Re: [FSY] Stuck in desktop switcher

2009-05-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/11 Alfie : > I'm currently using FSY and am quiet happy. However at random times (I > can't work out what's doing it yet) 4 transparent grey boxes come up and I > can't get rid of them. It looks like a desktop switcher app with four > boxes labeled 1 .. 4. what's FSY? is this the screen-un

Re: [FSY] Stuck in desktop switcher

2009-05-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/11 Robin Paulson : >> Also, does anyone know if there are any open-source projects out there >> trying to get other ARM based operating systems running on the Freerunner? >> All I can find at the moment are Linux based. > > openbsd? > > http://www.open

Re: [SHR] Suspend/Shutdown/Etc dialog is only 1 pixel wide!

2009-05-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/11 Charles Clément : > I do use the suspend button a lot, as a substitute I created an > application entry with the line: > > Exec=mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage > org.freesmartphone.Usage.Suspend > > and clicking on it suspends the phone. It might be helpful t

Re: How to use mail

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Paulson
> Am Montag, 11. Mai 2009 21.36:32 schrieb Vincent MEURISSE: >> On Monday 11 May 2009 20:21:58 flecktor wrote: >> The solution to "how to read mail ?" is deadly simple : STOP USING HOTMAIL >> ! As I think you're using windows, I can recommend you to use a real mail >> client like thunderbird (this

Re: [SHR-testing] do i need to reflash

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/13 ivvmm : > In order to upgrade my distribution to the bleeding edge did opkg -unstable is allegedly bleeding edge, -testing is supposedly one step more stable. ymmv > update; opkg upgrade and received many messages about one package owning > files of another one and thus not upgrading th

Re: [2.6.28+ kernel] usb host/device mode switcher

2009-05-14 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/10 Johny Tenfinger : > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 02:39, Robin Paulson wrote: >> where are you finding the revision you quoted? > > In shr-unstable, as it was said before ;) right, after going round the houses, this module is apparently not in -testing so, back to the or

[shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-14 Thread Robin Paulson
hi, i finally got a new sim today after my previous one died a while back. i'm using shr-testing, put the card in and booted up. nothing. i ran settings and turned on the gsm antenna. still nothing. so, i went back to settings, and the gsm modem had been turned off. re-boot, still nothing. now when

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-14 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 jeremy jozwik : > do you have another phone you can test the sim on? perhaps a friends > phone. could simply just be bad yeah, it works fine in my old panasonic - it can register and get text messages ___ Openmoko community mailing list commun

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-14 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 Rask Ingemann Lambertsen : > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:37:17AM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: > >> what's happening, is there anything i can do to further debug things? > >   GSM firmware revision? Have you flashed the moko11 version yet? > > http://wiki.o

Re: [2.6.28+ kernel] usb host/device mode switcher

2009-05-14 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 Joseph Reeves : > I should update mine to work: > > http://www.opkg.org/package_40.html > > But if you can use vim you can opkg install it then edit > /usr/bin/usb.sh as per the instructions on the opkg.org page. ah, excellent, thanks. i missed those instructions ___

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann : >> yeah, i thought about that. i was hoping to avoid it - more potential >> for a fubar than i like. > It is much less frightening than I too considered it to be... And has > interesting fixes too. hmm, i'll check it out. >> the phone worked fine under om2008.1

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 arne anka : >> then the sim died > > uhm, what does "died" mean? and how did it die? > any visible damage on the pins in the fr or so? > did your friend's sim work while your old sim was still available? well, it means it stopped working. i tried it in my old phone, and it wouldn't work

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 arne anka : > still there's the slight possibility, that the fr was damaged or damaged > the sim -- but until you flash the new firmware which is supposed to sort yes, i think it was the fr that screwed it. > sim incompatibilties out (iirc), we have no way to know. > since the sim incom

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 Rask Ingemann Lambertsen : >> from my desktop, over the usb connection. i'm guessing this is going >> to involve sshfs, but beyond that i'm in over my head... >> >> can i get some advice on how to do this? > >   If you have the image unpacked[1] somewhere you can get to it from the FR, >

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 arne anka : > my advice is, get a usb dongle that takes up micro sd -- they're cheap and > easy. no need to play around with mmc, simply use like an usb stick. > >> can i get some advice on how to do this? > > well, the image creates two partitions (8mb vfat for the kernel, rest > ext2),

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 arne anka : >> sorry, i meant how to mount the microsd card from my desktop, while >> it's in my freerunner, so i can dd the image direct to it. > > "mount" and "dd" is mutally exclusive. > dd writes to the raw device. right, got it mickeyterm reports moko11 is the firmware still no co

Re: [all] usb headset connector?

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 arne anka : > i remember having asked that a long time ago, but here goes again: > is there any way/ work going on to make one of those > usb-to-headset-connectors working, most likely with a kernel module? it's effectively a simple usb soundcard, isn't it? so long as it's based on a com

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/15 arne anka : >> mickeyterm reports moko11 is the firmware >> >> still no connection though, shr-settings reveals no modem information, >> and the gsm antenna switch won't stay in the 'on' position > > well, if you got mickeyterm up and running, why not check with the known > at commands di

Re: GSM Firmware upgrade (was: Re: [Om2009] a community effort)

2009-05-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/16 Paul Fertser : > pike writes: >> The instructions on the Flashing page >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing >> sound very scary, and I am not inclined >> to do that yet. > Upgrading firmware is not scary at all, and is especially easy with > the uSD image prepared by Joerg. > >

Re: [shr-testing] sim not recognised

2009-05-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/16 Robin Paulson : >>> still no connection though, shr-settings reveals no modem information, >>> and the gsm antenna switch won't stay in the 'on' position so, looks like it was an shr only problem - om 2009 is working fine, and i think

Re: New Applications: pyRok and pyFM

2009-05-20 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/20 Andreas Hennig : > maybe some of you noticed my new applications pyRok and pyFM on opkg.org > already. > > For those who did not, i want to introduce them here. > > pyFM is a two panel filemanager. i did, and tried it, but got quickly frustrated. opening a folder took a bit of finding o

Re: opkg upgrade fail and can't boot FR to desktop

2009-05-20 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/20 Daniel.Li : >> > It shows >> > btusb_intr_complete: hci0 urb c7020b20 failed to resubmit (19) >> > btusb_send_frame: hci0 urb c7020b20 submission failed how far booted is it? can you connect over ssh? ___ Openmoko community mailing list commun

Re: gpsfake package -- where can I get this package?

2009-05-20 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/20 Daniel.Li : > I wanna replay my gps track with gpsfake [1], but when I run opkg > install gpsfake. > > $ opkg install gpsfake > Collected errors: >  * Cannot find package gpsfake. > > [1] http://www.tangogps.org/gps/articles/12-FAQ.html > > > Where can I get gpsfake package? as stated on

Re: New Applications: pyRok and pyFM

2009-05-20 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/21 Andreas Hennig : > Sorry that you frustrated by pyFM. Thats not a good start for a prog... no, that's ok. once i'd figured out how to open a folder all was good - i forgot to take out the line about being frustrated, there was only that one thing that bothered me, so it was a bit over th

Re: [Shr-User] opkg upgrade fail and can't boot FR to desktop

2009-05-20 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/21 Daniel.Li : >> I've just done >> >> sed -i 's/testing/unstable/g' /etc/opkg/* >> opkg update;opkg upgrade >> >> and now I'm getting this too... >> >> I can still get in via ssh. It look as though e is missing a library: >> >> $ enlightenment_start.oe >> Enlightenment : using user default

Re: [Shr-User] opkg upgrade fail and can't boot FR to desktop

2009-05-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/22 Daniel.Li : > ln -s /usr/lib/libecore_evas-ver-pre-svn-01.so.0 libecore_evas.so.0 > ln -s /usr/lib/libecore_fb-ver-pre-svn-01.so.0 libecore_fb.so.0 > ln -s /usr/lib/libecore_x-ver-pre-svn-01.so.0 libecore_x.so.0 > ln -s /usr/lib/libecore_txt-ver-pre-svn-01.so.0 libecore_txt.so.0 > ln -s /

Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/20 Risto H. Kurppa : > I've been told that you can install the package udev-static-devices to > reduce the boot time by ~30s (but if you have your home on > /media/disk/bind-home, it'll not work, see > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing ) - stuff still under > development. how

Re: [Shr-User] opkg upgrade fail and can't boot FR to desktop

2009-05-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/22 Daniel.Li : > What version do u suggest, I'm using 0427-unstable.  Recent version of > SHR, do u mean shr-testing? err, i'd suggest om2009, actually. shr (stable hybrid release, apparently...) got to be far too annoying. the newest version of -unstable might have fixed these bugs, but i

Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/22 Laszlo KREKACS : > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Robin Paulson > wrote: >> how do we install this package? i can't find it in the om archives; is >> it from a separate feed, or does it need to be installed manually? > > http://downloads.openmoko.

Re: Repository management (was: Re: [debian] navit navit_0.1.0+svn-2279_armel.deb)

2009-05-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/22 Marcel : > - Is is somehow possible (of course it is, but what's the price? ;) ) to > have opkg.org be accessible directly via opkg as a repository? it is already. there are instructions in the kustomizer script as to how to do this ___ Openmo

Re: Om2009 testing release 4

2009-05-22 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/22 Jose Luis Perez Diez : > I was using the previous realease as a test-bed for a document I am preparing. > I want to show how to use the toolchain and distcc to develop on the neo, my > root fs is 0.5G without the swapfile, and runing the test suite of distcc3.1 > to see if pump mode could

Re: Intone (0.51) Elementary based mplayer frontend

2009-05-23 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/24 Laszlo KREKACS : > I tried to install it on om2009. It created the desktop icon (I also > needed to install libsql), > and It started to launch it. After a while it just stopped (without > appearing any window). > > Launching intone from the console, revealed the real problem: > sh: mplay

Re: Intone (0.51) Elementary based mplayer frontend

2009-05-23 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/24 Laszlo KREKACS : >> this doesn't solve the dependency issues, but if you need mplayer, >> check out this page on the wiki: >> > > "It can be installed with the following command: opkg install mplayer " > > versus: > ">> However there is no mplayer package for om2009." > > Ok, so how to in

Re: Intone (0.51) Elementary based mplayer frontend

2009-05-24 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/25 Laszlo KREKACS : >> And now I cant find the package, where libmad.so.0 belongs. > > On irc jonkristian was kind enough, to execute the following commands: > find / -name libmad.so.0 -> /usr/lib/libmad.so.0 > opkg search /usr/lib/libmad.so.0 -> libmad0 > > So the package should be libmad0.

Re: Fennec on TR4

2009-05-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/26 Warren Baird : > Has anyone managed to get Fennec working on OM2009 TR4?   I tried the > version in the repository, and I was able to get it going and configured to > use my proxy at work (through usb networking) - but so far for every page > I've tried to visit (including google.com) it

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/28 arne anka : > don't know about any images. but with a map for all of europe 2gb is > pretty little. > it certainly won't work with tangogps -- once i tried to get all of > germany in a usable resolution for tangogps and it exceed by far 2gb. > so, your best bet would be navit with its bin

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-29 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/28 Joseph Reeves : > That's made me think - we (as in the community) could provide packages > via opkg.org that provided regular updates for various countries / > regions / zoom levels. Would be very easy to do, just make sure that > someone has up to date tiles (OSMupdater, for example) and

Re: Om2009 testing release 4

2009-05-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/30 Ben Wong : > B also sounds like it'd be tricky to do correctly. What happens if > the user immediately tries to make another call (or use GPRS or SMS) > and the previous call hasn't yet finished? as it's unavoidable at this point to interfere with the user's time, a "please wait" messag

Re: QT Improved - sms messages stop being received

2009-05-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/30 David Ford : > Are you certain that is the reason? Are you sure your SIM card isn't full? > 20, or 30, is a common number for the number of SMS storage slots on a SIM > card. does qtei store messages on the sim card, or in ~? is there any way to change this behaviour, if it stores them

[all] problems with opkg.org

2009-05-30 Thread Robin Paulson
i've noticed over the last few weeks, that updates to packages on opkg.org aren't getting downloaded when i do opkg update, and upgrade. does anyone know what's happening, is the maintainer working on it anymore? it's a shame if not - it's very useful, and there are lots of great packages on there

Re: PISI 0.2 released

2009-05-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/4 Michael Pilgermann : >>  Maybe this is python-2.6 related? > Absolutely. The packages I assembled for vobject (you used the one from > opkg.org?) have static links to the python 2.5 site-package folder inside. > For testing purposes you might move them (under /usr/lib/python ...); I have

Re: [SHR-Unstable] Broken Batter Applet

2009-05-31 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/26 Thomas White : > I found that as well.  Is anyone able to comment on what HAL is being used for > in SHR-Unstable?  If it's simply been pulled in as a dependency (e.g. for > X.org) and isn't actively being used (e.g. by X.org for input management), > then it can be removed without breakin

Re: Intone (0.30 - beta release) Elementary based mplayer frontend

2009-06-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/7 c_c : >  Thanks. Hope the playing song resumes correctly on call hang up. >  Any other feedback? > -- hi c_c, hope you're still developing intone i've got a feature request: could you add some notification of which track is currently playing? i realise the black bar follows the current

Re: Mailing list glitch?

2009-06-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/3 Doug Jones : > I read Sean's message this morning, and was going to send a link for it > to a friend who is off-list.  So I went to the list's archive: > > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-June/048966.html > > As you can see, the version of Sean's message shown in the web

a new keyboard - discuss and critique

2009-06-02 Thread Robin Paulson
apparently, triangular buttons produce less errors. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/ i'm not totally convinced, but it would be worth a go, i think now, is it possible to coerce raster's keyboard into using anything other than square keys?

Re: a new keyboard - discuss and critique

2009-06-03 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler : > u seriously doubt that. mis-pressing keys will also make you want to hi them > more accurately too. it applies to both cases. thedifference is that if you > are > not more accurate u get zero key press as opposed to the one you wanted when > its > a square. then you

Re: Fundamental Qi question

2009-06-04 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/4 Jose Luis Perez Diez : > El Thursday, 4 de June de 2009 09:56:36 Martin Jansa va escriure: >> Its easy to reformat or repair system on SD cart with laptop or PC.. but >> I always feel bad when I have to remove back-cover. How long can that >> plastic fixtures hold back-cover tight and reli

Re: request for audiotagging

2009-06-04 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/5 jeremy jozwik : >> The map in our region is rather pour and needs expanding. It is being >> done only by two persons, although we have drawn all the streets and >> many buildings in native town. We have named streets, because we do >> remember their names. Numbered some of the houses — tha

Re: request for audiotagging

2009-06-05 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/5 matthias : > recording in background during your whole osm-mapping-ride will produce > a huge wav-file which won't fit onto a regular sd-card. so beware of that. 22kHz, 1 channel, 16 bit is 2.5MB/min - this is more than good enough quality for picking out words, etc a two hour trip would

Re: [ALL] Tango GPS tracking sample rate

2009-06-06 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/7 error : > I am looking to use the Tango GPS to track a trip.  When using the tracking > feature it samples at "position per second" which creates a very large file > over an 8 hour trip. > > Is there a config file that I can change to take a sample maybe every minute > or 5 minutes? http:

Re: How to get started with Openmoko phone?

2009-06-06 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/7 Mike : > I would like to use a Linux-based open-hardware phone for my phone > communications. I would like to try Neo Freerunner. How do I do that? Namely: > > 1) Is there any particular kind of wireless carrier (in US) I need to > subscribe to? must be gsm, any will do, i think > 2) Do

Re: Upgraded using angstrom rep -- infinite loop on startup

2009-06-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/12 Mikhail Umorin : > I upgraded to the latest (?) version from Angstrom rep using opkg upgrade. > Now, after the screen OPENMOKO (please wait) I get infinite loop saying: oops, i think that might be your problem. there are some compatibility issues between openmoko OS and angstrom OS - the

Re: Upgraded using angstrom rep -- infinite loop on startup

2009-06-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/13 Mikhail Umorin : > Here > (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner#Update_with_the_package_manager) > I read that need to point my reps to unofficial User reps, but, in User reps > (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Users_Repositories) it says "Angstrom is the >

Re: How to get buzz fix in Australia

2009-06-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/16 NeilBrown : > > You can send it to sdgsystems.com. > You first purchase the "freerunner audio quality enhancement" on the > website.  This costs $0 plus postage. > Their postage price is around $AU100 sent by international > courier.  If you ask, they will sent it be USPS and credit you >

Re: How to get started with Openmoko phone?

2009-06-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/16 Mikhail Umorin : >> > cheapest, with 3G card). Both worked fine. To keep an old cell number one >> > has to sign up for a contract. >> >> i'm fairly sure that is marketing BS.  afaik, there is nothing required >> to keep an old number. >> > > Well, when the salesperson tells you that they

Re: BlackBerry to Openmoko

2009-06-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/16 arne anka : >> (c) eMail - I have at least 2 accts pushed to my Blackberry > > don't know the current state, there are clients available, but inhowfar > the are really usable with the fr (screen estate, navigation), i don't > know. i use claws, under shr-unstable. it's also in om2009. it

yaouh and the osm NoName layer

2009-06-16 Thread Robin Paulson
hi, i've been using yaouh for getting updated tiles from osm for several months now; great little tool. there is an osm tile layer called 'NoName', which highlights streets and other items that have been drawn in but not named - very useful for tidying up the last bits of an area. the problem is,

Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?

2009-06-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/18 arne anka : > as for tasks/calendar/..., there's even osmo. > for syncing: at least osmo (and other apps too, probably) uses > standardized file format for storing data (vcard for contacts f ex). > most apps cann read those, to. so syncing is nothing more but transferring > the files in q

Re: [SHR-U] Changing Libraries

2009-06-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/19 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak : > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 15:22, The Digital > Pioneer wrote: >> OK, so that tells me that it's a known problem that no-one is doing anything >> about until 1.0? That doesn't help me much. I know I can make symlinks, but >> it's a massive pain to do that again and

Re: [shr-testing] intone 0.51 messing around with audio output

2009-06-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/19 jeremy jozwik : > after a night of testing, i am unsure if this is an intone issues or one > from shr. seems that if the headphones are connected prior to opening intone > the problem exists. but if i run intone, then connect the headphones, all is > well. strange. yeah, i've had similar

Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?

2009-06-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/19 Laszlo KREKACS : > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Al Johnson > > You can even talk on the phone when FR is suspended! (yes, this is > > because Calypso, the GSM chip is separated from the main processor)> > > wrote: >> >> I was going to say it was a bug because having the audio chip p

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-19 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/20 Michal Brzozowski : > Is there a way to make Paroli and frameworkd keep old logs and not deleting > them? > easy - create a script which runs at shutdown, to copy the log file(s) in question to an archive location. maybe in one of the change-runlevel folders? ___

[debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Robin Paulson
hi all, there are some versions of packages (a lot) in sid/squeeze which i'd like to use on my freerunner - does anyone know if there is a simple-ish process for installing either? could the debian install script be adapted to do it? cheers ___ Openmoko

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/24 Nikita V. Youshchenko : > If running debian on freerunner, you may use aptitude or apt-get to install > whatever package from sid (or testing, or whatever depending of your apt > sources configuration). yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from sid/squeeze, a

Re: USB keyboard udev rule

2008-11-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/11/11 Alastair Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pander wrote: >> Does anyone have a udev rule for USB keyboard that does the following. >> When no external USB devices are connected and a keyboard is plugged in, >> USB can switch to host mode and switch back when USB keyboard is >> unplugged. As

Re: microSD card

2008-11-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/11/13 Yorick Moko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Tony Berth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> is it possible to use any current microSD card (4 or 8 GB!) and microSDHCs >> as well? Are any hardware limitations? > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards i h

Re: [SHR] how to add buttons to illume's launcher?

2008-11-27 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/11/28 Joerg Lippmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After some updating, my tangogps start button is gone from shr's Illume. But > tangogps is still there. How can I create a new start entry? does shr have the same launcher as 2008.9? if so, then a .desktop in /usr/share/applications will show up on

Re: Survey about the Touchscreen

2008-11-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/11/22 Anton Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > it would be interesting to know which type of touch-screen that people would > prefer to use > on their future OpenMoko device. > > A not so scientific survey can be found at: > http://www.733kru.org/~pltxtra/OpenMoko/survey.html is it possible to so

Re: [todays testing image] can't enter sim

2008-12-09 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/10 t m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've just installed the daily testing image > http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/testing/. I have no idea which distro > this is, 2008.9? Some more information (e.g. a readme.txt) would have been > nice. > Anyway.. after installing I needed to enter a SIM pinc

Re: Om2008.9 GPS Fix some help, please

2008-12-09 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/10 Samuel Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a new freerunner for a week, and i'm testing software, and dists... > This neo already have a capacitor on the sd slot, so i dont have > hardware problem with SD card. > > But sometimes i can get a fix, and i can work TangoGPS with any problem

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/11 rakshat hooja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone know where one can get alternate case designs for the freerunner > manufactured in quantities of less than 100. Any information would be > appreciated. ponoko.com would do it for you, or emachineshop.com there are a few companies around

Re: Switching the orientation of the screen

2008-12-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/11 Clemens Dörrhöfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am starting to learn pygtk and my "helloworld" Project is this primitiv > gui, which lets you switch the orientatin of the screen. I don't like the > automatic switching and with the help of this, I can do it manually. > It's not pretty, but it

Re: Switching the orientation of the screen

2008-12-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/11 DJDAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry for being a little OT, but what do you mean with "problems that > are present when this is done from the > commend-line, with xrandr"? > If you mean the mess after the rotation (strange lines/graphic that > fixes after a refresh) I noticed this doesn't

Re: top bar clock in testing

2008-12-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/12 William Kenworthy : > http://wdk.dyndns.org/freerunner/illume.edj > > mv your existing /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/illume.edj > somewhere safe and replace with the above and reboot. is an xserver restart enough, or does it need a full reboot? and is there a method for swapping

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/12 rakshat hooja : > Thanks. will update when I get pricing. My design is still at the idea stage > - add a USB keyboard (qwerty) into the case design itself. Will make it > heavier but helps my use case as I want to stop carrying my laptop with me > when I have the Freerunner and the onscr

Re: Graphical GPRS launcher for FSO-based distros

2008-12-14 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/15 Valery Febvre : >> It seems to work nicely for me. It can be used to start the >> connection, stop the connection, or to simply find out the current >> GPRS status. It requires Gtkdialog which didn't have a package in the >> SHR repository, so I built an ipk from the latest sources. I

Re: new sim(AT&T:SKU 71247)

2008-12-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/17 Mathieu Dube : > It fits on the contacts physically but it only says "Registering..." when I > boot up. > > Should I update the firmware as explained here: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing ? > > Or would it be better to ask at&t to provide me with an older sim card? you mi

Re: new sim(AT&T:SKU 71247)

2008-12-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/17 Mathieu Dube : >> you might want to try re-seating it first. my card (vodafone nz) >> didn't always work first time, i had to physically move it around a >> couple of times before it registered >> > > well it seems to fit right on. > > the FR's contacts left little marks on the SIM conta

Re: FR not charging after 2 weeks of inactivity

2008-12-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/17 Diego Fernández Durán : > 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. If I connect it to the > charger it does nothing! look on the wiki, t

Re: Default IP Address on All Distributions

2008-12-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/19 Sargun Dhillon : > 6.5 billion people in the world. Stop yer whining. i think you shouldn't be so dismissive to someone who, rather than whining, put his point forward in a constructive way. this was hardly your average ill-directed rant from someone who doesn't understand the situation

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

2008-12-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/19 john dowd : > Is there an easy way of porting a Debian package to the opkg format? if you don't mind getting your hands a bit dirty, all you need to do is unpack the deb - it's some sort of compressed archive - and put the files in the correct location on your freerunner i've done this

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

2008-12-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/19 Robin Paulson : > 2008/12/19 john dowd : >> Is there an easy way of porting a Debian package to the opkg format? > if you really wanted to, there's no reason why the twinkle files > couldn't be re-packed as an opk, which i assume is also an archive of > so

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

2008-12-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/19 Robin Paulson : >>> Is there an easy way of porting a Debian package to the opkg format? > extrapolating this point further, would it be possible to (manually) install apt and related tools to an om2008.9 system, and get access to the debian archives directly?

Re: New 2008.12 Release

2008-12-19 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/19 Timo Jyrinki : > but the user space hasn't been adapted to it (would require changes to > qtopia and elsewhere to take into account the new /sys paths). > > That said I'm using daily testing + 2.6.28 andy-tracking kernel and > I've a modified mokoservices.py to take care of the new /sys

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-19 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/19 Helge Hafting : > Something pluggable isn't that bad - we have plugs for USB and > headset anyway. :-) Perhaps a modular phone is too expensive, it'd still > be nice with a slot for an extra card. No moving parts, just a slot > similiar to a cheap card reader. And accessible without remo

Re: New 2008.12 Release

2008-12-19 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/19 Antony King : >> http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.12/ > > I've copied those files to our UK mirror here: > > http://openmoko.truebox.co.uk/trueboxportal/index.php?wk=Mirrors > > Openmoko haven't supplied MD5s for the images; here's what I make them: > > 4ade0b3d3210ec9e9bf34

Re: [2008.testing] GPS after resume

2009-01-03 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/3 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" : > Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: >> Having installed navit on my GTA02v5, it seems that it loses GPS after >> resuming. I haven't finished playing around to see if this is a GPS >> problem or a navit problem, but while I do, has anyone else noticed? >> Found a soluti

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

2009-01-03 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/4 lollisoft : > I have tried that with a script like this (killall let the GUI bring up an > error message I haven't yet got rid): > > Play a radio station > #!/bin/sh > killall mplayer > mplayer http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=7429 > > Stop playing > #!/bin/sh > killall m

Re: A simple wifi solution for FSO ...

2009-01-03 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/4 lollisoft : > Switching on... > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Wifi On > Comment=Switch on wireless network > Note=Hard wired to my home network > Exec=/home/root/wlan.sh > Icon=star.png > Type=Application > Categories=Games > > Categories=Office; > > Switching off... > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=

Re: Openmoko keyboard mockup

2009-01-06 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/6 kimaidou : > Ok. Thanks both for your usefull answers. > @Vasily : T9 is patented, but we can reproduce the same functionnality, as > OpenOffice did with Microsoft Office, or am I missing something ? no, t9 is patented in it's entirety. ms office is not patented as a whole, although some

Re: Openmoko keyboard mockup

2009-01-06 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/6 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler : > you do - Terminal.kbd layout - it ships with illume. i designed the kbd engine > in illume to allow for straight-through pushing of key presses without a dict > int he way. the Terminal.kbd bypasses dict lookup by just emitting keysyms as following on fr

Re: GPS wrong longitude

2009-01-08 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/8 Nicolas Laurance : > After the fix, Tango shows me on the correct position on the map > but in the Trip tab the latitude data is completely wrong, more than 1 > degree west sorry if i'm being missing the point and being pedantic, but i'm sure latitude measures angle north/south of the equ

Re: GPS wrong longitude

2009-01-08 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/9 Nicolas Laurance : > screenshot2 > you're not locked on to any satellites the numbers at the bottom-left of the screen, (12/0) say the gps can see 12, and is locked on to 0 - it needs to lock on to 4 or 5 minimum to get a fix it looks like you've previously got a fix, then turned off th

Re: it appears, i successfully installed the gps stuff

2009-01-08 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/9 Harry L. Lee : > but i find nothing in the ui to invoke is there a cli to start it? > what d you mean by 'the gps stuff'? locations? tangogps? gpsd? gypsy? navit? or the gps hardware? go to settings, and tap 'GPS'. the text next to it should change from 'off' to 'on' then, assuming gps

Re: it appears, i successfully installed the gps stuff

2009-01-08 Thread Robin Paulson
7.2's development iirc don't forget to reply to all, including the list, rather than just me > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Robin Paulson > wrote: >> >> 2009/1/9 Harry L. Lee : >> > but i find nothing in the ui to invoke is there a cli to start it? >

Re: the powere button is non-responsive

2009-01-08 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/9 Harry L. Lee : > it seems i have an openbrick if your battery is flat, that will be the case http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware_Issues#Can.27t_boot_with_discharged_or_missing_battery should answer your questions ___ Openmok

Re: the powere button is non-responsive

2009-01-08 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/9 Harry L. Lee : > now it is spinning through some bootish looking text ad infinitum. i don't > believe i let it discharge, unlless the power from a plugged in eeepc is > insufficient no, that should be enough . it's pretty much either been plugged into the eeepc or the > charger. this is

Re: confused by fso

2009-01-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/11 Harry L. Lee : > where is the kernel for fso. I grabbed: fso-image-om-gta02.tar.gz expecting > to find a kernel (ie something called .bin) but when i untarred I got a usr > and var is ther a flashable fso kernnel? did you try here: http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-testing/images/

Re: confused by fso

2009-01-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/11 Robin Paulson : > 2009/1/11 Harry L. Lee : >> where is the kernel for fso. I grabbed: fso-image-om-gta02.tar.gz expecting >> to find a kernel (ie something called .bin) but when i untarred I got a usr >> and var is ther a flashable fso kernnel? > >

Re: Problems running pidgin

2009-01-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/11 emmanuele : >> I installed pidgin on Om2008.12 (using the default repos, with all my >> packages up to date), >> > > I try to make the same, but cannot find pidgin in default repos for > om2008.12. I'm new on om... can you please provvide e detailed information > to install pidgin? it's

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