Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-12 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.comwrote: Are you running the latest kernel? (The way to tell is if you have kinetic scrolling, yes == latest kernel) I am running whatever

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
FWIW, some info: The SD card delivered with the WikiReader semms to be an 8 GB one, and about 4.2 GB is used. version.txt on the SD card contains this line: VERSION: 200909301702 More info later. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen ___ Openmoko community

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello again, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.com wrote: Are you running the latest kernel? (The way to tell is if you have kinetic scrolling, yes == latest kernel) http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wikireader/wikireader/kernel-2009-10-30.zip Scrolling is

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-12 Thread
I loaded the kinetic kernel about a week and a half ago and it really has improved the usability. I was working on trying to change the splash image at boot, but the make fails when I run make mbr against the latest snapshot. I get an mbr.elf file, but no .rom file. I am not a developer,

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-10 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
Not full but some replies, snip Annoyances: - it is impossible (for me at least) to take out the microSD card without using a tool (pliers or something). Why do I want to take it out? To actually show people the small size of a Wikipedia database. :-) Did you push down first? as in other uSD

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-10 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Hi Torfinn Really appreciate your feedback. My comments are inline: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After a few days with the WikiReader, here are my first impressions: The obvious things: - good size: this device is small enough to drag

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-10 Thread Tilman Baumann
Hi Sean, I was playing around a bit with the sources on github lately. I have stumbled over some issues. I know I can go to c...@thewikireader.com (and I will) But I guess we should have a mailing list for software aspects of WikiReader... Just a thought. :) Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Hi Torfinn

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-10 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez da...@tuxbrain.com wrote: Did you push down first? as in other uSD readers you have to push it down until you feel a click then it unbloks and a spring will pull out enough the card to ease taike it out Yes, I did push it

Re: WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-10 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.com wrote: Are you running the latest kernel? (The way to tell is if you have kinetic scrolling, yes == latest kernel) I am running whatever version the device was delivered with. It doesn't look like scrolling is kinetic.

WikiReader - first impressions

2009-11-09 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, After a few days with the WikiReader, here are my first impressions: The obvious things: - good size: this device is small enough to drag along (ok, it won't fit in my trouser pockets), but has a big enough screen to read on comfortably - use in places: I knew about the missing backlight.