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19:55.29*** topic/#openmoko is Reports of massive redundancies at openmoko (autotranslated) http://tinyurl.com/cqpal3 Users of Openmoko Hardware | Developers, please join#openmoko-cdevel | New Users read http://wiki.openmoko.org/ | Before asking read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
19:56.41SeligArkinHmm
19:56.49tessier_Will software development for the gta02 (freerunner) continue? /. made it sound like the whole openmoko project was dead.
19:57.13fredrintessier_: looks lit it
19:57.13tessier_I'm sure it will continue in one form or another since it's Free software. But will it slow? And do we ever expect to have a user friendly phone out of it?
19:57.15fredrinlike
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20:00.02azaghalslaxxin: intone?
20:00.24azaghaltessier_: Has it been fast so far? ;)
20:01.34tessier_azaghal: Has what been fast so far? The pace of development? Depends on how you look at it. A lot has been done. But I still don't have an iPhone replacement. :)
20:01.49tessier_It's been months since I've used my phone. I need to flash it up to current and see how it does.
20:02.21azaghaltessier_: Heck, who wants to turn Neo Freerunner into a closed proprietary phone anyway? :) It'll never be an iPhone replacement :D
20:03.10tessier_azaghal: You don't have to be closed/proprietary to replace it.
20:03.13tessier_Just be functional.
20:03.21azaghalI was being ironic.
20:03.23azaghalJoking ;)
20:03.25tessier_ok :)
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20:04.41slaxxin03252009 shrunstable is good with the rc-3 kernel
20:04.49slaxxin-
20:05.56slaxxinit was suspended for 20 minuits an still unsuspended back into the same spot in the song:)
20:06.42slaxxinvery nice app
20:06.56tessier_Yeah, how's the power saving stuff working these days? Before it would never sleep and my battery was done in hours.
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20:07.44slaxxin29 hours although u must reboot each morning unless u shut it off overnite
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20:09.29slaxxincheck the distros page
20:09.30eolsonslaxxin, why do you have to reboot?
20:09.48slaxxingsm quits i think
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20:10.05slaxxinjust    read that  
20:10.25eolsonhmm, i don't have that problem, but I have a gta01, I wonder if other people have to reboot
20:10.28slaxxini dont know
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20:10.59slaxxinim using unstable to
20:10.59max_posedonslaxxin, have you a link maybe?
20:11.09slaxxinwhaty/
20:11.18slaxxinshr unstAabl?
20:11.29max_posedonabout reboot, yes
20:11.45slaxxini cant remember where it was
20:12.01slaxxinlet me think stand back
20:12.09slaxxin:)
20:12.51slaxxinhttp://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Stable_Hybrid_Release
20:12.58slaxxinat the bottom
20:13.07slaxxinmaybe outdated
20:13.32max_posedonthanks
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20:26.08toggles_wdamn.. according to dot slash google + tmobile are going to trounce da moko's plan b..
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20:31.20slaxxinhttp://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090406/tc_afp/usittelecominternettmobilegoogle
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21:28.21gfatherhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/openmoko-freerunner-canceled-staff-slashed/
21:28.26gfatherwhats this news about ?
21:28.48gfatherno more openmoko
21:29.06gfather:(
21:29.25fredringfather: relax
21:29.58fredrinthe comunity lives on
21:30.03fredrinthe phones are out there
21:30.25fredrinand worst case is that we need to hack android phones
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21:31.43gfatherbut all the work on the disto's
21:31.51gfather*distros
21:33.22gfatheri was happy today that at last i will be able to get rtl support and localize it
21:33.29fredrinthe comments on the article were not so bad though
21:33.41gfathernow im sad
21:33.42max_posedongfather, this news is only about gta03
21:34.03fredringfather: todo bien
21:34.05max_posedonopenmoko as company not dead, and they continue work on gta02
21:34.33max_posedonthey will release gta02v07 soon (with all hardware bug/buzz fixes)
21:34.50max_posedonand have some internel "project B"
21:35.56fredrinthey could still fire all their staff and just keep the comunity going and produce gta02v07, just keep bying it, it gets more value relative every day :D
21:37.50fredrinand now you can use it as a phone even :D
21:39.01gfather:) well i need to sleep
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21:39.35gfatherbut i hope the comunity still , and i hope they release a new devise somehow in project b
21:40.47gfatherce ya later guys
21:41.21fredrinlater
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21:44.38DocScrutinizerhey, OM did a really bad job (once again) to communicate this. Basically with GTA02A8 we reached end of hw-enum (3 pins ;) and anyway there's no further bugfix anywhere on the horizon that would create need for a GTA02A9 (except low-bass maybe). So think of GTA02 as finalized (hw-side). It's only reasonable to reduce R&D effort for this product, and start to *sell*
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21:46.04fredrintrue
21:46.48max_posedonsorry, why *bad job*?
21:47.39DocScrutinizersomehow it came down like "OM is stopping to produce FR" and actually many papers are writing this FUD
21:48.13max_posedonfinalized gta02 isn't so bad), btw, DocScrutinizer how many gta02 selled already?
21:48.34shellevilDocScrutinizer: raster said the software side got - largely - sacked - is this incorrect?
21:48.34DocScrutinizerpapers say 10k. Think this is about right
21:48.45DocScrutinizeryup
21:48.57shellevilah.
21:49.40max_posedonhm... I thought, it was only about july's part
21:49.47DocScrutinizerso GTA02 & openmoko(the kernel/distri) is getting closer to become a veritable community project ;-)
21:49.49shellevilDocScrutinizer: well - OM is at fault too - note the lack of news on the website.
21:50.03alphaoneDocScrutinizer: I'm currently thinking about and working on test and then writing up a blog post and mails to clear up the myths surrounding GTA02
21:50.13fredrindont underestimaete communities with a commuity device lol
21:50.13DocScrutinizerOM is abysmal wrt
21:50.27mwesters/ wrt//
21:50.32alphaoneEven Sean stated at the OpenExpo that the FR misses calls
21:51.01alphaoneI am using it for 6 months now and it has been stable in that regard for over three
21:51.55DocScrutinizerSean doesn't know his own product. that's no problem as long as he doesn't speak or take decisions :-)
21:52.18alphaoneSo there really is work to be done wrt FR myths
21:52.34DocScrutinizeryup, a big deal of work
21:52.37anttnaHi, I was just at a talk by a guy from mozilla he was talking about fennec. It will eventually be ff for the mobile
21:52.53shellevilI  herd FR lieks mudkips.
21:53.05ndnihilugh, I tried FF on the FR last night, brutally slow
21:53.06alphaoneanttna: Large and slow? SCNR
21:53.18DocScrutinizerfenec != FF
21:53.46shelleviland again. I note that I have run FF - 1.5/2 on  a comparable platform in recent times - PII/300/64M RAM
21:53.53shelleviland it was quite acceptable.
21:54.31DocScrutinizerpII-300 is about twice as fast as 2442 I'd say
21:55.05anttnaalphaone: he wasn't too keen to talk about memory footprint, right enough he admitted it depended on the platform . So I guess it could be a problem
21:55.08azaghalAnyone knows about Maemo Mer?
21:55.13DocScrutinizerand probably you had a decent swap partition to support your 64MB
21:55.20max_posedonas for me, I hope opera will be released some day
21:55.39azaghalMidori's not so bad.
21:55.51max_posedonmidoris is bad if speak about rendering
21:56.09max_posedonfor me main problem isn't speed, but horizontal scrolls
21:56.16DocScrutinizershellevil: maybe even 133MHz RAM
21:56.38anttnaThey are primarily developing on nokia tablet
21:57.00DocScrutinizershellevil: there were PII300 boards/chipsets that could do 133
21:57.07shellevilDocScrutinizer: well - I actually was running AES swap - 5M/s, and 100MHz SDRAM
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21:58.17azaghalanttna: Still, some cooperation might be possible?
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21:58.34azaghalThey've managed to build quite a nice stable distro with Maemo.
21:58.46SomeTwho?
21:59.05azaghal(not for Freerunner)
21:59.17anttnaazaghal: They have used fr but didn't like the fact that they needed hw fixes
21:59.19shellevilDocScrutinizer: yes - and it's got oodles more cache, ... I'm not saying it's the same speed - I'm saying it's of a comparable order of magnitude.
21:59.32DocScrutinizerazaghal: stop talking bout maemo >:-( boots every day for no reason here
21:59.55azaghalboots?
22:00.03shellevilDocScrutinizer: meaning I was attempting to put FF1.5 on GTA01 - until life got in the way and my time available plummeted
22:00.13DocScrutinizeryup.. klingklangklong booot
22:00.22shellevilcompiled but diddn't start beyond the profile screen
22:00.32DocScrutinizerreboot
22:00.33max_posedonDocScrutinizer, one more question to insider, how many gta02v07 OM planning to sell?
22:00.41shellevilAll of them!
22:00.55hipitihopbids good morning from aus
22:01.26DocScrutinizermax_posedon: lol, as much as possible I'd guess :P
22:01.43max_posedonbut I think they have some plan)
22:02.03shellevilGiven that 'project B' isn't a phone - reportedly - then GTA02 is it
22:02.08max_posedonI don't think that gta02v07 created for selling say 500devices
22:02.12shellevilIf you want a OM phone
22:02.23shellevilmax_posedon: 07 is a trivil mod of GTA02
22:02.39max_posedonbecause as I know, many non-main-shops still have gta02 in stocks
22:02.45shellevilmax_posedon: it wasn't 'created' it was just 'ooops' - better fix revisions.
22:02.46DocScrutinizermax_posedon: I know for sure there are more than that already built at fab
22:02.54azaghalhipitihop: Gah, enough with the mornings, I have a lot of work tomorrow, let me sleep at least :P
22:03.56shellevilwishes some of the silly dreams at the start would emerge as reality.
22:04.01max_posedonshellevil, I understand it, I just preparing slides for one linux conf about neo, and want brake many myths)
22:04.01shellevilParts store forex.
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22:07.41shellevilThere are myths on both sides - FR isn't stable phone, and it isn't useless.
22:07.57shellevilor ratehr - stable user-ready phone
22:08.00shellevilas some imply
22:08.15shellevil(for average, not deeply knowledgable users)
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22:08.51max_posedonisn't stable, but it is ready to use for people, if they don't need phone for everday-work.
22:09.08max_posedonbut only for geeks, yes.
22:09.43max_posedonI haven't missed any calls, (just can't sometimes answer, but no problem to recall)
22:10.20max_posedonsometimes have problem with shr and sms's, but always can read them manually from dbus.
22:10.26shellevilAnd GTA01 is about the same state of hardware readyness as GTA02v07 as I understand it.
22:10.45max_posedonso, I'm optimistic in this point of view.
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22:12.43shellevilIf the SW side was as polished as the hardware - ...
22:12.52mwesterdecides that a bit of reality in this channel might go over about as well as a bucket of ice water, and decides to leave the rose-colored glasses and optimism be
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22:15.01fredrinah, kernel hackers
22:15.02xcasexwrkamwester: i called it a week after i got my neo. i dont think it'd go over worse than it did then
22:16.39mwesterIt'll get worse; it won't be long before people will start blaming the "community who didn't come up with software" for the failure.
22:16.42max_posedonmwester, ))) I'm using gta02 from september, and you know, I have to say for all developers who do smth for gta02 "Thanks, greate work!". Because it really, *really* better. and even usable as phone.
22:17.17max_posedonright now, I think that pda's part is problem.
22:17.32max_posedonjust no software that are ready.
22:21.00anttnamax_posedon: pda? please can you explain this
22:21.53hipitihopI now have Qi flashed. Anyone know if Android can be booted from uSD or must it be flashed
22:22.32max_posedonanttna, web browser, IM clients, audio/video players
22:22.33hipitihopscrambles back to wiki in case he missed something
22:22.52max_posedonnow what we have is smth like prof-of-concept
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22:28.32badcloudhey all
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22:37.35badcloudanyone here getting segfaults with vagalume?
22:37.44ndnihilme
22:38.00shellevilmwester: In many ways they are. But is the community to blame for that failure - I'd say not.
22:38.02ndnihiland when I try to uninstall it, tast-shr-gtk sepends on it for some reason
22:38.06badcloudfound a workaround/solution?
22:38.49ndnihilyes, but it involves not using vagalume
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22:39.34badcloudalso, I can't seem to run mokometeo even after copying question.png to ~/.mokometeo/img/
22:40.48badcloudndnihil, so what's the workaround?
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22:46.08ndnihilbadcloud: I call it "don't use vagalume"
22:46.29badcloudgood one
22:47.00badcloudnot helpful, but slightly amusing anyway
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23:23.54hipitihopcan anyone tell me if a 512mg uSD is sufficient to try Adnroid ?
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23:36.49CVirusis there a list of stuff that made it to vanilla kernel ?
23:37.55fredrinnone
23:38.07fredrinthink they're working on it
23:38.15fredringetting things upstream
23:38.21mwesterhipitihop:  plentyy
23:38.30CVirusI thought there are things that went upstream already ?
23:38.48fredrincheck the kernel mailinglist
23:39.46mwesterCVirus:  nothing that will stand on its own at this time.
23:40.02hipitihopmwester: thanks... flashing 'panicking' shortly, hope it works with Qi
23:41.26CVirusmwester: not a single line of code went upstream ?
23:42.25mwesterI didn't say that.
23:43.08mwesterSome of the bits and pieces went up, IIRC.  But not enough that you can take the virgin kernel git repo, enable "GTA02" in the defconfig, and get anything that will boot.
23:43.42CVirusyeah I get it
23:44.02mmontourCVirus: some alsa/wm8753 stuff went upstream
23:44.18CVirusmmontour: cool .. thanks for the info
23:44.30CVirusis the WSOD gone ?
23:44.39CVirusI haven't been following up lately
23:44.45fredrindepends of the kernel
23:45.11fredrinand the bootloader, but with Qi and latest shr-unstable kernel I'm happy
23:45.19CVirusis there a kernel/distro combination that would render my phone usable for more than 24 hours ?
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23:47.00hipitihopCVirus: qt-extended
23:47.10CVirusnice
23:48.01hipitihopCVirus: there is now qt-extended-improved but I have not yet tried... currently flashing android to see if it is comparable
23:48.09mwester:)  SHR is pretty good too, at this point.
23:48.53saracenWhats the battery life like when using qt extended?
23:49.02hipitihopmwester: any recent screenshots about of shr ?
23:50.07fredrinCVirus: go with shr
23:50.18CVirusfredrin: cool
23:50.24fredrinor shr-unstable that i guess soon will be testing
23:50.35fredrinit's nice living on the edge
23:50.37fredrin:)
23:50.39hipitihopsaracen: obviously depends on your level of usage, but in suspend it feels like near 48 hours is possible, but have not measured
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23:51.42saracenhipitihop: ty :)
23:56.35fredringta03 mailinglist is up :)

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