[qtmoko v44 sd card] screen dimms even QX settings should prevent this

2012-06-03 Thread robin
hi does anyone know if there is another possibility to prevent screen dimming for a qx application (it is navit in my case). Activating Prevent screen dimmming in the app settings still allows the screen to dim approx after 15 minutes. This is somewhat bad for car navigation ;-( . best regards

Re: [qtmoko v44 sd card] screen dimms even QX settings should prevent this

2012-06-03 Thread Radek Polak
On Sunday 03 June 2012 06:13:35 robin wrote: does anyone know if there is another possibility to prevent screen dimming for a qx application (it is navit in my case). Activating Prevent screen dimmming in the app settings still allows the screen to dim approx after 15 minutes. This is

Re: [qtmoko v44 sd card] screen dimms even QX settings should prevent this

2012-06-03 Thread Radek Polak
On Sunday 03 June 2012 12:18:00 Radek Polak wrote: It's probably X server which does the dimming in this case. IIRC there was way how to disable it, but i cant find it now :( I think it was discussed on this mailing list. Maybe try this link:

general SD card read/write problem

2011-06-02 Thread Dmitry Shalnoff
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

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

Re: bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-10 Thread dmatthews.org
Here's a way to work around this problem which from discussion effects only a nand install and must be (I think) a kernel bug. Save this as clean_shutdown.sh and follow the commented instructions:- _ #!/bin/bash #put

sd card not unmounting?

2011-03-09 Thread dmatthews.org
/sound_setting.html That article solves my sound problems! - thanks for posting it. I automount a sd card partition (ext2); the system does not seem to unmount it cleanly. It makes no difference whether I halt or reboot either from the gui or commandline; when the neo comes back up if I fsck the card

Re: sd card not unmounting?

2011-03-09 Thread Brian
settings: http://hnet.endofinternet.net/elektro/Freerunner/ALSA/sound_setting.html That article solves my sound problems! - thanks for posting it. Glad it helped but the real thanks goes here: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2011-January/064233.html I automount a sd card

bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-09 Thread dmatthews.org
happened after a clean shutdown on v26. In any case the system should force a close of any unopen files and an umount before it shuts down. I automount a sd card partition (ext2); the system does not seem to unmount it cleanly. It makes no difference whether I halt or reboot either from the gui

Re: bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-09 Thread Alfa21-mobile
% reproducible) and never happened after a clean shutdown on v26. In any case the system should force a close of any unopen files and an umount before it shuts down. I automount a sd card partition (ext2); the system does not seem to unmount it cleanly. It makes no difference whether I halt

Re: bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-09 Thread dmatthews.org
no, not here. I've v33 and works for me! (full installation on uSD with 3 partitions: storage/rootfs/swap) My roofs is on nand; the rootfs unmounts cleanly, but not the uSD based partition that I automount on /media/card rather, are you 100% sure about your hardware clock? otherwise

Re: bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-09 Thread dmatthews.org
mmh.. I can't say anything on this topic... I've never tried nand since om2008 :P maybe it's a bug specific for nand users with a uSD partition? yes maybe - I always use the nand though and this did not happen with v26 please try this: log-in via usb-ssh on your moko /etc/init.d/qpe

Re: bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-09 Thread dmatthews.org
I think I should add to my own post to mention that I briefly tried the January SHR testing a few weeks ago. That had the same problem ie (even) a clean shutdown - fsck reporting improper unmounting of the uSD. To summarize my experience:- qtmoko v26 - this problem does not happen SHR testing -

Re: bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-09 Thread Neil Jerram
On 9 March 2011 20:07, dmatthews.org m...@dmatthews.org wrote: I think I should add to my own post to mention that I briefly tried the January SHR testing a few weeks ago. That had the same problem ie (even) a clean shutdown - fsck reporting improper unmounting of the uSD. Interesting. Is

Re: bug: sd card not unmounting

2011-03-09 Thread Alfa21
2011-03-09@20:26 Neil Jerram Interesting. Is there a way to check for the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly status without removing the uSD and taking it to another computer? Neil yes, you can play with the usb file storage gadget module. == /opt/qtmoko/bin/usb-mass-storage-on.sh

Qi Bootloader compatible SD Card Partition Sizes

2010-12-06 Thread Nashvin Gangaram
Hi everyone I was just wondering about appropriate SD Card Partition sizes for Distributions that Qi boots. According to: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi#Advantages_of_Qi SD and SDHC cards supported properly with partitions of any size as in u-boot However, I have noticed that when I

Selling Freerunner (GTA02) for 100€ (125€ if you want to have it with a 16 G B Micro-SD card)plus shipping costs from Germany

2010-10-23 Thread Bernhard Hoell
Hi, since I increasingly have less time to try out / work on my Freerunner I am selling it. It is in good shape, comes Buzz-Fixed with a 2nd Battery, Charger and a screen-cover. It currently holds a 16 GB Micro SD Card that is optional. Its Date-Code is 20080619, so it is probably one

[wikireader] sd card

2010-01-17 Thread Robin Humble
Hi, a non-original microSD card that I bought doesn't perform too well in my wikireader. the non-orig card is a type '6' like the orig (I think), and scan_sd's at 129k like the orig, but sometimes it's slow/erratic when copying files from my laptop. possibly the non-orig card is just crap...

Re: sd card

2010-01-01 Thread clare johnstone
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM, blackfalc...@sapo.pt wrote: im using neovento 5.6. im trying to see some pics i have on my sd card. How do i get it to work. some help please. the sd card is vfat. Hi blackfalcon1, I am not at all sure about the vfat, as my card in the freerunner is being

sd card

2009-12-28 Thread blackfalcon1
im using neovento 5.6. im trying to see some pics i have on my sd card. How do i get it to work. some help please. the sd card is vfat. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: sd card

2009-12-28 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/12/28 blackfalc...@sapo.pt: im using neovento 5.6. im trying to see some pics i have on my sd card. How do i get it to work. some help please. the sd card is vfat. is the card mounted? can you cd to it from the command-line? if so, do you have image software installed? i can recommend

problems with qtmoko v1.5 + neronGPS + SD card

2009-12-28 Thread Joseba Makazaga
FAT and ext3 partitions in the SD card, and both have the same problem. I tried to use other directory for the maps, but it has become corrupted also. fsck says that the filesystem is corrupted (lots of inodes and blocs to fix, wrong reference numbers...) Any idea? Is it a problem of NeronGPS

[QTMoko] What is the best way of moving my home directory to the SD Card?

2009-10-12 Thread Roland Whitehead
I've just had the root directory on my FAT32 formatted SD card p1 get hosed (Stale NFS file handle) so I ask the very simple question: what is the best/most reliable way of moving my home directory from NAND to the SDCard? I have the whole of p1 available for my home directory so I could

Re: [QTMoko] What is the best way of moving my home directory to the SD Card?

2009-10-12 Thread Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano
Il giorno lun, 12/10/2009 alle 15.16 +0100, Roland Whitehead ha scritto: I've just had the root directory on my FAT32 formatted SD card p1 get hosed (Stale NFS file handle) so I ask the very simple question: what is the best/most reliable way of moving my home directory from NAND

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-28 Thread Cédric Berger
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 22:00, Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com wrote: Qi is really simple and (almost) clean, and it can boot kernels. I don't understand why you think one should want to maintain huge and complex u-boot instead of small simple Qi. It boots kernels - good enough. KISS

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-27 Thread Petr Vanek
FWIW, the link works for me (now). The subject of the thread is Touch based Dual Boot Menu. The thread is from March this year, it includes a couple of examples, one have a screenshot of a working menu. how well do you want to have it published? :) the thread mentions all that is needed to

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-27 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote: how well do you want to have it published? :) A howto that explains every step needed to put it al together would be nice. Example: - where would the menu partition live? On SD crd or on NAND? - how do I install the

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 25.09.2009 um 21:27 schrieb Torfinn Ingolfsen: To a user, it might look like this: - U-boot wasn't working correctly with newer (bigger) kernels, so the developer(s) abandoned it - instead they created Qi to be newer, better, faster and so on - Qi isn't living up to promises for users

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Dave Ball
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: What I wonder is why nobody did fix u-boot if it had problems with bigger kernels. I'm just a bystander here, but from what I understood this wasn't the reason Qi was started. u-boot is an entire environment that needs drivers for a lot of the hardware

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org writes: To a user, it might look like this: - U-boot wasn't working correctly with newer (bigger) kernels, so the developer(s) abandoned it - instead they created Qi to be newer, better, faster and so on - Qi isn't living up to promises for users

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 26.09.2009 um 11:12 schrieb Nikita V. Youshchenko: What you _can_ do is construct a mini Linux environment that provides a boot menu / usb-dfu, and is booted by Qi in the normal way. This would place those tools in regular Linux userspace, i.e. much more accessible to regular non

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 09:06 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 25.09.2009 um 21:27 schrieb Torfinn Ingolfsen: To a user, it might look like this: - U-boot wasn't working correctly with newer (bigger) kernels, so the developer(s) abandoned it - instead they created Qi to be

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
u-boot being slower to boot. Just FYI. I was involved in recent MontaVista's boot-in-one-second presentation. That demo did use u-boot (although somewhat changes) in the one-second boot process. Kernel got control there in about 0.3 seconds since poweron. So claim that u-boot is unable to do

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:36:54AM +0100, George Brooke wrote: There was a thread on the devel list see here: http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1980163%7Ca1980163 That link isn't working, it just gives a nearly blank page. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Danish law requires

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
What you _can_ do is construct a mini Linux environment that provides a boot menu / usb-dfu, and is booted by Qi in the normal way. This would place those tools in regular Linux userspace, i.e. much more accessible to regular non kernel / bootloader hackers. This could be the default or

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:36:54AM +0100, George Brooke wrote: There was a thread on the devel list see here: http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1980163%7Ca1980163 That link isn't working, it just gives a nearly blank page. It worked for me in Firefox, but not in konqueror.

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:36:54AM +0100, George Brooke wrote: There was a thread on the devel list see here: http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1980163%7Ca1980163 That link

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Martin Jansa
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.orgwrote: What you _can_ do is construct a mini Linux environment that provides a boot menu / usb-dfu, and is booted by Qi in the normal way. This would place those tools in regular Linux userspace, i.e. much more

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 26.09.2009 um 10:20 schrieb Dave Ball: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: What I wonder is why nobody did fix u-boot if it had problems with bigger kernels. I'm just a bystander here, but from what I understood this wasn't the reason Qi was started. u-boot is an entire environment that

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
-boot which doesn't make much sense when you can boot Linux, the kernel directly. So why doesn't Qi do that? Qi also has drivers for PMU, NAND flash, SD card, file systems, etc. Why not boot a kernel directly? Lack of menu with initramfs says imho that nobody really needs it or else it would

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread George Brooke
On Saturday 26 September 2009 10:12:59 Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: What you _can_ do is construct a mini Linux environment that provides a boot menu / usb-dfu, and is booted by Qi in the normal way. This would place those tools in regular Linux userspace, i.e. much more accessible to

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Dave Ball openm...@underhand.org writes: ... There's a philosophical difference between the two projects, and I think Qi's approach is much better suited to this kind of hardware, than u-boot could ever be (with trunk, or with the existing gripes resolved). Great thanks for this clear and

Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)

2009-09-25 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
El Friday, 25 de September de 2009 06:37:19 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller va escriure: Am 24.09.2009 um 22:44 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago, but the NAND flash code has changed so much that merging in the 2442 support requires

Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)

2009-09-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 25.09.2009 um 08:46 schrieb Jose Luis Perez Diez: El Friday, 25 de September de 2009 06:37:19 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller va escriure: Am 24.09.2009 um 22:44 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago, but the NAND flash code has changed so

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-25 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
can't manage it with 100% success rate but taking out the battery and trying again is not a big deal). Lucky you. I have tried the press AUX button trick a lot of times, I can _never_ make Qi boot anything other that the default (first) partition on my SD card. Like this: - I don't press anything

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Fertser
manage it with 100% success rate but taking out the battery and trying again is not a big deal). Lucky you. I have tried the press AUX button trick a lot of times, I can _never_ make Qi boot anything other that the default (first) partition on my SD card. Like this: - I don't press

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Warren Baird wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca writes: I have a slightly more interesting issue - my aux button doesn't work any more after my daughter dropped my FR one too many times... Judging by experience i guess most probably everything is undamaged, there were numerous reports of failing AUX

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very useful... We have one. It's called U-Boot. Or am I missing something? -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Danish law requires addresses in e-mail to be logged and stored for a

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:36:43AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com writes: Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or it will fade away I really can't understand the desire to multi-boot. What does it matter if you understand

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very useful... We have one. It's called U-Boot. Or am I missing something?

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread tingox
Hi, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very useful... We have one. It's called U-Boot. Or am I missing something?

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very useful...

U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)

2009-09-24 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea of having a simple GUI boot loader could be very

Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)

2009-09-24 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 24.09.2009 um 19:36 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: The idea

Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)

2009-09-24 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:08:53PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: No, except that it is not really u-boot but a 2 years old fork that is now no longer maintained. I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago, but the NAND flash code has changed so much that merging in the

Re: U-Boot improvements? (Was: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?)

2009-09-24 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 24.09.2009 um 22:44 schrieb Rask Ingemann Lambertsen: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:08:53PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: No, except that it is not really u-boot but a 2 years old fork that is now no longer maintained. I tried to merge the two trees a couple of months ago,

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk writes: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:36:43AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com writes: Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or it will fade away I really can't understand the desire to

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-23 Thread openmoko
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote (ao): On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Al Johnson [1]openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: I believe it's an arbitrary limit based on the assumption that with no gui it would be hard to select the intended partition. Given the touble people

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-23 Thread Esben Stien
Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk writes: This limitation is one of the reasons I'm still using u-boot. The other is the inability to pass optional kernel parameters when booting from NAND. Why not have something like grub in the boot?. With a keyboard added, nothing could be more

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-23 Thread Warren Baird
renaming the appropriate boot directory on the SD card before rebooting... far from ideal... Warren -- Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist http://www.synergisticimages.ca ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-22 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, Is there any specific reason why Qi[1] only tries to boot from partition 1 - 3 when ther csn be 4 (four) primary prtitons on a SD card? Or is it just developer eccentrics or programmer laziness? :-) References: 1) http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-22 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Hello, Is there any specific reason why Qi[1] only tries to boot from partition 1 - 3 when ther csn be 4 (four) primary prtitons on a SD card? Or is it just developer eccentrics or programmer laziness? :-) References: 1) http

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-22 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.ukwrote: I believe it's an arbitrary limit based on the assumption that with no gui it would be hard to select the intended partition. Given the touble people have with only 3 partitions it seems well founded. OK,

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com writes: Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or it will fade away I really can't understand the desire to multi-boot. And btw the recent poll proved that most users use Qi IIRC. A clear evidence it's already usable for them. -- Be

RE: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-22 Thread Niels Heyvaert
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or it will fade away I really can't understand the desire to multi-boot. And btw the recent poll proved that most users use Qi IIRC. A clear evidence it's already usable for them. Perhaps because

Re: Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

2009-09-22 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Paul Fertser wrote: Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com writes: Qi _will_ need to be improved until it is usable for end users, or it will fade away I really can't understand the desire to multi-boot. And btw the recent poll proved that most users use Qi IIRC.

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Radek Polak
Paul Fertser wrote: So what do you suggest? My suggestion, please ignore it if you dont like it :) Pressing any key brings Qi in interactive mode. It can work the same way as uboot. AUX switches between partitions, POWER boots selected one. Selected partition can be indicated with AUX led

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz writes: So what do you suggest? My suggestion, please ignore it if you dont like it :) Pressing any key brings Qi in interactive mode. It can work the same way as uboot. AUX switches between partitions, POWER boots selected one. Selected partition can be

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:11:55PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: Michele Brocco ssj2mi...@gmail.com writes: On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card? If so, how? ... I have one distro on flash

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Marc Andre Tanner openm...@brain-dump.org writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:11:55PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: Michele Brocco ssj2mi...@gmail.com writes: On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Petr Vanek
So what do you suggest? A tiny root filesystem which presents some kind of menu and then uses kexec to start the new kernel. I have recently started to work (well if time permits) on this kind of thing. Feel free to ping me on irc for suggestions how to use external initramfs with Qi. i

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:10:40PM +0100, Petr Vanek wrote: So what do you suggest? A tiny root filesystem which presents some kind of menu and then uses kexec to start the new kernel. I have recently started to work (well if time permits) on this kind of thing. Feel free to ping me

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-21 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card? If so, how? For me noboot-GTA02 file in /boot works just fine. I am using qi from https

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-20 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card? If so, how? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-20 Thread Michele Brocco
On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card? If so, how? -- for what it's worth, I am having also some troubles with Qi concerning booting from the partition I would like to. I think its unrelated to your

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-20 Thread Paul Fertser
Michele Brocco ssj2mi...@gmail.com writes: On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card? If so, how? ... I have one distro on flash and one on SD Card. When i try to start the one on the flash i need

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-20 Thread Radek Polak
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card? If so, how? For me noboot-GTA02 file in /boot works just fine. I am using qi from https://people.openmoko.org/andy/ Btw you can simply boot from 3 partitions. Uboot can boot NAND, FAT

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-20 Thread Michele Brocco
On 9/20/09, Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com wrote: Michele Brocco ssj2mi...@gmail.com writes: On 9/20/09, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody at all able to get Qi to bott from several partitions on a SD card? If so, how? ... I have one distro on flash and one on SD Card

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-18 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
No hint on how to make Qi boot from other partitions on the SD card? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

RE: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-18 Thread Niels Heyvaert
No hint on how to make Qi boot from other partitions on the SD card? Could this be of help to you? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi But no guarantee you'll find an answer there. I, for one, still haven't found a way to make Qi boot from SD, let alone to make it skip partitions. Despite

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-18 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Niels Heyvaert nielsheyva...@hotmail.comwrote: No hint on how to make Qi boot from other partitions on the SD card? Could this be of help to you? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi Thanks - I know about and have read that page. And it hasn't been

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-18 Thread Linus Gasser
Torfinn Ingolfsen a écrit : Here goes: neo:~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt neo:~# ls -l /mnt/boot total 1844 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Aug 4 14:50 append-GTA02 -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 1877704 Aug 27 21:42 uImage-GTA02.bin neo:~# more /mnt/boot/append-GTA02 console=tty0 loglevel=3

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-18 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Linus Gasser ine...@markas-al-nour.orgwrote: Give us a cat of /etc/fstab ... Here is the fstab off p2: r...@neo:/root# more /etc/fstab rootfs /autodefaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card auto defaults

Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, I use Qi as the bootloader on my FreeRunner. I have sevaral partitions on my SDcard: p1 - vfat data partition (only data, nothing else) p2 - ext3 primary partition, this is my main os. Currently holds QtMoko v8) p3 - this is aother ext3 primary partition, for me to keep a backup os on.

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-12 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
can you post the list of files on p3?, also the contents of append-GTA02 2009/9/12 Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com: Hi, I use Qi as the bootloader on my FreeRunner. I have sevaral partitions on my SDcard: p1 - vfat data partition (only data, nothing else) p2 - ext3 primary partition,

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-12 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
I'm talking about the files on /boot of p3 partition not whole files list :) 2009/9/12 David Reyes Samblas Martinez da...@tuxbrain.com: can you post the list of files on p3?, also the contents of append-GTA02 2009/9/12 Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com: Hi, I use Qi as the bootloader on my

Re: Qi - how do I make it boot from another partition on the SD card?

2009-09-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:33 PM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez da...@tuxbrain.com wrote: I'm talking about the files on /boot of p3 partition not whole files list :) Here goes: neo:~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt neo:~# ls -l /mnt/boot total 1844 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Aug 4

Re: SD-card faulty?

2009-09-09 Thread David Garabana Barro
O Mércores, 15 de Xullo de 2009, Nicola Mfb escribiu: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:56 AM, David Garabana Barroda...@garabana.com wrote: On Wednesday 15 July 2009 09:38:57 Nicola Mfb wrote: My kingston 8GB corrupts when GSM is on, some time with NSOD.

Re: Questions about installing Android to an external SD card

2009-08-27 Thread undrwater
: http://n2.nabble.com/Questions-about-installing-Android-to-an-external-SD-card-tp3291144p3532292.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread tom
hi, just got my gta02 and sintalled android via koolu image. but how can i get it to accept the sd-card? any help greatly appreciated! thx ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
tom tomabr...@gmail.com writes: just got my gta02 and sintalled android via koolu image. but how can i get it to accept the sd-card? any help greatly appreciated! Please run dmesg | grep mmc and paste the output. ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Sheldon
tom wrote: hi, just got my gta02 and sintalled android via koolu image. but how can i get it to accept the sd-card? any help greatly appreciated! I had a similar issue, whereby android is looking in the wrong location for the mmc host, see the ticket I logged about it here: http

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread tom
hi mike , thx for the information, reading ur mail and being a newbiw in terms of freerunner my first question would be: 1) what exaclty is the difference between koolu-andorid-release 7 and 2) http://koolu.org/releases/cupcake-1.5-alpha1/ ? thx for ur infos! tom

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Sheldon
tom wrote: hi mike , thx for the information, reading ur mail and being a newbiw in terms of freerunner my first question would be: 1) what exaclty is the difference between koolu-andorid-release 7 and 2) http://koolu.org/releases/cupcake-1.5-alpha1/ ? The koolu beta 7 release is based

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread tom
the installation procedure is the same as for the koolu images? put on the sd card and boot from sd? thx On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Sheldon m...@mikeasoft.com wrote: tom wrote: hi mike , thx for the information, reading ur mail and being a newbiw in terms of freerunner my

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Sheldon
tom wrote: the installation procedure is the same as for the koolu images? put on the sd card and boot from sd? thx Yes, unpack http://koolu.org/releases/cupcake-1.5-alpha1/android-freerunner-koolu1.5-alpha-1.tar.gz on to the sd card then overwrite system.img with my version linked to earlier

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread tom
ok just installed it, and yes, after the boot i have a new screen with the emergency call button, but i cant get beyond that one...help thx ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: q: sd card android gta02

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Sheldon
tom wrote: ok just installed it, and yes, after the boot i have a new screen with the emergency call button, but i cant get beyond that one...help thx That's not something I've encountered myself, you might have better luck asking on the android-freerunner mailing list at:

Re: Questions about installing Android to an external SD card

2009-07-21 Thread Adam Jimerson
xChris wrote: Hi, This version 'auto installs' the Android on the device (flash). I just killed my working SHR , in order to test it.. This version has some improvements but its still slow (in my opinion: non usable) (my SIM card is ok but I can't make /receive calls) Chris Thanks for

Re: Do I need a FAT SD card? Do I need OM? Do I need... ? Choices, Choices, Choices...

2009-07-20 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 20 July 2009, Chris Samuel wrote: On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:53:03 am li...@kitepilot.com wrote: Can I just ext3 the SD card ? Be warned, there have been some reports of the journal of ext3 wearing out its part of the SD card. I tend to use ext2 instead. Real reports, or just my card

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