Re: External Monitor with N800

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Klein
I think we'll see this soon enough...especially nice for higher-res pdas/etc. OQO has hdmi out...and I think they're the only ones with such a thing. When you move your umpc/ppc into new context/environment...you will want to replace inputs and outputs (speakers, screen, mic, keybd,

Re: External Monitor with N800

2007-10-18 Thread John Rudd
Aside from substituting DVI with DVI-A for HDMI, I agree. It'd be nice to see decent video out on the internet tablets. Mike Klein wrote: I think we'll see this soon enough...especially nice for higher-res pdas/etc. OQO has hdmi out...and I think they're the only ones with such a thing.

Re: External Monitor with N800

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Klein
Then you'd have to have a dongle, no? Dongles are evil...I carry around too much crap already. Why would you prefer dvi? If it were hdmi...it w/have to be v1.3? cause this is only version that supports HD video with audiosupposedly earlier hdmi versions wouldn't support full audio when doing

Found out why BT sound is choppy.

2007-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
Not sure where to go next on this. (beyond bug filing) Kagu is definitely the culprit. in that something about updating the screen causes BT sound to cut out. If you shrink the screen and open for example the browser scrolling and surfing has no affect on sound. But if you are doing anything

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Krischan Keitsch
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Steve Greenland: Background: I'm a long-time Debian user and developer, and have grown used to 'apt-get install somepackage' *working*. That's one of the reasons I purchased the n800; I naively expected that having adopted the best packaging *tools*

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Tilman Vogel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! First of all: Thanks for your review! You wouldn't believe how few feedback you get these days: The mogg d/l counters show that quite some people try it, but we get no feedback. So you're tempted to believe everybody is happy. So thanks again!

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John Rudd wrote: Kahlil Johnson wrote: Wow, still no OGG when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares about AAC, give us OGG. Huh. I have many AAC files. I have no OGG files. Why should even remotely care about OGG? How weird. I have no AAC files but a big bunch of ogg files, why

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Kemal Hadimli
On 10/18/07, Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debug1: confirm x11 X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Interesting, it works here with openssh, and DISPLAY is :0.0 during that. My guess is dropbear does things differently. Unsetting DISPLAY, I get this:

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Tilman Vogel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW, if you feel like it, you could put your review into http://maemo.org/community/wiki/playingoggfiles/ Regards, Tilman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Digression: why am I not using the Application Manager? Well, besides the fact that apt-get is the One True Way, the AM is *slow*. And unreliable (upgrades and updates often fail, but work with apt-get). And there's no obvious way to upgrade

Re: External Monitor with N800

2007-10-18 Thread John Rudd
You don't need a dongle, no. Just a cable. If you have a miniDVI port on a device, then you can have a simple cable that is: 1) MiniDVI to HDMI (just the video signals) 2) MiniDVI to DVI 3) MiniDVI to VGA* 4) MiniDVI to Video* (* only if the dvi hardware supports DVI-A (the analog pins))

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread John Rudd
Krischan Keitsch wrote: Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb John Rudd: Kahlil Johnson wrote: Wow, still no OGG when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares about AAC, give us OGG. Huh. I have many AAC files. I have no OGG files. Why should even remotely care about OGG? Or is

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread John Rudd
Ralph Angenendt wrote: John Rudd wrote: Kahlil Johnson wrote: Wow, still no OGG when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares about AAC, give us OGG. Huh. I have many AAC files. I have no OGG files. Why should even remotely care about OGG? How weird. I have no AAC files but a big

Re: Found out why BT sound is choppy.

2007-10-18 Thread Austin Che
Not sure where to go next on this. (beyond bug filing) Kagu is definitely the culprit. in that something about updating the screen causes BT sound to cut out. If you shrink the screen and open for example the browser scrolling and surfing has no affect on sound. But if you are doing

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Kahlil Johnson
On 10/18/07, John Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: John Rudd wrote: Kahlil Johnson wrote: Wow, still no OGG when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares about AAC, give us OGG. Huh. I have many AAC files. I have no OGG files. Why should even remotely care

chinook

2007-10-18 Thread Jonathan Greene
does anyone have anything built to test? love to try some apps on the N810 ... -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com

Re: chinook

2007-10-18 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:11:32AM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: does anyone have anything built to test? love to try some apps on the N810 Guess what? :) You can try FBReader... :)) We'll make it official soonish, at the moment you can find a version in deb http://only.mawhrin.net/~mss/fb

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you give more information about how the AM is slower than apt-get? Do you need to perform too many clicks in the UI to get your task done, or do you have to wait longer until it has downloaded and installed the packages? Mostly it's the

Begin to program in C

2007-10-18 Thread sebastian maemo
Hi, maybe you could help me. I have been trying to find something in Google, but without success. There is too much information that has nothing to do with what I am looking for. I would like to begin programming in C in my 770, and would like some link to tutorial about that. I have found

RE: chinook

2007-10-18 Thread Simon Pickering
does anyone have anything built to test? love to try some apps on the N810 ... And we'd love to see the output of dmesg right after boot. I'd also be interested to see the contents of the initfs' kernel module directory (pvr.ko are you there? :) ) and the contents of /lib/dsp/modules/.

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Krischan Keitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: to a) Were are all the apps? One thing that we are missing is a 'distribution' (the debian or ubuntu way) with primary repositories and additional repos. etc. Actually, I think we *have* that repo: repository.maemo.org. The problem is that

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Kemal Hadimli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/18/07, Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debug1: confirm x11 X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Interesting, it works here with openssh, and DISPLAY is :0.0 during that. My guess is dropbear does things

Re: Begin to program in C

2007-10-18 Thread Kahlil Johnson
The oldest resource is the TLDP or The Linux Documentation Project: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/GCC-Frontend-HOWTO.html On 10/18/07, sebastian maemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, maybe you could help me. I have been trying to find something in Google, but without success. There is too much information

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you give more information about how the AM is slower than apt-get? Do you need to perform too many clicks in the UI to get your task done, or do you have to wait longer until it has downloaded

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to John Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And, no, it's not about open and free. Since the developers in question are Nokia (since the comment was directed at the release of the N810 itself, and not a request for more 3rd party development), it's about how much effort the developers need

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Jonathan Greene
Been meaning to reply back to this thread been hectic here. My device is pre-release and has a slip case which I believe will be included. Ogg is not included for codec licensing issues... Form factor is excellent as is the build and it will apparently get a bit better over the course of

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Jonathan Greene
Dev program - http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/1192708879.html On 10/17/07, Sergey Udaltsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will there be developer's device program, like for n800? Cheers, Sergey ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Wayne Fiori
On 10/18/07, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ogg is not included for codec licensing issues... Care to expand on this point? Which licensing issues? (from Xiph's FAQ for Vorbis -- http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#flic) What licensing applies to the Ogg Vorbis format? The Ogg Vorbis

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:16:51PM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: I am happy that the AM seems to be good enough that some hackers actually consider using it instead of apt-get You know what the killer feature is? Automatic wifi connection. I absolutely hate it when I have to tap the silly

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mostly it's the clicking/browsing issue. Ok, understood. This seems to be the general I am much more productive at the command line than with a WIMP interface situation. I can very much

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:48:35PM +, Steve Greenland wrote: According to Krischan Keitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: to a) Were are all the apps? One thing that we are missing is a 'distribution' (the debian or ubuntu way) with primary repositories and additional repos. etc. Actually,

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Jac Kersing
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Marius Gedminas wrote: I could keep my tablet online all the time, of course, but then the battery wouldn't last till the end of the day. Have you tried? My N800 is always connected and the battery lasts a couple of days. Only when I start hitting the CPU it starts to

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Gary Baribault
Why the heck would they remove the FM Radio? And go down to 1 memory slot? I guess that one could be because of the placement of the keyboard. It sure would be nice if we could charge from the USB and host unpowered on the USB. I assume that the hosting is a question of support and battery life.

RE: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
Jonathan, thanks for the updates! Nick. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greene Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:38 AM To: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: N810 is here Been meaning to reply back to this thread been hectic

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Jonathan Greene
The radio was cut as it did not fit ... Same on the memory slots and the card type On 10/18/07, Gary Baribault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why the heck would they remove the FM Radio? And go down to 1 memory slot? I guess that one could be because of the placement of the keyboard. It sure

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Peter Robinson
And, no, it's not about open and free. Since the developers in question are Nokia (since the comment was directed at the release of the N810 itself, and not a request for more 3rd party development), it's about how much effort the developers need to put into supporting something vs. the

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:15:39PM +0200, Jac Kersing wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Marius Gedminas wrote: I could keep my tablet online all the time, of course, but then the battery wouldn't last till the end of the day. Have you tried? Yes. My N800 is always connected and the battery

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Onto the players. Austin Che wrote and pointed out that I'd missed the MPD (music player daemon) port. This intrigued, because I use and quite like MPD on my home system. For those unfamiliar with it, it splits the player into the server process

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Kemal Hadimli
On 10/18/07, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: schedule). Also, I have this paranoid habit of looking for a charger as soon as the battery meter drops from 4 bars to 3. yep. the battery meter is not accurate/linear. it takes ages to drop from 4 bars to 3. then it takes less and less

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vorbis support would be excellent (as would speex for voip and theora for video) but I suspect for Nokia the majority of people that buy the Tablets wouldn't know what any of them are let alone probably care. Ultimately the continued development

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:39:10PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: So when it comes down to it most of the required/hard parts of vorbis support (and probably speex to as it too has fixed point DSP implementations) are already there. It just needs some smart programmers to bolt the required bits

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Tilman Vogel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again! Steve Greenland schrieb: After the re-install, I've got /usr/share/mime/audio/x-vorbis.xml, which is: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mime-type xmlns=http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info; type=audio/x-vorbis

how to turn off and lock the n800 (answer)

2007-10-18 Thread Daniel M German
Kemal On 10/11/07, Daniel M German [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Soft-power off mode. I have enabled it with a long press of the on-button. Unfortunately it does not disable the keys. It would be nice if it did, except for a long-press of the on-botton again. Kemal softpoweroff works

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-18 Thread Krischan Keitsch
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: John Rudd wrote: Kahlil Johnson wrote: Wow, still no OGG when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares about AAC, give us OGG. Huh. I have many AAC files. I have no OGG files. Why should even remotely care about OGG?

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Austin Che [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Greenland): ...but MPD is not a good solution for an N800 standalone player *at this time*. There are two big issues. I just have to say I've been using mpd exclusively as my media player for over a month and

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
According to James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: a. open AM b. get asked if I want to update package lists. c. click to browse installable packages. d. wait for update packages (why it just did an update.) Actually, the update here is updating the

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 18 October 2007 10:16:51 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you give more information about how the AM is slower than apt-get? Do you need to perform too many clicks in the UI to get your task

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:30:34 Marius Gedminas wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:48:35PM +, Steve Greenland wrote: snip My other pet peeve is that this encourages binary-only debs which you can't then fix/port to a different SDK version. I sincerely hope Maemo Extras rejects

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On 10/18/07, Tilman Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First of all: Thanks for your review! You wouldn't believe how few feedback you get these days: The mogg d/l counters show that quite some people try it, but we get no feedback. So you're tempted to believe everybody is happy. So thanks