Re: Images partitioned right? Good USB drives? (Re: Woodhouse on flash storage)

2009-10-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: You can get the erase block size from SD cards - it's in the Card Specific Data structure - but I don't know of any standard way to get it for USB mass storage devices. Interesting! Did a bit of looking around but can't

Determining erase block size (was: Re: Images partitioned right? Good USB drives?)

2009-10-11 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:26:05PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: You can get the erase block size from SD cards - it's in the Card Specific Data structure - but I don't know of any standard way to get it for USB mass storage devices. Ah, now you mention it I remember. :) Not sure I would trust

XO-1 Build 802 doesn't turn off speaker amplifier

2009-10-11 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi all, I've noticed a while now that there's an off switch for the external amplifier of the audio codec(?) that can be turned off by using alsamixer. Sugar by default doesn't turn the amplifier off when the sound is muted, which results in a slight hum coming from the speakers all the time. I

Q3A12 firmware

2009-10-11 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a12 This is a stabilization release for B2 machines, fixing numerous issues with the q3a11 firmware that was installed on them during manufacturing. It works on XO-1.5 A1, A2, B1, and B2 systems, but does not work on any XO-1 machines. The change list

Re: [Server-devel] fresh XS 0.6 install

2009-10-11 Thread Tim Moody
So I abandoned qemu and moved to soas under vbox with bridged networking. Now soas gets an ip from the xs and I can reach the moodle login page (and also the external internet) But, I can not register the soas. I get 'can not obtain data needed to register'. I read

[Server-devel] Initial Feedback

2009-10-11 Thread Rangan Srikhanta
Martin, Performed some basic testing today with the XS. Quite impressive. SPECS: 1 x Linksys WRT54GL - DDWRT v24 DELL Optiplex 755 - 160 GB, 2Gb Ram(that's all the specs I have for now) 30 XO laptops Below is a summary of different things I tested to see how they worked - no science to what I

Re: [Server-devel] Initial Feedback

2009-10-11 Thread Gerald Ardito
Rangan, This is really helpful. I have been seeing the same things you saw in items 6 and 7: shutdown/disconnected XOs still show in Neighborhood view. Gerald On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Rangan Srikhanta ran...@laptop.org.auwrote: Martin, Performed some basic testing today with the XS.

Re: [Server-devel] CCCS XS deployment

2009-10-11 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:23 -0400, Josh Totoro wrote: Hey all, We currently have 350 xo’s on our network and 1 xs server running. How well does the XS fair when fully loaded? What specs? We just purchased 300 more xo’s and will purchase 300 more in a month or so. Yea, more fun

Re: [Server-devel] CCCS XS deployment

2009-10-11 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 19:50 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:23 -0400, Josh Totoro wrote: snip When I set up the first XS server back in march (0.5.1) there was a lot more info on the Wiki about setting up multiple XS servers in one network. Does anyone have any of this