performance improvements not obtained with sapwood

2008-03-31 Thread Arvind Ayyangar
Hi all, I have been trying to get sapwood working to obtain performance improvement but with little success.. I am not sure if I am missing out something basic. I made the required changes in the gtkrc files (changing the engine pixmap to engine sapwood). The time taken to launch applications

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Johan Helsingius
Had a rather depressing confirmation of the GPS troubles this weekend. Went on a quick trip to London, and turned on the map application as soon as I got on the Heathrow Express heading into town. During the trip, the map application showed the GPS finding 3-5 satellites on the average, but it

performance improvements not obtained with sapwood

2008-03-31 Thread Arvind Ayyangar
Hi all, I have been trying to get sapwood working to obtain performance improvement but with little success.. I am not sure if I am missing out something basic. I made the required changes in the gtkrc files (changing the engine pixmap to engine sapwood). The time taken to launch applications

Re: Ogg support

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Emson
Tuomas Kulve wrote: Media Player doesn't allow you to open ogg files directly but when the Metalayer Crawler adds your oggs to the Library then you can play the oggs from there with the Media Player. Metalayer-crawler is the first thing I disable and remove after reflashing my N800. It is

[Fwd: Error in email to twine.com (was Re: Re: Ogg support)]

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Emson
Anyone got an idea what on earth this is on about? Has somebody subscribed with an email address that would generate this kind of junk? M Original Message Subject:Error in email to twine.com (was Re: Re: Ogg support) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:22:18 -0500 (CDT) From:

Re: [Fwd: Error in email to twine.com (was Re: Re: Ogg support)]

2008-03-31 Thread James Knott
Matt Emson wrote: Anyone got an idea what on earth this is on about? Has somebody subscribed with an email address that would generate this kind of junk? I've also been getting them. Perhaps whoever maintains the mail list can remove whatever user in on twine.com -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Johan Helsingius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had a rather depressing confirmation of the GPS troubles this weekend. Went on a quick trip to London, and turned on the map application as soon as I got on the Heathrow Express heading into town. During the trip,

Re: N810 built-in flash: unreliable?

2008-03-31 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:10:49PM -0400, Kevin T. Neely wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:52:10PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: I'm now trying to see if I can find a safe partition size that I can use without losing my data. I initially thought this might be related to

Re: [Fwd: Error in email to twine.com (was Re: Re: Ogg support)]

2008-03-31 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:35:42AM -0400, James Knott wrote: Matt Emson wrote: Anyone got an idea what on earth this is on about? Has somebody subscribed with an email address that would generate this kind of junk? I've also been getting them. Perhaps whoever maintains the mail list

Re: [Fwd: Error in email to twine.com (was Re: Re: Ogg support)]

2008-03-31 Thread Henrik Frisk
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:35:42AM -0400, James Knott wrote: Matt Emson wrote: Anyone got an idea what on earth this is on about? Has somebody subscribed with an email address that would generate this kind of

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Johan Helsingius
Frederic, Well, GPS on n810 can be extremely frustrating (I had my shares of trouble with it) when you don't know anything about GPS (like most of us), because of its low sensitivity. Indeed. I suggest you install maemo-mapper, mostly because it give you a better view of what is happening

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Frederic Crozat wrote: Once you get the almanac downloaded, fix time can be shorter (5 minutes to 10 minutes in bad conditions). And if you got a fix in the Any idea where the almanac is stored ? In the GPS chip itself ? Does it survive power-down or dead battery ? I

Connecting N8*0 to laptop - USB or Ad-Hoc WiFi ?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Daviel
If I should take both my N810 and a laptop to some unwired location (my boat), how can I have them communicate ? Bringing a WiFi hub (+ power supply, + inverter...) seems like overkill. If I could set my laptop in Ad-Hoc or Master mode (which I'm not sure I can, or even if the chip supports

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:45:00AM -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Frederic Crozat wrote: Once you get the almanac downloaded, fix time can be shorter (5 minutes to 10 minutes in bad conditions). And if you got a fix in the Any idea where the almanac is stored ? In the

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Andrew Daviel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Frederic Crozat wrote: Once you get the almanac downloaded, fix time can be shorter (5 minutes to 10 minutes in bad conditions). And if you got a fix in the Any idea where the almanac is stored

Re: Connecting N8*0 to laptop - USB or Ad-Hoc WiFi ?

2008-03-31 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:35:06PM +0200, Tilman Vogel wrote: Even though it may be embarrassing, I sometimes just use Bluetooth OBEX push to transfer files between my laptop and my N810/770. I haven't done it yet, but I guess one could also set up TCP/IP over it. Maybe using PPP over

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:45:00AM -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Frederic Crozat wrote: Once you get the almanac downloaded, fix time can be shorter (5 minutes to 10 minutes in bad

Re: Connecting N8*0 to laptop - USB or Ad-Hoc WiFi ?

2008-03-31 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Marius Gedminas wrote: That is certainly one possibility. I had my laptop set up as a PPP server over rfcomm, and had my Palm do dial-up to it. Another possibility would be Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network). I've no personal experience with this, but I've seen it mentioned on this

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-31 Thread Peter Flynn
Jason Edgecombe wrote: You need a specially compiled gcc that can cross-compile for arm along with the c library compiled for arm. All installed, but compiling the utility with cc -o foo foo.c bar.c produces a binary which executes perfectly inside the VMware dev img window, but whe uploaded

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Peter Flynn wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: You need a specially compiled gcc that can cross-compile for arm along with the c library compiled for arm. All installed, but compiling the utility with cc -o foo foo.c bar.c produces a binary which executes perfectly inside the VMware

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-31 Thread Peter Flynn
Jason Edgecombe wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: You need a specially compiled gcc that can cross-compile for arm along with the c library compiled for arm. All installed, but compiling the utility with cc -o foo foo.c bar.c produces a binary which executes

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-31 Thread Florian Boor
Hi, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Syntax error: ( unexpected this looks like you try to run an x86 binary on your device. Check if you use the correct compiler. You can check with the file command what kind of binary you built. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian

Re: Connecting N8*0 to laptop - USB or Ad-Hoc WiFi ?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Ryan Pavlik wrote: You should be able to join (or even create!) an ad-hoc (Computer-to-Computer) network with the N810 - I see them all the time on my network list. OK, yes - my old Dell with an Orinoco card will do ad-hoc in both Windows and Linux. The N810 shows an

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Peter Flynn wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: Jason Edgecombe wrote: You need a specially compiled gcc that can cross-compile for arm along with the c library compiled for arm. All installed, but compiling the utility with cc -o foo foo.c

Re: N810 gps troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Frederic Crozat wrote: No, the plastic square is the light sensor ;) So, where is the GPS antenna and how does it get a signal ... (my first (near-useless) GPS had a pivoting antenna about 2cm * 2cm * 6cm and marine people were recommending an external antenna about 10cm

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Peter Flynn wrote: All installed, but compiling the utility with cc -o foo foo.c bar.c produces a binary which executes perfectly inside the VMware dev img window, but whe uploaded to the N800 says Personally, I installed scratchbox as per