Tracking down reasons for segvaulting applications

2009-12-28 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
My python app ends regularly with a segmentation fault and offers to save a log by means of a gtk dialog. The actual log contains very little helpful info. I'd like to know how to catch more fish. Error Signal Information: /usr/bin/xyz was interrupted by a Segmentation Fault. Output

Re: Tracking down reasons for segvaulting applications

2009-12-28 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/12/28 hab keen oh ne baba_mel...@yahoo.de: How do I develop software? Could you please not ask stupid much too frequently asked questions? strace your program? debug it? Thanks for you friendly reply. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Tracking down reasons for segvaulting applications

2009-12-28 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/12/28 Ivo van den Maagdenberg ivo.vdmaagdenb...@gmail.com: 2009/12/28 hab keen oh ne baba_mel...@yahoo.de: How do I develop software? Could you please not ask stupid much too frequently asked questions? strace your program? debug it? Thanks for you friendly reply. Ah no, it's a 4

Re: Tracking down reasons for segvaulting applications

2009-12-28 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/12/28 Patrick Beck pb...@yourse.de: Hi, is that not a normal enlightenment (window manager) error message? I think it will be useful to start the script from the command line. Then you get the error output directly from the python interpreter. Ok, all irony aside, I will start with a

Re: How to make a screenshot

2009-12-09 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/12/9 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 00:16 +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: Am Mittwoch 09 Dezember 2009 00:02:38 schrieb Ivo van den Maagdenberg: Forgive me for asking one of those silly questions: How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without

How to make a screenshot

2009-12-08 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
Forgive me for asking one of those silly questions: How do I make a screenshot of an openmoko screen, without a photo camera? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

How to publish a piece of software in python?

2009-11-29 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
I have a rather simple request: what is the procedure to publish a set of python script files, into a distributable package for releasing it to the opkg feeds? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain posed me some challanges. After reaching How to create your own project from the sample project

Re: How to publish a piece of software in python?

2009-11-29 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/11/29 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com: An ipk file is just a load of files packaged together. These are distributed as you see fit, then opkg installs your application by extracting the relevant files to the places you want them. All very easy (said, literally, as an average Joe) if

Re: [SHR] Accelerometers

2009-10-25 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/10/25 Frederik Sdun frederik.s...@googlemail.com * Iain B. Findleton ifindle...@videotron.ca [25.10.2009 13:19]: Where is the device control for the accelerometers on SHR? Was /sys/bus/platform/devices/ls302dl.1/2 or some such on the OM distros.

Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but did not find references to the accelerometers. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_data_retrieval is of course valuable, but I'd like to learn

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/9/12 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:56:08 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but did not find

Re: [2008.12] Editing numbers, in contacts for instance

2008-12-25 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2008/12/25 Wendy wendy_h...@openmoko.com Hi, try to scroll up and down on the keyboard, then you will have numbers or symbols. check here:http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2008.8_Keyboard Thanks, this is a bit embarrassing from my side, but I got so used to the way FDOM has offered keyboard

[2008.12] Editing numbers, in contacts for instance

2008-12-24 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
Just flashed to 2008.12. Fast booting and responsive user interaction, great! However, I noticed there is only a simple keyboard available. While I was trying to edit data in the Contacts app there is no way to enter numbers... only 26 characters (a-z) are available. Any hints are welcome to get