[debian] won't boot

2011-01-16 Thread Robin Paulson
boot the first os on the sd card, so long as the kernel is in the correct position. so, i put some symlinks in /boot (in the 2nd partition on the sd), pointing to uImage, config and sysmap (in the first partition on the sd). it still won't boot, and i'm a bit lost now.

qtmoko and ubifs

2011-01-16 Thread Robin Paulson
14000 jiffies) i used a very recent version of neotool (from last week i think), and the version of dfu in ubuntu 10.10 http://qtmoko.org/wiki/Installation#Method_1:_Installing_on_NAND and according to this, that should work or have i missed something? cheers -- robin http://tangleball.o

Re: qtmoko - "Please Wait..."

2010-07-13 Thread Robin Paulson
On 12 July 2010 19:07, Fernando Martins wrote: > After boot, I don't get the request for the pin code. The screen > displays a "No network" message and no response to screen touches. I > press the power button to get the shutdown menu. I cancel it and then > the pin code request screen appears. Ho

gsm mesh network without cell towers or telcos

2010-07-12 Thread Robin Paulson
i heard about this on radio nz national yesterday: a uni researcher in australia has designed and implemented a system for building distributed, de-centralised mesh networks out of (so i understand it) gsm phones yes, no cell towers needed no telcos needed i can't find much on him, beyond his web

Re: Freerunner Firewall

2010-06-17 Thread Robin Paulson
On 18 June 2010 07:05, Shosholoza wrote: > > Your firewall it would be good for me. How can I load the right module? I > think it is necessary module "ipt_state". this might help. http://edoceo.com/liber/linux-kernel-modules ___ Openmoko community mail

[qtmoko] phone auto-turns on at 12 midday

2010-05-19 Thread Robin Paulson
well, the subject line pretty much sums it up i was sat at my desk a few moments ago, when my phone turned itself on. it's running version 22 of qtmoko. i'd noticed a couple of days previously that it had been on some afternoons, when i was sure i'd turned it off earlier in the day. there is a r

Re: using multiple window systems - selecting at boot

2010-05-19 Thread Robin Paulson
On 15 May 2010 21:37, Al Johnson wrote: > You could use a different init level for each, say 3 for Qt and 5 for X, then > use telinit or similar to switch between them. ok, that sounds interesting. could you point me at some resources on how to use init levels and telinit? __

Re: using multiple window systems - selecting at boot

2010-05-15 Thread Robin Paulson
On 16 May 2010 00:38, Alex Samorukov wrote: > With Qi its possible to put different systems on different partitions on > the SD drive. > > Also it supports control files to skip partition on boot. > Only way to change bootable partition on a boot time with Qi is to keep > AUX button after power on

using multiple window systems - selecting at boot

2010-05-14 Thread Robin Paulson
i'm investigating changing to debian as the os for my fr. it appears i can use either qtmoko, or the shr suite of apps on top of this. if i install both, how would i go about choosing which environment (Qt/X) boots at startup? on my desktop i'd probably see if grub could do it, but as there is no g

Re: SHR phoneui-contacts buddy icons

2010-05-04 Thread Robin Paulson
On 5 May 2010 00:30, Bernd Prünster wrote: >> I was wondering what are the green one eyed alien that appear next to >> the contact name in Contacts list. I thought that it was an icon to >> replace with your friends photos, but I don't find where to change it. >> >> Sorry again for the silly quest

Re: has anyone tried this usb hub with their freerunner?

2010-03-15 Thread Robin Paulson
On 15 March 2010 21:32, Robin Paulson wrote: > as an update, i realised after reading the *whole* page on usb cables, > that i could use a Y-cable + some bash scripting, instead of buying a hmm, apparently bash scripting is a clumsy way to do this. is there a decent, maintained app for shr

Re: has anyone tried this usb hub with their freerunner?

2010-03-15 Thread Robin Paulson
On 15 March 2010 05:13, Mike Crash wrote: > Not this type, but I bought the cheapest one I have found and it works well. > See > http://www.mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=10 as an update, i realised after reading the *whole* page on usb cables, that i could use a Y-cable + s

Re: pisi cannot fetch contacts from sim in shr. please help

2010-03-13 Thread Robin Paulson
On 13 March 2010 18:24, Chuck Norris wrote: > ok. that does the trick. Now pisi have another problem: >    raise UnknownMethodException('%s is not a valid method of interface > %s' % (method_name, dbus_interface)) > UnknownMethodException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: > Unknown met

has anyone tried this usb hub with their freerunner?

2010-03-12 Thread Robin Paulson
or anything similar? http://cgi.ebay.com/High-Speed-Smart-3-Ports-USB-Hub-5-Pin-Cable-for-PC_W0QQitemZ260567368077QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3cab06818d i'd like to power the phone, while i have a flash drive and another usb device plugged into it cheers _

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

2010-02-09 Thread Robin Paulson
On 7 February 2010 10:16, Ed Falk wrote: > I bought my Freerunner over a year ago.  On the first boot, it made a > very loud raucus sound which, as far as I know, blew out the speaker, as > I have never heard an undistorted sound come out of it. am i still using my fr? i realised that mobile pho

[wikireader] wikiquotes

2010-01-17 Thread Robin Humble
if anyone is keen to get wikiquotes on their wikireader then this one-liner sed script will reformat enwikiquote-*-pages-articles.xml so that its articles and references come up as "title (wikiquote)". sed 's++ (wikiquote)+;s+http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

[wikireader] sd card

2010-01-17 Thread Robin Humble
n the wikireader's SD i/o (SPI?) code that I could tweak to try to get it to react better. I'm hoping the non-orig card might be ok, just that sometimes it's taking a bit longer to react than expected and crossing some timeout threshold in the code? dunno. cheers, robin ___

Re: tangogps 0.99.1

2010-01-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2010/1/11 GNUtoo : >> I'll make that configurable in one of the next versions of tangoGPS. > hi,Thanks for making tangogps, > I've also a suggestion, I'd like to be able to configure the speed > limit(so when the speed goes red), because last time I used > tangogps(during the last summer hollidays)

openmoko to computer calls

2010-01-06 Thread Robin Paulson
i've previously been using skype on my desktop to call other people via their computers. i'd like to investigate other options for calling - asking the other user to install different software is not necessarily a problem i'm not sure where to start; what software is available (i'm using shr-u) to

[WikiReader] where to send patches?

2009-12-29 Thread Robin Humble
nasty hacks to get around php Fatal errors on a few wiki articles. is this list the right place to send wikireader patches? cheers, robin -- Dr Robin Humble, HPC Systems Analyst, NCI National Facility ___ Openmoko community mailing list comm

Re: sd card

2009-12-28 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/12/28 : > im using neovento 5.6. im trying to see some pics i have on my sd > card. How do i get it to work. some help please. the sd card is vfat. is the card mounted? can you cd to it from the command-line? if so, do you have image software installed? i can recommend neon if you don't __

Re: Where can I buy miniUSB-m → USB-A-f adapters i n Canada?

2009-11-22 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/11/23 Brolin Empey : > (2 for me, 2 for my colleague)  I have 2 questions, though: > > 1. Can the FreeRunner charge while in USB Host mode? yes > 2. If yes, how can I simultaneously connect a USB hub + power supply/source > to the FreeRunner? there's a cable that has been made/bought by a f

Re: future phones that you can hack. news.

2009-11-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/11/18 : > If we are allowed to hack it as much as you are allowed to speack about it, > well... steady on, i think both you and christoph are jumping to unfair conclusions there let's wait and see, before we lay into it or the programmers ___ Ope

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/11/13 Ben Wilson : > Good idea, > Could use the accelerometers to sense it being picked up. > Couldn't do it in gta01 though, since it doesn't have the sensors. d'oh! yeah, i meant accelerometers, not vibrators. of course, the notification would follow whatever is defined in the settings|prof

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/11/13 Ben Wilson : > What would be ideal is for it to keep playing the new message sound > every few minutes while the new message popup is being displayed. Does > anyone have a cron script or anything to solve this problem. personally, i would find it very useful to tie this in to the vibrat

Re: Looking for a convenient tool

2009-11-07 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/11/7 : > I'm looking for a program that, given a set of shell commands, display > a gtk window with a button that runs each command. > I have looked at zenity but it apparently lacks the button widgets. > > Do you know of something similar, or should I write it myself ? have a look at gtkdia

Re: tangogps 0.9.8

2009-11-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/11/2 Marcus Bauer : > I have currently no working OE here and there are now too many > distribs. However, you can try the armel.deb. Just extract the tangogps > binary from the .deb (do it on your desktop/laptop) and copy it to your > Neo. .deb packages can be installed natively with opkg. y

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/29 Ken Young : > 2) The Freerunner has one, and ONLY ONE, feature which is somewhat > better than what is found on a typical smart phone.   The VGA display. no. you're right, the fr has one feature better than any other smartphone, but it's not the screen. it's not any of the hardware, it'

Re: [SHR] which to use?

2009-10-29 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/30 Tony McKeehan : > I was thinking about try SHR again, but I don't know which image I > should use. > > I heard somewhere that there was a mostly-stable image built in October, > but I can't find it anywhere. I have the unstable from early September, > but I thought that there was somethi

Re: Understanding accelerometer data

2009-10-29 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/30 Neil Jerram : > I'd expect the x and y values to be much smaller than the z values > (compared to the ratios here) because of the z value including > gravity.  Am I misunderstanding what the data is telling me? yes. acceleration is change of velocity. if there is no change in velocity,

Re: [SHR] Accelerometers

2009-10-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/26 Ivo van den Maagdenberg : > No luck. The paths specified on the page you refer to do not exits on the > SHR release. try the accelerometers page - you might find more help on there http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_data_retrieval at the very least, you should be able to use

Re: web-manager 0.2

2009-10-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/17 Baruch Even : > To those who don't know web-manager is my take on oshyrman, it's a web > interface to the freerunner (actually, to FSO infrastructure) and it > currently shows the GSM reception, GPX traces from tangogps, lists > contacts from opimd and lists messages from opimd. are the

Re: [SHR-U] Keyboard layouts for extremely fat fingers

2009-10-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/10 Michael Smith : > I have created two keyboard layouts for the illume keyboard. They are > available from this repository: > > http://glitch.tl/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/home/host/glitch.tl/repos/openmoko-keyboards/file/tip > > The layouts each have keys as large as I can make them. I found t

Re: evopedia 0.2.3 release

2009-10-09 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/9 Christian : > The following dump languages are available at the moment: > Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. could you supply the code used to create the dumps? i realise your reticence to create the english dump (i assume size?) - i would be interested in creating my ow

Re: tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-10-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/3 Helge Hafting : > Actually, I got a mail once telling me not to do that. Seems there were > limited room on servers, and "too much" of my tracks were "known stuff". > So now I only edit with josm, I don't upload tracks. who told you that? i'd be very surprised if that was anyone who actu

Re: recommendations for headset or 3.5mm adapter

2009-09-29 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/28 Stefan Buschmann : > I also thought about soldering my own adapter, although my soldering > skills are near to zero, but that might also be good for practicing :-) > So, would it be possible to solder a wire like this? > > - 1 x 2.5mm > to > - 2 x 3.5mm (one for standard earphone, one for

Re: tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-09-22 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/22 Marcus Bauer : > First of all thanks for the many positive emails I got over the last > months, motivating me to bring a new release of tangoGPS to the coolest > open hardware gadget on earth - the openmoko phone. excellent work, marcus. looking forward to using it is there a binary for

Re: tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-09-22 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/22 Alexander Lehner : > I'm not sure whether the gpx import is part of tangogps by default. > I once wrote a hacked version that did that. > > In fact it was not a real XML parser, but only a stupid lookup of strings, > so if it doesn't work any more, it would be easy to make that work again

Re: mplayer?

2009-09-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/17 David Garabana Barro : > So have ext2/3 with the upcoming btrfs [1]. ext2/3 were good on 90's, but they > are absolutely outdated, slow and featureless. For example, Tail packing and > good small file performance is a must with OSM tiles. You don't have any of > two with ext2/3... > Anoth

Re: mplayer?

2009-09-17 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/17 c_c : >  Well, it's great to hear your music is being played fine. I'm still trying > to find a solution to your song scanning issue on reiserfs. Just that I've > been a little short of time of late having spent a lot of time on upgrading > launcher's inbuilt sms, contacts and phonelog

Re: mplayer?

2009-09-17 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/17 c_c : >  Can you try playing the songs from the terminal to see if mplayer crashes > or gives some error? I do need to make intone more immune to mplayer crashes > and errors - and iron out bugs if intone is causing the problems. Are you > using the latest version of intone? > >  I use th

Re: [shr-u] Latest update failed and connectivity lost

2009-09-17 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/17 Christ van Willegen : > I searched some mailing list archives, and this magic incantation let > me connect to the network again (I had the same problems as you're > having...) > > opkg install -force-reinstall libgsm0710mux0 libfsotransport0 \ >         libfsoframework0 libfsobasics0 fso-

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

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/14 Paul Fertser : > Read all the details at [1] and to try it on your devices, simply do: > > mkdir /debug > mount -t debugfs none /debug > echo NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS > /debug/sched_features how often, if at all, will this get returned to the default value? every reboot? every upgrade of k

mplayer?

2009-09-16 Thread Robin Paulson
hi all, i've been having lots of problems with intone locking up when i play mp3s - every one i have. i'm wondering if it's an mplayer issue are there any alternative builds of mplayer i could try? the version i'm using i got from here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Video_Player#Using_the_Glamo_X

Re: Where can I buy miniUSB-m → USB-A-f adapters i n Canada?

2009-09-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/14 Brolin Empey : > Bright idea ;), but I got the same product for even closer to nothing: > > jeez, less than a dollar...and post costs 2 and a half times as much good score ___ O

Re: Icon issue with SHR-unstable...

2009-09-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/15 John Dowd : > I can run the Linphone app but on the neo main display the linphone icon is > shown as the default (or unknown) icon of a blank page. > > The linphone app has a linphone.png file under /usr/share/pixmaps (I just > copied it there) but after I rebooted, it's still the blank p

Re: [all] USB Device-Network-Mode Switcher

2009-09-15 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/15 Marcel : > I recently had my Neo with me to visit some friends and always found it > quite annoying to have to ssh into it, especially if they ran Windows®. > So I built a little python script and a .desktop icon that can switch > between network and device mode by just a touch. ;) > You

Re: Where can I buy miniUSB-m → USB-A-f adapters i n Canada?

2009-09-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/11 Brolin Empey : > A few days ago, I was chatting with DocScrutinizer in #openmoko on FreeNode > about using a USB → Ethernet adapter to connect my FreeRunner directly to my > Ethernet LAN.  DocScrutinizer told me I need a miniUSB-m → USB-A-f adapter > or a cable like this: i bought a fema

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/12 Frederik Sdun : > There is no DBus API for the accelerometers, because it throws up to 100 > signals a second. That's too much for poor little Freerunner and it was > removed at what point could the api handle the data? iirc, the data rate can be set, so i'm guessing something more sensi

Re: Web site promoting open hardware?

2009-09-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/11 Stefan Monnier : > While looking for new hardware, I noticed that all the open hardware > I know, I discovered it by accident while reading some mailing-list. > > Is there a web site somewhere that kind of centralizes this info to try > and make it easier for openness-conscious consumers

Re: Evopedia 0.2.2

2009-09-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/31 Christian Reitwießner : > Evopedia version 0.2.2 has been released. The major new feature is an > interactive map of articles. Images for this map are automatically taken > from downloaded map tiles of tangoGPS or from Openstreetmap.org if these > cannot be found (and you are online). If

Re: nEo theme issues

2009-09-08 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/9 pike : > OK then, here I go - > > I installed the (brilliant) neo theme. One of the > issues I had with it was that - I think - some windows > use a black font on a black background - I'm not sure, > all I see is black :-) > > This was so annoying that I tried to uninstall it using the > d

Re: problems with intone

2009-09-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/3 c_c : >  Well, that could be an issue with the song file. Can you fsck your > filesystem containing the audio files. right, done that. whoops, it had been mounted 414 times without a check >  Yup. Thats another bug fixed - stopping the scan is a problem as of now. > Will work on it later

Re: problems with intone

2009-09-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/2 c_c : >  Ok. Thanks. That helped catch a bug. Can you try the attached binary and > see if it works? Just scp it to /usr/bin. > >   Do post back. > Thanks Again. i did the scan again, it took ages (it always hangs at 46 tracks in 6 albums), so i tapped the close icon on the message box, a

Re: [shr-u] stuck in the 'default' theme [solved]

2009-09-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/2 pike : >> i think you can delete your /home/root/.e folder and everything will >> reset to the original settings > > I managed to log in through wifi - boy am i > glad i made a desktop icon for activating my home > wifi :-) - and deleting ~/.e did it. of course, you can always log in thro

Re: [shr-u] stuck in the 'default' theme

2009-09-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/2 pike : > I accidentaly changed the illume theme from > illume-shr to 'default'. you wouldnt think > that could hurt so much :-D but > > since i dont have the topbar anymore, i > can't get to the illume wrench to change it > back. i'd do it through the terminal, but > i have no keyboard - b

Re: [shr-u] the nEo theme boot screen

2009-09-01 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/1 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak : > I'm shr-splash author. > > Illume has nothing to do with boot splash screen. Don't search for it > in illume wrench. > > AFAIK there is no nEo theme for shr-splash. In SHR are available only > simple, dontpanic, handy and niebiee. Qalee is also using shr-splash >

Re: [shr-u] the nEo theme boot screen

2009-09-01 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/1 Martin Jansa : > More than boot screen, I would like to see it integrated better in shr.. > 1) bbfiles in shr/import > 2) no-overwrite between standard libframeworkd-phonegui-efl-theme and > libframeworkd-phonegui-efl-theme-neo, the same for etk-theme-shr and > eth-theme-neo > > With every

problems with intone

2009-09-01 Thread Robin Paulson
i've been using intone on and off since version 0.3 something, but since 0.66 (i think), it's got a nasty bug. whenever i try to add songs to the db, it hangs after importing them, and leaves the 'adding 245 tracks and 13 albums' message pane up. sometimes it stops after getting part way through th

[shr-u] the nEo theme boot screen

2009-09-01 Thread Robin Paulson
i installed the nEo theme a few days back and love it - so much faster, more consistent, it's great i'd like to use the nEo boot screen also, in place of the 'don't panic' splash, but illume segfaults whenever i try to open the 'startup' option in the illume settings manager any suggestions? i've

Re: [ALL] POLL: What distro do you use?

2009-09-01 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/1 Alex Teiche : > Better idea? yes: don't harass people if they want to take part in the community, they'll join the list, see the email and maybe answer the survey. if they aren't subscribed to the list, it's probably cos they don't want to be an active member of the community __

Re: [ALL] POLL: What distro do you use?

2009-09-01 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/1 Alex Teiche : > A message on the front of the Wiki would be nice. i use the wiki perhaps 2/3 times a week. i haven't been to the front page in months ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mai

Re: [SHR] Setting regional codes

2009-09-01 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/1 Tom Yates : > that's great news.  are you in the UK? NZ, but it shouldn't matter > and if so, could you let me know a) your /etc/phone-utils.conf b) a couple [local] international_prefix = 00 national_prefix = 0 country_code = 64 area_code = 0 > of contacts from your address book (i d

Re: [SHR] Setting regional codes

2009-08-31 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/31 Tom Yates : > secondly, does that not mean that a call from 01223456789 (in the UK) > should match a contact listed as +441223456789, when the following > settings apply? > > international_prefix=00 > national_prefix=0 > country_code=44 > area_code=1223 > > if not, how about > internation

Re: SHR clock reset

2009-08-28 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/28 Michal Brzozowski : > I'm having the following problem on SHR-u. The clock resets itself to 0:00 > Jan 1 2000 once in a while. Sometimes it's correct again. Any idea which > program is doing this? Is it getting incorrect time from GSM? i get this sometimes when shr breaks and i switch to

Re: Mechanical Design of the Freerunner/gta02-core/gta03

2009-08-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/25 Ben Thompson : > Perhaps it is best simply to have a sequential number which applies > to any sort of document be it PCB layout, mechanical CAD drawing, > etc. It is also necesarry to have some sort to revision number, which > might be separate from the number on the drawing itself. > > S

Re: Python email or direct GMail lib?

2009-08-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/25 Marcel : > I'm writing a minimal gmail client for the Neo and found that libgmail > has loads of dependencies when trying it on the Hardware (which wasn't > successful until now because of these deps). > Does someone of you know a (possibly easily *g*) usable direct gmail or > general ema

Re: [SHR-U] opkg upgrade results in no GSM again :(

2009-08-23 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/23 DRSp. : > Same here. With an old frameworkd.conf (date 18.08.09) I've got GSM > working again. did you need to do anything other than copying the .conf file into the correct place? i was having the same problems, so copied the file across and rebooted, but no joy yet ___

osm2go on the freerunner

2009-08-21 Thread Robin Paulson
hi all, i've been trying out osm2go recently on the freerunner, for offline editing. has anyone else had a go with it? there are ipk packages and deps at the links below. problem is, i get a segfault whenever i try to load a project. also, i'm getting the following python error on start: Using **p

Re: One second Openmoko boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/20 Jon 'maddog' Hall : > I have a friend of mine who's multi-user Linux system was recently up > for thirty days before a power failure caused it to go down. > > I had a Digital Unix system on my desk up for an entire year without > rebooting. > > We had cases of VAX/Ultrix systems up for ov

Re: PISI 0.4 released

2009-08-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/19 Michael Pilgermann : > We used standard GTK Filedialog for this ... I am trying to think of any > solution (with no need to touch GTK code ;)) ... > > To be honest - I can't bring up any good ... for the mean time, you could > simply "hard code" the path of the vcf file in your config f

Re: PISI 0.4 released

2009-08-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/10 Michael Pilgermann : > We just released PISI 0.4. i did a sync a moment ago, from sim to interactive vcf file. it popped up a dialogue ox asking for a file anme, but i couldn't read most of it, because too much of it was off screen. could you modify this, so i can figure out what's happe

open-source gsm

2009-08-17 Thread Robin Paulson
for the non-slashdot readers: harald welte, a previous contributor here, has set up an open-source gsm network at a hack fest in the netherlands. all legal more details here: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/08/17/0014235/Open-Source-GSM-Network-At-Dutch-Hacker-Convention?art_pos=4 no mentio

Re: Convert Tangogps's poi.db JOSM suitable gpx files

2009-08-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/16 GNUtoo : > I've made a python script that converts poi.db in gpx files... > what should I do with it? put it on the wiki, on the tangogps page? package it up and put it on opkg.org? you might want to check tangogps.org, i'm sure something similar already exists. the writer might be int

Re: [SHR-U] Impressions and Problems

2009-08-14 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/15 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak : > For libframeworkd-phonegui-efl users (default SHR): as said before, > you have to edit /etc/phone-utils.conf to match your country. SHR > Settings module for that is planned and should arrive soon. bloody brilliant! i wish i'd known this earlier. now my message

Re: latest update fsousaged crash!!

2009-08-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/12 c_c : >  No. I've had to install shr-U on another partition on my sd-card and am > using that. Waiting for the right version of the package to hit the > repository for now so, you installed an earlier version, which didn't have this bug? is that correct?

Re: Evopedia 0.2.1

2009-08-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/12 Christian Reitwießner : > Sure, I have thought about that. But then the pages need to be rendered > on the Freerunner. It would be great if we could have some small > standalone Mediawiki renderer. I have had a look at mwlib [1], but it have you tried the wikipedia offline client? the li

Re: Evopedia 0.2.1

2009-08-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/12 Vincent MEURISSE : > On Wednesday 12 August 2009 10:09:51 am Christian Reitwießner wrote: >> So the bottom line is: I don't know if the size can be reduced >> significantly. For Evopedia 2.0 I do the dumps myself (mainly because >> those on static.wikipedia.org are more than a year old),

Re: latest update fsousaged crash!!

2009-08-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/11 Linus Gasser : >> ** (process:1812): CRITICAL **: fso_framework_logger_createFromKeyFile: >> assertion `domain != NULL' failed >> Segmentation fault >> >>   What can I do? Help!! > > Do what I did - re-install on the second partition and copy /home/root > over to it... do you know what c

Re: [shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

2009-08-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/11 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra : > To me it has never worked, but never means in images 20090721 and 20090808 of > shr-u > > It doesn't even bother to set the SSID, but I don't know who's really at > fault here, > mokonnect or connman. > > Anyway, connman is a real piece of crap (but NetworkMa

Re: PISI 0.4 released

2009-08-10 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/8/10 Michael Pilgermann : > Supported Contacts data sources: > - SIM via DBUS (e.g. SHR) > - QTopia address book (e.g. OM 2008.12) > - LDAP (read only) > - VCF files (local / webdav) > - Google contacts > - OPIMD > > Supported Calendar data sources: > - Google calendars > - ICalendar files (lo

[shr-u] update oddities

2009-07-27 Thread Robin Paulson
i ran opkg upgrade tonight, and got a huge number of errors, concerning files that opkg wanted to delete: * Warning: remove /usr/share/icons/shr/86x86/apps/htop.png|f3bf8110b7c66985c0e9511518eb0451 failed: No such file or directory * Warning: remove /usr/share/icons/shr/86x86/apps/gpe-ske

Re: [Openwrt] how do I update it ?

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 : > Finally Openwrt seems to be doing the job a need, a working phone, a working > messaging system and a working Xterm. > > I need to get the headset and the bluetooth working, which leads me to the > question: > > How do I update Openwrt ? > Is there a "dpkg" (or "opkg") > What's the n

Re: Can my FreeRunner remind me to shut it down if it is still running at 22:00?

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 Adam Jimerson : > Only downsides to using ffalram for this first no reoccurring alarm support > yet and second there is no way to add a note or any kind of message reminding > you why the alarm is going off leaving the user having to remember why they > set the alarm, don't know if this i

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 Onen : >> hmm, that sounds slow and clumsy imo; i'd far rather have the tiles. >> as the license is compatible, i might look at importing it myself. i >> think there's a tag in osm, but i can always create one if there isn't >> > > What do you mean by having the tiles? Instead of having t

Re: Tangogps (gtk+-fastscaling "ghost")

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 Glenn Moeller-Holst : > Is "gtk+-fastscaling" actually necessary?: no, very obsolete. it's part of gtk now. you can use -force-depends and ignore it ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mai

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir : > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Robin Paulson > wrote: >> >> is there any work to get this data into the osm database? i assume the >> license is compatible? it would be great to get existing cells >> rendered on an altern

Re: [Openwrt] how to ssh OM?

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 jumper dev : > the problem is my router uses that address (192.168.1.1) .. > iirc there's info on the usb networking page of the wiki about changing the address of either your router or freerunner. both are fairly trivial ___ Openmoko communit

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/25 Onen : > Nick did a very nice work about the visualisation interface of the cells > on the website [1]. > > You can now browse and zoom to an area, and see (depending on the level > of zoom), LACs and cells. > > When you select one item, you can click on it to see the coverage of the > it

Re: [all] opkg killed by navit install

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/25 Robin Paulson : > i've been trying to install the latest navit (2398) from the navit > repository, and am having the usual problems with opkg not being able > to handle it. i've created a 128mb swap file, and turned off the x > server, but no dice. never mind, opkg

[all] opkg killed by navit install

2009-07-24 Thread Robin Paulson
i've been trying to install the latest navit (2398) from the navit repository, and am having the usual problems with opkg not being able to handle it. i've created a 128mb swap file, and turned off the x server, but no dice. any ideas, guys? why does this require so much ram, is this a fundamental

Re: Can my FreeRunner remind me to shut it down if it is still running at 22:00?

2009-07-24 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/25 Brolin Empey : > I prefer to shut down my cell phone before going to bed, but I frequently it may be easier to schedule a cron job which shuts the phone down for you. sounding an alarm to remind you to do something the phone can do, sounds like it's missing the point ___

Re: tangogps : updating tiles ?

2009-07-24 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/21 Ed Kapitein : > for TILE in `find /path/to/tiles -type f`; do >  echo "${TILE}" >  FILE=`basename "${TILE}"` >  L1=`dirname "${TILE}" | gawk -F"/" '{ print $NF}'` >  L2=`dirname "${TILE}" | gawk -F"/" '{ print $(NF-1)}'` >  curl --output "${TILE}" > http://tile.openstreetmap.org/"${L2}"/"

Re: tangogps : updating tiles ?

2009-07-24 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/24 William Kenworthy : > Is there any advantage (to the server) of using curl? - is there a > reason why openstreetmap would ban one and not the other (or is it just > someone(s) using wget beating up their server? why do you think wget has been banned? and what good would it do anyway? ch

Re: Openmoko newbie question, error by installation

2009-07-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/22 Manuel Sangiao : > I tried to install Minimo on OM, but I got > >  *   * ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for minimo: >      *  gtk+-fastscaling (>= 2.10.14) * > > then I used > > opkg -force-depends install minimo_0.02\+cvs20070626-r0armv4t.ipk > > and got > >  *   * Warn

Re: Any distro with working calls?

2009-07-20 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/20 Petr Vanek : > lol, i would put exactly the other way - om2009 needs fiddling for me, > SHR-u works out of box. Any new user: please be aware that each single > device is a bit different, especially when it comes to audio volume. i should say that i haven't used 2009 for over a month now

Re: Any distro with working calls?

2009-07-20 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/20 Aleksey "AlekSi" Palazhchenko : > If I'm wrong and there *is* a way to make and receive a calls without > pain, please point me to this wonderful distribution and wiki-page > with step-by-step instructions. om2009, latest version works great on mine. no changes or other config needed, in

problems with pisi sync

2009-07-19 Thread Robin Paulson
i'm trying to sync data from google calendar to openmoko dates, using pisi, but get this error message. my google calendar account is set up in the pisi conf file --- r...@om-gta02:~# pisi googleCalendar pimlicodates Tracebac

Re: [shr-u] navit - howto config navit.xml

2009-07-18 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/18 Davide Scaini : > on Fr now... so i'll be short. > i installed navit-dev and now it runs! i can see my actual position > but unfortunately no map under. [i have downloaded the entire Italy > from planet osm. i get no errors but no maps ... step by step i'll > win] > thanks guys for your h

Re: PISI 0.3 released

2009-07-17 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/7 Petr Vanek : > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:13:49 +1200 > Robin Paulson (RP) wrote: > >>2009/6/24 Petr Vanek : >>> - calendar sync: Pimlico->Google: seems to sync nicely one way - >>>  pimlico to google but not the other way. >> >>how did you

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