New joyride build 2643

2009-02-05 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2643 Changes in build 2643 from build: 2640 Size delta: 0.00M -xorg-x11-drv-keyboard 1.3.0-3.fc9 +xorg-x11-drv-keyboard 1.3.2-1.fc10 -yum 3.2.20-5.fc10 +yum 3.2.21-2.fc10 -alsa-lib 1.0.19-1.fc10 +alsa-lib 1.0.19-2.fc10 -libedit

Re: [Server-devel] Network addressing for activation-over-IBSS

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/4 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Great -- I am not too conversant on the initrd code, probably makes sense to repost it to devel@ where cscott and mstone lurk... Yes, but I would prefer to sort out the networking first. The XS routing routes 172.18.16.xx the first active

Re: Mesh support very likely to miss Sugar 0.84

2009-02-05 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm not sure completely sure about deployments but how much are they actually used? Two kids under a tree don't technically need a mesh to collaborate (as cool as it sounds). Concentrating on deployments risks disrespecting G1G1 purchasers. In Sugar 0.84, will mesh at least be disabled, from

[Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
I have got xs-activation-server working over IPv6. It is quite simple. Firstly, the server must bind to a hardcoded address on the LAN. This can be done with this command: ip addr add fe80::abcd:ef01/64 dev lanbond0 Secondly, /etc/xinetd.d/xsactivation should be replaced with the attached

Re: New joyride build 2643

2009-02-05 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
When I try to fetch this with 'olpc-update', I get: I don't think the requested build number exists. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Video Playback

2009-02-05 Thread Eduardo Silva
1) Any idea on the Mplayer activity development? I cant get it to work as an activity, although i can make it happen through the console, which isnt the best idea, since it's meant for the kids to watch some videos on it. Some time ago we did some work on that (we = Reynaldo Verdejo and I )

Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6

2009-02-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:04 -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: I have got xs-activation-server working over IPv6. It is quite simple. Firstly, the server must bind to a hardcoded address on the LAN. This can be done with this command: ip addr add fe80::abcd:ef01/64 dev lanbond0 Secondly,

Re: Please update etoys in 8.2.1

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Bert, We have had fixed Etoys / Squeak-VM packages ready for many months now, they just did not make it into 8.2 by a few days, and 8.2.1 was scheduled to be only a major-bugs fixing release, so we were holding out for 9.1. Since that is not going to happen we would very

Re: Please update etoys in 8.2.1

2009-02-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.02.2009, at 18:46, Chris Ball wrote: Hi Bert, We have had fixed Etoys / Squeak-VM packages ready for many months now, they just did not make it into 8.2 by a few days, and 8.2.1 was scheduled to be only a major-bugs fixing release, so we were holding out for 9.1. Since that is not

New staging build 26

2009-02-05 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build26 Changes in build 26 from build: 25 Size delta: -0.13M -olpcrd 0.49-0 +olpcrd 0.50-0 --- Changes for olpcrd 0.50-0 from 0.49-0 --- + Implement multiple key support -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: [Server-devel] xs-activation-server over IPv6

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/5 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:04 -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: I have got xs-activation-server working over IPv6. It is quite simple. Firstly, the server must bind to a hardcoded address on the LAN. This can be done with this command: ip addr add

OLPC volunteers this Saturday Wellington - Upgrading

2009-02-05 Thread Tabitha Roder
Hi Join us in welcoming back Martin Langhoff this Saturday after his XS work in Boston. The community is ready for testing 8.2.1 staging 25 so we can upgrade the XOs this weekend. Usual: 10.30am at The Cross, 35 Abel Smith St. Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1 -

Re: Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-05 Thread John Gilmore
I think that the addition of a new property in the activity.info file would be logical here. Make it an integer indicating the maximum number of supported participants. Unshared activities would report '1', activities like video chat (with technical limitations) or chess (with obvious

New joyride build 2644

2009-02-05 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2644 Changes in build 2644 from build: 2643 Size delta: -0.13M -olpcrd 0.49-0 +olpcrd 0.50-0 --- Changes for olpcrd 0.50-0 from 0.49-0 --- + Implement multiple key support -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-05 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: I think that the addition of a new property in the activity.info file would be logical here. Make it an integer indicating the maximum number of supported participants. Unshared activities would report '1', activities like

New staging build 27

2009-02-05 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build27 Changes in build 27 from build: 26 Size delta: -0.39M -etoys 3.0.2153-1 +etoys 4.0.2205-2 -squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc10 +squeak-vm 3.10-3olpc11 --- Changes for etoys 4.0.2205-2 from 3.0.2153-1 --- + update version string on startup +

olpc-update broken

2009-02-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.02.2009, at 15:40, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: When I try to fetch this with 'olpc-update', I get: I don't think the requested build number exists. I get the same error for staging-27 - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: olpc-update broken

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, When I try to fetch this with 'olpc-update', I get: I don't think the requested build number exists. I get the same error for staging-27 Thanks; it was out of disk space. - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing

8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Stone
Hey folks, Here are some more unofficial thoughts on how 8.2.1 is progressing: 1) Daniel Drake discovered some annoying wifi regressions (#9235). We need to find root cause here, e.g. by bisecting the kernel patches added since 8.2.0 and testing each resulting kernel with both the

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread quozl
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:53:44PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: 1) Daniel Drake discovered some annoying wifi regressions (#9235). We need to find root cause here, e.g. by bisecting the kernel patches added since 8.2.0 and testing each resulting kernel with both the new and the

Re: [Server-devel] updates

2009-02-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:48 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Next, find a regular PC that is capable of reading SD cards. We're using Oh, good point. I thought that the XO SD reader was handled by the same kernel module as

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi James, Briefly, how is this done? Where can I get the current kernel source as a bisectable repository http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=olpc-2.6;a=shortlog;h=testing (git clone git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6 cd olpc-2.6 git checkout -b testing origin/testing) and is it as simple

Re: Summary Minutes from olpc-friends' Tuesday Deployment Meeting

2009-02-05 Thread Carlos mauro
Interesante discucion sobre el grado de avance del proyecto... Una pregunta ... algo gnorante el Plan CEIBAL tiene metricas sobre el despliegue del proyecto , claro aparte del numero de horas dictadas con la olpc y las estadisticas sobre estado de maquinas... 2009/1/29, David Van Assche

Re: [Server-devel] Network addressing for activation-over-IBSS

2009-02-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Can I persuade you to add a new range for the IBSS-STA XOs that are requesting leases over IPv4? 126 addresses is not many when XOs will be assigning them randomly, we will have kids arriving at school at the same time, and

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread david
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Chris Ball wrote: Hi James, Briefly, how is this done? Where can I get the current kernel source as a bisectable repository http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=olpc-2.6;a=shortlog;h=testing (git clone git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6 cd olpc-2.6 git checkout -b

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: This commit¹ is known to break WPA until this fix², so I'd recommend testing either neither or both of these commits. I don't know how far they are from eachother. You can tell git bisect to avoid them... but they may mask the

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.5.1 is all go.

2009-02-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: It's a bit of a non-event, the code has been there for quite a while. So I am just making it official: 0.5.1 is the XS image to use. Grab it at http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/ Quick heads up: I just fixed the yum

Re: [Server-devel] Network addressing for activation-over-IBSS

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/2/5 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Sure can do, and there is a related change other people have asked for (free addresses for the APs themselves, so that the telnet or webbased config UIs can be used). Great. Can you pick a range so that I can make the assignment locally too?

Re: Please update etoys in 8.2.1

2009-02-05 Thread david
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Dear Release Manager, as we discussed on IRC today (and which I had not realized until today) the 8.2.1 release will be pre-installed on XOs for much longer than anticipated, since the 9.1 release has been canceled, and no replacement is in sight.

Re: Please update etoys in 8.2.1

2009-02-05 Thread Ed McNierney
David - The 9.1 release was a very specific release planned for the first half of 2009 - see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0 for one set of details - following OLPC's stated plan of two major releases per calendar year. That specific event is not going to happen. That's not at all the

Re: Please update etoys in 8.2.1

2009-02-05 Thread david
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Ed McNierney wrote: The 9.1 release was a very specific release planned for the first half of 2009 - see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0 for one set of details - following OLPC's stated plan of two major releases per calendar year. That specific event is not going to

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-05 Thread S Page
I updated from 8.2.0 build 767 to staging-27 with `sudo -v -v -v olpc-update staging-27` and it all went very smoothly! IMO, the expired http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing/banner should be updated to staging-27 from staging-25 Good stuff -- * Restart from Home view