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2012-04-09 Thread Stefan Reitz
http://vocediz.com.br/wp-content/themes/p2/rytj.html?ogh=z.gifosy=wog.jjgsnsbf=ojij ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Fox
i just sent this to the folks working on the current doc sprint, and then realized it probably deserves a wider audience. operation of the brightness keys was enhanced a bit in 11.3.1, based on discussion on the devel list, but i don't recall that i ever sent out a summary mail. for convenience,

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Fox
nicholas wrote: Is there a way to read the current value of the 1.75's ambient light sensor? It'd be neat if that could be displayed by an activity. there is. turtleart can do this, i believe. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Light_Sensor#Programming paul =- paul fox,

Re: Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread forster
nicholas wrote: Is there a way to read the current value of the 1.75's ambient light sensor? It'd be neat if that could be displayed by an activity. there is. turtleart can do this, i believe. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Light_Sensor#Programming see

Porting alsa-info to sysfs -- for ARM platforms

2012-04-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Jaroslav, Takashi, I am addressing you, because you seem to be the alsa-info maintainers. I am part of OLPC's dev team, and our latest XO laptop model is based on a very power-efficient ARM CPU. One of the oddities of the ARM platform is that it doesn't have a PCI bus, so alsa works fine, but

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread Nicholas Doiron
Is there a way to read the current value of the 1.75's ambient light sensor? It'd be neat if that could be displayed by an activity. -- Nick Doiron Code for America On Apr 9, 2012 9:16 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i just sent this to the folks working on the current doc sprint, and then

Re: Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread forster
Is there a way to read the current value of the 1.75's ambient light sensor? It'd be neat if that could be displayed by an activity. Yes its documented at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art#Device_I.2FO what you want I think is /sys/devices/platform/olpc-ols.0/level Tony

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Mon, Apr 09 2012, Nicholas Doiron wrote: Is there a way to read the current value of the 1.75's ambient light sensor? It'd be neat if that could be displayed by an activity. Yes, /sys/devices/platform/olpc-ols.0/level You can read powerd's source on the XO; it uses a more complicated

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread James Cameron
G'day Kevin I was responsible for the idea to use an LED as a cheap light sensor on the XO-1.75, built the first prototype, and have been following the feature since. To use an LED as a light sensor requires a special connection method; either the LED must be mounted in reverse, or both

Re: [Server-devel] 0.7 stable?

2012-04-09 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Anyone? Thanks, Christoph On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: wiki.l.o still says 0.6 is stable and 0.7 is unstable. Change? ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] 0.7 stable?

2012-04-09 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
I checked with Daniel Drake and we decided to mark XS-0.7 as stable in the Wiki. Thanks for letting us know. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone? Thanks, Christoph On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Sameer Verma

Re: [Server-devel] 0.7 stable?

2012-04-09 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Cool, thanks! :-) Christoph On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.orgwrote: I checked with Daniel Drake and we decided to mark XS-0.7 as stable in the Wiki. Thanks for letting us know. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Christoph Derndorfer