Re: Using a webcam on the Openmoko

2008-10-28 Thread centuries
Hi, I'm trying to let the Logitech Quickcam Pro for Notebooks (046d:0991) work on the FreeRunner. The webcam works well on a PC (Fedora 4 2.6.17), using uvcvideo and luvcview. But what shoud I do to cross-compile the driver and the application? Could anyone tell me particularly? Thanks.

[Om2008.9] How to use GPS?

2008-10-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, The next think I want to try is using GPS on my FR with Om2008.9. I've never used GPS before and so I'm a bit lost in how to do with FR :-) The desktop has an icon 'Locations' and by launching it it asks me if I want to switch-o GPS, I press 'yes' and then nothing more happens, there is

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-28 Thread rakshat hooja
In open sky conditions in Jaipur, India (outdoors) the Freerunner normally gives me a 40s (+ - 10s) tiff while my N 95 takes 60s (+ - 10) [ cold starts after rebooting on both ]. I have not timed them indoors but will do so and report after Diwali Rakshat -- -- Please use Firefox

Re: Contacts - Fdom vs. OM2008.8

2008-10-28 Thread nick d.
Hmm i found that too Yaroslav. Would definitely be handy. Also the keyboard is almost incompatible. When you type in a name and select it, the keyboard puts in a space character which yields no results until you backspace. Is there a way to get the keyboard to lose predictive text so it can sort

Re: Fdom speed (was Re: New home for the New FDOM)

2008-10-28 Thread Pander
What simple ananlysis could be started in a terminal to gather data about what is eating what during usage? These results should indicate why FDOM is s slow and what should be done to speed it up. Leonti Bielski wrote: I think something is lowing down FDOM, maybe this is gestures daemon

opkg.org and neo1973-germany.de

2008-10-28 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
I see that some great software has been done in Germany. Would it be possible to add these to opkg.org to get bigger audience and user base? r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Neubauer
Hi there, is there any progress on the porting of Android to the FR yet? Are updates posted to this list, since it seems pretty quite around the port? Cheers /peter http://www.oredev.se - Be there or be gone. GTalk:neubauer.peter Skypepeter.neubauer ICQ18762544

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-28 Thread nick d.
Sign up to Koolu's forum [1] and see what's going on there. Cfriedt also has a spreadsheet of progress that seems to have been updated frequently [2]. Last time I check there were a few to go but now, not so much. See also [3]. Nick 1. http://forum.koolu.org/ 2.

Re: Opkg how to?

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Tansella
I've read http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Opkg seems ok enough, but id like to make them aviable to everyone, how? Hi, You can publish theom on http://www.opkg.org/ Greets Michael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Fdom speed (was Re: New home for the New FDOM)

2008-10-28 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Pander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What simple ananlysis could be started in a terminal to gather data about what is eating what during usage? These results should indicate why FDOM is s slow and what should be done to speed it up. top? r -- | risto h.

Re: suspend quality (was: Re: [FDOM] best kernel to use for new release)

2008-10-28 Thread Richy
I haven't missed any calls yet. However, when i suspend manually (pressing the power button) and want to wake the phone up manually, it turns on for half a second and than off again. I always need to press the power button again. (Also, it doesn't seem to make much difference) qtextended an one

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
agps-onlinec -c full -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] -k Fvhcv -la 35.22 -lo -79.46 -al 250 -p 100.00 [...] provided the location data prefed to agps-onlinec and the current time (system clock) are accurate enough. (clock doesn't need to be second-precise, but if it's off several hours or more then

Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?

2008-10-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
The next think I want to try is using GPS on my FR with Om2008.9. I've never used GPS before and so I'm a bit lost in how to do with FR :-) The desktop has an icon 'Locations' and by launching it it asks me if I want to switch-o GPS, I press 'yes' and then nothing more happens, there is only

Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?

2008-10-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, October 28, 2008 a las 04:37:24AM -0400, Stefan Monnier escribió: The next think I want to try is using GPS on my FR with Om2008.9. I've never used GPS before and so I'm a bit lost in how to do with FR :-) The desktop has an icon 'Locations' and by launching it it asks me

debug board seems not working

2008-10-28 Thread Lin Mac
hi, I'm using Freerunner and debug board v3, and trying to use serial console, and Ubuntu 8.04 on my PC. I have connected the FR and the debug board with the flexible cable. The /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 doesn't show up, but only /dev/ttyACM0, when I connected both USB of freerunner and

Re: Contacts - Fdom vs. OM2008.8

2008-10-28 Thread David Samblas
El mar, 28-10-2008 a las 16:50 +1000, nick d. escribió: Hmm i found that too Yaroslav. Would definitely be handy. Also the keyboard is almost incompatible. When you type in a name and select it, the keyboard puts in a space character which yields no results until you backspace. Is there a way

Re: suspend quality (was: Re: [FDOM] best kernel to use for new release)

2008-10-28 Thread Kishore
On Tuesday 28 Oct 2008 1:43:09 pm Richy wrote: qtextended an one mwester-kernel had standby-time of several days, if you never turn on wifi My experience matches this and it gives me hope that it is indeed possible to make the FR battery last longer. Typically, with about 10-15 mins of talking

Re: Is Openmoko working on their 'back to basics' plan?

2008-10-28 Thread umaxx
Hi, On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:47:03 +0800 John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now for the status update this week: Tick merged the qtopia echo patch (#1267), it works, no echo but the audio sounds a little bit less 'vivid' (not sure if this is the right word). He is now working on the touch

Re: [FSO] config utility

2008-10-28 Thread Alastair Johnson
Alastair Johnson wrote: The FSO API is capable of a good deal more than is exposed by GUI in the releases so far. This utility is an attempt to do something useful while finding out about python, gtk, dbus and fso. It's not pretty, or an example of good coding practise! * GPRS networking

Re: [Om2008.9] found the best gsmhandset.state file in FDOmizer

2008-10-28 Thread John Lee
okay let's give it a try. merged into om svn and will be used as the default gsmhandset.state in the next build. the qtopia echo patch along with this state file still leaves a little echo and buzzing, but doesn't really effect the talking. Regards, John On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:16:42PM

Re: Is Openmoko working on their 'back to basics' plan?

2008-10-28 Thread John Lee
Hi, We will still do a 2008.11 release so it will be in stable soon. If you don't to wait, you can switch to testing repo. Regards, John On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:06:34AM +0100, umaxx wrote: Hi, On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:47:03 +0800 John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now for the status

Re: zhone patch: contacts from vcf was: Re: [debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-10-28 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Monday 27 October 2008 13:28:17 schrieb arne anka: http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.html ;hb=HEAD that one i was looking for -- none of the specific pages google lists has a reference to this toc. It's not an easy human-readable URL, but it is linked

What files do I install to get audio. in testing

2008-10-28 Thread William Kenworthy
Ive been trying testing out and after 3 days, Ive finally gotten a pin dialog and was able to register. However, what files do I need to install to get audio. On one flash I installed everything alsa and was able to stream audio via mplayer, but still none in the dialler. I am after a minimal

Re: [Om2008.9] found the best gsmhandset.state file in FDOmizer

2008-10-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, October 28, 2008 a las 06:09:24PM +0800, John Lee escribió: okay let's give it a try. merged into om svn and will be used as the default gsmhandset.state in the next build. the qtopia echo patch along with this state file still leaves a little echo and buzzing, but doesn't

Re: zhone patch: contacts from vcf was: Re: [debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-10-28 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Monday 27 October 2008 14:10:53 schrieb Alastair Johnson: arne anka wrote: http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.htm l;hb=HEAD that one i was looking for -- none of the specific pages google lists has a reference to this toc. It's not an easy

Re: zhone patch: contacts from vcf was: Re: [debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-10-28 Thread arne anka
If you think that's buried... help us, it's a wiki! not as long as it requires to create an account -- i got far to much of those and do not intend to add to the list just to make some comments or corrections in a wiki. ___ Openmoko community

Re: Fdom speed (was Re: New home for the New FDOM)

2008-10-28 Thread Pander
I mean short interval and non disturbing logging top while doing normal phone functions. Looking at top in a terminal and testing phone functions do not go together easily. Any ideas? On Tue, October 28, 2008 09:09, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Pander [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-28 Thread Nishit Dave
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM, KaZeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Lippmann a écrit : Am Mittwoch 22 Oktober 2008 schrieb Lorn Potter: Jim Morris wrote: Lorn Potter wrote: Jim Morris wrote: Cédric Berger wrote: Just because 4.4.1 might be unstable doesn't mean qt

Re: [FSO] QT Dbus connection to Gypsy

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Tansella
Are you extracting the data out of the struct with the operators Thank you again for that hint: For interested the way I implemented it: Greets Michael struct GPSSatellite{ int ID; bool InUse; unsigned int Elevation; unsigned

Re: Contacts - Fdom vs. OM2008.8

2008-10-28 Thread Holger Freyther
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 06:11:54 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: also it seems to be not 'patched' in the view of contacts whenever it is called from the dialer (person icon) -- and that is the most often place where I look for contacts... now I will need to start contacts first I guess, heh heh

Re: debug board seems not working

2008-10-28 Thread Armin ranjbar
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:01:40 +0800 Lin Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need to connect to DB using openocd ;) hi, I'm using Freerunner and debug board v3, and trying to use serial console, and Ubuntu 8.04 on my PC. I have connected the FR and the debug board with the flexible cable.

problem sometimes getting network connection to FR

2008-10-28 Thread joakim
Sometimes when I connect my Freerunner to my Fedora 9 laptop I get messages in dmesg like these: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3 usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 23 usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 24 usb 4-1: new low

Re: problem sometimes getting network connection to FR

2008-10-28 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Workaround : suspend and resume Xavier. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?

2008-10-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, October 28, 2008 a las 06:26:24AM -0400, Stefan Monnier escribió: does this mean as well that I will get some map on my screen? is there some interfacing for exmaple with this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=23.11725lon=-82.42706zoom=15layers=B000FTF Yes, you'll get an

RE: debug board seems not working

2008-10-28 Thread Lin Mac
hi, I just ignore the driver section and consider it is only required by flash eeprom part. Thanks a lot! Best Regards, Mac Lin Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:14:32 +0330 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: debug board seems not

Re: What files do I install to get audio. in testing

2008-10-28 Thread Alastair Johnson
William Kenworthy wrote: Ive been trying testing out and after 3 days, Ive finally gotten a pin dialog and was able to register. However, what files do I need to install to get audio. On one flash I installed everything alsa and was able to stream audio via mplayer, but still none in the

Some debian questions

2008-10-28 Thread Benedikt Bär
Hi all, I am currently setting up a debian system on my FreeRunner, but I have some questions. :) 1) I'm writing some python programs to interact with the FSO framework. I have seen there's now support for a rules file, which seems quite a nice idea. Now, I would like to be able to modify these

Re: zhone patch: contacts from vcf was: Re: [debian/zhone] Send an SMS

2008-10-28 Thread Alastair Johnson
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Monday 27 October 2008 14:10:53 schrieb Alastair Johnson: arne anka wrote: http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.htm l;hb=HEAD that one i was looking for -- none of the specific pages google lists has a reference to this toc.

Re: [FSO] QT Dbus connection to Gypsy

2008-10-28 Thread Nicola Mfb
2008/10/28 Michael Tansella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you extracting the data out of the struct with the operators Thank you again for that hint: For interested the way I implemented it: Here my snippet to read Phonebooks from sim: struct PhonebookEntry { int index; QString name;

Re: suspend quality (was: Re: [FDOM] best kernel to use for new release)

2008-10-28 Thread Marcel
Oh. So that's why qtopia always loses that data. I thought it was related to reflashing and wondered why, because it has it's db on the sd card... *g* Marcel Am Tuesday 28 October 2008 00:53:59 schrieb W.Kenworthy: because when the phone suspends you lose calls/sms messages ... BillK On

Re: CRC Fail

2008-10-28 Thread arne anka
Maybe this answer from Andy Green helps you a bit because this question already comes up some time ago. You only had to search this mailing list for his response. http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td532868 thanks for the link -- i tried to tell him that a while ago, but to no

Re: CRC Fail

2008-10-28 Thread Fox Mulder
Maybe this answer from Andy Green helps you a bit because this question already comes up some time ago. You only had to search this mailing list for his response. http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td532868 Morten Olsen Lysgaard wrote: Same here, but no sympthoms. Anyone know exactly

Re: Contacts - Fdom vs. OM2008.8

2008-10-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Holger Freyther wrote: or may be Holger would add 1 more patch in the right spot? ;-) If you change the mentioned key Contacts and the Contact Selection Dialog will show the search bar. The Contact Selection didn't work because Trolltech copy and pasted the 80% of

Re: Fdom speed (was Re: New home for the New FDOM)

2008-10-28 Thread David Samblas
Use top on a ssh sesion on a externa pc conected trough usb El mar, 28-10-2008 a las 11:56 +0100, Pander escribió: I mean short interval and non disturbing logging top while doing normal phone functions. Looking at top in a terminal and testing phone functions do not go together easily. Any

Re: Contacts - Fdom vs. OM2008.8

2008-10-28 Thread Holger Freyther
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 16:00:28 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: So I guess additional piece in Contacts code wasn't patched or I am not running desired version of qpe (using last FDOM without additional upgrades) No idea what FDOM is using as versions..

DIY Audioadaptor

2008-10-28 Thread Fabian Henze
Hi, I was about to solder myself an adaptor to use my headphones with the FreeRunner as an ogg/flac player. I have found some jacks, which seem to good for this task (german website): http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=2;GROUP=C161;GROUPID=3237;ARTICLE=47784

Re: opkg.org and neo1973-germany.de

2008-10-28 Thread Tobias Kündig
Of course! Feel free to add all the software you have. Just register for an account at www.opkg.org. If you need help or you have any questions, drop me a line! Regards, Tobias Am 28.10.2008 08:18, Risto H. Kurppa schrieb: I see that some great software has been done in Germany. Would it be

Re: [Om2008.9] How to use GPS?

2008-10-28 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:19:04 +0100, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now installed and configured: # opkg install gpsd # opkg install http://www.tangogps.org/downloads/tangogps_0.9.3-r1_armv4t.ipk # vi /etc/default/gpsd GPS_DEV=/dev/ttySAC1 #

[FDOM] Mouse cursor visibility

2008-10-28 Thread Bastiaan Hovestreydt
Hi, since its possible I want to use my Freerunner with an USB mouse :-) I got it working flawlessly by plugging the mouse in while the phone is in host mode and removing the -hide-cursor argument from the ARGS variable in /etc/X11/Xserver. Unfortunately you have to restart your Xserver each time

Re: [FDOM] Mouse cursor visibility

2008-10-28 Thread Pander
Bastiaan Hovestreydt wrote: Hi, since its possible I want to use my Freerunner with an USB mouse :-) I got it working flawlessly by plugging the mouse in while the phone is in host mode and removing the -hide-cursor argument from the ARGS variable in /etc/X11/Xserver. Unfortunately you

fso-control

2008-10-28 Thread digger vermont
Hello, Here's something I'm working on, fso-control. http://mysite.verizon.net/~digver/apps/fso-control.tar.gz Uses python and edje to control the state (suspend, reboot, shutdown) with frameworkd. It's not unlike what I remember 2007.* and 2008.* having when the POWER button is pressed.

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Neubauer
Thanks for the fast reply, will keep an eye on that! /peter http://www.oredev.se - Be there or be gone. GTalk:neubauer.peter Skypepeter.neubauer ICQ18762544 Phone +46704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter

Re: DIY Audioadaptor

2008-10-28 Thread elh
Hi, http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=2;GROUP=C161;GROUPID=3237;ARTICLE=47784 I can't recommend this connector. It works, but not very well. I have to pull out the connector aprox. 1 mm to get stereo output. And this position is not very stable.

Re: DIY Audioadaptor

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Köckerbauer
I was about to solder myself an adaptor to use my headphones with the FreeRunner as an ogg/flac player. I have found some jacks, which seem to good for this task (german website): http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=2;GROUP=C161;GROUPID=3237;ARTICLE=4778 4

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-28 Thread Jim Ancona
Peter Neubauer wrote: Thanks for the fast reply, will keep an eye on that! Some more links: Ben Leslie's blog: http://benno.id.au/blog/ Google's android-porting mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting Jim ___ Openmoko

Re: DIY Audioadaptor

2008-10-28 Thread Marcel
There's a notice on the wiki about a working adaptor I also own - didn't notice significant quality decrease with it and it works well. Just to possibly save you from soldering (although I know its fun). :) -Marcel Am Tuesday 28 October 2008 21:34:47 schrieb Thomas Köckerbauer: I was about

Re: DIY Audioadaptor

2008-10-28 Thread Fabian Henze
On 28.10.2008 at 21:57:09, Marcel wrote: There's a notice on the wiki about a working adaptor I also own - didn't notice significant quality decrease with it and it works well. Just to possibly save you from soldering (although I know its fun). :) As far as I know this adaptor is mono-only,

Re: What files do I install to get audio. in 2008.testing

2008-10-28 Thread William Kenworthy
ahh, should have realised that. 2008.testing Ive gone back to 2008.9 now as testing has so many bugs in illume that its not usable - will try again in a few days so it would still be nice to know whats needed to turn these minimal images into something usable. BillK On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 13:34

Re: [FDOM] Mouse cursor visibility

2008-10-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:57:27 +0100 Bastiaan Hovestreydt [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Hi, since its possible I want to use my Freerunner with an USB mouse :-) I got it working flawlessly by plugging the mouse in while the phone is in host mode and removing the -hide-cursor argument from the

Re: Auto-reject incoming phone calls

2008-10-28 Thread Previdi Roberto
Is there a plan to access also the accelerometers through dbus? it seems to me that reading continuously from them without appropriate timing could be heavy for the battery. more, having to do the decoding part from each application who uses the sensor is complicated and error prone, while having

Re: Some debian questions

2008-10-28 Thread Guillaume Chereau
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:51 +0100, Benedikt Bär wrote: Hi all, I am currently setting up a debian system on my FreeRunner, but I have some questions. :) 1) I'm writing some python programs to interact with the FSO framework. I have seen there's now support for a rules file, which seems

Re: Some debian questions

2008-10-28 Thread Guillaume Chereau
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:29 +0800, Guillaume Chereau wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:51 +0100, Benedikt Bär wrote: Hi all, I am currently setting up a debian system on my FreeRunner, but I have some questions. :) 1) I'm writing some python programs to interact with the FSO