Comments on: Openmoko Freerunner Test Application

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:26:43 +0000

Hi Thomas,

I modified your script some and followed the suggestion by Marcus to use xrandr for screen rotations. I also knocked off one of the todo items so it now reads the LED status on startup. This was one of my first adventures with python, so you will have to forgive me if I made a total mess of things =)

I posted a diff up here http://jacobpeterson.org/gta02_7-23-08.diff

Thanks for the app, it is a nice place to start playing with the FreeRunner.

By: thos

thos — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:46:15 +0000

Marcus, yeah I had similar problems with that, I just chose the one that gave me least problems

By: marcus

marcus — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:32:10 +0000

Hello Thomas, I wonder how well it works for you? The /dev/input/event[2|3] seem to be very picky about being opened and not being read immediately. I have patched neod which opens them by default for no reason in order to not open them and shortend the acell_cb timeout in gta02.py to 10ms (bad, dirty hack).

The real fun however is to call xrandr -o [0|1|2|3] instead of just changing the label to “portrait” or “landsacpe”.

Anyway, thanks a lot for this demo app.