How do I clear an OFW flag?

2009-01-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Trying to test the fix for #8976 , I am stumped at what I thought would be a trivial step - clearing the AK flag. My laptop has ak and dk flags set, and I have both leases handy in case something goes wrong. The NAND has a good signed image. The only hint I was able to find was in a script in

Re: UDP broadcast from an XO

2009-01-02 Thread shivaprasad javali
Hi, Is there any way I can ask the OLPC to broadcast the UDP packets. I am broadcasting the UDP packets by writing to the UDP port and setting the destination address to 255.255.255.255 . I am using ports 61556 and 61557 for communication. So if the antenna of the OLPC ( and hence its wireless

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi Stan! I'm having problems: Adobe FlashPlayer doesn't detect the XO's built-in webcam so it can't transmit video out to the Internet on Flash-enabled web sites, I've documented this problem as well at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash - The XO's webcam is not interfacing properly with

Re: UDP broadcast from an XO

2009-01-02 Thread david
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi, Is there any way I can ask the OLPC to broadcast the UDP packets. I am broadcasting the UDP packets by writing to the UDP port and setting the destination address to 255.255.255.255 . I am using ports 61556 and 61557 for communication. So

Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-02 Thread Brian Pepple
Hi All, A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has passed an initial smoke test and now needs broader testing. The build download and problem reporting instructions are here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing#Current_status The very early draft release notes

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:56:59PM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote: Ditto. I've tried Sugarizing newer versions of Opera myself, but we're out of luck because of the Rainbow Security implemented in newer XO OS builds don't allow writing of files by Activities to certain directories that Opera

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Could you be more specific about what writes are failing? Hi Michael! Basically the problem is this one from the Opera Wiki page: There is at present an incompatibility between the Opera activity and the OLPC Rainbow security system on some builds. If when you launch the Opera activity, the

Re: Flash Opera on the XO + Firefox

2009-01-02 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Since Opera's newer releases still won't see the XO's webcam, I won't be installing Opera updates until someone (OLPC people or Adobe) gets the driver situation fixed. I don't think either organization has much motivation to fix it, though. Yeah, a shame IMO. The IT world has gone full-circle

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-02 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Greg, Sorry for delayed response, I've had little internet connectivity so have only had limited mail access and mostly through a windows box :( I'm still looking for help resolving the dependencies Chris found when he tried to install Gnome. The issue and thread are documented in the

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:56:59PM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote: Ditto. I've tried Sugarizing newer versions of Opera myself, but we're out of luck because of the Rainbow Security implemented in newer XO OS builds don't allow writing of files by Activities to certain directories that Opera

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-02 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Greg, Sorry for delayed response, I've had little internet connectivity so have only had limited mail access and mostly through a windows box :( I'm still looking for help resolving the dependencies Chris found when he tried to install Gnome. The issue and thread are documented in the

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Peter, thanks for the reply, Is this on 8.2.0 or joyride? It looks like 8.2 due to the gnome-python version being olpc3. It's running a joyride F10 build, but looks like you're right about olpc3. Here's the /etc/yum.repos.d/olpc-development.repo shipped in Joyride:

zen root (was Re: Flash wiki entries)

2009-01-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: Anyway, why does this wiki page tell you to enter sudo su - Some future zen compilation of sudo may support infinite nesting of levels of protectedness, so that you have to really REALLY mean it to say sudo sudo sudo

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1-dev03 with ejabberd goodness, kernel bling, Access Point workingness... looking for xmas testers

2009-01-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/12/30 David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb: - Installed 0.5 Nov 19th download on Toshiba notebook computer with black box prototype AA (USB) ... - yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update - restart Just to make double, triple-sure... can you tell us what

[Server-devel] File Sharing on XS - (was:XS 0.5.1-dev03 with...)

2009-01-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/12/31 Anna ascho...@gmail.com: 2008/12/31 David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb I want to do a new install but can you let me know if I can install Samba and how to set up access to a shared folder on a Windows PC on the LAN as I have a large content collection and it takes ages to