Community Updates/2008-11-16 - Revision history

Phobie: Community Updates/November 16th, 2008 moved to Community Updates/2008-11-16: new date format

2009-10-09T14:30:22Z

Community Updates/November 16th, 2008 moved to Community Updates/2008-11-16: new date format

Glenn: catspec

2009-07-04T15:59:51Z

catspec

MinhHaDuong: +link back up

2008-12-13T20:22:24Z

+link back up

Tyler Oderkirk: /* Applications */ Removed stray markup

2008-12-09T04:50:07Z

‎Applications: Removed stray markup

Tyler Oderkirk: /* Distributions */ spelling fix

2008-12-09T04:47:37Z

‎Distributions: spelling fix

Coolcat at 11:22, 19 November 2008

2008-11-19T11:22:00Z

Erin: /* Infrastructure: X and OE */

2008-11-19T03:11:36Z

‎Infrastructure: X and OE

MinhHaDuong: /* Distributions */ lang

2008-11-17T08:44:01Z

‎Distributions: lang

MinhHaDuong: +minor sentence tweak

2008-11-17T08:42:55Z

+minor sentence tweak

Coolcat at 02:51, 17 November 2008

2008-11-17T02:51:09Z

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	The [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-October/000768.html GSM-noise buzz issue] is a serious defect that make some phones practically unusable. Electrical engineering is black magick to me, but I get that Joerg and other OM hardware engineers have traced which circuit were interfering, and are experimenting [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-October/000753.html hardware fixes]. It is unclear how this applies to the A7 hardware revision which seems due soon. Problems with the poor low-frequency audio response with low-impedance headphones are [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1502610 still with us].		The [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-October/000768.html GSM-noise buzz issue] is a serious defect that make some phones practically unusable. Electrical engineering is black magick to me, but I get that Joerg and other OM hardware engineers have traced which circuit were interfering, and are experimenting [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-October/000753.html hardware fixes]. It is unclear how this applies to the A7 hardware revision which seems due soon. Problems with the poor low-frequency audio response with low-impedance headphones are [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1502610 still with us].

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-Hello everybody, and welcome to the Openmoko Community Newsletter, for the
+Hello everybody, and welcome to the Openmoko [[Community Updates]] Newsletter, for the
 November 3th to November 16th timespan. During these two weeks, we had [[FSO]] milestone IV and a testing [[SHR]] image released. Openmoko pulled the download server offline due to an mp3 copyright issue, they are rebuilding everything without any questionable codecs. Werner announced a firmware update for the GSM chip that will allow 3G chips compatibility. And there is movement again towards a better driver for the glamo graphic chip.
 == Distributions ==
-FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the [[OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5]]. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli or the SHR phone stack, from now on three FSO-compliant images are built:
+FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the [[OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5]]. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli orSummary the SHR phone stack, from now on three FSO-compliant images are built:
 # fso-console-image: minimal system with frameworkd, no user interface manager.
 # fso-illume-image: everything in console-image plus X-Window, plus Enlightenment plus Illume window manager.

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−	~~<nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags.~~ The thematic ''List of X applications'' pages are going away, we want to keep just one big directory style application linkfarm. The idea is that presenting applications in organized ways is better done by http://opkg.org . This directory already has 45 entries, please register and go populate it.	+	The thematic ''List of X applications'' pages are going away, we want to keep just one big directory style application linkfarm. The idea is that presenting applications in organized ways is better done by http://opkg.org . This directory already has 45 entries, please register and go populate it.

	== Infrastructure: X and OE ==		== Infrastructure: X and OE ==

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 == Distributions ==
-FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the [[OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5]]. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli or the SHR phone stack, from now on three FSO-compliant images are build:
+FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the [[OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5]]. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli or the SHR phone stack, from now on three FSO-compliant images are built:
 # fso-console-image: minimal system with frameworkd, no user interface manager.
 # fso-illume-image: everything in console-image plus X-Window, plus Enlightenment plus Illume window manager.

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 Hello everybody, and welcome to the Openmoko Community Newsletter, for the
 November 3th to November 16th timespan. During these two weeks, we had [[FSO]] milestone IV and a testing [[SHR]] image released. Openmoko pulled the download server offline due to an mp3 copyright issue, they are rebuilding everything without any questionable codecs. Werner announced a firmware update for the GSM chip that will allow 3G chips compatibility. And there is movement again towards a better driver for the glamo graphic chip.
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 In the wiki, the [[Applications]] and [[Distributions]] pages were revised. We are having trouble with an engine extention that eats up whitespace, the workaround is to wrap pre formatted text in
 <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags. The thematic ''List of X applications'' pages are going away, we want to keep just one big directory style application linkfarm. The idea is that presenting applications in organized ways is better done by http://opkg.org . This directory already has 45 entries, please register and go populate it.

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 == Infrastructure: X and OE ==
-Reports from the [http://n2.nabble.com/Optimization-team-update-%2811-02-%7E-11-08%29-tp1472782p1472782.html optimization team] have been landing weekly. They include patches to fix {{Ticket|1884}} ([suspend/resume] if press power batton right after suspend, the device won't wake up) and patches to [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qtopia.git;a=commit;h=9c8c832f77f4f24adc5ad17f5031016ce8562a34 improve the network registering time]. The openmoko-mediaplayer2: dependency on pulseaudio was removed to use alsa instead. And various utilities should appear shortly in the distributions, including telnet, wget, tcptraceroute, wmiconfig, a bunch of X system fonts and more.
+Reports from the [http://n2.nabble.com/Optimization-team-update-%2811-02-%7E-11-08%29-tp1472782p1472782.html optimization team] have been landing weekly. They include patches to fix {{Ticket|1884}} ([suspend/resume] if press power batton right after suspend, the device won't wake up) and patches to [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qtopia.git;a=commit;h=beb921e93e33c18f451247636a3b460a7c1da361 improve the network registering time]. The openmoko-mediaplayer2: dependency on pulseaudio was removed to use alsa instead. And various utilities should appear shortly in the distributions, including telnet, wget, tcptraceroute, wmiconfig, a bunch of X system fonts and more.
 The lack of [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-November/035748.html GLamo OpenGL] is still a major dark hole on the FreeRunner's phone liberation front. Hacker culture factoid: did you know that as a software project X is older and about as large as the kernel with a penguin on it, but has an order of magnitude less contributors to it ?

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-Hello everybody, and welcome to the Openmoko Community Newsletter, for the two weeks from November 3th to November 16th. We had [[FSO]] milestone IV and a testing [[SHR]] image released. Openmoko pulled the download server offline due to an mp3 copyright issue, they are rebuilding everything without any questionable codecs. Werner announced a firmware update for the GSM chip that will allow 3G chips compatibility. And there is movement again towards a better driver for the glamo graphic chip.
+Hello everybody, and welcome to the Openmoko Community Newsletter, for the
 == Distributions ==
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 In the wiki, the [[Applications]] and [[Distributions]] pages were revised. We are having trouble with an engine extention that eats up whitespace, the workaround is to wrap pre formatted text in
 <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags. The thematic ''List of X applications'' pages are going away, we want to keep just one big directory style application linkfarm. The idea is that presenting applications in organized ways is better done by http://opkg.org . This directory already has 45 entries, please register and go populate it.
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 The lack of [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-November/035748.html GLamo OpenGL] is still a major dark hole on the FreeRunner's phone liberation front. Hacker culture factoid: did you know that as a software project X is older and about as large as the kernel with a penguin on it, but has an order of magnitude less contributors to it ?
-Wolfgang from Openmoko [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-November/035768.html wrote:]
+Openmoko will share the glamo documentation with any serious programmer out there who wants to improve the glamo driver. Wolfgang [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-November/035768.html wrote:]
 ''If someone wants to seriously develop for the glamo, please get in touch with me and we will find a legally correct way to extend the smedia documentation to you. In fact we have done that in a few cases before already, but I'm not
 sure how much actual codes have come out of that. I think very little ;-) So we need some really serious coders that don't mind a tough challenge.''
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 The [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-October/000768.html GSM-noise buzz issue] is a serious defect that make some phones practically unusable. Electrical engineering is black magick to me, but I get that Joerg and other OM hardware engineers have traced which circuit were interfering, and are experimenting [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-October/000753.html hardware fixes]. It is unclear how this applies to the A7 hardware revision which seems due soon. Problems with the poor low-frequency audio response with low-impedance headphones are [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1502610 still with us].
 [[Category:Community]]

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 [http://www.centerim.org/ Centerim], a terminal-based instant messager, ported on the freerunner ([http://www.opkg.org/package_32.html package], [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/rantalai/freerunner/centerim/ port page])
-In the wiki, the [[Applications]] and [[Distributions]] pages were revised. We are having trouble with an engine extention that eats up whitespace, the workaround is to wrap pre formatted text in <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags. The thematic ''List of X applications'' pages are going away, we want to keep just one big directory style application linkfarm. The idea is that presenting applications in organized ways is better done by http://opkg.org . This directory already has 45 entries, please register and go populate it.
+In the wiki, the [[Applications]] and [[Distributions]] pages were revised. We are having trouble with an engine extention that eats up whitespace, the workaround is to wrap pre formatted text in
 == Infrastructure: X and OE ==
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 Openmoko will share the glamo documentation with any serious programmer out there who wants to improve the glamo driver