I had the same problem last week. I did determine that the Fedora packages
had been archived but I could not figure out how to get yum to work. Maybe
it is a different type of repository? At any rate, I was unable to get yum
to work.
--Chris
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 9:57 AM Peter Robinson
Hi-
I'm trying to make an OS install SD card
for 13.2.0 for an XO-1.5 and XO-1 in order
to speed things up and to allow more
memory for yum installs.
Unfortunately, things seem to have changed
a lot since the last time I went through this
process circa the os 8.2 release.
I've been trying to
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:52 +, Chris Marshall wrote:
Hi-
Hi Chris,
I'm trying to make an OS install SD card
for 13.2.0 for an XO-1.5 and XO-1 in order
to speed things up and to allow more
memory for yum installs
If I umount the SD card then the hang/pause-s
stop. Of course, I than have no extra storage space
for the XO.
It would seem that there may be a system
or kernel call that gets blocked by something
related to the SD card mount.
On 10/13/12, Chris Marshall devel.chm...@gmail.com wrote:
I too
By applying the patch from ticket #10297
I am in the process of compiling the xo-1
kernel rpm on my XO-1 (thanks to much help
from James Cameron steering me in the
right direction).
I think all I will need to build/compile the
linuxwacom driver is an updated kernel-devel
package with the fixes
On 12/22/2010 12:52 PM, Jon Nettleton wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Chris Marshall
jns-cmarsh...@comcast.net wrote:
By applying the patch from ticket #10297
I am in the process of compiling the xo-1
kernel rpm on my XO-1 (thanks to much help
from James Cameron steering me
Hi-
I've been trying to get Colors! and the Wacom
Bamboo tablet working for my 2 nieces for Christmas.
I've been trying to build the driversr from the
latest linuxwacom sources at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10.tar.bz2
Following the mini-HOWTO from
I was able to run the StarTech USB2VGA2 on
an XO-1 with os359 installed. It came up
at a resolution of 1024x768.
I looked for a mode for 1360x768 resolution
for my HDTV but could not find one. I tried
setting up a 1280x768 resolution but that
displayed shifted to the left so the left part
of
I would like to add my thanks to these folks
for their hard work that has made possible some
of the potential of the XO-1 laptop. My hope
is that the updated OS will allow for further
development of the Activities and Applications
for the XO laptop.
Thanks to all,
Chris
On 8/30/2010 9:00 PM,
I would like to upgrade my XO to boot from
an SD install of the OS. Is there a way
to transfer the identity information from
the original install to the SD boot so that:
(1) XO colors are the same
(2) Nickname is the same
(3) Friends are the same
(4) It stays Friends with other XOs transparently
rihowa...@gmail.com wrote:
I was helping an XO user to resolve a problem with yum failing on her
system. After trying it on my XO I discovered that the OLPC repositories are
not responding. Hence yum errors out with a timeout.
I saw the same problem this weekend on 3 different XOs.
I can
I tried to install LyX on my XO running os767
with the error:
texlive-2007-32.fc9.i386 from updates-newkey has depsolving problems
-- Missing Dependency: libpoppler.so.3 is needed by package
texlive-2007-32.fc9.i386 (updates-newkey)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpoppler.so.3 is
I've been able to make my G1G1 XOs more usable
by installing the OS and booting from an SD card
rather than the internal NAND. Adding some swap
helps alot too.
However, it doesn't appear that the suspend
and resume on lid close, etc. work in this
case (presumably because the USB subsystem
must
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
da...@lang.hm wrote:
It would allow for much improved
video performance since you could play back a 320x240
video on the full screen at considerable CPU savings.
except that you would spend those CPU savings doing the scaling up from
320x240 to the higher
With the spin-off of Sugar development to sugarlabs,
it is nice to see the development continued.
However, it seems that the OLPC layoffs and refocus
has scuttled the work to complete some OS and system
software support for the XO-1 hardware features.
For example, I have been waiting for the
a top-level window.
Tony
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From: Chris Marshall jns-cmarsh...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: anonymous gray activity circles
To: g...@laptop.org
Cc: OLPC Development devel@lists.laptop.org
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of the internals.
Tony
Chris Marshall wrote:
Yes, but these are un-sugarized programs
and they still generate gray circles.
Doesn't that imply that window creation
outside of sugar is being detected and
acted upon?
--Chris
Tony Anderson wrote:
Compare:
http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel
Greg Smith wrote:
Hi Chris,
Unless someone else has seen this, I think we need more detail on how to
reproduce it.
os767 and Firefox-6 activity
start firefox
click on a file link to download
exit firefox after
left a gray circle
(Actually, it almost always leaves behind one
or more circles
Wade Brainerd wrote:
BTW, if any of you guys playing around with Colors! have access to
multiple XOs, I would love to hear how the collaboration feature is
working (and what you think about it).
-Wade
I just tried the pre-release v12 of Colors! in collaboration
mode with 2 XOs, both
Mitch Bradley wrote:
Secondly, if you have a USB CD-ROM drive, you could help me by testing
it with OFW. To do so:
Will an external DVD-RW drive work or only a CD?
a) Remove all other USB storage devices (FLASH keys and the like) from
the XO
b) Put a CD-ROM that has an ISO-9660
Wade Brainerd wrote:
Hey Chris, thanks for the feedback! It's great to hear from people
using Colors! on XO.
You're welcome, Wade.
I tried to get an image of my finished drawing
from the Journal but the only option was to
resume Colors!. Then when it resumed it seemed
to hang. I then
Wade Brainerd wrote:
The only catch is that the drawing output
lags the tablet strokes by quite a bit. My
guess is that the event processing cannot
keep up with the data rate. I seem to remember
that there was a driver configuration related
to that which might be
Wade Brainerd wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Chris Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gary C Martin wrote:
On 7 Dec 2008, at 00:58, Wade Brainerd wrote:
Okay, Colors! v11 supports Wacom tablets, with pressure
...
--Chris
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[adding sugar-devel to cc as it's of interest to other platforms
than olpc]
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Chris Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
wade wrote:
I'm partly set up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
wade wrote:
I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point.
Ultimately though, just mouse position and clicking isn't nearly
enough. You *at least* need pressure information for a decent tablet
painting experience.
right -- i'm
Wade Brainerd wrote:
For someone with a tablet, it would be nice to see the results of a
simple PyGTK program which reports X, Y and Pressure from the
gtk.gdk.SOURCE_PEN device, using the gtk.gdk.Device API.
http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gdkdevice.html
If this works, it would be
I used the Alt-1 shortcut to get a screenshot
for reference which was duly saved in the Journal.
When I went to the Journal and reviewed the
entry, the thumbnail preview was blank.
I tried to resume the screenshot and Browse was
the Activity of choice to view. I tried quitting
Browse and going
I got an email that claimed to be
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for
help with G1G1 but all the links were
not to where they said they were from.
I think it may be phishing or a scam
of some sort. For example, the link
to amazon.com/XO actually goes to:
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this mail was/is legitimate, and is part of the G1G1 launch
starting tomorrow. the links go through a redirector so that
OLPC can see statistics on click-through responses.
i understand
Has anyone had any success getting a
Wacom USB tablet working with the XO?
The new Bamboo series is affordable
($79 US), about the same size active
area as the XO display, and could be
a substitute for the deprecated/soon
to be abandoned pressure sensitive
touchpad on the original XOs.
This
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A new version of the XO-LiveCD is available.
You can download it from:
ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_081106.iso
This release is based on the ext3 image of the stable 8.2 branch, build 767.
The CD contains many activities, including
I would like to put the current 8.2
release onto an SD card for booting
(with a developer's key) to allow
me to better support my family and
friends XOs.
Right now, any customizations such
as printer support or additional
applications get wiped whenever there
is an os update.
The thought was to
Now that the 8.2.0 release is official, are there plans for
a LiveCD of the same. An ISO image bzip2 compressed
for distribution would be a nice ad for the XO.
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1) I just did a clean candidate-767
update for another G1G1-1 XO
and observed that the initial attempt
to share a Chat session comes up with
the talk bubble followed by the
invite to without Chat or Chat
Activity at the end.
After sharing another activity and then
going back to the Chat, when I
Are there any e-book type examples in the current 767
release for G1G1-2?
I've been testing the 767 candidates but the library of
books, audio, and examples that used to be visible in
the Browse home page don't appear to be there anymore.
It is difficult to demo or test the XO's capabilities
I just updated to 8.2-762 and things seemed to
work better with the network connections. I'm
about to update to 8.2-763 and hope to get to
some more testing tomorrow.
--Chris
Ricardo Carrano wrote:
Have you tried removing your old/previous network configuration?
This can be done in the
In the process of updating 2 different G1G1 XOs from
8.2-760 to 8.2-762 this evening I made the following
observations:
1. one XO completed the 'olpc-update -r 8.2-760' command
without a hitch
2. the other XO seemed to start ok but then there appeared
a number of error messages with
Thanks much for packaging this up!
I've installed the bundle on two XOs running 760 and
when connected to xochat.org I am able to start the
VideoChat program and see the self-video thumbnail
and a little XO Neighborhood sized icon of the 2nd XO
in the big window next to the thumbnails. At that
Apologies for the non-Track report in the interest
of faster reporting...
I was demo-ing 2 MP XOs running the 8.2-760
release and observed failure to communicate invitations
for sharing when the other XO was in the reduced
power mode (as evidenced by the display darkening).
The reduced power
I tried to use olpc-update to force a
clean re-install of an existing 8.2-760
system that had had some non-standard
RPMs installed on it:
olpc-update -r 8.2-760
To my surprise, instead of restoring to a
pristine 8.2-760, olpc-update reported
that I was already a 760!
The principle of least
Chris Ball wrote:
Hi Robert, thanks for the notes.
2.) I noticed in build 757 after opening the lid the system would
attempt to connect to the last network device it had been connected
to. With 759 it looks for a mesh first no matter that you had been
connected to an AP
Greg Smith wrote:
Can we get a show of hands on who downloaded joyride 2230?
If you didn't try it yet, instructions for downloading it are available
at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
If you did install it, can you send a quick reply. Any comments on what
you tried and your
A quick note on my experiences with joyride-2228 on my sister's
G1G1 XO. She was running 703 before I convinced her to
update to joyride for the new user interface. She really likes
that but she now has the problem of sticking control key.
Given that the problem only started on the OS +
I need to install a win32 program for my father to
use on his XO. At 1200x900 resolution the text is
**way** too small for him to read. However, it is
very clear :-)
In some previous discussion on the XO bug tracker
ssb22 managet to use x11vnc to get a 2X zoom going
for the XO and WINE. In
Jim Gettys wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:28 -0400, Chris Marshall wrote:
S Page wrote:
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Noticed that sugar-evince 2.20.1.1-3.olpc3 brought in
poppler 0.6.2-5.olpc3, which is 3 MB.
I think 8.1.0 and 8.1.1 have the same dependency (on
poppler-0.6.2.4-olpc2). Evince
S Page wrote:
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Noticed that sugar-evince 2.20.1.1-3.olpc3 brought in
poppler 0.6.2-5.olpc3, which is 3 MB.
I think 8.1.0 and 8.1.1 have the same dependency (on
poppler-0.6.2.4-olpc2). Evince needs Poppler to render PDFs.
I need to install a win32 program for my father to
use on his XO. At 1200x900 resolution the text is
**way** too small for him to read. However, it is
very clear :-)
In some previous discussion on the XO bug tracker
ssb22 managet to use x11vnc to get a 2X zoom going
for the XO and WINE. In
Daniel Drake wrote:
Resyncing the X server was not quite as simple as you might expect.
Previously, X was compiled along with the mesa sources to offer
software-based GL. The software GL is very slow but word on the street
is that some activities use it anyway.
...
Anyway, at the
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be conflicts between this feature
and the usage and usability of the XO in its intended
market/audience
Regards,
Chris Marshall
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