So far the new keyboard descriptions in the manufacturing data are a paper spec only.
By that I mean that, as far as I know, the new tags are not present in the pre-build machines, and the OS doesn't look for them. (That is not quite true for OFW; it will use the new KA tag if it exists). One way to save the mfg data to a file is to boot linux to a shell prompt and tar up /ofw/mfg-data There is a way to do it from OFW too, but I don't have the recipe handy and I have to get on the plane in a couple of minutes. Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > On 10/24/07 10:56, John Watlington wrote: > > >>> I've never seen a C2 machine yet. What are the relevant >>> hardware changes? >>> >> None. Testers in Cambridge should be seeing the same problems! >> The only difference should be that these machines didn't go through >> the full "write manufacturing data" process. >> > > AH! That's it! > > Perhaps /etc/init.d/olpc-configure is screwing up > /etc/X11/xorg.conf because it cannot make sense of the > manufactoring data. > > Moreover, we made some substantial changes to the keyboard > descriptions, lately and I don't think anyone updated > olpc-configure. > > I asked cjb on IRC to read what's in /ofw/mfg-data/ and > report it back, so I can hack together some quick patch > for olpc-configure. > > It seems a fix is needed in a hurry, so I'll try to make > it blindly, without an actual C2. But I could use a > procedure to save your mfg-data to a file and restore it > on a C1 laptop here in 1CC. I'll ask Mitch if that is > possible somehow. > > The definitive fix for olpc-configure would be setting > the X keyboard from within the xinitrc script, without > editing the config files at all. But that's planned > for FDS, not Trial3. > > > >> If this is due to new security "features", I once again plead for >> those features to be removed from the builds... >> > > They should be disabled by default... I asked cjb > and he confirmed it. > > > >> We are about to build 10K laptops that won't boot X! >> > > Heh, so why is it necessarily a bad thing? Our children will > learn in first grade how to fix their X server on Linux! > That's what I would call a steep learning curve :-) > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
