Re: Making a custom root FS

2008-06-25 Thread D. Scott Brown
On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:36 AM, Frantisek Dufka wrote: D. Scott Brown wrote: 3. extract the rootfs from the retail image, mount it, and tar it. If I mount the JFFS2 using kernel memory emulating a MTD, I get error inserting mtdram - cannot allocate memory. If I mount the JFFS2 using

Making a custom root FS

2008-06-20 Thread D. Scott Brown
I'm trying to create a custom flashable root fs, and the three documented approaches have not worked. I'm running out of ideas, and have emailed the list as a last resort. Here's what I've tried: 1. modify the developer rootfs. The last developer rootfs released was back at 3.1, and does

Developer rootfs for v3.1?

2007-07-07 Thread D. Scott Brown
I checked http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/d1.php, but it doesn't look like a link to the 3.1 rootfs is up yet. Anyone know when / if this is coming? Many thanks, Scott ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

PIL and camera.py

2007-05-21 Thread D. Scott Brown
The Python Bora tutorial indicates that JPEG saving was omitted from Elvis Pfutzenreuter's camera.py due to the absence of PIL. Thanks to the excellent efforts of Matt Croydon and the PyMaemo team, it looks like we now have PIL and thus JPEG support in Python 2.5.1. In camera.py example app,

Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

2007-04-09 Thread D. Scott Brown
I'm trying to build a custom rootfs, and it looks like your SVN has died: https://stage.maemo.org/svn/integration/trunk/rootfs/ The tutorial I'm following (http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_use_flasher_rootfs.html) indicates that I need: make_rootimage.sh dlocate.sh droot.sh

[maemo-developers] N800 / Python 2.5 / pygame performance regression

2007-01-19 Thread D. Scott Brown
Python 2.5 with pygame is very choppy on my N800, compared to my 770 running the old Python 2.4 version. Here's a quick test application: http://dscottbrown.com/etc/animtest2.zip Tap the screen repeatedly to scroll the image. The difference is especially jarring if you set your 770 next to

Re: [maemo-developers] Update on command line wifi connections

2006-10-11 Thread D. Scott Brown
On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Patrik Flykt wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:21 -0400, ext D. Scott Brown wrote: Hmmm... then could we use gconf to write our own IAP configuration files from the command line, and then use the osso_iap_connect function to invisibly connect to the network we've

Re: [maemo-developers] Update on command line wifi connections

2006-10-10 Thread D. Scott Brown
On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Patrik Flykt wrote: On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 15:17 -0400, ext D. Scott Brown wrote: As I understand it, you can connect to any arbitrary wifi network using this function from osso-ic.h: gint osso_iap_connect(const char *iap, dbus_uint32_t flags, void *arg

[maemo-developers] Update on command line wifi connections

2006-10-07 Thread D. Scott Brown
Here's what I'm trying to achieve: http://fuel5.com/connect.png I've tried four methods limited or no success (see below for source and results), and I'm down to one last possibility. I don't have access to a linux box to test the real C API in osso-ic.h, and I would be happy to compensate

[maemo-developers] Initiating connections programatically

2006-08-29 Thread D. Scott Brown
My team is developing an application that will be used by tech- clueless consumers. All data is displayed in a portrait screen orientation, and our application is intended to run directly from startup in place of the default Hildon launcher. Because of this, we need to provide our own UI