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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Mouse support on Linux

« on: April 01, 2020, 03:29:43 am »

Had same experience.....

My little mouse worked fine in linux (gemian), on my Gemini.....

Probably something missing from this initial linux for Cosmo....

I have a wired mouse and it works fine on linux ( left side port ) using a little adapter . ( see photo )

Thanks for the hint. I have a wireless mouse from LogiLink (http://www.logilink.com/media/datasheets/ID0160.pdf) which works fine when plugged into the left USB-C port

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Newly installed Debian: no Bluetooth

« on: March 23, 2020, 10:03:16 am »

Wait, only the CoDi is OLED? The black level looks pretty good. Well, I guess I don't have to worry about burning images on it anymore.
But how such a small AMOLED on the CoDi consumes so much battery? It is insane.

I think the display itself consumes almost no battery. But the CoDi is a computer on its own. I do not know the details about the software on it but if regulary polls the main computer for events then this could explain the battery usage. The good news is that this software can be optimized so Planet can supply us with less battery hungry updates for the CoDi software.

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Newly installed Debian: no Bluetooth

« on: March 17, 2020, 08:01:34 am »

This version of Linux we get is more of a proof of concept than an actual usable OS. It's more like "see! we have linux working on our phone" thing. From my understanding, it's missing drivers for a lot of hardware. I do not recommend using it extensively because the UI can burn images on our OLED screen. At this stage, I don't see the battery management turning off the screen on it's own. The screen is on even if you close the phone.

I thought only the cover display is OLED? The cover display does not work at all with Debian currently.

It is indeed an issue that Debian can't be properly suspended at the moment, but I'm using Debian quite happily for hacking a bit Elixir at the moment.

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Additional keyboard layout

« on: March 05, 2020, 06:33:43 am »

After adding another keyboard layout, besides default English, Fn combinations do not work anymore.
I added Russian layout to the list. Now I can switch to Russian and type Cyrillic letters, but Fn combinations do not work even in English layout! I can't even type "-" or "=", so the keyboard goes almost unusable. When I remove extra layout, leaving only default English, everything goes back to normal.
Yes, I set keyboard to "Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator" on Hardware tab of Settings, but didn't notice any effect.

Well, that is interesting. I experience a similar problem with the german keyboard. The Fn combinations produce double character sequence. E.g. when pressing Fn+k to get a '-', I get sk instead.

When I remove the german layout, I can use the Fn key again.

So, the situation is not good, but improved.

Only one layout at a time seems to work, so you should be able to remove us (uk?) one and have the german or russian one working (though make sure it is working correctly, polish one was broken for example)

This did it. Great int! Thank you so much!

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Additional keyboard layout

« on: March 05, 2020, 03:22:12 am »

After adding another keyboard layout, besides default English, Fn combinations do not work anymore.
I added Russian layout to the list. Now I can switch to Russian and type Cyrillic letters, but Fn combinations do not work even in English layout! I can't even type "-" or "=", so the keyboard goes almost unusable. When I remove extra layout, leaving only default English, everything goes back to normal.
Yes, I set keyboard to "Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator" on Hardware tab of Settings, but didn't notice any effect.

Well, that is interesting. I experience a similar problem with the german keyboard. The Fn combinations produce double character sequence. E.g. when pressing Fn+k to get a '-', I get sk instead.

When I remove the german layout, I can use the Fn key again.

So, the situation is not good, but improved.