Re: a new keyboard - discuss and critique
Yup Ditto, Just waiting for transparent qwo for OM2009... 2009/6/14 Denis Johnson denis.john...@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsenr...@sygehus.dk wrote: They call it qwo[1] and I think it rules. It takes many hours to get used to it, but I think it is definitely worth it. +1 After trying many keyboards, qwo rocks. I am yet to try dasher but I'm pretty sure that the minimal screen real estate that qwo requires will win out. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Transparent keyboard in illume
2009/3/11 Richard Guest quiff...@gmail.com I'll have a go at building from source, but first wanted to check if anyone else out there had already done it? OK, so I finally managed to set-up a build environment and rebuilt illume with the e_kbd.c hack patch... ... so it's working in 2008.12 - I can supply my patched build of illume.ipk if anyone wants it - the only problem being the qtopia Options and Back buttons etc attached to the display bottom always show on top of... Now gotta figure out how to prevent that, or bring qwo even further forward... Rich ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Transparent keyboard in illume
Thanks for sharing your work Richard... I agree transparent qwo is the killer keyboard. I had a crack at getting this going on 2008.12 yesterday using your binary packages, but not surprisingly failed with e-wm. I can report that the patched xserver + composite extension, composite manager and transparent qwo binaries install and work fine on 2008.12. Unfortunately e-wm packages (e-wm-utils, illume etc.) have changed since 2008.12... I'll have a go at building from source, but first wanted to check if anyone else out there had already done it? Cheers, Rich ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: (Qi) Qi or bust, or: what do I do wrong?
2009/2/22 Paul p...@nlpagan.net What do I do wrong here? Nothing wrong with the flashing, as far as I can tell. What do you have on the SD card? Qi tries to boot kernels from the the first three partitions on SD first... Rich ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Bug Fix !! New Release of GuitarTune v0.21
That new package has the project .svn entries in it still... 2009/2/4 c_c cchan...@yahoo.com Hi, @Ed - It should work on OM2008.12 too. Try opkg install libglade-2.0 gtk+ http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2007/ipk/glibc/armv4t/base/libfftw3-3_3.1.2-r1_armv4t.ipk http://www.opkg.org/packages/guitartune_0.20_arm.ipk I've fixed a minor bug where the program was looking for an alsa state file in the wrong place. V 0.21 can be downloaded from the same places. http://guitartune.googlecode.com googlecode http://guitartune.projects.openmoko.org projects.openmoko.org http://www.opkg.org/package_115.html opkg.org -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/New-Release-of-GuitarTune-v0.20-%28based-on-Alsa%29-tp2263173p2266838.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [FDOM] Bluetooth kbd?
Cool. I went looking for this a while ago, but couldn't find it... Two questions: Does anyone have an ipk for zenity? Has anyone got the iGo running using a PIN? Chur, Rich 2008/10/10 Staley, Daniel L [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have had no trouble connecting to my iGo bluetooth keyboard initially. However, after a suspend I have noticed that bluetooth will no longer work. Perhaps the device never gets powered back on? Has anyone else noticed this? A nice zenity gui for connecting to bluetooth keyboards (or really anything bluetooth) was written by ScaredyCat a while back. I use it and it works great! (see www.bufferunderflow.com?entry=6 for pics and a quick video using the keyboard) Get btkb at: http://projects.openmoko.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/app_btkb/?rev=14amp;root=scutil -Dan Staley ___ From: Christ van Willegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:41 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: [FDOM] Bluetooth kbd? On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Alastair Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christ van Willegen wrote: Hi, did anybody have luck with FDOM and a bluetooth keyboard (iGo to be exact). hidd seems to be broken, in that it says 'scanning' and immediately quits... Christ van Willegen It'll do this if bluetooth isn't on and working. Use hciconfig to check this. I turned on Bluetooth in the settings screen (I also tried in the 'services' screen), but I didn't have any luck. Let me try that again... According to both 'Services' and 'Settings', Bluetooth is 'on', but hciconfig returns zilch. Christ van Willegen -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner
Beaten to the punch. +1 for this question. Rich On 22/04/2008, Ben Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will it ship with powerpack adaptors for all countries? I just noticed there's no adaptor for Australia/New Zealand in the pic. Not that it would be a problem, most of us have an adaptor lying around somewhere. Ben. Michael Shiloh wrote: Remember, Steve is still deciding what to include in the box. These are just a bunch of stuff that fit, from which he is making decisions: http://quickstart.openmoko.org/photographs/ If someone with more skills than me at web page design would like to turn this into a nice web page with thumbnails etc. I would welcome the assistance. I have to get back to upgrading GTA01 firmware, testing GTA02 samples, and shipping all of these items. You don't need my permission - download these photographs, they are direct copies of my originals, and create what you want. Michael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner and Earthquakes
GPS essentially *is* accurate timing... GPS satellites are flying atomic clocks. Trimble has a good GPS tutorial - http://www.trimble.com/gps/index.shtml Almost all Digital Seismometers have a GPS interface to get the accurate timing they require. On 20/04/2008, Brandon Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat April 19 2008 5:52:14 pm Ortwin Regel wrote: Yes, AFAIK GPS requires accurate time to function. Ortwin On 4/19/08, Brandon Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat April 19 2008 5:29:50 pm Richard Guest wrote: Yeah, it's an interesting idea. I read something similar on Evil Mad Scientist http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/seismometry2 The detection/pinpointing part requires both accurate detection of shaking and timing - obviously the timing is critical for triangulation. I think the *cool* factor for something like this would be the ability to measure a persons actual physical experience of an earthquake. There are *lots* of existing seismometers that will do the *fixed* point detection a whole lot better, but none (that I know of) that will be (relatively) unobtrusive to the users daily life and still give an actual measurement of physical shaking intensity. You shouldn't have to wait that long for e/q info... In New Zealand the news media mostly regurgitate what we post on http://www.geonet.org.nz/ There's near-realtime shaking info on the front page, and if there's actually an earthquake people can submit a Felt Report to tell us how they experienced it. It would be really cool to see how a personal accelerometer trace correlates to the fuzzy-logic of the felt report! End thoughts... -- Rich On 20/04/2008, Brandon Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After recently having a 5.2 earthquake here in the Midwest, I realized the potential in the Openmoko for detecting/pinpointing earthquakes. What this is mostly dependant on is the accuracy of the accelerometers in the Freerunner. From what I've read, Macbooks' accelerometers and detect and measure earthquakes fairly accurately. [1] If the Freerunner's accelerometers are precise enough and it could be attached to a fixed ground, we could use GPS to retreive an accurate location and record and upload accelerometer data to a database. Many different devices running this could provide intensity levels at many different locations and (at least fairly accurately), pinpoint an epicenter. This data could become useful to researchers and would provide information about an earthquake faster than almost any news network would provide. Thoughts? [1] http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html -- Brandon Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onedollarlinux.com BLOG - http://onedollarlinux.com/personal/ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Wouldn't GPS provide an accurate time? I thought GPS sends its own official time, like an atomic clock. I could be wrong. Anyone know more about this? -- Brandon Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onedollarlinux.com BLOG - http://onedollarlinux.com/personal/ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community When I used a bluetooth GPS with my laptop, I notices the gpsd output had a different time than my system clock showed, so I assume GPS provides its own clock. -- Brandon Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onedollarlinux.com BLOG - http://onedollarlinux.com/personal/ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
