Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-26 Thread Philipp Kocher
Hi all, We would like the students to create simple html-documents with text and images and upload them to the schoolserver for a simple homepage. The Write activity (we are using version 60 on build 802) has a feature Keep as Hypertext (HTML), but when images are inserted into the document

Re: OFW RPM packaging

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:36 -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote: The person who build/releases the firmware (me or mitch) would modify the spec files we have for the firmware and then build the rpm. Editing the spec file is manual but I have some scripts that automate making and releasing the

Re: OFW RPM packaging

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 08:40 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:36 -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote: The person who build/releases the firmware (me or mitch) would modify the spec files we have for the firmware and then build the rpm. Editing the spec file is manual but I have

Re: Power LED not switching to green even when fully charged

2009-11-26 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.orgwrote: Hi all, I just noticed that even after a night of charging an XO-1.5 the power LED is still orange and hasn't switched to green (as it did with the XO-1 when the battery was fully charged). I know this is

Re: Power LED not switching to green even when fully charged

2009-11-26 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 09:08 +, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Odd, after running down the battery yesterday I again charged the machine overnight and this time the power LED was green in the morning. The only

Re: Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-26 Thread Philipp Kocher
The conversion to PNG was a general Abiword feature, but it got solved last July with Abiword 2.7.6 (see link below). On my XO libabiword-2.6.4-6.olpc3 is installed (build 802). Is it possible to install an libabiword-olpc rpm of version 2.7.6 or newer? http://planet.abisource.com/: July 04,

LogFS for F11-XO-1?

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
LogFS is getting merged into linux-next - http://lwn.net/Articles/363572/ - . The author claims 60ms mount time on our XO-1 - http://lwn.net/Articles/234441/ - and it has several nice things (ie: compression is per file / directory, set with chattr). This used to be very hard -- but we now have

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 Build 9

2009-11-26 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:32:20AM -0800, Hal Murray wrote: I just tried it. The UI hangs in the startup sequence showing the whole little man with one dot below him. It works if I hold down the check-key when booting. [...] That sounds like the kernel doesn't have DCON support or doesn't

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: = CL1A New touchpad users I've not had the opportunity to do a lot of testing on a bank of CL1A machines but based on all the work I've

Re: LogFS for F11-XO-1?

2009-11-26 Thread Jörn Engel
On Thu, 26 November 2009 10:54:58 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: Would be interesting to see what the performance stability is. I'd love to see results. If it works, buried in the patchseries announcement there is a hint at support for async ops. Hard to know how it'd interact with the

Re: LogFS for F11-XO-1?

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Jörn Engel jo...@logfs.org wrote: On Thu, 26 November 2009 10:54:58 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: Would be interesting to see what the performance stability is. I'd love to see results. We are currently making F11-based builds, I think w 2.6.30. Does logfs

Re: LogFS for F11-XO-1?

2009-11-26 Thread Jörn Engel
On Thu, 26 November 2009 12:46:35 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Jörn Engel jo...@logfs.org wrote: On Thu, 26 November 2009 10:54:58 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: Would be interesting to see what the performance stability is. I'd love to see results.

Re: Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:32, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: The conversion to PNG was a general Abiword feature, but it got solved last July with Abiword 2.7.6 (see link below). On my XO libabiword-2.6.4-6.olpc3 is installed (build 802). Is it possible to install an

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSM/CDMA Modems support (part II)

2009-11-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 14:47, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 09:36 -0500, Martin Abente wrote: Would a patch that extends the allowed connection types be accepted in the 0.84 branch (that will be shipped with F11) ? Depends on the patch, but in general one

sensors and bias

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, On XO-1, we had an ALSA switch that enabled mic bias. This was used by measure when being put into resistance sensor mode. However, on XO-1.5, when Mitch Bradley suggested how to implement sensor mode, his advice was disable bias, enable the DC port and select it as input Also, our DC input

Re: Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.8 (was: Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4)

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Esteban Bordón ebordon...@gmail.com wrote: When I try boot the XO using signed initrd and kernel, initrd doesn't mount the filesystem. The screen displays the message mouont: you must specify the filesystem type several times and then shows Can't mount root

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: We are both trolling. teach a man to fish, and... :-) Now - changing to productive topics... give me some things we can do on a 8.2.2 release for the 2 groups of users I mention: = CL1 Alps users - better kmod? - pgf proposed an xset command to tweak

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Fox
i wrote: martin wrote: ... = CL1 Alps users - better kmod? - pgf proposed an xset command to tweak responsiveness? both of the above points are covered here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes folks in the field in both rwanda and paraguay have

Re: Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-26 Thread Philipp Kocher
On 11/26/2009 07:06 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:32, Philipp Kocherphilipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: The conversion to PNG was a general Abiword feature, but it got solved last July with Abiword 2.7.6 (see link below). On my XO libabiword-2.6.4-6.olpc3 is installed (build

Re: Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-26 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Philipp Kocher wrote: Is it possible to install an libabiword-olpc rpm of version 2.7.6 or newer? Note that this represents a flag day change. Users with version below and above will not be able to collaborate, at least when trying to share documents containing jpeg images. --Ben

Re: Haiti OLPCs - some news

2009-11-26 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:55, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On the data entry, what medical software is in use? There's no data entry for the moment. The first part of the project is to provide access to html content, with a strong focus on drugs information, but anything can

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 Build 9

2009-11-26 Thread Hal Murray
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org said: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:32:20AM -0800, Hal Murray wrote: I just tried it. The UI hangs in the startup sequence showing the whole little man with one dot below him. It works if I hold down the check-key when booting. [...] That sounds like

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 Build 9

2009-11-26 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:47:24AM -0800, Hal Murray wrote: It works if I boot with the check-key, so I assume the kernel knows how to talk to the DCON. When you boot with check-key OFW already unfreezes then DCON, so the kernel doesn't need to do it anymore. Brightness setting - which you

Re: [IAEP] Sunflower for Science on XO

2009-11-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 17:16, Danny Kodicek da...@sunflowerlearning.com wrote: Hi there I just wanted to write to let people know we've been experimenting with some success with getting our Sunflower for Science product (www.sunflowerlearning.com) running on an XO. It's a Windows/Mac product

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 Build 9

2009-11-26 Thread Hal Murray
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org said: When you boot with check-key OFW already unfreezes then DCON, so the kernel doesn't need to do it anymore. Brightness setting - which you reported as non-working - is also done using the DCON, so from my side it's still looking like a DCON driver

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 Build 9

2009-11-26 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:01:12PM -0800, Hal Murray wrote: If it doesn't output anything at all, there's either no DCON driver present or it doesn't get invoked, the latter of which would be #9687. Thanks. Looks right to me. No dcon in /sys/devices/platform/ either. If you want to be sure

Re: updates.laptop.org now serves F11-for-XO1.5 builds

2009-11-26 Thread James Cameron
olpc-update f11_xo1.5-46 ... worked fine for me on os45 at a conference venue. Took a while, but that was probably latency. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Paul, On 26 Nov 2009, at 13:45, Paul Fox wrote: i wrote: martin wrote: ... = CL1 Alps users - better kmod? - pgf proposed an xset command to tweak responsiveness? both of the above points are covered here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes folks in the field

Re: updates.laptop.org now serves F11-for-XO1.5 builds

2009-11-26 Thread Sandy Culver
olpc-update to xo1.5-46 worked for me on my B2 Thanks Daniel Drake! I had trouble downloading in full the zd file for 46 from cjb's directory in my Ubuntu machine, not sure why. So I stepped back to OS45 and followed the suggestions above and on reboot it works This combination of Q3a16 and

Re: sensors and bias

2009-11-26 Thread John Watlington
The bias for port B is used for port F (the DC input). Port F has no bias generator, and would have to use another port's, regardless of whether it was DC coupled or not. wad On Nov 26, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, On XO-1, we had an ALSA switch that enabled mic bias. This was

[Server-devel] Development state

2009-11-26 Thread Ulises Abel Arias García
Greetings, I am Ulises Arias from the OLPC MINED El Salvador team, I read in the wiki that the XS server its still on development and not all the software is fully functional. My question is, How convenient is to use an XS server for production work in the current state? , and in how many time