Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os31

2011-07-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Hey, no so bad :) We're off to a great start! Activities with errors: ... TamTam*: no blobs, probably only recompile This is missing csound packages as well. Puppy: starts ok and many examples work, but no the

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os31

2011-07-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Hey, no so bad :) The good news first: The following activities starts and works: TurtleArt, Speak, TypingTurtle, Labyrinth, Memorize,Browse, Log, Words, Help, Chat, Scratch, Distance, Finance, Infoslicer, Implode,

Rapid DHCP

2011-07-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Here's an article that tries to explain why Mac OS is so much faster at connecting to networks than Linux and Windows: http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do Could such an implementation be considered for the OLPC OS? XOs go on and off the network all the time, as power management kicks in

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os31

2011-07-29 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 29 Jul 2011, at 05:34, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Hey, no so bad :) The good news first: The following activities starts and works: TurtleArt, Speak, TypingTurtle, Labyrinth, Memorize,Browse, Log, Words, Help, Chat, Scratch, Distance, Finance, Infoslicer, Implode, Terminal,

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build

2011-07-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, linux-firmware, the package that puts lots of stuff in /lib/firmware, is growing and growing and is mostly irrelevant for us, including firmware for (e.g.) SCSI controllers. I'm considering removing it - nothing in

Re: 11.3.0: Share repos across arches -

2011-07-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:29 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: We currently sort them by placing them in a dropbox according to the XO model, and use the model-specific dropbox in olpc-os-builder.  (The firmware build scripts handle this in the copyme step). Right - but I think this is

XO-1.75 B1 units - this is how they look

2011-07-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
CL2 and CL2A, B1-stage engineering prototypes, just arrived in Miami and Boston http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/xo1.75-b1-look/ If you want one, you know what to do... :-) http://blog.laptop.org/2011/07/25/new-xo-1-75-contributors-program-test-our-new-prototypes/ cheers, m --  

Re: XO-1.75 B1 units - this is how they look

2011-07-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: CL2 and CL2A, B1-stage engineering prototypes, just arrived in Miami and Boston   http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/xo1.75-b1-look/ If you want one, you know what to do... :-)

USB2VGA2

2011-07-29 Thread Kevin Gordon
DSD: Hello good sir: I'm back from Kenya and ready to continue the troubleshooting on the SISUSB front. To reiterate: 1) on 11-2/874, my USB2VGA and USB2VGA2 adapters with external monitor always works on a 1.5 2) on 11-2, any build, on an XO-1. out of 100 tries, system virtually always