Re: Logjam vulnerability and epiphany.

While it is possible to partially fix the LogJam vulnerability, are there plans to declare end-of-life or end-of-support for the older XO's? A few years ago, we talked about ending support in 2020 when other Linux distributions would stop distributing x86 processor builds. And OLPC is not like

Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels

It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has had any sort of major Operating System update. In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer versions of the Linux kernel are required. And from limited exploratory work done years ago, the XO-1

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] "Raspbian reserves 4% of all disk space"

The default threshold probably was 5%, and intentional. This buffer is meant to allow the root user to use & recover the system if it is nearly full. So if this file system has any system purpose and is not purely for the digital library, you probably want the 5% there. It also allows the

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Proposal | SIP VoIP server on XSCE

The downside to SIP is that if you leave a SIP server open on the Internet which allows calls without authenticated registration (even by accident) you will find dozens of systems trying to proxy long-distance & international telephone calls through it. If they can get through, thousands of

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] "Gigabyte BRIX more scalable than Intel NUC"

If you are looking at devices which include sales in the US (and potentially other) market(s), you may find that your devices may only accept one of a few internal Wifi NICs. This is because the FCC certification of the device as a whole is often done including the Wifi module. And they only

Re: [UKids] re:new member

The XO-4 is the only XO to have been officially sold with a touchscreen option. XO-4s use the same screen as other XOs, but with an independent infrared touchscreen on top of it. There were some XO-1.75s that were modified to have more traditional touchscreens to help with Sugar & XO-4 touch

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Internet-in-a-Box endorsed by McDonald's Australia!

Be careful what you say, especially with a corporation known to highly protect its name with lawyers. Usage of the same device is not necessarily an endorsement. I know someone with Intel NUCs all over their house, but they run Windows 10 :) On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Adam Holt

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Lightning kills underground Ethernet too; PoE wiring/voltages non-trivial!

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:55 AM, John Gilmore wrote: > The cheapest of those fiber-enabled switches still cost about US$300 > the last time I looked. The GBICs cost about $50 to $100 at best. > The fiber cable itself is finicky and ideally you would buy it from a > supplier who

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Lightning kills underground Ethernet too; PoE wiring/voltages non-trivial!

If you are going to use any cable outdoors or where it may be exposed to the elements, getting cable rated for the desired outdoor use may be as important as its speed rating. You don't want the cables getting water in them, causing interesting shorts and ground currents. Cables routed inside of

Re: Compatibility of serial adapters

If I recall correctly, the XO-1.5's serial adapter shares some circuitry with the camera. Booting an XO-1.5 with a serial adapter means you cannot use the latter. To do this, the XO-1.5 looks for a resistor placed across two of the wires to see if a serial adapter is present. No other XO laptop

Re: [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5

Would periodically erasing SD cards and eMMC storage help to extend their useful life? Or is this potentially dangerous for chips known to be used which implement these instructions incorrectly? A few years ago, XO firmware would erase the SD card prior to running fs-update. But if I recall

Re: Two (minimal) goals for a kernel for XO1.5 based upon fc22?

Given I looked into this before with F22 Beta(*), I ran OLPC OS Builder tonight, excluding nothing from all repositories, and let it loose. There were a few more minor issues found with the build process. But I managed to build an image with the stock Fedora 4.x kernel, and primarily F22 parts.

Re: [Server-devel] Two (minimal) goals for a kernel for XO1.5 based upon fc22?

Given I looked into this before with F22 Beta(*), I ran OLPC OS Builder tonight, excluding nothing from all repositories, and let it loose. There were a few more minor issues found with the build process. But I managed to build an image with the stock Fedora 4.x kernel, and primarily F22 parts.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

There are at least two types of deployments/customers that Sugar has. The first is the small, volunteer group. To them, it doesn't matter what OS they actually are using, or (to some extent) how well tested things are. They just want to come in, try something with their students, and if they

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

06, 2015 at 09:29:46PM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: It might be possible for this new builder to be eventually taught to handle XOs. There was no significant interest in my previous builder uxo, which already knows how to handle XOs. The recent posts on devel@ of people trying something

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

I will try to answer some questions. But my last two points will only raise new ones. 1. There are a few purposes for the community build. The first is that for a while, all the OLPC builds announced seemed to be private ones available upon request. It therefore was necessary to see

Community XO software builds

I saw some discussion last week about the community XO software builds. This seems to be something which gets many people excited. However according to my web server, there have not been very many downloads of them. If I may ask: - Who actually is using/testing these images? - Why? -

Re: XO Fedora 22 Beta work

...@ausil.us wrote: On Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:36:49 PM Peter Robinson wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: At James' suggestion I looked a bit into a Fedora 22 beta build. I have found the following problems so far getting the RPM

XO Fedora 22 Beta work

At James' suggestion I looked a bit into a Fedora 22 beta build. I have found the following problems so far getting the RPM dependencies worked out: - olpc-library needs to depend on python-jinja2, not python-jinja. The olpc-library RPM also was removed from Fedora, perhaps due to lack of

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

If I recall correctly, Android devices cannot connect to Ad-hoc networks out-of-the-box. There may be some third party utilities which allow certain devices to do this with varying levels of success. Instead, either one device is configured as an AP, or a newer-than-Adhoc standard called WiFi

Re: [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

If I recall correctly, Android devices cannot connect to Ad-hoc networks out-of-the-box. There may be some third party utilities which allow certain devices to do this with varying levels of success. Instead, either one device is configured as an AP, or a newer-than-Adhoc standard called WiFi

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: XS(CE) integration with other environments?

AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: You are taking my remarks a bit out of context, although it is hard for me to tiptoe around explaining things while trying not to insult anyone. From the schoolserver perspective, schoolservers as originally implemented were meant to be an all-in-one system

Re: [Server-devel] XS(CE) integration with other environments?

You are taking my remarks a bit out of context, although it is hard for me to tiptoe around explaining things while trying not to insult anyone. From the schoolserver perspective, schoolservers as originally implemented were meant to be an all-in-one system. They provide DHCP for the laptops,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2

it in 2013-2014. It would be good to make something available that is more up to date, even if it's not an official update. Regards, Sebastian El 05/03/15 a las 07:06, James Cameron escibió: On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 06:55:13AM -0500, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: The updated images can be found

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2

AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: No this isn't the build that runs off an SD card. If there is that much interest I will re-build the XO-1 image with the additional SD card image tonight. Apart from the XO-1, the olpc-os-builder configurations I am using are basically what you see in OLPC's

Re: Firmware q7c04

From the community build perspective, I am waiting to see how many people download and/or provide feedback before making a significant number of them. So far, more search engines than users have downloaded the build I released on Monday. Given the significant barrier to entry (you must have an

Community OS 14.1.0 Version 1

I spent a few hours this past weekend looking into if third-party XO OS builds were still possible. The result is a set of unsigned XO laptop images for XO-1/1.5/1.75/4 I have uploaded to http://www.greenfeld.org/xo/community/builds/14/1/ This is the first time images may have been made for

Re: [Server-devel] Fixing the Shellshocker bash exploit on the old FC9 based XS 0.6

XS 0.7 school servers are based on CentOS 6.x, which still gets security updates. So you can log onto your XS 0.7 schoolserver as root, and yum update bash to get the latest version. Note that there is talk that the first fix may not be complete, so you may have to update bash twice. On Thu,

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] CentOS 7.0 Released, 3 years after CentOS 6.0

It probably will not be that hard for someone familiar with OLPC OS builder to port it to CentOS 7 and make a release. CentOS 7 is a close cousin of Fedora builds which already have been used for XO releases. Possibly a more interesting question is which version of Sugar will make it into

Re: [XSCE] Large groups of XO-1 do not work with access points

I would also point out that if you have 20+ clients at a location you should consider using commercial or enterprise-grade access points. Companies like Aruba Networks make APs which each can contain multiple radios, and support handing off clients between radios and access points depending on

Re: [Server-devel] Install python applications in a virtualenv without, system wide packages using wheel binary package format

From the end user's perspective, what virtualenv does is rewrite the Python path environment so a series of custom-created directories are always tried first. It then optionally looks at the system python path for other modules. The one time I had to use virtualenv it did not solve problems

Re: [Server-devel] Can XSCE benefit a tablet deployment?

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:42 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: This is a branch off of the thread Does XSCE need a new home?, and stimulated by James Cameron's comments quoted where in part: The XO tablet is rebranded Vivitar. On Amazon, besides the XO Tablet, there is also a

Re: [Server-devel] Feedback: Problems with XSCE

://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1976 - Original Message - From: Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org To: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com, server-devel server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Friday, 29 November, 2013 4:10:03 AM Subject: Re: [Server

Re: [Server-devel] Does XSCE need a new Home?

VM with root access granted to community Sysadmins. DavidR, our web and communications guy could assist in setting up and migrating the site. George On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: I think you need to be careful how you phrase

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Fwd: [support-gang] XO tablet can not connect to XSCE server

Two comments on this: 1. It is possible that Android is looking for the DNS search path provided by DHCP that tells a client what suffixes to try. Looking at the git repository the XSCE DHCP server may not currently supply this. I will look into this a bit when I get the chance.

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

If these are the SKU 311 units the Manufacturing Data on the wiki implies they have membrane keyboards. If so I don't see any reason using the keyboard manufacturing tags used for previous Nepali manufacturing runs (or used testing out the settings in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard manually) shouldn't

Re: [Server-devel] aliases for hacking on our XSCE school server

I know that XSCE currently does some customizations, but personally I would prefer to see the normal installation process not modify shell aliases or prompts unless explicitly told to. These are more of a user preference than anything necessary for XSCE to function. XSCE eventually should not act

Re: Activity Central's Sugar related priorities.

Disclaimer: These are my personal views, and are not the official views of OLPC. - It should be fine to discuss anything Sugar-related on the sugarlabs.org development lists. Sugar Labs does not use any OLPC hosting services, and is an independent group as part of the Software

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity Central's Sugar related priorities.

This actually is kind of what I meant (and perhaps should be a separate thread). My understanding is that deployments nowadays are the primary parties funding Sugar development. And the deployments or their contractors sometimes duplicate work, run into debates upstreaming things, and/or may

Re: [Server-devel] Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

Unless there are clients that are going though the router but are not going through the schoolserver, I think this risks more harm than good. Going back to the microprocessor analogy, the Level 2 cache usually is much larger than the Level 1 cache, and only slightly slower. Most community

Re: [Server-devel] Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

helping or hurting. If every AP along the way cached data those closest to the XS could be thrashing their caches a lot. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.orgwrote: Unless

Re: adding a new CA root certificate

Unlike Firefox (which has its own PKI and certificate authority support), Webkit uses the system CA database. You therefore should add the desired CA to the directory of system CA certificates, the location of which varies a bit by distribution and version. With Fedora 19 (not yet used for a XO

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 CentOS boot hang

Given the XS-0.7 does not run X Windows by default, this likely is not the problem. You can try disabling the pseudo-graphical progress bar to get more information. On a system that hangs, choose to edit the default boot option before the countdown timer finishes. Delete the rhgb (Red Hat

Re: [Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.

Unfortunately you chose a week to ask this question when many people are on vacation. I will give my personal, non-official response; however as it is wider issue, server-devel@ likely is not the list this should be discussed on. Recently there have been a number of cases where volunteers along

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 3

There is a need for some continued maintenance of the XS: there are known bugs, and security patches could be required from time to time. Just because something is not unstable does not mean that development has to completely cease. It is not clear to me though who will continue to do this work.

Re: Request for mDNS name resolution from Internet-in-a-Box project

Are you sure a change is required? I just tried connecting using a randomly-grabbed 12.1.0 machine to a network-connected printer (http://hp-model_id.local/) via HTTP and it worked fine. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Braddock bradd...@braddock.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: Request for mDNS name resolution from Internet-in-a-Box project

Looking into this a bit more, what I am seeing may be dependency specific. If you are lucky enough to have a XO image that has extra items added, nss-mdns may be present as a dependency. Otherwise it is not. I could have sworn this worked at one point in this past though because I have

Re: Sound issue with XO 1.75 related to OFW version

It sounds like you are trying to upgrade firmware without upgrading your OS. As of Q4D26 the startup sound was moved to be stored on the internal storage instead of in the firmware. The two beeps therefore are expected if the OS does not have a copy of the startup sound on disk to use. Which OS

Re: [support-gang] [Server-devel] 1TB drive of quality open content on XO/XS--won't boot

NTFS is supported in OLPC builds, just not by the OS Kernel itself. The ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace package can be used to mount NTFS drives. So you should be able to use a command like mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/ntfs_partition /mnt/mountpoint if Sugar or GNOME do not automatically mount the

Re: OS Builder output img ?

The fs0.zip file would only appear if you configured everything to make a signed build. You would only be able to make a signed build if you had a copy of the private keys for the deployment you are making the signed build for. Only OLPC has the keys to make a signed build that pretty much any

Re: 13.1.0 build 36 released for XO-4

Write can collaborate with os36, although it looks like you might be able to share things from the sharing XO-4 and not get data back from joining XOs. Distance when shared over ad-hoc works as well as Chat and Maze through a schoolserver. The distances shown look like they might be close to

Re: 13.1.0 build 32 for XO-4 released

This build is basically usable. Graphics glitches still exist, as the video driver has not been updated yet. The Record activity can now record audio on XO-4, although Scratch cannot. If you are working with collaboration with this XO-4 build you should turn off automatic power management in

Re: 13.1.0 release candidate 6 (build 30) released

I do not see one so I filed #12560. On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 09:55:44AM -0500, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: Do not install Q7B16 when using this build on a XO-4 as that can cause the wifi card to fail to resume after suspend

Re: 13.1.0 release candidate 6 (build 30) released

This build generally works on XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75, and XO-4. On XO-1.75 I ran into problems with applications that use audio (especially while recording) after running a variety of sound-using applications in a row. On XO-4 this build does not fix the graphics corruption or keyboard-induced

Re: 13.1.0 build 29 for XO-4 released

The os29 build has a few known issues related to suspend resume, such as a failure to wake up if you catch the system just as it is trying to suspend (#12541). If you have problems with a XO-4 repetitively hanging while you are trying to use it and you do not want to test wakeups, try disabling

Re: Is gabble not working correctly?

Thanks for the report. This has been confirmed and filed as http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4369 I will get some debugging information on the ticket in a bit. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.comwrote: Jerry, I had been meaning to send an email

Re: Adobe Flash for XO-4 and XO-1.75

To the best of my knowledge, the XO-1.75 and XO-4 have no hardware-level x86 compatibility. They use processors that use the ARM architecture. If you absolutely need x86 support on these platforms and cannot recompile/rebuild code, the qemu platform might be able to help. In the past OLPC has

Re: F18's firewalld in 13.1.0

Thank you for the report. I have confirmed this and filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12430 On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi all, With F18 moving to firewalld as the default firewalling method this has rendered powerd's netactivity iptables chain to NOT

Re: [TRANSIENT] Peer XOs NOT shown in Neighborhood view when Power Management is enabled

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 09:48 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Think I found the problem, in powerd we're setting WOL based on this string: if grep -qi :

Re: 13.1.0 release candidate 1 (build 20) released

I looked at os20 on Friday as well as over the weekend, and in general we are getting a bit more stable and closer to release. Measure on XO-1.75 needs to not record while playing tuning tones as the current Linux sound driver on XO-1.75 cannot simulaneously playback and record (SL #4353). XO-4

Re: [TRANSIENT] Peer XOs NOT shown in Neighborhood view when Power Management is enabled

It sounds like you are having issues with multicast packet wakeups, which have always been a bit of a sore spot. I presume you are using ad-hoc networking, and have not left the XOs idling to the point they shutdown their screen turns black and the wifi card is turned off (~20 minutes?). If this

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 15 November 2012

The most generic ticket I know of is http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2974 . In general the false failed to start report has been a problem for at least as long as I've used Sugar. On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: On 16/12/12 13:34, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

Re: 13.1.0 development build 18 released

My experience is that Speak and TamTam work, but Record, Scratch, and eToys do not. I suspect this is either an interface approach or a sampling rate issue. If I try to sample at the wrong rates with arecord aplay I get no audio back at all. Attempting to change the dmix rate from 44.1 kHz to

Re: [Server-devel] Re-register an XO on XS schoolserver

Older OS builds may not be able to re-register by default, but I think resorting to the command line may be overdoing it. I seem to recall that deleting the schoolserver name from the Network control panel and pressing the OK (checkmark) button was enough to get the Register item to appear again

Re: HDMI port

The connector on XO-4 B1 motherboards is a bit further in than it should be. You might not be able to establish a reliable connection to it without increasing the size of the opening in the case. The connector on XO-4 C1 motherboards has been moved a bit further out. In terms of using the

Re: 13.1.0 development build 14 released

I looked at os14 this weekend on XO-1.75 and XO-4 (as well as looked at os12 on XO-1 and XO-1.5 in the past). In general the builds are getting to be reasonably stable, although still a bit rough around the edges. I did not see any XO-1.75 or XO-4 manufacturing test issues with os12 or os13.

Re: 13.1.0 development build 12 released

The update is done by olpc.fth if the XO is not secured, and we just re-enabled the ability to do this on XO-4 in os12.A battery/power icon will appear if the XO is running without external power and the firmware cannot be safely updated. As I understand it, the auto-firmware reflash process

Re: [Techteam] 13.1.0 development build 11 released

I looked at 13.1.0 os11 on the XO-1.5, XO-1.75, and XO-4. - This build is usable in a similar manner to the previous build. - Collaboration over ad-hoc works although I could not get users to see each other once registered to a schoolserver. - XO-1.75 audio is back to its previous

Re: 13.1.0 development build 10 released

I looked at os10 on XO-1.5 and XO-4 with Q7B05. The build generally works. The Sugar pop-menus place items a bit closer together though, which is not good for touch usage. There still is no XO-4 sound support. You can see other Sugar systems in the network view but as soon as you share an

Re: 13.1.0 development build 9 released

I have looked primarily at the XO-1.75 and XO-4 images, but also a bit at the XO-1.5 image since it came out this morning. The ability to use the GNOME menus is back along with the icons that previously disappeared in Sugar. XO-1.75 audio is still poor in quality (especially recording; #12199),

Re: [Testing] 13.1.0 development build 8 released

I did not see this installing os8 on XO-1.5 on a 4 GB unit, although this could be a sign we exceeded the limit of a 2 GB one. This also sometimes means that the internal SD card is not working or plugged in correctly (the OFW banner will show a 0 GB internal device). I looked at os8 on XO-1,

Re: 13.1.0 development build 7 released

I looked at os7 on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. - XO-1.75 has some audio issues (especially with recording) that are a regression to os5 (#12199). - XO-1.75 also has a graphics corruption issue which may be related to rotation visible in certain activities like eToys and Calculate. I need to

[Server-devel] Experimental schoolserver tweaks - Moodle upgrade and alternative name support for XO builds

I have two experimental schoolserver tweaks available for those who are interested. These are not officially supported, have only seen light testing, and may break in interesting ways, so please use caution if you choose to try them out. Testing these with school servers or XO builds used by

Re: Using ext4 usb drive to go to 13.1.0

The final version of 13.1.0 (os21) only ships with Q4D17 for XO-1.75 (Q3C07 for XO-1.5, Q2F12 on XO-1). I am aware that at least one USB glitch (#12034 on XO-1.5) is present in the final release, but given this seemed non-fatal the release freeze was not lifted to take a new firmware build. If

Re: Using ext4 usb drive to go to 13.1.0

, Sep 23, 2012 at 09:37:57PM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: The final version of 13.1.0 (os21) only ships with Q4D17 for XO-1.75 (Q3C07 for XO-1.5, Q2F12 on XO-1). I am aware that at least one USB glitch (#12034 on XO-1.5) is present in the final release, but given this seemed non-fatal

Re: 13.1.0 development build 2 released

Besides the Control Panel issues (missing or unwrapped text/Switch to GNOME crashes Sugar/etc.) the two major issues I believe exist with os2 are the inability to use external media (SL #3911) and the inability to collaborate (SL #3939). If you can collaborate with 13.1.0 os2 please let me know;

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem downloading a lease.sig file on an XO

This might be a better question for the OLPC development lists. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Juan Cubillo jcubi...@fundacionqt.orgwrote: Hello, Our project would like to give kids the posibility of downloading a lease.sig file and unlock a friends or family XO without having to contact

Re: Announcing Q3C09 for XO-1.5

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: On 08/30/2012 11:53 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: what version of Open Firmware are you using that you are replying to the Q3C09 thread? q3c09 The reason I posted to this thread is -- I did NOT have the described kernel

Re: Announcing Q3C09 for XO-1.5

in. [With other hubs, of the same or different models, the problem does not show up.] So this a problem with the USB hub and not the network adapter? On 08/31/2012 09:09 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: Open Firmware knows how to use certain types of USB Ethernet adapters in addition

Re: Announcing Q3C09 for XO-1.5

What make and model of USB Ethernet adapter are you using? And what version of Open Firmware are you using that you are replying to the Q3C09 thread? I have tried all three USB ports with a network cable both connected and disconnected to a asix-based Zoltantech ZU-80, and I could not hang a

Re: Setting the time

...@us.netrek.org20120827084339.gh7...@us.netrek.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:07:35PM -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: To the best of my knowledge this is an intentional omission for antitheft reasons. Instructions on how to set the clock from OFW or the command

Re: [Server-devel] registering an xo for second time

If the OS/Sugar build is new enough, the Register option never disappears from the Right click menu of the XO character in the home view, and re-registration is possible with no editing required. The Register option only appears on the screen which has the application Circle/Spiral present, and

Re: Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

To the best of my knowledge this is an intentional omission for antitheft reasons. Instructions on how to set the clock from OFW or the command line are at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock . If using the date command is not sufficient to permanently store the change, hwclock --systohc or

Re: 12.1.0

Build 20 exists for XO-1.5 but has not been released yet. It has a significant driver design change to prevent hanging the laptop over a suspend/resume cycle (#12027). Given there have not been any reports of the refactored driver crashing or causing major issues, os20 likely will be published

Re: [Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:27:11PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: Rosella: All the text is still tiny as reported previously. Sorry, we haven???t taken it apart as recommended a while ago. You're referring to Daniel Drake's

Re: 12.1.0 release candidate 3 (build 16) released

At this point in time there would have to be a significant reason to include a full activity update as opposed to creating a new dotted activity version with a specific fix. As mentioned in Daniel's email the final release is currently scheduled for July 9th. The final build therefore needs to

Re: Outdoor Light Sensor

Putting the light sensor only on the rear could run into issues if the screen is facing the Sun and the rear of the XO creates a shadow. An ugly yet isolated place to put the OLS might be in the neck of the laptop. But there isn't much room in that area. You would need two openings since the

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 13 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

Due to a missing character in a change to olpc-os-builder[*], 12.1.0 os13 builds do not have any working Linux console terminals, and will repeatedly try to set permissions on the /dev directory to 0600 (root-only read/write) while trying to restart said terminals. This permissions change on /dev

Re: How-to make the XS appear in the neighbourhood view of the XOs

I have pondered this, along with enterprise (larger school) XS installations in general. The XS typically does not control its wifi AP, so it can only be easily shown when when users associate to its AP. This is not necessarily a problem, as XOs only see each other on the same network in a

Re: [Server-devel] How-to make the XS appear in the neighbourhood view of the XOs

I have pondered this, along with enterprise (larger school) XS installations in general. The XS typically does not control its wifi AP, so it can only be easily shown when when users associate to its AP. This is not necessarily a problem, as XOs only see each other on the same network in a

Re: XO battery/performance

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: On 05/30/2012 03:34 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: Most of the test had empty values but the informative ones (below) show that the XO-1.5 is better in basic integer operations and memory bandwidth while the

Re: legousbtower kernel module

I plugged a Belkin (Broadcom-based) USB Bluetooth adapter into two XO-1.75s running reasonably current 3.0.19 kernels (on 11.3.1 os3x builds), as well a XO-1.5 running a 3.3.2 kernel (on 12.1.0 os8), and all of them recognized the adapter. The driver used was btusb. What build are you using and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

It's worth noting that half the battle can be won by overriding the following XO-1 specific line in OLPC OS Builder's kspost.50.xo1-tweaks.inc: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set /desktop/sugar/network/adhoc false Setting this to

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 in VM

in case someone stumbles upon this email thread, and thinks about using a virtualized image for their school. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: At least historically, I have been

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 in VM

At least historically, I have been told that OLPC does not support the XS in virtual environments. This does not mean it is not possible; but officially OLPC may not be able to support such VMs. I vaguely recall the reasons for this; but as it has been a while, I will leave the official

Re: [Server-devel] 0.7 stable?

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: CliqueRM / telepathy-salut capture file request

I uploaded a packet dump for you of two XOs sharing a simple Chat Activity over Salut, which uses Clique. The Second XO shares the activity, and the First one joins it. They then alternate sending messages back and forth twice. The First system then leaves the activity followed by the Second

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

In our local case, the deployment purchased a supposedly RHEL-compliant server which lacked a Linux driver for its built-in RAID controller. This RAID controller created disk partitions which spanned the full size of each disk drive. These partitions appeared when the lower-level disk

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

What James is referring to is that newer Open Firmware builds *already* know to use 0,1,2 to distinguish signed XO-1, 1.5, 1.75 installation files respectively. The unsigned files still need a scheme to be made distinguishable; but unless we want to change OFW we should stick with what it knows.

Re: [Server-devel] A quick networking question

The example DHCP configuration linked likely should be updated to support multiple MAC address ranges. In addition to the 00:17:C4 prefix mentioned in that script, newer XOs may come with Wifi cards that have a 20:7C:8F prefix, and I'm looking at an XO that has a 68:A3:C4 prefix. On Tue, Feb

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