Re: some first impressions

2007-11-20 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Because somehow this email arrived to may inbox three months later,^^;, it is a good time to write a reminder. 1) eToys: It would be very nice to have support for Analog Input in eToys. For a month or so, Etoys has a support for Analog Input, in a sense that it can basically do what amixer

Re: some first impressions

2007-11-17 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Hello all, Thank you for your emails. 1) eToys: It would be very nice to have support for Analog Input in eToys. You could use my code - See http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/measure;a=blob_plain;f=audioGrab.py;hb=HEAD (getting samples) and

Re: some first impressions

2007-11-17 Thread Todd Kelsey
Arjun, I composed an email that got longer with ideas, and sj must be rubbing off on me because i stopped just short of clicking Send, and actually made a wiki page. What I have no idea of how to do is actually to link back from a wiki page to an email discussion for context. Regardless, you

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-18 Thread Jim Gettys
The SD is not really intended as removable media. The USB slots are. SD is intended primarily as a way to augment the internal flash over the life of the system. It is in an inconvenient location (there weren't many other options). We were/are most concerned about keeping water out...

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-18 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello, On 8/18/07, Yuan Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried one SD card made by a local company. It's a bit thinker than the genuine panasonic one. So this results in that it can only be ejected out a bit and I have to use my finger nail to grab it out. (probably same situation as you)

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-18 Thread Yuan Chao
On 8/18/07, Guylhem Aznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim said the SD port was not for removable media use - I fully But then the current slot is not fulfilling either goals. It's hard to use, and still open for the water to get it. Maybe the plastic could There are lots of holes on the panel.

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-18 Thread Mitch Bradley
Yuan Chao wrote: On 8/18/07, Guylhem Aznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim said the SD port was not for removable media use - I fully But then the current slot is not fulfilling either goals. It's hard to use, and still open for the water to get it. Maybe the plastic could There are

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-17 Thread Hal Murray
I've tried one SD card made by a local company. It's a bit thinker than the genuine panasonic one. So this results in that it can only be ejected out a bit and I have to use my finger nail to grab it out. (probably same situation as you) Usually there's a groove at the tail of an SD card top

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Arjun, 1) eToys: It would be very nice to have support for Analog Input in eToys. You could use my code - See http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/measure;a=blob_plain;f=audioGrab.py;hb=HEAD (getting samples) and

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Arjun, 1) eToys: It would be very nice to have support for Analog Input in eToys. You could use my code - See http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/measure;a=blob_plain;f=audioGrab.py;hb=HEAD (getting samples) and

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Mitch, Thank you. As I wrote on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2800, what we would like to have is C functions. Then, I can wrap them as Squeak primitives. Probably I can just rip these functions from amixer, but if you can tell me which, that would be good! This is the

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
It might be nice if there were a driver to access the GPIO, but I didn't see one in a quick scan of the kernel source. It turns out that there is a GPIO driver - the source is in char/drivers/cs5535_gpio.c - and it is available as a kernel module: modprobe cs5535_gpio However, nobody

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread elw
It turns out that there is a GPIO driver - the source is in char/drivers/cs5535_gpio.c - and it is available as a kernel module: And in any case, accessing this behind alsamixer's back is not a good idea, because then alsamixer will be confused about the state. Hmm, ok. We sure don't

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Jim Gettys
Mitch, There are ALSA controls defined for the analog input features. So we already have driver support. - Jim On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:24 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Mitch, Thank you. As I wrote on

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
Apparently there is an alternative to calling amixer - you can use ALSA lib. http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/ALSA_Library_API Jim Gettys wrote: Mitch, There are ALSA controls defined for the analog input features. So we already have driver support. -

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-13 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, OLCP just had a summer intern, Arjun Sarwal, who developed some low-cost gadgets to plug into the mic port - temperature sensor, intrusion detector, etc. He plans to document them and set up a framework for documenting other similar hacks. Ohh, that is cool. We would be happy

Re: some first impressions

2007-08-11 Thread Guylhem Aznar
On 8/11/07, Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've archived this discussion on robotics/LED output, with some points of my own, on the wiki at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Electrical_output. Thanks a lot for the summary on the wiki. A quick suggestion : if there is a serial port in