[Debian] on Freerunner feed back

[Thomas Bellembois]

Hi Christophe,

Thanks for your answers and your tips about the WIFI.
I use matchbox-wm with fbpanel. I will try xfce or lxde soon.

Regards,

Thomas

Christophe Badoit a écrit :
> Thomas Bellembois a écrit :
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
>   
>> 1.GSM
>> 2.PIM
>>     
>
> Not stable enough to use as daily phone, so I didn't test zhone & others
> fully enough to comment.
>
> Anyway, thank you for these comments, i'd love to use it eventually !
>
>   
>> 3.GPS
>> TangoGPS works well. I have not tried Navit yet.
>>     
>
> Same here.
> I don't know if it's due to kernel (andy - 2.6.29) but I manage to get
> fixes even when I don't hope so (in my office, 4 meters from the window).
>
>   
>> 4.WIFI
>> Does not work yet (wifi-radar - wicd) - I think I have a dependency 
>> problem...
>>     
>
> No real problem here, I use wicd.
> It works quite well, but is quite slow...
> What I did actually :
> 1) Installed wicd (apt-get install wicd)
> 2) removed wicd from start-up (with update-rc)
> 3) in the openmoko-panel-plugin, I put in
>   post-activate : "/etc/init.d/wicd start; wicd-client"
>   pre-deactivate: "/etc/init.d/wicd stop; pkill wicd-client"
>
> With this, when you activate wifi from om-panek-plugin, known networks
> are automatically connected (if told so in wicd), wicd client shows an
> icon in the tray.
> And when you disable it, everything shuts down.
>
>   
>> 5.ACCELEROMETER
>> Works well - I have tried it with the mokomaze game (apt-get install it)
>>     
>
> With last kernel, since it's EV_ABS instead of EV_REL, applications like
> mokomaze have to be modified.
> Beyond that, accelerometers work well for me, too.
>
>   
>> 6.AUTOROTATE SCREEN
>> Simple rotate freezes my freerunner with XGLAMO.
>>     
>
> No auto-rotate, just a rotate application that I launch from the menu.
> Sometimes works, sometimes not.
>
> I hade to put "
>
>   
>> What I would like to do:
>> -find a usable configuration to use a PIM suite (synchronized with my 
>> desktop PC) to replace my Palm TE2.
>>     
>
> So would I !
>
>   
>> I would like to know I somebody could have a fully functional freerunner 
>> under debian ? Thanks in advance for your answers.
>>     
>
> With more time, I'd like it to be fully functionnal =)
> What windowmanager/panels system are you using ?
>
> I'm using matchbox-wm + LXDE (not the best, but fast enough).
>
> Regards,
>
>   


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