Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-17 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Ben,   Of course, this equation gets still more complicated depending on   whether we have MTD or FTL flash.  Choosing a filesystem will be   an interesting exercise. I think it's clear that we'll be using an FTL of some kind.  (Which kind in particular will depend on more testing

Re: Browse.xo performance resolution - Hulahop 200dpi vs Browse 134dpi

2009-05-17 Thread Mihai Sucan
Le Sun, 17 May 2009 14:30:16 +0300, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com a écrit: Does anyone know how gecko 1.9.1's full page zoom interacts with canvas? Please be more specific. As far as I know, zooming is applied transparently - the Web application does not observe the changes.

Re: Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

2009-05-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Within OLPC, there are proponents/enthusiasts for other distros and window managers (your humble correspondent being one). So it's not like it was a Fedora/Gnome juggernaut. But the people within OLPC who are doing the

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-17 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Sameer, I call 8GB total storage tiny for a server. Martin already conceded he is planning for an added USB hard drive. You can't even get such hard drives in sizes much under 500 GB now. My point is not to defend the inclusion of mono. It is that a labor intensive and divergent (from

Re: Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

2009-05-17 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Saturday 16 May 2009 10:48:18 pm Mitch Bradley wrote: The reason why people haven't seen a public discussion about the F11/Gnome thing is because the decision was made internally within OLPC (the hardware organization - not Sugar Labs). OLPC has to ship something on the hardware that we

VGA questions

2009-05-17 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello A boards had CN18 to select the output between VGA and LCD. It is no longer presnt on the boards. How can it be implemented? (strip wire, software, ... ?) For the VGA plug, I'd also be interested in a P/N to get one from mouser, mousekey etc. Thanks -- Dr. Guylhem Aznar, MD PhD Unité

Re: VGA questions

2009-05-17 Thread Hal Murray
A boards had CN18 to select the output between VGA and LCD. It is no longer presnt on the boards. How can it be implemented? (strip wire, software, ... ?) Have you tried a USB to VGA adapter? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my

Re: XO id transfer to SD OS install

2009-05-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Bobby Powers bobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: You should be able to copy the /home/olpc folder to an SD card or USB stick. I believe everything you need is actually in /home/olpc/.sugar , so just recursively copy (cp -r) that folder into your new home folder, and

Re: Browse.xo performance resolution - Hulahop 200dpi vs Browse 134dpi

2009-05-17 Thread Lucian Branescu
Does anyone know how gecko 1.9.1's full page zoom interacts with canvas? 2009/5/16 Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com: Martin Langhoff writes: The short version of it is that canvas (and image rendering in general) is hurting lots due to the dpi being hardcoded to 134 which forces Gecko into

Re: Browse.xo performance resolution - Hulahop 200dpi vs Browse 134dpi

2009-05-17 Thread Lucian Branescu
I was thinking whether it has some scaling optimisations, since it does a lot of it with the zoom. 2009/5/17 Mihai Sucan mihai.su...@gmail.com: Le Sun, 17 May 2009 14:30:16 +0300, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com a écrit: Does anyone know how gecko 1.9.1's full page zoom interacts

Re: VGA questions

2009-05-17 Thread Bobby Powers
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Guylhem Aznar o...@guylhem.net wrote: Hello A boards had CN18 to select the output between VGA and LCD. It is no longer presnt on the boards. How can it be implemented? (strip wire, software, ... ?) For the VGA plug, I'd also be interested in a P/N to get

Re: [Server-devel] ARM based XS ?

2009-05-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.comwrote: According to the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM there is Fedora 8 and Fedora 10 port for ARM. The OpenRD comes with Fedora 8. I mentioned this at the OLPC-SF meeting this morning and we are adding

[Server-devel] XS testing for Chinese English XO

2009-05-17 Thread tkkang
Greeting. This is my first message to the list! I am working on getting a XS server working for deployment in China this summer. Manage to do more testing to see if I could replicate problems I had previously. I can repeat the following with both the chinese and english XOs with a 0.52 XS that

Re: [Server-devel] XS testing for Chinese English XO

2009-05-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi T.K.Kang, welcome to the list, and thanks for posting a detailed outline of the problems you are seeing. On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: Greeting. This is my first message to the list! I am working on getting a XS server working for deployment in China this

[Server-devel] DNS strangeness on 0.5.2

2009-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
We have a server with XS -0.5.2 on it, yum updated as of yesterday. When I plug it into my home network, which talks to a WRT54G+dd-wrt over Ethernet, it works fine. When I use the XS on a segment of our campus network, it does not. Details follow: Home network: The XS gets a private IP from the

Re: [Server-devel] XS Help, please

2009-05-17 Thread Gerald Ardito
Tim, I want to make sure I understand what you are saying. First, I need to add the second NIC (which I bought today). Then, I need to reinstall the server software. By default, eth0 should be connected to the outside world/internet. Eth1 will set itself up (with no help from me) as the DNS and

Re: [Server-devel] XS Help, please

2009-05-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 17:38 -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote: Tim, I want to make sure I understand what you are saying. First, I need to add the second NIC (which I bought today). Then, I need to reinstall the server software. No, not really, adding the second NIC will most likely end up being

Re: [Server-devel] DNS strangeness on 0.5.2

2009-05-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 12:42 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: We have a server with XS -0.5.2 on it, yum updated as of yesterday. When I plug it into my home network, which talks to a WRT54G+dd-wrt over Ethernet, it works fine. When I use the XS on a segment of our campus network, it does not.

Re: [Server-devel] DNS strangeness on 0.5.2

2009-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 12:42 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: We have a server with XS -0.5.2 on it, yum updated as of yesterday. When I plug it into my home network, which talks to a WRT54G+dd-wrt over Ethernet, it works fine. When

Re: [Server-devel] DNS strangeness on 0.5.2

2009-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/5/17 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: Campus network: When I use the XS on a segment of our campus network, it gets a public IP from our campus dhcp server (130.212.xxx) but I don't see any SFSU DNS servers in cat

Re: [Server-devel] XS Help, please

2009-05-17 Thread Tim Moody
Hi Gerald, Yes that's right. Have a look at the two links below for more info and an architecture diagram. The two additional things you may need to do, which I mentioned before, are change the configuration of eth0 and that of the AP. If both use DHCP, then there is a good chance that