Ready-made kernel, XO-1, Xubuntu, and initrd questions

2011-11-26 Thread Alec Muffett
Hi! I have a G1G1-era XO-1 and am trying to put Xubuntu onto it, using Virtualbox to do the setup and build on OSX, and then dd'ing the raw image to a 4Gb SD-card for booting. I'm using the current Xubuntu-alternate CD to build the image, and then approximately following the Wiki at

Re: Ready-made kernel, XO-1, Xubuntu, and initrd questions

2011-11-26 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:40:21AM +, Alec Muffett wrote: I have a G1G1-era XO-1 and am trying to put Xubuntu onto it, using Virtualbox to do the setup and build on OSX, and then dd'ing the raw image to a 4Gb SD-card for booting. I'm using the current Xubuntu-alternate CD to build the

Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75

2011-11-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
How useful could a Raspberry Pi be as a development platform for the XO-1.75? It looks like the Pi is ARM11 based (v6 arch) and the XO has a v7 arch. Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75

2011-11-26 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Sat, Nov 26 2011, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How useful could a Raspberry Pi be as a development platform for the XO-1.75? It looks like the Pi is ARM11 based (v6 arch) and the XO has a v7 arch. You've correctly described why it probably won't be useful -- almost every distribution

Battery - small irritation

2011-11-26 Thread Kevin Gordon
Hi: I have received a new XO 1.5, shipped with a battery S/N starting with 008. Over the past few days, I've noticed something a tad strange. No matter how long it's plugged in, the little charging LED stays yellow. However, the frame battery indicator says 100% Moved this battery to another

Re: Ready-made kernel, XO-1, Xubuntu, and initrd questions [Devel Digest, Vol 69, Issue 60]

2011-11-26 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
-- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:40:21 + From: Alec Muffett alec.muff...@gmail.com To: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Ready-made kernel, XO-1, Xubuntu, and initrd questions Message-ID:    

Re: Battery - small irritation

2011-11-26 Thread Richard Smith
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I have received a new XO 1.5, shipped with a battery S/N starting with 008. Over the past few days, I've noticed something a tad strange.  No matter how long it's plugged in, the little charging  LED stays yellow.