Re: gsmd: need hints for troubleshooting

2007-09-25 Thread Bartlomiej Zdanowski [Zdanek]
Hello. Zak pisze: Hi, tried using the openmoko-dialer in vain. The /tmp/gsm.log file contains the lines attached to the end of this email. I also find that the applet of top menu disappears whenever I power on the GSM module using the pull-down menu. This is known bug. Add /etc/init.d/gsmd

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dani Anon
thomas.cooksey at bt.com wrote: Fantastic news! What works? Looking at the youtube videos, it appears that the phone, SMS, bluetooth power management are all working? Can you actually place and recieve calls? I'm sure OpenMoko development will continue, but a good question is why? I don't really

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973 Date: mar 25 set 07 08:18:31 +0200 Quoting Dani Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage This is not the only reason why Qtopia is sub-optimal. QT is bound to C++. With GTK you can choose to program

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Lorn Potter
Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973 Date: mar 25 set 07 08:18:31 +0200 Quoting Dani Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage This is not the only reason why Qtopia is sub-optimal. It's not a reason at all.

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Carlo E. Prelz wrote: QT is bound to C++. With GTK you can choose to program in C, or, if you really want to, in C++. With QT there is no way you can write your code in C. This is an utterly pathetic excuse not to try something. You don't have to become a C++

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dani Anon
On 9/25/07, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973 Date: mar 25 set 07 08:18:31 +0200 Quoting Dani Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage This is not the only reason

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:51:42 Lorn Potter wrote: but I have reasons to believe that a) I should have to learn to code in a totally different environment, and b) that environment would require coding in C++. Both things are not desirable for me. fair enough reasons here. Which

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:32:46 +0200, Dani Anon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: strongly agree with all these points. With mobile devices, direct access to the hardware is everything because it might mean an extra hour of battery. the main problem right now is I'm not sure about the future of openmoko

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dani Anon
Just for the record, those are tablets, that weight more (i.e: they have more battery life thus power) that can take such overhead. N800 doesn't even have phone functions! Do you know about any linuxphone with X? Consider that QT had a X port already, why waste time removing the X dependence for

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Attila Csipa
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:32:46 Dani Anon wrote: I thing gp is right, c might be better than c++ for small devices and certainly you need to code in c++ to take advantage of qtopia components. If we lived through Java on mobile devices (which actually is quite virile even today), and

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Just for the record, those are tablets, that weight more (i.e: they have more battery life thus power) that can take such overhead. N800 Why do you assume that X is overhead that needs more weight and battery capacity? X11 is also using the same framebuffer as others are using. It is just a

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:18:39 +0200, Dani Anon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of Linux powered extramobile devices that I know of (please correct me if I'm wrong) have some kind of framebuffer environment in which you can directly draw stuff on screen with little overhead. Just for the record,

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:18:39 Dani Anon wrote: Just for the record, those are tablets, that weight more (i.e: they have more battery life thus power) that can take such overhead. N800 doesn't even have phone functions! Do you know about any linuxphone with X? According to Wikipedia,

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:32:46 +0200, Dani Anon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/07, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973 Date: mar 25 set 07 08:18:31 +0200 Quoting Dani Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - But QT is

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 14:23:24 Steven Le Roux wrote: Ok, I am not a developper, but, I think the accelorometer has the goal to provide a good video rendering. Nitpick: An accelerometer measures physical acceleration and enables things like the Wiimote. What you're thinking of is a

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Carlo E. Prelz
Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973 Date: mar 25 set 07 01:23:37 -0700 Quoting Ted Lemon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This is an utterly pathetic excuse not to try something. It would have been, had I never attempted to get familiar with that language. But I have, a handful of

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread David Pottage
On Tue, September 25, 2007 3:14 pm, Dani Anon wrote: It's either one of the following: 1) Application asks to draw a line and waits. X sees that request and uses a driver to draw the line, then sends confirmation. Now the application waits and when the confirmation is received it's ready

Re: Is neo1973 dual boot possible?

2007-09-25 Thread ian douglas
Piotr Duda wrote: 1. format my SD card with ext3 and mount it (on laptop) 2. unpacked rootfs from qtopia-4.3.0-preview-neo-flash.tgz to SD card 3. copied the uImage-2.6.22.5-moko11-r2-fic-gta01.bin kernel to the boot/ on SD card and rename it to uImage 4. umount and take out SD card from the

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread AVee
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:32, Dani Anon wrote: On 9/25/07, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Quoting Dani Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage This is not the only reason why Qtopia is sub-optimal. It's

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dani Anon
I think you are misrepresenting the difference. I would write that as: 1. Application asks X to draw a line, then gets on with other stuff, or makes other calls while it waits. X calls the device driver which talks to the hardware GPU (using around 20 bytes of API call) which uses

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread john
I can echo these views. I personally like a C based framework as I develop on my Neo in Scheme. I use a Scheme-to-C compiler called Chicken which happens to work extremely nicely with GTK+. I can develop much more efficiently/easily in Scheme than I can in C. I would not have this choice if I

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 25.09.2007 um 17:20 schrieb Dani Anon: But hey I like how you conveniently left unanswered my comment about how the FBUI and DirectFB projects exist solely to remove the X server overhead. Can you explain to me and them why they are wrong and how they have wasted all those months of

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dani Anon
On 9/25/07, AVee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:32, Dani Anon wrote: On 9/25/07, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Quoting Dani Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage This is not the

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:48:21 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 14:23:24 Steven Le Roux wrote: Ok, I am not a developper, but, I think the accelorometer has the goal to provide a good video rendering. Nitpick: An accelerometer measures physical

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Ben Burdette
It may be worth mentioning that D also works well with straight C libs, but can't interface directly with C++. Its in the same league as C++ in terms of speed, while arguably being more elegant. I haven't worked with scheme since the 80's, in my intro to programming course! I'll have to

new package pango-directfb-1.18.1-r0 requires latest Glib 2.14.x

2007-09-25 Thread TTZ W
-gta01 DISTRO = openmoko DISTRO_VERSION = P1-September-Snapshot-20070925 TARGET_FPU = soft Any help would be greatlly appreciated! Tom ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Lorn Potter
Dani Anon wrote: Yep, but there's this undeniable fact that having 0 entry cost invites a whole new class of developers that you wouldn't have otherwise. I think we could perfectly choose QTopia and just handicap commercial developers, either of the options is better than having two options.

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Lorn Potter
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 25.09.2007 um 17:20 schrieb Dani Anon: But hey I like how you conveniently left unanswered my comment about how the FBUI and DirectFB projects exist solely to remove the X server overhead. Can you explain to me and them why they are wrong and how they have

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Lorn Potter
Dani Anon wrote: On 9/25/07, Steven Le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:32:46 +0200, Dani Anon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/07, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973 Date: mar 25 set 07

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread AVee
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 17:51, Dani Anon wrote: On 9/25/07, AVee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll use commercial app if they are worth the money. But i really don't see how someone developing a non-free (both in speech as in beer) should get their toolkit for free. When you expect

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Steven **
On 9/25/07, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many commercial closed source applications are available for Linux? How many have you bought? Have you paid attention to what people say when someone releases closed source for Linux? How often have nvidia and ATI been harassed about their

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 20:14:36 Carlo E. Prelz wrote: properly express my mental patterns. C++ did not cut my cake. No need to repeat the experience. I already know how to write what little user interface code I need to write, either in C or in Ruby, with GTK. Luckily I do not need to

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Carlo E. Prelz wrote: N. I just say that Qt has no C api. And this makes it unusable. For me. No mention of it being bad. The personal reason you've given for why you prefer Gtk to Qt is valid, for you. However, most of what you said had nothing to do

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Attila Csipa
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 20:36:53 Lorn Potter wrote: Yep, but there's this undeniable fact that having 0 entry cost invites a whole new class of developers that you wouldn't have otherwise. I think we could perfectly choose QTopia and just handicap commercial developers, either of the

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Jano
AVee wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:32, Dani Anon wrote: On 9/25/07, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thing gp is right, c might be better than c++ for small devices and certainly you need to code in c++ to take advantage of qtopia components. Why whould plain C be better,

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Clinton Ebadi
john [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can echo these views. I personally like a C based framework as I develop on my Neo in Scheme. I use a Scheme-to-C compiler called Chicken which happens to work extremely nicely with GTK+. I can develop much more efficiently/easily in Scheme than I can in C.

Re: Is neo1973 dual boot possible?

2007-09-25 Thread Piotr Duda
ok... I dig my bash history and I found out that I used rootfs from ficgta01-qtopia-developer-rootfs.tgz file... sorry for this mistake... but on second thought I had the same error when I used wrong kernel, so maybe U should also try with another one first regards... Piotr This didn't

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread J F
On 25/9/07 4:41 pm, john [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built an ipk of the Chicken Scheme system if anybody is tempted to the dark side? ;) Personally I'd like a fully reflective on-board IDE/squeak-like environment (where there is no separation from applications and programming

Re: Is neo1973 dual boot possible?

2007-09-25 Thread Piotr Duda
I've just verified positively that it also works when I use rootfs from qtopia-4.3.0-preview-neo-flash.tgz with the same kernel.. regards Piotr Duda pisze: ok... I dig my bash history and I found out that I used rootfs from ficgta01-qtopia-developer-rootfs.tgz file... sorry for this mistake...

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Casey Harkins
AVee wrote: C++ compiler needs to be improved. You do realize that C++ was explicitly designed with embedded software in mind? I'm curious where you got the idea that C++ was explicitly designed with embedded software in mind? Anyways... I don't know why the Qtopia vs. Openmoko thing has