Re: Stop whininig / be friendly

2012-05-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On 21 May 2012 09:51:00 +0200
openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) wrote:

 Hi Harald,
 
 thanks for your advices, which are intelligent ones, really.
 You are right, bitterness is what I feel. Why ?
 Openmoko forget to buy MP3-patent rights. The german customs seized
 my 500pcs-pallett order from China. I had to sign contract with
 patent holders, which is valid since 2017. So 5 years more I am a
 f.. slave [...]

Thanks for that tidbit, you should probably right about it, officially,
as one more argument against software patents.

The way I see it, software patents on MP3s really *actually* hurt the
inovative (mostly in that it is the most open phone around) OpenMoko
project and its few distributors.

This should not be hushed.

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Re: server update

2012-05-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:44:23 +0200
Harald Welte lafo...@gnumonks.org wrote:

 What we have in mind will definitely be an entity that most people
 will have heard of, not some obscure small group...

From the top of my hat I'd hazzard FSFE or Software Freedom
Conservancy... I wonder what the end result will be :)

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Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2012-01-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
I just posted about it in my blog and Google+ page, now forwarding it
to identi.ca (which forwards it to twitter).

http://blog.1407.org/2012/01/01/gta04-free-software-smartphone-group-buy/

https://plus.google.com/111476378907603803049/posts/5vbJyoeDSLu

http://identi.ca/notice/87924177

http://twitter.com/#!/RuiSeabra/status/153475257783689216

I think we should make more publicity about this in places where more
people may reach these lists here are preaching to the choir, some
outreach is a must!

Rui

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:50:40 +0100
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 that status of the GTA04 mass market group tour
 
 http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%20Group%20Tour
 
 is that we have:
 
 * passed half time yesterday
 * first early bird batch is sold out
 * but still only 16% preorders (56 units)
 * we have approx. 6 weeks left to fill the remaining
gap of 84 %
 
 So I would say that we are still far away from becoming
 successful.
 
 If I read that over 2 Million new Android units have been
 activated over the Christmas holidays [1] and 4 Million
 iOS devices just on Christmas day [2], I can't believe
 that we do not find 350 potential buyers in 60 days...
 
 Well, we don't have a real mass market device and I think
 we should not even pretend to have one, in this phase.
 Because we are then compared to the 100 EUR Huawei
 Android/UMTS units where one has to suspect that the
 workers in China are being ripped off...
 
 What do you think should we do to make this group
 tour a success?
 
 * extend the subscription timeframe until we reach
   100%?
 * ask for/collect donations to extend the early bird rebates?
Some sort of sponsorship by community members for
community members who can't afford a new GTA04
immediately?
 * have more resellers or buying groups to order batches
of 10 units?
 * talk more about the benefits and special features one
can only find in a GTA04 and nowhere else?
 * subsidize GTA04 boards by combining them with a 
UMTS contract?
 * offer to pay only part of the price by end of the subscription
time frame so that we can already buy the expensive
and difficult to source components, but postpone
production individually until the remaining payments
arrive? (i.e. pay 200 EUR until 10th Feb and the remainder
until May)
 
 More ideas are welcome! But please keep in mind
 that we can't develop something completely new until
 February and components cost what they cost...
 
 The simpler the idea the better!
 
 And, there may be ideas which are too big for a single
 community member, but may become feasible if we all
 work together, contributing many small pieces.
 
 Curious about your ideas,
 Nikolaus
 
 [1]:
 http://www.giga.de/macnews/newsticker/ios-gegen-android-42-millionen-ios-26-millionen-android-aktivierungen-am-weihnachtstag-256890
 [2]:
 http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/27/holiday-gifts-drive-new-ios-device-activations-sharply-higher/
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Re: about the cases

2011-12-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:04:31 +0100
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote:
 Anyways, they aren't of big help since the components inserted into
 the case (earpiece, vibracall motor, speaker) are no longer produced
 or available.
 
 So we have to go the painful way of designing our own cases. But the
 good side is that we can improve on the outer shape and lookfeel.

That's too bad, but the outer shape was awesome (except for the
excessively huge bevel, there should be some, but not so much).

The Freerunner has an awesome format to be held horizontally on your
hands, with the pointer finger around the curve (a natural fit) and the
thumbs to press on the surface.

Too bad it's not good enough hardware to take that advantage in hands,
but it's an awesome shape that Apple won't sue you for :)

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Re: The idea of making the MOKO tab

2011-11-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 21:32:19 +0100 (CET)
Alexander Lehner leh...@edv-buero-lehner.de wrote:

 
 
 On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, elf Pavlik wrote:
 
  Someone have just showed me yesterday this one:
  http://wetab.mobi/en/
 
  It says 'Open Software, Open Hardware' but don't seam to me like
  open source hardware... Still it runs version of MeeGo as you can
  see on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBUdiPZ1hA
 
 Ha, I applied to this company a few years ago, when the product was
 still in the pre-alpha phase. I guess it was shortly after the Neo
 came out and I was interested in opensource development.
 I didn't take the job for other personal reasons.
 But there already the whole sofware and hardware stack seemed not
 open at all.
 
 So if you take all disadvantages of the NEO and the 
 iPad, you will get this 'weTab'. (Sorry weTab-guys for the hard
 criticism). Similair to FIC/OpenMoko, their business plan seems not
 to work out. And I guess there is no community around the weTab at
 all.
 
 Maybe also have a look at the new 1-Laptop-per-Child XO/3 tablet
 (german news site):
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/OLPC-Gruender-will-Tablets-mit-dem-Hubschrauber-verteilen-1374592.html
 (Hardware is still a mock-up, of course...)
 
 I still prefer the 'wooden-case' version after all these
 discussions ;)


WeTab is quite awesome, WeTab OS... not so much :)

I'm running Fedora 16 with GNOME and Enlightenment on my weTab. Running
Enlightenment is almost like a Moko tablet :)

Much better support than most arm devices all around with Free Software
drivers.

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Don't feed the Trolls: The Definitive Guide to Trolls

2011-09-30 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
I'm not going to name people, but I advise some people to check out and 
follow the old age advice: Don't feed the Trolls


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1032102

Rui

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Re: Liberated Calypso docs found

2011-09-27 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 27-09-2011 07:37, Michael Sokolov escreveu:

So to those one or two ex-Openmoko employees who have a copy of the
Calypso fw source stashed away on a personal hard drive somewhere, but
who are not admitting to that and not sharing the ware: what is stopping
you from sharing?  Why are you being Bad Guys by withholding highly
valuable material from Humanity?  Can't be for fear of being fired,
assuming that you are no longer employed by Openmoko/FIC.  Can't be for
fear of being sued, as that is just not realistic.

In principle, I would agree with you, however there are laws in some
countries where should they do that and be found, they could get into
a lot of trouble.

WRT NDAs, I'd guess that after so much time, it's likely the NDA is void 
now.

Can anyone confirm?

However... there is still copyright law which has gotten radically harsher
these last years.

In some places, you are likely to get more years in jail for copying a work
than from actually stealing it from a store.

As such, this is the kind of information that is not very desireable to be
associated with a Free Software project, because even if the developers
had no problem publishing it, it would be very likely no distributor would
ever like it, and even the ISPs used by SHR and others could be harassed
until some action is done.

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Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Boot speed comparison

2011-09-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 21-09-2011 18:28, Alon Ivtsan escreveu:

The video doesn't work in IceCat using HTML5 (WebM). A free phone
should deliver its videos in a patent unencumbered format whenever
possible.
YouTube converts do WebM, but it isn't instantly (perhaps a regular 
batch job?).


Give it a couple of days and it should play like that :)

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OT: OLPC hw distribution [Was: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?]

2011-03-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 20-03-2011 12:25, Alexander Lehner escreveu:

The One Laptop Per child project imo suffers from the same idea. If they
would offer their product to the mass market, they would sell much more
and finally could drop their price this way for developing countries.


I think the OLPC project shoot themselves regularly on the foot by 
making it very hard for geeks to get the devices (or even upgrades, once 
they get one).


This causes a huge barrier to entry of people with the skills to help.

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Re: performance testing of UNWIND kernel option

2011-03-08 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 08-03-2011 14:01, Gennady Kupava escreveu:

Hi, list.

Today I noticed the following change in SHR:
http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=1516588acd3c4b4dd4add71d06ab8ce0d1bafa02
 (by Denis 'GNUtoo' Cariklignu...@no-log.org) and decided to lmbench it.

Here are results: http://www.bsdmn.com/lmbench/unwind_summary.txt

You can see comparison of:

34def -  kernel with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
unwind -  kernel with CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
default -  for reference, old debugging kernel

The unwind option provide clear benefit of 5%-10% in almost every area.

Nice spot Denis!


It does feel faster!

OpenMoko Freerunner, probably the only obsolete phone that keeps 
getting better :)


Rui

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Re: It's not a camera

2011-02-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 04-02-2011 14:19, Al Johnson escreveu:

On Friday 04 February 2011, Benjamin Deering wrote:

http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/index.php?level=albumid=26
There is a similar part called a mlx90615 which is much smaller, but
also has a smaller temperature range.  It may not work with the current
kernel module, but could probably work with small changes.


The temperature range is still -40C to 115C so probably good enough for many
uses.


I'd say for most uses!

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Re: [SHR] theme 'default.edj' problem ?

2011-02-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 04-02-2011 19:55, cyberesprit escreveu:

Yes, I use edje_decc from ubuntu-repository ...I'll change it now


That's ! Sorry for screaming, 
but it's so far behind in the timestream one may need to shout in order 
for it to reach so far back :)


Rui

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Re: openmoko as mouse

2011-02-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 24-01-2011 10:46, W. B. Kranendonk escreveu:

Hi List,

I read about Apple -of all companies- trying to run away with an idea that was 
discussed (at least by myself, and probably by others as well) on the mailing 
list as well as off line:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20110012838.pdf

It seems to cover using a telephone's touchsreen as the input for another 
system. I would say it's lacks the innovative step necessary for a valid 
patent, but that's probably only the reasoning of sane people.

Would it be something to worry about?

Best regards,

Boudewijn


In the early days of OpenMoko, Valerio Valerio did an awesome program 
that did this, among many other things... Can't remember the name of the 
program though.


Rui

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Re: The epoch is upon me.

2010-12-21 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 21-12-2010 12:55, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) escreveu:

The last time my FreeRunner's battery died, the clock reset to epoch.
Now, it no longer keeps time during suspend either. I'm guessing this
means the clock battery has finally died.

Someone recently commented that they replaced their battery with a pair
of super caps. I just wanted to confirm my diagnosis before I take a
soldering iron to my phone.

Cheers,

 John Gay


So that's why my clock...?

 a) goes back to 2000 without a battery
 b) takes so long to update the clock in the toolbar and idle screen of SHR

Damn, any instructions on how to do this properly?

Rui

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Re: FOSDEM 2011 Visitor's Guide

2010-12-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

Em 15-12-2010 10:39, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escreveu:

Is it possible that just 3 Free Runner's so far have plans to attend FOSDEM?

On FOSDEM 2010 I did count at least 70 people crowding
the (guest-) devroom.

So what are your plans?

Nikolaus



I'd love to go, but as a 4 month old father who'll be at home for 
paternity leave by the time FOSDEM plays out, I would need to have very 
good (and virtually free) conditions guaranteed to even think of going

:|

Otherwise, it's a no go for me.

Rui

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1

2010-12-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 12-12-2010 13:50, Thomas Zimmermann escreveu:
 The bug with the keyboard resizing is known too, i forgot to mention this. Bug
 it is just ugly and i don't know if i will switch to a newer E just for this,
 because newer E means often more new Bugs :)

 For eve and ewebkit i have to take a look there were some more problems and i
 thought i included the working version :)

 For the other bugs i will have a look too in the next days.

I thought the keyboard resize and efl-webkit fixes were included. If 
not, they are definitely worth it for shr-t.

Rui

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Re: Openmoko on Wikipedia

2010-11-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 29-10-2010 21:55, Stefan Monnier escreveu:
 This is done to protect users from malware,

 Please don't spread such misinformation.  It is done to keep control of
 the device away from the user.  I.e. it's only correct if you define
 malware as program that the company doesn't like, whereas I think
 it's usually understood as program which does things that the end-user
 doesn't like.  Many pre-installed software on today's popular devices
 are actually malware (tho only discerning users realize it).

Yeah, and useless as certain malware apps have popped up into Android 
and iPhoney.

Rui

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Re: [SHR] Desktop icons de-arranged with recent image

2010-11-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 03-11-2010 23:36, Martin Jansa escreveu:
 Found  fixed today
 http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/54140

 It will be in feed tomorrow.
Verified! Great catch!

Rui

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Re: [SHR] Desktop icons de-arranged with recent image

2010-11-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 01-11-2010 21:44, Alexander Lehner escreveu:
 Today I flashed the Nov-01 shr and now all desktop icons are arranged only
 one column wide.

 Has anybody else seen this?
For some reason the icon labels are no longer elipsing (getting ... to 
shorten the name). As such, if there's onw with a very long name (eg, 
Vagalume) they don't fit the area anymore and the smart placement has no 
other option than to use a single line (what's very funny is that it 
gets fast as hell).

In the meanwhile, you can find the .desktop file of the offending 
application and shorten the name by hand.

Rui

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Re: [gta04-devel] Fwd: FOSDEM 2011 Devroom on SHR/FSO declined

2010-10-31 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
  Em 31-10-2010 11:23, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escreveu:
 Not me. A lightning talk about the state of FSO on foreign hardware
 makes no sense to me and the program of the embedded room seems to be
 fixed to buildsystems, C libraries, and kernel tweakings for years now.
 Yes, that is also my impression.

 What we can do is to organize our own virtual devroom. Idea:

 * we open a page fosdem2011 on wiki.openmoko.org
 * everyone tries to get a presentation into all relevant devrooms
 -- Mickey @ Telephony
 -- Nikolaus @ Embedded or Lightning
 -- Serdar @ Distribution miniconf
 -- SHR @ Distribution miniconf
 -- etc.
 * on the wiki page we collect the time, location, title etc. to
 provide our own Openmoko view into the FOSDEM database...

 What do you think?

And have the meetings at nice bars in Brussels center ;)

Rui

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Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
  Em 19-10-2010 16:13, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escreveu:
 Today, we received the first PCBs for the GTA04. It has passed a
 mechanical test (just some connectors and buttons mounted) and this
 bare board fits exactly into the GTA02 case.

 Next, some chips are soldered and we do measurements. Before
 we solder the more expensive components (CPU, UMTS module).

 I will keep you updated.

 Nikolaus

Great news! :)

Rui

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Re: New Phone Project (MiniMoko) : Which functionalities ?

2010-10-09 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
  Em 09-10-2010 15:15, Chuck Norris escreveu:
 Dudes, what you think about normal usb instead microusb? many devices
 can be easily plugged into the phone. Not for long usage of course.
 flash drives, tv tuners, keyboard, gamepad, etc...

µ-usb means a much smaller piece, contributing to smaller size, lesser 
weigh and particle penetration (dust, all) and more compliance with EU law.

Don't know about prices, on one hand it's more common so should be less 
pricey, but on the other hand it has much more material.

Rui

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Re: New Phone Project (MiniMoko) : Which functionalities ?

2010-10-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
  Em 06-10-2010 13:41, Thomas HOCEDEZ escreveu:
* 480x320 3.5 capacitive touchscreen

A phone is the perfect size to integrate:

  * personal communication (phone, IM, social network)
  * always present camera (still or moving pictures)
  * computational needs (ssh somewhere, do stuff)
  * run useful programs (like email, web browser, games, other apps)

For these to run well in a phone you need at least 480x800. The 
Freerunner's 480x640 is definitly too small for most web browsing.

If I go one step further in size, I'm talking about tablets:

 From personal experience with a SmartQ7 (now sadly broken), I attest 
the following: 480x800 is *not* enough for displaying a more complex 
document properly (eg, a PDF with readable text and pleasently 
displayed), you need a bigger screensize.

  So when you consider such small resolutions... it's definitely not for me.

But good luck, though.
Rui

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Re: Voicerecording software needed

2010-10-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
  Dictator worked just fine for me a few months ago. Maybe it's a new 
problem.

Can you try to explain how or why it doesn't work?

Rui

Em 04-10-2010 18:43, Alexander Lehner escreveu:
 Hi all,

 I am looking for a SW to record audio. I found some (dictator, voicenote,
 monologue), but none of them seems to work properly - the development
 seems to have stopped already for a while.

 I try to avoid writing the 1000th script using arecord etc., also it
 should be useable by children...

 Thanks for any hint -

 Alex.


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Re: Devroom for FOSDEM11

2010-09-29 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
  How about:

Talks about the past, present and future of hackable mobile devices, 
respective development platforms and communities

Best regards,
Rui

Em 30-09-2010 00:24, Serdar Dere escreveu:
I will register the hackable mobile devices devroom now, which day
 would you guys prefer?
 Sat. 12-18 CEST
 Sun. 10-17 CEST

 my devroom description is:
 Talks and discussion about hackable mobile devices like Openmoko, Nokia...
 Do you got a better one?

 Greetings Serdar

 Am 27.09.10 22:28, schrieb Serdar Dere:
 your suggestion is: hackable mobile devices?
 sounds good to me.

 I am calling for papers for some (or all and more) papers I suggested
 previously.

 MfG Serdar

 Am 27.09.10 20:50, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
 Am 27.09.2010 um 20:14 schrieb Serdar Dere:

 Hi guys,

 I am taking the initative again, like the last time.
 Kudos to you!

 But I would change the topic.
 Last time it was called Openmoko Devroom, but I want to change it to
 Hackable Devices Devroom for next FOSDEM.
 Sounds good to me.

 As far as I understand the policy of the Devroom decisions they favour
 more general topics instead of single projects (although there are some).

 If I look through the list of topics, there should be a little more focus on
 hackable *mobile* devices (there are routers, embedded boards etc.).

 Also note that there was an Embedded Devroom collecting a lot of
 different topics every year (I think in 2007 Sean's presentation was part
 of that). See: http://archive.fosdem.org/2010/list-devrooms-their-call-talks

 Embedded / Mobile (contact email)
 The embedded/mobile room is the place to be for people with an interest in 
 everything small, hidden, with different CPU's and/or a gadget or mobile 
 device.
 Here we discuss and present things like hacking your phone, PDA or router 
 and everything about cross-compiling. The people that gather here are 
 usually doing tons of cool stuff with small low-powered devices, from 
 playing music to controlling big and complex systems.

 So we must somehow differentiate from that or we simply get merged.

 What do you think about it?
 ++

 My intention is, that other projects can join us, like Nitdroid, or the
 goldendelicious guys with other projects.
 Definitively!

 In that case we can get more than one day and 3h for us.

 What do you guys think about it?

 Second part:
 I would love if some people who can help on following topics can contact 
 me:
 * History and future of Openmoko or/and hackable devices
 * SHR
 * FSO
 * QTMOKO
 * AOF (Android-on-Freerunner)
 * HACKABLE:1
 * DEBIAN
 * GENTOO
 * GAMERUNNER
 * MER
 * OPENWRT
 * QALEE
 * THINGS I CAN'T THINK OF
 (not important that all are represented but it would be nice)

 Thanks in advance.

 Greetings Serdar

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GPRS is broken

2010-09-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
== /var/log/fsogsmd.log ==
2010-09-19T11:48:11.427395Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:3: URC: [ 
%CSQ:  31, 99, 4 ]

== /var/log/fsogsmd.log ==
2010-09-19T11:48:15.923119Z [INFO]  PdpPppMux : PDP Context Status now 
FREE_SMARTPHONE_GSM_CONTEXT_STATUS_OUTGOING
2010-09-19T11:48:16.131438Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:3: URC: [ 
%CSQ:  31, 99, 3 ]

== /var/log/fsogsmd.log ==
2010-09-19T11:48:18.276473Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:3: URC: [ 
+CGREG: 2 ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.298187Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+CSQ - [ +CSQ: 31,99 , OK ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.321223Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+CREG? - [ +CREG: 0,1, OK ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.355635Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+CREG=2;+CREG?;+CREG=0 - [ +CREG: 2,1,0002,05E7, OK ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.382536Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+COPS=3,0;+COPS? - [ +COPS: 0,0,vodafone P, OK ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.411392Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+COPS=3,1;+COPS? - [ +COPS: 0,1,voda P, OK ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.440701Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+COPS=3,2;+COPS? - [ +COPS: 0,2,26801, OK ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.472286Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+CGREG? - [ +CGREG: 0,2, OK ]
2010-09-19T11:48:18.500670Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:2: SRC: 
+CGREG=2;+CGREG?;+CGREG=0 - [ +CGREG: 2,2, OK ]

== /var/log/fsotdld.log ==
2010-09-19T11:48:18.521836Z [INFO]  SourceGsm : Received GSM network 
status signal

== /var/log/fsogsmd.log ==
2010-09-19T11:48:20.800956Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:3: URC: [ 
+CGREG: 1,0002,05E7 ]
2010-09-19T11:48:20.804015Z [INFO]  libfsotransport 0710:4: SRC: 
D*99***1# - [ CONNECT ]
2010-09-19T11:48:20.807791Z [INFO]  fsogsmd : received signal -11, exiting.
2010-09-19T11:48:21.388358Z [INFO]  fsogsmd : Binary launched successful 
(FsoFrameworkFileLogger created as theLogger)

== /var/log/phoneuid.log ==
2010.09.19 12:48:21.024988 [libphone-ui-shr]WARNING: Activating PDP 
failed: (4) Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

== /var/log/fsogsmd.log ==
2010-09-19T11:48:21.837368Z [INFO]  LowLevelOpenmoko : Registering 
openmoko low level poweron/poweroff handling
2010-09-19T11:48:21.838200Z [INFO]  TiCalypsoModem 0C: Ready. Using 
lowlevel plugin openmoko to handle vendor specifics
2010-09-19T11:48:21.847418Z [INFO]  TiCalypsoModem 0C: Ready. Using 
pdp plugin mux to handle data connectivity
2010-09-19T11:48:21.867858Z [INFO]  TiCalypsoModem 0C: Modem Status 
changed to FSO_GSM_MODEM_STATUS_CLOSED

== /var/log/phonefsod.log ==
2010.09.19 12:48:21.937943 [phonefsod]  MESSAGE: Inhibiting suspend 
during startup phase (max 360s)

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Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience

2010-09-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 16-09-2010 09:30, Patryk Benderz escreveu:
 [cut]
 so it will stop working?
 he he.
 nice ;)

Not nice nor fair, where are your lines of code in help of SHR?

I'm not a core developer, but at least I'm making a (sort of) kickass 
StatusNet client :)

Rui

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Re: running Xorg as non-root (with xserver-xorg-video-fbdev)

2010-09-09 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 06-09-2010 19:05, Timo Juhani Lindfors escreveu:
 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org writes:
 I expect that would be more because it tries to read /dev/input/event3
 (or 4 or both) and perhaps doesn't have enough privileges?
 
 No it's because it uses the accelerometer which is a LED device and
 thus chown/chmod can not be used to grant permissions.

chgrp and chmod appear to work, or I'm not understanding what you mean?

r...@om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw---1 root root   13,  67 Jan  1  1970 /dev/input/event3
r...@om-gta02 ~ # chgrp disk /dev/input/event3
r...@om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw---1 root disk   13,  67 Jan  1  1970 /dev/input/event3
r...@om-gta02 ~ # chgrp root /dev/input/event3
r...@om-gta02 ~ # chmod g+rw /dev/input/event3
r...@om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw-rw1 root root   13,  67 Jan  1  1970 /dev/input/event3
r...@om-gta02 ~ # chmod g-rw /dev/input/event3
r...@om-gta02 ~ # ls -laF /dev/input/event3
crw---1 root root   13,  67 Jan  1  1970 /dev/input/event3



 
 
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Re: Using freerunner as webcam display

2010-09-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 06-09-2010 00:24, Alexander Lehner escreveu:
 Just one strange thind to mention: opkg update/upgrade from my prior 
 version crashed my phone and the power button started to shine in magenta! 
 Never seen this before, but it was really nice.
 (We could use this if the SIM card was detected as TCom provider...)

I usually ssh into the phone, stop X so it wastes less memory, and only
then do an upgrade (specially if it's a lot of stuff).

Rui

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Re: running Xorg as non-root (with xserver-xorg-video-fbdev)

2010-09-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 06-09-2010 10:01, Timo Juhani Lindfors escreveu:
 Hi,
 
 just out of curiosity I tried running Xorg as non-root. I was
 surprised that it worked since this does not seem to be advertised
 anywhere. So, consider yourself informed!
 
 Details are at
 
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2010/09/msg00091.html

This is awesome, and a good step to remove a lot of risk. Only problem
in shr is the whole lotta stuff that still needs to be fixed (eg, the
opim stuff *should* move to $HOME/.config/freesmartphone/opim rather
than /etc/freesmartphone/opim ), samething for alsa statefiles, etc...

Rui

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Re: running Xorg as non-root (with xserver-xorg-video-fbdev)

2010-09-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 06-09-2010 16:04, Timo Juhani Lindfors escreveu:
 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org writes:
 This is awesome, and a good step to remove a lot of risk. Only problem
 in shr is the whole lotta stuff that still needs to be fixed (eg, the
 opim stuff *should* move to $HOME/.config/freesmartphone/opim rather
 than /etc/freesmartphone/opim ), samething for alsa statefiles, etc...
 
 I've been happily running all my X clients as non-root for more than a
 year. I have seen problems only with applications that are
 specifically written for openmoko (e.g. mokomaze)...

I expect that would be more because it tries to read /dev/input/event3
(or 4 or both) and perhaps doesn't have enough privileges?

Rui

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Re: Leaving the Openmoko community, new wiki-admin needed

2010-08-31 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi,

Thank you for your work, so far, and that you took the time to announce
your intention is very much appreciated (better than suddenly dropping out).

I don't remember Joachim, but I hope he's still paying attention to the
mailing list. I offer my will to help with this task, unless someone
else wants it.

Best regards,
Rui

Em 31-08-2010 14:59, Marko Knöbl escreveu:
 Dear Openmoko community!
 
 I have previously worked as the administrator of the Openmoko Wiki for the 
 last
 year. Unfortunately I have to announce that I will stop my involvement in the
 Openmoko community and so a new admin is needed. The reason for leaving is
 quite simple: I broke my FreeRunner last weekend at a party. Although I
 enjoyed my time with it I won't get another one. (Instead I'm getting an N900
 and hoping for MeeGo or Debian + FSO to provide a free OS for this device 
 soon)
 
 As I am leaving a new admin is needed in the wiki. The main task for such an
 admin would be deleting pages which are either outdated or spam. More
 information on the process of deleting pages can be found here:[1]. If you are
 willing to assist the community by taking over this task please contact a wiki
 sysop and request more rights on the wiki so you can delete pages. I think
 Joachim Steiger (Roh) is the one to contact for this purpose.
 
 I will continue the task of deleting unwanted pages until someone else will 
 get
 admin rights - but not longer than one month.
 
 I wish you all the best for the future. It has been great to be a part of this
 project!
 
 OT: As my involvement in the Openmoko project is over I'm searching for new
 challenges. I'm planning to take a break for several month now, but afterwards
 I might consider writing some documentation again for some project related to
 N900. So if you're working on a related project and need assisance with
 documentation just contact me and maybe I'll join.
 
 [1]
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Wiki_Editing_Guidelines#Deleting_pages
 
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Re: xrandr -o, left and xrandr -o right always rotate to the same direction

2010-08-30 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 30-08-2010 23:16, Benjamin Deering escreveu:
 Hello all,
 
 Now that the touch screen input is being rotated along with the screen 
 in the latest SHR-U, I have been playing with omnewrotate.  Even with 
 the latest version, a few things need to be changed.  Using the other 
 accelerometer (/dev/input/event4) seems to work a lot better than the 
 default.

Only because that version is still considering relative values and not
absolute values, which are the current settings.

I'm commiting r68 in a few minutes with fixes for this behaviour change
in accelerometer data. It's not a recent change, but I didn't notice
because until recently frequent rotations would eventually get a white
screen.

 It still isnt possible to rotate the screen to the right, or to invert 
 it.  The image will be displayed upside down.  I don't know where to 
 start looking for the cause of this.  Any ideas?

It is possible, but in an Orwellian way, left is right and down is up!

Should be a bug in glamo...

Rui

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Re: xrandr -o, left and xrandr -o right always rotate to the same direction

2010-08-30 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 31-08-2010 01:09, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra escreveu:
 Em 30-08-2010 23:16, Benjamin Deering escreveu:
 It still isnt possible to rotate the screen to the right, or to invert 
 it.  The image will be displayed upside down.  I don't know where to 
 start looking for the cause of this.  Any ideas?
 
 It is possible, but in an Orwellian way, left is right and down is up!
 
 Should be a bug in glamo...

glamo xorg driver!

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Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 13-08-2010 10:37, Matthias Apitz escreveu:
 Wrong question, for me.
 
 I will not use any other 'smartphone' (computerphone), which:
 
 - is not Linux or FreeBSD driven and open as Linux/FreeBSD are normaly 

Ah, so you'll not be using any Android/Linux, I see :)

Rui

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Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 13-08-2010 10:56, Matthias Apitz escreveu:
 Em 13-08-2010 10:49, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escreveu:
 Do I interpret you correclty, that your answer to my questions are:

 * I will wait *any* time, as long as it fulfills my opensource requirements
 
 yes;
 
 * I accept any price
 
 yes, any price in the range of my Freerunner, more or less; or even 500
 euro, depends on my economic situation in that moment;


Add me as a metoo if you want. I had a Nokia 6600 (I regret the 500€
but I extended them as much as I could), shortly after I learn of
OpenMoko. I decided to try to keep 6600 until Freerunner comes out, but
sadly one year before that I sent it for a 20 min swim.

Still no Freerunner, so I get a cheap Nokia 2760 (GTA01 was clearly too
early for me), lasts until today carrying my job's SIM (the work phone
is *that* crappy).

My main phone, carrying my personal SIM is OpenMoko and I'm treating it
as carefully as I can to extend it's life well beyond the current two
years, 1.5 of them with definite usage :)

If it breaks, and no viable alternative exists, I hope to get an A7+, or
A7, or A6, or A5+buzz fix (in this decreasing order of preference).

Even with all the bugs and immaturity of the platform, I'm so passionate
for Free Software I rather go through all this again than go back to
proprietary phones or get a pseudo-open phone (Android/Linux, Meego,
etc...).

To all SHR and FSO core develpers: a *HUGE* thank you, I'm only sorry I
can't help out more.

Rui

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Re: 2+4+2 timing seemed to disrupt access to the sdcard

2010-07-31 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 31-07-2010 01:02, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) escreveu:
 On 26/07/2010 - 10.58 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
 I have been using the qi with 2+4+2 timing over the weekend, and noted 
 two problems. (This with shr unstable and its 2.6.32 kernel.)

 First, lots of WSODs. This required lots of suspending (or reboot)
 without seeing the screen. This is not always possible, so
 lots of battery removal.
 
 Using this kernel [1] the WSODs stopped (I'm using this SHR unstable
 running from a µSD card)... However with it I can't use my wifi device.
 It isn't found at all by the phone!
 
 [1] http://www.bsdmn.com/openmoko/glamo/242/shrkernel_nows/

Have you tried to load yourself the ar6000 module? With July 30th SHR-U
image I had to do that...

modprobe ar6000

See if it brings wifi back to life (should be automatic but something is
wrong).

Rui

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Re: [SHR-T] Images from 29th of May

2010-07-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi,

Em 22-07-2010 09:33, Risto H. Kurppa escreveu:
 4) Iliwi is missing a button to disconnect from a network

What's the use case that would compensate the wast of screen area?

Select another network? Just connect to it (can't have two at the same
time anyways).
Disconnection? Just close iliwi.

If anyone decides to add a disconnection button, I suggest it is
something like an hover of possible actions after pressing the network
for a short period (like  1s)

Rui

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Re: SHR shr manual: Don't use sudo with dfu-util

2010-07-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
huh? I've always used dfu-util with sudo without a problem! Granted for
some time I haven't used as I'm now booting via sd card, but I never had
any problem.

Em 14-07-2010 09:17, Petr Vanek escreveu:
 The SHR manual contains a note:
 
 Don't use sudo with dfu-util. Make sure you are root before using
 dfu-util!
 
 Is it still an issue? Has somebody reported it as a bug so that it
 could maybe be fixed?
 
 Please let me know so this note can be removed.
 
 thank you
 
 Petr
 
 
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Re: Pisi won't synchronize.

2010-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Cool, thank you very much! :)

Em 06-07-2010 21:28, Michael Pilgermann escreveu:
 Hi Rui,
 
 I fixed this - type PREF is now ignored. Your test is going through well.
 
 Fix is in the git repos already; will be coming with next PISI release
 (0.5.4).
 
 Best
 Michael
 
 
 
 I have a couple of contacts with TEL;TYPE=CELL,PREF:number or
 TEL;TYPE=CELL,WORK:number but those fields never get imported if they're
 the *only* TEL field.
 
 I could only import them only after changing to TEL;TYPE=CELL:number
 

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Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience

2010-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 07-07-2010 20:27, Brolin Empey escreveu:
 I know the N900’s kernel is relatively old (2.6.28.x) and the N900 is 
 less open than the FR, but this does not matter to me because it is an 
 acceptable compromise in order to have a far better experience with a 
 more powerful and current device.

Well, if you first remove the proprietary parts in order to get an
equivalently free device with the N900, *ONLY*THEN* will you be able to
make an intelectually honest good comparison.

Rui

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Re: Freerunner Firewall

2010-06-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 17-06-2010 18:59, Shosholoza escreveu:
 
 It is possible to use this script with SHR unstable?
 I tried but I found this error:
 Starting iptables firewall: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.
 iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.
 

Yes, but you may have to load the right modules.

I have this *very* basic script to setup my Neo's firewall (see attachment).

Hope it helps.

Rui
#!/bin/sh

iptables=/usr/sbin/iptables

$iptables -F INPUT
$iptables -F OUTPUT
$iptables -F FORWARD

$iptables -P INPUT DROP
$iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
$iptables -P FORWARD DROP

# prepare for accounting
$iptables -F GPRS
$iptables -N GPRS

# my laptop and me
$iptables -A INPUT  -i usb0 -s 192.168.0.200 -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o usb0 -d 192.168.0.200 -j ACCEPT

# allow outgoing NEW traffic regardless of interface
$iptables -A OUTPUT  -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED-j ACCEPT

# allow incoming related traffic regardless of interface
$iptables -A INPUT  -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

# accounting
$iptables -A OUTPUT  -o ppp0 -j GPRS
$iptables -A FORWARD -o ppp0 -j GPRS
$iptables -A INPUT   -i ppp0 -j GPRS

# forward and masquerade traffic from my computer
$iptables -A FORWARD -i usb0 -o ppp0 -s 192.168.0.200 -m state --state 
NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -o usb0 -d 192.168.0.200 -m state --state 
RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
$iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
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Re: HTC patent application for Joerg's Y-cable?

2010-06-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 07-06-2010 16:00, Al Johnson escreveu:
 As Joerg says, I don't think it should be worthy of a patent. Unfortunately 
 courts in the US have been progressively lowering the obviousness bar to the 
 point where it's patentable unless someone has explicitly described it 
 already 
 before the priority date. It's not just software patents that are broken that 
 side of the pond.

And it's not just on the US either, particularly in Germany where recent
developments are, to say the least, very troubling.

Rui

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Re: Openmoko Beagle Hybrid

2010-05-25 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 25-05-2010 07:05, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escreveu:
 This finally will lead to the question how many of us want to own such a
 new OMAP based motherboard for the Freerunner... But I think we are too
 early to really pose this question since for solid market research, one
 has to present at least a full concept (complete feature list and target
 price).

For me there are a few requirements about it:
 * it has to fit *inside* the freerunner box, or I'm not interested
 * it has to have a working GSM chip, or I'm not interested
 * it should be possible to port SHR (preferred) or Meego for it with
little trouble, or I'm not interested

This is only because I both:
 1) use the Freerunner as my main phone
 2) don't have the time to make it all work

If these issues were gone, then maybe we could talk prices, but not
before, at least for me.

Rui

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Re: Pisi won't synchronize.

2010-05-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 05-05-2010 14:31, Michael Pilgermann escreveu:
 This got fixed.
 Please upgrade to 0.5.3. 
 
 If you are not on SHR-U; here is the link for manual download:
 http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/ipk/all/pisi_0.5.3-r0.4_all.ipk

I have a couple of contacts with TEL;TYPE=CELL,PREF:number or
TEL;TYPE=CELL,WORK:number but those fields never get imported if they're
the *only* TEL field.

I could only import them only after changing to TEL;TYPE=CELL:number

Also, could sync have a one-way-only mode?

I have over 200 contacts so it's quite slow to fix the issues with one
contact... if I try to sync a vcf with only the contact to be fixed, it
syncs both-ways thus taking a long time.

If it could be told to sync one-way only, then it would look for similar
contacts and sync them on OPIMD (or whatever) from the info contained in
the VCF. Thus, a bit like a VCF importer ;)

Rui

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OpenMoko 0.5.8 is out!

2010-05-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
http://blog.1407.org/2010/05/01/omnewrotate-0-5-8-is-out/

OMNewRotate 0.5.8 is out!

I’ve just released omnewrotate[0] 0.5.8 which integrates Tim Abell’s
improvements to rotation sensitivity and I’ve added some code so it is
smarter about detecting the paths for setting the brightness level while
rotating which changed in more recent Linuxs (2.6.32 and beyond, I think).

As I’m running SHR-Unstable, your mileage may vary but it’s likely it
will work :)

As usual, the download links are at the project’s Google Code site for
omnewrotate (see the featured downloads section):

* the ipk of this release[1] (OpenPGP sig[2]).
* and its tar ball[3] (OpenPGP sig[4])

SHR-unstable users should only need to upgrade omnewrotate.

Enjoy!

Links:
[0] http://code.google.com/p/omnewrotate/
[1]
http://omnewrotate.googlecode.com/files/omnewrotate_0.5.8-r2.4_armv4t.ipk
[2]
http://omnewrotate.googlecode.com/files/omnewrotate_0.5.8-r2.4_armv4t.ipk.asc
[3] http://omnewrotate.googlecode.com/files/omnewrotate-0.5.8.tar.gz
[4] http://omnewrotate.googlecode.com/files/omnewrotate-0.5.8.tar.gz.asc

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Re: OmNewRotate 0.5.8 is out!

2010-05-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 01-05-2010 12:36, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra escreveu:
 http://blog.1407.org/2010/05/01/omnewrotate-0-5-8-is-out/
 
 OMNewRotate 0.5.8 is out!

Obvious typo in subject :)

Rui

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Re: project customers

2010-04-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 19-04-2010 13:49, Vibhav Sharma escreveu:
 On Saturday 17 April 2010 11:49 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
 http://www.google.pt/search?q=olpc+tablet
 It's would be a real killer if it has a reflexive screen like XO-1 and
 XO-1.5
* low energy requirements when backlight is off
* visible even with direct sunlight
* color! (well, I don't know if reflexive mode can support it, in
 current XO's it can't
 Seen the NotionInk Adam. Just google it. Specially check out videos.

Seemed interesting until I read it uses NVidia Tigra. Not anymore.


Rui

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Re: community Digest, Vol 179, Issue 23

2010-04-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 17-04-2010 10:02, Christoph Pulster escreveu:
 I consider the idea, that the future of open source hardware could be
 this: taking high-quality hardware from big players like Apple, which  
 are sexy and free of bugs. But jailbreaking/reflashing the bootloader,  
 installing a free OS.
 Sure, we get in some dependencies of the HW manufactorer and this is not  
 the 100% clean way like Copyleft-concept of Qi is (well this is a very  
 European idea, maybe some Russian crackers are more intelligent in some  
 practical way).

Won't work. One word why: drivers.

You'll always produce a sub-standard alternative to the official OS that
comes with the device.

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Re: project customers

2010-04-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 16-04-2010 23:02, Kosa escreveu:
 I ain't no expert on this, but since iPad is being a succesful mobil
 device, we could give a chance for a BIGGER Freerunner. Of course iPad
 won't sell as many pices as the iPhone has, but 400k seems good for a
 start. There's a huge market for the big touchscreen devices.

There is a project for such a pad at the OLPC. Joining the effort seems
like the wisest choice, to me.


http://www.google.pt/search?q=olpc+tablet

It's would be a real killer if it has a reflexive screen like XO-1 and
XO-1.5
  * low energy requirements when backlight is off
  * visible even with direct sunlight
  * color! (well, I don't know if reflexive mode can support it, in
current XO's it can't)

Add to it new Comix/Evince/etc... interfaces oriented to touch screens,
and you'll have a huge success if it's cheap, so featureful and open.

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Re: how to contribute to open source projects

2010-04-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
You don't have to let anyone in, that's your power :)

But you're creating artificial barriers to participation (no public
read-only SCM -- at the very least -- so people can work on their
patches and adapt to changes in main trunk until they get their patches
just right, keeping aces up your sleeve, etc...)

You say you do that because of forks, but that behaviour's precisely
what incentivates forks :)

Rui

Em 12-04-2010 22:55, Marcus Bauer escreveu:
 
 Hello Rui,
 
 you certainly know that I value your opinion a lot. 
 
 Just the other day there was a storm going on about a remark of Scott
 James Remnant from Ubuntu who is an outstanding developer, very much
 committed to advancing Ubuntu. People who have never done any
 contribution flooded the bugzilla and flamed him.
 
 Foul behaviour needs to be sanctioned, otherwise it ruins the whole
 basket of apples. User experience is key. 
 
 Actually I have received several supportive emails today from people
 that have similar amounts (or more) of Google hits in connection with
 Openmoko than I do have. As wrong as it is to go for weeks to argue
 with these people it is to let it go through without response.
 
 There were at least three other projects in the last four years with a
 similar scope than tangoGPS. Where were the people complaining about
 not being able to participate in the development of tangoGPS when those
 projects were open for participation, where are their contributions? 
 
 Foul play needs to be clearly identified and pointed out. I rather
 doubt that those people have got plenty of invitations today to join
 other projects but I'd be happy if that would be the case.
 
 I don't know what your current main project is, but feel free to invite
 them. Let me know in 4 years if they are still actively contributing
 and I'll cover myself in ashes :-)
 
 Have fun with them and please take them away from me and thousands
 of happy tangoGPS users and integrate them in your projets :p
 
 Marcus
 
 
 
 On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:17:30 +0100
 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote:
 
 Hi Marcus,

 Reading your comments, I'd say you're quickly running several steps of
 How to destroy your community - http://lwn.net/Articles/370157/

 I won't go into the details of listing which is which, and please note
 that my felling on that is *PURELY* based upon your emails and not on
 what others claim or feel or actually passed through.

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Re: how to contribute to open source projects

2010-04-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi Marcus,

Reading your comments, I'd say you're quickly running several steps of
How to destroy your community - http://lwn.net/Articles/370157/

I won't go into the details of listing which is which, and please note
that my felling on that is *PURELY* based upon your emails and not on
what others claim or feel or actually passed through.

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Re: AAVA Mobile?

2010-04-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 06-04-2010 15:05, arne anka escreveu:
 The issue is really what they mean by open.
 
 which of intel's hardware does not have open source, intel supported,  
 drivers?
 if they really make all drivers available (as with their graphic adaptors  
 and wifi), it would be more open than the freerunner, wouldn't it?

Except that I don't expect them to make things easy on the following
devices:
  * graphics card
  * gsm chip
  * gps chip
  * wifi chip
  * bluetooth chip

While the Freerunner isn't perfect on all of those (independent
computers running it's own firmware), at least none of them require you
to run a proprietary driver thus restricting  kernel, X11 and other
basic software upgrades. They provide an AT command interface you can
speak to the chip without blocking the rest.

If it's at least as open as the Freerunner, I'm willing to accept that
for the time being, while I wish a truly open hardware phone to come up.

However, a truly open hardware phone will require funding by someone
probably richer than Mark Shuttleworth, who has an interest in it :)

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Re: AAVA Mobile?

2010-04-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 06-04-2010 07:02, Werner Almesberger escreveu:
 undrwater wrote:
 I'm wondering if this is a re-badged product discussed here previously, or
 something relatively new?
 
 Looks like something new. It isn't quite clear to me what semantics
 they attach to Open, in particular whether the openness is supposed
 to come from the mere fact of being an x86 platform and inherently
 PC-ish, or whether it also means an absence of binary kernel modules
 and similar kinds of joy. Or it could just mean that they'll license
 the design to anyone, which would indeed be more open than anything
 else on the market, even though at a different level.
 
 I'd also be curious about battery life. If they've indeed managed to
 make an x86-based phone with a battery life that compares to a good
 ARM-based one, that would be very impressive.
 
 There's of course also the question to what extent x86 matters for
 mobile phones today. In terms of processing power, already ARM seems
 to offer more than enough for most purposes. In terms of
 compatibility, they don't seem to aim for straight PC-compatibility
 anyway, and the concept of an app store, having been given a very
 pronounced shape by Apple, has changed the landscape.

It's supposed to be Intel's Moorestown, which is aimed, I guess, at
ARMs, so it should be comparable, at least.

The issue is really what they mean by open. Nokia N900 is *not* open
even if you can install another OS not blessed by Nokia, as important
functionality is clearly missing.

Same goes for many other open phones around the spot.

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OMNewRotate 0.5.7 is out!

2010-04-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
http://blog.1407.org/2010/04/04/omnewrotate-0-5-7-is-out/

After about 11 months since the previous release, I've just released
omnewrotate 0.5.7 (after short lived 0.5.5 and 0.5.6 as I found out a
dangling patch in SHR-Unstable's recipe and did a mistake on the 0.5.6
release) which integrates Tim Abell's init script change and the
aforementioned patch.

As I'm running SHR-Unstable, your mileage may vary but it's likely it
will work :)

As usual, the download links are at the project’s Google Code site for
omnewrotate (see the featured downloads section):

* the ipk of this release (OpenPGP sig).
* and its tar ball (OpenPGP sig)

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Re: Upgrades for SHR-unstable

2010-04-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 01-04-2010 14:38, Thomas Franck escreveu:
 Hi..
 
 Please 'opkg update; opkg upgrade' and reboot afterwards.
 
 Done so.. when I checked again it was screen was black (locked).. I
 tapped it.. and that image was very very scary.. ;)
 
 April Fools day and all, I suppose.. will it change with the an update
 tomorrow? :P

Oh I sure hope so! My first thought was:

.oO( OMG, they killed SHR! You bastards! )  ;)

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Re: Comparing A5 and A7 sound settings

2010-03-28 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 17-03-2010 20:54, Niels Heyvaert escreveu:
 And it's all fine and dandy if it wasn't so damn easy to casually change
 the mic volume into some unusable mode. One setting works a lot better
 (at least for me) and I only need to check it after upgrades!

 Rui

 Hi Rui,
 
 Can you put your sound settings on the Wiki too? Just so that others can see 
 if it works out OK for them.

Only saw this now, I was in vacations. Will do.

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Re: Comparing A5 and A7 sound settings

2010-03-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 16-03-2010 06:23, Timo Jyrinki escreveu:
 2010/3/16 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org:
 ' You may call my tests misinformation, but I'll calmly go on with usable
 sound settings with which I can be heard even from a noisy restaurant by
 *NOT*USING* the Correct setting.
 
 I am not claiming the wrong settings would not help. The main thing
 is that it should be possible to achieve the same situation with other
 settings, while keeping the audio path more sane. If it works for you,
 fine, but it's not exactly how the audio path should be configured in
 general. I did use wrong settings myself to a satisfaction for a
 long time, but they shouldn't be used in general.
 
 If you see 
 http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg58185.html
 - for example the same effect as raising control.12 from 5 to 7 like
 some people do when they feel they have too little microphone volume
 can be had by increasing control.5 by 6 values, but without having
 additional stage of amplifying (keeping control.12 at 5 means 0dB).
 The exact effect of setting Mic Sidetone Mux (control.63) to Right
 PGA instead of Mic 2 is not known, but it uses a wrong audio path
 and a similar way of lessening noise and mic volume should be done by
 using control.5 (mono playback) instead.

And it's all fine and dandy if it wasn't so damn easy to casually change
the mic volume into some unusable mode. One setting works a lot better
(at least for me) and I only need to check it after upgrades!

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Re: Buzz is not Fixed

2010-03-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 14-03-2010 12:07, Toni Mueller escreveu:
 after getting my device back (months ago) and putting the
 first semi-working distro on it (SHR unstable from Feb. 24th this
 year), sound has improved from pure buzz to semi-intelligible buzz like
 on an old military short-wave walkie-talkie. It's very hard to use if
 there are also environmental noises, which there usually are.
 
 I verified that the buzz fix hardware is there.
 
 I'm using a T-D1 card on a contract in Germany (not reseller or
 prepaid).
 
 
 What now?

My A5+buzz fix gets reasonably good sound if I change the Mic Sidetone
Mux to a value other than the correct value.

Can you try and see if it works for you too?

I have it like this, under current SHR Unstable:

r...@om-gta02 ~ $ grep ^63
/etc/freesmartphone/conf/GTA02/alsa-default/gsmhandset
63:'Mic Sidetone Mux':1:3

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Re: Comparing A5 and A7 sound settings

2010-03-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 13-03-2010 17:48, Timo Jyrinki escreveu:
 Mic Sidetone Mux: 'Mic 2' = the correct setting, please try to not
 spread misinformation that it'd be wrong simply because it happens to
 also increase the volume and therefore buzzing as well if other
 settings are high
 Mic 2: '3' (= 0dB)
 Mono Sidetone: '5' (= 0dB,)
 Mono Playback '100 (= -21dB) (for buzz-fixed A5 I had this around 115)

You may call my tests misinformation, but I'll calmly go on with usable
sound settings with which I can be heard even from a noisy restaurant by
*NOT*USING* the Correct setting.

I have an A5+buzz fix, and I get better sound with this surgical change
than from ever toying around with volume which, by accident, can be set
to unusable easily, otherwise.

For me, after upgrades, I always check for the 63'rd value of gsmhandset
to be 3, rather than 2.

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Re: [[SHR all] Read this if Call screen and messages dont work - a.k.a.- fixing dissappearing call window, segfaults and name-to-number resolution

2010-03-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 15-03-2010 23:36, Bernd Prünster escreveu:
 mdbus2 -s org.freesmartphone.opimd \
 /org/freesmartphone/PIM/Contacts \
 org.freesmartphone.PIM.Fields.ListFields

I get


r...@om-gta02 ~ $ mdbus2 -s org.freesmartphone.opimd \
 /org/freesmartphone/PIM/Contacts \
 org.freesmartphone.PIM.Fields.ListFields
Segmentation fault
r...@om-gta02 ~ $

(updated yesterday).

Rui

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Re: Rolling dices on OpenMoko

2010-03-08 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 08-03-2010 18:13, Xavier Cremaschi escreveu:
 - for 3D : OpenGl or ???
 
 I am not sure about using OpenGl or not... I know the tech, and OpenGl 
 would be great when soft runs on PC, but what about openmoko ? AFAIK, 
 because of a lack of OpenGl ES support, any OpenGl app would run on 
 mesa/software-acceleration-by-cpu. Without OpenGl I don't know how I can 
 do 3d, any idea ?

Don't worry so much about fancy hardware 3D support for effects, better
a simple 2D fast and working app than fancy but slow or not working.

Rui

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Re: My FreeRunner’s USB port still works for power, but not data?

2010-03-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 03-03-2010 19:19, Brolin Empey escreveu:
 Brolin Empey wrote:
 Now my FreeRunner’s USB port works for power, so I can
 still charge the battery, but not for communications, so I think a
 solder connection must have come undone. I need to try disassembling my
 FreeRunner to check the connections for the USB connector so I can ask
 someone at work to fix (resolder) the connection, but I have not yet
 done so. It must be a hardware problem because QtMoko can still charge,
 but nothing happens when I connect USB devices to my FreeRunner: no
 kernel modules are automatically loaded, there are no kernel messages.
 Manually loading the kernel modules (e.g., dm9601 for my USB→Ethernet
 adapter) for the USB device does not help. It is not because of the
 electrical/logical USB host/device setting because I checked that; I
 know how to use sysfs to change it.

I don't want to seem cocky, but did you try do ifdown usb0 ; ifup usb0
in vala-terminal?

If still has no IP and connectivity, ifconfig usb0 IP netmask NETMASK ?

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Re: [Palm Pre] Code-Sprint next week!

2010-02-26 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 26-02-2010 18:06, morp...@gravedo.de escreveu:
 After the sprint is over we will report what we have done and which
 tasks are open to help us to get a full featured FSO rootfs for the Palm 
 Pre.

Awesome news!

Rui


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Re: gta02-core (was Re: OM future)

2010-02-25 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 25-02-2010 01:39, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) escreveu:
 boys with the big pots of money are surprisingly close there. rome wasn't 
 built
 in one day. fight the battles you can win - dont fight the impossible ones.
 sure - it's not as glorious. it's not as sexy. but it gets you one small step
 closer to where you'd like to be. you may never get it. that's the nature of
 compromises. but you can get some of it at least.

Oh come on, don't beat them with a stick, if you don't have people
working on this now, then when the time comes there will be pretty much
nothing to show and all the time of development will have to start
*then* instead of now :)

The beauty of these communities thing is that one resource spent in
developping gta02-core is not one resource not spent in SHR because (and
I might be wrong here because I'm not into gta02-core) most likely
gta02-core people don't feel as excited writing software for a
smartphone environment (PIM, call support, other apps, etc...).

As such, gta02-core people are not diminishing SHR people, but
complementing.

Hugs,
Rui

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Re: Rutgers University writes malware for Freerunner

2010-02-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 23-02-2010 08:23, Jakob escreveu:
 On 2/23/10, Michael Smith openm...@netapps.com.au wrote:
 Having your web browser run as root is very dangerous. I hope we fix that
 soon.
 --
 Michael Smith
 +61 416 062 898
 http://glitch.tl

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 It's not hard to run your browser on the neo as user. Though it should
 be made default.
 e.g. in SHR one could ask the user at first startup to create a user
 and then run the browser, piding and all those internet applications
 with the rights of this user.

Everything should be run as the user. Using dbus should be enough for
getting the priviledged stuff done at FSO level.

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Re: Rutgers University writes malware for Freerunner

2010-02-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 23-02-2010 18:42, GNUtoo escreveu:
 On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 00:08 +0100, Petr Vanek wrote:
 as
 my middleware fails to bring up GSM interface 9 of 10 times lately, i
 guess i am pretty safe from any bad hackers' attacks!
 But what if you get attacked from wifi?
 I think we need help on security in openembedded(the build system SHR
 uses):
 *no security team and potentially outdated and vulnerable packages,but
 sometimes people fix security bugs...
 *On SHR and many default images root is the only user
 *I bet we have no selinux support but because of the previous issues it
 becomes irrelevant.

I'd like to help with that, if someone could introduce me to the right
people.

My technical background is on systems and firewalls administration at
the portuguese payments network.

Best,
Rui

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Re: OM future

2010-02-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 23-02-2010 18:41, Mike Crash escreveu:
 You talk something else than me. I didn't said anything about usage and
 development, only about the phone. Take a today phone and try to use it as
 GPS. In some hours you are out of battery, not very usable for a weekend in
 nature.

I think that can be said of each and every computer with Neo's
capabilities (or better).

 You say, that Neo is like laptop in 2000? Nope, on laptop you can
 write documents, make programming etc. On neo you cannot

I beg your pardon?

WRT typing: Neo doesn't have a keyboard (only on screen emulation). Get
a laptop from 2000 without a keyboard or mouse. Neo can do more (you can
type on the screen).

Now add a bluetooth keyboard: suddenly you can type a lot better.

 The small screen is very limited.

Yes and no. The advantage of being a nice GNU/Linux computer is that you
get your normal applications. The advantage is, you get your normal
applications but they are not thought for small screens.

We need smaller UIs, I recently asked the AbiWord guys to promote a
Google SoC

 Neo can be used as GPS, for access to internet (especially reading), book
 reading, as MP3 player etc. But not as mobile office. If you are clicker,
 yes, but for real work no.
 
 Also consider the open source community - it has not the power to take the
 lead. And no power to make really open phone. Not without any involvement of
 some big manufacturer.


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Re: Rutgers University writes malware for Freerunner

2010-02-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 22-02-2010 21:52, Andrew Stephen escreveu:
 http://www.technewsdaily.com/hacked-smartphones-could-be-used-to-spy-on-you-100222-0237/
 
 --8--
 The researchers say their intent is not to just scare people, but to
 inspire action. What we’re doing today is raising a warning flag,
 Iftode said. We’re showing that people with general computer
 proficiency can create rootkit malware for smart phones. The next step
 is to work on defenses.
 
 The team used an open-source smartphone called the Openmoko FreeRunner
 running Linux software, but they emphasized that with enough time and
 effort, any smartphone operating system can be attacked with malware.
 
 The Rutgers team plans to use their results to inspire developers to
 create new ways to detect and prevent rootkit attacks on smartphones
 because none exist right now.
 --8--

Considering the number of things I have to turn off, I'm not surprised
anyone found a way to deliver malware through SHR.


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Re: ar6000 (FR's wifi) bugs, workarounds and CLI usage tips, read this for stable wifi

2010-02-21 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 21-02-2010 15:50, arne anka escreveu:
 please, explain power cycling.

rebooting ar6000 (one of Freerunner's computers).

Rui

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Re: ar6000 (FR's wifi) bugs, workarounds and CLI usage tips, read this for stable wifi

2010-02-21 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
With small variations upon your script I have:

1) ~/wpa dir with the following contents:

r...@om-gta02 ~ $ ls wpa/
amigos.wpacasa.wpa  gomaxperf   spot.wpa
wifi-dhcp.sh

(the .wpa files are wpa config files with special setups).

2) maxperf is for the weird cases:

r...@om-gta02 ~ $ cat wpa/maxperf
#!/bin/sh

wmiconfig -ieth0 --power=maxperf

3) go just glue's Paul's commands (but required a bit more of sleep time
in order to work reliably, and using sh instead of bash):

r...@om-gta02 ~ $ cat wpa/go
#!/bin/sh

CONF=$1

set -x

fsoraw -r WiFi -- sh -c sleep 5; wpa_supplicant -i eth0 -D wext -c $CONF 

sleep 10  wpa_cli -a /home/root/wpa/wifi-dhcp.sh -B -G100

4) and wifi-dhcp.sh is slightly modified (for instance, I don't have
dhclient):

r...@om-gta02 ~ $ cat wpa/wifi-dhcp.sh
#!/bin/sh

if [ $2 == CONNECTED ] ; then
   udhcpc $1
   pkill -f wpa_cli -a
   wpa_cli -a $0 -B -G100
fi



5) running the following works, and recovers wifi when resumed after
suspend:

cd wpa ; ./go casa.wpa

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Re: Jefliks Jabber-Client release

2010-02-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 17-02-2010 16:16, Davide Scaini escreveu:

 Yes i found that :)
 I tried with that sever, but it gives me
 IO Error 7
 gmail wants ssl, my guess is that sasl is not ok (and tsl of course)... (i'm
 not an expert, not at all)
 so right now it does not work :)
 d

Perhaps it will work if you apply this fix:

http://code.google.com/p/elmdentica/wiki/httpsSupport

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Re: [qtmoko] New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner

2010-02-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 15-02-2010 13:03, Radek Polak escreveu:
 I think the slowness of the graphics can be explained by not having the
 kernel-modules installed. 
 
 The slowness is more likely because SHR runs on top of X while QtMoko draws 
 directly to framebuffer.

A framebuffer device is usually slower than a native driver under X.

My Freerunner's UI performance definitely felt a bit faster after moving
to the native driver.

I also noticed this in my SmartQ7 after moving from the framebuffer to a
native driver.

The slowness of the graphics is better explained by the brain deadness
of the hardware.

Now... Qt from framebuffer devices is very highly optimized, so it may
be a bit faster than other Windows managers, but it also does a lot less
(like not being exactly a window manager).

Rui

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Re: elm_browser initial release

2010-02-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 14-02-2010 02:26, c_c escreveu:
 - preconfigured to handle https

   Hmm, I could add the /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt to the ipk for
 now. What do you think?

Please don't!

It should be in it's own package, and not provided by each application.
If you want, while it's not in its own package, package your own
(/usr/share/ventura/ca-certificates.crt for instance).

However, thank you very much for that tip, so my elmdentica code works
with SSL but all it lacked was that file... I copied it from my laptop
and now I have SSL working on the Freerunner, so cool!

Anyone knows of a package that has this file and should be installed by
default even though it isn't currently?

Rui

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Re: [Community Updates] 2010-01-14 released

2010-01-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 20-01-2010 10:42, Patryk Benderz escreveu:
 [cut]
 I know, I didn't have time to update the CU, but elmdentica's latest
 release didn't show up :)
 Hi Rui,
 sorry we missed elmdentica this time, but it sometimes just happens. Can
 you point me to your post on ML, where you gave info about new release?
 Latest i could find in my mailbox is: ElmDentica 0.7.0 is out! dated
 on 2009-10-12 which is rather old. Could it be, we missed it also on
 previous CUs ??? If so, than I am terribly sorry, but believe me,
 getting all this information from many sources and combining them
 together sometimes is an uneasy task. Sometimes something gets lost in
 this process.

Don't be sorry, it's also partly my fault, it seems that I forgot to 
forward a mail to the mailing list and add it to the current talk page 
of the community news :)

It went into the planet, unless something wrong happened.

Anyway, it is the latest article in http://blog.1407.org/tag/openmoko

Rui


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Re: Community action required: Wikipage with FOSDEM 2010 activities and attendants

2010-01-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Will you do #1024 bug fixing @ FOSDEM? How much would you charge for it?

BTW, same question for other companies who will show up :)

Rui

Em 18-01-2010 07:21, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller escreveu:
 Hi all,
 I will attend FOSDEM 2010 and give a talk about experiments with
 GNUstep running on the Freerunner. Here is the schedule:

   http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/gnustep_porting_quantumstep

 But since I am sure there are many more attendants and activities, I
 have started a Wiki Page where you can register yourself:

   http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=FOSDEM_2010

 This all should ease to keep the community from being thinned out
 during such a large event. And I am sure that there are many new
 things to learn and nice people to meet around the Freerunner.

 Nikolaus




 
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Re: elm_browser initial release

2010-01-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 14-01-2010 04:24, c_c escreveu:
 Michael Smith-5 wrote:

 If you want bookmarks then keep them on a server somewhere as a list of
 links.

I was thinking of adding those to a sqlite db. Fast, simple, efficient.
I keep my bookmarks as a html page (firefox bookmarks.html) and browse to
 it to launch from.
Maybe a similar list of html links on a local page as the startup page
 will be nice to launch from.

I really can't suggest strongly enough to use sqlite as the place to 
store bookmarks, specially if you add keyword organization instead of 
merely hierarchichal.

Thanks for stepping up with that project, I was thinking of doing it 
myself but I haven't had much time lately.

Best,
Rui

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Re: [Community Updates] 2010-01-14 released

2010-01-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 15-01-2010 17:40, Patryk Benderz escreveu:
 Hello everybody,
 Recent Community Update is out. Take a look at News link in
 Community box on wiki pages to read it.

 For your convenience here is direct link:
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-01-14

 and contribute to the new draft at:
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/Draft_2010-01-28

 Thanks to all contributors of this issue of CU:
 * PaulWise
 * Kichkasch
 * Multi
 * Baba melone
 * Vanous
 * Valos
 * Bt4
 * Linuxxr
 * Deubeuliou


I know, I didn't have time to update the CU, but elmdentica's latest 
release didn't show up :)

Rui

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

2010-01-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 03-01-2010 06:10, Ken Young escreveu:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

There's no decent PDA software for the FR, and I have no other, so No.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-u

Rui

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Re: Freerunner gone...

2009-12-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 11-12-2009 22:59, Pieter Colpaert escreveu:
 Hi,

 My moko got lost. Whether it got stolen or whether it just fell out of
 my pocket, I have no idea. Today I felt pretty sad and I had some time
 to think about things every distribution should have just to make sure
 someone will not slam his head against the wall, repetitively, again and
 again, like I did, for not installing some basic stuff that might
 prevent these things from happening.

 1. Sms sentry. Put that application, or a similar one, in every light
 image we got: It will reply the GPS coordinates when texting
 sentry:location to moko.
 2. When another sms is send we should be able to put the volume to max
 and play a voice saying: PLEASE RETURN THIS PORTABLE, IT IS LOST AND THE
 OWNER TRIES TO FIND IT. I'd be happy to record that voice. And display
 contact information on the screen delivered by sms.

 What do you guys think? Saving €230 with 5 lines of code seems a big
 deal to me (€230 + sim card + personal configurations + a lot more
 personal stuff actually).


It's very sad to know of this.

I hope you can continue to be part of this community by getting another 
open phone (fancy a new Freerunner?)

Best,
Rui

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Re: [any] formatting text in python elementary buttons

2009-12-08 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:09:17AM -0500, Josh Thompson wrote:
 I'm converting a small app I wrote in python-gtk to use python-elementary.  I 
 had some buttons where I was using set_use_markup on a button's label to do 
 things like setting the font color and background.  I can't find a way to do 
 that with python-elementary.  Is there a way to do so?  If there is, where 
 should I look for more info on it?  I've been using the source control 
 browsing for python-elementary[1] and looking at shr-settings as a guide so 
 far.

Have you tried font color=#fftext/font ? Perhaps it's all you need.

Rui

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Re: Experiment: better sound on remote end

2009-12-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:56:28PM +0100, arne anka wrote:
 did you ever change the gsmhandset.state file after applied buzz fix?
 the tracker links to an improved file specifically tuned for buzz fixed  
 devices and so far used by a lot of peoples.

I'm using current SHR with the state file that's provided.

Rui

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Re: Experiment: better sound on remote end

2009-12-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:31:22PM +0100, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
 On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 15:17, David Garabana Barro da...@garabana.com wrote:
  On Wednesday 02 December 2009 15:12:36 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
  On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:56:28PM +0100, arne anka wrote:
   did you ever change the gsmhandset.state file after applied buzz fix?
   the tracker links to an improved file specifically tuned for buzz fixed
   devices and so far used by a lot of peoples.
 
  I'm using current SHR with the state file that's provided.
 
  I can't understand why they changed state file.
  Old one worked OK on most Neos. New one sounds bad on almost every one...
 
  You can try the state.file from old SHR...
 
 Here old one was unusable at all here, new one is quite good. And
 new one was official Openmoko's one, and now you can adjust volume
 with sliders in UI - so what's the problem?

Speaking of the sliders, are they persistent in the value they set?

Rui

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:26:57PM +, Neil Jerram wrote:
 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 project is still interested
 in illume changes, I guess I could send changes there.  But if illume
 isn't of ongoing interest now, maybe some Debian or SHR repository
 would be better, or maybe I should set up a new repository somewhere?
 
 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%.
 
 So I think there's a strong case for an ongoing FR-focussed e17/illume 
 codebase.

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?

Rui

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Re: Fwd: [Shr-User] SHR-unstable got a facelift. And you a christmas present....

2009-11-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Bad XMas present, bad! :!

Sorry, it's quite nice, but mrmoku's image from Friday 13th works better
as a phone.

Forgive my anger but today I almost missed being interviewed on a
major portuguese radio about our horrible CyberCrime law (similar
to the german horror)... fortunately I still had mrmoku's image
on another µ-sdhc card and quickly replaced it

Good news regarding CC law... the Chief Inspector of the investigative
police agrees with us (Free Software activists) and wants the law changed,
as well as the president of the association of judges :)

Rui

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:01:03PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
 
 --  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  --
 
 Betreff: [Shr-User] SHR-unstable got a facelift. And you a christmas 
 present
 Datum: Donnerstag 19 November 2009
 Von: Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de
 An: SHR-devel shr-de...@lists.shr-project.org, SHR-user shr-
 u...@lists.shr-project.org
 
 [Nov 19 2009, The Internets] It's been psychologically proven that the
 longer you wait for your presents, the more happy you will be when you
 finally get them. It seems, the SHR team wants to make you REALLY happy
 and has let you waiting for quite some time without updates to
 shr-unstable...
 
 ENOUGH WAITING. Christmas comes a bit early this year, and a new
 SHR-unstable image is out for public consumption. Keep in mind that this
 is the first snapshot after quite many major transitions, so don't
 complain if things are a bit ..well... unstable in the beginning. We are
 working hard to stabilize things. If you depend on your phone, you will
 probably not yet want to use this, e.g. right now the ringtones aren't
 working (it just vibrates).
 
 We had no resources to provide a nice and working upgrade path, so an
 opkg upgrade is very likely to lead to a non-working system. (Really! It
 won't work. We know you'll try anyway :). It still won't work). So
 download the image (http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable), flash it
 and start afresh. I am writing this before the new images are out there,
 so be a bit patient before you can really grab them.
 
 We will take a branch off current shr-unstable in a couple of weeks
 (after the dust has settled a bit) and start a conservative branch that
 will allow for more -testing releases and -finally- a stable snapshot.
 If others want to volunteer to do that, I'll happy hand over that job
 though.
 
 So what has changed, and what to expect:
 
 * First don't expect any miracles. While stuff has changed under the
 hood, you are still owning a fine piece of open. but outdated hardware.
 But a path has been laid for future improvements (also performance
 wise), so this is the way to go. Also, we have tried to keep the look
 and feel as similar as possible in the new phone apps. You will feel
 very much at home there. But improvements are much easier now.
 * xorg server rather than glamo kdrive. We switched to using a
 proper xorg-server, with a graphics driver that is actively maintained.
 There have been some improvements, and developer Weiss thinks that there
 are more perf improvements to get.
 * eglibc rather than glibc. Just like Debian did, we switched our
 libc library from glibc to eglibc which (apparently) is a bit better
 suited  to embedded devices.
 * While the theme contest is still ongoing, we have decided to
 install the gry theme by Bernd Pruenster by default, it is faster than
 the default theme, which is not designed for obsolete embedded hardware.
 The illume theme is still set to default or Illume SHR, so try
 stasetting it to *gry* through the top bar wrench (preference settings)
 * The neo theme is also nice and fast. It is not installed by
 default, but it is in the feeds. You can easily install in with opkg
 install shr-theme-neo. Another theme to try out is the niebiee theme
 which has been designed with speed in mind (opkg install
 shr-theme-niebiee).
 * the python-based frameworkd is being replaced bit by bit with
 components written in Vala. The first components that we use are
 fsousaged (which replaces ousaged), fsodeviced, and fsonetworkd. Mickey
 posted a status update
 (http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2009/11/10/towards-the-end-
 of-2009/)
 on the new fso stuff.
 * phonefsod replaces the ophonekitd phone daemon and and
 phoneuid/libphoneui are now responsible for all things GUI with the
 phone apps.
 * opimd is included and we have the possibility to save incoming and
 outgoing SMS as well as contacts on the SIM card or on the SD card
 (using the sqlite backend). New SMS/contacts are now by default saved in
 a database on the FreeRunner (SD card or NAND), so be careful before
 reflashing! (Someone should probabably give instructions somewhere on
 how to change the configuration to use the SIM card as default and how
 to transfer data from one backend to another.)
 * We have proceeded with the integration work with openembedded.org
 and we are very close to 

Re: Fwd: [Shr-User] SHR-unstable got a facelift. And you a christmas present....

2009-11-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
And now the bugs:

  1) contrary to reported, not even vibration... it's as if it was in silent 
mode
  2) I hear no sound on calls, the other side doesn't hear as well

If I could live with 1), I surely can't live with 2) :)

Rui

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Re: Fwd: [Shr-User] SHR-unstable got a facelift. And you a christmas present....

2009-11-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:23:30AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
 And now the bugs:
 
   1) contrary to reported, not even vibration... it's as if it was in silent 
 mode
   2) I hear no sound on calls, the other side doesn't hear as well
 
 If I could live with 1), I surely can't live with 2) :)

It seems this is mostly fixed, I'll let you know...

Rui

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Re: Fwd: [Shr-User] SHR-unstable got a facelift. And you a christmas present....

2009-11-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:09:16AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:23:30AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
  And now the bugs:
  
1) contrary to reported, not even vibration... it's as if it was in 
  silent mode
2) I hear no sound on calls, the other side doesn't hear as well
  
  If I could live with 1), I surely can't live with 2) :)
 
 It seems this is mostly fixed, I'll let you know...

Spoke too soon. Now there is 2) again.

Reverting to mrmoku's friday 13th again.

Rui

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Re: Fwd: [Shr-User] SHR-unstable got a facelift. And you a christmas present....

2009-11-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Do you have audio *after* a few suspend/resumes/calls ?

I got audio on the first couple of calls, then nothing more.

Rui

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Warren Baird wrote:
 I installed the new image yesterday afternoon, so far the non-phone
 functionality is working relatively well.
 
 Only 1 red-flag for me on the non-phone stuff:  redraws seem noticably
 slower than my shr-u-sept - with omnewrotate installed and using epdfview to
 view a document it sometimes took as long as 10 seconds for the view to
 completely refresh after rotating my FR.  I didn't time it on my shr-u-sept
 install yet, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't that slow...
 
 However, the phone functionality seems pretty broken.   I do get audio, so
 it's a little better than Rui is seing, but I get feedback squeeling as soon
 as I try an outgoing call, and have to drop the microphone gain - and then
 the person I called said they had trouble hearing me.
 
 I'm trying an update/update now - it seems like things are evolving quickly,
 but so far I'm strongly considering going back to the sept build so I can
 make phone calls..
 
 Warren
 
 
 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.orgwrote:
 
  On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:09:16AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
   On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:23:30AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
And now the bugs:
   
  1) contrary to reported, not even vibration... it's as if it was in
  silent mode
  2) I hear no sound on calls, the other side doesn't hear as well
   
If I could live with 1), I surely can't live with 2) :)
  
   It seems this is mostly fixed, I'll let you know...
 
  Spoke too soon. Now there is 2) again.
 
  Reverting to mrmoku's friday 13th again.
 
  Rui
 
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Re: [OT]Making Geek's phone not so offtopic on this list ;)

2009-11-19 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
If it's better hardware than the Freerunner and with free software drivers,
then I'm surely interested :)

Best,
Rui

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:06:59AM +0100, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
 Dear list,
 I was talking with the Geek's phone CEO we agreed a couple of
 intersting things ,
 
 In a couple of days we will receive some final prototypes of the final
 version of ONE
 
 We will work together to open as far the hardware of the phone, first
 step is obtaining the BOM list of the chipsets included on the ONE, to
 evaluate how difficult will be to port the actual kernel used to run
 Android to one to use for example SHR,QtMoko, or any other  :)
 
 Until the prototypes arrives and/or the we obtain the BOM I would like
 hear from you  any question you believe is useful to be answered,
 other requeriments  to achieve make run a GNU/Linux distribution on
 this hardware.
 
 Also if someone  is already interested to do serious hacking on the
 device please contact me personally or through this list and I will
 try to make you arrive one of this unit, as you can understand if we
 receive more colaboration proprosal than devices available we must do
 a selection, so please don't blame us to much if you can't recieve a
 unit at first attempt :P
 
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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:00:31AM +, Dave Ball wrote:
 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
 wm needs to track both and determine which one takes precedence
 based on policy and th en implement that rotation, if needed.
 policy is what a wm implements - that's the nature of the beast.
 that policy may be hard-coded in the wm or configuration for it.
 
 I've been looking at existing window properties [1] to try and
 understand the best way to do this.
 
 
 option1: New atoms in the _NET_WM_STATE property.
  - _NET_WM_STATE_LANDSCAPE
  - _NET_WM_STATE_PORTRAIT
 
 If neither is present for a given window, WM can choose (based on
 the accelerometers). Both present is an error - or could be defined
 as leave the window in it's current orientation.
 
 
 option2: New property.
 
 _NET_WM_ORIENTATION
  0 = Either / WM decides
  1 = Landscape
  2 = Portrait

There are two landscape positions and 2 portrait positions :)

Rui

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:08:06PM +, Dave Ball wrote:
 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
  On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:00:31AM +, Dave Ball wrote:
  option1: New atoms in the _NET_WM_STATE property.
  - _NET_WM_STATE_LANDSCAPE
  - _NET_WM_STATE_PORTRAIT
 
  If neither is present for a given window, WM can choose (based on
  the accelerometers). Both present is an error - or could be defined
  as leave the window in it's current orientation.
 
  option2: New property.
 
  _NET_WM_ORIENTATION
  0 = Either / WM decides
  1 = Landscape
  2 = Portrait
 
  There are two landscape positions and 2 portrait positions :)
 Doh - of course!  Which would lead to:
 
 _NET_WM_STATE_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE
 _NET_WM_STATE_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT
 _NET_WM_STATE_ORIENTATION_INVERTED
 
 or
 
 _NET_WM_ORIENTATION
 0 = Either / WM decides
 1 = Landscape
 2 = Portrait
 3 = Landscape inverted
 4 = Portrait inverted
 
 However, what's the use-case for an application requesting either of the 
 inverted states?  I can't see when those would be useful - in terms of 
 hints the app would supply.
 
 Obviously, if the WM was deciding orientation based on the device 
 position, you would correctly rotate to the inverted states, but if an 
 application is built for portrait or landscape is there any reason a 
 developer would not want the normal portrait/landscape orientation for 
 the device?

Yes, certain devices may be better prepared (in terms of connectivity for
power, usb, etc...) for one kind of landscape rather than the other.

Rui

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:15:54PM +, Dave Ball wrote:
 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
  On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:08:06PM +, Dave Ball wrote:
  However, what's the use-case for an application requesting either of the 
  inverted states?  I can't see when those would be useful - in terms of 
  hints the app would supply.
 
  Obviously, if the WM was deciding orientation based on the device 
  position, you would correctly rotate to the inverted states, but if an 
  application is built for portrait or landscape is there any reason a 
  developer would not want the normal portrait/landscape orientation for 
  the device?
  
 
  Yes, certain devices may be better prepared (in terms of connectivity for
  power, usb, etc...) for one kind of landscape rather than the other.

 
 Yup - although that would be at the device level rather than the 
 application level.  If the WM knows what the device's policy is, I can't 
 see a situation where one app wants to be in landscape, and a 
 different app wants to be in landscape inverted on the same device?

If you want to standardize something, better be prepared for uses such as
a device.

For some reason xrandr allows different options rathen than just 3.

0 == normal
1 == turned left
2 == normal inverted
3 == turned right

Now... on my laptop, landscape == 0 or 2, but on the Free Runner landscape = 1 
or 3

Rui

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Re: Some questions about android on Freerunner

2009-11-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
I would like some suggestions on where to go, and wether I can export my google
code svn history.

Please let us know your conclusions :)

Thanks,
Rui

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:00:34PM -0500, Jim Ancona wrote:
 It appears that Google is actively blocking access to Google Code from
 Iran and several other countries. See their TOS:
 
 http://code.google.com/tos.html
 
 and these threads on their groups list:
 
 http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting/search?group=google-code-hostingq=iran
 
 I'm the owner of the android-on-freerunner Google Code project. I will
 initiate a discussion about moving the project to another site on the
 a-o-f mailing list,
 http://groups.google.com/group/android-on-freerunner, which doesn't
 appear to be blocked.
 
 Jim
 
 On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Levy levy.santa...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 14:12, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
  If you prove me it's Google who's actively blocking Iran, then I will 
  remove
  both omnewrotate and elmdentica from Google Code in protest.
 
  Nice, I would like to suggest the same for other Free projects!
 
  Best regards from a portuguese,
  Rui
 
  Best regards from a brazillian,
  Levy

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-09 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:28:48PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
  But there is a problem. The user may switch between several apps with
  different rotation needs. (xmahjongg needs landscape, tetris needs 
  portrait, ...)  How will omnewrotate be notified about this?
  
  The proper way is to define a set of DBUS signals.
  
  Of course conflicting signals need to be ignored.
 
 What conflicting signals? A proper implementation won't
 have conflicts?

app1 prefers landscape1
app2 prefers landscape2
app3 prefers portrait1

In such a system, while app1 will have to prevail and the others will have
to wait.

(...)

 There are no conflicts, but whatever software you have managing the 
 display must be able to change orientation at exactly the right moment.

Of course you see, then, that rotation is a job best served by the Window
Manager, yes? :)

Daemons that rotate the screen (like my omnewrotate) are simpler hacks...

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:49:18AM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
 On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:24:13 + Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com 
 said:
  2009/11/6 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org:
   On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
   Well, you cannot expect every app to have such preferences, this device
   runs generic linux apps that aren't made specially for the freerunner.
   Now, of course the app loader can do this, similiar to how we already
   request the cpu/backlight when launching some apps.
  
   But there is a problem. The user may switch between several apps with
   different rotation needs. (xmahjongg needs landscape, tetris needs
   portrait, ...)  How will omnewrotate be notified about this?
  
   The proper way is to define a set of DBUS signals.
  
  Thanks to everyone for your replies on this topic.
  
  I agree with Helge, in that I don't think DBUS is a good solution,
  because I really want a solution that works for existing apps.
  
  I suppose for existing apps there could be a DBUS proxy that somehow
  works out the best orientation and then sends a DBUS signal on the
  app's behalf.  But that seems complicated.
  
  Also I'm not sure why DBUS helps at all.  Once a program somewhere has
  worked out the best orientation, why not just call xrandr directly?
  
  Another thought that occurred to me is that if this was a window
  manager responsibility, perhaps the window manager could infer
  preferred orientation simply from the requested window size?  (i.e.
  requesting width  height implies a preference for landscape).
  
  That should often work for apps that were designed for the desktop.  I
  would guess that apps written for the FR might not request specific
  sizes, because they'd know that they will always be fullscreen anyway
  - so for those apps some explicit configuration would be needed
  somewhere (prefer-portrait, prefer-landscape, or auto-rotate).
 
 repeating... property on window. the rotation preferences are a property of 
 a
 window - like min and max size are, its title, etc. etc. - stick it on the
 window. ignore dbus. this is not something you do by dbus.
 
 if something is related to the display - especially something is related to
 your window, your domain for advertising state, information, making requests
 and getting replies is the x11 domain as long as you are using x11. :)

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?

 1. App wants to be landscape, sets property on window
 2. rotator determines the phone is in portrait, rotates.

Now what happens?

 3. App is landscape, but screen is portrait: fail

or

 3. Window manager overrides rotation
 3.1 but rotator determines portrait, rotates again
 3.2 go to 3: fail

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:24:13PM +, Neil Jerram wrote:
 2009/11/6 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org:
  On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
 
  Well, you cannot expect every app to have such preferences, this device
  runs generic linux apps that aren't made specially for the freerunner.
  Now, of course the app loader can do this, similiar to how we already
  request the cpu/backlight when launching some apps.
 
  But there is a problem. The user may switch between several apps with
  different rotation needs. (xmahjongg needs landscape, tetris needs
  portrait, ...)  How will omnewrotate be notified about this?
 
  The proper way is to define a set of DBUS signals.
 
 Thanks to everyone for your replies on this topic.
 
 I agree with Helge, in that I don't think DBUS is a good solution,
 because I really want a solution that works for existing apps.

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 suppose for existing apps there could be a DBUS proxy that somehow
 works out the best orientation and then sends a DBUS signal on the
 app's behalf.  But that seems complicated.

Not smart either, because you'd have a buttload of work for little gain,
and there will always be one more app which isn't supported yet, etc...

 Also I'm not sure why DBUS helps at all.  Once a program somewhere has
 worked out the best orientation, why not just call xrandr directly?

DBUS helps a lot because you can define a standard set of signals:
  1. screen rotation apps could listen for specific screen rotation signals
  2. apps which have specific needs can broadcast said needs to DBUS

This means minimal aditional work for everyone.

 Another thought that occurred to me is that if this was a window
 manager responsibility, perhaps the window manager could infer
 preferred orientation simply from the requested window size?  (i.e.
 requesting width  height implies a preference for landscape).

The only way this could be the window manager's job, was if the window
manager had auto-rotation routings. AFAICT, E doesn't yet.

Of course rotator apps only come up because people feel the need
and writing a simple daemon is simpler than patching a quite evolved
window manager.

 That should often work for apps that were designed for the desktop.  I
 would guess that apps written for the FR might not request specific
 sizes, because they'd know that they will always be fullscreen anyway
 - so for those apps some explicit configuration would be needed
 somewhere (prefer-portrait, prefer-landscape, or auto-rotate).

So rotators would need to parse all the configurations? I still think
DBUS is the way to do it well, but I'm open for proof otherwise.

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:46:28PM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
   if something is related to the display - especially something is related 
   to
   your window, your domain for advertising state, information, making 
   requests
   and getting replies is the x11 domain as long as you are using x11. :)
  
  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?
  
   1. App wants to be landscape, sets property on window
   2. rotator determines the phone is in portrait, rotates.
  
  Now what happens?
  
   3. App is landscape, but screen is portrait: fail
  
  or
  
   3. Window manager overrides rotation
   3.1 but rotator determines portrait, rotates again
   3.2 go to 3: fail
 
 rotate and wm should work closely together or be the same. the wm reads ande
 knows all the properties of all windows. the rotator can do this independantly
 - but its a fair bit of work. the wm makes decisions which rotation to use
 based on app properties and rotation preference (preference maybe being set by
 the user explicitly or automatically by accelerometers - how, doesn't much
 matter).

It can do *your*way* with more work than the WM, but then, if the WM *doesn't* 
do
rotation according to accelerometers, this is a moot point :)

 rotator doesnt go off and do whatever it likes irrespective of app hints. it
 needs to take them into account - put hints on window as properties.

Of course, but there has to be a standard way to take their needs in account :)

Being X properties or DBUS, it's the same for me. DBUS seems more natural as
there's probably less pooling, but then I know only a bit more of DBUS than
of X11 (which AFAIR was a bunch of huge books) :)

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 02:23:01PM +, Neil Jerram wrote:
 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 is that the WM controls whether omnewrotate is running
 (or equivalent, but for simplicity let's just say omnewrotate).

Actually, screen rotation *should* be the job of the WM. For me, as a relative
begginer, it was easier to startup with the first rotate.c written by Chris Ball
and step by step improving (for instance, drop fork and link to libxrandr for
better performance, control speed of reading from device, give tolerance, etc.

But if it was the WM, the WM could even do nifty special effects (in graphics
card that would allow it), etc...

OMNewRotate is a hack satisfying one need. To keep it going it needs a smart
way to do it (like DBUS). X properties is probably not so good for this kind
of programs.

(...)

 As above, omnewrotate wouldn't actually be running, so wouldn't do this.

If you have two applications handling screen rotation at the same time, then
you're just bound to a disaster fuse.

Either the WM does it (hint for more experienced E developers), or it should
keep it's hands off of it :)

 I hope that helps to clarify what I have in mind!

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Re: Ideal screen rotation

2009-11-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 02:53:18PM +, Neil Jerram wrote:
 But I think I might have a go anyway at patching the e17 WM.  With
 Debian, and 'apt-get source', and gcc on the phone, it shouldn't be as
 hard as it might sound.

Please do, and hopefully make it so much better and niftier than omnewrotate :)

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