Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

e limiting where the kernel can write bytes on the SD card which will lead to uneven wear on it. In future with a COW SSD aware wear-leveling filsystem like btrfs a swap file may end up being more SD friendly as the filesystem may (hopefully!) balance out those writes across the card. cheers,

Re: Is there an echo-free distro?

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 3:17:11 am Gabriel wrote: > Hackable1 is echo free no ? Yup, that was what inspired me to do the QtE patch as that showed just how good the audio quality could be! -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature

Re: Is there an echo-free distro?

appear, so it'd be nice if those minor changes could get incorporated into it when it finally does appear. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wik

Re: MP3 to OGG converter

rce OGG format. . It is a Python script that simply binds together the various decoders and oggenc making it easier for the user to convert his/her music files. It also supports ID3 tags. Homepage: http://jak-linux.org/projects/dir2ogg/ -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbou

Re: for sale: openmoko phone

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 9:36:39 am jamal wrote: > So, dumb question: whats the s/ware fix? The following (undocumented) AT command to the GSM modem: AT%N0187 -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For m

Re: Openmoko keyboard mockup

secrets, they get to lock them in > a government-provided vault. Where everyone can read them and the protection expires after a time. Don't get me wrong, I think patents are bad, especially these days where the techniques are often obsolete before the patent expires. :-

Re: [2007.2] flashing problem another potential solution

cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

Re: [2007.2] flashing problem another potential solution

ed. what uboot does one use for > debian? You can probably stick to the version you're using already. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info se

Re: LWN.net reviews android dev phone

finding I really do need physical keys to be happy with a phone). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Descrip

Re: [2007.2] flashing problem another potential solution

(Evolution data server) Personally I'm dual booting my Freerunner now with Qt Extended 4.4.2 in flash as the work-a-day phone and Hackable-1 off the SD card as an experiment. cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signatu

Re: stupid networking question

gt; commands just to get my phone -trying to avoid the term "expensive brick" > here ;-) - connected to the internet and ready to receive updates. I've got my main desktop set up for that already, but that's running 8.04. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://w

Re: stupid networking question

I seem to remember some people commenting that with Intrepid (8.10) that stopped working, though I've not attempted to use this on my Intrepid laptop yet (I just do the ifconfig by hand). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may c

Re: [Qt Extended 4.4.2] [PATCH] Added echo suppression fixes for the OpenMoko Neo phone.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 4:11:15 pm Chris Samuel wrote: > So I went back to the drawing board and changed it to use the AT%N0187 > command to enable both noise reduction and echo suppression in one hit I've posted the patch *and* the compiled version of the resulting libneovendor.so library

[Qt Extended 4.4.2] [PATCH] Added echo suppression fixes for the OpenMoko Neo phone.

sion and noise reduction in separate AT commands which might result in the second command negating the first one. It also only set them for outgoing calls. This new version uses the AT command to set both echo suppression and noise reduction at the same time as well as setting them on initi

Re: Openmoko keyboard mockup

ral of the story - never ever read patents, or anything about them! [1] IANAL, batteries not included, etc.. cheers, Chris [1] - which is ironic given that they were invented to encourage people to publish their ideas rather than keep them secret. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ :

Re: Dying battery

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 modem, not a kernel fix. -- Chris Samu

Re: Using mplayer with seme desktop symbols for streaming stations and wlan :-)

d something just to deal with a user getting disconnected (SIGHUP) but not for ^C (SIGTERM) then you're better off sending that program SIGHUP rather than SIGTERM. Not to mention submitting a patch make it handle SIGTERM too.. ;-) Fortunately mplayer does the right thing in this case. -

Re: Using mplayer with seme desktop symbols for streaming stations and wlan :-)

ch it (or ignore it) I don't know.. ;-) cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: Cellphone sizes

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:57:00 pm Ben Wilson wrote: > However I guess a phone that size might not appeal to everybody? Correct, the Neo is probably about as large as I'd want to go volume wise (I'd trade off depth for width happily). -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/

Re: How do you like to read a phone number?

ely sensible. Sigh.. cheers, Chris (maintainer of the uk.telecom FAQ around then) [1] - http://tinyurl.com/7uyqc4 (goes to a uk.telecom posting on Google groups from 1993) [2] - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n14061243 -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.

Re: [FSO/SHR/debian] SMS location app

rather than betray your location). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is

Re: merry christmas

On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:12:52 am Michele Renda wrote: > Merry Cristmas - Buon Natale - Craciun Fericit Nadolig llawen! Merry Newtonmas [1] too.. cheers, Chris [1] - http://www.paeps.cx/weblog/activism/newtonmas.html -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This em

Re: [FSO/SHR/debian] SMS location app

y programme. ;-) Can I suggest that authenticating messages with OpenPGP signed (optionally encrypted too) messages might be a good idea ? That way you know that not just anyone can find out where you are when they wish.. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This ema

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

s reason.. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

Re: No more optimization team

7;s the phone going into speakerphone mode by itself and then causing feedback. I (hopefully!) solved that issue by moving the alsa config file for the speaker phone out of the way and symlinking the gsmhandset file to the original filename. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbou

Re: [SHR] Question about contact list

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:36:19 pm Julien Cassignol wrote: > There's no contact database, as we use frameworkd. So right now the > contact "database" is your SIM. We're waiting for opimd integration to > work further on this topic. Thanks for that Julien

[SHR] Question about contact list

Hi folks, I was pondering trying SHR but looking around on the Wiki and the SHR Trac I couldn't see any information as to whether it supports importing vcard files into its contact database.Can anyone clue me in please ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamue

Re: No more optimization team

but I haven't > tried to force calypso to never deep sleep. FWIW I can receive calls when suspected with Qt Extended. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.o

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

My writing wasn't accurate enough.  Sorry about that. Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated! -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP sig

Re: [debian] choice of root filesystem type?

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:24:30 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are there other fs types that are more suitable, and work with debian? For the future I'd keep an eye on btrfs, it has an "ssd" mount option amongst other things (including checksumming your data on disk, snapshots,

Re: [QtExtended] Duplicate SMS's (was Re: Newbie: Converting a brick to a phone)

get the issue if I have undeleted SMS's left on the phone. Given I'm not a big phone user that's not hard to handle but I can imagine if you're doing lots of texting then you'd be in strife. :-( -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may

Re: Newbie: Converting a brick to a phone

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 4:38:45 am Damien Thébault wrote: >  * The GPS doesn't work Odd, it does on mine (QT 4.4.2), just need to give it enough time to get a lock though. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file

[QtExtended] Duplicate SMS's (was Re: Newbie: Converting a brick to a phone)

7 om-gta02 user.notice Qtopia: Messaging : Could not execute query "deleteMessages insert removal records query" Dec 9 18:47:27 om-gta02 user.notice Qtopia: Messaging : 3651 Unable to removeMessages - code: 19 Very odd! -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC T

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

diction" in the > handwriting input style? This should do it (not tried it myself yet): http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qtopia_/_Qt_Extended_on_FreeRunner#Internationalization cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP si

Re: Bounties?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 9:05:42 pm arne anka wrote: > not everybody uses qtopia. I didn't mean to imply that they did, just that it exists. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info s

Re: Bounties?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 8:02:04 pm Erland Lewin wrote: > One thing I'd be prepared to pay for is some sort of handwriting > recognition or grafitti-style input. That's already in QT Extended 4.4.2. I can't use it, but it's all a matter of taste! -- Chris Samuel

Re: [Qt Extended] Disabling predictive text ?

- "Thomas Bertani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just remove the dictionary files in /opt/Nokia/Qtopia/etc/dict/ Thanks Thomas, Tomas and Paul! Now I'm going to have to buy a USB cable to do that, I managed to leave mine behind in Australia! cheers, Chris --

[Qt Extended] Disabling predictive text ?

e for doing an SMS, but it seems to only do predictive text with no way to just be able to type what you want.. Anyone got any clues ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmoko community mailing list comm

Re: Buzzing

- "Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Samuel wrote: > > Hi Chris, Hiya, > > I'm puzzled about this buzzing, is this something that the > > other party only hears or are you hearing this yourself ? > > For the other party, and tweaki

Re: Buzzing

ced a buzzing on my end of my phone (GTA02, rev 5 I think, purchased July/August in the UK). I've been running Qt Extended 4.3.3-snapshot and 4.4.2 if that helps. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmok

Re: RESEND(Wrong Thread): IMAGE/MP3 licensing issue.

mong the community. FWIW as this was publicly announced and archived I submitted it as a Groklaw NewsPick (who knows, maybe PJ will pick it up as a main article) and blogged about it. I'll also pass it onto an open source friendly journalist friend of mine. Every little helps.. -- C

Re: RESEND(Wrong Thread): IMAGE/MP3 licensing issue.

That's why I said "as much as anyone can know these days". I have no illusions about submarine patents, etc.. Agree wholeheartedly on the response! -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmoko communit

Re: RESEND(Wrong Thread): IMAGE/MP3 licensing issue.

format that didn't risk (as much as anyone can know these days) such lawsuits in the first place.. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: RESEND(Wrong Thread): IMAGE/MP3 licensing issue.

mp3 patents. Most of # them paid the license fee, adding to the manufacturing costs # of consumer electronics. That made Alcatel’s attorney tell # the US jury: "We invented it and everybody else is making # money off of it." More trouble than it's worth I think. So glad we've got O

Re: [Qt Extended] [RFC] Patch for comments *only* to enable echo suppression in 4.4.2

- "Chris Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - "Damien Thébault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, Sorry *Damien*! I blame it on the jet lag, this is my third timezone in 4 days.. Chris (now in Austin, Texas) -- Chris Samuel : h

Re: [Qt Extended] [RFC] Patch for comments *only* to enable echo suppression in 4.4.2

- "Damien Thébault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Daniel, > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:35, Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > So take a look at what I've done and comment on it please. > > First, I think that the patch for the he

Re: [Qt Extended] Mapping Demo (was Re: [FSO] Stability and other problems)

obably the safest thing to do then is not use them.. :-( -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [shr] SHR image released

nded with both Qtopia (4.3.3 snapshot) and QT Extended (4.4.2). -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

[Qt Extended] [RFC] Patch for comments *only* to enable echo suppression in 4.4.2

on't know C++ (just B and C) 3) I've no idea if what I've done covers all the necessary points it needs to be set at.. 4) I don't want to risk destroying anyone elses phone! So take a look at what I've done and comment on it please. Just be gentle.. cheers! Chris "dam

[Qt Extended] Mapping Demo (was Re: [FSO] Stability and other problems)

is there to be hacked with.. ;-) cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [QT Extended] Observersation on QtE 4.4.2

t had issues with it coming out of suspend (yet). Not tried to use Wifi with it. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [QT Extended] Observersation on QtE 4.4.2

} control.6 { comment.access 'read write' @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ comment.range '0 - 3' iface MIXER name 'Mic2 Capture Volume' - value 0 + value 1 } control.49 { comm

Re: [QT Extended] Observersation on QtE 4.4.2

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 7:19:05 am Chris Samuel wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 2:23:03 am Kishore wrote: > > > As is a classic case, I missed the attachment! ;) > > Thanks for that, I'll play with it today. Works rather nicely, thanks! -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.

Re: [QT Extended] Observersation on QtE 4.4.2

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Re: [QT Extended] Observersation on QtE 4.4.2

ame issue with the newer image so I'll have to go dig through the archives to find that (only been on this list a short time, though I've had the phone since September), thanks for the pointer! Anyone have a link handy ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : M

Re: [QT Extended] Observersation on QtE 4.4.2

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:10:52 pm Chris Samuel wrote: > In fact *incoming* calls sound like they're using the external speaker by > default (and hence get lots of feedback), in contrast to outgoing ones that > sound just great. I've just tested that and it is indeed the c

Re: [QT Extended] Observersation on QtE 4.4.2

ey're using the external speaker by default (and hence get lots of feedback), in contrast to outgoing ones that sound just great. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For mor

[QtExtended] Synchronizing contacts from Kontact in KDE4 ?

supports MS Outlook on Windoze.. :-( http://doc.trolltech.com/qtextended4.4/qtopiadesktop/over-desktop- synchronization-1.html Anyone know of a way of (ab)using this (or any other system) to sync to and from Kontact ? cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: QtExtended 4.4.2 : GPRS

I was in the UK the Network Manager packages pulled in the mobile-broadband-provider-info in. http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/intrepid/mobile-broadband-provider-info NetworkManager works out of the box on that laptop with a Three 3G modem. :-) Might be a handy package for OM/QE, etc.. cheer

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