customizing boot animation

2009-05-18 Thread noutash
Greetings all, I am trying to customize the boot animation on the XOs.I found some instructions here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tweaking_the_boot_animation however I couldn't find anywhere in the wiki what the specification of the png files should be. Can somebody please give me some pointers.

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other base packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, One area we'll also need help with is the under a tree networking scenario. If you've used an

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Robinson
We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other base packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, One area we'll also need help with is the under a tree networking scenario. If you've used an XO, you know what it works like: by default the OS automatically

Re: VGA questions

2009-05-18 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 20:54, Bobby Powers bobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: on a B4 (which just needed the VGA connector, no other components), Same here. I have a spare B4 board for these tests (I would like to reproduce the identical picture of the XO on a projector for a formation - and

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 16:05, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other base packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, One area we'll also need help with is the under a tree networking scenario. If you've

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: 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

Re: VGA questions

2009-05-18 Thread pgf
guylhem wrote: Hello On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 20:54, Bobby Powers bobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: on a B4 (which just needed the VGA connector, no other components), Same here. I have a spare B4 board for these tests (I would like to reproduce the identical picture of the XO on a

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

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Graham
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 13:54 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: Work on getting a top-notch polished $desktop on it, and continued mantainership behind it, and it'll definitely be an option. It's reasonably easy to get desktops going, but good polish making it suitable for end users takes a ton of

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

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Graham
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 13:54 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: Work on getting a top-notch polished $desktop on it, and continued mantainership behind it, and it'll definitely be an option. It's reasonably easy to get desktops going, but good polish making it suitable for end users takes a ton of

Fwd: VGA output

2009-05-18 Thread John Watlington
I guess Ian never put this info on the Wiki. Ian Daniher (it.dani...@gmail.com) was doing this as recently as this fall using connectors scavenged from A-phase boards. The problem is going to be obtaining the VGA connector. As far as I know, they are not available in small quantities. The

Re: Fwd: VGA output

2009-05-18 Thread david
On Mon, 18 May 2009, John Watlington wrote: I guess Ian never put this info on the Wiki. Ian Daniher (it.dani...@gmail.com) was doing this as recently as this fall using connectors scavenged from A-phase boards. The problem is going to be obtaining the VGA connector. As far as I know, they

Re: VGA output

2009-05-18 Thread John Watlington
Yeah, the pins are in two rows, not three (see pinout). On May 19, 2009, at 12:01 AM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009, John Watlington wrote: I guess Ian never put this info on the Wiki. Ian Daniher (it.dani...@gmail.com) was doing this as recently as this fall using connectors

Re: [Server-devel] XS Help, please

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Gerald Ardito gma...@gmail.com wrote: 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)

Re: [Server-devel] DNS strangeness on 0.5.2

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Any ideas on what's broken? Where should I begin to look? BIND on the XS is trying to perform DNS lookups against the root servers. That'll work from your home connection, but may be blocked in the uni network. When the XS gets

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

2009-05-18 Thread tkkang
Great. Looking forward to the link for the alpha 0.6 version for testing. -Original Message- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 06:57 PM To: tkk...@nurturingasia.com Cc: Server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS testing

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.6 preview

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: At last! We have an XS 0.6 preview to play with. If you look at    http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ 2 quick additional notes :-) - the iso is actually still being rsync'd - give it an hr or so - if you're

Re: [Server-devel] ARM based XS ?

2009-05-18 Thread David Van Assche
Actually, OpenSUSE's build service now properly builds ARM for Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu, and very very soon OpenSUSE too. Its worth taking a look at that method, as the router based arm products are almost all gonna be ipckg or opckg, which are very similar to dpckg, but just trimmed down with

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.6 preview

2009-05-18 Thread tkkang
Great... and I am amazed by the work done till now with XS - it rocks! I manage to download it and did a clean install. 1. All went well 2. Gave a name to it example.org I did not edit the hostname like in the past - is this step needed?) 3. Registered (first) with a Chinese XO (3 chinese