Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi Folks, sorry for my previous email. In deed it was intended for Christoph Pulster as response to his request for GTA02-devices. Best Regards thomas On Friday 02 November 2012 13:50:04 Patryk Benderz wrote: > Dnia 2012-11-02, pią o godzinie 13:04 +0100, Thomas Otterbein pisze: > &

Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hallo Christoph, ich habe einen GTA02, schon mit 1024-Rework (durch Golden Delecious, die auch einen Extra-Akku dazu gepackt haben), den ich praktisch nicht benutzt habe. Meine Versuche mit verschiedenen Distributionen waren eher bescheiden und so tief einsteigen konnte ich aus zeitlichen Gründ

Re: QtMoko v18 - based on 2.6.32

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi Radek, > > Hi Thomas, > sure, i can modify xorg.conf. My configuration can be found in this > document: > > http://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/doc/txt/debian_rootfs_howto.txt > > But i dont understand where to put the "void". In you case it would go into line 333: Driver "

Re: QtMoko v18 - based on 2.6.32

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi Radek, is it possible to modify the xorg.conf file? At my company we run our system on All-in-One Desktop Machines equipped with Touchscreen. To turn of the mouse enter "void" as the mouse driver instead of "mouse" or "auto". Even if the corresponding module "xserver-xorg-input-void" (i.e. v

[ALL] Freerunner GTA02v5 for Sale in Hungary

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Otterbein
really used it as my daily phone. Every try lasted only for a couple of days until it did not answer calls anymore, did not wakeup from suspend, lost SMS etc. - you know... I'd like to receive 100,- EUR for it + Shipping Cost that may apply. I'm located in Hungary (Budapest). Bes

Re: QtMoko v15

2009-12-17 Thread Thomas Otterbein
nstaller image and the problem is gone. So thank you for doing what ever you did to solve this issue. :-) Best Regards thomas -- Thomas Otterbein ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) against HTML e-mail X www.asciiribbon.org / \ ___ Openmoko community

Re: Congratulation, Wikireader! 7th in Amazon TOP 100

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Thursday 29 October 2009 14:35 Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Thomas Otterbein writes: > > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 22:08:00 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172594/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_ > > >e_1_ 3_las

Re: Congratulation, Wikireader! 7th in Amazon TOP 100

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 22:08:00 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172594/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_e_1_ >3_last > > Wow, just wow! > > It's an interesting device, not for me, but quite interesting. > > What I never expected is such a success. > > Quite a c

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Friday 28 August 2009 09:48 Niels Heyvaert wrote: > > Shouldn't be very hard but it'd be extremely cool. Integration to a > > distro (SHR maybe :) might be a bit more of a hack (adding GUI to > > enable/disable this feature etc) though.. > > Yes, it does sound like a cool feature, as long as it

Re: Showroom hosting , roadmap draft & design

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Thursday 27 August 2009 11:16 Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Thomas Otterbein wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to use Debian for the first start? > > - Az Martinez said it does not need any adoption on the distro-side > > - Az Risto said ne

Re: Showroom hosting , roadmap draft & design

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Thursday 27 August 2009 10:23 Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:38 AM, David Reyes Samblas > > Martinez wrote: > > As next stept for the next version, I will say: > > Including Debian(no mod needed) as distro and see how we can > > share/discriminate info of same apps for difer

Re: bicycling with OpenMoko

2009-04-28 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> FR is designed to withstand a droptest of 80cm (iirc) to concrete. There > are no moveable parts inside except battery (which might be a good idea to > add a *thin* layer of foam to fix it for good) and vibrator (and speaker > membranes). > I don't think bicycle vibrations / impact is a big issu

Re: USB Kernel problem with latest SHR unstable

2009-04-24 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Friday 24 April 2009 15:16:38 Nelson Castillo wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Thomas Zimmermann > > wrote: > > Am Freitag 24 April 2009 12:20:00 schrieb Robin Paulson: > >> 2009/4/24 Ben Thompson : > >> ok, i'm confused now. why do i want to run this on my host? the > >> problem's wit

Re: FreeRunner, most used distributions

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
On Friday 13 March 2009 11:06:37 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote: > Hello, I was wondering: anyone has an idea or stats about which > distributions are used by the FreeRunners out there? Something like: > > === > Om 2007.x: 50% > Om 2008.x: 20% > SHR: 10% > [...] > Other hacks: 5%

Re: [All] FR survey and locations

2009-02-04 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> > To take part in the survey click here: > > http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p2ZQdcRSVg9XfYLwBVsZicg > > I can't answer the question "What band does your provider use", > because mine uses both 900 and 1800. But the FR uses only one of them at the same time, doesn't it? And of cours

[All] FR survey and locations

2009-02-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Dear all, questions about buying a FR now or later, waiting for this or that software and using this or that distribution arrive on a regular basis on this list. I read them all although I'm usually quite unhappy with the answers that happen to arrive on such a mailing. IMHO they represent -nat

Re: Questions about the usability of GTA02

2009-02-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> Maybe we could setup some kind of map where you could register, so if > someone wants to try a FR it would be easier to find someone close? Here it is: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115352610340426907999.000461ec26b35ac3fad63&z=17 I've already entered the daily locatio

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> Fully exclusive access is not a solution. It just defeats the purpose of > multitasking. Actually I think the window manager should dispatch > accelerator events, like it dispatches the mouse events. Only focused Okay, that's basically what I meant with "deamon". A piece of software that's respo

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> How about running two apps then, if they're both using accelerometers and > each requires its own orientation? Perhaps a "Accelero-Deamon"? Applications could register for receiving, probably even already pre-processed, events. And an application could also request exclusive access in which cas

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi all, > > I plan to have a toggling script for use in the desktop icon, instead of > > a starter script. > > This is the sort of thing that might be useful to have on the illume top > shelf. autototate on/off, and "rotate now" when auto is off. > > Rotation is useful with maps. It depends on wha

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> only sense when a usb networking capable device is plugged in -- so > allow-hotplug seems the only sensible option, to me, that is. Yes, but you both leave the OpenSource-Factor out. The (K)Ubuntu NetworkManager does not accept the allow-hotplug as a sign to keep it's fingers out of the interf

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> You should only use "auto usb0" or "allow-hotplug usb0" but not both at > the same time. For me it only works with auto and not hotplug but don't > ask why. ;) Yes but it seems that entering both does not do any harm. The networking configuration uses the latest statement (allow-hotplug) while s

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> Which version of Kubuntu are you running ? 8.10 > > I seem to remember some people commenting that with Intrepid (8.10) that > stopped working, though I've not attempted to use this on my Intrepid > laptop yet (I just do the ifconfig by hand). yes I had the same issue but the described method so

Re: stupid networking question

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Otterbein
FYI: On my kubuntu (ubuntu with KDE installed by default) using the KDE NetworkManager I followed the advices on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Networking#Debian.2C_Ubuntu_and_others but insereted "auto usb0" into /etc/network/interfaces as suggested by arne. It looks now like that: auto

Re: Default IP Address on All Distributions

2009-01-06 Thread Thomas Otterbein
ropriate. Regards thomas On Tuesday 06 January 2009 12:03 Helge Hafting wrote: > Thomas Otterbein wrote: > > Now when it comes to "real users" I believe the discussion about the best > > fixed IP-Number or a pool of dynamic numbers is far too short-sighted. As > &g

Re: Default IP Address on All Distributions

2009-01-06 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> wrote: > > fla...@correo.ugr.es wrote: > >>> Sure. And if we go that way, why not use the proper way of setting a > >>> link-local address? > >>> * Pick a random address > >>> * check that it is free (arp, ping,...) > >>> * take it. > >>> > >>> That has a good chance of working, even for those wh

Re: OpenVibe is out

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas Otterbein
> A completely new era for telephone sex :-) What a pity that the FR doesn't have a camera module (yet)... Come to think of it an apache web server would be useful too, so users of the FR could serve their clients on the run. ___ Openmoko community ma