i am working in Ministry of Education Kabul Afghanistan OLPC team as software developer and technical support officer. i want some questions guys.
which linux os is best for developing olpc custom images? how to sign a custom image for xo's in my country ? how to put custom image into school server so the xo's can update from ? Regards -- Javid Alam Software Developer and Technical support Officer OLPC Ministry of Education Kabul Afghanistan contact: +93(0)798123451 alternative email: [email protected] On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Devel mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [Testing] F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate > 2 (James Cameron) > 2. Re: [Testing] F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate > 2 (Richard Smith) > 3. Re: F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate 2 (Chris Ball) > 4. Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11-0.88 Alpha2 (os258py) (Tomeu Vizoso) > 5. Re: F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate 2 > (Bert Freudenberg) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:47:26 +1000 > From: James Cameron <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Testing] F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate > 2 > To: Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > Cc: OLPC Testing Mailing List <[email protected]>, John > Maloney > <[email protected]>, Derek O'Connell < > [email protected]>, > Devel <[email protected]>, Fedora OLPC > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:32:12PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > Installed on my 1.5 after updating the firmware to q3a39. > > Typing "boot" in OFW right after "fs-update" froze the machine. > > Unpredictable behaviour is known to occur if you try to "boot" after > fs-update, you should use "bye". > > > Powered off (long-press on power button) and booted. Let it sit idle > > for a while in the first-time Sugar screen (name dialog) -> machine > > froze. > > It should idle suspend. It should not freeze. > > > However, after letting the machine sit idle for a while (even just > > after booting, still in the Sugar home screen), the whole machine > > froze. Power LED was still on. Had to power-cycle. Does not happen all > > the time, but twice already. Maybe it's my machine (one of the first > > C-test ones)? > > Sounds bad. Do you have a serial port attached? I ask because I > suspect a kernel panic and a serial port is a practical way to obtain > more problem data. > > Might also be worth running memtest from OFW as well, just to exclude > certain other causes. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:50:33 -0400 > From: Richard Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Testing] F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate > 2 > To: James Cameron <[email protected]>, Bert Freudenberg > <[email protected]>, Fedora OLPC < > [email protected]>, > Devel <[email protected]>, "Derek O'Connell" > <[email protected]>, OLPC Testing Mailing List > <[email protected]>, John Maloney < > [email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > > Might also be worth running memtest from OFW as well, just to exclude > > certain other causes. > > memtest will puke errors unless you set the lower address range to > 30M. Dunno why. Guess a bug needs top be filed for sorting it out. > > If you run memtest hit 'c' right after it starts to go into config > then '2' for address range '1' for lower limit. Enter '30m' press > return then press '0' to restart the tests. > > -- > Richard A. Smith > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:24:12 -0400 > From: Chris Ball <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate 2 > To: Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > Cc: OLPC Testing Mailing List <[email protected]>, John > Maloney > <[email protected]>, Derek O'Connell < > [email protected]>, > Devel <[email protected]>, Fedora OLPC > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi Bert, > > > Copied ~olpc/Activities/Sratch.activity/vm-sound-ALSA plugin to > > /usr/lib/squeak/3.10-5/. > > > > After that, in Etoys playback sounds a bit worse, but it's still > > okay (hard to tell actually). And no freeze after suspend, > > playing just resumes. So it would be a good idea to use that ALSA > > plugin for Squeak in general, me thinks. > > Could we get a squeak/etoys package with a fixed alsa-plugin ASAP, please? > > > Had to power-cycle. Does not happen all the time, but twice > > already. Maybe it's my machine (one of the first C-test ones)? > > Yes, does sound a bit like hardware. > > Thanks, > > - Chris. > -- > Chris Ball <[email protected]> > One Laptop Per Child > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:18:54 +0200 > From: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11-0.88 Alpha2 (os258py) > To: Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> > Cc: IAEP <[email protected]>, OLPC Devel > <[email protected]>, Fedora OLPC List > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 20:03, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is the Alpha2 milestone of our Sugar 0.88 series for XO. > > Please refer to this page for the current status and download > > instructions: > > > > ?http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Sugar-0.88_Notes > > > > Surprise surprise! We now have parallel builds for both the XO-1 and the > > XO-1.5! > > > > I'll make an effort to keep the releases synchronized so people can test > > on both platforms, but at this time we have no resources to work on > > platform specific bugs affecting the XO-1.5. > > > > > > == Changes relative to the previous release (os240py) == > > > > ?* Include Sugar 0.88.1 packages (pbrobinson) > > > > ?* Rebase unmerged patches on top of 0.88.1 and shave off a few > > ? which are no longer needed. The queue is still very long, help > > ? is needed to upstream as many as possible before release > > > > ?* Disabled the hot corners for the frame, as requested by > > ? participants of the OLPC Realness Summit. I'm not convinced > > ? this is really a gain, but let's first see how many people > > ? ask to revert this change (tch, bernie) > > > > ?* Disable sshd startup to save time/memory (bernie) > > > > ?* add IRC and SIP protocols to Empathy client (bernie) > > > > ?* Include the Words activity (bernie) > > > > ?* Add a few small content bundles (bernie) > > > > ?* Pull latest OS updates from upstream (fedora) > > > > > > == Bugs fixed in this release == > > > > ?* xulrunner 1.9.2, attempting to fix font size problems (bernie) > > ? http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2018 > > > > ?* Prevent double-clicks on entries in the journal from opening > > ? 2-3 instances of the same activity (tch) > > > > ?* Rework code to read name widget in the activity toolbar, > > ? although there are still ways to fool it (bernie) > > ? http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1948 > > > > ?* Fix font size in Terminal (jasg) > > > > ?* Fix layout of Record UI, although with a temporary kludge (m_anish) > > > > ?* Reconnect to last AP on startup (erikos) > > ? http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1883 > > > > ?* Fix the nefarious 1-dot boot hang bug (dsd, bernie) > > > > ?* Make search box in library homepage narrower so it doesn't overflow > > ? (bernie) > > > > ?* Avoid duplicated mesh icons in neighborhood view (tch) > > > > ?* Proper Geode video driver fix for the "black boxes on buttons" > > ? bug in GNOME. Note, (frank_huang) > > ? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15700 > > ? http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10076 > > > > ? NOTE: for safety, I have not yet removed the MigrationHeuristic > > ? option in xorg.conf. Please, try testing without it. > > > > > > == Known bugs == > > > > We still have a bunch of serious regressions still open: > > > > ?* ALT-TAB does not switch between apps (tch, quozl, bernie) > > > > ?* Activities sometimes start and remain in window. Window > > ? appears at least briefly on all launches. (aa?) > > > > ?* Pulsing launch icon is delayed or absent; occasional "activity > > ? failed to start" message then the activity starts (tch) > > > > ?* Measure sometimes locks up on recording, quitting from frame > > ? then brings up metacity dialog "activity is not responding" > > ? (I could never reproduce this myself) > > > > ?* Font in Write is small and text does not fill the screen width (jasg) > > > > ?* Browse: sometimes clicking links in frames creates tabs > > ? (need someone to look at this. aa?) > > > > ?* Turtle Blocks: ctrl-c ctrl-v sometimes do not work (walter) > > > > ?* Sugar sometimes restarts; only seen 3 times, twice clicking on > > ? journal and once deleting a journal entry > > ? (can't reproduce this, maybe a geode driver bug. Next time please > > ? check /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old and other logs) > > > > All the above bugs seem quite hard. Any help fixing them would be > > greatly appreciated. > > > > > > == How to help testing == > > > > Feedback from the entire community is very appreciated, although we're > > not planning any further releases of the Sugar 0.84 series. > > > > Bugs affecting upstream components are better filed in their respective > > trackers: > > > > ?* Sugar and activities: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ > > ?* Fedora 11: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ > > ?* Drivers and OLPC OS customizations: http://dev.laptop.org/ > > ?* Paraguay-specific bugs: http://trac.paraguayeduca.org/ > > > > If you're unsure where a bug belongs to, use the Paragauy Educa tracker. > > Please, always assign these bugs to "Carlos", who will keep our status > > summary updated. > > > > > > == Acknowledgments == > > > > I wish to thank Paraguay Educa and Activity Central for providing > > essential engineering resources to make this effort possible. > > Indeed, this is awesome work! > > Keep it up, > > Tomeu > > > I also appreciate the expertise and support of many dedicated community > > developers and testers. > > > > -- > > ? // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > > ?\X/ ?Sugar Labs ? ? ? - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:58:42 +0200 > From: Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate 2 > To: Chris Ball <[email protected]> > Cc: OLPC Testing Mailing List <[email protected]>, John > Maloney > <[email protected]>, Derek O'Connell < > [email protected]>, > Devel <[email protected]>, Fedora OLPC > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > On 14.06.2010, at 06:24, Chris Ball wrote: > > > Hi Bert, > > > >> Copied ~olpc/Activities/Sratch.activity/vm-sound-ALSA plugin to > >> /usr/lib/squeak/3.10-5/. > >> > >> After that, in Etoys playback sounds a bit worse, but it's still > >> okay (hard to tell actually). And no freeze after suspend, > >> playing just resumes. So it would be a good idea to use that ALSA > >> plugin for Squeak in general, me thinks. > > > > Could we get a squeak/etoys package with a fixed alsa-plugin ASAP, > please? > > Someone would need to rebuild Fedora's squeak-vm-3.10-5 package with > Derek's patched sqUnixSoundALSA.c file (attached to the forwarded msg > below). The etoys package is unaffected. > > Unless you can/want to use his binary, that is. > > > Yes, does sound a bit like hardware. > > Can I get a replacement? Preferably the HS version once it's ready? ;) > > - Bert - > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Derek O'Connell <[email protected]> > > Date: 9. Juni 2010 21:33:39 MESZ > > To: Chris Ball <[email protected]> > > Cc: John Maloney <[email protected]>, Bert Freudenberg < > [email protected]>, Paul Fox <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: alsa fix4 > > > > fix5 attached. > > > > On 09/06/10 18:48, Chris Ball wrote: > >> Hi John, > >> > >> > Hi, Chris. I can build a new Scratch XO release. But first a few > >> > questions: > >> > > >> > a. Shouldn't this fixed ALSA go into the Etoys release, where > >> > it can be shared by both Scratch and Etoys? > >> > >> Ah, sounds like it. > >> > >> > b. If I just put the new ALSA plugin file in the Scratch > >> > activity, are we sure it will get loaded? (i.e. does it override > >> > the version in the Squeak VM folder)? > >> > > >> > c. I confess, got busy with other things, so I haven't tested > >> > this. I know Derek has. Anyone else? > >> > >> Dunno about these. We can certainly help test a new build. > >> > >> > d. Should I remove Bert's shell script code that suppresses power > >> > management? > >> > >> Yes, please. > >> > >> > e. What's your time frame? > >> > >> We were hoping to release on Friday, but we can afford to delay until > >> this fix is ready. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> - Chris. > >> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: alsa-xo-1.5-fix5.tar.gz > Type: application/x-gzip > Size: 24470 bytes > Desc: not available > Url : > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20100614/c9009704/attachment.bin > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > End of Devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 28 > ************************************* > -- Javid Alam Software Developer and Technical support Officer OLPC Ministry of Education Kabul Afghanistan contact: +93(0)798123451 alternative email: [email protected]
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