Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Ben Wong writes: > By the way, the slowest part of the process was rebooting the > FreeRunner between each SIM. I didn't want to risk my FreeRunner by > hot-swapping the SIM (and SD card since that's in the way). Does > anyone know if it would have been safe to do that? When the calypso is off

Re: [hw] bluetooth not working (gta02)

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Fertser
Petr Vanek writes: > seems like my bt stopped working. no matter the distro, > fso running or not, even turning it on manually i get no device shown. > > echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-bt.0/power_on > echo 0 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-bt.0/reset > > r...@om-gta02 ~ $ hci

Re: SIP Client

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fertser
Al Johnson writes: > On Tuesday 10 November 2009, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Al Johnson writes: >> > On Monday 09 November 2009, Eric Smith wrote: >> >> Meanwhile, I want to use the freerunner as a WIFI connected >> >> SIP client. No need to make cellular c

Re: SIP Client

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fertser
Al Johnson writes: > On Monday 09 November 2009, Eric Smith wrote: >> Meanwhile, I want to use the freerunner as a WIFI connected >> SIP client. No need to make cellular calls or do *anything* >> else than VOIP. > > Your battery won't last long in this case because you can't suspend and still >

Re: Free runner disassembly guide

2009-11-07 Thread Paul Fertser
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:39:33PM -0800, RANJAN wrote: > >I don't think anyone ever tried. If you do, please share the results. > > Attached are the pics of LCD opened (still the touch layer is to be separated > from the backlit). Good pics you've got there but i'm afraid that being attached to t

Re: Free runner disassembly guide

2009-11-07 Thread Paul Fertser
e: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Paul Fertser <[1]fercer...@gmail.com> wrote: > RANJAN <[2]infi...@gmail.com> writes: > > Is there a free runner disassemble guide? > > If you search the wiki for Neo1973 (aka gta01) disassembly guide, > you'll fi

Re: Free runner disassembly guide

2009-11-07 Thread Paul Fertser
RANJAN writes: > Is there a free runner disassemble guide? If you search the wiki for Neo1973 (aka gta01) disassembly guide, you'll find what you need. The instructions are the same for both gta01 and gta02. > Also was any one able the open the LCD and separate it into Touch > panel,Backlit and

Re: Some questions about android on Freerunner

2009-11-07 Thread Paul Fertser
a dehqan writes: > 3 - Problem is that : our religion Eslam says you can use a person code > while he/she allows you , > now There are codes and wiki and .. on Google host .Even google is not > owner of codes , Host > pertains to google . So using that address and host is not possibl

Re: Some questions about android on Freerunner

2009-11-05 Thread Paul Fertser
a dehqan writes: > 3 - Problem is that : our religion Eslam says you can use a person > code while he/she allows you , now There are codes and wiki and > .. on Google host .Even google is not owner of codes , Host pertains > to google . So using that address and host is not possible for > moslems

Re: [wikireader]Suggestions for next steps on software

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Fertser
David Reyes Samblas Martinez writes: > 2009/10/30 Paul Fertser : >> David Reyes Samblas Martinez writes: >>> *First and prioritary, >>> allow have multiple languages on same sdcard >> >> TBH i can't really understand the desire to have encyclopedic art

Re: [All] Black Screen of Death - Won't resume from standby

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Fertser
"Steven **" writes: > I know I'm not the only one that sees it. How are others dealing with > these random lock-ups? Saw that several times. It just doesn't resume, obviously a kernel (probably but unlikely bootloader) problem. It'd be nice to reproduce it with ramconsole or a real console attac

Re: [wikireader]Suggestions for next steps on software

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, David Reyes Samblas Martinez writes: > *First and prioritary, > allow have multiple languages on same sdcard TBH i can't really understand the desire to have encyclopedic articles written in other languages. It's encyclopedia, not literature after all! Why not concentrate on correctness and

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Paul Fertser
Marcel writes: >> > - graphics in general are far too light, most colors become whiteish >> > - colored stripes horizontally over the whole display, but are invisible >> > on screenshots (naturally) - the same as above, but photographed: >> > http://d-a300.selfip.net/files/shr-today-qvga.jpg >> >

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Marcel writes: > I tried to got to qvga for graphics performance testing about a week > ago. This is needed (tested on SHR's 2.6.29-rc3): > echo "qvga-normal" > /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi2.0/state > xrandr -s 240x320 > > To return to vga: > echo "normal" > /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi2.0/state > xrandr

Re: Multiple Distro's..

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Neil Jerram writes: > 2009/10/24 Aditya Gandhi : >> 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 a

[SHR] Default deep sleep mode (was: Re: [fso based] Resource Allocation)

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Fertser
"Boris Stender" writes: > And as I am already writing to the community I've one more question > concerning #2^10 > > 5) Why is ti_calypso_deep_sleep = "never" used by default on SHR > instead of "auto"? Is there a problem with the recamping detection > algorithm/procedure? It's not exactly relia

Re: community Digest, Vol 152, Issue 30

2009-10-10 Thread Paul Fertser
flecktor writes: > In reply to this post by Matthias Apitz > I was able to disable/re-enable wifi with following lines, I did > however not have the time to check the impact on battery life > > # using Atheros wmiconfig command to disable wlan > ./wmiconfig -i eth0 --wlan disable > > # To re-

Re: WiFi-Tool (or GPRS-Tool modified)

2009-10-06 Thread Paul Fertser
Esteban Monge writes: >     def wifi_on(self, button): >         os.system("mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.odeviced > /org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/WiFi > org.freesmartphone.Resource.Enable") Are you sure you know exactly what FSO resources concept is about and have you seen FSO_Resources

Re: WiFi-Tool (or GPRS-Tool modified)

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Fertser
Esteban Monge writes: > Hello I  readed this page: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FSO_Resources > > You suggest use the command > > fsoraw -r WiFi For shell scripts, yes. For your own programs you can call RequestResource and ReleaseResource directly. HTH -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.o

Re: No wireless in Debian Sid

2009-10-02 Thread Paul Fertser
Sebastian Reichel writes: > dbus-send --system --dest=org.freesmartphone.odeviced --type=method_call > --print-reply /org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/WiFi > org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerControl.SetPower int32:1 FYI SetPower is an internal low-level method not supposed to be used in

Re: Qi doesn't read my /boot/append-GTA02

2009-10-02 Thread Paul Fertser
Vasco Névoa writes: > I'm booting from Flash, not SDcard. > Shouldn't the /boot/append file work the same? If it doesn't, where > are the kernel parameters defined? Qi can't read jffs2, in this case kernel parameters are hardcoded. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.h

Re: [SHR-U] Get imei number without sim card

2009-09-29 Thread Paul Fertser
Mickael Labrousse writes: > I'ld like to get, with a command line, the IMEI number of my Freerunner > (running SHR-U). But I don't have a sim card in it, so is it possible to > talk to gsmd ? Alternatively, you can find imei on factory nand partition. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/

Re: recommendations for headset or 3.5mm adapter

2009-09-28 Thread Paul Fertser
Stefan Buschmann writes: > So, would it be possible to solder a wire like this? > > - 1 x 2.5mm > to > - 2 x 3.5mm (one for standard earphone, one for standard microphone) > > That way I could use standard earphones or a PC-headset, which would be > very nice. And given the configuration of the p

Re: Bluetooth headsets

2009-09-28 Thread Paul Fertser
Jim Morris writes: > Paul Fertser wrote: >> Jim Morris writes: >>> As far as I know QTMoko/QTE currently has no support for the bluez4 >>> stuff that is needed to connect gsm audio to bluetooth. >> >> There's nothing bluetooth-specific abo

Re: Bluetooth headsets

2009-09-28 Thread Paul Fertser
Jim Morris writes: > As far as I know QTMoko/QTE currently has no support for the bluez4 > stuff that is needed to connect gsm audio to bluetooth. There's nothing bluetooth-specific about loading a statefile (and applying some workarounds). And the only bluez4-specific call to actually activate

Bluetooth headsets (was: Re: QtMoko v12)

2009-09-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Kahless writes: > - Which Headset do you use? My Headset ("Bluetrek Tattoo") does not > give me any sound. I can pair and connect it, but while phoning, theres > just a (like no line) Buzz/Static-Noise. Hm, sounds just like the one i tried to use. Please read the wiki page Manually_using_bluet

Re: QtMoko v12

2009-09-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak writes: > Also battery indicator should be now fixed. It was showing wrong values > after a few suspend cycles because of incorrectly reported value in > sysfs. Do you mean it's the same issue with reading nonsense from sysfs nodes when battery driver returns -ENODEV? I wonder if it's

Re: CONFIG_ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER troubles

2009-09-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak writes: > we had quite big troubles with andy-tracking kernels that have > CONFIG_ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER option enabled. I think since android folks need some custom tweaks to the kernel anyway, it wouldn't be much harm by disabling it. Moreover .31 that Lars is preparing most prob

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Paul Fertser
"Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" writes: >> To a user, it might look like this: >> - U-boot wasn't working correctly with newer (bigger) kernels, so >> the developer(s) abandoned it >> - instead they created Qi to be newer, better, faster and so on >> - Qi isn't living up to promises for users >> >> I

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Dave Ball writes: ... > There's a philosophical difference between the two projects, and I think > Qi's approach is much better suited to this kind of hardware, than > u-boot could ever be (with trunk, or with the existing gripes resolved). Great thanks for this clear and complete explanation.

Re: HOWTO: Sharing SHR-U GPRS to *buntu laptop

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Fertser
Jeffrey Ratcliffe writes: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:17:33PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: >> I got some help at irc setting things up so I thougt I'd share it with you. > > Thanks for doing this. I have been looking for exactly such > instructions. There is a wiki page entitled "tethering" with

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Fertser
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: > And in fact if anybody of those talking about bootmenu, multiboot and > such really needed it he would have done it himself long time ago. I > bet trying and tweaking all distros including Qtopia, Qtmoko, Android, > H:1 etc etc took them 10x time require

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:36:43AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: >> > Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or >> > it will fade away >> >> I really can't understan

Re: [all/fso?] external battery "just mobile gum pro" woes

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Fertser
"arne anka" writes: >> Unfortunatelly there is no dbus call in FSO for that yet. > > ok, looking deeper, i have to echo something into /sys/... -- but the file > is rw for root only. > is there an easy, non-hackish way to set the rw for normal users, > too? Luckily, those nodes are not dynamic,

Re: QtMoko - v11 - WiFi take 2

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: > Is there a switch (software) that must be turned on to active the > radio of the WLAN on the FreeRunner? Perhaps I am missing something > very obvious here (But if the radio was off, 'iwlist eth0 scan' > wouldn't show anything, right?) Right. There's a switch, on

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Warren Baird writes: > I have a slightly more interesting issue - my aux button doesn't > work any more after my daughter dropped my FR one too many > times... Judging by experience i guess most probably everything is undamaged, there were numerous reports of failing AUX button after bad drops bu

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: > Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or > it will fade away I really can't understand the desire to multi-boot. And btw the recent poll proved that most users use Qi IIRC. A clear evidence it's already usable for them. -- Be free, use free

Re: DANGER, koolu's Qi is incompatible with other systems

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Fertser
George Brooke writes: >> I want to warn everybody that the Qi version provided by Koolu is some >> questionable fork to change partition layout or so i was told. The >> result is that it becomes incompatible with all other distros, so >> beware. >> >> This should really be added to some android do

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Marc Andre Tanner writes: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:11:55PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Michele Brocco writes: >> > On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> >> Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD >> >> card? >

DANGER, koolu's Qi is incompatible with other systems (was: Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner)

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Niels Heyvaert writes: ... > It installs the Qi bootloader, reboots, the kernel, reboots, then > installs the system image. I want to warn everybody that the Qi version provided by Koolu is some questionable fork to change partition layout or so i was told. The result is that it becomes incompati

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak writes: >> So what do you suggest? > > My suggestion, please ignore it if you dont like it :) > > Pressing any key brings Qi in interactive mode. It can work the same way > as uboot. AUX switches between partitions, POWER boots selected one. > Selected partition can be indicated with A

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-20 Thread Paul Fertser
Michele Brocco writes: > On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD >> card? >> If so, how? > ... > I have one distro on flash and one on SD Card. When i try to start the > one on the flash i need quite a few tries until I mana

Re: How do I find out what version of hardware I have?

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Fertser
RANJAN writes: > How does A7 differ from A6? How does a user that reads the wiki, mailing list archives and documentation for the soft he uses differs from a one that doesn't? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_revisions#GTA02v7 -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)

Re: How do I find out what version of hardware I have?

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Fertser
rakshat hooja writes: > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > for the A7 Freerunner? The same as for A6. Try cat /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-version.0/pcb, on my A6 it gives 0x001, on your A7 it'd be 0x101. And please add it somewhere to the wiki. HTH -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fre

Re: Qi doesn't read my /boot/append-GTA02

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Fertser
Vasco Névoa writes: > I'd like some help here, please. > dmesg doesn't give me any clues. > I removed the "quiet splash" from /boot/append-GTA02 and added > "glamo_mci.sd_drive=5", but none of it is sticking. It's ignoring the > file altogether, AFAICT. Are you sure you're booting from SD? An

Re: For all ya BFS (brain fuck scheduler) lovers out there

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Fertser
Niels Heyvaert writes: > Would this setting be changed permanently when following your > instructions below? If not, how can we make it permanent > (ie. applied even after reboot)? Change fstab and stuff the line somewhere in init scripts... -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/f

For all ya BFS (brain fuck scheduler) lovers out there

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Thanks to LKML discussion there's an interesting switch found that reportedly makes CFS behave as good as BFS for typical desktop workloads. Read all the details at [1] and to try it on your devices, simply do: mkdir /debug mount -t debugfs none /debug echo NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS > /debug/sche

Re: Freerunner in real world

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Fertser
Martin Jansa writes: > I've spare battery from some old nokia, its BL-5C, but freerunner cannot > charge it (I've read somewhere, didn't test it), so I'm using that old > nokia phone as charger :). FR can and always could charge nokia batteries. Please read battery questions and answers on the wi

Re: Freerunner in real world

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Fertser
"Michael Pilgermann" writes: > So my question: has anybody got any experiences with > - using some additional batteries? Just get some dirt-cheap nokia BL-6C (or 5C) spares. :) -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com __

Re: [shr-u] wakeuptime, was Re: 2.6.31 is out, where is my ultimate kernel?

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Fertser
matzehuber writes: > with loglevel 4 i get (meanwhile) the four messages you told > (g_ether) and two more messages of my own. Ok, np. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com ___ Openmoko

Re: [shr-u] wakeuptime, was Re: 2.6.31 is out, where is my ultimate kernel?

2009-09-13 Thread Paul Fertser
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:03:38AM +0200, Matthias Huber wrote: > Paul Fertser schrieb: > > Matthias Huber writes: > > > >> Paul Fertser schrieb: > >> What messages do you see with loglevel=4 that shouldn't be there? For > >> me normal

Re: [shr-u] wakeuptime, was Re: 2.6.31 is out, where is my ultimate kernel?

2009-09-13 Thread Paul Fertser
Matthias Huber writes: > Paul Fertser schrieb: > What messages do you see with loglevel=4 that shouldn't be there? For > me normal suspend/resume doesn't add anything to console. ... > i cannot tell exact, but i saw this messages. > test it yourself. I did. And

Re: [shr-u] wakeuptime, was Re: 2.6.31 is out, where is my ultimate kernel?

2009-09-13 Thread Paul Fertser
Matthias Huber writes: > and i suggest to change qi, because, as you said above, it is: > 1. easily chanchable upon runtime for the developer > 2. faster for the normal daily use > 3. qi can with power-key hold give you a loglevel of 8. What messages do you see with loglevel=4 that shouldn't be t

Re: 2.6.31 is out, where is my ultimate kernel?

2009-09-10 Thread Paul Fertser
Laszlo KREKACS writes: > So I expect with the new kernel the following features: > * KMS To be discussed with Thomas. > * BFS scheduler Who said it works any better? Do you understand that somebody will have to rebase and tweak it every mainline release because it'll never get upstream? Who pro

Re: Bug tracker

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Paul Fertser writes: > Currently it is indeed possible to get permissions to update > "tickets". Rask, you can ask Joachim Steiger - roh at openmoko dot org. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fer

Re: Bug tracker

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes: >> If the latest andy-tracking kernel is no longer affected why >> aren't both WSOD bug reports updated? I wasn't even aware until very >> recently that the original WSOD bug was fixed as the initial report is still >> open without activity since months. > >It

Re: Wireless Signal Power Levels...

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Fertser
John Dowd writes: > My question is: is the signal level really a problem and is there a simple > configuration setting that I can use to try and fix it? IIRC the signal level reported is either bogus or is inconsistent with other wifi cards out there. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/p

Re: SHR - Trying to configure phone for a wireless demo...

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Fertser
John Dowd writes: > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:39:54 Paul Fertser wrote: >> You certainly want to consult http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FSO_Resources >> wikipage; it's frameworkd syncing resources on startup and thus >> turning everything off. ... > I managed

Re: SHR - Trying to configure phone for a wireless demo...

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Fertser
John Dowd writes: > I can now manually configure the wireless interface but I need to come up > automatically during boot and start the dhcp client. I can see that the > kernel > does boot and somewhere during init the interface is brought up. However, > somewhere later during the init the wir

Re: QtMoko images V8

2009-09-05 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak writes: > Qi from koolu android images wont boot QtMoko. No idea why. Because koolu folks forked Qi for no decent reason and without a word of warning! Probably they just didn't like mtd partitioning used but they should have put a big fat warning to make it clear. :( -- Be free, us

Re: Wifi driver stability improved -- wrong patch reverted

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
Nicola Mfb writes: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Can you confirm it's a regression and if yes, in which version it did work >> without issues? > > I cannot confirm, I always had problem in some ways. > It may be only due the fact that as

Re: Wifi driver stability improved -- wrong patch reverted

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:13:28PM +0200, Nicola Mfb wrote: > > Nicola Mfb writes: > >> I built a3587e4ed77974adfb057af261aaeea4022018e8 and commented the HTC > >> line suggested in your patch > > andy-tracking HEAD, that's right revision. ... > rebooted and tryied

Re: SHR - Trying to configure phone for a wireless demo...

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
John Dowd writes: > Is there a magic combination here that I can put together so that I can use > the wireless interface with the SHR load? The latest unstable SHR; then opkg update && opkg upgrade; then please read FSO_resources wikipage. SHR testing is basically an unsupported snapshot. HTH

Re: Bad CRC

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
"Neil M. Stewart" writes: > I am using a Neo Freerunner GTA02 v6 device and I am having an issue > with booting a new kernel. The Qi bootloader is being used. I > recently If you had used Qi you wouldn't see any messages on screen. The message you pasted is from u-boot telling it can't load kerne

Re: Wifi driver stability improved -- wrong patch reverted

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
Nicola Mfb writes: >> I remember you were testing the fsoraw method and indeed proved that it >> doesn't work properly with the latest kernel. After some discussion we >> reverted the offending patch and now the latest SHR kernel should provide >> the same level of stability as .28. >> >> Please t

Re: Wifi driver stability improved -- wrong patch reverted

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
Nicola Mfb writes: > I built a3587e4ed77974adfb057af261aaeea4022018e8 and commented the HTC > line suggested in your patch Oh no! We reverted Werner's patch and with that nothing should be commented, it should work as is. And yes, you're building andy-tracking HEAD, that's right revision. -- Be

Wifi driver stability improved -- wrong patch reverted

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, I remember you were testing the fsoraw method and indeed proved that it doesn't work properly with the latest kernel. After some discussion we reverted the offending patch and now the latest SHR kernel should provide the same level of stability as .28. Please try again and report the results.

Re: [shr-u] mplayer with glamo and audio working?

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
"arne anka" writes: >> bluetooth GSM headsets work but with >> inconveniences. > > that's putting it mildly. > in its current state it is unsable. we had taht discussion a while ago in > extenso. Agreed. Not exactly unusable. I imagine if somebody is constantly using only headset (i can actuall

Re: [shr-u] mplayer with glamo and audio working?

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Fertser
KaZeR writes: > Or maybe it's like mms and bluetooth pairing/handling: people are > interested but don't make much noise about it cause it's nowhere > near functionnal right now.. Bluetooth pairing works flawlessly, bluetooth A2DP works, bluetooth networking works, bluetooth music player control

Re: Reliably connect tcp between to NATed hosts

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Fertser
Michael Tansella writes: >> Michael Tansella writes: >> > How can I establish a communication connection (I want to transfer Text) >> > from >> >> You can consider using "miredo" techonology. That way you don't have >> to maintain a special publically accessible server yourself. It >> basically g

Reliably connect tcp between to NATed hosts (was: Re: TCP connection over GPRS between Openmoko and Notebook)

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Fertser
Michael Tansella writes: > How can I establish a communication connection (I want to transfer Text) from You can consider using "miredo" techonology. That way you don't have to maintain a special publically accessible server yourself. It basically gives you dynamic ipv6 address you can reach fro

Re: external keyboard & suspend

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Fertser
Dan Staley writes: > I'm not sure what kind of keyboard you are using...but I connect my > freerunner to a bluetooth keyboard (iGo Stowaway bluetooth keyboard) > on a pretty regular basis in SHR-U. To solve the problem you are > mentioning, I wrote a little shell script that connects to my > blue

Re: udev rule for the freerunner or make usb networking enduser friendly

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Fertser
Laszlo KREKACS writes: > The current way is really hard to teach for a nonexperienced user > (ie. gf), how to upload musics to the "music player device".;-\ Hahaha, a gf capable of applying the "bass fix" shouldn't need much help disabling NM and adding several trivial strings to /etc/network/int

Re: Unknown boot options

2009-08-30 Thread Paul Fertser
David Fokkema writes: >> Qi reads factory partition to make ethernet gadget use fixed >> predefined MAC address. If g_ether is statically compiled in there's >> no way to set MAC address other than supplying it through the kernel >> command line. If g_ether is a module, the recent modprobe will lo

Re: SHR first experiences & user manual

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Fertser
"Risto H. Kurppa" writes: > How about preferring nano over vi? I think nano - telling people what > to press, might be more friendlier. Nano is fucked-up shit imho. I'd be sad to see it mentioned in the SHR manual, no matter what the reasoning is. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philo

Re: [SHR] kernel 2.6.30

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Vinzenz Hersche writes: > i just want to ask when the new kernel, 2.6.30 for the openmoko > (shr-unstable) > should be ready? The plan so far is to wait for .31 upstream release, some moderate time for testing our (the work to produce a patchset and _major_ glamo stability and speed improvement

Re: Unknown boot options

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Leonti Bielski writes: > Unknown boot option 'g_ether.dev_addr=MAC' 4 times in a row. > > It does not affect anything but I hate to see error messages when my > loglevel=1 quiet and my device is perfectly fine. > It happens to me every time using Qi and I don't know how to make it > stop. Qi read

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fertser
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Nicola Mfb wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Paul Fertser wrote: > [...] > > Can you give me a list of regressions with the latest driver version > > with the patch i've sent to the kernel ML applied? > &g

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Nicola Mfb writes: > I'd like to see a form of "acceptable" stability, when my system > crashes due to wifi in the 99% of cases even the "reboot" command > segfaults and I have to remove the battery. With old kernels I got > "wow interrupts" and other forms of instability but at least the > device

Re: Freerunner & wireless internet

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Helge Hafting writes: > 1. The wireless does not work after the phone wakes from suspend. > And I don't mean it lost the association, wifi cannot be > brought up at all. Very irritating, for wpa_supplicant can > re-associate automatically _if_ the chip & driver itself works. > > Wo

Re: Freerunner & wireless internet

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fertser
"Adolph J. Vogel" writes: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:58:17 Paul Fertser wrote: >> "Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio" writes: >> > has anyone ever accessed the internet via wifi from the Freerunner? >> > If so, which distro was it? Does it wor

Re: Freerunner & wireless internet

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fertser
"Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio" writes: > has anyone ever accessed the internet via wifi from the Freerunner? > If so, which distro was it? Does it work only with some particular > (few?) routers? I recommend you to read FSO_resources wiki page, it has a working recipe. Experience shows that ar600

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2009-08-25 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Nicola Mfb writes: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Paul Fertser wrote: >>> then please help me someone to learn the necessary-things about >>> kernel-hacking >>> (i know, it's a lot of work!) to fix this bugs in wifi? >> >> I tell yo

Re: [All] Status of the OM community

2009-08-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Marko Knöbl writes: >> archive or delete outdated >> information, > > Some time ago I thought about this too. However this turned out to be > problematic for me: Personally I often have problems to tell whether a > page is up-to-date or not because I don't have enough knowledge in > this topic. A

Re: osm2go on the freerunner

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Robin Paulson writes: > Using **pending_return in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_setup() > without pending_setup is deprecated and strongly discouraged That's a warning, not error. Just ignore it for now. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer

Re: Replacement battery for GTA01/Neo

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Fertser
"Daniel.Li" writes: >> > BL-5C can't be charged with GTA02. >> >> That's just plain wrong! GTA02 has _zero_ problems charging BL-4/5/6C. >> >> Please read the battery Q&A [1]. > > We have a discussion month ago, and found that FR (GTA02) can't charge > BL-5C, see below link. > > http://lists.op

Re: Replacement battery for GTA01/Neo

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Fertser
Gerald A writes: > Would a battery from a Freerunner/GTA02 work in my neo? Only with software tweaks i'm yet to try to provide a good method to perform. The same story as with BL-5C. And you won't gain much, BL-6C is 1150 and GTA02 battery is 1200, imho not worth it. -- Be free, use free (http:

Re: Replacement battery for GTA01/Neo

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Fertser
"Daniel.Li" writes: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 00:14 +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Gerald A writes: >> > Looking at my Neo this morning, I noticed that it looked like the >> > case wasn't put back on straight. >> > >> > I removed the bac

Re: Replacement battery for GTA01/Neo

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Fertser
Gerald A writes: > Looking at my Neo this morning, I noticed that it looked like the > case wasn't put back on straight. > > I removed the back to find the battery is slightly bulging. I'm > assuming this isn't a good thing. Yes, using a battery like that is discouraged. Basically for gta01 you c

Using bluetooth keyboard (keypresses not making it to X)

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Have you managed to solve your problem? Reading archives it looks like you're missing just a small but very important step: modprobe uinput Please report the results. For others interested, there're now updated instructions on the wiki, including using bluez4 with HID devices: http://wiki.o

Re: [SHR] wakes up from suspend after a few minutes

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Fertser
Michal Brzozowski writes: > The solution was to not use apm -s but dbus Can you possibly tell me where that idea to use apm -s comes from? That's some information to be corrected because obviously you'll be woken up by the modem when it gives you network status info every now and then and framewo

Re: [SHR] wakes up from suspend after a few minutes

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Fertser
Michal Brzozowski writes: > 2009/8/14 Michal Brzozowski The resume reason is > GSM. Wakes up after 1-2 minutes. The logs don't show anything > interesting. There are no other problems. Ophonekitd is not > running. It doesn't wake up if it's connected to usb. Any ideas? Enable DEBUG level for ogs

Re: [shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Fertser
"arne anka" writes: > and the fr is shock frozen. > not really convincing a performance. Reproduced it. Thanks for the bugreport, will try to investigate. Sorry for misinformation, i guess i did something slightly different before so it didn't result in kernel panic. Sorry :( -- Be free, use f

Re: [shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Fertser
Peter Mogensen writes: > Some one must know what has changed? New kernel? Well, i must admit i collected several reports that despite huge gains from moving to upstream SDIO stack there're some regressions. Several people reported they can't connect to the networks they were able to use before no

Re: [shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fertser
Peter Mogensen writes: > Paul Fertser wrote: >> Adam Jimerson writes: >>> Same here I would like to know how to connect to a network without using >>> the >>> ifconfig commands >> >> 0. So, clean boot, you didn't touch resource policies in

Re: [shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fertser
Adam Jimerson writes: > On Thursday 13 August 2009 10:55:38 am arne anka wrote: >> >> I know that wpa_supplicant doesn't handle DHCP but when I was using it >> >> then >> >> the ifup command would say that it connected, didn't return an error, >> >> but DHCP >> >> would always fail but it never di

Re: [shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fertser
Adam Jimerson writes: >> wpa_supplicant never gets DHCP, that's something a dhcp client should be >> used for. Also you don't say if you tried the maxperf trick or not. > > I know that wpa_supplicant doesn't handle DHCP but when I was using it then > the ifup command would say that it connected,

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fertser
"arne anka" writes: >> Keeping the module loaded and just request/release it via FSO (I have a >> little >> GUI for this) should be pretty safe? > > according to > > "You just kill fsoraw or wpa_supplicant and the wifi module gets > unpowered and the driver unloaded. This works automatically and

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fertser
David Fokkema writes: > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:34 +0200, arne anka wrote: >> "Especially recommended for WiFi since due to the bugs in the firmware and >> the driver full power-cycle of the module is often advantageous." >> >> i am not quite sure, what to make from that sentence. > > Maybe s/

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fertser
"arne anka" writes: >>> - the fso way of retrieving the resource is discouraged >> >> Hm, no? fsoraw does exactly that: manages access to resources the fso >> way. > > it's not that i know all these fso dbus commands by heart, but > > mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage

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