Q3a14 release notes missing.

2009-10-27 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi. Q3a14 release notes are missing in the wiki. is this intended to be so ? Rafael Ortiz ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sharing files among several XO

2009-10-27 Thread DancesWithCars
Good question, I that some one from Cambridge said you could share files, but maybe that is from our other machine peer to peer file sharing mentality, and not really implemented on the XO, or did I miss something? Even the files term is a little shakey, as a Journal Activity instance may not be t

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-27 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 18:57 +0100, NoiseEHC wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge Flash has never supported the XVideo > > extension. The reason for this is that Xv scales YUV data and Flash > > uses RGB data. Now could this be converted and scaled absolutely, but > > Adobe has decided they are

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-27 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 10:23 +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > Is true what is suggested in this ticket? That Adobe Flash stopped > using Xv in a minor release in the v9 series? > > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5408 > To the best of my knowledge Flash has never supported the XVideo extension. The

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-27 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 22:42 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > James wrote: > But this is a hang - which leaves the XO-1.5 completely unresponsive > to operator input (except for the power button). So I do not have > my normal opportunity to capture file contents, etc. They are wiped > out by th

Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 12:42 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:52 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > Maybe there was PEBKAC and/or just a better fix (hints?). I just hope > > the instructions for our end users can be simple :-) > > > I'm re-testing now, but I'm on a F11 host..

Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:52 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > Is this with anaconda or with your XO image? I've booted F11's anaconda > > that was released on the dvd in my prior testing. > > XO image - I'll try tomorrow with the kernel you re

Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:44 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> -- the vanilla F11 kernels fail to boot on the XO -- expected? > > > > I think it should boot but I don't think the boot.fth is created but > > its been a while since I've got

Sharing files among several XO

2009-10-27 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
In a server-less environment I need to share several files among XO, in the term of an Etoys project file provided by the teacher and the students grabbing it. I tried to share a project from Etoys, but it lead to an error, (kind of server error messages) I tried the Distribute activity but it pro

Re: On XO-1 soas03xo has flaky behavior

2009-10-27 Thread Benjamin Berg
> * The "crash on vertical scrolling" is really hurting me. I > cannot access all of my Journal, nor all of Home List View (I have > to use the search field -- *if* I know what I am looking for). Got the same issue, but could work around it by setting the X server into 24bpp mode instead of 16

New F11 for XO-1.5 build 34

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os34 Compressed image size: 405.48mb (+9.83mb since build 33) Description of changes in this build: * First shot at Chinese language keyboard support from Sayamindu (#9541) Package changes since build 33: +cjkuni-uming-fo

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-27 Thread NoiseEHC
> To the best of my knowledge Flash has never supported the XVideo > extension. The reason for this is that Xv scales YUV data and Flash > uses RGB data. Now could this be converted and scaled absolutely, but > Adobe has decided they are not going down that road. > Xv can blit both YUV and RG

Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation and OS update info

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Here's a patch that makes xs-activation server OS update information > based on what it has available in xs-rsync. I like it -- thanks! It was in my TO DO notes with the earlier xs-activation work, and ended up cutting it. > I did this by cr

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-27 Thread Richard A. Smith
> But this is a hang - which leaves the XO-1.5 completely unresponsive > to operator input (except for the power button). So I do not have > my normal opportunity to capture file contents, etc. They are wiped > out by the reboot I perform to access the system again. Not in the current build.

Re: Deducto and Color Deducto activities - creating your own game mechanism

2009-10-27 Thread Manusheel Gupta
Caroline, Appreciate your pointers and feedback. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > >> Hi, >>> >>> This is cool thanks! >>> >> >> >> Is there a way to lower the floor? >>> >> >> I am sorry, but I didn't get this part. Could you please elaborate. >> > > One of the Sugar sa

Re: [Server-devel] Backup and Recovery

2009-10-27 Thread Hamilton Chua
Hi Martin, I have more info. As I mentioned earlier, I verified that the backed up files have the right metadata. I now checked the datastore on my local sugar install. I looked for the downloaded file. I see that it is a journal entry with a "data" file and a metadata directory. I can unzip

Re: Sugar on the Asus Eee 701

2009-10-27 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Tabitha Roder wrote: > Copy of my blog post on the experience of installing Sugar on Asus Eee 701 > > Sugar on the Eee > > I wanted to put Sugar on an Asus Eee 701 for my niece. Thanks to Trademe I > could pick one up at a reasonable price.  For those that know me

Re: [Server-devel] Backup and Recovery

2009-10-27 Thread Hamilton Chua
Hi Martin, We are using XS v 06d5, Sugar 0.84 and the ds-backup rpm from http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/public_rpms/joyride/ds-backup-client-0.8.1-1.olpc3.noarch.rpm All modifications are in the latest patches in http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1124 I'm in the process of debugging the problem. I

Re: Booting squashfs from olpc.fth

2009-10-27 Thread NoiseEHC
You probably need to do a dcon-unfreeze as well. \ OLPC boot script unfreeze dcon-unfreeze " u:\android\initrd.img" to ramdisk " u:\android\kernel" to boot-device " root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 androidboot.hardware=xo1" to boot-file boot Sebastian Silva wrote: Hello I'm trying to boot into Tris

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:20, Jon Nettleton wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 22:42 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> James wrote: > >> But this is a hang - which leaves the XO-1.5 completely unresponsive >> to operator input (except for the power button).  So I do not have >> my normal opportunity t

Re: Sugar on the Asus Eee 701

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:54:45PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote: >> The first work around was just to dd the SOAS usb image directly onto the >> Eee's drive. This was good, the Eee boots quickly and starts sugar by >> default, however our USB

Re: Sugar on the Asus Eee 701

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:54:45PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote: > The first work around was just to dd the SOAS usb image directly onto the > Eee's drive. This was good, the Eee boots quickly and starts sugar by > default, however our USB image was only 1GB so we couldn't use the rest of > the disk

Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F11 > http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F12 Cool. I'll add those to the xs-livecd repo. > My XO-1 boots using version 0.7.0 iso as the source for mkusbinstall. Great. I still think

Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > What error did anaconda throw up? Got a link to those instructions? I couldn't get past the syslinux boostrap. Never got to anaconda. I think I did what's outlined here http://galder.zamarreno.com/?p=244 cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmai

Re: Sugar on the Asus Eee 701

2009-10-27 Thread Tabitha Roder
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 08:36 +, Peter Robinson wrote: > You could use the current Fedora 11 Gnome LiveCD to install that and > sugar is only around 20-30 meg on top of the standard gnome desktop > and it will give you the same version of sugar but you'll probably get > better hardware support fo

Re: Sugar on the Asus Eee 701

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Tabitha Roder wrote: > Copy of my blog post on the experience of installing Sugar on Asus Eee 701 > > Sugar on the Eee > > I wanted to put Sugar on an Asus Eee 701 for my niece. Thanks to Trademe I > could pick one up at a reasonable price.  For those that know me