Re: XO-1.5 slow disk writes

2009-11-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Of course, getting sync to be very fast would also be nice. There was some discussion a while ago in lkml about a more eager to blush buffers async mode. Basically, if the system is reasonably idle and there

Re: XO-1.5 slow disk writes

2009-11-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: And damn I can't remember the name or anything googlable about it. Some related discussion (on tuning the kernel to flush more eagerly) under Performance Tuning section of That massive filesystem thread

Re: XO-1.5 slow disk writes

2009-11-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: And damn I can't remember the name or anything googlable about it. Now I see why I couldn't find it. It's called flush. Original

Re: Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:42 -0200, Esteban Bordón wrote: Hi, I have a problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4, I generated the file initrd-20091109... , I did an upgrade of kernel and I signed the files (initrd-20091109... and vmlinuz-20091109). If I try secure boot the firmware check the

Re: Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4

2009-11-18 Thread Esteban Bordón
2009/11/18 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:42 -0200, Esteban Bordón wrote: Hi, I have a problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4, I generated the file initrd-20091109... , I did an upgrade of kernel and I signed the files (initrd-20091109... and vmlinuz-20091109).

Re: Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 11:12 -0200, Esteban Bordón wrote: The last messages that screen show is Trying nand:\boot\actrd.zip RD found -Signature valid then get stuck... I suspect you are either hitting #9100 or that there is something wrong in the way that you are generating the

on image-builder and jffs2

2009-11-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
It won't lose anything. We create the .contents file and tarball from the same build directory we generate the jffs2. Mounting a valid jffs2 image RO works well -- editing it in place is dodgy and oopsed on me abundandly. So we mount it just to extract the files. cheers, m On Tue, Nov 17, 2009

Re: New gamepad!

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: On 18.11.2009, at 06:52, John Watlington wrote: We have a new gamepad design for XO-1.5, to fix the difficulty in pressing a single gamepad keys at once. Thanks to Paul Fox and Richard Smith for pursuing this. (The actual new gamepad's ribs don't extend all the

/boot/olpc_build - who reads it on our F9 builds?

2009-11-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
Exactly as stated. If a local team builds a slightly customised version, is it safe sane to write 802+nic001 in there? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first -

Re: /boot/olpc_build - who reads it on our F9 builds?

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 17:52 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: Exactly as stated. If a local team builds a slightly customised version, is it safe sane to write 802+nic001 in there? It's read from sugar, olpc-pwr-log, etc. Yes you can write anything there. For example the joyride builds would say

Re: Why does Sugar mount removable volumes ?

2009-11-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/18 John Watlington w...@laptop.org: As 1.5 and other portable devices are using SD as their main storage: What is a removable volume ? On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: We are going with whatever the system says is a removable volume. On recent fedoras, we are using

Re: Generating pot file for I18N

2009-11-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/9 Henning Bredel h_bre...@uni-muenster.de: Sorry, for replying myself. On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 16:54 +0100, Henning Bredel wrote: I debugged the code and it seems that bundlebuilder.py is only collecting filenames instead of taking possible relative paths of each file within a

Re: configuring Socksproxy for Jabber Server on the XO-1 or XO-1.5

2009-11-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/11/15 Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org: Dear all, Do we have documentation somewhere on the steps involved in configuring socksproxy for jabber server on the XO-1 or XO-1.5? Please let us know. Hi Manu, have you done any progress on this since then? Thanks, Tomeu Thank you.

Re: New gamepad!

2009-11-18 Thread Tiago Marques
Kudos! :) Best regards, Tiago On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:52 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: We have a new gamepad design for XO-1.5, to fix the difficulty in pressing a single gamepad keys at once.   Thanks to Paul Fox and Richard Smith for pursuing this.  (The actual new gamepad's

Re: OS and Firmware testing for XO 1.5 B2

2009-11-18 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi James, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:15 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:09:21PM +, Tiago Marques wrote: You're welcome! I just didn't started posting tickets because I thought it would be worse duplicating existing ones(too many tickets and not much

Re: OS and Firmware testing for XO 1.5 B2: gnash

2009-11-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Tiago wrote: I have testedd it in the XO-1.5 but it unfortunately is crashing with a green scrreen on video, a problem that Mikus has already described in Mplayer on the test builds. On the XO-1.5, I get Mplayer to *not* crash by telling it to not use a vt driver. The command line I use is '