Re: Paraguay's os-builder

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 May 2010 12:05, Daniel Drake wrote: > I'm guessing but I suspect this will be due to a conflict with a > backwards-incompatible change introduced in the latest olpc-utils, vs > the Paraguay kernel being a bit outdated (not including a recent > change in the mouse driver).

Re: Paraguay's os-builder

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 May 2010 10:24, Esteban Bordon wrote: > Hi Bernie, > > I'm trying to generate a f11 build using the file used to generate build of > Paraguay. I'm using > http://git.paraguayeduca.org/gitweb/users/bernie/olpc-os-builder.git/blob/c70efc41c939087cad72950c56db5f8c3a0db03e:/examples/f11-xo1-py.i

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 May 2010 18:12, Peter Robinson wrote: > That's not entirely true. The was no changes in CPU support from F-12 > to F-13. What has happened was a change in gcc which causes issues > with F-13 on geode processors. There's a bit missing from gcc for > geode support that would need to be added.

Re: Review & pull request: dracut-modules-olpc

2010-05-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 14:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: > at least let's get greplease merged now. It is non-controversial, and > fixes a long standing bug that hits large deployments... done,sorry for delay ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lis

Re: Reset the resolver cache after bringing up the network

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 May 2010 16:18, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Clearly, some python lib caches stale DNS resolver data, and refuses > to let go, but we didn't know where the problem was. > > The anaconda folks have just hit the same prob, and fixed it. We > probably need to do the same on the appropriate NM event

Re: Problems with F11 for XO (Build os140py)

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 18:03, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > I just added the pulseaudio-module-x11 package. > > The name is a bit misleading: its purpose is to autostart the pulseaudio > deamon from the gnome session (and load the x11 modules as well). Thanks. We've been trying to avoid PulseAudio for now, a

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 18:17, Kushal Das wrote: > It should work as I never switched to to new toolbar API. v19 confirmed working and fixes those 2 issues. I marked this as an update for OLPC builds and La Rioja. Thanks! Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lis

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 May 2010 09:36, Paul Fox wrote: > i understand that hardware does a lot of filtering.  i was > referring specifically to the 1.5's current lack of wake-on-arp > (thank you for making me realize there's no specific bug open for > this issue -- though it's buried in #9535) Filed #10157, speci

Re: Problems with F11 for XO (Build os140py)

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 16:07, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> The sound in Sugar works, but sound in gnome doesn't. Moreover, in >> Totem Movie player, the volume icon appears grey, and there's no sound >> configuration button in Preferences menu (task-bar) at all. >> >> Is that a common bug in that build or a

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 10:15, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> I previously went even deeper: >> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9688 > > Um, ugly. Wad seems to blame the SD card there -- his scripts possibly > favour cards with lon

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 10:59, Daniel Drake wrote: > Laptops have not yet been handed out here in La Rioja, but a few have > been handed around to various parts of the MinEd and support staff, so > we're already seeing some bug reports and user experiences rolling in. > > The idle-su

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 04:19, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:14:33PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> You're definitely onto something there. Do old images with earlier >> kernels show the problem? IOWs is there a reasonable starting point >> for a bisection? > > Sorry, no.  This sympto

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 22:45, Paul Fox wrote: > if the laptop is suspending, that means jukebox is using less > than 15% of the cpu during playback, which is impressive. Another case where we saw this: playing audio. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.la

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 15:47, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Is it suspending in the act of sending or while waiting for the response > packet? Any suggestions on how to identify this? > I'm curious why the the incoming response packets are not causing a WOL. This is certainly not working properly, the bug

Re: [XO-1.5] yum update

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 13:07, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > >   > Hey, just wanted to update my XO-1.5 machine. After dependency >   > resolving and downloading the RPM packages, yum complains about >   > several conflicts. > > You're trying to install the Fedora kernel, which is not a good idea > because it

[Server-devel] Mass deployment thoughts

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Just a small braindump... With my experience on deployments I'm finding that customizing and adding more functionality/content to the XS is not a one-time thing, it's something that happens more and more over time. For this reason, the kickstart-based method of XS customization does not feel so g

Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Laptops have not yet been handed out here in La Rioja, but a few have been handed around to various parts of the MinEd and support staff, so we're already seeing some bug reports and user experiences rolling in. The idle-suspend experience has been causing some discomfort. Specifically 4 cases: 1

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 8 May 2010 14:44, Kushal Das wrote: > Released Jukebox v19 [1] , you can try this one , no suspend related > code in that. Not tested too much due to unavailability of hardware. Many thanks! Is this version definitely compatible with Sugar 0.84? I ask because according to http://activities.s

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 22:45, Paul Fox wrote: > daniel wrote: >  > The video does work absolutely great in the Jukebox activity. But... >  > ...it doesn't inhibit suspend, so the machine goes to sleep >  > during playback (should I file a bug?) > > if the laptop is suspending, that means jukebox is using l

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 14:53, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Unfortunately the next steps did not go so smoothly. We put a freshly >> recorded 7mb ogg video on USB, plugged it into the laptop, and opened >> it from the Journal. The Browse activity came up but really struggled >> to play the video. >> http://dev.

XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
The education team in La Rioja have a good number of videos they want to ship on the laptops and servers. After the initial "argh the XO's cant play AVI" panic, I showed them how to convert to theora+vorbis on their regular PCs. No problems there. Unfortunately the next steps did not go so smoothl

Re: Mesh network between xo1 and 1.5?

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On 6 May 2010 21:03, James Cameron wrote: > Have you tested this?  I've just tested it and it doesn't work for me. > The ad-hoc network is not shown on the neighbourhood view of the XO-1. > > It is, however, shown on the output of "iwlist eth0 scan" on the XO-1, > so it is as if Sugar 0.82 is filt

[Server-devel] documentation for customizing XS ISO

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I thought I saw some "official" documentation once for how deployments can customize kickstart, add more packages, etc. Can't find it now. Was I dreaming? We're hitting various roadblocks in La Rioja and I'd like to make sure we're following what's documented, and that the docs are correct. R

Re: Review & pull request: dracut-modules-olpc

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On 30 April 2010 19:39, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Fair enough. One of the problems is that normally the expiry check is > done inside bitfrost lib and the code there only respects the system > clock. > > So it's a bit messy. Rework bitfrost libs (with impact on users if the > lib) or implement a bi

Re: Review & pull request: dracut-modules-olpc

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 13:23, Martin Langhoff wrote: > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/dracut-modules-olpc/log/?h=clockset-pyx > > Tested on an XO-1.5 on top of build 121. The branch includes Looks good, thanks. Maybe I asked this already, but I can't find the discussion. When the server commun

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 20:26, James Cameron wrote: > Sugar 0.88: > > There is a UI element over the top of the live image ... needs work. > See attached screenshot. Yeah, but this is nothing new -- same as all versions of Record to date. this was broken over a year ago by the change to metacity. Thank

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 17:23, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Are there chances to decrease gst version? > issue w/ core dump could be solved just by removing plughw check. I spent weeks on this during my OLPC internship. The gstreamer versions back then simply have too many bugs. gstreamer-0.10.14 was released 2

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 16:39, Aleksey Lim wrote: > The problem here is that fc10 has gst-0.10.20 > but even for 0.88 Sugar Platform has 0.10.14 minimum version > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Platform_Components > So, new Record couldn't be nominated to be public on ASLO. i.e. we're held back by a

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 15:30, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:41:58PM -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: >> On 29 April 2010 14:16, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> > I'm testing it on XO-1 and got several issues >> >> Which OS version? > > 802 That's

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 14:16, Aleksey Lim wrote: > I'm testing it on XO-1 and got several issues Which OS version? > 1) Record tries to test plughw alsa device, but gst just crashes >   I removed this test and Record started well. Not sure if it is right >   to have such check at all i.e. override use

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 14:15, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> Video scaling problem is fixed in XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 121 >> Audio/video sink is fixed. >> Image quality problems (w.r.t. lighting conditions) fixed. >> >> No remaining issues, as far as I can see. > > In my 4/24 email to devel@lists.laptop.org (Su

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 11:57, Daniel Drake wrote: > Updated again > git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/record/ Aleksey, what do you think of these changes? You mentioned before about being open to the idea but needing a new maintainer -- I don't

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 22 April 2010 11:47, Daniel Drake wrote: > In other news: > > I've restored non-Xv support in my git tree. > > 10.2.0 build 120 fixes the video corruption issue. > > jnettlet says he's fixed the openchrome video scaling problem. > (waiting for RPMs) > >

Re: Testing & rebuilding dracut-modules-olpc?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 15:05, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Out build toolchains and dev/build environments are extremely specific > and brittle. Without some notes, it's pretty hard (and timeconsuming) > to get going... Agreed, lets drop the (already unused) spec and build stuff from the package and just p

Re: [Server-devel] OATs delegations -- change in procedure -- need to use sig01 format too...

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 April 2010 09:28, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Does the XS need a software update now? > > Hoping to work on that today afternoon. We have a bit of a tangle > because we have build & spec changes in 'maste

Re: Testing & rebuilding dracut-modules-olpc?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 13:06, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Porting some patches to d-m-o... > >  - Is there a handy way to test changes to dracut-modules-olpc without > building an RPM and installing it? (Other than unpacking / repacking > the initramfs by hand with cpio, naturally...) Yeah, using the drac

Re: How to create a proper fs.zip ?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 11:30, Bastien wrote: > The problem is that our 100 XOs (in Madagascar) are *not* connected to > the Internet. > > Is there a way to get a developer key (or to disable security) for all > our 100 (soon 160) XO without an internet access? Do you have a technical contact inside OLP

Re: Pyrex experts? Looking to expose settimeofday() and RTC_SET_TIME ioctl()

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 09:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Our chvt() is in pyrex, and all it does is call ioctl() on > /dev/console. If there's a better way to call ioctl() then we can get > rid of pyrex in our initramfs completely. It's not quite that simple, see e.g. pyfb/pyvt. But yes, I believe that m

Re: Pyrex experts? Looking to expose settimeofday() and RTC_SET_TIME ioctl()

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 April 2010 20:21, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I am porting some awkward patches I have against the old olpc > initramfs to the new dracut-based, all bling initramfs. > > The python part is mostly done, but the fun part is that we're trying > to set the clock (both system clock and rtc) based on

Re: How to create a proper fs.zip ?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 06:20, Bastien wrote: > It fails, the XO is looking for fs.zip, then for a school mesh, > etc.  I have no "OK" prompt and I cannot use copy-nand. > > How do I create the requested fs.zip? You can't. This file is a signature, so you need OLPC's private keys in order to generate it

VncLauncher doesn't run on F11

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Using VncLauncher-4 on F11: it fails to start the VNC server because the binary links against the wrong version of libssl. This activity is used very often in deployments for presentations, training sessions, etc, so it would be nice to have a new version. Daniel

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 April 2010 01:01, James Cameron wrote: > What do you do with scan results that show an ad-hoc network is > available with the same name?  Pick one: with the same name as what? Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapt

olpc-os-builder .iso output - usable@

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Drake
Had an interesting question from Sebastian M here in La Rioja... The .iso output of olpc-os-builder (and published on build.laptop.org) -- is it useful? Can it be run in emulation? Has anyone tried? Personally I suspect it won't work, because it has OLPC's XO-specific kernel, and also the build p

Re: Pain building olpc-update rpm

2010-04-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 April 2010 03:16, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Right now, if you do clone of the olpc-update repo, and try to build > it... well, it doesn't work very well. Pretty sure you're looking at the wrong repo or something. The Makefile has the right version number and you don't need to use submodules.

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On 22 April 2010 05:42, Aleksey Lim wrote: > If there is an intention to have dev.l.o branch on git.sl.o, I can add > new user to commiters list to merge/reset master to dev.l.o code. > In this case we just need someone who will maintain it and also git.sl.o > code is targeting to not only XO user

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 18:06, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a version of the Record activity which works on XO-1.5: > git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record I updated this git tree. The code I announced yesterday is now in the v60-plus-tweaks branch. The master branch (non-fas

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 19:07, Aleksey Lim wrote: > In my mind, switch to camerabin would be the best way to go. Unfortunately > camerabin cant work as is on XO-1, it should be patched to let Record > use two phases encoding and it looks like pretty special in case of > upstream. But new Record could wor

Re: B3 with different RAM chips

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 21:30, Tiago Marques wrote: > Just on cards I bought after market, either on the XO-1 or 1.5. > Only one SD card from Sandisk has been working perfectly for me, in the > XO-1. I'm looking at ways to test faster USB Flash drives, since the SD card > on the XO 1.5 becomes very slow

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 20:20, Peter Robinson wrote: > The latest Record 66 seems to work quite well on Fedora 13 without any > of the binary blobs which is more than can be said for some of the > other releases. What's the difference between that release and what > you have? It would be nice to have a c

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 19:07, Aleksey Lim wrote: > In fact original idea was to do something similar what camerabin does - > smooth switching between Record modes, w/o any delays. But it was pretty > undoable due to python binding restrictions and lack of gst knowledge. but v60 does *exactly* that...yo

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 18:06, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a version of the Record activity which works on XO-1.5: > git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record forgot to mention the known issues, both residing outside the code of Record (I think): - new version uses much less CPU

Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Here's a version of the Record activity which works on XO-1.5: git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record It's basically Record v60 plus a few tweaks. Unfortunately it seems like Record v61 included a rewrite, cutting out most of the hard work I did on this activity in summer 2008 :( and that vers

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On 16 April 2010 19:52, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> Regardless of whether you use the updates bit or not, you'll want to >> reinstate that server configuration so that the laptops can receive >> lease updates before expiration (Raul told me that they have switched >> this feature on a while back wh

strange keyboard problem with synaptics controller

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
I've seen this issue on several XO-1s with the Synaptics hardware, and now on an XO-1.5 ramp unit running firmware Q3A36. Upon booting, the keyboard under Linux doesn't work right, e.g. pressing q results in d (fictional example -- can't recall if this is an exact example of a mismatch). Rebootin

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 15:48, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > I noticed that Stephen Parrish had removed olpc-update from F11-XO1, > which made /versions also superfluous. Besides the nice saving in space, > disabling the versioned fs considerably sped up olpc-os-builder. I'd be surprised if there is any sig

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 11:40, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Sebastian Silva > wrote: >> BTW how do you disable it? > > Yeah -- can we disable it easily on F11 builds? (speaking only for XO) No. We would have to change mouse driver which introduces a handful of regressions,

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 10:01, Paul Fox wrote: > so one possibility is that os140py isn't successfully enabling > smbios, or not recognizing the results correctly. (assuming this bug is indeed an instance of #9100...) SMBIOS should not be required for not-crashing during early boot. Daniel

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 09:48, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: >> what changed between the first and second boots that might >> have >> made the second successful after the first failed? > > See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/028172.html above This sounds like http://dev.laptop.org/tick

Re: Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 20:06, John Watlington wrote: > > Teach the repair centers to not disconnect that cable. I might be wrong but isn't it necessary to unplug it in order to replace the keyboard? It certainly makes replacing the keyboard controller impossible, but that isn't something I've seen nec

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 13:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >  * Remove olpc-update and disable the /versions kludge (me, smparrish) Great work Bernie! This is the only bit that seems a bit surprising to me. Granted, the /versions system is a little perplexing (but it works, and is being shipped on XO-1.5,

Re: Flash Lite Community for XO, Gnash, Free RIA Tools

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 13:15, Carlos Nazareno wrote: >  I see one thing I should point out on this page, Gnash 0.8.3 is > ridiculously ancient, and should be avoided. Much of the problems of > Gnash on the XO are because the packages on the XO are *years* out of > date. :-( Unfortunately all of the pac

Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
After the switch to the ALPS touchpad + controller, it's nice to see the departure of the 2 ribbon cables that don't have clips (the extra bit of plastic came off too easily, making it hard to disconnect the cables), but we now have a new difficulty: The small ribbon cable that connects the mouse

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 19:13, Peter Robinson wrote: > That's because of the exim. Do a 'yum install ssmtp' then a 'yum > remove exim' and most of that problem goes away. the auto depsolving > for '/usr/bin/sendmail' get exim by default because its the shortest > name and comes first. exim depends on per

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 15:10, Peter Robinson wrote: > I don't have the XO near me to test but 'yum remove perl' will give > you the answer. On XO-1.5 running something very close to 10.2.0 build 119, it wants to remove many components including anacron, yum, rpm, ds-backup-client, olpc-update, ... Is

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 15:45, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Except for where I specified extra stuff I needed. :) like lm_sensors > which requires perl. > > So I need to find a way to read the CPU temp without lm_sensors or we > somehow need to break lm_sensors use of perl. It's really easy to read from sy

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 14:51, Peter Robinson wrote: > I've got some more time and have finally had a chance to look at these > further. From an initial looks it looks like your getting exim due to > the cronie deps on /usr/bin/sendmail. If you add an explicit 'ssmtp' > into the .ks that will provide tha

Re: olpc-os-builder config tweaks

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
I also fixed a small issue in the configuration where public_rpm packages were not overriding F11 updates...be sure to double-check the list of package changes in the next build. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.or

olpc-os-builder config tweaks

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Chris, I added a mechanism so that we can keep separate the OLPC-specific configuration from the sample config that can be reused by deployments, and I stripped out the OLPC-specific bits from those default configs. So you'll want to create a cjb-specific config file somewhere with this conten

Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On 27 March 2010 09:42, Paul Fox wrote: > in any case, all of this points at having separate default > configurations for powerd on XO-1 and XO-1.5.  i guess this should be > handled by the rpm install -- but i'm not sure how.  (help > appreciated.) It can't be done cleanly in RPM install, since

Fix clock instructions updated

2010-03-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Having seen a handful of RTC battery problems in Nicaragua I found myself revisiting the process, and struggling to explain the wiki page to the team. So I restructured it a bit, mainly to take the focus away from the problems caused by ancient firmware versions and badly shaped holders, and inste

Re: Fuzzy screen problem in Nicaragua

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 March 2010 11:48, John Watlington wrote: > Please provide us with serial numbers of affected units. > I'm a little perplexed as to how Nicaragua ended up with > such a high failure rate with this issue. Germán is on a field trip so I'll step in... SHC92502C19 SHC925021D6 SHC9250204E SHC925

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 112

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 March 2010 16:13, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I am somewhat intrigued by the behaviour I see around > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10058 -- one of the (subjective) > impressions I have is that if the download is steady, there is no > problem. It keeps waking up for tiny amounts of time. Last t

Re: [SoaS] Using SoaS Blueberry to emulate OLPC F11 builds

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On 9 February 2010 15:58, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > FWIW, I tried almost the same exact process on a machine that I had > installed Blueberry on by using the zyx-installer. Blueberry was > installed. I ran yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" and then > yum install olpc-switch-desktop. Reb

Re: Build system and repos for F11/XO-1.5?

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On 2 February 2010 13:17, Martin Langhoff wrote: > couple questions about it... > >  - Can it build F11/XO-1 images, with jffs2? Yes, it is used for Steven's recent F11-XO1 releases >  - Can it build "partitioned" images? Yes, it has been used for all recent XO-1.5 OS builds which are partition

Re: B R E A K T H R O U G H -- F11-on-XO1 has working video player

2010-02-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On 30 January 2010 08:38, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Does this build have the patch for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8104 ? No, this bug still plagues every mainstream Linux installation that exists... :( The patch available is a hack and is not upstream. However, on a test of recent F11 builds,

Fuzzy screen problem in Nicaragua

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel Drake
We've seen a handful of XOs with an interesting problem here. There is a large vertical stripe of fuzzyness on the left side of the screen. It seems to be in the same place on every XO that we've seen. It is not always obvious. For example, on the static-white OFW background, it is completely inv

Re: Impact of changing default Screen depth on other XO Apps

2010-01-27 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/27 shivaprasad javali : > Hi All, >     We are developing an Activity for the XO. During development we ran > into an issue with the default screen depth on the XO. Our application > assumes that the screen depth is 32 and does all the draw math. But as the > screen depth on the XO is 16

Lots of broken chargers in Nicaragua

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, What seems to be a lesser-common problem in the other deployments I have seen seems to be quite common here: chargers are breaking due to damage to the cable and the point where the cable enters the big green plug that goes into the power socket. Although these problems seem to be due to care

Re: quick Forth question

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/25 Richard A. Smith : > I worked it out. > > : check-ak " add-tag ak 0" eval ; > > ok ' check-ak catch if ." Laptop already activated" cr then Thanks muchly! It works well. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.

Re: offtopic question about high density wifi

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/25 : > but my question is if there is a limit (other than the effective limit of > the RF channel) on the number of systems that can assocciate with a single > access point? Yes - APs often have a limit. The limit is not defined by any kind of specification. It depends on the AP. Daniel _

quick Forth question

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Can anyone help me with a tiny Forth script? Can never quite get my head around the language. I'm trying to set up an if-else based on whether a mfg tag exists (or whether writing a mfg tag succeeded or not) I'm trying: add-tag ak 0 catch if 2drop ." Laptop already activated" cr then But, i

[Server-devel] nocat/internet restriction plans

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel Drake
I've read the threads about NoCat and am a little confused about the plan for restricting internet access to XOs. Is Jerry's suggestion (at http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/iptables/) designed to complement NoCatAuth, or is it a standalone replacement? At which point do we add and remove these i

School internet restricted to XOs in Uruguay

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Apparently, in Uruguayan schools, the wireless networks are setup so that only XOs can go online. Other computers that connect won't be able to use the internet (or perhaps aren't able to connect at all?) Does anyone have details of the implementation? cheers, Daniel _

[PATCH 2/2] ALSA: hda - support OLPC XO-1.5 DC input

2010-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
The XO's audio hardware is wired up to allow DC sensors (e.g. light sensors, thermistors, etc) to be plugged in through the microphone jack. Add sound mixer controls to allow this mode to be enabled and tweaked. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake --- sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c |

[PATCH 1/2] ALSA: hda - Configure XO-1.5 microphones at capture time

2010-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
, fixing the behaviour of the LED. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake --- sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 125 +++- 1 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c index c578c28

Re: Sugar window managing UI (was: Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting)

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:49 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: > a) is harder as every window switch currently involves saving current > state to the DS (which resides on an abysmally slow SD card in my case), > usually done synchronously. It also generates log messages, right? In which case, a fix for

Re: olpc-os-builder [PATCH] add a Quick Start to README and reformat

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 07:24 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:45:10AM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Thanks, but I'm not so sure about getting users to run "make install" > > since that will put things in /usr rather than /usr/local. > >

Re: olpc-os-builder [PATCH] add a Quick Start to README and reformat

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 13:50 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > Tested olpc-os-builder on Fedora 11, and documented the steps required > to produce a build in a Quick Start section of the README. Thanks, but I'm not so sure about getting users to run "make install" since that will put things in /usr rat

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 09:46 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > - Daniel Drake (cc'd) suspects the bug has not been fixed upstream > (the latest NM/dbus pairing seems to have similar issues). So a > similar issue may exist in the F11 images. I don't know if he's filed >

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:28 -0300, César D. Rodas wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > After hard debugging with Raul, we've realized that the problem was in > the Geode driver. > > I've changed a line within the memory buffer, and it seems to work now. > > Looking forward to get feedback (please don

Re: Testing OS64 on XO1.5

2009-12-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:05 +, Ahmed MANSOUR wrote: > The network was working but after my upgrade to OS64, I can no longer > get connected so it is more a software issue and not only releasted to > B2 hardware. What type of network are you trying to connect to? What is the failure condition?

Re: XO-1.5 video rendering not always smooth

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/12/20 Mikus Grinbergs : > In the new snow-1.xo Activity, the falling "white spots" are noticeably > jerkier in os64 (XO-1.5) than in os10 (XO-1). > > Also, on os64 the (software?) cursor sometimes "flickers" annoyingly. > It is always noticeable in the google-chrome browser (on Sugar), and for

Re: secure boot- Can't mount root filesystem. Was: Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4

2009-12-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:40 -0200, Esteban Bordón wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I'm testing secure boot in F11-XO1 (os10). Something else to keep in mind if you are working on this... http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9916 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lap

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 62

2009-12-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 19:54 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > (Not sure why this build lost 3MB compared to the last one without > any package changes -- we should diff the tarball to find out.) Uncompressed, os61.tree.tar has identical size to os62.tree.tar So this is just a LZMA compression thing, no a

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:11 +, Peter Robinson wrote: > And we'll see where we need to go from there. If the problem appears to be in the geode driver, one thing you might consider doing is going back to the version that was shipped in 8.2. After 8.2, a new release was made with various improv

Re: secure boot- Can't mount root filesystem. Was: Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4

2009-12-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:40 -0200, Esteban Bordón wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I'm testing secure boot in F11-XO1 (os10). > > When XO boots in secure boot the lease file doesn't read from USB key. > I disabled the activation in dracut and I reinstalled > dracut-olpc-modules and kernel and I signed the

a trac milestone for F11-for-XO1 work

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Just wanted to point out that there is a new "1.0-software-future" milestone in trac. I encourage those of you who are working on F11-for-XO1 to use that to coordinate on the outstanding issues. The disclaimer is that if someone puts a ticket there which additionally applies to XO-1.5, we mig

updated olpc.fth for XO-1.5

2009-12-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Richard, Sorry to turn around on this -- we no longer want the XO-1.5-specific kernel parameters in olpc.fth since we are now building them into the kernel. For future XO-1.5 bootfw releases please replace olpc.fth with the one included here This isn't critical - everything still works fine e

Re: [support-gang] Problems with build 59

2009-12-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 23:43 -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi... > > Downloaded Build 59 this evening and tried to flash the XO-1.5. It > appeared to work perfectly, but could not complete restart at the end. > > The outline of the XO man appears and dots slowly begin to surround > him, but it sta

possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Jon Corbet's been working on the XO-1.5 camera driver for us, and while doing so he found a V4L2 bug which is probably one of the reasons that we're having problems with XO-1 camera on all post-8.2 builds. The workaround is to build the sensor driver into the kernel, and the camera driver as

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