On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> (I'm copying the olpc devel list)
>
> On 12.10.2010, at 07:58, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm currently experimenting with Etoys' audio recorder on the XO.
>> It seems to be broken on the XO-1.5.
>>
>> While it works (more or less) ok on several XO-1s, all of them have a fresh
>> install of System 10.1.2/Sugar 0.84, it completely fails on the XO-1.5,
>> running the same System/Sugar version.
>>
>> Following is a description of what happens:
>> I create a new project, open the supplies box, fetch a Sound Recorder, and
>> place it somewhere on stage.
>> I press the record button, the microphone control light lights up and I'm
>> able to record about a second or two. Then Etoys gets kind of stuck. It is
>> hard to move the mouse cursor, stop the recording, remove the recorder...
>> It takes some time, then Etoys starts to be responding again and I'm able to
>> delete the recorder. Even if the recorder is deleted the microphone control
>> light still keeps burning until Etoys is finally stopped.
>>
>> I wrote more or less ok as on both XO's the quality of the audio is less
>> than satisfactory. Also the level of the recording is very low. Maybe a
>> control to adjust the input level might be a means to improve this.
>>
>> If this list should not be the appropriate address for reports like this,
>> please tell me and give me directions where to go to instead.
>
> The squeakland list is okay to report Etoys problems. If you are fine with a
> more technical discussion, the etoys-dev list is even better:
> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
>
> Your report sounds like this issue:
> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-641
>
> So we are aware of it, and there is a solution. But we (Etoys developers) do
> not build the XO operating system nor the Etoys/Squeak packages used there.
> To actually fix this for OLPC users in general, the packaging needs to change
> (in particular to fix older versions). The OLPC developers list is more
> appropriate to discuss that:
>
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
>
> There are open tickets on the OLPC tracker too:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9724
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9527
Thanks for the links. I'll check the bug trackers next time before reporting.
> Currently we have nobody driving the process of getting this fixed. But
> volunteer positions are always open, maybe you are interested in helping out?
> :)
>
> - Bert -
Any other time I'd say yes. But I'm currently writing my master's thesis, have
a couple of day time jobs, and a newborn baby. So I hardly will find the time
to actually fix stuff.
What I can offer to do though, is reporting bugs or issues that occur to me
while I'm doing research for my thesis.
Cheers,
Tom
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