Re: Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-28 Thread forster
Paul Keeping the dongle powered also happens with automatic power management on the 1.75 (ie 15 seconds with no input). Same problem though, keyboard or trackpad input to wake up powers down the dongle. It takes 35 seconds for the dongle to appear in the frame, then user input is required,

PATCH: revise firmware name used in OOB

2012-03-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: Patch to correct the firmware name used in olpc-os-builder, due to the recent renaming of the bootfw rpm. Jerry diff --git a/olpc-os-builder/modules/xo1_5/kspkglist.50.xo1_5.inc b/olpc-os-builder/modules/xo1_5/kspkglist.50.xo1_5.inc index a678230..9843807 100644 ---

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop through a crossover cable. That's a very cool trick. So only XO-1.75 can be the host, but any

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop through a crossover cable. That's a very cool trick. So only

Disable mesh

2012-03-28 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: If one never uses mesh in a 15-20 group XO-1 classroom environment, but always uses AP's, is there any appreciable benefit to disabling mesh completely - perhaps to reduce chatter or power usage? I have read one can use the following to do so, if desired: echo 0

Re: Disable mesh

2012-03-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 10:17 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: Folks: If one never uses mesh in a 15-20 group XO-1 classroom environment, but always uses AP's, is there any appreciable benefit to disabling mesh completely - perhaps to reduce chatter or power usage? I have read one can use the

Re: PATCH: revise firmware name used in OOB

2012-03-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi All: Patch to correct the firmware name used in olpc-os-builder, due to the recent renaming of the bootfw rpm. This fix is already in the master branch of OOB. Peter ___ Devel

Re: 12.1.0; dri drivers

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: That is correct. on Nov 15 2010. It was added back on Nov 16 2011 commit 0fd2b01338952b944d93187079795db85dea4891 Cleanups to BuildRequires, Requires, Conflicts, etc. with no further explanation Great, thanks

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop through a crossover

Re: PATCH: revise firmware name used in OOB

2012-03-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 16:04 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi All: Patch to correct the firmware name used in olpc-os-builder, due to the recent renaming of the bootfw rpm. This fix is already in the master branch of OOB.

Re: XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 27, 2012, at 5:52 AM, James Cameron wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Useful --- the computer science equivalent of the voltmeter. Educational --- I learned that OFW has structs, and some new primitives (/n, ukey). Credit to the

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread Mitch Bradley
The space required by the serial terminal thing is insignificant. On 3/28/2012 4:44 PM, John Watlington wrote: On Mar 27, 2012, at 5:52 AM, James Cameron wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Useful --- the computer science equivalent of the