Posted by Jim Morris
on Wed Aug 27 14:46:34 -0700 2008
Background
I was getting bored waiting for Trolltech to release the next version
of Qtopia for the Freerunner, so I ported the xgps client from gpsd's
distribution to Qtopia.
As you may know by now, Qtopia does not have X11 so none of the
existing X11 based or GTK based GPS clients work. I was exploring GPSD
because I wanted to to be able to get a one time position for my sunset
calculator which requires your current latitude and longitude.
Although GPSD is not well suited for that (thats a whole other blog
entry), I did notice you can connect to it over the ethernet, so I was
playing with cgps and xgps that you find in the GPSD tar file, running
on my desktop, talking to gpsd running on my Freerunner.
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Sun Aug 10 23:09:54 -0700 2008
I finally got around to building ruby 1.8.6 for my FR. I modified the
ruby bitbake files that I found in the Mokomakefile openembedded
directory. I am not sure how one actually is meant to do this, as the
OE site is down and the docs don't explain it. So I just replaced the
1.8.5 ones with the 1.8.6 ones. I also managed to fix a bug in the
1.8.5 BB recipe that was causing socket to not build.
I also got the ruby dbus library to work, although I don't know what to
do with it yet :)
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Tue Jul 22 13:20:08 -0700 2008
Well I have had this thing for a few weeks now, and I have burned a lot
of hours playing with it :) (Wish I could bill someone for those
hours it would have paid for the phone 4 times over!)
I started with 2007.2 the built in image, and upgraded it initially
with dfu-util, then with opkg update && opkg upgrade.
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Fri Jul 11 13:53:11 -0700 2008
OK so I just got my shiny new OpenMoko Freerunner GTA02.
This is an Open source GSM cell phone, running Linux and OpenMoko S/W stack.
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