Michael Stone writes:
On the other hand, it would be rather trivial for activities which
cared to check their dependencies in a adhoc fashion (by running
rpm themselves if they wish) and by reporting errors if necessary
dependencies are unsatisfied.
This is far from trivial. Sure, I could do
Hi all,
I've been running joyride-2225 with what I believe to be the latest versions
(as per the update software functionality of the sugar-control-panel) of
some core activities. In the past half hour I have stumbled across some
issues that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else so I thought I'd
Mikus Grinbergs writes:
There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina.
However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to
re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod.
I hope you've filed a bug to request that those libraries
be put back.
I could use libpaper as well; the
2008/7/29 Christoph Derndorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all,
I've been running joyride-2225 with what I believe to be the latest versions
(as per the update software functionality of the sugar-control-panel) of
some core activities. In the past half hour I have stumbled across some
issues that
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 23:37, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2223
Changes in build 2223 from build:
Size delta: 0.00M
-olpcupdate 2.11-1
+olpcupdate 2.12-1
--- Changes for olpcupdate 2.12-1 from 2.11-1 ---
+
Greetings- in spite of numerous [EMAIL PROTECTED] categories I
can't find any concerned with solar charging! Can someone please
direct me, as = devel@lists.laptop.org seems essentially software.
The need arises after being asked to post my recent findings on
charging a OLPC with a new release
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Stan. SWAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings- in spite of numerous [EMAIL PROTECTED] categories I
can't find any concerned with solar charging! Can someone please
direct me, as = devel@lists.laptop.org seems essentially software.
Post it right here. Hardware
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 14:50 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 23:32 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote:
The open source project Gobby also uses this sort of who-wrote-what
text highlighting, SJ and I have recently (right before he left for
Wikimania) been looking into getting similar
michael wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the obvious answers are that we need to commit to some level of
continuing support for activities,
What notion of support would you suggest?
not breaking supplied interfaces without providing feedback to
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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:40 PM
To: Jerry Williams
Cc: 'Mikus Grinbergs'; devel@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:38:35PM +1200, Stan. SWAN wrote:
The need arises after being asked to post my recent findings on
charging a OLPC with a new release 10W CIS PV. Tests were made in the
New Zealand winter (which is mostly very sunny with extremely clear
air) , although the CIS PV
There's also a relatively low-traffic [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, created
to discuss peripherals of all kinds, including those related to power.
I personally would recommend that you subscribe and cc it on this
discussion.
Best,
--
Ian Daniher
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Problem: sugar starts up slowly on the xo
Tests were ran on an xo after a clean joyride-2181 install plus
sucrose's activities.
A graph of the ending part of the boot process can be found at:
http://dev.laptop.org/~rlucchese/boot/boot.stats.svg
(http://dev.laptop.org/~rlucchese/boot/boot.stats)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI - I am not writing a ticket at this time (until I can reproduce
consistent misbehavior). G1G1. Joyride manually updated to 2216.
Fair enough. It sounds like we need to tease it apart a bit first; there
might be 3
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:04:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
michael wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the obvious answers are that we need to commit to some level of
continuing support for activities,
What notion of support would you
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 19:42 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Anyone whose activities use Numerical arrays in Python should check that
they still work in +. If anything is broken, I'll be happy to help
fix it. The only Activity I am sure needs to be checked is Measure.
I can confirm
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 20:56 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina.
However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to
re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod.
What are the errors that you encounter?
Do you know libmikmod is needed?
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 09:32 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
a) Record: using v56 the activity starts up fine, the display shows
whatever the camera is capturing, I can go into fullscreen-mode,
switch to different tabs, etc. However once I press the
capture-button the whole thing basically
Stan. SWAN wrote:
Greetings- in spite of numerous [EMAIL PROTECTED] categories I
can't find any concerned with solar charging! Can someone please
direct me, as = devel@lists.laptop.org seems essentially software.
Your at the right spot. We don't have a list broken down to that level.
air)
Chris Barrett wrote:
me in the direction of acquiring a new screen for one of my G1G1 XOs.
The old one's ribbon cable has stripped and now is unserviceable,
naturally this is a predicament as I can't easily fix the ribbon cable
How did you strip the cable?
--
Richard Smith [EMAIL
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:51 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
See the discussion about PAM last week on this list. We decided not to
fork but instead just to replace big dictionaries with small/empty ones.
The size increase suggests that maybe my pilgrim hack to zap the big
dictionaries did not work.
A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!!
I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__
of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed,
mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc.
Given that there *are* Activities out in the hands of users (both
with G1G1 and with
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:10 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!!
I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__
of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed,
mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc.
Please ensure that you have
Richard et.al: Thanks for feedback on my NZ midwinter solar charging
trials. I'm pretty experienced with the technicalities of solar PV
(although this is the first CIS/CIGS panel I'd worked with), was
certainly aware of that 10V cutout ( similar cutout at ~23V).
That heavy overcast image was
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2228
Changes in build 2228 from build: 2225
Size delta: 0.00M
-hulahop 0.4.2-1.olpc3
+hulahop 0.4.3-1.olpc3
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See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/announcer/joyride-pkgs.html for aggregate logs
See
Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them
What good will that do?
At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity
would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assigned *me* as
the owner of that ticket -- presumably making it my
Hi Mikus,
On 29 Jul 2008, at 22:09, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of
them
What good will that do?
At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity
would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assigned *me*
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Noticed that sugar-evince 2.20.1.1-3.olpc3 brought in
poppler 0.6.2-5.olpc3, which is 3 MB.
I think 8.1.0 and 8.1.1 have the same dependency (on
poppler-0.6.2.4-olpc2). Evince needs Poppler to render PDFs.
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats
I need to install a win32 program for my father to
use on his XO. At 1200x900 resolution the text is
**way** too small for him to read. However, it is
very clear :-)
In some previous discussion on the XO bug tracker
ssb22 managet to use x11vnc to get a 2X zoom going
for the XO and WINE. In
1. We're going to begin nominating this week's 'joyride-weekly' tomorrow at
0900 EDT. If you have risky changes you want to contribute, please provide them
_after_ we deliver our nomination. If you want to help more peoples' changes
make the deadline, then please help smoke-test joyrides built
can't think of a faster way to make developers give up on our
platform as a lost cause.
As someone whose year-long OLPC-specific project (SimCity) was broken
by Sugar interface changes right before the 650 release, I can report
that it was pretty disheartening. Both the sound and the running
Anyone whose activities use Numerical arrays in Python should check that
they still work in +. If anything is broken, I'll be happy to help
fix it. The only Activity I am sure needs to be checked is Measure.
I can confirm that Measure does NOT work.
Which version of Measure?
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. Separately, I wish we were receiving even more volunteer testing. Can you
help out? Fame, glory, and the undying gratitude of hundreds of thousands of
children await you!
I (just an interested G1G1 owner for my
Note: I took a quick pass over the current blocks:8.2.0 tickets. I have not
revisited the other tickets since last week. Finally, if you're working on
tickets on this list, please ensure that they are fully updated BEFORE
tomorrow's status meeting. In particular, feel free to fold comments from
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
I believe you really need some dedicated person as liaison between
sugarlabs/1cc and outside testing and development volunteers.
We're working on it! Are you interested in joining OLPC's Support Gang
where a collegial group discusses just such
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:32:42PM -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
I (just an interested G1G1 owner for my grandson with a
Solaris/Unix/Linux background) would love to help testing, but you are
not making it very easy.
What would make it easier for you? I gather that having the nominated
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:46 -0700, S Page wrote:
I think 8.1.0 and 8.1.1 have the same dependency (on
poppler-0.6.2.4-olpc2). Evince needs Poppler to render PDFs.
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats
Yes, bringing in poppler was intentional. The lack of poppler was what
was
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!!
I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__
of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed,
mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc.
Given that
Daniel Drake writes:
I'll look into why SDL_mixer went away, and what it is used for...
It's for audio. Reasons for use include:
* Nicely compatible with other SDL stuff
* Cross-platform (BeOS, MacOS X, Win95, Vista...)
* Easy support for stereo positioning
* Handles *.ogg files
* Good enough
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone whose activities use Numerical arrays in Python should check that
they still work in +. If anything is broken, I'll be happy to help
fix it. The only Activity I am sure needs to be checked is Measure.
I
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Stan. SWAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings- in spite of numerous [EMAIL PROTECTED] categories I
can't find any concerned with solar charging! Can someone please
direct me, as = devel@lists.laptop.org seems essentially software.
[EMAIL PROTECTED], copied
Michael Stone wrote:
5. Separately, I wish we were receiving even more volunteer testing. Can you
help out? Fame, glory, and the undying gratitude of hundreds of thousands of
children await you!
Background: I'm just a G1G1. I don't have a Developer key, but on my
own initiative I installed
I'm still on the solar OLPC quest, after meandering assorted
automotive goodies displays here in Wellington (NZ),found Kmart
selling some outstanding value 12V 5Ah Rechargeable Power Packs.
This ~US$35 offering, pictured at =
www.manuka.orconhosting.net.nz/powerpak.jpg ,even has an inbuilt
fyi,
There are two repos in the testing.repo that are not valid
[fedora-debuginfo-testing]
[updates-debuginfo-testing]
--
Bryan W. Berry
Systems Engineer
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
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Hi Bryan,
How did we miss the timing on this?
Did you know that 164 was about to go out for testing?
Let us know how we can communicate better to stay in synch with you.
Martin,
Can you add the upgrade instructions from this exchange to the 164
release notes?
Thanks,
Greg S
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