Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Sameer Verma
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > We need a demo which shows off the full-screen video capabilities of > the XO. Unfortunately, Record compresses its input rather heavily, so > it's not a great demo for video playback. We bundle the Ogg Theora > codecs, and Browse can play media files full-screen, so the

New joyride build 1405

2007-12-11 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1405/ -libertas-usb8388-firmware.noarch 2:5.110.20.p42-1.olpc2 +libertas-usb8388-firmware.noarch 2:5.110.20.p47-1.olpc2 -xorg-x11-drv-amd.i386 0:0.0-29.20071019.olpc2 +xorg-x11-drv-amd.i386 0:0.0-30.20071019.olpc2 -xorg-x11-drv-cirrus.i386

test result, wireless 5.110.20.p47 on build 406.15 on B2, okay

2007-12-11 Thread James Cameron
Placed build 406.15 on a B2, then applied wireless firmware 5.110.20.p47 to it per John Watlington's mail earlier. Verified that "ethtool -i eth0" showed the new version in use. Verified that the OpenWRT access point that had previously shown a WDS interface for each booted laptop ... no longer s

New joyride build 1404

2007-12-11 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1404/ -xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.i386 0:0.3.1-2.fc7 +xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.i386 0:0.3.1-4.olpc2 -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html ___

Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Erik Blankinship
> Does Erik's > transcoding mechanism work to get it out of RV format? I don't believe there is a real component for a gstreamer pipeline. You would want to use the highest quality originals anyway. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://

Re: wow, wireless go BOOM!

2007-12-11 Thread John Watlington
Yes, as we don't recommend running anything later than 406 on a B2, we should produce 406.16 with the new libertas firmware. In the meantime, you can patch 406.15 pretty simply: wget http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/ usb8388-5.110.20.p42.bin mv usb8388-5.110.20.p42.bin /lib/firmware

Fwd: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Seth Woodworth
(Doh! Sent from the wrong email) -- Forwarded message -- From: Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 11, 2007 4:23 PM Subject: Re: Help wanted: video demo! To: "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, devel Development < devel@lists.lapto

Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Peter Krenesky
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 6:52 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Sesame Street video that runs in the Helix player (RV encoded) is >> quite a good demo of full screen video on the laptop. >> > > Is there a URL that that can be downloaded from? Does Erik'

Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Dec 11, 2007 6:52 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Sesame Street video that runs in the Helix player (RV encoded) is > quite a good demo of full screen video on the laptop. Is there a URL that that can be downloaded from? Does Erik's transcoding mechanism work to get it out o

Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Walter Bender
The Sesame Street video that runs in the Helix player (RV encoded) is quite a good demo of full screen video on the laptop. -walter On Dec 11, 2007 6:07 PM, Erik Blankinship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/11/07, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We need a demo which shows off

Re: Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread Erik Blankinship
On 12/11/07, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We need a demo which shows off the full-screen video capabilities of > the XO. Unfortunately, Record compresses its input rather heavily, so > it's not a great demo for video playback. We bundle the Ogg Theora > codecs, and Browse can p

Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EST Boston)

2007-12-11 Thread Jim Gettys
Hi, We'll be having the regular software meeting on IRC (irc.freenode.net #olpc-meeting) tonight at 9pm EST. See you there! Date/time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=11&year=2007&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=43 Agenda: Schedule review Process

Help wanted: video demo!

2007-12-11 Thread C. Scott Ananian
We need a demo which shows off the full-screen video capabilities of the XO. Unfortunately, Record compresses its input rather heavily, so it's not a great demo for video playback. We bundle the Ogg Theora codecs, and Browse can play media files full-screen, so the first step is for someone to in

New joyride build 1402

2007-12-11 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1402/ -hulahop.i386 0:0.3-2.olpc2 +hulahop.i386 0:0.4.0-1.olpc2 +sugar-base.i386 0:0.2.0-1 -sugar-base.i386 0:0.2-0.1.git084d55045a -sugar-datastore.noarch 0:0.5-1 +sugar-datastore.noarch 0:0.6.0-1 -sugar.i386 0:0.75.0-1 +sugar.i386 0:0.75

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, >> It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead >> and get around to releasing certain bits of the OpenSolaris tree >> under dual GPL/CDDL [..] > If Sun wanted Linux to rip off Solaris code easily, they would have > just released everything under the GPL rig

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-11 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we >> may end up reinventing a full blown package manager with >> dependency tracking, plus tools like apt for downloading >> and installing them. > > I've spent a fair amount of time with both "yum" and "apt

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 8

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 10 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, once this is fixed, are there any plans to upgrade to Fedora Core 8 > > for everyone else? > > I seem to recall absorbing the fact that a re-basing onto FC8 was > intended... and this was some time back. Fedora 8 perhaps. Fedora core h

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-11 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up >> reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus >> tools like apt for downloading and installing them. > > It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 8

2007-12-11 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Jim Gettys wrote: > Seems likely upgrade.2 material. Please add an enhancement request to > trac... Done: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5454 -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 8

2007-12-11 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Does the symlink in /boot to the kernel get updated? I've tried > smaller-scale updates (just the kernel) and it still reboots into the > old kernel. We can not install Fedora's stock kernel package on OLPC. Not until: 1) all the OLPC patches are integrated ups

Re: wow, wireless go BOOM!

2007-12-11 Thread John Gilmore
> Actually, he mentions one B2-1 running an old build on the same environment. Sounds like we should make a point release for B2's, adding the new firmware, so the thousands of B2-1's can avoid being Typhoid Mary to whatever network they approach. John

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to < 4 %

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > The suspend-function (from game.py) wouldn't work here in the emu, > because only root hast write-access to /sys/power/state. Is this > possible on the xo, and are there other ways to suspend as well? I don't think the suspend call should be necessary; after thirty seconds of being

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to < 4 %

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Hager
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > I have patched Pippy's examples to follow best practices for pygame, > so that the frame rate is limited to 20 FPS and games automatically > pause and suspend after 20 seconds of inactivity. (These defaults can > be overridden.) > > The patch is pullable from: > http://de

Re: New joyride build 1401

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Build Announcer Script wrote: > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1401/ > > +olpc-utils.i386 0:0.53-1.olpc2 > -olpc-utils.i386 0:0.54-1.olpc2 > +xorg-x11-drv-cirrus.i386 0:1.1.0-3.fc7 > -xorg-x11-drv-cirrus.i386 0:1.1.0-5.olpc2 olpc-utils was r

New joyride build 1401

2007-12-11 Thread Build Announcer Script
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[Announce] New Update 1 Project created in Pootle

2007-12-11 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, In order to enable translators contribute translations for the Update 1 release[1], we have created an Update 1 project[2] in Pootle. Currently it allows translators to translate * Sugar * Web activity * Journal Activity If you are the author of an internationalized activity (or any part

Re: wow, wireless go BOOM!

2007-12-11 Thread Andres Salomon
I believe the original reporter said that he *was* running the latest build/firmware, no? On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:45:49 -0300 "Ricardo Carrano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we never got the information on the models of APs in use at this > conference. > But, we deduct by the symptoms tha

Re: wow, wireless go BOOM!

2007-12-11 Thread Rob Savoye
Andres Salomon wrote: > I believe the original reporter said that he *was* running the latest > build/firmware, no? I checked the builds on all three X0s at the conference where we were having trouble, and all were running 406. There were 2 B4s and a B2. Turning on the network on the X0s woul

Re: wow, wireless go BOOM!

2007-12-11 Thread Ricardo Carrano
> I believe the original reporter said that he *was* running the latest > build/firmware, no? Actually, he mentions one B2-1 running an old build on the same environment. > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:45:49 -0300 > "Ricardo Carrano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think we never got the inform

Fwd: Project Hosting Request

2007-12-11 Thread ffm
This was submitted a week ago and got no replies, so I am submitting it again. 1. Project name : Graphics API for the Students of Python (GASP) 2. Existing website, if any : https://launchpad.net/gasp 3. One-line description : GASP provides a simple, procedural graphics API for be

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to < 4 %

2007-12-11 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I have patched Pippy's examples to follow best practices for pygame, so that the frame rate is limited to 20 FPS and games automatically pause and suspend after 20 seconds of inactivity. (These defaults can be overridden.) The patch is pullable from: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/pippy