Hey all, tidbits: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2240.msg26267;topicseen#msg26267 * working power management(tested) modprobe olpc_battery * enables battery level detection - grab "battery-status" script from an XO running 8.2 sudo ifconfig eth0 up * makes the eth0 interface show up if it's otherwise hidden or 'down'
Can someone please wikify this stuff? Enjoy! -- Ian Daniher -- OLPC Support Volunteer OLPCinci Repair Center Coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype : it.daniher irc.freenode.net: Ian_Daniher On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds right. The OHM packages aren't in any debian repo afaik, so > we'll have to package them. Then we'd need a debian repository for > these packages. > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:53:40AM -0500, Ian Daniher wrote: > > RE Suspend / Resume : talk to CJB(Chris Ball) about OHM. I spoke with him > a > > few weeks ago and, if I recall correctly, all one needs to do is use the > > official OLPC Kernel and install the OHM packages. > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:20 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:27:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: > > > >>> The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware > enablement > > > >>> section that I added last week, which covers some of the things > this > > > >>> thread has discussed. > > > >> > > > >> link to xodist please? > > > > > > > > xodist is the git repository name for the scripts that generate debxo > > > > images. > > > > > > sorry, I missed that (and I even have that repository cloned, shame on > me > > > :-) > > > > > > > git://lunge.mit.edu/git/xodist (per Andres' mail of 28th Oct) > > > > or > > > > http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/xodist.git/<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Equozl/xodist.git/> > <http://dev.laptop.org/%7Equozl/xodist.git/>(my repo, sync'ed) > > > > > > > >> do you have the direction and rotate game keys working? > > > > > > > > I don't know. > > > > > > they do not in the 0.3 build > > > > > > >>> brightness control keys (conflicts with function key usage) > > > >>> volume control keys (conflicts with function key usage) > > > >> > > > >> these don't need system changes, just deciding which function those > keys > > > >> should do, the brightness and volume functions are strictly in > software > > > >> (and done via X hooks, as can be shown by the fact that these do not > > > work > > > >> in a console, and in fact crash the system if you hit them there) > > > > > > > > Seems more logical to handle these keys in the kernel. > > > > > > I don't think so. since the hardware produces the function keys, if the > > > kernel does the functions instead of userspace, you loose the > flexibility > > > to use these as normal function keys. > > > > > > the tendancy is to push more of this sort of thing to userspace anyway. > > > the volume keys onthe thinkpads recently changed from being handled by > the > > > hardware to be intercepted by the kernel and treated as normal keys > (with > > > the default bindings being to control the volume) a few months ago this > > > worked in Gnome, but not KDE, with the ubuntu release a few days ago it > > > works in both (I don't use sound enough to have tried it outside of X) > > > > > > >>> turn off backlight on suspend or hibernate > > > >> > > > >> I don't use suspend or hibernate enough to help, but now that we > have > > > the > > > >> script to control the backlight this should be fairly easy (although > you > > > >> really want to turn off the entire screen, not just the backlight, > at > > > >> least for hibernate, don't you?) > > > > > > > > If you're saying "the OLPC XO build also turns off the screen > hardware", > > > > then the next question is "how?" ... presumably this can be found by > > > > examining it. > > > > > > the thought just hit me that we don't always want to turn off the > screen > > > on suspend, unlike normal systems the XO is designed to be able to run > the > > > display when the main processor is suspended (although I remember being > > > told that this isn't working due to software limitations today) > > > > > > >>> The latter method is how xodist's initchroot.sh script does some > > > >>> features ... like setting up /etc/modules, xorg.conf, and so forth. > > > >> > > > >> I'm actually not happy with how the OLPC currently handles these > things, > > > >> they are too X (and sugar) specific. we need to get a layer lower if > we > > > >> can. > > > > > > > > Good. But the general purpose solutions in Debian are perhaps too > > > > general for this situation. Things like the discover package. > > > > > > ideally I want to figure out how to get these keys into the kernel, at > > > that point any userspace can deal with them. > > > > > > David Lang > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Ian Daniher > > -- > > OLPC Support Volunteer > > OLPCinci Repair Center Coordinator > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Skype : it.daniher > > irc.freenode.net: Ian_Daniher > > -- > > c: 513.290.4942 > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Ian Daniher -- OLPC Support Volunteer OLPCinci Repair Center Coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype : it.daniher irc.freenode.net: Ian_Daniher -- c: 513.290.4942
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