Re: Fast questions about GTA03

2008-06-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday June 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of asking the very same thing. When dialing or using a calculator or sending a text message, the glamo would only slow us down. Or am I mistaken? Maybe it's a very stupid question (I presume if it were possible such a trivial feat

Re: rationale for ASU (and change from GTK to Qt)

2008-06-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday June 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to say that I find it a bit odd running X11 on a mobile phone - a WM wouldn't be required without it - when an alternative is possible. In fact, as far as I can ascertain an alternative already exists. X11 seems logical to me for

Re: GPS rework: Please test and report on software fix prior to attempting any hardware fix

2008-08-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday August 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a bit more consistency of timing, less manual intervention, and enough readings to get an idea of the run to run variation in that location, can I suggest a script? It could do with a timeout when waiting for a fix since with deivestrength

Re: GPS logger / field data collection

2008-08-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday August 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was kind of surprised that gpsd didn't give me a simple way to just get the current location, I had to capture 5 sentences to do that simple thing, but what I really wanted was to simply get the last known lat and long I was at. With the

Re: QTopia full screen handwriting on OM2008?

2008-09-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday September 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, According to Trolltech's documentation ( http://doc.trolltech.com/qtopia4.3/inputmethods-description.html), QTopia supports handwriting recognition. Is there some way to get handwriting recognition to work on the OM 2008

python upgrade in fso-testing broken ssl TCP connections....

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Brown
Hi, I use the http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-testing/ and so recently python got upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6. This broke pygtk as that is still expecting python-2.5 to be present. but it isn't. I fixed that with a few symlinks, but problems continued. In particular, 'ssl.py'

Re: Dialup On Demand (was: [SHR] Miscellanious minor issues)

2009-01-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday January 31, freerun...@newkirk.us wrote: What about (which I expect will not be a candidate for an 'official' solution;) get frameworkd talking to ip_queue or netlink. For example, we could: Create a lowest-priority default route that hits lo, like: route add default gw

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday March 22, charles-henri.gros+openm...@m4x.org wrote: Iain B. Findleton wrote: I have been playing a bit with the accelerometers on the FR appear to observe the following: 1) The time stamp on events appears to be unreliable, in the sense that the time difference

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday March 23, michael-tanse...@gmx.de wrote: In the latest andy-tracking it reports the more correct 'ABS' events. So now it does report zeros. However it doesn't report an axis if there has been no change. Is it correct that there are now two changes for developers. The first one

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday March 23, ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: Okay, it looks like the 2.6.28 kernel and modules are an improvement for the accelerometer data, but the report times, while not negative any more, appear somewhat erratic. The type codes appear to be unchanged in this build, with the

Re: Accelerometer Data

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday March 23, ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: Charles-Henri Gros wrote: A known issue in 2008.12. http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket//2145 Workaround: echo 10 /sys/devices/platform/lis302dl.1/threshold ls /sys/devices/platform: They seem to move around a

Re: SHR-U Accelerometer data

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:32:46 -0500 Iain B. Findleton ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: Let me remind you that the driver has changed wrt. RELATIVE and ABSOLUTE. These days, upon opening the device, only the first report is a full report. Subsequent reports only contain changed axes. I

Re: Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:12:54 + William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality) are there? I want 3G phone/sms access and the FR doesnt cut it any more ... The android phones (htc dream?) - none of which are fully functional on

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-02-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:17:17 -0800 (PST) Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com wrote: No Yes Debian Yes No Debian The recent innovation of compiling the kernel with the go-slow straps removed has had a significant improvement on my experience. Now if only I could figure out why the gprs is not

Re: tangoGPS 0.99.3 is out

2010-02-20 Thread Neil Brown
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:54:02 +0100 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Marcus Bauer wrote: Hi, tangoGPS is out with lots of speed improvements and a lot less of CPU usage. Moreover the speed display is now set in pixels and no longer in points - especially on SHR that should

Re: QtMoko v18 - based on 2.6.32

2010-03-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:16:58 +0100 Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: BTW. /dev/input/mice is a placeholder to make X read all kinds of mice at once. It is supposed to simplify the configuration as you could replace your PS/2 mouse with a USB one, a touchpad or even a good old serial

Re: transparency in gtk

2010-03-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:02:43 +0600 Chuck Norris norris.ch...@mail.ru wrote: I need transparency in gtk under freerunner. So I compiled this code #include gtk/gtk.h gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv) { GtkWidget *window; gtk_init(argc, argv); window =

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:22:02 +0200 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote: Am 12.08.2010 um 14:12 schrieb RANJAN: Hi, When is the next and more powerful openmoko (capable of seamless 3D video and faster processor) is going to be released??? Assume, you could get a

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:27:38 +0100 Ben Thompson b...@thompson.org.uk wrote: To finance the next phase, we are thinking about asking for donations or to hold an auction for the first 5 or 10 prototype units. What would you think of such an approach? I'm not keen on either (although