Re: EXA performance

2007-08-30 Thread Arjun Sarwal
I'm going to do some Cairo testing... I look forward to that. Maybe some hacks would help me improve Measure activity's (which uses Cairo for all its drawing) response time too ? http://pastebin.com/m4db7bc4e is where all drawing is done. regards, Arjun -- Arjun Sarwal ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EXA performance

2007-08-30 Thread Jim Gettys
It's not clear to me that micro-benchmarks are going to tell us much at all: I'm worried about the fact that Cairo likes to do things 32 bits and they then have to be converted and composited at 16 bits; the microbenchmarks won't tell us much about how common these conversion costs are. I think

Re: Unable to update my machine

2007-08-30 Thread Kim Quirk
Philip, It sounds like you have tried a lot of things, but you don't mention downloading the latest copy of olpc-auto.zip, which is required these days. This file has been updated quite a few times recently so the latest version should be downloaded whenever you get a new build. The

Re: Unable to update my machine

2007-08-30 Thread Philip Macpherson
To Kim Quirk Thanks for the reply. My copy of olpc-auto.zip is 3 days old. I last went though the wiki page last night in a final attempt before emailing the list. I would really appreciate if you went though the installation with me on irc as I've read though the page multiple times and can't

Re: Unable to update my machine

2007-08-30 Thread Eben Eliason
You may wish to try the python script that I recently added to the autoreinstallation page. It's been working consistently for me here. The following should give you a completely clean auto-installation image of the latest development build: python sugar-update.py -vo /path/to/usbdrive - Eben

Re: Unable to update my machine

2007-08-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
The problem is ostensibly fixed in a new version of firmware that will be released in the next couple of days. The problem is actually a little more complicated than having a partition table or not. There was a situation where a disk could appear to both have a partition table, and also have

Re: Please test Xorg 1.4

2007-08-30 Thread Yuan Chao
On 8/28/07, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got reports of corrupted scrollbars in the Web activity, but it turns out that it also happes with X 1.3, and only I also met the corrupted scrollbars in OS557. As to other parts, so far I didn't see any special problem. Except that the

Re: Please test Xorg 1.4

2007-08-30 Thread Yuan Chao
On 8/31/07, Yuan Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also met the corrupted scrollbars in OS557. As to other parts, so far I didn't see any special problem. Except that the touch pad Forgot to mention that the camera activity is fixed in OS557 and also works fine with Xorg 1.4. speed/acceleration