2009/8/27 Yioryos Asprobounitis :
> I had this issue with os5 (see "...-swap" posts above in the
> fedora-olpc-list). It is something not related to swap but is happening often
> enough. Usually after 1-3 attempts removing all peripherals (and overclocking
> :) recovers and boots fine. Didn't h
I had this issue with os5 (see "...-swap" posts above in the
fedora-olpc-list). It is something not related to swap but is happening often
enough. Usually after 1-3 attempts removing all peripherals (and overclocking
:) recovers and boots fine. Didn't have it with os6 yet.
Of course the old fir
Thanks mitch
Upgrading firmware was the solution.
Rafael Ortiz
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> Note the change list in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e19 ,
> specifically the one about support of new kernels.
>
> You should upgrade to the latest release q2e4
Sameer Verma wrote:
> So, here's my request. Can someone whip up an activity that does the
> following:
In my view, this is not appropriate for an Activity. Sugar Activities are
not for managing the system. Also, as you noted, if Rainbow is active
then this is difficult or impossible, and this
Note the change list in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e19 ,
specifically the one about support of new kernels.
You should upgrade to the latest release q2e41
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e41
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
> Q2E18, haven't noticed how old it was. :
Q2E18, haven't noticed how old it was. :)
Rafael Ortiz
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> Which version of Open Firmware are you using?
>
> Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply Mitch.
>>
>> Even thought, i pressed the '√' gamepad button at boot
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Bobby Powers wrote:
> I'm still trying to get a handle on initrd myself. Is it safe to say that
> most modern initrd images are actually initramfs images?
Yes, they are of course. I'm an old man, and I still talk about
horseless carriages sometimes.
Gotta practic
Which version of Open Firmware are you using?
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Mitch.
>
> Even thought, i pressed the '√' gamepad button at boot
> the system does not pass from loading ramdisk,
> can any body build a new F11 on XO .img with the solution propossed
> by
I posed this question on OLPC Support Gang earlier and got responses
that its not possible to do so under bitfrost and rainbow.
===
"Hello everybody,
We have a lending library at SFSU, ready to go, but we need to have a
way to erase the config and journal every time the XO comes b
Thanks for your reply Mitch.
Even thought, i pressed the '√' gamepad button at boot
the system does not pass from loading ramdisk,
can any body build a new F11 on XO .img with the solution propossed
by Mitch ?
wmb: The solution for this is to add "dcon-unfreeze unfreeze" to
/boot/olpc.fth, some
mitch wrote:
> It's probably the same thing as the first item in
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rawhide-XO#Known_issues
>
> We made "pretty boot" the default in later versions of Open Firmware,
> but many alternative operating systems don't know how to "unfreeze" the
> screen.
i doubt that'
It's probably the same thing as the first item in
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rawhide-XO#Known_issues
We made "pretty boot" the default in later versions of Open Firmware,
but many alternative operating systems don't know how to "unfreeze" the
screen.
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
> Hello
Hi Yioryos,
On 26 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> Now olpc-powerd works as advertised. Kudos. However the problem with
> the overlap with the GNOME PM remains.
>
> I guess the X-server and Gnome power management updates also did
> not affect the battery moni
Hello
i was trying these instructions
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1) on an XO-1 for the new
build,
but the booting gets stuck on loading the ramdisk image
is there something else i should be doing ?.
Rafael Ortiz
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Yioryos
Asprobounitis wrote:
> Than
Thank you.
Now olpc-powerd works as advertised. Kudos. However the problem with the
overlap with the GNOME PM remains.
I guess the X-server and Gnome power management updates also did not affect
the battery monitor and screen rotation issues rotation. Next one may be :)
Did the automatic sof
I'm still trying to get a handle on initrd myself. Is it safe to say that
most modern initrd images are actually initramfs images?
bp
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Martin
> Langhoff wrote:
> > With these minor changes, we are now build
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Martin
Langhoff wrote:
> With these minor changes, we are now building a completely
> reproduceable, "pure lenny" initrd we can keep track of.
Here is a tested initrd built with the steps in the updated
Building_initramfsen page
http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/ol
great stuff martin -- thanks!
paul
martin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Martin
> Langhoff wrote:
> > Updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_initramfsen with the
> > appropriate fixes to build from "pure lenny" (no updates), plus a
> > known version of yaird (v0.0.13-5).
>
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Martin
Langhoff wrote:
> Updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_initramfsen with the
> appropriate fixes to build from "pure lenny" (no updates), plus a
> known version of yaird (v0.0.13-5).
I have also pushed some changes to the olpcrd repo to ensure that we
b
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/
The main point of this release is to ensure that only 0.84 compatible
activities are downloaded from ASLO.
here are the file differences since os5
-atlas-sse-3.8.3-7.fc11.i586
+atlas-sse-3.8.3-4.fc11.i586
-cup
Just a brief note to mention that we have a new busybox-udeb package
with hwclock *and* date utilities. With this and a couple of small
tweaks in olpcrd, we can build an initrd with dsd and my patches,
following the 'correct' procedure.
The udeb:
http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/busybox-udeb_1.10.2-2
Updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_initramfsen with the
appropriate fixes to build from "pure lenny" (no updates), plus a
known version of yaird (v0.0.13-5).
Better late than never.
m
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