Re: Web site promoting open hardware?

2009-09-12 Thread John Sullivan
Stefan Monnier writes: > While looking for new hardware, I noticed that all the open hardware > I know, I discovered it by accident while reading some mailing-list. > > Is there a web site somewhere that kind of centralizes this info to try > and make it easier for openness-conscious consumers to

Re: Web site promoting open hardware?

2009-09-12 Thread Richy
One Question here. Under Openmoko - The bad it says: "The basses are filtred on the headphones output...because of a capacitor which value was too low(can't be fixed) " What is the bassfix than? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_bass_fix Maybe someone could correct the page. On Sat, Sep 12, 2

Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but did not find references to the accelerometers. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_data_retrieval is of course valuable, but I'd like to learn th

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Frederik Sdun
* Ivo van den Maagdenberg [12.09.2009 09:57]: >Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I >tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but >did not find references to the accelerometers. > >http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Acceler

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:56:08 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: > Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I > tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but > did not find references to the accelerometers. What's your usecase? Since ver

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/12 Frederik Sdun : > There is no DBus API for the accelerometers, because it throws up to 100 > signals a second. That's too much for poor little Freerunner and it was > removed at what point could the api handle the data? iirc, the data rate can be set, so i'm guessing something more sensi

Re: Where can I buy miniUSB-m → USB-A-f adapters i n Canada?

2009-09-12 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/11 Brolin Empey : > A few days ago, I was chatting with DocScrutinizer in #openmoko on FreeNode > about using a USB → Ethernet adapter to connect my FreeRunner directly to my > Ethernet LAN.  DocScrutinizer told me I need a miniUSB-m → USB-A-f adapter > or a cable like this: i bought a fema

Re: Contacts from Nokia N70 to opimd with PISI: no phone field

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 9/12/09, Nicola Mfb wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Michael Pilgermann > wrote: >> In fact, it even is default already. >> >> However, it is not the standard way of storing phone number information >> (if you look around at other backends) - so I decided to leave it up to >> the user

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Frederik Sdun
* Robin Paulson [12.09.2009 13:31]: > 2009/9/12 Frederik Sdun : > > There is no DBus API for the accelerometers, because it throws up to 100 > > signals a second. That's too much for poor little Freerunner and it was > > removed > > at what point could the api handle the data? iirc, the data rate

Re: QtMoko - howto migrate from one partition to another?

2009-09-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Just be careful to only backup the partition's own files. I.e. use > the --one-file-system argument. Otherwise you might start copying /sys, > /proc and that will get you into trouble. > > I mounted /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /mnt, and did '

Re: QtMoko - howto migrate from one partition to another?

2009-09-12 Thread Matthias Huber
Torfinn Ingolfsen schrieb: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Stefan Monnier > mailto:monn...@iro.umontreal.ca>> wrote: > > > Just be careful to only backup the partition's own files. I.e. use > the --one-file-system argument. Otherwise you might start copying > /sys, > /p

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. Current

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 : > 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 mai

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 : > can you post the list of files on p3?, also the contents of append-GTA02 > > 2009/9/12 Torfinn Ingolfsen : >> Hi, >> >> I use Qi as the bootloader on my FreeRunner. >> I have sev

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: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2009-09-12 Thread Ben Wong
Hello Brolin, Wow. That's quite a bit of information. I have many thoughts about your specific endeavours, moving out, priority inversion, social anxiety, finding a geek girl, but I think there may be a broader, more important goal that you're missing. It occurs to me that you may find it helpf

Re: QtMoko images V9

2009-09-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Radek Polak wrote: > Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > > Question: is it possible to upgrade from v8 somehow, or do we need to > > perform a complete reinstall of the v9 images? > > You can download the tar.gz, replace kernel, modules and whole /opt > directory. T

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Fisher
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Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Ivo van den Maagdenberg
2009/9/12 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer > On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:56:08 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: > > Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I > > tried looking it up on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dbus_device_API but > > did not find references to the acce

Re: Dbus api for gta2 accelerometers

2009-09-12 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
On Saturday 12 September 2009 19:50:26 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: > 2009/9/12 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer > > > On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:56:08 Ivo van den Maagdenberg wrote: > > > Anyone able to show how to read out the accelerometers through d-bus? I > > > tried looking it up on http://wik

Re: Web site promoting open hardware?

2009-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> what would drive someone to this site/list and what are the criteria people > are looking for? The main reason is to provide financial support to companies that support my ideals rather than to those that undermine them. Stefan ___ Openmoko

Re: Contacts from Nokia N70 to opimd with PISI: no phone field

2009-09-12 Thread Vadim, Efimov
Hi! Thanks for PISI! On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:55:53 +0400, Michael Pilgermann wrote: > This got fixed. > Will be in the next release. In 0.4.6 i have new strange behavior: "Other" field (from SE phone) still missing, but PISI seems copy from TEL;TYPE=VOICE:+7** or TEL:+7** to

Re: QtMoko - how do I get WiFi working?

2009-09-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Ok, now I am testing wireless with the QtMoko v9 nimage. r...@neo:/home/root# wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -ieth0 ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported ioctl[SI

Re: QtMoko - how do I get WiFi working?

2009-09-12 Thread Ronald Tallent
Short answer, yes. If you haven't already you should probably check out: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=manually+using +wifi&go=Go Ron On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 01:58 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Ok, now I am testing wireless with the QtMoko v9 nimage. > > r...@neo:/home