Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:42, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:42:54PM -0300, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: Is it cheating to change the screen depth? I change it to 24 bpp and now cheese and totem work. Changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: That's odd.  We changed

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi All. 8-ghz processor ?. Rafael Ortiz On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof,

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 14:57, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero dir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All. 8-ghz processor ?. I guess it's better to rely on the info here, if you need to: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20091222005779newsLang=en Regards,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:33, Cecilia Abalde caba...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Hi, I have a question about the patch in ticket 8104. to which version of networkmanager was done? Hi Cecilia, I'm forwarding our email to the devel mailing list at OLPC because NetworkManager is a component that

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Tiago Marques
Perhaps a 2GHz quad-core? ARM Cortex-A9 is already dual core and up to 2GHz. Best regards On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero dir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All. 8-ghz processor ?. Rafael Ortiz On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-23 Thread Cecilia Abalde
OK! Thank you very much !!! 2009/12/23 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:33, Cecilia Abalde caba...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Hi, I have a question about the patch in ticket 8104. to which version of networkmanager was done? Hi Cecilia, I'm forwarding our

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, half the thickness of an iPhone and use

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread D. Rodas
Hello Everybody, After hard debugging with Raul, we've realized that the problem was in the Geode driver. I've changed a line within the memory buffer, and it seems to work now. Looking forward to get feedback (please don't be evil, it's my first patch :-)

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Stanley Sokolow
My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of vaporware come into being.The limiting factor in bringing computing to the poor masses on this planet is the high cost of connecting them to the Internet. Even wireless service is beyond the reach of rural villages

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:28 -0300, César D. Rodas wrote: Hello Everybody, After hard debugging with Raul, we've realized that the problem was in the Geode driver. I've changed a line within the memory buffer, and it seems to work now. Looking forward to get feedback (please don't be

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
About near-zero connectivity cost, i came across the caua project http://www.projectcaua.org/ OLPC, and/or others could begin to support these kind of ideas. Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.net wrote: My personal experience tells me that

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.netwrote: My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of vaporware come into being.The limiting factor in bringing computing to the poor masses on this planet is the high cost of connecting

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread david
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Stanley Sokolow overb...@earthlink.netwrote: My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of vaporware come into being.The limiting factor in bringing computing to the poor masses on

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, half the thickness of an iPhone and use less

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-23 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:33, Cecilia Abalde caba...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: I have a question about the patch in ticket 8104. to which version of networkmanager was done? If you mean the C implementatiaon of nm-dhcp-client.action, this was a patch relative to NetworkManager 0.6.5 ... and

Re: XO-3 super-o-fficial

2009-12-23 Thread John Gilmore
We don't necessarily need to build it, Negroponte told Forbes. We just need to threaten to build it. Looks like Notion Ink has already done so, sort of: http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-tegra-android-smartpad-uses-pixel-qi-display-1866308/ The OS is proprietary (android), it would

Re: XO-3 super-o-fficial

2009-12-23 Thread Seth Woodworth
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: The OS is proprietary (android), it would probably fail it you dropped it in a puddle and it has too many radios... What makes you think that this will be a proprietary version of Android? Android is licensed Apache 2.0 with

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:09 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:28 -0300, César D. Rodas wrote: Hello Everybody, After hard debugging with Raul, we've realized that the problem was in the Geode driver. I've changed a line within the memory buffer, and it seems to

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread John Gilmore
I would take it all with a large dose of salt. Also, as usual, the left hand at OLPC doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The press release isn't on www.laptop.org, nor is there anything in www.laptop.org or wiki.laptop.org about the XO-3 (or even the XO-1.75). The press release (which

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread John Watlington
On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:33 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I would take it all with a large dose of salt. Also, as usual, the left hand at OLPC doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The press release isn't on www.laptop.org, nor is there anything in www.laptop.org or wiki.laptop.org about the

Re: Testing OS64 on XO1.5

2009-12-23 Thread milan zimmermann
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:41 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:20:37PM -0500, milan zimmermann wrote: 1) After reboot, or after a brief period of inactivity, the system sometimes does not connect to network, [...] Deficiency of the B2 hardware, won't be

Brief testing of OS10 (F11 for XO-1)

2009-12-23 Thread milan zimmermann
Hi, A few observations running OS10 on XO1.0 with latest XO1 firmware: 1) After about 10 minutes (did not measure time exactly) , all input from keyboard and keypad stops. Interestingly, mouse plugged into USB still works. I assume this is because of the Power saving (first of the 2 options) is

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Neil Graham
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:33 -0800, John Gilmore wrote: I would take it all with a large dose of salt. Also, as usual, the left hand at OLPC doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Actually I think the hands are all doing a very good job. It's the head that needs attention. One thing

Re: [Server-devel] Various / PDF resources in Moodle

2009-12-23 Thread David Leeming
Martin, Regarding pushing activities, I agree that putting them on the XS to allow the users to manage themselves is the best way. If a teacher wants to make sure that all have it installed, they can always create a folder with the activity uploaded to make it unambiguous. A Todays files folder

Re: [Server-devel] Various / PDF resources in Moodle

2009-12-23 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:47:55PM +1100, David Leeming wrote: (2) At risk of seeming to make a fuss out of nothing, this issue has the potential to cause a lot of confusion and time wasting. After noticing some activities and collections failed to start or appear, I suspected that some of the