Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread John Gilmore
Many activities are calling PS get_preferred_connection() ... However, during the period when we stop salut to let gabble try to connect, this call fails as there is no running plugin in PS. If an activity is launched during this time ... crash with a gray screen. This affects:

repositories and releases

2008-02-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, last terminal bundle was released from a private tree [0] instead of from the main repository [1]. http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mstone/terminal-activity;a=summary http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/terminal-activity;a=summary Am I wrong to think that this is bad and will cause

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Morgan Collett
Hi John Your points are valid. If we weren't in RC phase this would have been a non-issue to fix the activities. It turns out the all the activities (except Pippy) were defensively coded enough to not crash with this particular failure - despite there being an open bug about this failure being

Re: Turn off mesh (g1g1)?

2008-02-15 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Gary, Is it similar to #6370? Removing networks.cfg does the trick? If not, would you please turn debug on: echo 0x6184 /sys/module/libertas/parameters/libertas_debug And capture the dmesg output and then file a bug (including XO build version and AP brand, model, version)? Turning off the

Re: help about helix libraries

2008-02-15 Thread Waqas Toor
Thanks Tomeu, My activity works fine but as i am using evince as a pdf document reader and helix as the libraries for mp3 decoding, the only problem is that when i play some sound the control is stuck between that run() method, i tried threading as well :( can you please point me to a developer

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 14/02/2008 am 12:19, ysgrifennodd John Watlington: On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:58 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: We're testing patches to Presence Service to not start salut (or stop it) for a while to give gabble a chance to connect to

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 15/02/2008 am 00:09, ysgrifennodd John Gilmore: Many activities are calling PS get_preferred_connection() ... However, during the period when we stop salut to let gabble try to connect, this call fails as there is no running plugin in PS. If an activity is launched during this time

Re: help about helix libraries

2008-02-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:14 +0500, Waqas Toor wrote: Thanks Tomeu, My activity works fine but as i am using evince as a pdf document reader and helix as the libraries for mp3 decoding, the only problem is that when i play some sound the control is stuck between that run() method, i tried

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Morgan Collett
Dafydd Harries wrote: There is still a problem there: when you hit the Share button, there might not be a connection that you can use for collaboration. The activity can tell that this is the case, but can't tell when sharing does become available. Ideally, we would enable and disable the

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Morgan Collett
Morgan Collett wrote: After looking through the code for these activities I tried them all on build 691, with neither gabble nor salut running - the best way to reproduce expected behaviour without a schoolserver. (To reproduce, kill telepathy-gabble if it's running, then kill

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Only Pippy actually crashes - it fails to launch completely. Logged #6475 for Pippy, with a minimal patch attached. Applied, thanks. I've pushed a Pippy-19.xo release to Joyride. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Re: Open Simulator with Physics Engine

2008-02-15 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Edward Cherlin wrote: Has anybody looked at this for the XO? http://opensimulator.org/wiki/PhysicsEngines The physics is not very realistic yet. Presumably we could manage simple statics and dynamics, with graphs of position, velocity, and acceleration. I would like to have a simulation

Re: Turn off mesh (g1g1)?

2008-02-15 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
Ricardo Carrano wrote: Gary, Is it similar to #6370? Removing networks.cfg does the trick? If not, would you please turn debug on: echo 0x6184 /sys/module/libertas/parameters/libertas_debug And capture the dmesg output and then file a bug (including XO build version and AP brand,

Re: [Server-devel] Active Antenna woes

2008-02-15 Thread John Watlington
Those messages are certainly from the driver, but it has been tested and works fine with multiple antenna. The most likely source of this problem is old firmware in the second antenna. Please take a look at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Active_Antenna_Reprogramming and ensure that the antenna is

Fwd: Open Simulator with Physics Engine

2008-02-15 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Oops, I sent the below off-list by mistake. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:28 AM Subject: Re: Open Simulator with Physics Engine To: Joshua Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Making a good learning simulator is an art. Too

Shell account

2008-02-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I would like to have a shell account (with the same SSH key as controls my git repository) so I can put the Licensing activity into a public_rpms directory. I don't know if blasting this to the whole devel list is the way to go, but http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting doesn't suggest a

Re: hosting request: Gadget

2008-02-15 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 14/02/2008 am 15:53, ysgrifennodd Dafydd Harries: 1. Project name : Gadget 2. Existing website, if any : 3. One-line description : Jabber server extension for activity indexing 4. Longer description : Gadget provides an index of Sugar activities and

bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread Walter Bender
Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? Any recommendations as to a model we could use for an inventory project? -walter -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:24 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? Any recommendations as to a model we could use for an inventory project? As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. See for

New joyride build 1701

2008-02-15 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1701 Changes in build 1701 from build: 1700 Size delta: -0.13M -Pippy 18 +Pippy 19 --- Changes for Pippy 19 from 18 --- + Trac 6475: Fix crash on launch when no telepathy connection -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used a USB bar code scanner on the XO? Any recommendations as to a model we could use for an inventory project? Any barcode scanner which advertises itself as an USB HID device (read, keyboard) would work fine.

Re: repositories and releases

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Stone
Tomeu, No, you're not wrong at all. My apologies for forgetting to push as a part of #5537 and #6316. Michael On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:42:10AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, last terminal bundle was released from a private tree [0] instead of from the main repository [1].

Re: mouse unstable on rc2

2008-02-15 Thread Simon Schampijer
Richard A. Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I get home tonight I will lookup the exact steps for doing this and give it a try. one problem is that the problem did not show up immediatly (some laptops showed the problem within a half hour, others didn't show it for several

Re: Read ETexts Activity

2008-02-15 Thread James Simmons
Edward, I browsed through the links on your Programming For Children pages and came across the Activity Tutorial (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_tutorial). Like the other tutorials I've seen it quits just as things are getting interesting. It gave me an idea for a new page, which I'd

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread John Gilmore
Morgan, thank you for the detailed response. Also the two kids sitting under a tree somewhere scenario must Just Work. Absolutely. But ordinary Internet access doesn't work in Mongolia, and probably isn't going to work in update.1. So, everything will work eventually, when all bugs are fixed,

Re: bar code scanners on the XO

2008-02-15 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:35:36PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: As you are probably aware, it is possible to read barcodes from the camera, using software analysis. See for example http://www.linux.com/feature/126948 . I've tried this, using zebra, but found that it required a specific

XO Colors ?

2008-02-15 Thread Ixo X oxI
Devel group, I've been looking at a few Wiki and python pages about XO color definitions, and even updated one page with some of my discoveries. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_colors Basically, found color definitions in two standard distribution python pages :

Re: Open Simulator with Physics Engine

2008-02-15 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Gary C Martin wrote: Just wanted to chip in with a thought of a simpler activity sim type that could be a low hanging fruit to port or code for the XO. I do love the idea of 'crayon physics' and all the other physics sim spinoffs that are all the fashion just now, but a lot of fun/

Re: XO Colors ?

2008-02-15 Thread Walter Bender
If there are duplicates, that is a bug. The constraints on the color palette are: 1. There must be value contrast between the stroke and fill colors (so that they remain distinct in reflective mode) and allow for clarity of the icon definitions. 2. There must be value contrast between the

Re: Read ETexts Activity

2008-02-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 15, 2008 9:12 AM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward, I browsed through the links on your Programming For Children pages and came across the Activity Tutorial (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_tutorial). Like the other tutorials I've seen it quits just as things are

Re: Offer of help for Amharic

2008-02-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 14, 2008 8:23 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Now that I have got Amharic working on my G1G1 XO, Could you put that process on the Wiki? I'm assuming that you used SCIM, since there isn't an Ethiopian Unix keyboard. Which activities permit Amharic input? I spent