xgnokii on an HTC Blueangel running linux

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

this i found to be so amusing, i had to let you know (hi hugh :)

for background, see this:
        http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7937511405.html

i just managed to get xgnokii to run - on the HTC Blueangel
(in my case, a T-Mobile MDA III).

no, not under wince.

no, not using the PDA/Phone via IRDA.

nooo, not using the PDA/Phone via a serial or a usb cable, and
not by bluetooth either.

i mean running linux ON the mobile phone, i compiled up
gnokii using the openembedded.org toolchain, running GPE/Familiar,
ssh'd in to the phone and ran xgnokii over an ssh tunnel back
to my laptop.

*ROTFL* :)

... and it works!

i had to hack it about a bit, due to RIL/GSM stupidity.

so, as requested on your web site, here is a notification regarding
the bugreport / patch:

        http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=15391

things that are missing - or don't work - or i haven't found out how to
make them work:

* ability to notice and answer incoming phone calls
  (gomunicator _does_ allow this)

* a dial-pad to type in telephone numbers

* a ringing sound (wav file) when an incoming call is received
  or an SMS message arrives.

 _yes_ of course we have ALSA working on the blueangel but that's not
 the point: the point is this: surely when people are using xgnokii
 on their laptop to connect to a nokia phone,
 they're going to want to know when an SMS message arrives - and
 i don't mean cos their phone went beepbeep, i mean cos an
 in-yer-face popup arrived on-screen and their linux PC went "wark,
 wark" through their quadrophonic surround-sound speakers on their
 KDE desktop.

also, sadly, xgnokii is _terribly_ unusable on a 320x480 screen
and i'd be very surprised if it was useable even on a 640x480
screen (yes, i have an HTC Universal and no, there's no realistic
chance of having linux running on that in the next 12 months,
which is a pity, because it's a 3G phone).

so.

does anyone know how to enable "incoming phone call" notifications on
the atgen plugin?  does xgnokii _have_ such a feature?

l.

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