SOLVED! Re: FM Radio broken after re-flash

2008-06-11 Thread Tony Green
Trying a few more ideas this afternoon and I've solved this problem. For the record, in case anybody else hits this problem, for some reason the "user" user wasn't in the audio group. After I added the necessary entry in /etc/group it works. -- Tony Green Ipswich, Suffolk, England http://www.b

FM Radio broken after re-flash

2008-06-11 Thread Tony Green
I had to re-flash my N800 because (I think) the GPE Calendar applet was causing it to go into a reboot loop. Since re-flashing and re-installing everything, all my apps are working except the FM radio. Initially it was complaining about being unable to access /dev/radio0, which is owned by root

Re: fm radio

2008-01-11 Thread Piotr Zagorowski
Hi, this is what I have when fmradio applet is running and when I strace one of the maemo-launcher processes: ... open("/sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/headphone/state", O_RDONLY) = 21 fstat64(21, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE

Re: fm radio

2008-01-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: > "ext Luca Olivetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Just what I was thinking. My first guess would be that there's a GPIO >>> for this. Anyone interested should check the kernel sources. And with >>> luck there's already a sysfs interface. >> /sys/devices/platform/g

Re: fm radio

2008-01-11 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Luca Olivetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Just what I was thinking. My first guess would be that there's a GPIO >> for this. Anyone interested should check the kernel sources. And with >> luck there's already a sysfs interface. > > /sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/headphone/state Bingo!

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread James Knott
re an API that an application can detect if a headset >> is connected or not? > > There must be some software mechanism because the switch to headphone > output for audio is controlled in software, rather than hardware. > > This can be seen by the fact that the FM radio a

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Grimme
Hi, sorry to be slightly off-topic, but is there also some switch in /sys/ e.g., where you can switch between headphones and speaker output just like the FM radio applet does? Thanks, Martin 2008/1/10, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: > > >>

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: >> This can be seen by the fact that the FM radio application allows >> audio to be output through the speakers when a pair of headphones is >> acting as aerial. > > Just what I was thinking. My first guess would be that there's a GPIO

Battery issues (was: Re: fm radio)

2008-01-10 Thread Matt Emson
Piotr Zagorowski wrote: > I stopped fmradio home aplet and it was gone. I don't think it caused > my battery lasting only one day, but it may explain how fmradio > 'knows' whether headset is connected or not. Off topic - so changed the subject line. The following is probably a potential cause o

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Simon Budig
Klaus Rotter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Interesting. Is there an API that an application can detect if a headset > is connected or not? This state is definitely reflected in the dbus and/or gconf API. I unfortunately don't have the device at hand to check. Bye, Simon --

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Piotr Zagorowski
missing headset. > > > > Interesting. Is there an API that an application can detect if a headset > > is connected or not? > > There must be some software mechanism because the switch to headphone > output for audio is controlled in software, rather than hardware. > > Thi

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Igor Stoppa
e software mechanism because the switch to headphone > > output for audio is controlled in software, rather than hardware. > > > > This can be seen by the fact that the FM radio application allows > > audio to be output through the speakers when a pair of headphones is > > act

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Kalle Valo
tware, rather than hardware. > > This can be seen by the fact that the FM radio application allows > audio to be output through the speakers when a pair of headphones is > acting as aerial. Just what I was thinking. My first guess would be that there's a GPIO for this. Anyone int

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
ect if a headset > is connected or not? There must be some software mechanism because the switch to headphone output for audio is controlled in software, rather than hardware. This can be seen by the fact that the FM radio application allows audio to be output through the speakers when a pair o

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Klaus Rotter
Kalle Valo wrote: > "ext Chris Dobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Aha - forget last posting I just read that u need a stereo headset >> to act as an antenna!!! Duh! I was right about being stupid > > No, you're not stupid. The application instead is stupid if it does > not warn about missing

Re: fm radio

2008-01-10 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Chris Dobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aha - forget last posting I just read that u need a stereo headset > to act as an antenna!!! Duh! I was right about being stupid No, you're not stupid. The application instead is stupid if it does not warn about missing headset. -- Kalle Valo

RE: fm radio

2008-01-09 Thread Diekema, Jon (GE Infra, Aviation)
Helpful tip: The ear bud cable is also the FM antenna. If you try running the FM radio without it, you will just get static. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Dobbs Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:06 AM To: Subject: fm radio All, I am

fm radio

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Dobbs
Aha - forget last posting I just read that u need a stereo headset to act as an antenna!!! Duh! I was right about being stupid -Chris ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

fm radio

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Dobbs
All, I am proberby being stupid but I can't for the life of me get the fm radio to do anything other than produce static. I am living in Yorkshire and have tried downloading stations near me but nothing seems to make any difference. I am running a recently flashed OS2008 in R&D mode.

Re: FM Radio and 2008

2007-12-17 Thread Martin Grimme
Hi, yes, the FM radio applet has been released for OS 2008 and features a radio alarm clock function now. MediaBox can also play FM radio on OS 2008 on the N800. Cheers, Martin 2007/12/17, Gary Baribault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can anyone confirm if the FM Radio software has b

Re: FM Radio and 2008

2007-12-17 Thread Daniel Martín Yerga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:50:33 -0500 Gary Baribault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone confirm if the FM Radio software has been upgraded for > 2008 yet? > Yes. It's available. - -- Daniel Martín Yerga [EMAIL PROT

Re: FM radio on N800 running OS2008?

2007-11-27 Thread Gary Baribault
a >> beta, thanks to people at Maemo and Nokia!), could anyone here let me >> know whether or not the FM radio applet is available and working on >> OS2008 running on the N800? > > It isn't available yet for IT2008/n800. > > Same for other Nokia projects like VideoC

Re: FM radio on N800 running OS2008?

2007-11-27 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mardi 27 novembre 2007 à 09:49 +0100, Laurent MARTIN a écrit : > Hi! > Now that OS2008 is officially available for our N800 (even if it's a > beta, thanks to people at Maemo and Nokia!), could anyone here let me > know whether or not the FM radio applet is available and wo

FM radio on N800 running OS2008?

2007-11-27 Thread Laurent MARTIN
Hi! Now that OS2008 is officially available for our N800 (even if it's a beta, thanks to people at Maemo and Nokia!), could anyone here let me know whether or not the FM radio applet is available and working on OS2008 running on the N800? TIA. I use it every day, so... -- Laurent, N

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-13 Thread Riku Voipio
ake of using Scirocco (Maemo 2.1) when building the fm-radio application making it impossible to install on the original IT-2007. Hope next time they use gregale making it even worse. How many times does this need to happen? (lets get some sanity in Maemo SDK releases) You are barking at the wr

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed. Someone did the mistake of using Scirocco (Maemo 2.1) when > building the fm-radio application making it impossible to install on the > original IT-2007. Hope next time they use gregale making it even worse

RE: [maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-12 Thread Jakub.Pavelek
Indeed. Someone did the mistake of using Scirocco (Maemo 2.1) when building the fm-radio application making it impossible to install on the original IT-2007. Hope next time they use gregale making it even worse. How many times does this need to happen? (lets get some sanity in Maemo SDK releas

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-12 Thread Igor Stoppa
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 15:05 -0800, ext Rick Prelinger wrote: > My fmradio installation fails because of a missing package: > libosso-help0(>=2.08). From what I can tell, I believe I have the proper > repositories installed. > > Is this an obvious problem? > > Many thanks, and all best, > > Ri

Re: [maemo-users] Two power management settings (was: FM Radio - suggestions)

2007-02-10 Thread Jon Smirl
On 2/10/07, Neil MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: > Is the N800 smart enough to know when it is on AC and not blank the > display? The N770 didn't appear to have this feature. The clock could > be set as a screen saver when on AC power. > I think it's a mistake that there is o

Re: [maemo-users] Two power management settings (was: FM Radio - suggestions)

2007-02-10 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/10/07, Neil MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: > Is the N800 smart enough to know when it is on AC and not blank the > display? The N770 didn't appear to have this feature. The clock could > be set as a screen saver when on AC power. > I think it's a mistake that there is o

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On my N800 libosso-help0 is there, I don't remember doing anything special: ~ $ dpkg -s libosso-help0 Package: libosso-help0 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 96 Maintainer: Jakub Pavelek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: armel Source: libosso-help V

[maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-10 Thread Rick Prelinger
My fmradio installation fails because of a missing package: libosso-help0(>=2.08). From what I can tell, I believe I have the proper repositories installed. Is this an obvious problem? Many thanks, and all best, Rick -- Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archiveshttp://www.prelinger.com P.O. Bo

[maemo-users] Two power management settings (was: FM Radio - suggestions)

2007-02-10 Thread Neil MacLeod
Jon Smirl wrote: Is the N800 smart enough to know when it is on AC and not blank the display? The N770 didn't appear to have this feature. The clock could be set as a screen saver when on AC power. I think it's a mistake that there is only one set of power management timeouts - there should b

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions

2007-02-10 Thread Jon Smirl
o function. > > Hey, that's an excellent idea! I want that feature too. > > (I'm not involved with FM radio in anyway, just acting here as a N800 > user.) It would be good if that was only available if the FM radio applet were on the home page, and if removing the applet to

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions

2007-02-10 Thread Tristan Wibberley
want that feature too. > > (I'm not involved with FM radio in anyway, just acting here as a N800 > user.) It would be good if that was only available if the FM radio applet were on the home page, and if removing the applet told you it was reconfiguring any alarms to not use the radio. J

[maemo-users] Re: FM Radio - suggestions

2007-02-09 Thread Neil MacLeod
circumstances - I'd say keep 50hz but make the scanning a bit smarter (over scan then seek backwards for a stronger signal once the signal begins to weaken). Integration of the FM Radio functionality into the media player would be a good idea. Also, adding the output selection (ie. output sou

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Angenendt
David Hagood wrote: > In the US, and IIRC in the rest of the world as well, FM radio stations > are on 200kHz channel spacings, on frequencies with an odd 100 kHz digit > - in other words, 87.5, 87.7, 87.9, 88.1, etc. Ermm, no. That is not true for Germany, at least, 100kHz stepping is

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions

2007-02-09 Thread Simon Budig
David Hagood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In the US, and IIRC in the rest of the world as well, FM radio stations > are on 200kHz channel spacings, on frequencies with an odd 100 kHz digit > - in other words, 87.5, 87.7, 87.9, 88.1, etc. In Germany there are stations with e.g. 89.9,

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions

2007-02-09 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext David Hagood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Last - It would be nice to allow the alarm system to start the radio - > for a clock radio function. Hey, that's an excellent idea! I want that feature too. (I'm not involved with FM radio in anyway, just acting

[maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions

2007-02-08 Thread David Hagood
Since there isn't a Bugzilla category for the FM radio app yet, let me make this suggestion to the Nokia team here - and when the app is added to Bugzilla I'll put it there as well. In the US, and IIRC in the rest of the world as well, FM radio stations are on 200kHz channel sp