIM error: Antenna powered off or SIM not unlocked yet, 77 (dbus-glib-error-quark), code 32 SHR-Testing works fine, so what can I do to fix this? My SIM

Re: Need for application like PC Suite from Nokia?

2009-02-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 22 February 2009, Marcel wrote: I like the idea. Doing setup on the Neo is quite painful from time to time, especially due to the lack of a hardware quertz keyboard. It does work nicely with USB and bluetooth keyboards. ___ Openmoko

Re: [SHR unstable] bluez-utils bluez4

2009-02-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 23 February 2009, Jakob wrote: hi, when i try to install remoko on shr unstable opkg says this: Installing remoko (0.3.2) to root... Installing bluez-utils (3.33-r3) to root... Downloading http://shr.bearstech.com/shr-unstable/ipk//armv4t/bluez-utils_3.33-r3_armv4 t.ipk Collected

Re: Need for application like PC Suite from Nokia?

2009-02-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Alexander Mueller wrote: Excellent point. The Agenda PDA used this method of syncing or backing up. Well I use rsync a lot. But it is rather a one-way backup tool than a two way sync tool that takes care of collision resolving. Have you tried Unison? It does two

Re: OT: iPhone howto

2009-02-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, The Digital Pioneer wrote: Whaaat? iPhone touchscreen can't be used with a stylus?? What is it, heat sensitive or something? Capacitive. Doesn't work with a stylus, fingernail or gloves. Not good if you have particularly dry fingertips either. The G1 has the same

Re: GTA03 Touchscreen Capacitive (was Re: OT: iPhone howto)

2009-02-26 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 26 February 2009, Shawn Trash Thompson wrote: Ever used an iPhone? their screen is nice, responsive and the gui is designed where a stylus isn't needed. I actually was rather fond of the iPhone screen and was very unimpressed with the GTA02's touchscreen in comparison. I've tried

Re: GTA03 Touchscreen Capacitive (was Re: OT: iPhone howto)

2009-03-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 02 March 2009, Margo Koppelmann wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Johny Tenfinger seba.d...@gmail.com wrote: Now I know, that I won't want to buy GTA03, even if I had enough money (ok ok, if only i was some millionaire i would buy it, but until i'm not, there are other

Re: Feature overview out of the box SHR unstable distribution

2009-03-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Pander wrote: It is more that it is available via easy to controls, i.e. my mother could use it. Settings should be fine. it is where you go to make changes. Rename GSM to Phone, and GSM antenna to Flight mode (and swap on/off around) Flight

Re: Word processing application

2009-03-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Leonti Bielski wrote: Hi! I'm looking for some kind of word processing application. I want to use my Freerunner in a library so I would not have to bring laptop with me - only the keyboard. I've heard of AbiWord, but can't manage to find an ipk package for it. Also,

Re: [SHR-ustable] gprs is also unstable

2009-03-04 Thread Al Johnson
If you suffer from #1024 and haven't disabled deep sleep you will probably drop the connection on every reregistration. It may cause longer lasting problems with some networks too - after reregistration I couldn't get another connection for some time with O2 (UK) but didn't have problems with

Re: Another attempt at speeding up yaouh, with persistent connections

2009-03-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 05 March 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Fixing this in advance is a better approach - but I'd rather spend time on a much better fix using libcurl. That would speed yaouh up further also. But this have to wait until someone ports pycurl to the freerunner. No porting needed - pycurl is

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