Gta02 holder.

2017-04-06 Thread Ed Kapitein

Hi,

During the spring cleaning i found an openmoko holder with a belt clip. 
[1,2,3]
If someone is interested, i am happy to send it to you, if you pay the 
postage and package costs.

( bitcoin is fine, and SEPA too )
I am living in Delft, the netherlands, (europe) so the closer you are, 
the cheaper it will be :-)

( and if you live real close you can come and pick it up in person )

Perhaps you can use it for a gta04.

Kind regards,
Ed


[1] http://phranky.kapitein.org/images/IMG_20170406_212024.jpg
[2] http://phranky.kapitein.org/images/IMG_20170406_212055.jpg
[3] http://phranky.kapitein.org/images/IMG_20170406_212128.jpg

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Re: Gta04 on wikipedia

2016-01-31 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 01/31/2016 01:07 PM, Christ van Willegen wrote:

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Ed Kapitein  wrote:

Wikipedia [1] has the gta04 marked as cancelled, perhaps someone can bring
that page up to date?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones

Better this way?

Christ van Willegen

Much better!


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Gta04 on wikipedia

2016-01-31 Thread Ed Kapitein

Hi All,

Wikipedia [1] has the gta04 marked as cancelled, perhaps someone can 
bring that page up to date?


Kind regards,
Ed

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones

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Re: OT: Ubuntu phone && HTML5 / QML

2015-03-16 Thread Ed Kapitein
><
> Interesting.
> 
> Makes me curious why you both spend money on that one instead of e.g. the 
> GTA04A5?
> 
> Any answer is valid - and no need to be polite…
> 
> I am just curious to understand how people think and decide such things in 
> March 2015.
> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus

Hi Nikolaus,

A couple of things made me decide to buy the ubuntu phone.

-1 The price. for me it is afordable at 170 euro vs +/- 600 euro for a
neo900 and slightly less for the GTA04A5

-2 The device is in "mass" production, compared to the volumes of GTA04
or neo900

-3 Development is done by a huge team, with a long track record in
development.

-4 Using old components from the GTA02 to build a GTA04 will get me a
"new" phone with and 8 year old screen, 8 year old battery, 8 year old
case etc.

But i really appreciate what all members from the gta02 community have
done in the past and are still doing today!

Big thanks from me.
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Re: OT: Ubuntu phone && HTML5 / QML

2015-03-16 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 08:31 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw on the net a video about the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu phone:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4baLQmU0s
> (english 40min)
> Jono Bacon, former Ubuntu Community Manager, shares a video with a
> detailed review and demo of the new bq Aquaris E4.5, complete with
> commentary on the wider scopes and convergence strategy
> 
> What I'm asking me, and want to ask here: How thy 'paint' the picture
> from the apps written in HTML5 or QML to the display? Is this as well at
> the end of the day a X11 server or something else? It moves so smoothly.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>   matthias

Hi Matthias,

As far as i can tell, they use mir [1]
I did order the ubuntu phone and can't wait to test it out!

Kid regards,
Ed

[1] http://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/



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Re: Retrieving contacts for remote backup in QtMoko.

2015-01-22 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 01/22/2015 09:11 PM, Robert 'Bobby' Zenz wrote:

Hello.

Thank you. The contacts are on the SIM card, I already tried
"talking" with it but my tries were a little unsuccessful and resulted
in the modem/SIM not answering at all and locking up. My assumption was
that that was because I tried to talk with it at the same time as
QtMoko and its services.

Do you know what the preferred way is to send commands to the SIM in
QtMoko? Or should a "normal" serial/terminal communication program be
enough?

><

You should stop qpe, so it is not using the modem anymore.
( /etc/init.d//qpe/.sh /stop/ i believe )
Then you can use a normal terminal program to send commands.
Minicom should work just fine.

If the modem locks up, you can reset it with:
echo 0 > 
/sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-gpio.0/reg-fixed-voltage.1/gta02-pm-gsm.0/power_on

sleep 5
echo 1 > 
/sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-gpio.0/reg-fixed-voltage.1/gta02-pm-gsm.0/power_on


if 
/sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-gpio.0/reg-fixed-voltage.1/gta02-pm-gsm.0/power_on 


does not exists, try
/sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/power_on, 
there was a change of path somewhere in the past.


Kind regards,
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Re: Retrieving contacts for remote backup in QtMoko.

2015-01-22 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 01/22/2015 06:55 PM, Robert 'Bobby' Zenz wrote:

Hello everyone.

Does somebody know if it is possible to retrieve the contacts of the
phone in QtMoko so that they can, f.e., be send via SSH to a remote
system for backup?


><

Hi Bobby,

If your contacts are stored on the phone you could try the script from [1]

If they are on the the SIM, you can retrieve them with an AT command 
like AT+CPBR=1


Kind regards,
Ed

[1] http://marc.info/?l=openmoko-community&m=127790542718546









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[ot] Pi-Phone or blackberry-pi ?

2014-06-22 Thread Ed Kapitein

Hi All,

I took a model A raspberry pi [1] a tft screen [2] and a Arduino gsm 
shield [3] to create a "mobile phone" [4]


It was a fun experiment to do, and in the end it did gave me a "phone" i 
can use.
Unfortunately, it became so big and heavy, that it is more something to 
put on your desk as a clock. [5]


Some of the reasons to build a phone myself were:

-1 because you can ;-)
-2 the pi is made in large quantities and has a big community.
-3 up-to-date kernel
-4 huge collection of programs in the raspbian repository.

I hope it inspires someone to build a better model, smaller and with a 
better battery life.


Kind regards,
Ed


[1] 
http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/raspberry_pi_model_a_05.jpg

[2] http://www.adafruit.com/products/1601
[3] http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoGSMShield
[4] http://phranky.kapitein.org/images/100.JPG
[5] http://phranky.kapitein.org/images/1600.JPG




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Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-17 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 05/17/14 04:25, Nick wrote:

Hi all,

I haven't been using my phone much recently, but it's always been
reasonably reliable when I have. Today I turned it on, and all day
it has just said "searching for network". I haven't moved, and I'm
in an urban enough place that I don't think it's plausible for a
tower to have gone down or something.

I'm not sure where to go or what to look for to debug this. I've
restarted the phone multiple times without success.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Nick



Hi Nick,

You could try to put the FR SIM in a known good working phone and see if 
that one does register.
If not, then either the SIM is dead, or no longer registered with the 
provider.
And then you could put the SIM from the working phone in the FR to see 
if that fixes the problem.


Kind regards,
Ed

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Re: GTA02 broken screen / What Nice Projekts to Do Without a Screen or Would Other Screens Work

2014-05-12 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 05/10/2014 05:23 PM, Francesco De Vita wrote:

If you think this is something you would like to try, please let me
know, so i can provide you with the kernel and the rootfs image for you
to flash.
You need to write some scripts to fit everything to your needs, so i
hope you have some scripting skills.

Probably I do not have the required skills but it is really interesting!
Have you already mention your work in the ML or in the Wiki? I'm sure it
deserves to be noted, I was looking for this kind of application from years.

Do you think your daemon could be easily integrated in QtMoko or other OS?

Best regards
Francesco


Hi Francesco,

I did announce it a few years ago [1] and kept working on it, just for fun.
By now the internals have changed, instead of 4 separate programs i have 
just 2, the daemon and the optional gui.
integrating it in QTMoko is possible, there are some instructions on the 
website [2], although i did not try that with the current version.
The Original Poster has no screen anymore, so integrating it with QTMoko 
would be difficult for him.


You could give the old version a try, to see how it works for you, and 
if you like it i can setup a download link for the latest and greatest 
version.


Kind regards,

Ed


[1] http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td7443779
[2] http://phranky.kapitein.org


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Re: GTA02 broken screen / What Nice Projekts to Do Without a Screen or Would Other Screens Work

2014-05-07 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 05/07/14 14:46, Francesco De Vita wrote:

You could use the freerunner as a SMS gateway, you don't need a screen
for that.
That is something i use, i can send a text message and perform some action
(switching lights on or off )
Or have a text message send to my other phone if a long running job is
done.

Would you like to explain how do you do that? (:

Regards
Francesco


Sure,

A while ago i wrote a daemon that handles the GSM modem ( phone calls 
and text messages )
The gui is separate  from the daemon and can be run on a remote 
computer. ( desktop, laptop, whatever )
The daemon listens on stdin and sends output to stdout, so you can use 
it without a screen at all.


You need to flash the root image and the kernel and after that you can 
login via ssh trough USB.
After you set up your wlan, you can ssh in and read and send text 
messages etc.


If you think this is something you would like to try, please let me 
know, so i can provide you with the kernel and the rootfs image for you 
to flash.
You need to write some scripts to fit everything to your needs, so i 
hope you have some scripting skills.


Kind regards,
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Re: GTA02 broken screen / What Nice Projekts to Do Without a Screen or Would Other Screens Work

2014-04-18 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 04/18/14 06:36, robin wrote:

Hi,

unfortunately I the screen of my old GTA02 has stopped working (all white
  apart from a bit of pixel garbish at the bottom, also directly after
booting). Now I know that you can get a replacement for about 80EUR. Even
though this is still an option it is a bit expensive regarding the fact that
the phone is now 6years old. The phone itself still works as I can ssh into
QtMoko. So I have two questions

a) did anyone ever manage to connect the phone to some other type of newer
screen (eg to build an incar navigation system?)

b) if I ever wanted install something new, how would I proceed only with
ssh as a visual feedback (if at all): Qtmoko and SHR need the user to
calibrate the screen inbetween, so I don't know where they will get stuck
during installation.

Maybe you can share your ideas on what to do with such a device.

Many thanks and happy easter

Robin



Hi Robin,

You could use the freerunner as a SMS gateway, you don't need a screen 
for that.

That is something i use, i can send a text message and perform some action
(switching lights on or off )
Or have a text message send to my other phone if a long running job is done.

Any idea if the touch screen still works?  you might be able to use it 
as a mp3 player, or alarm clock if it does.


Or use it as a gps tracking device.

If you like none of the ideas, you could also donate it to the 
community, perhaps someone can use it as  a base for a gta04.


Kind regards,
Ed


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Re: [qtmoko] customizing aux/power button or adding button to home screen

2014-03-05 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 13:31 +, robin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to be able to access some programs in qtmoko faster, so my
> question is: Is there either a way to 
> 
>   to run an app directly when you press the aux button
> 
> and if so, how can I distinguish the length of a press (I know that the
> old android version did start three different processes depending on the
> length of time you pressed the power button (very short, ~2sec, ~4secs).
> 
> and if this is all not possible, could someone point me to where I should
> start reading to be able to change/extend the homescreen, to add any icon 
> with a call of that application I want to run.
> 
> and even more advanced is there any chance of bind the this process somehow
> to a single icon:
> -> Application -> QX -> Select Navit -> Click upArrow in Menu -> Click Launch
> 
> many thanks,
> 
> robin
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Hi Robin,

The Aux button will generate an interrupt when pressed or released.
if you look at /proc/interrupts
and find the line starting with "50:", you can see the number increase,
every time you press the aux button.

You could build a script that reads /proc/interrupts, and start another
script to launch you application.
There is however no way to distinguish between a "normal" press and one
to launch your app.

You can use a simple timing loop to check how long the aux key is held,
and only start your application when aux is pressed for more then x
seconds.

Kind regards,
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Re: GSM frequency bands in the USA

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Nick,

Thanks for the change in tone, for me it was more then welcome.
I have been to the USA with my FR and had no problem whatsoever in
connecting to the network, also the gprs worked just fine.
I did bought a USA sim card on ebay, just to cut the costs.
I traveled California, Nevada, Montanna, Sout Dakota and Colorado on the
T-Mobile network.

Kind regards,
Ed

On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 12:07 +, Nick wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> A change of tone for the list, for now.
> 
> I'm going to the USA soon, and would ideally like to use my GTA02
> there. It is a European 900/1800/1900MHz version (I presume - I
> bought it 2nd hand - is there an easy way to check?). Can I just use
> any network in the USA, and it will just register with the 1900MHz
> band and all just work? [0] implies that would work, but [1] implies
> it may depend on the area of the USA, and I lack the knowledge to
> readily figure it out.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nick
> 
> 0. 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies#United_States_Carrier_Frequency_Use
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_bands#Americas
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Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-21 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 12/21/2013 11:58 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:

People,

I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it 
someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would 
be good to have something that could act like a SMS server eg I have a 
demand where if an (urgent) email comes into a particular account, 
that the contents of the email are able to be resent as an SMS out 
through a mobile device gateway to a number of phones - could OpenMoko 
be rejigged to do this somehow?


Regards,

Phil.


Hi Phil,

I did the same thing, but It is of limited use, a lot of mail is in HTML 
format and hard to convert to SMS.

Also, you need to strip the headers etc.
So you might want to write a script first and run it on real-life mails, 
before you put effort in reconfiguring the freerunner.


Just my 0.02BTC

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Re: QtMoko v58 with 2.6.39 kernel and improved power management

2013-12-12 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Radek,

Thanks a lot!

i am still on the old 2.6.29 kernel ;-)
Will try it out soon.

Can you tell a bit more about your GPS problem?
Is there no output coming from cat /dev/ttySAC1 ?
Does it work with the older kernels?

I m not running qtmoko and the gps is runing fine.

Kind regards,
Ed

On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 10:09 +0100, Radek Polak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> QtMoko v58 for Freerunner is now out! You can download here [1] and
> visit our homepage [2] for more info.
> 
>  
> 
> Here is list of changes since last Freerunner release:
> 
>  
> 
> * gta02 kernel upgrade to 2.6.39
> 
> * hack to stop vibrating after resume
> 
> * show end call button after 2s to avoid unwanted press
> 
> * improved colors in qmplayer encoding
> 
> * better name of encoded movie in qmplayer
> 
> * using emdebian for some packages
> 
> * using glamo-mplayer as package
> 
> * suspend in locked screen is now after 3s
> 
> * accelerometers are now in module and disabled by default (see below)
> 
>  
> 
> 99% of the credit for this release goes to Paul Ferster. He managed to
> find the suspend/resume problem and finally after years we have stable
> kernel. Many thanks!
> 
>  
> 
> As a side effect while playing with the new kernel i have discovered
> power management bug in lis302dl (accelerometer) driver. The module
> seems to eat ~6mA in suspend. So by default the module is now not
> loaded and accelerometers are not working. On the other side, the
> current in suspend is now between 4..6mA which gives ~200 hours in
> standby! If you want to use accels you do:
> 
>  
> 
> echo lis302dl >> /etc/modules
> 
> echo joydev >> /etc/modules
> 
>  
> 
> As for the other changes. I plan to start using Freerunner as my daily
> phone now so i had to fix one old problem. When i answered phone call
> i often accidentaly pressed the "Accept call" button twice. After
> first press the button changed to "End call" and the second press
> ended the call immediately. This is now fix and there is 2s interval
> where second press is ignored.
> 
>  
> 
> Another problem noticed was that sometimes the phone would start
> vibrating after resume. So there is now hack that stops vibrations
> after each resume.
> 
>  
> 
> Another nice thing is that i am now using emdebian and i have rebuild
> a few packages with useless python dependencies. The result is that
> tarbal size went from 161MB -> 88MB and ubifs 146MB -> 102MB.
> 
>  
> 
> So if you are still using Freerunner i hope it can work for you
> nicely.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers
> 
>  
> 
> Radek
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Btw - anyone has working GPS on Freerunner? I cant get fix and it
> seems it's not SW problem. It would be nice to have it working
> again...
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA02/
> 
> [2] http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/
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Re: [gta02] a few questions

2013-11-16 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 11/14/2013 12:17 AM, matteo sanvito wrote:


Hi ed,
I don't know about your first question, while about the second one, 
try to change "&" to "&&" after "...STAT1)"


I'm glad to see that there is someone other that still uses gta02 :')

Best regards,
matte



Hi Matteo,

Thanks for your reply!

Could you explain a bit more why to change & for && ?

Wouldn't changing:
if(!readw(host->base + GLAMO_REG_MMC_RB_STAT1) & GLAMO_STAT1_MMC_IDLE)

to:
if(!readw(host->base + GLAMO_REG_MMC_RB_STAT1) && GLAMO_STAT1_MMC_IDLE)

Change the logic of the program?

In the first case the "if" statement would be true if either
readw(host->base + GLAMO_REG_MMC_RB_STAT1) is false, or
GLAMO_STAT1_MMC_IDLE is true.

in the second case the "if" statement would be true if
eadw(host->base + GLAMO_REG_MMC_RB_STAT1) is false and
GLAMO_STAT1_MMC_IDLE is true.

I can't tell from the source code what the intention of the program was.

Thanks for your time!

Kind regards.

PS
Yes, the GTA02 is still my one and only mobile phone ;-)






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[gta02] a few questions

2013-11-13 Thread Ed Kapitein

Hi all,

I have a few questions:

-1 When i try to start Radek's buildhost i get:
./start.sh: line 2:   371 Real-time signal 0  qemu-system-arm -M 
versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-versatile -initrd 
initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-versatile -append "root=/dev/sda1" -hda 
squeeze.img -redir tcp:2::22 -m 256

So it stops with Real-time signal 0.

It used to work just fine, but after some upgrades of kvm it now seems 
unwilling to start.

Has anyone a clue on what is going on?

I can start it with:
strace qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel 
vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-versatile -initrd initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-versatile 
-append "root=/dev/sda1" -hda squeeze.img -redir tcp:2::22 -m 256

but then it is even slower then usual.

-2 when building a kernel on the buildhost, i get a warning:
drivers/mfd/glamo/glamo-mci.c:445: warning: suggest parentheses around 
operand of '!' or change '&' to '&&' or '!' to '~'

Line 445 reads:

/* if we can't do it, reject as busy */
if (!readw(host->base + GLAMO_REG_MMC_RB_STAT1) &
 GLAMO_STAT1_MMC_IDLE) {
host->mrq = NULL;
cmd->error = -EBUSY;
mmc_request_done(host->mmc, host->mrq);
return -EBUSY;
}

Is this really just cosmetics, or is there a bug in the code?
( i still have data corruption on the SD card every now and then )
this is still the old 2.6.29-rc3-09613-g973a41f-dirty kernel

Kind regards,
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Re: GTA02 giveaway

2013-10-14 Thread Ed Kapitein

Hi Jeff,

I would like to have another GTA02, but please feel free to give it to 
anyone who need it more than i do.


Kind regards,
Ed

On 10/14/2013 08:23 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:

My GTA02 has been sitting around for too long without attention.

The battery has discharged completely and I can't get it to boot, even
with external power, even from the NOR menu.

I don't have spare batteries or the equipment for the other boot tricks,
and I had stopped using the Freerunner, so I would like to give it away
to anyone who will pay shipping from Germany.

They will get:

GTA02
TuxBrain case
Stylus
Original packing
USB cable
Mains cable

Regards

Jeff



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Re: Newer kernel (3.5?) for GTA02: suggested kernel config?

2013-09-11 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 09/11/2013 04:42 PM, Kim Vandry wrote:

Hello,

><
  Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[0.575000] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root 
fs on unknown-block(0,0)


Qi claims to be setting the command line as follows:

loglevel=2 console=tty0 console=ttySAC2,115200 init=/sbin/init ro 
mtdparts=physmap-flash:-(nor);neo1973-nand:0x0004(qi),0x0004(depr-ub-env),0x0080(kernel),0x000a(depr),0x0004(identity-ext2),0x0f6a(rootfs) 
 rootfstype=jffs2 root=/dev/mtdblock6



><

Hi Phil,

What did you flash to the nand partition? Qtmoko? What version?

It might be a UBI fs instead of a jffs2

The kernel is somehow not liking its root filesystem ;-)

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Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-08-22 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 08/22/13 23:11, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
So what? Those are still phones. Working, functional phones which have 
much better specs than GTA02. User wants a free phone, user orders a 
free phone, user gets a free phone. Without the need of owning GTA02 
and replacing motherboard by himself - and that's what matters. 
OpenPhoenux project provides full phone. If there'll be higher demand, 
it'll provide new cases. Demand is too low right now, so old cases are 
used. I can't see the point of your argument in this discussion. 

Did anyone try to use Ubuntu on the gta04 ?
It could be a nice show case to have some video's of working gta04's 
running Ubuntu Edge.


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Re: US Distributors

2013-05-21 Thread Ed Kapitein
Last price:$122.74499
:-D

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 11:08 +0200, Patryk Benderz wrote:
> [cut]
> > I have an older USA model i can sell, i am looking for around 120 USD or 
> > 1 BTC.
> Say what? 1 BTC is worth 120 USD now?
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Re: US Distributors

2013-05-20 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 05/20/2013 06:23 PM, Joseph Armbruster wrote:

I am new to openmoko and looking to take the first step and buy a COTS open 
hardware stack.  I browsed through this list:  
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributors

* GP2X does not appear to have cell phones (from what I could see)
and
* SDG Systems products are way out of my price range

Are there other recommended US distributors?

Thank You,
Joseph Armbruster
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Hi Joseph,

I have an older USA model i can sell, i am looking for around 120 USD or 
1 BTC.

Let me know if you are interested.

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Re: I want to buy an openmoko smartphone.

2013-05-19 Thread Ed Kapitein

Hi Alexey,

Try one of the dealers listed on:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributors

Kind regards,
Ed

On 05/19/13 07:23, Аlexey wrote:

Sell me a gta device, please.

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] openmoko.org server move

2013-05-16 Thread Ed Kapitein
Radek, again, thanks for all the hours you put in to it, it is really 
appreciated !


Kind regards,
Ed


On 05/16/2013 09:52 AM, Radek Polak wrote:


On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 05:32:15 PM Patryk Benderz wrote:

> well, i just hope Radek earned a lot for selling this domain ;)

The story is quite sad for me personally. I have spent thousand hours 
on the project. I was against registering qtmoko.org, but still people 
did it and i had no control of it. And everybody started using 
qtmoko.org instead of sourceforge url so it's first in google result 
list. Now there is some crap on the site and the qtmoko project looks 
dead because of it.


I really had no single cent from qtmoko.org nor from whole qtmoko 
project...


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Re: Bitcoin Client

2013-05-05 Thread Ed Kapitein.org

On 05/05/13 17:17, Brian wrote:

On Sun, 05 May 2013 14:43:57 +0200
Ed Kapitein  wrote:


Hi all,

Doest anyone know of a bitcoin client that will run on our beloved FR?

Kind regards,
Ed

Nope, and it's probably not worth the effort since it's become
exponentially harder to mine them. The FR simply doesn't have the
processing power to make it a useful platform for bitcoin mining. It
would probably be an excellent way to shorten the lifespan of one
however.

I don't use mine as a regular phone any longer but it still gets
limited use performing other duties that aren't too taxing.

B



no, mining is not an option, but being able to use it as a wallet could be!
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Bitcoin Client

2013-05-05 Thread Ed Kapitein

Hi all,

Doest anyone know of a bitcoin client that will run on our beloved FR?

Kind regards,
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Re: [GTA02, QtMoko] performance issue on uSD

2013-04-26 Thread Ed Kapitein.org

On 04/26/13 17:13, francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote:

Hi
I tryed to get this uSD work for days but it doesn't, the file system 
corrupts every time or it gives me the "kernel panic - not syncing" 
error and I don't know for what reasons. I surrender...
Can someone suggest me a Class 10 uSD (complete model name) that works 
on the GTA02 without issues?

Thanks

Joif

I'm trying with QtMoko v55 on a SanDisk microSDHC 16GB class 10, but 
it doesn't boot and gives me these errors:



Hi Joif,

I had a similar problem, that seems to happen with partitions that are 
bigger then 2 G.
So you *could* repartition the disk in to 8 partitions and see if that 
works for you.


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Re: Invitation to indicate interest in next batch of GTA04A5 boards

2013-03-26 Thread Ed Kapitein
<><
> the kernel, boot loader etc.
> 
> If you have ideas how to stimulate demand, please do!
> 
>  Nikolaus Schaller
> 
Hi Nikolaus,

Thanks for your great and continued work on the GTA0x.

Wouldn't it be nice if the GTA04 could be a showcase for the upcoming
Ubuntu phone?
I think the Ubuntu phone will get a lot of attention, once it come out
and being able to show it on the GTA04 would sure get some attention,
and thus demand.

Just my 0.02 btc.

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Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-09 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 03/08/2013 08:45 PM, Fox Mulder wrote:

Am 06.03.2013 14:21, schrieb Ed Kapitein:
><
The lack of pairing also means a lack of encryption, you have to judge
the impact of that yourself.
Thanks for these instructions.
But the problem is that i want to pair the freerunner with my tablet
where i have no access to a console. So i do need a script or program
which could pair with standard bluetooth devices. I could also install
debian or qtmoko on the freerunner if they are more suited for this
task. So is there any other way of pairing with other devices? :)

Ciao,
  Rainer


You might try the instructions from [1] , based on [2], but i haven't 
tried it myself.


Kind regards,
Ed

[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPS_on_the_Neo_1973
[2] http://pavelmachek.livejournal.com/39659.html

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Re: GTA02 act as gps mouse?

2013-03-06 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:42 +0100, Fox Mulder wrote:
> Am 05.03.2013 18:43, schrieb Fox Mulder:
> > Am 05.03.2013 15:08, schrieb Neil Jerram:
> >> Fox Mulder  writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> is it possible to use my gta02 as a gps mouse for another computer?
> >>>
> >>> I got a cheap tablet without integrated gps and thought it would be
> >>> great, if i could use my gta02 as an external gps receiver and pair it
> >>> over bluetooth with my tablet. But therefor i need some special program
> >>> or script which i have to run on my gta02 that it acts as a standard
> >>> bluetooth gps mouse.
> >>>
> >>> So does anybody know a way to do this? :)
> >>
> >> Do you mean this?  http://www.handheldshell.com/software/bluetooth.php
> > 
> > I was looking exactly for this kind of script. :)
> > I will try it at the weekend and hopefully i get it working without too
> > much trouble. Thanks for the link.
> 
> I couldn't wait and so i tried it today. I installed latest SHR 2012.7
> and revived my GTA02 for this test. :)
> But the first problem came up with bluetooth pairing because the
> mentioned "simple-agent" Python script in the wiki relies on some
> modules SHR doesn't have. It uses "from gi.repository import GObject"
> which i could solve when renaming it to "import gobject" (doesn't know
> if that works). But than it also uses "import bluezutils" which i can't
> find anywhere in the SHR repositories.
> So before i can test the BtGPS script i have to solve the problem of
> pairing my devices. The wiki states there are some other scripts for
> pairing but i can't find any. So does anybody know a way how to pair my
> GTA02 with another device with some script or program for SHR?
> 
> Ciao,
>  Rainer
> 
Hi Rainer,

I use bluetooth without pairing.

I have a laptop and a FR.
On the laptop i do:
rfcomm listen 1 2

And on the FR i do

BLUEMAC=00:02:72:14:0F:ED
rfcomm connect 1 "${BLUEMAC}"
And wait a while for /dev/rfcomm1 to come up.

Then i run on the laptop:
/usr/sbin/pppd nodetach /dev/rfcomm1 call bluerunner

where /etc/ppp/peers/bluerunner contains the ip address etc ( man pppd )

You can then start gpsd on the freerunner and use it as a networked gpsd
from the laptop.

I hope this setup will work for you too.
( i wrote a script around the commands, but this is basically how it
works)

The lack of pairing also means a lack of encryption, you have to judge
the impact of that yourself.

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Re: nl-alert

2013-02-05 Thread Ed Kapitein.org

On 02/04/13 22:34, Boudewijn wrote:


On Monday 04 February 2013 15:53:56 Ed Kapitein wrote:

> Hi All, ( specially the dutch users ;-) )

>

> Today the dutch government has send a test alert message[1], a cell

> broadcast.

> This is used to inform people about a major incident in a certain area.

>

> Did any of the dutch people receive such a message?

> Do you have any info/logs/whatever?

>

I actually got one, Saturday night, after getting my GTA04 back online 
again. I got a bit annoyed at it, thinking it was spam and I'd need 
some NO ADS sticker on my telephone, or suchlike.


I am not sure if I still got the message, let alone logging. It was 
quite a rough night for the uSD-cards (thanks again Lukas and 
Christoph :-) )


Boudewijn


Ah, ok, if you happen to still have the message in PDU format, would you 
be so kind as to mail it to me/us?
I am surprised that you got the message later that day. it was my 
understanding that you would only receive a cell broadcast at the moment 
it was transmitted.


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nl-alert

2013-02-04 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi All, ( specially the dutch users ;-) )

Today the dutch government has send a test alert message[1], a cell
broadcast.
This is used to inform people about a major incident in a certain area.

Did any of the dutch people receive such a message?
Do you have any info/logs/whatever?

Kind regards,
Ed

[1]
http://www.nederlandveilig.nl/nl-alert/actueel/18/2013-01-29/maandag-4-februari-eerste-landelijke-controlebericht-nl-alert


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Re: [Community] OpenPhoenux Logo contest - Phase 2 (voting)

2013-01-14 Thread Ed Kapitein
I like proposal 8, but i think the chain should be "broken"
one open link, to free the project from the past.


On 01/14/2013 06:09 PM, Adrien Dorsaz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So I voted for proposal #5 and #6. I wanted to give a precision for the
> proposal #5 : I'd prefer his variant b with "phone" colored letters.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrien
>
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Re: possible to use wifi and usb networking at the same time? (qtmoko)

2013-01-04 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 01/04/2013 04:02 PM, robin wrote:
> hi 
>
> I somehow messed up my routing, so I can no longer access the internet/router 
> from my freerunner (ping 192.168.0.200 works 192.168.0.1 (router) doesn't 
> anymore). 
>
> Now I thought as long as I can log in via ssh from my desktop I could still
> access the internet from my phone, by powering on wifi. BUT as soon as the
> wifi connection is up (and actually permits me to access the internet) my
> usb connection dies...
>
> so I was wondering if there is a setup, where you can just ssh into your phone
> power up wifi (maybe even from command line) and still have fully functional
> usb access to the phone.
>
> best regards and happy new year
>
>
> robin
>
>
Hi Robin,

Can you ssh to the wifi address of the FR?
That way it wouldn't matter if the USB connection dies.

Can you tell a bit more about your setup?
192.168.0.200 is connected to an usb port on your router?
What kind of router is it? a linux box with multiple interfaces?
Are you able to open up a terminal on the FR  and access the command line?

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Re: +++ Group Tour finished +++ OpenPhoenux 3704 samples available +++ GTA04A4 Second Choice offer +++ GTA04A5 preorders +++

2012-12-18 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Nikolaus,

Congrats on this *great* achievement!
And good to see that the price is coming down on the next batch of GTA04's

Enjoy your Christmas holidays, you earned it!

Kind regards,
Ed


On 12/18/2012 09:44 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Please read the full text here:
>
>   
> <http://lists.openphoenux.org/pipermail/community/2012-December/000176.html>
>
> And I would like to invite you to subscribe to that list to get such 
> information first hand:
>
>   <http://lists.openphoenux.org/mailman/listinfo/community>
>
> Nikolaus
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Re: [off-topic] smartphone alternatives?

2012-12-17 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 12/17/2012 05:59 PM, francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote:
> Hi list
> Sadly to say, my GTA02 is going to retire. It is having too much
> troubles to be used as a daily phone and I'm thinking to replace it.
> The perfect candidate is the GTA04 but I can't afford its cost right now.
> I didn't follow with attention the evolution of the smartphones
> market, so I'm asking you: what alternatives do I have? Is there
> something with a recent hardware but somehow "open" and that costs no
> more than 200€?
> I have to say that I'm not a big fan of android and for now I would
> prefer to go with a 30€ nokia in the pocket and a gnu/linux friendly
> tablet/netbook on the shoulders waiting for better times...
>
> Best regards
> Joif
>
Hi Joif/Brian,

Sad to see you go. I am curious on why the Freerunner did not meet your
expectations?
Not to try to convince you to reconsider, but because it might be
important for future phones (like the gta04)
What distro did you try? what are the things that you missed in the FR?
What made you finally decided to look for another phone?

I hope you are willing to tell us about your experience, i think there
are much more people who gave up on the FR and i am wondering why.

Kind regards and the best of luck with your quest for a new phone.

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Re: U-Boot source versions

2012-12-15 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Gennady,

I hope to find some time this Christmas to take a look at the SD card code.
It seems that your code at [1] is no longer available.
Is there a new place where i can find your code?
Any info on what you have discovered so far, hints, tips, tricks?

Kind regards.
Ed

[1] http://www.bsdmn.com/cgit/cgit/u-boot/

 On 10/05/2011 02:59 PM, Gennady.Kupava wrote:
> I guess i am only u-boot user left in community :)
>
> I tried to fix few annoying bugs and using own u-boot version, you can
> find description here:
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/U-boot-gena2x
>
> It works pretty well here except nasty problem with sd card.
>
> Gennady.
>
>
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Re: is my GTA02 getting old?

2012-12-10 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 12/10/12 21:48, Boudewijn wrote:
>
> On Monday 10 December 2012 00:59:16 francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote:
>
> > Add to this some strange GSM/modem behaviour: whenever I get low GSM 
>
> > signal for certain time, I have to restart the Neo because I loose the 
>
> > phone functionalities (cannot send/receive calls and messages),
>
>  
>
> My guess would be the battery getting old. One person on the list
> (Michael from Harhan) found that one part of the GSM chipset needs a
> higher voltage than the rest of the system. That explains the phone
> functionality dropping while the rest of the phone works as it should.
>
>  
>
> I can imagine an older battery having troubles supplying enough
> current at high enough voltage. My point is moot of course if you have
> just swapped your battery for a new one ;-)
>
>  
>
>

Are the batteries with the coulomb counter for the GTA02, still
produced, or are they  of the same age as the original FR's?
If so, they must be near the end of their shelf life, is a compatible
battery (with a coulomb counter) available?
I have one battery that is very dead an two that are getting old and
have to be recharged more often.

Kind regards,
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Re: Pictures of new alu case

2012-12-07 Thread Ed Kapitein
Very nice!

Could he post a photo of a standard case next to the alu case, just to
get an idea on how big it has become? ( front and side pictures would be
nice)
Hats off to him!

Kind regards,
Ed

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 11:41 +0100, Radek Polak wrote:
> Hi,
> in june i posted pictures of my 3d printed case on my blog. One of the 
> responses was from Vladimir Zima. He offered to model up case milled from ALU 
> and here are first photos of his work:
> 
>   https://picasaweb.google.com/114961040002008630266/GTA04AluCase
> 
> The surface can be further improved by "eloxing" [1]. All parts are reported 
> to fit perfectly together and the result should be very durable. As you can 
> see from pictures the phone is basically working.
> 
> Vladimir plans also to do a video and release his 3d models.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Radek
> 
> 
> [1] http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloxov%C3%A1n%C3%AD
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Re: setting up gprs properly

2012-11-30 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Robin,

If you run pppd with the "nodetach" and "debug" parameters manually, you
will get quiet a bit of information about which authentication protocols
are tried.
You need to set up a connection file in (default in /etc/ppp/peers) 
with the details about the connection.
And a  chat script to handle setting up the connection ( eq
/etc/ppp/gprs-connect-chat )

Good luck with your trouble shooting!

Kind regards,
Ed




On 11/30/2012 07:34 AM, robin wrote:
> I am trying to set up my gprs in both shr and qtmoko. unfortunately I do 
> not get a data connection with neither of them.
> I am using blau.de and according to their website there are either 
>
> APN: internet.eplus.de
> Username: blau
> Passwort: blau
> Authentifizierungstyp: PAP
>
> so I wonder if the authentication might be a problem, as I have not found
> a place to set it specifically. 
> then they have a specific access if you want to do tethering (I haven't quite
> understood how this is different to the first one:
>
> APN/ Zugangspunkt: internet.eplus.de
> --
> Datenträger <- Datadrive: Paketdaten <- Packagedata
> --
> IP-Adresse: dynamisch
> --
> Benutzername: eplus
> --
> Passwort: gprs
>
> but still no success. 
>
> If I set it up with qtmoko I get the little G icon on the homescreen. If I 
> then
> click on "start" the icon becomes a filled G for a microsecond, before going
> back to the unfilled/unconnected state. Any hints, also how I can investigate 
> this?
>
> br
>
> robin
>
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Re: [Gta04-owner] No gta-04 available

2012-10-22 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Thomas,

If i read the page right, the price is *between* 10 an 1000 dollar a piece.
I hope they sell it to you for 10 USD !

Kind regards,
Ed

On 10/22/2012 05:29 PM, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote:
> Hi, I found this one :
> http://honglixin-hk.en.alibaba.com/product/555784898-213451334/LQ070Y3DG3B_SHARP_7_0_SIZE_LCD_TFT_LED_800_480_WLED.html
>
> As the price on the page is 10$ (!!), I prefered to send a request for 500 
> pcs. I'll post the answer a soon as I got it.
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas
> - Mail original -
> | De: "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" 
> | À: "List for Openmoko community discussion" 
> | Envoyé: Lundi 22 Octobre 2012 17:10:18
> | Objet: Re: [Gta04-owner] No gta-04 available
> | 
> | Hi,
> | 
> | 
> | You are unfortunately the second last on the backorder list. So it
> | will take a little longer.
> | 
> | 
> | A rough estimate for smallest quantities (e.g. 5 units):
> | 
> | * a GTA04 (custom) board inside - could become cheaper if no UMTS &
> | GPS capabilities
> | * a Sharp LQ070Y3DG3B display [1] ~130 EUR (incl. VAT) @ Avnet
> | Express [2]
> | * Battery ~30 EUR (incl. VAT)
> | * PCB + internal components incl. production ~50-100 EUR (incl. VAT)
> | * Shapeways case ~77 EUR (incl. VAT)
> | * plus UMTS antenna, GPS antenna (if wanted) ~30 EUR
> | 
> | If someone knows a cheaper source for a display than [2], please let
> | us know.
> | 
> | Provided there is enough interest, we could offer a kit made of
> | battery and
> | complete PCB and offer the required GTA04-Custom variant (there are
> | some
> | connectors not  installed). And everyone could buy a display and a
> | Shapeways
> | case whereever he/she likes.
> | 
> | Would that be interesting to have components DIY? Or would there
> | be more interest in completely assembled devices?
> | 
> | Nikolaus
> | 
> | [1]
> | http://www.panelook.com/LQ070Y3DG3B_SHARP_7.0_LCM_overview_9649.html
> | [2]
> | http://octopart.com/partsearch#search/requestData&q=%20LQ070Y3DG3B
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Re: Bye SHR, hello QTMoko (and battery life)

2012-10-12 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 00:11 +0200, David Garabana Barro wrote:
> O Xoves, 4 de Outubro de 2012, Timo Juhani Lindfors escribiu:
> 
> > David Garabana Barro  writes:
> 
> > > I've read about http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket//2349, but it
> should
> 
> > > be fixed in qtmoko's 2.6.34, isn't it?
> 
> > 
> 
> > Yes.
> 
> > 
> 
> > > Any clue on this?
> 
> > 
> 
> > Can you measure the power consumption please? With and without GSM.
> 
>  
> 
> After changing u-boot with qi, battery standby time is far better.
> 
> It seems gennady's u-boot still have some bugs...
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks you all for the help
> 
>  
> 
> -- 
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Hi David,

Could you please post the current_now measurements with the qi
bootloader?

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Re: problem with microsd

2012-09-27 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Davide,

Try (re)starting udev (or mdev) and see if you get any info.

Kind regards,
Ed

On 09/27/2012 11:17 AM, Davide Scaini wrote:
> Hi all.
> I asked on shr user list with no luck.
> I'm using shr-core, I have this problem: the device for the
> microsd is not created, i.e. /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist.
> Do you have any fast fix?
>
> This is the problem:
>
> root@om-gta02:~# fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7948 MB, 7948206080 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 242560 cylinders, total 15523840 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x36c4
>
> Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mmcblk0p1204812328959 6163456   83  Linux
> /dev/mmcblk0p21232896015523839 1597440   82  Linux
> swap / Solaris
>
>
> root@om-gta02:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/temp/
> mount: special device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist
>
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Re: [qtmoko] dpkg-reconfigure locale resizes most of the fonts and no gps fix possible anymore(?)

2012-08-25 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 08/24/2012 08:09 PM, robin wrote:
> hi all
>
> I wanted to have the new anki 2.0 flash cards on my GTA, but it always 
> complained that it the system was not set to UTF8. In the end I succeeded by
> running dpkg-reconfigure locale but since then my fonts are very large (not 
> everywhere but on most screens) and this is for all themes. Also since then
> I cannot get a fix for NeronGPS anymore ;-(  even though the finxi home
> screen tells me that /dev/ttySAC1 has up to 9 satelites and the output seems
> to show satelites as well. Same behaviour with navit.
> Any help welcome as I really like the GTA02 for navigating/maps and for 
> flashcard learing.
>
> Robin
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Hi Robin,

I am afraid i can't help you with the fonts, but perhaps with the gps.
Is there a gpsd running on the FR?
Or if it uses dbus, can you monitor if dbus gets location and satelite
updates?

If gpsd is running, you could save the nmea data to a file and use
gpsbabel to check if you have a fix or not.

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Re: Status OpenPhoneux / GTA04

2012-07-03 Thread ed
Thanks for your update!

It takes the open phone concept a little further, if we have even x-rays of 
the boards ;-)

Kind regards,
@

On Tuesday 03 July 2012 11:15:16 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi all,
> I did a long telephone call this morning to discuss the production situation
> of the GTA04A4 boards.
> 
> Am 25.06.2012 um 20:56 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Am 25.06.2012 um 16:16 schrieb Gilles Filippini:
> >> Hi Nikolaus,
> >> 
> >> Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller a écrit , Le 31/05/2012 17:36:
> >>> So please expect that it will become End of June for delivery...
> >> 
> >> Since we are near to End of June, time for asking how is it going? ;)
> > 
> > Neither good nor bad...
> > 
> > This means:
> > * we have already shipped some of the GTA04 Group Tour boards
> > * some friends have upgraded to a complete OpenPhoenux (we have a handful
> > reworked GTA02) * but we still have a list of open orders for roughly 90
> > GTA04 Group Tour boards
> > 
> > The production company had stopped again to do some more
> > analyses and the last status I received today is that they had
> > again made some X-Ray. Now they think they can again optimize
> > the soldering process a little so that we don't get so much broken
> > boards that need manual rework.
> 
> So here is a copy of the latest X-Ray image of the DM3730CBP with short
> circuits:
> 
>   http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/20120622-GTA04A4-
schlecht-01.jpg
> 
> If you want to compare to the GTA04A3 board X-Ray (with one short):
> 
>   http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/20110707-GTA04A3-schlecht-
xr002.
> jpg
> 
> or the GTA04A2 board (where only 1 unit exists):
> 
>   http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/20101109-GTA04A2-overview.jpg
> 
> > Every rework ruins some components (unfortunately 1 DM3730
> > + 1 Memory chip > 50 EUR) and costs intensive working time.
> > And we simply can't afford that if it happens too often...
> > 
> > So the highest priority is to get rid of the root cause for these
> > soldering failures.
> 
> After analyzing and discussing the X-Ray images we now think we
> understand what happens (but you never know if you are right...).
> 
> The reason appears that the DM3730CBP gets some warp during
> the soldering process squeezing the balls in the middle of the BGA
> grid so that they may touch a neighbor and make a short circuit.
> And on the corners the balls lift off and this may result in interruptions.
> 
> This theory correlates exactly with the error patterns we see:
> 
> * some 50% of the boards come out of the soldering process with
> shorts on VDD1, VDD2 and/or VIO which are mostly available
> on the center balls
> 
> * if the chip has no short on the power supply or is reworked some
> 50% of the boards have interruptions which makes a single function
> fail. Sometimes the SD interface has just 3 data lines, sometimes the
> WLAN chip. Sometimes some sensor is not working. Sometimes
> the USB is not working, or one display data link distorting the
> colors etc.
> 
> Now comes the crucial question: how can this be improved?
> 
> The specialists of the production company have spent whole weekends
> to do more experiments but did not yet find the right trick. It is not that
> they do not want to solve the problem (they see it as a challenge) they
> simply have not yet found the key.
> 
> One factor is that our GTA04 board has exceptionally squeezed
> components (since we must be small) so the soldering of a OpenPandora
> or the BeagleBoard may be a little easier from heat distribution.
> 
> I.e. we are pushing an experienced EMS to their limits...
> An EMS who has produced more than 2000 different products in small
> quantities (which is their strength) including some 0.4mm BGAs.
> 
> A new experiment is scheduled for week 29 to use a different
> reflow soldering machine and process which uses a little lower
> temperature.
> 
> Unfortunately, we can't contribute to this production improvement
> to speed things up.
> 
> Unless one of the readers on these list knows some real specialist
> for such PoP soldering of BGAs who is willing and capable to
> consult (even if it costs money). So if you know someone, please
> let me know.
> 
> > The good answer is that as soon as we decide to continue,
> 
> So we had to decide to wait for the different reflow soldering process
> first.
> 
> > it takes less than 4 weeks to produce, test and ship all missing
> > boards. They have planned that it works even if holiday season
> > is coming. And our shipment plan is by sequence of order. So
> > if you did order early, it is even a little closer.
> 
> So it is a stony path towards a community driven independently
> developed and produced open smartphone platform. But Rome
> wasn't built in one day...
> 
> And we have to solve this issue before we can start to think
> about a future quad core LTE device with multitouch... Please
> keep the faith.
> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus
> 
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Re: transcoding video for freerunner 240x320 mode

2012-07-02 Thread Ed Kapitein
Many thanks!
Very helpful commands in that script.
Kind regards,
Ed

On 07/02/2012 07:39 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Ed Kapitein  writes:
>> Thanks, i did read that mail, but looking at the command line, the
>> stream is dumped on stdout right?
> Yes. I typically do
>
> mplayer-wrapper <(ssh server encode-to-theora http://example.org/foo.mp4)
>
> where mplayer-wrapper is
>
> #!/bin/bash
> KILLER_PID=""
> function cleanup() {
> if [ "$KILLER_PID" != "" ]; then
> kill -SIGKILL $KILLER_PID
> fi
> sudo om screen glamo-bus-timings 4-4-4
> sudo fbset 480x640
> sudo om screen resolution normal
> sudo chvt 7
> exit 0
> }
> trap cleanup 1 2 3 15
> sudo chvt 2
> # disable blanking
> sudo sh -c "printf '\033[9;0]' > /dev/tty2"
> # disable cursor blinking
> sudo sh -c "printf '\033[?17;0;127c' > /dev/tty2"
> # hide cursor
> sudo sh -c "printf '\033[?25l' > /dev/tty2"
> sudo om screen resolution qvga-normal
> sudo fbset 240x320
> sudo om screen glamo-bus-timings 2-4-2
> sudo renice -2 -p $$ 2> /dev/null
> (dd if=/dev/input/power_button of=/dev/null bs=16 count=1 2> /dev/null; 
> killall mplayer) &
> KILLER_PID=$!
> mplayer -framedrop -ac -ffvorbis, -ao alsa -vc -fftheora, -vo fbdev 
> -nocorrect-pts "$@"
> cleanup
>
>
> You need theora 1.2.0 alpha release for decent performance.
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Re: transcoding video for freerunner 240x320 mode

2012-07-02 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 07/02/2012 07:20 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Ed Kapitein  writes:
>> Hi, could you post the command you used to scale and play the movie?
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2012-June/067176.html
>
Thanks, i did read that mail, but looking at the command line, the
stream is dumped on stdout right?
i was wondering what you did use to play the movie on the screen.

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Re: transcoding video for freerunner 240x320 mode

2012-07-02 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi, could you post the command you used to scale and play the movie?

Kind regards,
Ed

On 07/01/2012 08:59 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Radek Polak  writes:
>> Freerunne has hardware switch for changing resolution to 240x320. But after 
>> switching you will get the strange colors.
> Indeed but after the gamma correction values that I posted the output
> looks much more reasonable.
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Re: Phone wakes up after being powered off

2012-05-23 Thread ed

Hello Ed,

Thanks for your replies.

Unfortunately the man command doesn't work with rtcwake on the phone
(but does with other software, e.g. 7zr). A specific command to try
would be very helpful. On the desktop running as root "rtcwake -m show"
shows the alarms that are on (but this command does not work on the
phone, specifically on QtMoko v26).

I noticed the issue regarding the phone turning itself on was reported
in Android on Freerunner's bug tracker here:
http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/issues/detail?id=24

trevi55 suggested to switch off alarms and update hardware clock. I'll
try this (using "echo -e "W\n" > /var/spool/at/trigger").

Alon.
--

Hi Alon,

check if you can use:
/usr/sbin/rtcwake --verbose --seconds 1 --mode disable

Or if disable is not available in your version of rtcwake:

/usr/sbin/rtcwake --verbose --seconds 1 --mode no
Using UTC time.
delta   = 1
tzone   = 0
tzname  = UTC
systime = 1337703739, (UTC) Tue May 22 16:22:19 2012
rtctime = 1337703738, (UTC) Tue May 22 16:22:18 2012
alarm 0, sys_time 1337703739, rtc_time 1337703738, seconds 1
rtcwake: wakeup from "no" using /dev/rtc0 at Tue May 22 16:22:20 2012

And you can check the RTC with:
cat /proc/driver/rtc

rtc_time: 16:25:13
rtc_date: 2012-05-22
alrm_time   : 16:22:20
alrm_date   : 2012-05-22
alarm_IRQ   : yes
alrm_pending: yes
24hr    : yes

And see if it has any effect.

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Re: Phone wakes up after being powered off

2012-05-21 Thread ed
On Monday 21 May 2012 07:21:02 alonivtsan wrote:
> Hello kind members of Openmoko mailing list,
> 
> I'm suffering from a very bizarre wake up problem related to the Neo
> Freerunner phone.
> 
> The phone wakes itself up after being powered off a few hours later
> (e.g. if I shut the phone off before going to bed when I wake up the
> phone is already switched on).
> 
> I thought at first this was a hardware problem related to the battery,
> but this doesn't seem to be the case as it has happened on two different
> phones after setting reminders in the QtMoko calendar (using v26).
> 
> Unfortunately, even after removing the reminders the phone still wakes
> itself up. I'm wondering if it is possible to clear all data causing the
> phone to wake up.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alon.

Hi Alon,

Are you sure the phone is completly shutdown e.g. did you issue "init 0" from 
a console or ssh session?
I'm currious if the phone  could wake from init 0.
You can try to clear the RealTimeClock by using the rtcwake command, if that 
is available on your phone.

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Re: Ok Tread lightly please. I'm an end User.

2012-05-18 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 05/18/2012 02:27 PM, Travis Bachelder wrote:
> Ok, So I took your advise (Benjamin Deering). Used Neotools, wow: what
> a powerful tool, thank you very much... But, I think I did something
> wrong. : /
>
> _*This is my problem:*_
> My first attempt: I tried flashing the FR (NAND) with QI, Kernel, and
> the OS (Which was the SHR jffs2 image). Everything was successful,
> until I tried to turn on the phone when it was done. The phone turns
> on and random lines of code? accelerates from top to bottom (this was
> cool at first), until 3 minutes later it stops (with the screen full
> of code) and doesn't do anything else.
>
> Then I tried it another way: Flashing the FR (NAND)with the Kernel and
> QI, and installing the SHR OS on an ext3 partition of my micro SD
> card. I used the SHR tar ball for this one. And I got sort of the sam
> results.
>
> Should I not be flashing the kernel to the FR? Is the Kernel already
> apart of the OS?
> When I flash the FR NAND, Does this erase everything on NAND and
> replace it with what I am currently flashing?
> Has anyone had this problem, Am I the only one..?
>
> Thanks,
Hi Travis,

Perhaps it is a good idea to get more familiar with the FR by flashing
qtmoko first.
If you follow the steps at [1] closely, it will become more clear what
is involved in getting your FR alive.
And it will give you a working phone ;-)

Kind regards,
Ed
[1]
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/qtmoko/index.php?title=Installation
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Re: [Gta04-owner] [ANN] GTA04 Keyboard prototype

2012-05-07 Thread ed
On Monday 07 May 2012 15:44:00 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, May 07, 2012 a las 03:31:11PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller 
escribió:
> > The idea is that the keyboard is integrated in the back battery cover. And
> > if you remove it, both parts (main body and battery cover/keyboard) are
> > connected through a small ribbon cable.
> > 
> > I.e. you remove the keyboard, fold it by 180 degrees so that the keys show
> > in the same direction as the display and you can us the display in
> > landscape format.
> > 
> > If that works out with the snap mechanism of the battery cover and/or if
> > it needs some physical connection between both parts has to be worked
> > out.
> 
> I don't want to be negative (just reaistic), the list of disadvantages
> of such a solution (keyboard in battery cover, or with hinge) is:
> 
> 1) works only on desktop or table surface, i.e. not while walking or
> standing;
> 
> 2) open the battery cover many more times (as for hard reset with battery
> lift) will break the case soon;
> 
> 3) you are forced to use landscape applications, while most of the apps
> today are in portait;
> 
> 4) perhaps your battery will fall out (if not secured with something) in
> a lot of cases, esp. if it is the most important situation :-)
> 
> to be continued...
> 
>   matthias


If thinking out loud is allowed...
If you move the battery  inside the keyboard part and make the hinge a bit 
bigger, you could use it as a screen protector if you fold the keyboard in 
front of the display.
And if you fold it the otherway, it could fit in what currently is the battery 
area.
Just my 2 cents..

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Re: [dfu-util] who use it for flashing FR?

2012-05-07 Thread ed
On Monday 07 May 2012 14:58:24 Patryk Benderz wrote:
> Hi all,
> regarding recent discussion on de...@lists.openmoko.org [1] I am asking,
> how many of you are still using dfu-util for flashing your FR's internal
> memory?
> I also would like to inform you about new dfu-util release.[2]
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/007245.html
> 
> [2]
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2012-April/007243.html

Hi Patrick,
 
I use dfu-util to flash my device every now and then.
 
Will the new version be useable for flashing the openmoko?
The mail mentions "Many have switched to Qi", but qi itself needs to be 
flashed too right, and so is the root filesystem and the kernel, right?
 
Or did i miss something obvious?
 
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Re: Openmoko servers

2012-05-06 Thread Ed Kapitein
Whooo Joerg,

take a beer!
I'm sure people are unaware of this, so it is good to explain it to them.
Don't take it personally, your help is really appreciated.

Kind regards,
Ed

On 05/06/2012 06:45 PM, Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> openmoko inc. isn't handling anything openmoko.org related, since ages.
> A detail constantly ignored in all this debate.
> Please note that all openmoko.org (incl me / my mail addr) is no longer 
> directly associated to openmoko.com and openmoko inc.
>
> I'm actually thoroughly fed up with getting bitched at like I was a first 
> level helpdesk drone or CR-representative. I'm not going to answer any more 
> to 
> guys *demanding* things from me and accusing me of whatever weird mindset 
> when 
> I don't feel like jumping when they instruct me "jump". 
> I've been in to help, in my spare time, on a voluntary basis. I'll reduce 
> this 
> engagement drastically, since it earns me bitching and reproaches, instead of 
> at least appreciation or the satisfaction to feel I was able to help.
>
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Re: big leap forward: Case-Kit and 3D printed case

2012-04-28 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 03/06/2012 04:10 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> we are coming close to the dream of getting unlimited availability
> of new and compatible cases!
>
> Thanks to the great work from Lukas I simply ordered a set
> of case components at Shapeways and they already arrived 
> today.
>
><

Today i stumbled onto this [1]  3D printer.
Would that make it easier to prototype or even manufacture casings?

Kind regards,
Ed

[1]
http://store.solidoodle.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=56

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Suspend issues [ was: QtMoko v44 ..]

2012-04-15 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Sunday, April 15, 2012 15:50:00 Radek Polak wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2012 12:33:47 e...@kapitein.org wrote:
> > Somewhat unrelated:
> > I found that suspending by echo mem > /sys/power/state sometimes fails and
> > "hangs" the FR. (on a 2.6.34 Kernel, on a 2.6.29 kernel it works fine )
> > Do you or anyone else know if there is something else required to susspend
> > the FR?
> 
> echo mem > /sys/power/state should be enough. I think i havent mentioned
> which kernel are you using?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Radek

Hi Radek,

With a 2.6.29 kernel it works fine.
With the 2.6.34 kernel from qtmoko V39 it sometimes hangs ( once every 10 
suspends or so )

So i will follow the ticket as pointed out by Lukas.
( upgrading to 2.6.39 seems like a good way forward )

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Re: QtMoko v44 for Freerunner now available

2012-04-15 Thread ed
Thanks for your great work!

Somewhat unrelated:
I found that suspending by echo mem > /sys/power/state sometimes fails and 
"hangs" the FR. (on a 2.6.34 Kernel, on a 2.6.29 kernel it works fine )
Do you or anyone else know if there is something else required to susspend the 
FR?

Kind regards,
Ed



On Sunday, April 15, 2012 14:23:47 Radek Polak wrote:
> Hi Freerunners,
> QtMoko v44 is now available also for your phone. You can get images from
> here [1] or you can upgrade existing system with simple:
> 
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get upgrade
> 
> There are not so many new features. Most of the work went to GTA04 HW
> adaptation, but still there is:
> 
> * improved qmplayer
> * improved wifi GUI
> * support for oFono
> * some build and other fixes
> 
> As the GTA04 HW adaptation is getting finished, there will be now again more
> of new features and fixes in future releases.
> 
> I haven't tested this release much. I cant easily flash the ubi - so this is
> completely untested. If you find some regressions, please report.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Radek
> 
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA02/
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Re: phranky 0.01 released

2012-04-06 Thread ed
On Saturday 07 April 2012 00:54:30 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> e...@kapitein.org writes:
> > Just a private svn server, not publicly accessible, why?
> 
> I'd just like to see the source code. The tarball that you linked seems
> to also include precompiled binaries. Just thought I'd ask if you had
> some version control system for generating this tarball automatically.
> 

Ah, ok, the binaries are there so folk can just start it without compiling 
first, ( it takes 7 minutes to compile )
So i opened a project on SF, with just the sources, you can clone it with:
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/phranky/code phranky-code

Have fun!
Ed

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Re: phranky 0.01 released

2012-04-06 Thread ed
On Friday 06 April 2012 22:40:55 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Ed Kapitein  writes:
> > More information and the download page are at
> > http://phranky.kapitein.org
> 
> Are you using some version control system like cvs or git?
>
 
Just a private svn server, not publicly accessible, why?

Kind regards,
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phranky 0.01 released

2012-04-06 Thread Ed Kapitein
What is phranky?

phranky is a phone/SMS application written from scratch in c.
the gui uses Xlib.

What can you do with phranky?
* Start a phonecall
* Receive a phonecall
* Send a textmessage
* Receive a textmessage

What does it look like?
check out the video at [1]

Why phranky?
For most of the features of the GTA02 there is already good software.
gpsd for the gps, bluez for bluetooth, pppd for gprs, wpa_supplicant for
wifi, and alsa for the soundcard.
the only thing missing was a simple phone application to handle
phonecalls or
text messages.
So inspired by the great work of the FSO team and gsmd, i decided to
write a simple dialer/sms handler, with just a few commands and signals.
i tried to have as little dependencies as possible
(no dbus, framework,GTK etc).

What is used?
Phranky consists of 4 individual programs,
one for handling phone calls, 
one for handling textmessages,
one for talking to the modem and 
one for notifying the user of important events.
(incoming phonecall or incoming textmessage)

the programs are reading commands from stdin and printing responses on
stdout
this makes it easy to use a script to read or write a text message
or answer/start a phonecall.
it needs an X server for the notifications and the menu,
without a window manager or with a scaling WM like matchbox.

More information and the download page are at
http://phranky.kapitein.org

Happy /Easter everybody/,
Ed


[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiYuWv9jK_4


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Re: microSD && ext3 file system

2012-04-03 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 04/02/2012 08:49 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, April 02, 2012 a las 08:32:51PM +0200, Jiří Pinkava escribió:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> after umout is the filesystem broken? I have experience where are writen 
>> some pseudorandom data, which overiwrite even forst sector (after 
>> restart disk partition are not show, SD card is "unformated").
>>
>> Is this you case?
> Hi,
>
> Not exactly. It seems that through writing files to the ext3 file system
> it gets broken; and after this "fdisk -l" does not show the partition
> anymore;
>
> btw: when I format this with mkfs.vfat, all is fine; but the space is
> only 1GB while the partition is around 4GB:
>
> root@om-gta02 ~ # fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0  
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3953 MB, 3953131520 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 120640 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0aecb0ac
>
> Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mmcblk0p1   1  120640 3860472   83  Linux
> root@om-gta02 ~ # df -kh /dev/mmcblk0p1
> FilesystemSize  Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mmcblk0p1 1022.0M394.0M627.9M  39% /media/card
>
> Why is this?
>
>   matthias
>
Hi Matthias,

A while ago i read this article on [1].
Perhaps this will help you to solve your problem.
( i have a hard time finding a working uSD card too )
Is your card on the supported card list [2] ?

Kind regards,
Ed



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/
[2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards

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Re: Advance OpenStreetMap surveying with GTA04?

2012-03-18 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 03/18/2012 02:25 PM, Mayeul Kauffmann wrote:
> Le dimanche 18 mars 2012 à 14:34 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors a écrit :
>
>> I used another GTA02 to make audio notes and a cheap and small digital
>> camera to take photos. As long as all clocks are synchronized you can
>> combine all the data with your netbook later.
> Thanks a lot Timo! I already do this with my Garmin and gpscorrelate
> (GNU/GPL), but without HDOP nor heading.
> Can you save the HDOP [1] with the GTA02?
> Do you have access to heading in the command line (with possibility to
> pipe it)?
>
> Thanks!
> Mayeul
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_of_precision_%28GPS%29
Hi Mayeul,

If, on  a GTA02, you use a nmea log  and gpsbabel to translate it to gpx
format, you get:


  -16.80
  2012-03-17T14:01:21Z
  61.23
  1.071073
  3d
  8
  1.58
  2.14
  2.66


Would that give you all the info you need? HDOP and course  are present.
( the above is just one sample of a track i walked yesterday, with a GTA02 )


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Re: OM as car navigation

2012-02-26 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Robin,

One of the things i do before starting navit is:

if test -f ~/.navit/destination.txt; then
 rm ~/.navit/destination.txt
fi

if test -f ~/.navit/center.txt; then
 rm ~/.navit/center.txt
fi

With that i never have a "hanging" navit, without it it takes *forever*
to start and eat the whole CPU.

Kind regards,
Ed

On 02/26/2012 07:42 PM, robin wrote:
> One of the problems with navit though is that it very much likes to freeze the
> freerunner completely (battery removal needed :-( ).
> the best voices so far I found on navit for android on freerunner. so if 
> anyone
> has any suggestions for good voices for qtmoko or shr those would be most 
> welcome.
>
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Re: Information about linux drivers for voice in neofreerunner........

2012-01-18 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Arslan,

A while ago i tried to write a software modem to communicate between 2
freerunners.
One of the things that went wrong was a 90 degree phase shift in the
audio signal.
So when you write audio software, please keep in mind that it might get
phase shiffted.

Kind regards,
Ed

On 01/18/2012 06:19 PM, Arslan Abbasi wrote:
> Simple recording and playback of recorded sounds can be done but, can
> anyone give me some clue if it has enough
> processing power to do real time voice processing and transmitting
> processed voice at the same time. And please, if anybody has any code
> related to voice manipulations on this phone or in particular real
> time voice processing while transmitting through gsm, share it. It'll
> be very nice of you.
>
> @Dave... Encrypting gsm is legal in our country, and as far as i think
> encryption shouldn't be illegal coz voice/data is your private
> property so protecting it further shouldn't be a problem with anybody
> as long as it doesn't affects their systems.
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Dave  <mailto:dave...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know the laws of your country, however, encrypting GSM
> might be illegal.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Thomas Zimmermann
> mailto:m...@vdm-design.de>> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 08:56:45 Radek Polak wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 07:16:06 Arslan Abbasi wrote:
> > > The Inter IC sound pins interfaced with the audio codec.
> > > I need help regarding any sound manipulation on this
> platform, if any
> > > code is available.
> >
> > IIRC there was a program which recorded phone call if this
> is what you
> > need. I dont know how it's done on GTA02 but on GTA04 phone
> modem is just
> > another sound card which can be used by alsa programs. E.g.
> you can play
> > mp3 instead of speaking.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Radek
>
> There was already somebody who developed a program to do
> encrypted GSM calls
> with two FR. But i don't remeber who it was.
>
> But one should find something in the archive of this mailinglist.
>
> Regards,
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[OT] Raspberry Pi

2012-01-02 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi All,
Probably Off Topic, but for the ARM hackers among us, this [1] looks
very promising.

Kind regards,
Ed

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

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Re: hacky new year!

2012-01-01 Thread Ed Kapitein
Best wishes for everyone and may the GTA04 be a smash hit in 2012!

Kind regards,
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Re: [Marketing] Ideas / Plan

2011-12-30 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 12/30/2011 06:59 PM, Gerald A wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
> mailto:h...@goldelico.com>> wrote:
>
>
> The other strategy is the one taken by Apple. They have a very low
> marketing budget compared to other companies. And the media are
> still happy to report every small move at no cost...
>
>
> ... which is because Apple is super secretive, so even "rumors" become
> big news.
>
> While this is a great strategy, it becomes difficult to achieve if you
> are trying to have everything "open".
>
> What I think is lost in all of this is the question: Who is the
> intended customer?
>
> I've seen some people talk about linux geeks, etc etc. However, at
> least for the first rev of the GTA04,
> it's _hardware_ geeks, and hardcore ones at that, which is the focus.
>
> There are lots of unix-heads that would love a phone that is "free-er"
> then Android or Apple let you be.
> But having to buy a phone, then cannibalize it with another kit you
> buy? It's definitely outside the
> mainstream.
>
> Now, it's not that I don't want this project to succeed. I think it's
> a great cause -- I was one of the early
> GTA01 (neo) buyers.
>
> For me, I don't have time right now to assemble a Freerunner and a
> GTA04 to get a working phone
> "with possibilities". I want the completed package, then end result.
> The neo was shipped with the slogan
> "some assembly required", which gave you the right idea. I thought
> that it just needed a good software
> stack to make things great. (I still do).
>
> What might work is having people invest, rather then "buy" something.
> That's something I could wrap
> my head around. "Make the open phone happen -- Invest now". Don't make
> it complicated or expensive.
> "$10 in one 'block'" kind of thing. Maybe 40 blocks would allow the
> "investor" to see a completed phone,
> if one was to ever be produced. Make the risks clear -- the "open
> phone" might never come to market,
> but if we get 5000 blocks sold, we then have the muscle to negotiate
> with the big boys.
>
> The issue here is what is in it for the "little guy", and I'd be a bit
> fuzzy. 40 blocks gets a phone, but
> what if I buy 2? Do I get the use of a phone for a week? :P I also
> don't know the legal side of calling
> it an "investment" (rather then a donation or a purchase). But this
> would be simpler to "market", and
> would have better funding potential then selling the kit.
>
> As an aside -- if I have extra cash, I might be willing to buy a kit
> or two -- but they would either end up
> as donations to others, or as a dust collector. So it's not that I'm
> not willing to put money into it. But 
> I also realize that one or two more kits won't make this happen in
> isolation.
>
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My thoughts too, set up a kind of micro credit, where people can lent
money, lets say 100 euro, and  with that money build the phones.
Once the phones are made, more developers can develop different aspects
of the phone and people will see the GTA04 become more mature.
I think success stories with video clips on youtube will convince more
people to buy a GTA04 then good stories on paper.
And the microcreditters can either get their money back once all phones
are sold, or can get a 110 euro discount when they buy a GTA04.

Just my thoughts..

Kind regards,
Ed

PS
i guess you must be Dutch to come up with a micro credit plan in
west-europe ;-)


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Re: SMedia Glamo documentation officially released

2011-12-28 Thread Ed Kapitein
So, would drivers written based on the released documentation overcome
these shortcomings?

Kind regards,
Ed

On 12/28/2011 09:12 PM, Martix wrote:
> What do you mean by "build"? xserver-xorg-video-glamo source code is
> released under GNU/GPL from begining, but it lacks of many features as
> OpenGL ES 1.5 support and DRI compatible MPEG4 decoding. Linux kernel
> have compatibility issues with some SD cards, which can be
> workarounded by setting lower glamo_mci.sd_max_clk. Don't know whether
> is it HW or SW problem.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Martix
>
> Dne 28.12.2011 19:31, Ed Kapitein napsal(a):
>> That sounds great!
>>
>> Would this mean that someone can build a dedicated Xorg-server module
>> for the glamo?
>> Or was all this already a public secret through the leaked documents?
>>
>> Kind regards and a happy new year,
>> Ed
>>
>> On 12/27/2011 09:46 PM, Martix wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just found link to SMedia Glamo documentation on openmoko.org[1] in
>>> already published Community Updates.[2]
>>>
>>> [1] http://people.openmoko.org/sean/datasheets/glamo3362/
>>> [2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2011-12-01
>>>
>>> I didn't find any announcement on Openmoko mailing list. Maybe Sean
>>> planned an announcement on Christmas Eve and forgot on it.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Martix
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Re: SMedia Glamo documentation officially released

2011-12-28 Thread Ed Kapitein
That sounds great!

Would this mean that someone can build a dedicated Xorg-server module
for the glamo?
Or was all this already a public secret through the leaked documents?

Kind regards and a happy new year,
Ed

On 12/27/2011 09:46 PM, Martix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just found link to SMedia Glamo documentation on openmoko.org[1] in
> already published Community Updates.[2]
>
> [1] http://people.openmoko.org/sean/datasheets/glamo3362/
> [2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2011-12-01
>
> I didn't find any announcement on Openmoko mailing list. Maybe Sean
> planned an announcement on Christmas Eve and forgot on it.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Martix
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Re: uSD corruption

2011-12-16 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Friday 16 December 2011 00:39:36 fdvj...@vodafone.it wrote:
> Il 15/12/2011 22:57, Boudewijn ha scritto:
> > On Thursday 15 December 2011 22:23:56 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> >> fdvj...@vodafone.it writes:
> >>> experience, during a day of usage, several freezings. I mean, when it
> >> 
> >> 1) What kernel?
> >> 2) What boot loader?
> >> 3) What boot options?
> >> 4) What filesystem?
> > 
> > 5) uSD speed?
> > 
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> Sorry for the missing infos.
> OS: qtmoko v35 with kernel 2.6.34;
> bootloader: qi (shipped with qtomoko v35), no particular boot options,
> IINW; filesystem: ext2;
> uSD type: micro SDHC sdc4 8 gb class 4
> 
> Regards
> Joif

Hi Joif,

Please take a look at [1] and [2] on how to set the SD clock to a lower value.
The drive strength param might have changed with the newer kernel, you have to 
google a bit to see what is the right one.

Kind regards,
Ed

[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards/SD-C02G
[2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards

PS I still have sometimes data coruption on the SD card ( once every 2 months 
or so) so it still is not perfect, but very usable.

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Re: Navit for QtMoko

2011-12-15 Thread Ed Kapitein
big +1 !
On 12/15/2011 06:29 PM, Griera wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:00:34 +0100
> Radek Polak  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> also navit is now ported to qtmoko. Please check:
>>
>> http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/apps/qtmoko-navit.html
> Nice. Thanks a lot!! 
>
>> for install instuctions. It's still quite ugly hack. E.g. i modified 
>> QtGui.pc 
>> so that it passes -lqtopia but otherwise it should work quite nice.
>>
>> I have to somehow solve automatic downloading of dependencies when .deb is 
>> clicked in browser so that install is even easier.
>>
>> Regards
>>
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Re: navit / making announcement not execute a command line call as well

2011-11-13 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Robin,

I have something like this in my navit.xml:


and /home/navit/scripts/say_it.sh is a script  that does some post
processing for speech,
but you can make it do anything i guess.
The %s is passed on to the script as command line parameters, so you
could first handle
$* in the script and then dim/brighten the screen.

Kind regards,
Ed


On 11/13/2011 07:32 PM, robin wrote:
> Maybe someone from the openmoko list is using navit and has an idea if one can
> make the  but also to execute a command as well.
>
> My idea would be to have navit fully dimmed if one is travelling on the 
> correct
> path. Once a there are crossings and directions are announced the display will
> change brightness via a fso call. once travelling on the right track again the
> display should be dimmed again.
>
> anyone has any idea?
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Kernel Sources

2011-10-12 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Radek,

I want to build a kernel on the qemu buildhost, where can i find the
kernel sources you use?

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Re: linmodem

2011-10-04 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi,
A while ago i tried to connect 2 freerunners over the GSM band.
But there was too much phase shift, to get a working signal, so i let it
rest for a while.
But last week i stumbled on this [1] page which stated that for a voice
call you need to
end the number with ;
so i tried it without the ; and you get a data call instead !
I managed to couple the two FR's in this way, but the connection is not
very stable.

Is there documentation on how to use the "data modem" part of the GSM modem?
I am looking for baudrates, compression, error correction etc.
So far i have it somewhat stable on +/- 1200 Baud, using tc to control
the bandwith.
(without it the modem will lockup, like it does when using gprs sometimes)

Kind regards,
Ed






[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GSM

On 09/29/2010 09:19 PM, Ed Kapitein wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought another freerunner and i have a "plan" with my
> provider that will give me free calls between my family members.
>
> Is there someone who ever hookup up two freerunners, using phonecalls?
> I took a look at [1] that uses a linmodem, software only modem.
> With this software you can hook up two computers using the soundcards.
> Is Something simmilar possible wit 2 FR 's? 
>
> Kind regards,
> Ed
>
> [1] http://bellard.org/linmodem.html
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Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake 
> for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't 
> quite work any more.
> It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems 
> to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method.
>
> The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot 
> (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of 
> the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the 
> drawing methods are still the same.
>
> There's a video of the boot process here: 
> http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB).
> After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot 
> menu which works fine.
>
> Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole 
> screen module that needs to be replaced?
>
> Cheers,
> rhn
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Hi Rhn,

It doesn't seem to be that broken, it boots, but it shows no splash screen.
Did you try to leave it on for 10/15 minutes and see what happens?
The freerunner has three (?) splash screens, did you try to reflash them
as well?
[1]

I hope the FR will come to live again.

Kind regards,
Ed

PS
i was not able to reflash my splash screens, so if it doesn't work as
per wiki, don't dispair. if you are able to reflash the splash screen,
please correct the wiki if it was incorrect.


[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Splash_screen

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Re: general SD card read/write problem

2011-06-02 Thread Ed Kapitein

On 06/02/2011 12:42 PM, Dmitry Shalnoff wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have a periodically appeared problem with SD card writing/reading 
> functionality. I has several cards to try and found some correlation with 
> size and speed type of the card. '
>
> Problems are appers when I'm trying to write intensively on the card. Usually 
> on the next boot I found filesystem corrupted and cant' mount card anymore 
> till I fsck it (with predictable files damage) or reformat. 
>
> generally it's looks like 16GB cards almost 100% cases have problems. 
> and as I suppose 4 class cards more prone to problem than class 6. 
>
> Question is simple: Is my suspicions are correct (concerning class and card 
> size)? what is general recommendations? Who has any good/bad experience with 
> different types of cards?  
>
> I know about this topic http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards 
> , but it's doesn't looks like relevant tutorial to buy fail-safe SD and 
> obviously this problem doesn't rely on brand name too. 
>
> thank you beforehand for any help,
> Dmitry 
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Hi Dmitry,

I also had some trouble with my SD cards. For me it seems that using u-boot 
with 4-4-4 timing settings gives a much more reliable use of the SD cards.
With the 2-4-2 timing i have a lot of file corruption, so i switched back to an 
old kernel and the old 2-4-2 timing and have had little or no problem with
the SD cards since i switched back.
I love to hear if your troubles are over too when you switch back.
I got my u-boot from [1]

I run my distro from the SD card, so corruption is really annoying for me.

Kind regards,
Ed

[1] http://www.bsdmn.com/cgit/cgit/u-boot/snapshot/u-boot-gena2x.tar.bz2



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Re: Freerunner as a mobile gateway -> shipping container

2011-05-24 Thread Ed Kapitein
[1] https://github.com/gabrys/gta02-agps

:-)

On 05/24/2011 02:42 PM, Ed Kapitein wrote:
> On 05/23/2011 07:24 PM, Phil Vandry wrote:
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:19:16PM +0200, Eric Smith wrote:
>>> Main application here is in a sea shipping container.
>>>
>>> The key issues are RF communication (when in a GSM range of course) 
>>> and power management due to the long haul journey including journey 
>>> overland. Power supply has to be in the form of an additional battery.
>>>
>>> Technical issue is to have minimal size OS and to be low in power
>>> consumption.  And robust.
>> If you sleep and only wake up at intervals, you should anticipate some
>> difficulty acquiring a GPS signal every time you wake up. The GPS in
>> the Freerunner is really designed to make use of A-GPS and if you can't
>> do it because you are at sea and far from any network signal, it can
>> take a long time to get a position. We have sometimes seen it take over
>> 40 minutes to get a good fix (unit mounted on an aircraft glareshield).
>>
>> -Phil
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> You could overcome the TTFF problem by using the agps software from [1]
> It loads the needed data from the gps chip and uses that the next time
> you power on the gps unit.
> I usually get a fix in 2 minutes.
> If you send the log data to a server via GPRS, you might want to use
> rsync with the --inplace option.
> The logs will only grow i suspect and i use this method of transferring
> the gps log from my car to my server at home,
> while driving.
> It also helps to chop the log files in smaller parts (+/- 2Mb per file)
> in case the GPRS connection is not that reliable, a resend
> will take less time.
> Roaming data can be expensive, so you might want to look at that too,
> with your mobile phone provider.
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> Good luck with your project, and keep us posted about the
> successes/failures, we would like to learn from it.
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Re: Freerunner as a mobile gateway -> shipping container

2011-05-24 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 05/23/2011 07:24 PM, Phil Vandry wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:19:16PM +0200, Eric Smith wrote:
>> Main application here is in a sea shipping container.
>>
>> The key issues are RF communication (when in a GSM range of course) 
>> and power management due to the long haul journey including journey 
>> overland. Power supply has to be in the form of an additional battery.
>>
>> Technical issue is to have minimal size OS and to be low in power
>> consumption.  And robust.
> If you sleep and only wake up at intervals, you should anticipate some
> difficulty acquiring a GPS signal every time you wake up. The GPS in
> the Freerunner is really designed to make use of A-GPS and if you can't
> do it because you are at sea and far from any network signal, it can
> take a long time to get a position. We have sometimes seen it take over
> 40 minutes to get a good fix (unit mounted on an aircraft glareshield).
>
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You could overcome the TTFF problem by using the agps software from [1]
It loads the needed data from the gps chip and uses that the next time
you power on the gps unit.
I usually get a fix in 2 minutes.
If you send the log data to a server via GPRS, you might want to use
rsync with the --inplace option.
The logs will only grow i suspect and i use this method of transferring
the gps log from my car to my server at home,
while driving.
It also helps to chop the log files in smaller parts (+/- 2Mb per file)
in case the GPRS connection is not that reliable, a resend
will take less time.
Roaming data can be expensive, so you might want to look at that too,
with your mobile phone provider.

Good luck with your project, and keep us posted about the
successes/failures, we would like to learn from it.

Kind regards,
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Re: [QtMoko] amd64 compilation trouble

2011-05-16 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Giacomo,

There might be something wrong with the libraries,
can you check with:
ldd /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.3

Kind regards,
Ed

On Monday 16 May 2011 14:44:31 giacomo 'giotti' mariani wrote:
> > > >> >  and the "-verbose" option gives:
> > > >> >  [...]
> > > >> >  eval: 1: arm-linux-gcc: not found
> > > >> >  [...]
> > > > 
> > > > does this work for you like for me?
> > > > 
> > > > radek at rp-skunk:~$ /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc
> > > > arm-linux-gcc: no input files
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Regards
> > > > 
> > > > Radek
> > > 
> > > Hi Radek,
> > > 
> > >  Yes, it behaves quite exactly the same:
> > >   $ /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc
> > > 
> > > -bash: /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc: No such file or
> > > directory
> > 
> > Ehm quite exactly the same? You are obviously missing toolchain.
> > Please follow
> > once more the README [1], and make sure you did the step called
> > 
> > "* Download and install toolchain"
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Radek
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/README
> 
> Hi Radek,
>my message could give that idea, but I installed the toolchain
> following your README.
> 
> In fact:
> jack@nb2-mariani:~$ ls -l /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jack jack 25 2011-05-13 11:52
> /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gcc -> arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.3
> jack@nb2-mariani:~$ file
> /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.3
> /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.3: ELF 32-bit
> LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses
> shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped
> jack@nb2-mariani:~$
> /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.3
> -bash: /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.3: No
> such file or directory
> 
> Thanks for your help
> Giacomo

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Re: Nand neeeded ?

2011-04-24 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 04/24/2011 11:34 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Ed Kapitein  writes:
>> So the question is:
>> Is there a part of the nand needed after the phone is booted?
>> What part of the nand might be needed when resuming from suspend?
> The boot loader in nand is used also when you resume from suspend unless
> you hold AUX down. If you erased your nand boot loader it won't
> obviously resume :-)
>
Sounds like what happend to me!
So if i have qi as a boot loader, with the 242 timing, and boot the SD
card from NOR, i end up with the 242 timing after a suspend/resume cycle?

( i suspect the 242 timing to have something to do with the problems i
have with my SD cards.)
 
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Nand neeeded ?

2011-04-24 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi all,

In order to investigate my SD issues, i decided to erase my nand today.
That went well and NOR booting from the SD card worked fine too.
But when the phone went into suspend, it would not wake up again.
When pressing the power button the FR started to make a hissing noise.
removing the battery helped and then i could repeat the whole procedure.
(booting, suspending and hissing)

After i flashed qi, the kernel and the qtmoko v35 version, booting from
NOR and suspending/resuming works fine again.

So the question is:
Is there a part of the nand needed after the phone is booted?
What part of the nand might be needed when resuming from suspend?

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Re: qtmoko v35

2011-04-12 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 10:34:38 giacomo 'giotti' mariani wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> >  We had problems with ubifs too. Gennady talked to ubifs devs and they
> >> >  would like to see the kernel message and nandump so they could try
> >> >  too look into it.
> >> >  
> >> >  It seems that ubifs is not as stable as jffs2 which was 100% perfect.
> >> >  Only problem is that jffs2 cant do mmap and apt-get does not work
> >> >  without mmap.
> >> >  
> >> >  Jffs2 will never do mmap (according to the main devel it's a lot of
> >> >  complex work because of compression) so we have these options now:
> >> >  
> >> >  * live with bugged ubifs
> >> >  * patch apt-get so that it works without mmap
> >> >  * use the old trick with /var/cache/apt on tmpfs, but this has
> >> >  problems with limited memory and bigger upates/upgrades might not
> >> >  work * use some other flash filesystem - yaffs seems but does not
> >> >  support compression, i havent looked at logfs yet
> >> >  
> >> >  So any suggestions?
> > 
> > We could use jffs2 if we link /var/cache/apt to a tiny partition on SD.
> > Then while SD is in huge updates will work, if SD is removed ->  no apt,
> > but still a runing system.
> 
> In my opinion ubifs is a great improvement: it looks faster than jffs2
> and less memory consumer than jffs2.
> It should be used, if possible. So I suggest to use it and to send
> kernel messages and nandump to ubifs guys in order to help them.
> 
> And that's what I'm doing ;-)
> 
> Cheers
>  Giacomo

Perhaps just a crazy idea: make a loopback file with a ext2/3 fs and mount that 
on  /var/cache/apt ?

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Re: Another open hardware mod experiment: RFID-tag/Reader board for the Freerunner, Nanonote (?) and Beagleboard

2011-04-11 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Nikolaus,

Just an idea:
handheld scanner for pets (veterinarian, animal rescue workers etc)
It could read the animals rfid chip and do a lookup in the database to show the 
owner.

Kind regards,
Ed


On Monday 11 April 2011 09:59:38 Denis Shulyaka wrote:
> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
> Great news!
> 
> Here in Moscow, some of the tickets to public transport are basically
> RFID tags. Will I be able to "copy" them and use my Free Runner for it
> with this hardware?
> 
> Best regards,
> Denis Shulyaka.
> 
> 2011/4/11 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller :
> > Dear all,
> > besides the GTA04 and the Freerunner Navigation Board,
> > we have been working behind the scenes on a new hardware mod,
> > originally for the Openmoko Freerunner. It is a
> > 
> >RFID Antenna, RFID Tag (M24LR64) and a RFID Reader (TRF7960)
> > board. For 13 MHz (ISO14443, ISO15693).
> > 
> > The project is still in its beginnings, but the hardware is designed and
> > first samples have been built and appear to work (at least as far as we
> > could test them). And, a first U-Boot based driver running on a
> > BeagleBoard has shown that the RFID reader chip responds and sends
> > interrupts. The tag chip also works and has been tested with an external
> > USB based reader stick.
> > 
> > The boards have solder points so that it should be possible to interface
> > to different SoC and boards, e.g. BeagleBoard, Nanonote, OpenPandora...
> > 
> > The minimum wiring is that it nedds 3.3V power, 3 SPI wires and a INT
> > line to a GPIO. If power should be controlled or the SoC has 1.8V I/O,
> > more wires are needed.
> > 
> > For documentation and details I have uploaded some material to
> > this page:
> > 
> >http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freerunner_RFID_Board
> > 
> > Schematics and board layout are available in EAGLE format.
> > 
> > Now, what can you do with it? I don't know but would be happy to hear
> > about ideas...
> > 
> > We have the idea to sell these complete boards at 79 EUR (which
> > is approx. half the price of a TI eval board), if you are interested in
> > experimenting with this technology.
> > 
> > 
> > Nikolaus
> > 
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Re: Qtmoko and u-boot

2011-04-02 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 04/01/2011 11:24 PM, W. B. Kranendonk wrote:
> --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Ed Kapitein  wrote:
>> On 04/01/2011 05:20 PM, Gennady
>> Kupava wrote:
>>> В Птн, 01/04/2011 в 17:00 +0200, Ed Kapitein
>> пишет:
>>>> On Friday 01 April 2011 14:52:02 David Matthews
>> wrote:
>>>>>> I had a few problems with several uSD
> Any chance all of them are broken? I got a "whole collection" of Sandisk uSD 
> cards that gave up the gost a while back, making me distrust my Freerunner, 
> my laptop, some camera's and some card readers.
>
> Do your filesystems only get corrupted when using it in your FR?
>
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Hi Boudewijn,

The card themselves are fine when used on my desktop computer, several
read write cycles give no errors at all.
So the corruption only happens in conjunction with the FR.
It is a pity that i can't trigger the corruption in anyway, so it is a
matter of waiting for a while and see if the FS stays clean.

so, i'll just have to wait and see what happens.

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Re: [openmoko-announce] Neo RoadRunner

2011-04-01 Thread Ed Kapitein
Perhaps the date is suspicious ... ;-)

On 04/01/2011 09:19 PM, Kosa wrote:
> However, the site has not been updated. No info about it yet. is
> http://openmoko.org the right place to go?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Kosa
>
> El 01/04/11 13:15, Kosa escribió:
>> :D:D:D ¡qué chido!!
>>
>> Thanks for keeping the openhardware effort live and running :)
>>
>> Kosa
>>
>>
>> El 01/04/11 12:58, Sean Moss-Pultz escribió:
>>> 
>>> This email was sent via Anonymous email service for free.
>>> YOU CAN REMOVE THIS TEXT MESSAGE BY BEING A PAID MEMBER FOR $19/year.
>>> Message ID= 60854
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Community!
>>>
>>> Today, with the greatest of pleasure, I am ready to share with you the
>>> birth of our new product -- Neo RoadRunner. The world's first MeeGo powered
>>> GPS road navigation in the palm of your hand. Accessible immediately,
>>> anytime,
>>> anywhere without requiring an Internet connection. No strings attached.
>>> With Neo RoadRunner you'll be prepared for those unexpected moments when
>>> curiosity strikes. And once you have it, you'll realize how often you
>>> get lost
>>> on road during the day.
>>>
>>> Neo RoadRunner takes our original ideas of openness and accessibility to
>>> an even greater realm. Neo RoadRunner is so amazingly simple. There really
>>> is no closed part. We built our software stack on top of MeeGo distribution
>>> and we use openstreetmap.org project as a source for our navigation data.
>>> You turn it on and instantly become discovered on the map at any place
>>> you are.
>>> It's perfect for all purposes.
>>>
>>>  From the "Aha!" moment when we held our first prototypes, to the last
>>> few months as we worked around the clock to polish every last detail,
>>> this product was a joy to make and even more fun to experience. We are
>>> head-over-heels in love with Neo RoadRunner. Never have I found so much
>>> fun in the little moments of curiosity life offers us. Try one and I'm
>>> sure you'll agree that we've delivered the essence of GPS navigation
>>> in an addictively simple form factor.
>>>
>>> Sales start today at http://openmoko.com. Enjoy. Tell your
>>> friends. And let us know what you think!
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>>
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>>>
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Re: Qtmoko and u-boot

2011-04-01 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 04/01/2011 05:20 PM, Gennady Kupava wrote:
> В Птн, 01/04/2011 в 17:00 +0200, Ed Kapitein пишет:
>> On Friday 01 April 2011 14:52:02 David Matthews wrote:
>>>> I had a few problems with several uSD cards lately and i am trying to
>>>> figure out what is going wrong.
>>>> It used to be much more stable than it is now, i have massive file system
>>>> corruption on a weekly basis.
>>>> So i decided to downgrade to u-boot (was using qi) and back to an old
>>>> andy- tracking kernel. Also i reverted back to xorg-server using the
>>>> fbdev driver instead of the glamo driver.
>>> Ed - do you have a nand install and are the problems occurring after a
>>> reboot? If so it's probably the same issue I posted about several weeks
>>> back - I did post a work around as well, which for me at least, works
>>> fine.
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, but my situation is different.
>> I have qtmoko on nand and gentoo on uSD, and qi as a bootloader to choose 
>> between the two,
>> Even without rebooting the FR it start to mess up my uSD card filesystem.
>> sometimes files that are unreadable are just fine after a reboot, sometimes 
>> the 
>> files are really messed up and need to be restored.
>> It might well be that the glamo is getting bad or that there is another kind 
>> of hardware failure going on.
>>
>> I tried using ext2fs and ext3fs but hat does not change anything.
>>
>> ATM i am booting the SD card form nor boot and qtmoko from qi.
>> But i would like to be able to use nand u-boot to boot from the SD card and 
>> from nand.
> Hi, Ed,
>
> I am using mine u-boot with few fixes, it's not without bugs, but it
> probably has less bugs than openmoko's u-boot:
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/U-boot-gena2x
>
> Also i'd suggest to try reducing sd card clock in kernel params (in
> u-boot env, glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=1500).
>
> And do backups. I am just removing sd card and do full dd dump of
> contents to hdd, this takes 10 mins, but 100% error-proof, easy, fast
> and painless recover. without any problems with partitions or anything
> else.
>
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Hi Gennady

Thanks i see that it uses the 2-4-2 timings, so i will try it after
running with the current setup for a while.
I do make backups, with rdiff-backup, so i have almost 2 years of
backups without wasting to much diskspace.

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Re: Qtmoko and u-boot

2011-04-01 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Friday 01 April 2011 14:52:02 David Matthews wrote:
> >I had a few problems with several uSD cards lately and i am trying to
> >figure out what is going wrong.
> >It used to be much more stable than it is now, i have massive file system
> >corruption on a weekly basis.
> >So i decided to downgrade to u-boot (was using qi) and back to an old
> >andy- tracking kernel. Also i reverted back to xorg-server using the
> >fbdev driver instead of the glamo driver.
> 
> Ed - do you have a nand install and are the problems occurring after a
> reboot? If so it's probably the same issue I posted about several weeks
> back - I did post a work around as well, which for me at least, works
> fine.

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply, but my situation is different.
I have qtmoko on nand and gentoo on uSD, and qi as a bootloader to choose 
between the two,
Even without rebooting the FR it start to mess up my uSD card filesystem.
sometimes files that are unreadable are just fine after a reboot, sometimes the 
files are really messed up and need to be restored.
It might well be that the glamo is getting bad or that there is another kind 
of hardware failure going on.

I tried using ext2fs and ext3fs but hat does not change anything.

ATM i am booting the SD card form nor boot and qtmoko from qi.
But i would like to be able to use nand u-boot to boot from the SD card and 
from nand.

Kind regrads,
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Qtmoko and u-boot

2011-04-01 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi All,

I had a few problems with several uSD cards lately and i am trying to figure 
out what is going wrong.
It used to be much more stable than it is now, i have massive file system 
corruption on a weekly basis.
So i decided to downgrade to u-boot (was using qi) and back to an old andy-
tracking kernel. Also i reverted back to xorg-server using the fbdev driver 
instead of the glamo driver.

But i noticed that Qtmoko won't boot when using u-boot, it works fine when 
using qi.
Is there something i can do to use u-boot and qtmoko together?

Kind regards,
Ed

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Re: MicroSD cards support questions in gta02

2011-02-27 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Alexandros,

Good to hear that!
Please try some other values for the clock settings in
/boot/append-GTA02, and some smaller values for the slow_ratio setting.
i think the system will be slow now, adjusting these values might make
your freerunner faster.
(or instable ;-) )

Kind Regards,
Ed

On 02/27/2011 02:27 PM, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote:
> Qi booted qtmoko from my sdcard in gta02 successfully .
> Thank you for the detailed instructions.
>
> Alexandros
>
>
> Στις Κυριακή 27 Φεβρουάριος 2011 00:23:11 Ed Kapitein γράψατε:
>
>> Hi Alexandros,
>>
>> Well, it seems good, the freerunner regonizes the card and loads the
>> kernel. The kernel panic is as expected, there is just a kernel on the
>> card and no distro yet. Could you try  to install the root files system
>> from [2] ?
>> After you installed it make sure to install the kernel in /boot as
>> uImage-GTA02.bin and add the /boot/append-GTA02.
>> (you could make a tar file before installing the rootfs)
>>
>> in cut and paste style:
>> mkdir /tmp/mpt
>> mount /dev/sde1 /tmp/mpt
>> cd /tmp/mpt
>> tar -czf /tmp/old_boot.tgz ./boot
>> tar -xzvpf /the/downloaded/qtmoko-debian-v31.tar.gz
>> tar -xzvpf /tmp/old_boot.tgz
>> cd /
>> umount /tmp/mpt
>> eject /dev/sde
>>
>> put the card in the freerunner and boot using qi
>> That should give you a working distro.
>> Please let us know any success/failure!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ed
>>
>> [2]
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/qtmoko-debian-v31.tar.gz/down
>> load
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Re: MicroSD cards support questions in gta02

2011-02-26 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 02/26/2011 09:41 PM, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Ed.
>
> My gta02 boots every 10 sec and the last messages seen before boot is in the 
> image :
> http://imagepaste.nullnetwork.net/viewimage.php?id=1848
>
>
> The images i used for kernel and qi where from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/
> I took the kernel from:
> qtmoko-debian-v31.tar.gz
> after extracting it in a local folder.
>
>
> Also if its usefull:
> #mke2fs /dev/sde1
> mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
> 486720 inodes, 1946368 blocks
> 97318 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> Maximum filesystem blocks=1996488704
> 60 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 8112 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
> 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632
>
> Writing inode tables: done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Στις Σάββατο 26 Φεβρουάριος 2011 01:14:02 Ed Kapitein γράψατε:
>> On 02/25/2011 10:08 PM, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote:
>>> Having spend a day and some trying to boot qtmoko or shr trying different
>>> combinations (bootloader+ distributions + partition scheme )  from two
>>> micro sd card i own,  without any success , and since the cards are
>>> accesible from linux kernel i'd like to pledge for help in that issue. 
>>> I admit i havent play more with uboot enviroment and uboot prompt  but
>>> i've tries the rootdelay option...
>
>> Hi Alexandros,
>>
>> I use sd cards to run a distro and it works "fine" ( there are some
>> problems with the speed an reliability ) I would suggest to format the sd
>> card as one partion with ext2  (on a pc with a sd card reader for example)
>> and put the qtmoko kernel in the /boot directory of the card and name it
>> uImage-GTA02.bin.
>>
>> And write "console=tty0 loglevel=3 rootwait panic=10
>> glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=500 glamo_mci.sd_post_power_clock=500
>> glamo_mci.sd_slow_ratio=16" in /boot/append-GTA02
>>
>> Could you please report back what happens when you try to boot then from
>> the SD card. It should start a kernel and panic at the end loading the
>> kernel. ( there is no init yet) Please hold the power button to get some
>> diagnostics printed on your screen.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ed
>>
>> cut and paste:
>> mke2fs /dev/sdb1 ( assuming /dev/sdb is your sd card )
>> mkdir /tmp/mpt
>> mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mpt
>> mkdir /tmp/mpt/boot
>> cp /some/place/qtmoko_kernel /tmp/mpt/boot/uImage-GTA02.bin
>> echo "console=tty0 loglevel=3 rootwait panic=10
>> glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=500 glamo_mci.sd_post_power_clock=500
>> glamo_mci.sd_slow_ratio=16" > /tmp/mpt/boot/append-GTA02 umount /tmp/mpt
>> eject /dev/sdb
>>
>> put the card in the freerunner and boot using qi.
>

Hi Alexandros,

Well, it seems good, the freerunner regonizes the card and loads the kernel.
The kernel panic is as expected, there is just a kernel on the card and no 
distro yet.
Could you try  to install the root files system from [2] ?
After you installed it make sure to install the kernel in /boot as 
uImage-GTA02.bin
and add the /boot/append-GTA02.
(you could make a tar file before installing the rootfs)

in cut and paste style:
mkdir /tmp/mpt
mount /dev/sde1 /tmp/mpt
cd /tmp/mpt
tar -czf /tmp/old_boot.tgz ./boot
tar -xzvpf /the/downloaded/qtmoko-debian-v31.tar.gz
tar -xzvpf /tmp/old_boot.tgz
cd /
umount /tmp/mpt
eject /dev/sde

put the card in the freerunner and boot using qi
That should give you a working distro.
Please let us know any success/failure!

Kind regards,
Ed

[2] 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/qtmoko-debian-v31.tar.gz/download


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Re: MicroSD cards support questions in gta02

2011-02-25 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 02/25/2011 10:08 PM, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote:
> Having spend a day and some trying to boot qtmoko or shr trying different 
> combinations (bootloader+ distributions + partition scheme )  from two micro 
> sd card i own,  without any success , and since the cards are accesible from 
> linux kernel i'd like to pledge for help in that issue.  I admit i havent 
> play 
> more with uboot enviroment and uboot prompt  but i've tries the rootdelay 
> option.
>
> Some questions:
> 1)For example why there is need each dist to have its customized bootloader 
> file? Doesnt that imply that there is no general bootloader working  like in 
> desktop pcs?
>
> 2)Why generally speaking its so difficult to boot from a sdcard? Is the 
> microsd 
> interface  closed and thus a libre drivers has holes?  Is it a card's fault ? 
> (in what way , shouldnt they comply with a standard? ).  Is it glamo hardware 
> thing?  Is the glamo mmc driver 's fault ? All the above in different 
> combinations?
>
>
>
> Some reports (the kernel? or the bootloader? stops and i get messages like 
> below)
>
> qi booting shr 
> SoftDog: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16)
> EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p1): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced : 267697
> Kernel panic - not syncing : No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel
>
>
> uboot booting shr-
> card type  :SD 2.0 SDHC
> Manufacturer:
> Product name: "SA08G", revision 0.4
> Serial number:
> Manufacturing date: 4/2010
> MMC/SD  size : 3MiB
>
> Unable to read uImage.bin from  mmc 1:2 
> wrong image format for bootm command
>
> Error cant get kernel image
>
>
>
> Related reports:
> https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1815
> https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1719
> https://https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1743docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1743
>
> PS: my 2 cards are   8 GB microSDHC memory card Kingston (class 4 : 
> 15MBit/s-2MB/s) and a 1GB from a nokia phone with no company logo. Also i've 
> asked a friend and i'll try with a sandisk 4GB.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Alexandros
> librephone.gr
>
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Hi Alexandros,

I use sd cards to run a distro and it works "fine" ( there are some problems 
with the speed an reliability )
I would suggest to format the sd card as one partion with ext2  (on a pc with a 
sd card reader for example) 
and put the qtmoko kernel in the /boot directory of the card and name it 
uImage-GTA02.bin.

And write "console=tty0 loglevel=3 rootwait panic=10 
glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=500 glamo_mci.sd_post_power_clock=500 
glamo_mci.sd_slow_ratio=16" in /boot/append-GTA02

Could you please report back what happens when you try to boot then from the SD 
card.
It should start a kernel and panic at the end loading the kernel. ( there is no 
init yet)
Please hold the power button to get some diagnostics printed on your screen.

Kind regards,
Ed

cut and paste:
mke2fs /dev/sdb1 ( assuming /dev/sdb is your sd card )
mkdir /tmp/mpt
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mpt
mkdir /tmp/mpt/boot
cp /some/place/qtmoko_kernel /tmp/mpt/boot/uImage-GTA02.bin
echo "console=tty0 loglevel=3 rootwait panic=10 glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=500 
glamo_mci.sd_post_power_clock=500 glamo_mci.sd_slow_ratio=16" > 
/tmp/mpt/boot/append-GTA02
umount /tmp/mpt
eject /dev/sdb

put the card in the freerunner and boot using qi.

 


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Re: Bind / unbind

2011-02-25 Thread Ed Kapitein
Thanks, that is it !

Kind regards,
Ed

On Friday 25 February 2011 08:42:01 Radek Polak wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2011 12:24:03 Ed Kapitein wrote:
> > I use to be able to unbind the wifi card with the following command:
> > echo s3c2440-sdi >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/s3c2440-sdi/unbind
> > 
> > any idea what the command is for the newer kernel (2.6.34.7-v31 ) ?
> > 
> > I did try several in the /sys tree, but to no avail.
> 
> I think
> 
> echo s3c2440-sdi > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/s3c-sdi/bind
> echo s3c2440-sdi > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/s3c-sdi/unbind
> 
> but i cant verify now.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Radek
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Bind / unbind

2011-02-24 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi all,

I use to be able to unbind the wifi card with the following command:
echo s3c2440-sdi >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/s3c2440-sdi/unbind

any idea what the command is for the newer kernel (2.6.34.7-v31 ) ?

I did try several in the /sys tree, but to no avail.

kind regards,
Ed

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Re: GPRS and QtMoko (v32): can't

2011-02-10 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi All,

I have had the same problem since i bought the freerunner, with all distros 
(OM200x, gentoo, qtmoko)
The way i work arround it is by disabling the multiplexer and use the modem 
directly.
That way i have a stable gprs connection.
And when i am done using the gprs connection i restart the multiplexer again.

Kind regards,
Ed

On Thursday 10 February 2011 09:24:58 Radek Polak wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 February 2011 18:28:48 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > This is http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2264 which has been
> > worked around 4 months ago. Nobody has complained that the fix
> > wouldn't work :-)
> 
> This fix is in qtmoko for long time. I tried it and i looked ok. But this
> weekend i was using FR for sharing internet with PC and the GPRS always
> hanged up somehow - it was ok for some web pages but i was unable to
> transfer anything bigger. I was trying ~2MB file transfer over sftp and
> after many attempts i had to give up. I also tried to limit sfpt upload to
> 1kb/s but that didnt help either - so did it over wifi ;-)
> 
> Regards
> 
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Re: GTA04 Wiki

2011-01-14 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Nikolaus,

What would be a good idea is to have a list with working functionality for the 
device.
That would give people an overview on how usable the device is for  a certain 
task.

for example:
 Yes  No
can send SMS   X
can make voice call   X
working X server X
has working GPS  X

etc

I don't know if it is wise from a buisness point of view, but i would love to 
know how many people have ordered the device yet.

Kind regards,
Ed

On Friday 14 January 2011 14:09:45 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Behind the scenes a lot of things are slowly progressing.
> 
> One part is setting up a web interface to important information.
> 
> Therefore, we have now installed
> 
>   wiki.gta04.org
> 
> which is completely virgin..
> 
> To start filling it with really useful information, please let us know
> which pages (keyword, short description) you would expect.
> 
> Nikolaus
> 
> PS: The early adopter offer is still open since we have not yet
> got a quotation for the memory chips (Micron MT29C or MT46
> in 168-VFBGA) and those appear to be the most critical to secure
> first. The more orders we have the easier it becomes to talk to the
> distributors.
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Re: QI kernel parameters

2011-01-02 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Phil,

Thanks for the tip, it seems like a hassle to recompile qi for setting
the glamo clock speed.
Anyway, i tried it, and i end up with:
neo qi # make
mkdir -p image
ld: cannot open linker script file src/cpu//qi.lds: No such file or
directory
make: *** [image/qi--master_c38b062a609f1442.udfu] Error 1
I am building on the FR, so no toolchain there.

Did you manage to get your SD card to work? if so how?
Also in my case the error follows the SD card, another card (class 6)
works just fine, but the new (class 4)
is buggy.

Kind regards,
Ed



On 01/02/2011 06:14 PM, Phil Vandry wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Ed Kapitein wrote:
>> I have a hard time with an SD card that will give errors whne running
>> fsck, even right after an fresh mke2fs.
> I have one of those too :-( The problem follows the μSD card, not
> the Freerunner.
>
>> Any other idea on how to supply kernel parameters while booting from NAND?
> I needed to change the kernel command line and I found that it was easy to
> do by changing Qi's source code. Qi is very small so it's not daunting to
> modify and compiles in to time. All you need is a working toolchain.
>
> - git clone git://git.openmoko.org/git/qi.git
>
> - find the function append_device_specific_cmdline_gta02 in
> src/cpu/s3c2442/gta02.c
>
> You can just add something like
>
> cmdline += strlen(strcpy(cmdline, " youroption=yourvalue"));
>
> - make
>
> - Use dfu-util to flash the result onto the Freerunner.
>
> -Phil
>
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QI kernel parameters

2011-01-02 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi all,

I have a hard time with an SD card that will give errors whne running
fsck, even right after an fresh mke2fs.
So i am trying to slowdown the glamo, but that does not seem to work with QI
acording to [1] i should work for nand in the same way as it does for sd
card partitions.
But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Any other idea on how to supply kernel parameters while booting from NAND?

Kind regards,
Ed


[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg39256.html

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Re: [shr-u] "Your SIM storage is full..."/PIM problem

2010-12-18 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Bernard,

You could debug it with the following command:

dbus-send --system --dest=org.freesmartphone.ogsmd --print-reply 
/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.GetMessagebookInfo

Read message 1 with:

dbus-send --system --dest=org.freesmartphone.ogsmd --print-reply 
/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.RetrieveMessage 
int32:1

Or delete message 1 with:

dbus-send --system --dest=org.freesmartphone.ogsmd --print-reply 
/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.DeleteMessage 
int32:1

This will give you a lowlevel view of the messages on your SIM

Hope it helps.

Kind regards,
Ed

On Saturday 18 December 2010 13:14:34 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i've just flashed my Freerunner to the latest SHR-unstable.
> 
> Since a couple of days, (that is, with a previous SHR-u), I'm getting a
> message
> 
> "Your SIM storage is full. Please delete some messages or you may not
> receive them anymore!"
> 
> on a regular basis. The funny thing is, I did delete all my messages
> apart from two remaining ones, but SHR keeps complaining, and I really
> don't seem to be able to receive any text messages (SMS) anymore.
> 
> Other than that, after starting programs like Contacts or Messages,
> they're showing that rotating indicator and an otherwise blank window --
> what could be wrong there?
> 
> TIA
> Bernhard
> 
> 
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Re: Address the WM8753 directly

2010-11-14 Thread Ed Kapitein
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 21:03 +0100, EdorFaus wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 11:47 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > Ed Kapitein  writes:
> >> Does anyone have pointers on how to address the hardware and its
> >> registers etc?
> >> I want to write the program in C and need a starting point.
> >
> > I think you need to write kernel space code to use it since there are
> > shared resources like i2c that can not be used without proper locking
> > (just guessing here).
> 
> I don't know wether or not that is true, but there is nevertheless a 
> good suggestion between the lines here - for a working example of how to 
> use this hardware, you can look at the driver in the Linux kernel. :)
> 
Thanks,
I also think it is a good suggestion, so i will use the alsa driver for
now.
If i have build up enough courage i might try to replace the alsa part
with something of my own. 
So far it is great fun to get it working by trial and error!

Kind regards,
Ed 


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