Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 19:41, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> Is there a better way to do this? > > If you go through the archives, you will find that this was discussed > some weeks ago, I think it was Tony Forster who started the > discussion.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-07-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
Better way: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities#Midnight_Commander On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I am trying to get leases.sig from the XS to the USB stick. On 8.2.x, > Browse.xo saves the file as > >   File leases.sig from http://... > > ... two possible ways to m

New antitheft features in XS

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
In the last couple of days I have wrapped up the new antitheft feature work that is coming to the XS. The most visible changes appear in the 'xs-activation' package, which acts in concert with olpc-bios-crypto and moodle-xs. I have written up documentation on how to use it in http://wiki.lapt

Re: XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-07-01 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:16 AM, James Cameron wrote: > G'day Daniel, > > While you're in the code, consider the possibility of headphone socket > electrical damage rendering the headphone detection incorrect. The jack insertion circuitry is mandated, if you want to stay compatible with generic HD dr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse.xo -- preserving a downloaded filename?

2009-07-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:02, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Martin > Langhoff wrote: >> We need a file manager IMHO. > > Michael asks about this specific statement, as it is fairly broad. > Let's keep it in the context of "it is worth fixing bugs that mangle > filenames"

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-07-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 19:41, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I am trying to get leases.sig from the XS to the USB stick. On 8.2.x, > Browse.xo saves the file as > >   File leases.sig from http://... > > ... two possible ways to move next. > > Copy and rename > >  1 - Insert (fat-formatted) USB stick, on

Re: XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:16 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > A hack like this could change a "no audio from speakers" laptop into a > "speakers do not turn off when headphones used" laptop ... reducing the > need for a return or replacement. One of the switches that the conexant code adds is called "

Re: XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-07-01 Thread James Cameron
G'day Daniel, While you're in the code, consider the possibility of headphone socket electrical damage rendering the headphone detection incorrect. I was in the HDA conexant driver late last year creating a hack to compensate for a system that was damaged ... http://quozl.linux.org.au/2008-12-19

Re: XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Drake
ony Vroon for some helpful input here. Conexant pointed us to this driver which includes support for a lot of new conexant codecs: http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-linuxant-1.0.19ppch12-1.noarch.rpm.zip I converted this into a patch for 2.6.30: http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/

Re: [Sugar-devel] Browse.xo -- preserving a downloaded filename?

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > We need a file manager IMHO. Michael asks about this specific statement, as it is fairly broad. Let's keep it in the context of "it is worth fixing bugs that mangle filenames" so the Journal can indeed double up as a passable (if limited) f