Re: Incorrectly titled General Release Notes page on wiki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While searching wiki.laptop.org I came across a build 650 Release Note page which is unfortunately named General Release Notes http://wiki.laptop.org/go/General_Release_Notes It would be more appropriately named Release Notes for Build 650 so the naive are not mislead. Thanks for the alert. There already is a release notes page for build 650, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/7.1.0, which pointed the general public back to this page. I moved all its info into the For the general public section of Release_notes/7.1.0, made it a redirect to that section, and fixed all English links to it so they either point to the 7.1.0 release notes page or to something more general. == Does anyone know if any pages on the XO, e.g. the OLPC Library home page, have ever linked to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/General_Release_Notes ? There's a mismatch between the XO and the wiki: it's easy to determine that your XO is running, e.g. build 650 or build 708 (the canonical instructions are in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_check_the_OS_and_firmware_versions). But you don't know that this is the 7.1.0 (ship.2) release or the 8.1.1 release unless you do some research. I filed Trac ticket 8260. Regards, -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
[Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo
I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Comments, flames or suggestions welcome. Also, some clue as to what should go on a splashscreen, plz. -J ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
upgrading firmware ( Re: q2e15 released )
Hey firmware gods, a) Three latest firmwares b) Sorting out the firmware upgrade pages == Three latest firmwares == 1)Richard A. Smith wrote: Q2e15 is up. If you are running current joyride(s) and doing auto-suspend/resume you need to upgrade. 2) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Latest_Releases/firmware (which shows up in the green Latest Releases box on many pages) displays _Firmware_: Q2E12 (2008-07-29) 3) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_firmware has instructions to upgrade to q2d14. It seems q2d14 is the latest signed firmware. Perhaps Template:Latest_Releases/firmware should only list the latest signed stable firmware, as its _Firmware_ links to the Firmware page that lists all available firmware, latest (unsigned) first. Do you agree? == Sorting out the firmware upgrade pages == http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_firmware is for the general public. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware and the pages for each firmware release are for developers. I rewrote them to * Discourage users from upgrading firmware, and just tell them to upgrade to the latest stable release which usually delivers new firmware. * Refer developers to the Firmware page and then to each firmware's page for developer instructions. I hope that's OK. == Does every build tree and image always include some firmware in boot/bootfw.zip ? There's also http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_the_firmware. == Is that page obsolete now that each firmware's page transcludes Manual_Firmware_Install? Thanks, go Forth and prosper -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Survey of activity authors
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 13:21, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I surveyed authors/maintainers of activities hosted in dev.laptop.org git over the past few weeks. The results are summarised at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Morgs/Activities_survey I wish that your list were more of a reference document. [For instance, you have left off authors *you* know are keeping up-to-date -- but not everyone knows who is being active.] Good point. I'll expand my report in the next week or so and send out an update. I'll add those I didn't contact because they are staff/contractors of OLPC, as well as a list of those who didn't respond. (I'll ping them just to check if they forgot, or if they are no longer interested.) Plus, my list of interesting Activities is longer than yours. I presume that is because you have left off not only known active authors, but also not contactable authors. Nevertheless, if there was no response for Activities deemed useful, they ought to be listed centrally anyway -- in the hope that someone would step up and volunteer to follow up on what is happening with that Activity. I contacted those who were using the git hosting. There are more activities on the wiki that don't use it. I'll expand my coverage when I have time to include those where I can find contact details. It would also help if there were a compendium of contact information available. As it is, one has to search in the Activity's wiki page. [For instance, what is the address of the Map activity maintainer?] In the interests of not increasing their unsolicited mail, I'll refrain from posting my list of email addresses on the wiki, but this is a good point: it was not a trivial exercise to get the addresses together. I'll work on an expanded list of recommendations including a better way to publish contact details for activities. We still need a decent activity portal. I know a couple of people have looked at the codebase behind addons.mozilla.org, but that didn't get far yet. Regards Morgan ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: CSound server questions
Hi, Victor and Bert. I agree with Bert -- it would probably be most convenient for Scratch to use the MIDI option, if possible. Ideally, it would work the same as MIDI does on other versions of Linux, so we could just use the Squeak MIDI Plugin. That said, I have not explored how the MIDI plugin works on Linux. Supposedly you can use it to talk to the Timidity software MIDI synth. Could we arrange for the shell script that launches Scratch to also launch the CSound server when Scratch is launched and close it when Scratch quits? -- John On Aug 31, 2008, at 2:50 PM, victor wrote: No, you have to run it with a command-line option and then use aconnect I suppose. I need to check how to do soft connections, as I am used to just connecting straight to hardware . Victor - Original Message - From: Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OLPC Development devel@lists.laptop.org Cc: John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:01 PM Subject: Re: CSound server questions Am 31.08.2008 um 19:04 schrieb victor: Well, you can ask me. I suppose there are various ways you could connect to Csound: 1. using the API (via a C or C++ squeak plugin module, if it is possible to do these things), 2. through MIDI (if squeak can output MIDI and we can then connect via alsa midi) 3. OSC 4. IP socket (by starting a minimal server written in Python and issuing Python commands as string data) 5. line events at stdin (a little awkward) I like the MIDI option. Squeak does have a MIDI plugin (although I am not entirely sure how functional it is currently). Is CSound registered as a MIDI device by default? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] Survey of activity authors
Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would also help if there were a compendium of contact information available. As it is, one has to search in the Activity's wiki page. [For instance, what is the address of the Map activity maintainer?] In the interests of not increasing their unsolicited mail, I'll refrain from posting my list of email addresses on the wiki, but this is a good point: it was not a trivial exercise to get the addresses together. I still don't understand why it is so hard to have the contact addresses directly in the git page of each activity. If I were to collaborate to a project, this is the place were I would go. I'll work on an expanded list of recommendations including a better way to publish contact details for activities. We still need a decent activity portal. I know a couple of people have looked at the codebase behind addons.mozilla.org, but that didn't get far yet. +1 We are holding a development week-end in mid-november in France, and if there is no such portal we may as well develop our. -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: upgrading firmware ( Re: q2e15 released )
S Page wrote: == Three latest firmwares == 1)Richard A. Smith wrote: Q2e15 is up. If you are running current joyride(s) and doing auto-suspend/resume you need to upgrade. This is the latest release, but largely untested and not signed. 2) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Latest_Releases/firmware (which shows up in the green Latest Releases box on many pages) displays _Firmware_: Q2E12 (2008-07-29) 3) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_firmware has instructions to upgrade to q2d14. #2 is the most tested, most stable firmware release. Its what is shipping in the latest image and will eventually end up as the factory installed firmware. #3 is the most recent signed release and is positioned to go into testing. (It will most likely get replaced by q2e15). From q2d12, q2d14 is the only option you have for upgrade on a secure machine. It seems q2d14 is the latest signed firmware. Perhaps Template:Latest_Releases/firmware should only list the latest signed stable firmware, as its _Firmware_ links to the Firmware page that lists all available firmware, latest (unsigned) first. Do you agree? No. I don't agree. The level of testing between the 2 releases is vastly different. Just because its signed does not mean its endured hours and hours of testing like q2e12 has. Signing is only the start of the process. The q2e12 Latest should probably say something about being the latest and most stable tested release and not just latest. The newest signed firmware needs some sort of marker that its proposed but only beginning to enter testing and QA. == Sorting out the firmware upgrade pages == http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_firmware is for the general public. All target file path info in the manual_install procedure is unnecessary. /versions/boot/current/boot only matters for a secure machine. You can use 'flash' from any path. It does not have to be \boot. \boot has some magic that happens if you put a signed firmware there or if you put an olpc.fth file there 'flash u:\q2e15.rom' works just as good. latest stable release which usually delivers new firmware. * Refer developers to the Firmware page and then to each firmware's page for developer instructions. I hope that's OK. Yes. Waiting for the firmware in each release is the best option unless the users wants to upgrade to get a bugfix. == Does every build tree and image always include some firmware in boot/bootfw.zip ? Yes. There's also http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_the_firmware. == Is that page obsolete now that each firmware's page transcludes Manual_Firmware_Install? Yes that page is obsolete now. -- Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
New joyride build 2373
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2373 Changes in build 2373 from build: 2372 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-toolkit 0.82.4-1.olpc3 +sugar-toolkit 0.82.5-1.olpc3 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride_vs_update1.html for a comparison ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Clock activity? Activities about time?
Dear Chocolate Frosted Sugar Geeks, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries...) Is there a simple calendar activity? Can we manipulate the earth and visualize earth enlightenment depending on the position and the hour of the day? Any hint welcome. Thanks! -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?
Hi Bastien, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? Yes; search for Clock on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries...) I don't think there is one yet. We could do this in a Pippy example, or in eToys? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?
Hello Bastien On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dear Chocolate Frosted Sugar Geeks, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries...) Is there a simple calendar activity? Can we manipulate the earth and visualize earth enlightenment depending on the position and the hour of the day? yes, but also it would be nice to have something like a ''time'' activity that could explain the physical meaning of time with examples and so on. (Pygame or Etoys based). Any hint welcome. Thanks! -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero One Laptop Per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?
At Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:38:19 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi Bastien, is there a Sugar activity displaying a simple clock? Yes; search for Clock on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. What activities can be used to teach things about time? (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries...) I don't think there is one yet. We could do this in a Pippy example, or in eToys? Last time around, I made this Etoy: http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/Clock.004.pr The idea behind it was to be able to move hands around, and show the relationship between the values and the angle of hands. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5255 -- Yoshiki ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
AC not present?
Hi all, I just upgraded a XO from 656 to 711 using a USB key (fs.zip + os711.img + G1G1 activity pack). The upgrade went fine but the computer won't boot and bites like that: , | Got firmware version: CL1 Q2E12 Q2E | Checking integrity... | Updating firmware | AC not present ` Any help would be *much* appreciated as I promised to send this computer to a professional translator for reviewing the kreyol translation... Thanks! -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: AC not present?
n Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | AC not present Plug it to power to complete the firmware upgrade step... m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: AC not present?
Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: n Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | AC not present Plug it to power to complete the firmware upgrade step... AArghh! Thanks. For me AC/DC has never meant anything else than classical music. -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: joyride 2369 - yum fails with key error
The patch in Ticket 8125 works for joyride-2370. Would you alert us in which build yum will work without the workaround? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/joyride-2369---yum-fails-with-key-error-tp796070p832780.html Sent from the OLPC Software development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC
Hello Friends. Someone made a robot using only the OLPC. There is a project to adapt to the OLPC iRobot of microsoft. I am going to bring the artificial intelligence. The teacher will use the robotic irobor and microsoft for the course. I wonder if you could use an OLPC to make a robot and program intelligent agents. The idea is a purely academic post so that in future we will work with cooperative multi robot players. -- http://unimauro.blogspot.com/ Creemos en el amor de los Seres Humanos Carlos Mauro Cárdenas Fernández 4582877 980525716 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC
Hi maybe this can be of interest, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Robots this is planned with open hardware. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware. On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Carlos mauro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends. Someone made a robot using only the OLPC. There is a project to adapt to the OLPC iRobot of microsoft. I am going to bring the artificial intelligence. The teacher will use the robotic irobor and microsoft for the course. I wonder if you could use an OLPC to make a robot and program intelligent agents. The idea is a purely academic post so that in future we will work with cooperative multi robot players. -- http://unimauro.blogspot.com/ Creemos en el amor de los Seres Humanos Carlos Mauro Cárdenas Fernández 4582877 980525716 ___ Sugar mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero One Laptop Per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: CSound server questions
yes, that is possible. I will provide an example as soon as Iam back at work in Ireland.Victor- Original Message -From: John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Monday, September 1, 2008 2:02 pmSubject: Re: CSound server questionsTo: victor [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED], OLPC Development devel@lists.laptop.org Hi, Victor and Bert. I agree with Bert -- it would probably be most convenient for Scratch to use the MIDI option, if possible. Ideally, it would work the same as MIDI does on other versions of Linux, so we could just use the Squeak MIDI Plugin. That said, I have not explored how the MIDI plugin works on Linux. Supposedly you can use it to talk to the Timidity software MIDI synth. Could we arrange for the shell script that launches Scratch to also launch the CSound server when Scratch is launched and close it when Scratch quits? -- John On Aug 31, 2008, at 2:50 PM, victor wrote: No, you have to run it with a command-line option and then use aconnect I suppose. I need to check how to do soft connections, as I am used to just connecting straight to hardware . Victor - Original Message - From: Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OLPC Development devel@lists.laptop.org Cc: John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:01 PM Subject: Re: CSound server questionsAm 31.08.2008 um 19:04 schrieb victor: Well, you can ask me. I suppose there are various ways you could connect to Csound: 1. using the API (via a C or C++ squeak plugin module, if it is possible to do these things), 2. through MIDI (if squeak can output MIDI and we can then connect via alsa midi) 3. OSC 4. IP socket (by starting a minimal server written in Python and issuing Python commands as string data) 5. line events at stdin (a little awkward) I like the MIDI option. Squeak does have a MIDI plugin (although I am not entirely sure how functional it is currently). Is CSound registered as a MIDI device by default? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo
Nice, except took me almost a minute to figure out that the central part of the X was an S... maybe I'm just slow I don't know David Van Assche 2008/9/1 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Comments, flames or suggestions welcome. Also, some clue as to what should go on a splashscreen, plz. -J ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.archivum.info/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2008-05/msg00016.html I'm around for a couple of hours, See the usb based install thread. I'm going to have to take some of that back, just checked anaconda's git, tree-based sources have been re-enabled for harddrive installs if preupgrade is passed, but that is for F10. I'm not following you 100% here :-/ Right now, only repos in .iso files work with anaconda's harddrive option (iso-based), tree-based removes the need to wrap the repo in an iso, the repo lives in a directory directly on the drive, and can be updated as need. Space saving of about 6.5% with the rpms on a squash filesystem, is that worth it? Ho-hum...6.5% and a good long wait when you're building it? ;-) Not really, didn't time it, about 45-60secs, 450megs. I think it is handy to have the rpms in the uncompressed usb stick - it automounts and you can be reading/installing the rpms straight away. To script that, first you need a mount point, and a repo file. There is something up with the usbmount pkg, I had strange behavior under F9 with the XS version, my usbkey came up as sdb, not sdb1 as expected. Aug 30 03:59:37 schoolserver yum: Installed: usbmount-0.15.6.olpc-1.xs7.noarch Aug 30 10:14:22 schoolserver usbmount[11606]: executing command: mount -tvfat -osync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/sdb /media/usb0 Aug 30 10:14:23 schoolserver usbmount[11606]: executing command: run-parts /etc/usbmount/mount.d Aug 30 10:46:23 schoolserver usbmount[12082]: executing command: mount -tvfat -osync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/sdb /media/usb0 Aug 30 10:46:23 schoolserver usbmount[12082]: executing command: run-parts /etc/usbmount/mount.d rpm -e usbmount Aug 30 10:54:30 schoolserver usbmount[12655]: executing command: mount -tvfat -osync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 Aug 30 10:54:30 schoolserver usbmount[12655]: executing command: run-parts /etc/usbmount/mount.d Aug 30 10:57:40 schoolserver usbmount[12754]: executing command: mount -tvfat -osync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 Aug 30 10:57:40 schoolserver usbmount[12754]: executing command: run-parts /etc/usbmount/mount.d Shedding X seems more fun, but up to you. I'm slaving away with the little details of teh network... At this point in the game there is little point in trying, you have F7 machines in the field that have some X stuff installed already and need to have the newer X rpms available to be able to upgrade, or remove the extra packages that are installed before upgrading. Slimming down of X can only be done on a fresh install. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mind for some of the HW options we have for the XS. Wouldn't a vnc install work here? Over serial!? The advantage is the better disk tools with the graphical installer. And good localisation to non-western languages too. Great. It only adds 200MB to our install! :-[ m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: It is not clear to me how the anaconda team will support installs on embedded systems over serial port. And I have to keep that in mind for some of the HW options we have for the XS. Wouldn't a vnc install work here? Over serial!? Oh come on... over the net, you have a nic in this box right? If just for debugging, add autostep to the the kickstart file, until you have it just right. If the install stops at some point vnc in and see what went down, edit ks file, repeat The advantage is the better disk tools with the graphical installer. And good localisation to non-western languages too. Great. It only adds 200MB to our install! :-[ Not for the installer, your running off of stage2... what is available for install is a different issue. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo
2008/9/1 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Cool. I had the same confusion as David - is that a slot and two arrows?. Perhaps something closer to the XO logo is easier to read...? I don't know myself - not a graphics head... Comments, flames or suggestions welcome. Also, some clue as to what should go on a splashscreen, plz. I don't think we have much of splash screen except at install time. The machine is headless (no monitor). No big identity/brand for the XS -- :-/ cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/1 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Cool. I had the same confusion as David - is that a slot and two arrows?. Perhaps something closer to the XO logo is easier to read...? I don't know myself - not a graphics head... I saw bandaids. :-) But I think it's a good start - there's probably .svg source for the xo logo somewhere, maybe you could start with that? Comments, flames or suggestions welcome. Also, some clue as to what should go on a splashscreen, plz. I don't think we have much of splash screen except at install time. The machine is headless (no monitor). No big identity/brand for the XS -- :-/ True, but it's nice to have logos for the project pages, etc. You could even print out a sticker and put it on the boxes themselves for fun. -RN -- Robin Norwood The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-config 4.1 - F9 networking is all go
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a ton of work, it looks like the xs-config package is in good shape -- at least good enough to ask people to look at it. You can grab it from http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/testing/olpc/9/i386/ Or just look at the git repo at http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-config;a=summary cheers, martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] new package: xs-activation
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/dbagnall/xs-activation.git I've attached the README below. Douglas --- XS Activation Server This package allows the school server to activate laptops over the network, and to import activation keys via USB. Initially the server will not know any activation keys, so you need to have a USB stick containing OLPC activation leases before this is much use. Activation Server - The server listens on port 191 of the 172.18.0.1 interface. The laptops, during boot up know to look there. Each laptop sends its 11 character serial number. If the server has the activation lease for that laptop, it sends it in reply. With XS 0.4, special steps are necessary to get this working properly (see below). Importing leases from a USB stick - The leases should be in a file called 'lease.sig' in the root directory of the USB stick. The format and location of this file is exactly what you would use to activate a laptop directly via USB. Plug the USB stick into the server and wait a few seconds. With XS 0.4 the only clue as to the progress of the transfer is written to /var/log/user.log. With later systems, if the server beeps when the USB stick is inserted, it will beep again when the transfer is complete. XS 0.4 caveats and special instructions --- The activation server will not work on XS 0.4 until the network has been reconfigured slightly. The steps to take are: #1. Copy ifcfg-br0:0 (in this directory) to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0:0 mv ifcfg-br0:0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ #2. Restart the bridge. ifdown br0; ifup br0 #3. Test it with: ping 172.18.16.1 If the ping works, so should the activation server. To test the network from a laptop, ping 172.18.0.1. With 0.4, you will also not hear beeps when the USB transfer starts and finishes. The workarounds are to read /var/log/user.log, or to wait a long time. Other problems -- Please ask at server-devel@lists.laptop.org. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] xs-activation: why no IPv6 yet?
To preempt this FAQ, the F7 school server is quite inconsistent in its IPv6 support, and some work would have been necessary to get it to a state where I could test it. With the immanent jump to F9, and a new networking setup, this didn't seem very worthwhile. I'll revisit it again when IPv6 is working on the school server in general. The activation server hides behind xinetd, so it doesn't deal directly with networking. Getting it to work with IPv6 shouldn't be more difficult than it is for anything else in that situation. Douglas ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] usb drive based installs.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grab: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall Wow, that's a good start! I'll play with it! Now that the network stuff is done (?) I'm playing with this, and I'm starting to understand your questions last week a bit more. It gets to stage2 and asks 'where are the ISO images?'. I'm telling it to look in /dev/sdb1 , directory 'iso' and it picks it up from there ok. Is there a way to make it 'just work'? You mentioned on a separate thread that the F10 anaconda is a bit smarter; if it's stable enough to use it, I don't mind backporting it. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
