Re: [brainstorm]Online contact sync

2009-10-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/18 Atilla Filiz atilla.fi...@gmail.com: Hello; I was thinking about storing my contact list online. I don't feel comfortable giving my contacts' phone numbers to google or someone else. Instead, we can open a repository(possibly svn/git based) to store contacts online. Before sending

Re: [brainstorm]Online contact sync

2009-10-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/18 Atilla Filiz atilla.fi...@gmail.com I don't know others but I occasionally switch distros and have multiple computers. I thought different people might be in the same condition. I actually don't how many people use Google contacts, but it's there. OK, so this is primarily

Re: SHR status

2009-10-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/18 Tony Berth tonybe...@googlemail.com: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm wrote: What date is your SHR-u from? I'm using one from August with some updates and I miss phone calls from time to time. Is there a new one that seems to have reliable

Re: [debian/fso] zhone+fso-abyss: some log snippets

2009-10-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/19 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: fsousaged. Apparantly something gets wrong along the code path. Please give me a link to the very image you have been testing this with, so I can try to reproduce this problem. no image, as there are no debian images. I guess you could make a

Re: My python + e program freeze after suspend

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/24 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com wrote: Can somebody try out, and confirm? It is pretty sad, nobody had 2 minutes to try it out. I'm sorry... I am planning to, but haven't had time yet...

Re: Multiple Distro's..

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/24 Aditya Gandhi aditya...@gmail.com: Hi guys, I'm expecting my Free Runner in a day or two I wish to know as to how many distributions can I Run side by side , It is very easy to run two: one on the internal flash and one of the first partition of the SD card, with Qi as the NOR

Re: Multiple Distro's..

2009-10-26 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/26 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com writes: It is very easy to run two: one on the internal flash and one of the first partition of the SD card, with Qi as the NOR bootloader.  Then pressing the power button alone will boot the SD distribution

Re: how to port a scheme interpreter to om?

2009-10-28 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/28 Shawn cit...@gmail.com: I have used the cross compiler arm-linux-gcc to compile guile but failed in Ah, the happy conjunction of my main free software interests... (I'm one of Guile's maintainers.) libtool problem. I tried compile 2 versions of guile(1.4 and 1.8.7) but got same

Re: how to port a scheme interpreter to om?

2009-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/28 Shawn cit...@gmail.com: Ah, the happy conjunction of my main free software interests...  (I'm one of Guile's maintainers.) wowo~it's pleasure to meet you here dude~ Likewise! checking for lt_dlinit in -lltdl... no configure: error: libltdl not found.  See README. OK, this

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/28 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de: Why do all of you insist on using scrolling as the only metaphor to present excerpts of large content? Given the physical size of the display and the hardware constraints (touchscreen jitter, for a start... not going to comment on the

Re: [QtMoko] Call quality

2009-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/29 Denis Johnson denis.john...@gmail.com: I'm not sure if this is characteristic of QtMoko or just bad luck call quality, however my previous experience with SHRU was fine. I wonder how all the distro guys decide what state files to include. Surely we don't need each distribution

Understanding accelerometer data

2009-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
I'm struggling to understand my accelerometer data. Here's what I see, opening and reading the /dev/input/event[2,3] files every 4 seconds, when my FR is flat on its back on the table. (event2 -36 54 198)(event3 -72 108 234) (event2 -36 54 198)(event3 -72 90 234) (event2 -36 54 198)(event3 -72

Re: Understanding accelerometer data

2009-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/29 Michael Tansella michael-tanse...@gmx.de: If the Freerunner is not moving (x^2+y^2+z^2)^(1/2) must be g. The values of the freerunner are in mg so it must be 1000. Your values are really strange. Do the x values never change? Not never, but they do seem reluctant to change. For

Re: Understanding accelerometer data

2009-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/29 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: It's certainly possible that I've just written my program wrong.  So yes, I'll try that script too. OK, I understand what was wrong with my program now. It was reopening the /dev/input/event[2,3] file before every read. It appears

Re: Understanding accelerometer data

2009-10-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/30 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: OK, I understand what was wrong with my program now.  It was reopening the /dev/input/event[2,3] file before every read. [...] FWIW, I've now added my corrected program (in Guile Scheme) to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki

Re: Understanding accelerometer data

2009-11-01 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/1 Nelson Castillo arhu...@freaks-unidos.net: Here I print a direction vector (ignoring Z). It goes from 0 to 100 (instead of 0.0 to 1.0) to avoid floating point. It updates rather fast. http://svn.arhuaco.org/svn/src/openmoko/accelerometers/dir.c If I only care about this vector I

Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-03 Thread Neil Jerram
Having just written an automatic screen rotation program (like omnewrotate), I'm now wondering about the best way of using it, so that everything Just Works the way that it should. In particular, I've realized now that - for many apps there is a preferred orientation (e.g. zhone and hex-a-hop),

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/7 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com: no. the proper way is to set properties on your window. How exactly does that (setting a property) happen though? Is it something that the app would normally do in its own startup code? (I presume yes.) For apps that don't already do this -

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/7 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org: I'm definitely not following you... I envision the following scenario according to what you say, could you please elaborate on why it wouldn't happen this way? My thinking is evolving with this discussion, but my current idea of the solution

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/7 Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com: I agree that window properties is the right way to implement that, but we need a way to get rotation preferences now, while that may be proposed and discussed as a standard for the future. Yes, exactly. So a couple of questions: * is it

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/7 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org: You have no solution for existing apps other than causing a full stop on rotation once you get the desired rotation (which is what I do for apps that work better on landscape). I imagine WM configuration for this, and a shelf gadget to make it

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/7 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com: On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:33:35 + Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com said: 2009/11/7 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com: no. the proper way is to set properties on your window. How exactly does that (setting a property) happen

Re: SIP Client

2009-11-10 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/10 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com: Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk writes: I had wondered if this might be possible. I've not looked at the idle time between packets to see whether we would get to spend a worthwhile time asleep though. From my quick googling it looks like

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-10 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/10 Warren Baird wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca: I meant that it should *constrain* the behaviour of rotation - more or less like omnewrotate behaves now, but skipping over the two 'incorrect' orientations. so if the app says 'landscape', it's still flip between xrandr -o 1 and xrandr -o

Re: [ALL?] gcompris on openmoko?

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/21 undrwater undrwa...@verizon.net: I'm wondering how difficult it might be to get gcompris working on the moko. Would any modifications need to be made for it to be useful on the screen? Seems to me touch screen is perfect for it. It's available in Debian, of course. I installed and

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/7 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: Thanks.  I think I'll look at adding this into the e17 WM. I have some code ready to share now. What would be the best way to do that - bearing in mind that the aim is to facilitate contributions and new packages for the Freerunner? If the E

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/23 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org: There's an illume2 project at enlightenment, perhaps a good spot for it? It has seen some action recently, perhaps thanks to Samsung's sponsoring? Yes, but I imagine that could be pretty unstable in the short term. For now, just to get the

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/23 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: For now, just to get the code out, I've created a project at gitorious: http://gitorious.org/enlightenment-for-openmoko-freerunner. For anyone who may take a look, I should say that there are still 2 big pieces missing: - Being notified

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-12-01 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/23 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: 2009/11/23 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: For now, just to get the code out, I've created a project at gitorious: http://gitorious.org/enlightenment-for-openmoko-freerunner. For anyone who may take a look, I should say

Re: Hi,

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/4 Jnaneshwar B.T. jnanesh...@lyrainfo.com: Hi all,    I am new to openmoko community.  I have recentely purchased Neo Freerunner hardware from distributors in India.   It is wonderful hardware software and most of the featuers are working well.  I would like to develop some

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different  from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a new efl based interface? Good question. For me the frustrating thing about

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/10 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net: Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different  from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a new efl based

Re: dbus deb with increased timeout

2009-12-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/12 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: hi, after hours of struggling with debian's djungle of ways to build a package i finally succeeded to cross compile dbus with an increased timeout. reason: for months now i was fighting with zhone taking several attempts (4 to 5 ususally, often at

Re: Good idea for other things - Was: Homemade USB gamepad (NeoPlay)

2009-12-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/12 Lothar Behrens lothar.behr...@lollisoft.de: I always need to fiddle the USB cable into the neo and this could then avoided. I used to think that. I eventually realised that the real problem was that I have to force charging at 500mA. Could that be the case for you too? Regards,

Re: dbus deb with increased timeout

2009-12-14 Thread Neil Jerram
45d0393cc9e8816ffaf9acd19b1fb30007c270c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:55:47 + Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Named entry points turnOnAntenna and handleAuth --- zhone |6 ++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/zhone b

Re: dbus deb with increased timeout

2009-12-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/15 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: i applied those patches right now. so far the pin dialog appears twice: once before powerring on antenna and once afterwards. if the second pin dialog is canceled, the phone button stays disabled. i i put in the pin even the second time all the

Re: dbus deb with increased timeout

2009-12-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/15 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: 2009/12/15 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: i applied those patches right now. so far the pin dialog appears twice: once before powerring on antenna and once afterwards. if the second pin dialog is canceled, the phone button stays disabled. i

Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-12-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/11/23 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: FWIW, as well as the discussed rotation support, I'd also like to - add a GPRS/PDP toggle to the GSM gadget - add a fast charge menu to the battery gadget - fix the battery gadget so that it it goes up to 100%. Just in case anyone is waiting

Re: Encryption, Cameras and Games

2009-12-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/25 Rashid r.kra...@tu-bs.de: Hi guys, Hi Rashid, Do you already own a Freerunner? I'm guessing not. Unfortunately I would advise that the available software is not yet stable enough for this kind of serious work. It's still quite common for people to sometimes miss calls, miss

Re: literki update

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/27 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: For those undecided, here are 2 screenshots. Thanks. I'm currently looking for a keyboard for texting with a finger, so the screenshots are very helpful. (I use Debian, and the matchbox-keyboard is fine for detailed work, but not when you want

Re: [shr-u] GPS not working

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/22 Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: Use settings/position and remove AGPS data - I suspect that it installs with a AGPS data file that by default doesnt suit your location - I cant get a lock without cleaning it out after install, then its fine. Apropos of that, I wonder why the

Re: [shr-u] GPS not working

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/27 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net: Neil Jerram wrote: Apropos of that, I wonder why the software doesn't attempt to get a fix both using and ignoring the AGPS data, simultaneously? The gps chip itself locates the satellites and get a fix and not the software. And the gps chip can only

Re: literki update

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/27 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: 2009/12/27 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com But I have to say, it's really ugly!  How do you manage to make the letters look so bad?  Is it because they are magnified from a font that isn't designed for such a large size? Also, given

Re: literki update

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/24 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: And here you can find the source code (thanks to Christof and Christian): http://git.senfdax.de/?p=literki;a=summary Unfortunately this repository is missing the source code for mymask.o, and because of that I can't build literki. (Which I'm

Re: literki update

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/27 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: The makefile needed an update, sorry for that. See if it works now. Many thanks, the build is successful now. Then a slight adjustment was needed to the font path, and trying out... Neil ___

Re: literki update

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/27 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: 2009/12/27 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: The makefile needed an update, sorry for that. See if it works now. Many thanks, the build is successful now. Then a slight adjustment was needed to the font path, and trying out... Well I'm

Re: [QtMoko/Debian] Python2.6 / AGTL

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/27 Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz: On Sunday 27 of December 2009 03:00:23 Dan Staley wrote: I couldn't seem to find an armv4 python2.6 package anywherehas anyone else tried to get this working?  Are there some other armv4 debian repos that I am missing? You can try from Debian

Re: literki update

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/28 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: 2009/12/27 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com However, when the keyboard isn't showing, it (literki) doesn't seem to pass mouse clicks through to the window underneath.  Do I need to be using Xglamo or xserver-xorg-server-glamo?  (I'm

[FSO] Activate GPRS more than once?

2009-12-27 Thread Neil Jerram
Can anyone with an FSO-based system activate GPRS more than once? i.e. ActivateContext, DeactivateContext, ActivateContext again. For me - on Debian, and using openmoko-panel-plugin to do the activation and deactivation - the first ActivateContext and DeactivateContext are fine, but the second

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-31 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/29 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Yes. Do you use FR as your primary PDA? Partly - i.e. reading my gmail with links2. Other email is elsewhere, and I don't do electronic calendaring or task tracking. What distribution you run most of the

Re: [FSO] Activate GPRS more than once?

2009-12-31 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/28 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de: I'm afraid this is a strange combination of a problem in Python, the Python glib bindings, and/or glib itself. When the ppp process gets closed, the supervising process (frameworkd in that case) hangs forever. I have not yet found a

[debian] openmoko-panel-plugin fix for 500mA charging

2010-01-01 Thread Neil Jerram
For the brave band of Debian users... openmoko-panel-plugin has a bug which prevents the button to force 500mA charging from working. I've described the bug, and the fix for it, in detail here: http://projects.openmoko.org/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=298group_id=207atid=867. Regards,

[debian, others?] Partial workaround for GPRS connection dropping

2010-01-01 Thread Neil Jerram
I've used GPRS a lot in the last week, and noticed that sometimes the connection would drop for no apparent reason - in the senses that (1) internet access stops working, and (2) if you do ifconfig at a terminal, there isn't any ppp interface listed. From the frameworkd log, one cause of this was

[debian] auxlaunch enhancement to use .desktop files

2010-01-01 Thread Neil Jerram
this in the official auxlaunch, please feel free. Regards, Neil From 1d30d6ee0486b8e37329682c333a45366f1cdf37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:24:12 + Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Prepare place to add code for processing a desktop

[debian, FSO?] GPRS modem noise in incoming phone call?

2010-01-01 Thread Neil Jerram
I answered a call while using GPRS, and was shocked to hear (what I presume was) the GPRS modem noise in the phone call audio! I'm not sure if I've had an incoming call before while using GPRS, so it's possible that this is a reproducible configuration problem. Is there a basic setting somewhere

Ringtone volume and latency

2010-01-01 Thread Neil Jerram
In the survey thread, a couple of responses mentioned missing calls because of ringtone problems - which I take to be either volume too low, or too much latency, or both. Here are some thoughts on that. 1) In case this isn't already well known... FSO actually does nothing at all with the volume

Re: Ringtone volume and latency

2010-01-02 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/2 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: Just a couple of thoughts - missing calls is rarely to do with volume and not hearing the ring (I have changed the standard tones though), and more to do with crashes. Ah, OK, I didn't realise that. (I don't yet get enough incoming mobile calls

Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-02 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/2 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de: In the name of the FSO team, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! Happy New Year to you too, and thanks for all your work on FSO! And Happy New Year to all list readers! Best wishes, Neil

Re: Navigation

2010-01-03 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/3 Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com: Happy new year everyone! If you want to look at progress, here is first version of MC Navi: http://www.mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Newsfile=articleid=116 This is nice news, but what is it with the sorry, no source code yet thing? Mike, I don't

Re: Navigation

2010-01-03 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/3 Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com: This means that it is preview and not releasable yet. This makes no sense. How can the binary be releasable, but the source code not? I know what it free software - but it is up to author, when he makes releases. And if he makes it at all. I agree

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/4 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com: c'mon, you know he meant well Yes indeed. I apologize for raising this issue on Mike's thread; I should have started a new thread and so not have singled out Mike in particular. Best wishes, Neil

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/4 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.d...@gmail.com: I didn't try bluetooth, but WiFi just works here with plain wpa_supplicant, with open, WPA and WEP networks. Is plain wpa_supplicant the default SHR setup? Last time I checked, I thought it wasn't. I've always wondered why not, as none of

Experimental technique for testing call audio quality?

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Jerram
From the recent survey, it seems that several people are still experiencing bad call audio quality; and I've personally had some bad reports of this recently (and my phone has been buzz-fixed). One of the problems, with trying to work on this, is finding a way to test audio quality repeatedly

Fwd: [Debian] Re: Touchscreen not working

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Jerram
[forgot to CC the list...] -- Forwarded message -- From: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com Date: 2010/1/5 Subject: Re: [Debian] Re: Touchscreen not working To: Steven Jones sjo...@enrgies.com 2010/1/5 Steven Jones sjo...@enrgies.com: So it seems, downgrading hal packages

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/5 Viktor Lindberg l...@leth.yi.org: The Open Source Movement have instead choosen to abandom the ethical principle of freedom and only promote the use of Open Source software that might not be libre (free as in freedom), which is not the same idea as the Free Software movement has.

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/5 Viktor Lindberg l...@leth.yi.org: I don't wish to be rude but you're not actually contradicting anything i'm saying afaict Actually I think I am a bit. You said Not just open for anyone to examine as is the case with Open Source, which sounds to me like you are saying that people

Re: why GPS is not in resources list ? (devs see framewrokd log)

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/5 dehqan65 dehqa...@gmail.com: This is frameworkd.log http://pastebin.com/me4626ff Traceback : KeyError: '/dev/ttySAC1'  gpsdev = globals()[devname]( controller.bus, channel ) What software are you using on your Freerunner? Googling shows a few cases of the ogsmd factory method

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-06 Thread Neil Jerram
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

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-08 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/8 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com: What I fear about N900 is that it always stays as one single high-end model to nokia. There were always single model in the past: n700, n800, n810 Huh? That looks like 3 models to me. And the N900 makes 4. (Note that n700 should be

[debian] minor enhancements

2010-01-11 Thread Neil Jerram
I recently announced some minor enhancements to zhone, openmoko-panel-plugin and auxlaunch. FWIW I've now pushed these to gitorious: http://gitorious.org/stuff-for-openmoko-freerunner/debian-usr-bin and http://gitorious.org/stuff-for-openmoko-freerunner/debian-usr-share-pyshared They include a

Re: [debian] minor enhancements

2010-01-11 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/12 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: 2010/1/12 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: - In zhone, keep current SMS selected when returning from the SMS display screen. You could try to submit that to upstream [1] as well. I regard all of my patches as submitted upstream, by virtue

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/8 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: If you want to have a quick grab of the new kernel for Debian (or any distro that loads uImage from a file), I put my compilation of kernel and modules to http://users.tkk.fi/~tajyrink/moko/kernel_20100108_nodebug_nopreempt/ I've just installed

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/15 Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be: Fabian Schölzel wrote: On Thursday 14. January 2010 22:15:16, Brolin Empey Empey wrote: I agree with you, Fabian.  However, I think you should use “he or she” instead of using masculine pronouns as if they were sex/gender-neutral. I had a bad feeling

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/15 pike pike-openm...@kw.nl: Hi Yes, or “One should do as he or she likes.”. Or use they: People can do as they like I usually use s/he. I wish there was a form for his/er (her/is), too... There is. It's their. (I think that rather supports my suggestion; don't you?)

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/15 Jan Girlich vollk...@cryptobitch.de: Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 10:04 + schrieb Neil Jerram: 2010/1/15 pike pike-openm...@kw.nl: I wish there was a form for his/er (her/is), too... There is.  It's their. Difference is pike is using singular, you're using plural, Neil

Re: [debian/fso] how to enable wlan again?

2010-01-16 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/16 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: after upgrading to timo's improved kernel a few days ago, i'd like to test wlan again -- but can't recall the exact steps. doing qdbus --system org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy WiFi

Re: [debian] illume/e17: relict after killing X/illume

2010-01-16 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/16 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: every time after switching to a runlevel w/o X there's still one process left: /usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/battery/linux-gnueabi-arm-ver-svn-05/batget 64 and it's not even reused when restarting X, but a new one will be created. i am pretty

Re: [debian/fso] how to enable wlan again?

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/16 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: looks, like the neither the modules nor the kernel itself do contain the ar6000 driver necessary ... -- You have to load 2 modules to enable wifi  - s3cmci and ar6000. as stated above, at least ar6000 is simply missing. I have no sign of ar6000

Re: [debian/fso] how to enable wlan again?

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/18 Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: check /proc/config.gz to see whats been done. Thanks: debian-gta02:/usr/bin# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep AR6 CONFIG_AR6000_WLAN=y # CONFIG_AR6000_WLAN_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_AR6000_WLAN_RESET is not set Neil

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/14 Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com: I've just installed Timo's kernel from http://users.tkk.fi/~tajyrink/moko/kernel_20100108_nodebug_nopreempt/uImage-moredrivers-GTA02_oma-andy-2a04ce8203d7d0f1.bin, One more possible issue with this kernel. The boot messages always say

Re: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/18 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com writes: [21474539.53] pcf50633-rtc pcf50633-rtc: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock Can't find this from logs here. Does cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/since_epoch fail also? Yes: debian

Re: Freerunner can now play Ogg video

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/19 c_c cchan...@yahoo.com: Hi,  I'm using timo's .29 faster kernel. I had the gsm not registering with this kernel using fso-abyss. Somehow, in my case (though I've has #1024 and buzz fix applied) using gsm0710muxd always works. That is consistent with my experience. I haven't yet

Re: [QtMoko] How to update TangoGPS maps?

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/19 Francesco de Virgilio fradev...@gmail.com: neo:~# dpkg -i yaouh_0.5.1.4_all.opk Selecting previously deselected package yaouh. (Reading database ... 15461 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking yaouh (from yaouh_0.5.1.4_all.opk) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent

Re: OT: Re: gender-neutral English usage

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/19 Margo keegiv...@gmail.com: So if someone says something about one certain person and you don't know who is he/she talking about and if that person is male or female, then you can ask who are they?? Hmm, I'm not sure. I think I'd say who is that?. Neil

Re: debian/fso on freerunner

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/20 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not exactly. zhone as such has been updated only to ensure compatibility with current e, but someone (neil? timo?) offered to take care of patching zhone to enhance functionality. Yes, that's me. I'm accumulating zhone patches here:

Re: debian/fso on freerunner

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/20 Yoric Kotchukov yori...@yandex.ru: debian - it is certainly good, but on FR without the phone is sad ((( But Debian has working phone function. For me, at least, phone, SMS and GPRS are all working. Not to mention GPS and Wifi. Of course there are bugs and occasional hangs and

Re: debian/fso on freerunner

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/20 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de: Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 11:45 + schrieb Neil Jerram: IMO Debian will eventually assimilate everything, including SHR. (Unless there is some major advantage of the OE build and packaging system that I haven't understood yet

Re: debian/fso on freerunner

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/20 Yoric Kotchukov yori...@yandex.ru: For me, zhone absolutely not working. Since a few people seem to have had trouble getting Debian going recently, and also because I'd like to have a backup for myself, I'm wondering if it would be useful to make a .tar.gz of my rootfs, and make that

Re: Experimental technique for testing call audio quality?

2010-01-22 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/22 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no: To test the quality of analog components (mic, amplifier, speaker): * Record voice (or test tones) to a file. Transfer the file to a   computer with a good soundcard, to check quality. * Get a sound file of known quality, transfer it to the FR.

Re: Experimental technique for testing call audio quality?

2010-01-22 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/22 Xavier Cremaschi omega.xav...@gmail.com: Neil Jerram a écrit : The best I've found so far is to call my work voicemail, speak to it, and get it to play my recording back to me.  But that's still costing a bit.  Any better ideas? Same thing here, but with my own number. In one shot

Re: RTC failure in January (was: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner)

2010-01-24 Thread Neil Jerram
From aec6c6be9cadd54f432ffd2b65e8dce37fee78b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:23:52 + Subject: [PATCH] Fix for failure to read RTC following kernel upgrade in January For explanation see http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community

Re: Bluetooth fail (poll?)

2010-01-24 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/24 Ian Stephen i...@tradeswest.ca: The jurisdiction where I reside recently implemented a law banning handheld devices while driving.  I bought a Jabra BT125 because someone reported success with it and the Freerunner.  I've gone over the SHR manual web page and the manually using

Re: [QtMoko] hwclock issue

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/26 Joif fdvj...@vodafone.it: Hi! I'm using QtMoko v16b on the NAND and I have other distro on the uSD. My time is GMT+1 and when I have to choose the correct time on QtMoko I set it on the Paris time zone. But when I use another distro I see that the time reported is exactly GMT not

Re: Latest SHR-?

2010-01-29 Thread Neil Jerram
On 29 January 2010 02:15, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: shr-testing is probably the most usable out-of-the-box at the moment. Only a few annoyances rather than show stoppers. I tried shr-t again a couple of days ago (after getting annoyed with the unreliability of my Debian...).

Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-02-06 Thread Neil Jerram
On 6 February 2010 21:16, Ed Falk f...@efalk.org wrote: I bought my Freerunner over a year ago.  On the first boot, it made a very loud raucus sound which, as far as I know, blew out the speaker, as I have never heard an undistorted sound come out of it. [...] Hmm, sounds like a few possible

Re: MC Navi released

2010-02-12 Thread Neil Jerram
On 12 February 2010 07:50, Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com wrote: Yes, I used reprepro too, but the result uploaded to FTP. May be I was missed something when uploading. is there a way to sync local directory to FTP? lftp can do that. It has a mirror command. Neil

Re: MC Navi released

2010-02-12 Thread Neil Jerram
On 12 February 2010 09:22, David Garabana Barro da...@garabana.com wrote: Is there any opkg of your program fot trying it on SHR? I haven't done it myself, but I've often heard people say that opkg can install a .deb Neil ___ Openmoko

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi stopped working

2010-02-13 Thread Neil Jerram
On 12 February 2010 17:43, vancel35 van...@thespazcat.com wrote: On a recent update/upgrade, I lost my ability to see wifi connections.  [...] Sounds to me like a missing or not working kernel module - but I'm totally guessing. Have you also asked on the shr-users mailing list? Regards,

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-15 Thread Neil Jerram
On 15 February 2010 14:22, Ben Thompson b...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hi I recently installed NWA on latest SHR-U and it fails to start up with the following error :- Fatal Error: Cannot parse configuration file error occurred while parsing element on line 1, column 1 [...] r...@om-gta02

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-02-16 Thread Neil Jerram
On 6 January 2010 11:11, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: line.  (I plan to make a donation shortly.) Finally getting around to this - but I don't see a Donate button anywhere on the tangogps website. Is there a donation mechanism? Thanks, Neil

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