Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:27:38 +0100 Ben Thompson wrote: > > To finance the next phase, we are thinking about asking for donations or to > > hold an auction for the first 5 or 10 prototype units. What would you think > > of such an approach? > > I'm not keen on either (although would consider a

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:22:02 +0200 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" wrote: > > Am 12.08.2010 um 14:12 schrieb RANJAN: > > > Hi, > > > > When is the next and more powerful openmoko (capable of seamless 3D video > > and faster processor) is going to be released??? > > Assume, you could get a motherb

Re: transparency in gtk

2010-03-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:02:43 +0600 Chuck Norris wrote: > I need transparency in gtk under freerunner. So I compiled this code > > #include > > gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv) > { > GtkWidget *window; > > gtk_init(&argc, &argv); > > window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);

Re: QtMoko v18 - based on 2.6.32

2010-03-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:16:58 +0100 Radek Polak wrote: > BTW. /dev/input/mice is a placeholder to make X read all kinds of mice at > > once. It is supposed to simplify the configuration as you could replace > > your PS/2 mouse with a USB one, a touchpad or even a good old serial > > mouse. But if

Re: tangoGPS 0.99.3 is out

2010-02-20 Thread Neil Brown
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:54:02 +0100 "Helge Hafting" wrote: > Marcus Bauer wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >tangoGPS is out with lots of speed improvements and a lot less of CPU > >usage. > > > >Moreover the speed display is now set in pixels and no longer in > >points - especially on SHR that should resul

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

2010-02-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:55:09 +0100 Marcus Bauer wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:33:03 +1100 > Neil Brown wrote: > > The recent innovation of compiling the kernel with the go-slow straps > > removed has had a significant improvement on my experience. Now if > > only I

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

2010-02-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:05:30 +1300 Andrew Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > (any New Zealand residents out there?  I visited NZ in Jan, bought a > > 2degrees > > SIM can and found that I couldn't send SMS messages tho

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

2010-02-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:17:17 -0800 (PST) Mike Crash wrote: > > No > Yes > Debian Yes No Debian The recent innovation of compiling the kernel with the go-slow straps removed has had a significant improvement on my experience. Now if only I could figure out why the gprs is not reliable I'd be o

Re: Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:12:54 + William Kenworthy wrote: > What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality) are there? I > want 3G phone/sms access and the FR doesnt cut it any more ... > > The android phones (htc dream?) - none of which are fully functional on > FSO/SHR (I think),

Re: SHR-U Accelerometer data

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:32:46 -0500 "Iain B. Findleton" wrote: > > Let me remind you that the driver has changed wrt. RELATIVE and > > ABSOLUTE. These days, upon opening the device, only the first report is > > a full report. Subsequent reports only contain changed axes. > > > I got that abou

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday March 23, ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: > Charles-Henri Gros wrote: > > > > A known issue in 2008.12. > > http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket//2145 > > > > Workaround: > > echo 10 > /sys/devices/platform/lis302dl.1/threshold > > > > > > > > > ls /sys/devices/platform: They seem

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday March 23, ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: > Okay, it looks like the 2.6.28 kernel and modules are an improvement for > the accelerometer data, but the report times, while not negative any > more, appear somewhat erratic. The type codes appear to be unchanged in > this build, with the dr

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday March 23, michael-tanse...@gmx.de wrote: > > In the latest andy-tracking it reports the more correct 'ABS' events. > > So now it does report zeros. However it doesn't report an axis if there > > has been no change. > > Is it correct that there are now two changes for developers. The fir

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday March 22, charles-henri.gros+openm...@m4x.org wrote: > Iain B. Findleton wrote: > > I have been playing a bit with the accelerometers on the FR appear to > > observe the following: > > > >1) The time stamp on events appears to be unreliable, in the sense > > that the time difference

Re: Dialup On Demand (was: [SHR] Miscellanious minor issues)

2009-01-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday January 31, freerun...@newkirk.us wrote: > > What about (which I expect will not be a candidate for an 'official' > solution;) > > get frameworkd talking to ip_queue or netlink. For example, we could: > > Create a lowest-priority default route that hits lo, like: > route add default

python upgrade in fso-testing broken ssl TCP connections....

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Brown
Hi, I use the http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-testing/ and so recently python got upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6. This broke pygtk as that is still expecting python-2.5 to be present. but it isn't. I "fixed" that with a few symlinks, but problems continued. In particular, 'ssl.py' doesn

Re: QTopia full screen handwriting on OM2008?

2008-09-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday September 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > According to Trolltech's documentation ( > http://doc.trolltech.com/qtopia4.3/inputmethods-description.html), QTopia > supports handwriting recognition. > > Is there some way to get handwriting recognition to work on the OM 2008 > distr

Re: FSO - DPI issues (remote X clients)

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday August 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I change the DPI so that any GTK X client knows what is right for me? Edit /etc/X11/Xserver find "GTA01" | "GTA02") ARGS="$ARGS -dpi 285 -screen 480x640 -hide-cursor -root-ppm /usr/share/pixmaps/xsplash-vga.ppm vt

Re: GPS logger / field data collection

2008-08-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday August 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was kind of surprised that gpsd didn't give me a simple way to just get the > current location, I > had to capture 5 sentences to do that simple thing, but what I really wanted > was to simply get the > last known lat and long I was at. With

Re: GPS rework: Please test and report on software fix prior to attempting any hardware fix

2008-08-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday August 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For a bit more consistency of timing, less manual intervention, and enough > readings to get an idea of the run to run variation in that location, can I > suggest a script? It could do with a timeout when waiting for a fix since > with deivestre

Re: rationale for ASU (and change from GTK to Qt)

2008-06-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday June 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have to say that I find it a bit odd running X11 on a mobile phone > - a WM wouldn't be required without it - when an alternative is > possible. In fact, as far as I can ascertain an alternative already > exists. X11 seems logical to me for

Re: Fast questions about GTA03

2008-06-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday June 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was thinking of asking the very same thing. > When dialing or using a calculator or sending a text message, the glamo > would only slow us down. Or am I mistaken? > Maybe it's a very stupid question (I presume if it were possible such a > trivial fe