Re: owner id in .sugar/default/

2007-05-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 01:05 -0400, John Watlington wrote: Is the owner.key/owner.key.pub pair, located at /home/olpc/.sugar/ default/ maintained across system updates ? (To do so, it would have to be stored in the SPI flash) If not, when is this feature expected? It's expected to get

Re: Network association algorithm

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Williams
with our latest connection flowchart and I would like to see it implemented asap. M. Javier Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/2007 02:39 PM To John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED], OLPC Devel devel@laptop.org

Re: Hot plug and play

2007-05-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 13:16 +1100, David Leeming PFnet wrote: Hello, Is hot plug and play on the way for USB drives, etc? Definitely, just not there yet. dan David Leeming ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org

Re: Meshing while suspended

2007-05-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:05 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:20:27PM -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: The latest wireless firmware (5.220.11p4) implements mesh autonomous mode: the wireless interface will continue to participate in the mesh while the main CPU is suspended

Re: Meshing while suspended

2007-05-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:34 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: James, On 5/9/07, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:16 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: It will also require upgrading the Boot2 code in the wireless module to 3107, IIRC. Probably not. True: the new

[PATCH] geode driver cleanups

2007-05-06 Thread Dan Williams
I built with -Wall and fixed the relevant issues it brought up. There are couple important ones, feel free to bin the rest if you like (though they are all technically valid). 1) Lots of missing prototypes; the compiler will assume a return type of int if it doesn't have a prototype. Moved the

Re: Sugar on Debian: libglade/aclocal

2007-05-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 23:51 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On 5/2/07, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:09 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: Here is the error: Should probably move this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardly. They are talking about UI and activity design

[PATCH] Geode X11 driver fixes

2007-05-03 Thread Dan Williams
Looks like a missed rename from the LX video support, and include string.h to get correct prototypes for memset(). commit 7125fcab372b24f7045bbdaa6d4f6e435b1f7a83 Author: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu May 3 09:56:42 2007 -0400 Fix missed GXQueryImageAttributes

Re: Network association algorithm

2007-05-02 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 07:27 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: Wad, Thanks for writing this up. A few additional comments: More things we need to think about. a) What was the point of doing scans for only 1, 6, 11 again? We're scanning for APs on all channels in the infrastructure AP stage anyway.

Re: Sugar on Debian: libglade/aclocal

2007-05-02 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:09 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: Here is the error: Should probably move this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd . /bin/sh /home/mokurai/dev/sugar-jhbuild/source/libglade/missing --run aclocal-1.10 -I -I /home/mokurai/dev/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/aclocal aclocal-1.10:

Re: root PATH missing /sbin and /usr/sbin

2007-04-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:58 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:28:30PM -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: David, I am in the Developer console. iwconfig: command not found ifconfig: command not found But for now, can you try to login as root first and

Re: root PATH missing /sbin and /usr/sbin

2007-04-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 07:58 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:58 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:28:30PM -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: David, I am in the Developer console. iwconfig: command not found ifconfig: command not found

Re: Xrender cursor performance / double buffering?

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 10:05 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 12:21 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Hi folks, for drag'n'dropping an image between an activity and the sugar frame I thought it would be nice to just set it as cursor. This way, it gets rendered on top

Re: [sugar] Cairo tile engine, and accessing 565 buffers from cairo and C

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 21:25 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:59:18 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote: I want to draw RGB tiles (alpha is not necessary) on the screen as fast as possible, double buffering them in 16 bit X images, OK, so it sounds like all you need to use are 16-bit

Re: Xrender cursor performance / double buffering?

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 12:21 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Hi folks, for drag'n'dropping an image between an activity and the sugar frame I thought it would be nice to just set it as cursor. This way, it gets rendered on top of both the activity and the frame. Cursors can be hardware

Re: [sugar] Cairo tile engine, and accessing 565 buffers from cairo and C

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:04 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Apr 17, 2007, at 15:53 , Dan Williams wrote: Correct; about the only thing you can do here is use create_similar () on the xlib _window_ surface, draw your 24bpp image surface to that, and cache the 565 xlib surface for all

Re: [sugar] Cairo tile engine, and accessing 565 buffers from cairo and C

2007-04-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 10:47 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:30:55 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:10 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote: I've read on the mailing list that Cairo supports 565 (begrudgingly, whatever that implies). It means that cairo

Re: [sugar] Cairo tile engine, and accessing 565 buffers from cairo and C

2007-04-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 16:03 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 10:47 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:30:55 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:10 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote: I've read on the mailing list that Cairo supports 565 (begrudgingly

Re: [sugar] Cairo tile engine, and accessing 565 buffers from cairo and C

2007-04-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:10 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote: I've been working on a cairo-based tile engine written in C as a Python extension (part of my cellular automata machine module), which I now have working well enough to display animated cellular automata in two modes: as tiles or as

Re: Please help this person...

2007-04-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:09 -0300, Leandro Biazon wrote: We're having the same mesh problem with ours machines, which were update with the last autoreinstallation image (build 385 and firmware q2b87) We were using build 368 with firmware q2b85, and the mesh was working. Now, the mesh

Re: Please help this person...

2007-04-11 Thread Dan Williams
from both a technical standpoint and an interaction standpoint that need to get worked out. Dan Thanks, hilton Em Quarta 11 Abril 2007 18:51, Dan Williams escreveu: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:09 -0300, Leandro Biazon wrote: We're having the same mesh problem with ours machines, which were

Another battery class on lkml

2007-04-11 Thread Dan Williams
Heads-up if people didn't see it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/392 Dan ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Firmware WIFI supplicant

2007-04-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:41 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On 4/10/07, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it's not working. ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported, apparently. And from what I see it's BTest3 Milestone as per http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/584 That's the next

Re: [Devel-boards] New stable build, 385/q2b87

2007-04-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:31 -0400, Eric St-Jean wrote: Jim Gettys wrote: New Stable Build Build 385 and firmware q2b87 form a new stable build. We do not anticipate another stable build for approximately 3-6 weeks, as we work on suspend and resume, power management, and

Re: CPU overhead

2007-04-08 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 19:27 -0700, Hal Murray wrote: Can anybody confirm that it's reasonable for a Geode to take 5 cycles per iteration for an empty loop? for (j = 0; j xxx; j++) {} The same binary on a Celeron takes 2 cycles. If yes, I can confirm that the system overhead is close

Re: the Power Management Daemon

2007-04-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 01:29 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:56:08PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: Hi Richard - Power management is proceeding along nicely, and we're finally to the point where we can start to discuss the design and implementation of the OLPC

Re: Preferred end user 3rd party app installation method

2007-04-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 02:41 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A few application installation questions as I'm not clear how much of the documentation in the wiki actually works at the moment and how much is intended to work: AFAIK at the moment all activity

Re: MPP port selection

2007-04-01 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 12:07 -0700, Luis Carlos Cobo Rus wrote: On 3/31/07, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 21:07 -0700, Luis Carlos Cobo Rus wrote: Hi John, there's nothing special about the port or anycast IP, we only need them to be consistent between

Re: MPP port selection

2007-03-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 21:07 -0700, Luis Carlos Cobo Rus wrote: Hi John, there's nothing special about the port or anycast IP, we only need them to be consistent between MPPs and clients. Somebody figure it out and let me know :) Dan On 3/31/07, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:42 -0700, Hal Murray wrote: Is there any thought to composing the avatars from a set of components? Why not use the camera? I've worked with a faces mail system that tossed up a new icon whenever you received new mail from somebody. We had a picture for

Re: 802.11s portals

2007-03-28 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:56 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Does the Marvel chip have the capability to connect to standard 802.11a/b/g access points

Re: 802.11s portals

2007-03-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 16:53 -0700, MBurns wrote: List: correct me if I am wrong. As far as I know, the best first step is an Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter [1]. They use the same Marvell chip that the OLPC uses, and it would stand to reason that a Linux+Marvell setup for the OLPC would work

Re: 802.11s portals

2007-03-27 Thread Dan Williams
solution would be to implement an 802.11s stack that understands the XO's specific 802.11s implementation in the kernel's mac80211 stack/framework that would run on any softmac card. That takes a bit of work though :) Dan Scott On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-27

Re: Experiences Getting SystemTap work on OLPC Machine

2007-03-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:03 -0400, William Cohen wrote: William Cohen wrote: This particular script attempts to determine the amount of the time spent in the power saving halted mode. It will run until control-c is typed on the command line. When control-c is pressed, the script prints

Re: Enabling OProfile in the OLPC kernels?

2007-03-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 21:17 +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: William Cohen wrote: Could we turn that on in near future. Then people can avoid building custom kernels to run OProfile? The 314 build still doesn't have OProfile enabled. Who do I need to make the request to change the

Re: Mesh Networking Interoperability (Dan Williams)

2007-03-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 23:04 -0400, Andrew Clunis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:22 -0300, Flavio Coelho wrote: Hi, I am no expert in wireless networking, so forgive me if I say something stupid. ;-) Regarding

Re: Mesh Networking Interoperability (Dan Williams)

2007-03-15 Thread Dan Williams
. -- Message: 8 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:25:47 -0400 From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mesh Networking Interoperability To: Stephen Thorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OLPC Developer's List devel@laptop.org

Re: Where olpc machine spending time when using web broswer

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:59 -0400, William Cohen wrote: William Cohen wrote: Looked at where the processor spends its time when browsing the web. This is awesome, thanks a ton. Hardware configuration: OLPC Beta 2 machine Linksys USB200M USB 10/100 for ethernet connection 4GB

Re: Where olpc machine spending time when using web broswer

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:04 -0500, Vladimir Makarov wrote: William Cohen wrote: William Cohen wrote: Looked at where the processor spends its time when browsing the web. Hardware configuration: OLPC Beta 2 machine Linksys USB200M USB 10/100 for ethernet connection 4GB

Re: Where olpc machine spending time when using web broswer

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 13:22 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 13:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: I already did gcc tunning to geode (pipeline description, code costs, i386 port parameter values) and submitted it to the gcc mainline. As I know Jakub Julinek was going

Re: 301 network broken

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 19:01 +0100, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: Also sprach Chris Ball: Build303 contains the fix for networking. We'd like to release this as a stable build tomorrow; please test this on a B2 if you have one, and let us know if you run into any problems. How about B1

Re: optimization for OLPC

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:09 -0700, Ralph Giles wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:21:31PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: So color conversion is happening in software? The GX has built in support for YUV-RGB conversion and scaling, so that will help reduce the processor load considerably,

Re: [sugar] 301 network broken

2007-03-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 08:23 -0400, Jean Piché wrote: None of the B2s we have can connect to the wifi with 301. Connection scripting with iwconfig and conecting with the Sugar mesh view are both unsuccessful. In the latter, the XO repeatedly prompts for the encryption key and in the

Re: Build 287 under qemu: Struck in sugar initial screen

2007-03-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 01:16 -0500, Andrew Clunis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric St-Jean wrote: Interesting. The filter there is supposed to allow all image types that gdkpixbuf can import. It's broken somehow - it shows no file at all. No jpg, no png, nothing.

Re: Classic Mode bundle

2007-03-08 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:36 -0500, Andrew Clunis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Williams wrote: Classic Mode is a bundle that embeds a Xephyr session in an activity. It's very useful for running non-sugarized programs. That's pretty neat, but Xephyr is kind

Re: Classic Mode bundle

2007-03-07 Thread Dan Williams
. It was originally written by Dan Williams, and I've brought it up to date with a proper icon and the newer activity API. It only works on the devel builds (at the moment), but it includes the Xephyr runtime so it doesn't need to be installed by yum. Eventually I'll bundle xterm and twm

Re: Webcam support in Squeak (for VOLPC)

2007-03-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 20:07 +0100, salsaman wrote: Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 19:38 +0100, salsaman wrote: Dan Williams wrote: If you send X a pixmap that's not in the native framebuffer format (which happens to be 565 right now) then X will have to format

Re: Webcam support in Squeak (for VOLPC)

2007-03-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 14:48 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 20:07 +0100, salsaman wrote: Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 19:38 +0100, salsaman wrote: Dan Williams wrote: If you send X a pixmap that's not in the native framebuffer format

Re: codec optimization

2007-02-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 01:36 +0800, Chih-Chung Chang wrote: Hi, I am interested in helping optimize the video/audio codec used in OLPC. But I don't know which one will be used mainly. Can anyone point it out to me? It's likely Ogg Theora (video) and Ogg Vorbis (audio). They are in need to

Re: help with sugar (non jhbuild) on osx

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:39 -0800, Dan Aronson wrote: Can anyone supply some simple instructions for downloading and running sugar not using jhbuild on osx. I have some slightly different versions of some of the dependencies and rather than install everything, I would like to just try

Re: Move wireless firmware to OFW device tree?

2007-02-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 21:23 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: (moving to olpc-devel) On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:53:07AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: Since we now have an Open Firmware based system, the libertas firmware could be stored inside of the firmware

Re: [sugar] Re: Creating a Sugar activity

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:04 -0300, Gonzalo Delgado wrote: Hello there, I'm coding an activity for Sugar. It used to run OK, but now I get: DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.laptop.Activity10485793 was not provided by any .service files the activity

Re: Marvell 88W8388 driver (Was: OLPC Laptop - an open source substandard ?)

2007-01-26 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:32 +1100, Alex Gibson wrote: Dan Williams wrote: XBox USB wireless adapters reportedly have an 8388 inside. But they aren't 100% the same (perhaps a different EEPROM size) so they'd need a bit of looking into. Dan Has anyone tried one with an olpc

Re: Opera OLPC edition

2007-01-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:00 -0700, Rob Savoye wrote: Håkon Wium Lie wrote: Opera has made a special OLPC edition. The most important difference, compared to the normal Opera for Linux, is the default skin. By any chance does this Opera port support the NSAPI used by Mozilla plugins ? If

Re: Marvell 88W8388 driver (Was: OLPC Laptop - an open source substandard ?)

2007-01-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:27 +1100, Alex Gibson wrote: Alex Gibson wrote: Ivan Krstić wrote: Gabor Dolla wrote: AFAICT there is no 802.11s support in the standard linux kernel. Would it be possible to write the 802.11s code so that it could be used in the standard linux kernel as well as

Re: kernel driver removals

2007-01-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:49 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 07:50 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: I believe we're going to need NAT for the mesh portal stuff; where the laptop automatically becomes a mesh portal by attaching to an infrastructure AP and bridging traffic

Re: kernel driver removals

2007-01-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:40 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 09:34 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Are you imagining that we'll be running Legacy IP on the mesh? I thought it was only going to be IPv6? You're correct of course, it should be IPv6 only. Of course

Re: simple book on laptop

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 14:58 +1100, James Cameron wrote: I've tested this book on build 239, on a B-Test-1. Worked fine. Bit of a delay to start, but otherwise fine. Remember that B1 units have 256MB of RAM (for development), but B2 units will be back to the standard 128MB. That might have an

Re: Please update to build 139

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 19:12 -0200, Gian Carlo Salvati wrote: Dear Jim Gettys, Not worked for me, I have ATest Board and the LinuxBios on ROM (not on SPI). I installed the Autoupdater on a USB pen drive and boot on USB. The pen drive is readed, then the screen shutoff, then the Linux on NAND

[PATCH] allow xf86-amd-devel to pass distcheck

2007-01-13 Thread Dan Williams
durango.c is in src/, not src/gfx/, and it's already listed in amd_drv_la_SOURCES. diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am index 8a50018..3072de2 100644 --- a/src/Makefile.am +++ b/src/Makefile.am @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ \ gfx/disp_gu1.c \ gfx/disp_gu2.c \ -

Re: A new page on Dmix

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:27 -0500, Jean Piché wrote: Significantly more info than was previsouly availlable: http://alsa.opensrc.org/Dmix from the page: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix. Dmix is enabled as default for soundcards which don't support hw

Re: newbie question - need to get libstdc++.so.5

2007-01-08 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:10 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie so forgive the stupid questions and misnaming things - I'll learn quickly... I'm playing around with getting Apache Harmony (an OSS impl of Java SE) to run on an OLPC image running in Parallels in OS X.

Re: [sugar] A special linux distribution for developing OLPC applications

2007-01-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 08:20 -0800, Bryan Berry wrote: Hey guys, we are thinking of building a new linux distribution pre-configured w/ all of the development tools for Sugar and Squeak. The reason for this is that it is fairly complicated to set up Sugar-jhbuild from scratch and download all

Launch performance test activity

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Williams
Chris, I haven't tested this extensively on my XO because the sugar on it is somewhat old and I need it in working order tomorrow morning. But I have tested under sugar-jhbuild quite a bit. Let me know about any problems you may have. Beyond Sugar 0.61, you need these two changesets to Sugar:

Re: airline-friendly wireless disabling?

2006-12-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 10:10 -0500, Owen Williams wrote: (I think someone else asked this but I can't find the thread) Is there a way to completely disable wifi in B1? I'd like to take my laptop on an airplane since it would fit the tray table nicely, but I'd like to be sure the wifi is off.

Re: airline-friendly wireless disabling?

2006-12-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 16:36 +0100, Ivan Krstić wrote: Dan Williams wrote: Well, you can call NetworkManager's 'sleep' method, which makes NM tear the connection down and then essentially do 'ifconfig eth0 down'. When the driver gets the down request, it _should_ stop transmitting

Switch to indicate ebook mode

2006-12-17 Thread Dan Williams
I can't remember if I ever got a straight answer on this. Is there a switch somewhere that we can access that indicates whether or not the laptop has been swiveled into ebook mode? Ideally, the switch would generate an interrupt which we could receive and automatically rotate the X display and

Re: about kernel version

2006-12-12 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:09 -0500, elife wrote: Hi, I downloaded http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/latest/devel_ext3/olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-193-20061203_1727-devel_ext3.img.bz2 and upgraded to its linuxbios. Then I installed it to nand, everything work

Re: Other stuff, and Power Management

2006-12-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 00:47 +, Richard Hughes wrote: On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 10:18 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: The power button does generate keycodes... Ahh I see, keycode 124. From what I understand keycodes are not that useful, keysyms are probably what userspace wants. Something

Re: question about flash_erase

2006-12-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 06:05 +, Chris Ball wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:23:54, elife [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I got File open error when flash_erase -j /dev/mtd0. Have you tried `flash_eraseall -j /dev/mtd0`? That's the correct syntax. I must admit, having _both_ a flash_erase and

Re: B-1 comments.

2006-12-03 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 19:37 -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: This is all in the first few hours of having the machine, and I know that some of this is known. Some of this is also partly my area, and some of this is of limited scope, however, that all said The wireless: We need

Re: Booting ATest board with external monitor

2006-11-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:57 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: I got 182 to work with an older kernel (I used 2.6.18-20061106.3.olpc. 6a94be8adce907b from #155) and a patched /etc/init.d/olpc-configure script. The latter erroneously detects a DCON which I do not actually have on my A-test

Re: progress with bundled C libraries

2006-11-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:11 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Sounds good. Maybe we even want to add this to the default bundle layout and Activity code? That way it would just work for other activities to put their libs into bundle/lib without worrying about how this will be accomplished

Re: Reminder - nominations for BTest-1 build due today - drop dead date is Sunday night.

2006-11-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:14 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Justin Gallardo wrote: I sent this mail earlier, but from the wrong address, so it was moderated. I have submitted the rpms and activity bundle for AbiWord. I was having trouble with git, so I put them on a different page. They

(Trac) Jump to Ticket # functionality missing

2006-11-02 Thread Dan Williams
Ivan, When you have time (or somebody else, whoever), can you make the Search box on trac handle bug #s? For example, if I: 1) Go to dev.laptop.org 2) Click View Tickets 3) in the search box at the upper right, enter 258, hit return 4) I get: Search results #55: LinuxBIOS won't boot off of

Re: Getting developer boards to talk to eachother.

2006-10-31 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:49 -0800, MBurns wrote: (Wasn't sure if I should send this to networking@, devel-board@, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] My apologies if this is the wrong choice.) Problem: Mesh networking (dev board to dev board) does not work. Peer discovery, Mesh View, etc, does not seem to

Re: Battery class driver.

2006-10-23 Thread Dan Williams
Adding Richard Hughes and David Zeuthen, since they will actually have to talk to your batter class and driver. On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:32 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: At git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6.git there is an initial implementation of a battery class, along with a driver which

Re: [Trac #224] Want IRQ on power/battery status change.

2006-10-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 15:26 -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:18:29PM -, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #224: Want IRQ on power/battery status change. --+- Reporter: dwmw2 | Owner:

Re: Building dev images

2006-10-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:19 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 22:49 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: Right now I'm trying to get pilgrim to work and build good dev images on a freshly installed

Re: lzma with TCP/IP and libertas driver... and still some room

2006-10-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 10:26 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Yeah, and the other headache in IPv4 is lack of autoconfiguration: you need a dhcp server for two machines to talk to each other. If we want to clone systems from nearby kids, this then means a dhcp server, and all that rot. What about

Re: lzma with TCP/IP and libertas driver... and still some room

2006-10-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 13:29 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:48 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 10:26 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Yeah, and the other headache in IPv4 is lack of autoconfiguration: you need a dhcp server for two machines to talk to each

Re: Marvell regulatory domain info storage?

2006-10-02 Thread Dan Williams
, but there may also be power restrictions on a per-country basis too. Need to look that up. At least the FCC restricts power output of unlicensed devices, but I'm not sure if that's band-specific. Dan Jim Gettys wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:55 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: Hi, Talking

Marvell regulatory domain info storage?

2006-10-01 Thread Dan Williams
Hi, Talking with Mitch this week brought up an interesting question. Where regulatory domain information for the wireless stored? We have to know what channels we can(not) operate on for a given country, and therefore must communicate that information to the laptop. Does the Marvell chip have

Re: lzma with TCP/IP and libertas driver... and still some room

2006-09-24 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:25 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 07:38:10PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: - Switch from usb-storage to ub and remove SCSI support in the process (hopefully ~40-60 k compressed) That kills our ability to boot from multi-card card

Re: Gnome applications errors

2006-09-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:55 -0300, Marcos Barbosa wrote: How to make to prevent the messages of error of applicatory of the Gnome when gconfd is not twirling (I am not finding it therefore I cannot make it to twirl)? An example is Hal-device-manager who comes in the package of HAL and gives

Re: Questions about compilation and other questions

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 21:32 +0800, Ivan Krstić wrote: Marcos Barbosa wrote: * Why not to develop one toolchain for the OLPC? Because it's a pain to maintain. * Which is the used window manager in the version of the Red Hat? It was the Gnome? Now and the Matchbox? He is compatible with

Re: Questions about Fedora

2006-09-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 07:28 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 23:56 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: Dan Williams wrote: We'll continue to prune files and reduce interdependencies of these packages to hopefully get the base OS image down to the 150MB - 200MB The target number

Re: high-pitched noise during bootup

2006-09-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 02:09 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi, I have noticed some high-pitched noise during each bootup, estimated frequency is 12kHz. Sounds like a bird chirping, but with a much higher pitch near the upper hearing range. The sound is also quite quiet and can't be

Re: Questions about Fedora

2006-09-19 Thread Dan Williams
' just as soon as we get X11 to stop depending on it, which is only used for one small thing. That's a 12MB package. cracklib-dicts too, that's another 3.3MB. 2006/9/19, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:33 -0300, Marcos Barbosa wrote: These are the used packages

Re: Questions about Fedora

2006-09-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:34 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 14:03 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:10 -0300, Marcos Barbosa wrote: Please, it publishes a list I contend the name and the version of the packages that are used in the creation of image 81

Re: How Can We Get a Laptop?

2006-09-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have some very basic questions to ask. How can I purchase or get a copy of the finished laptop? The laptop is certainly not finished yet and isn't expected to be until next year. There were a certain number of developer

Re: Questions about Fedora

2006-09-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 12:21 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:58 -0300, Marcos Barbosa wrote: Which are the packages (and its respective versions) used in the A subset of packages available from standard Fedora Core Rawhide, here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub

Re: OLPC progress report from Thailand

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 07:01 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 13/09/06 19:44 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I test OLPC under slackware 10.2 several times and result are reproducible/repeatable with 100% correlation of working.

Re: Idea to LinuxIOS

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 20:40 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At earlier days usb8xxx are outside the kernel and have to say depmod -a after building new kernel every time, in which, annoying much. Now , it was good to see that libertas/usb8xxx.ko will be made automatically in compiling

Re: [OLPC-devel] Subject header abuse

2006-09-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 10:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: Please, can we stop adding crap to subject headers? The gratuitous 'OLPC-devel' in the subject is bad enough already, without seeing '[OLPC-devel] Re: [One Laptop Per Chil...' (that's where the display ended; I don't know yet what's

Re: OLPC-rc4 with Marvell Wireless Libertas support is now working :) Re: Config Linux BIOS: Is it possible (Re: [OLPC-devel] DOS in Windows Flash Disaster Recovery Utility?

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 23:08 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is exactly place that I can get David Woodhouse's git repository? I have git-1.4 that you gave me but don't know exact command to get your kernel correctly. git clone git://git.infradead.org/olpc-2.6 I also already ftp ALL

Re: [OLPC-devel] Re: [One Laptop Per Child] #59: Marvell wireless won't run from LinuxBIOS

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 19:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear James Cameron, I did used version told by Jim on September 1: vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2608.olpc1 Also, I verified myself using 2.6.18-rc2 Both can boot via fedora with Marvell wireless support. But if boot using slackware

Re: [OLPC-devel] Build image 76.

2006-08-24 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:31 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Interesting. I'm glad we now know what was going on. In theory, I would think the device driver should have responsibility for enabling the power on devices; in Linux has knowledge of the bus topology. But I'll defer to Marcelo on what

Re: [OLPC-devel] manual for development board?

2006-08-11 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 13:48 +1200, stephen pearce wrote: Hi Pleased to receive a development board yesterday .. serial numbers are DA0CL1MB4A8 10MBXZZST09 QTFACA6212 AG12012C009 I tried looking all of these up on Quanta's site .. to no avail .. I did find a list of the connectors on