I’ve just released omnewrotate 0.5.8 which integrates Tim Abell’s improvements to rotation sensitivity and I’ve added some code so it is smarter about detecting the paths for setting the brightness level while rotating which changed in more recent Linuxs (2.6.32 and beyond, I think).

As I’m running SHR-Unstable, your mileage may vary but it’s likely it will work

As usual, the download links are at the project’s Google Code site for omnewrotate (see the featured downloads section):

• the ipk of this release (OpenPGP sig).
• and its tar ball (OpenPGP sig)

SHR-Unstable users should only need to upgrade (later today, or in a day or so).

Enjoy!

After about 11 months since the previous release, I’ve just released omnewrotate 0.5.7 (after short lived 0.5.5 and 0.5.6 as I found out a dangling patch in SHR-Unstable’s recipe and did a mistake on the 0.5.6 release) which integrates Tim Abell’s init script change and the aforementioned patch.

As I’m running SHR-Unstable, your mileage may vary but it’s likely it will work

As usual, the download links are at the project’s Google Code site for omnewrotate (see the featured downloads section):

• the ipk of this release (OpenPGP sig).
• and its tar ball (OpenPGP sig)

Enjoy!

As I am testing the latest 2009 test image, I’m glad to announce that it still works fine with current FSO, but Paroli looks really bad when it goes landscape.

I’ve also added a “-p” (for powersaving) flag, oriented towards activating, well, more conservative approaches such as reading the accelerometer data not so frequently (which directly implies less responsiveness, but it was asked for).

As usual, the download links are at the project’s Google Code site for omnewrotate (see the featured downloads section):

• the ipk of this release (OpenPGP sig).
• and its tar ball (OpenPGP sig)

Enjoy!

As I was starting to investigate libframeworkd-glib, that dependency was a problem for usage in the recently released Om2008.12 (basically, it wouldn’t run at all).

As such, I added a “–without-frameworkd” to the ./configure script, which I used for building the ipk of this release (OpenPGP sig).

Another good thing about this release, is that its tar ball (OpenPGP sig) is now the result of make dist. This should be a great bonus for integration with hackable:1, which is still using a pretty old version of omnewrotate. Just don’t forget to include “–without-frameworkd” in the configure process (I plan to have this detection done automatically in the future).

Enjoy!

Solved in this release, with the help of Kumar, is issue 1, suspend. It’s a solution based on apm suspend/resume scripts, so I expect that to be temporary until a better solution comes along.

Issue 2 is also solved, since it resulted from a typo in the previous releases.

Enjoy!

I’ve just release a new version of OMNewRotate (source, it’s OpenPGP signature, an ipkg tested agains FSO M4.1 and it’s OpenPGP signature), the ‘Automagically Lazy Edition’ because it’s just like the ‘Lazy Edition’ but with Autotools magic. Yes, I know it doesn’t work well with suspend. I’ve just gotter suspend to work on my OpenMoko, so expect that it is fixed by 0.6.0.

From the ChangeLog:

2008-12-09 - 0.5.1 - Automagically lazy
	* same as 0.5.0 plus auto tools magic
	* desktop icon
	* places a starter script

I’ve just release a new version of omnewrotate (OpenPGP signature), the ‘Lazy Edition’ because it uses so much less CPU than any version I did before. Oh, I forgot to mention it in the release commit, but at least with FSO M4 I’m getting a very stable rotation BUT if the screen looks garbled, please wait a few seconds until the graphic user interface adjusts to the screen changes. I don’t think I can do much about that…

From the ChangeLog:

2008-11-19 - 0.5.0 - Lazy edition
        * uses a second thread for reading the accellerometer packets
        * drops Fabian's changes (not that they weren't good, just not
          needed any more)
        * adds flags (look at display_help() or ./rotate -h)
        * drops packets with 0 value coordinates (I got bogus packets
          like that so I decided to drop them, if you feel you get good
          packets with 0 value, you can use '-0' as an argument to take
          them in account).
        * top -d 1 -p PID shows 0.0% CPU usage (of omnewrotate) even
          during rotation
        * seems to waste a little too much memory (some stuff could be
          done with one number and bitwise operations instead of several
          numbers, I wonder how much that will improve and if it's worth
          the effort...)
        * only output outside of debug mode are real errors

This new version reads from actual_brightness and set into brightness, which you can find in /sys/class/backlight/pcf50633-bl/ , in order to skip packet reading when the screen is dimmed, which is the next best thing to checking wether the screen is locked.

I run into a problem, though: it seems that if I open() actual_brightness once, I never again read an updated value, which makes me have to read on every loop

Enough talk, get it here: rotate-0.3.0.tar.gz (ascii sig) [now, if only this bug was fixed on projects.openmoko.org...]

Hope you’re enjoying it…

$ head -2 ChangeLog
2008-10-14 - 0.3.0
	* dims while rotating and doesn't rotate if dimmed, sleeping for 5s
$ cat KNOWN_ISSUES
Known Issues:
	* I'm not getting updated results if I only open
	  /sys/class/backlight/pcf50633-bl/actual_brightness once
	  which means I need to open it on every cycle.
	  Since it's in memory and not an actual file, wast should
	  not be too much
	* some heuristic values may need fine tunning

Get it here: rotate-0.2.1.tar.gz (signature)

Anyway, here’s the good news:

$ head -5 ChangeLog
2008-09-22 - 0.2.1
        * more heuristic fixes (hopefully really fix when laying around, and
          turned up)
        * workaround with alarm() for the accelerometer read-hang problem
        * sleeping for 100ms seems to get cpu usage quite low (0% to 0.9%)

If you haven’t tried it before, now it’s the time to try. If you did, NOW is the time to try again

Fetch it now: rotate-0.2.0.tar.gz (signature)

$ head -3 ChangeLog
2008-09-22 - 0.2.0
	* greatly improves heuristics
	* fixed heuristics when laying around, and turned up