jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bryan Berry
Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have come up 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware Q2d14. We have the kids

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Steve Holton
Do you have a way to accurately measure relative humidity? I saw pretty severe trackpad issues on one of my XO's on a single day and haven't seen a re-occurrence yet. At the time, it looked clearly related to static fields. On the other hand, I have seen (and fixed) a very similar behavior on a

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Bryan, Similar issues were dominant at the India pilot too... On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have come up 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Carol Lerche
The touchpad issues were a problem in NYC as well. I noticed that it was most problematic with certain kids who were very touchy...they seemed to always have their hands fiddling with the touchpad. Also most common to occur when using paint or colors activity. Only way I could clear the problem

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks Carol, this instruction for disabling the corner sensitivity is extremely useful! I may use it in the custom build I roll out, some 3-4 months from now. I hope some of the hardware techs at OLPC like Richard Smith can shed some light on the jumpy touchpad. Rebooting works for me as well

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Bryan Berry wrote: 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware Q2d14. We have the kids hold down the 4 corner buttons as recommended in the XO

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Sameer Verma
Steve Holton wrote: Do you have a way to accurately measure relative humidity? I saw pretty severe trackpad issues on one of my XO's on a single day and haven't seen a re-occurrence yet. At the time, it looked clearly related to static fields. On the other hand, I have seen (and fixed) a

Re: Ad-hoc Networking

2008-04-27 Thread Aaron Kaplan
On Apr 27, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Robert Withrow wrote: Aaron Kaplan wrote: there *are* open source layer 2 and layer 3 mesh software solutions out there. Not to forget Open80211S.org (http://www.open80211s.org/). yup! what is the current status on that actually? a.

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:34:30 +0200 Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Berry wrote: 1. We are having a lot of trouble w/ jumpy cursors. You know where the touchpad behaves erratically. Is there an easy fix to this problem? we are using build 703, MP machines, and firmware

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-04-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Andres Salomon wrote: Yeah, all the code's in master. No known bugs in the touchpad driver, but the kernel was just updated to 2.6.25. Of course, the most important change might be the PT-in-relative-mode thing; when the GS screws up, just push down hard and use the PT to do what you want

Re: cat-leases script to join leases files

2008-04-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usage is the same as above, except that a significant l changes to a y. Emiliano reports that the script only outputs the contents of _one_ of the files being concatenated. Alas, it looks like I'm an idiot when it

Oops on olpc_bat_init with 2.6.25 kernel

2008-04-27 Thread Denver Gingerich
I get the following kernel oops (and resulting panic) when starting my G1G1 XO with the 2.6.25-20080426.1.olpc.6f666d7c2ba504e kernel: [3.216948] IP: [c04d6c1a] strcmp+0x7/0x19 [3.227071] *pde = [3.237005] Oops: [#1] PREEMPT [3.246865] Modules linked in: [3.246865] [3.246865] Pid:

typing tutor activity

2008-04-27 Thread Kate Scheppke
Hello! I'm a computer science student, one of many applicants to the Google Summer of Code / OLPC project who came up just a bit shy of acceptance. Nonetheless, I plan to move ahead with working on my proposed project, a typing tutor. My mentor on this project is Wade Brainerd. The goal of

Re: New joyride build 1897

2008-04-27 Thread david
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1897 Changes in build 1897 from build: 1896 Size delta: 11.41M +cdparanoia-libs alpha9.8-27.2 -gstreamer-plugins-base 0.10.15-1.olpc2 +gstreamer-plugins-base 0.10.15-3.olpc2

Re: [sugar] Sugar\Windows won't ship

2008-04-27 Thread david
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Walter Bender wrote: Sugar/Linux could easily have compatibility with regular Linux stuff, but this has been denied despite strong demand. Albert, saying that this has been denied is overstated. Was it a priority in the beginning? No. Were some decisions made that make