Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels (was: Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!)

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Tansella
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 00:45:05 Cedric Cellier wrote: I tried to edit the wiki page about the accelerometer in order to document this change : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_data_retrieval Please someone review it ! Thanks ___

Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels

2009-04-07 Thread Iain B. Findleton
I have the latest kernel I have found on the .../unstable/ download, dated Apr 06, 2009, but I do not see any EV_ABS (type 3) events listed when I access the /dev/input/event[2,3] files. Is there another kernel out there? Which one matches the andy-tracking modules? Michael Tansella wrote:

Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels

2009-04-07 Thread rixed
-[ Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:09:56PM -0400, Iain B. Findleton ] I have the latest kernel I have found on the .../unstable/ download, dated Apr 06, 2009, but I do not see any EV_ABS (type 3) events listed when I access the /dev/input/event[2,3] files. Is there another kernel out there?

Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels

2009-04-07 Thread Iain B. Findleton
Are you building it yourself or is there a uImage and modules file pre-compiled? ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: -[ Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:09:56PM -0400, Iain B. Findleton ] I have the latest kernel I have found on the .../unstable/ download, dated Apr 06, 2009, but I do not see any

Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels

2009-04-07 Thread rixed
-[ Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:23:51PM -0400, Iain B. Findleton ] Are you building it yourself or is there a uImage and modules file pre-compiled? Build it myself. I can send you the image+modules if you want, but I recommand you setup your own build chain which is quite simple.

Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels

2009-04-07 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:09 -0400, Iain B. Findleton wrote: I have the latest kernel I have found on the .../unstable/ download, dated Apr 06, 2009, but I do not see any EV_ABS (type 3) events listed when I access the /dev/input/event[2,3] files. Is there another kernel out there? Which

Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels (was: Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!)

2009-04-06 Thread Cedric Cellier
I tried to edit the wiki page about the accelerometer in order to document this change : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_data_retrieval Please someone review it ! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

AW: Accelerometers in recent kernels (was: Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!)

2009-04-06 Thread hab keen oh ne
: Accelerometers in recent kernels (was: Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!) I tried to edit the wiki page about the accelerometer in order to document this change : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_data_retrieval Please someone review

Accelerometers in recent kernels (was: Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!)

2009-04-05 Thread Paul Fertser
Michael Tansella michael-tanse...@gmx.de writes: How do they not work? Probably you just use applications that nobody cares to update to handle the proper way of reporting accelerometer events that was announced about 2 months ago? I used the python script from the wiki and it delivered only

AW: Accelerometers in recent kernels (was: Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!)

2009-04-05 Thread hab keen oh ne
community@lists.openmoko.org Gesendet: Sonntag, den 5. April 2009, 22:05:14 Uhr Betreff: Accelerometers in recent kernels (was: Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!) Michael Tansella michael-tanse...@gmx.de writes: How do they not work? Probably you just use applications that nobody cares

Re: Accelerometers in recent kernels

2009-04-05 Thread Paul Fertser
hab keen oh ne baba_mel...@yahoo.de writes: Hm, that makes sense. Are you sure this patch is included in the new kernel. Does ths mean, that we have to rewrite all our software? Yes, it's in andy-tracking for quite some time. And no, not rewrite, but slightly change the software to use the new