Re: challenges of distro switching

2010-06-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On 5 June 2010 12:14, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: I built OLPC's kernel in Gentoo with no problems, which helped me a lot to start. The rest works great. Perhaps we aren't talking about the same things. I'm referring to how we can build an image which would be suitable for OLPC 1:1

Re: Alternative option for solving Fedora i686 vs geode problems

2010-06-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On 4 June 2010 21:48, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: If you're planning on doing a repository exclusively for the XO-1, Gentoo is simple to setup and, from what I read on this mailing list, thicks all your boxes: I'm a Gentoo fan myself. But you're talking about a whole new project

Re: New Malaria Game

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On 3 June 2010 13:45, World Class Project- Dev Team deve...@worldclassproject.org.uk wrote: Dear Developers, We have just uploaded an activity that teaches children about Malaria. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=malariacat=all The Free From Malaria game tells the story

Alternative option for solving Fedora i686 vs geode problems

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel Drake
In another thread, we've been discussing the issue that Fedora 12 changed base architecture from i586 to i686. The XO-1 processor (Geode LX) is a i586. Fedora 12 seems to run OK (although I suspect there will be a few broken packages), but Fedora 13 is more obviously broken (for a start, glibc

Re: multicast route missing on ad-hoc+mesh (was: Re: [Testing] os240py - collaboration over wireless)

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On 1 June 2010 02:55, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Tue Jun 01 00:42:38 + 2010: Yep, that's it.  Sugar is entirely relying on the existence of this multicast route, and it is not present on os240py. It can temporarily

Re: [Testing] os240py - collaboration over wireless

2010-05-31 Thread Daniel Drake
On 31 May 2010 00:03, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've reproduced no sharing over mesh on os240py. Activity sharing works via access point. Activity sharing works via Create new wireless network aka ad-hoc. I'm pretty sure this will be another case of there being no default

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 May 2010 18:12, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: That's not entirely true. The was no changes in CPU support from F-12 to F-13. What has happened was a change in gcc which causes issues with F-13 on geode processors. There's a bit missing from gcc for geode support that would

Re: Paraguay's os-builder

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 May 2010 10:24, Esteban Bordon ebor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Hi Bernie, I'm trying to generate a f11 build using the file used to generate build of Paraguay. I'm using

Re: Review pull request: dracut-modules-olpc

2010-05-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 14:37, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: at least let's get greplease merged now. It is non-controversial, and fixes a long standing bug that hits large deployments... done,sorry for delay ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 May 2010 09:36, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i understand that hardware does a lot of filtering.  i was referring specifically to the 1.5's current lack of wake-on-arp (thank you for making me realize there's no specific bug open for this issue -- though it's buried in #9535) Filed

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 18:17, Kushal Das kushal...@gmail.com wrote: It should work as I never switched to to new toolbar API. v19 confirmed working and fixes those 2 issues. I marked this as an update for OLPC builds and La Rioja. Thanks! Daniel ___ Devel

Re: Problems with F11 for XO (Build os140py)

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 18:03, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: I just added the pulseaudio-module-x11 package. The name is a bit misleading: its purpose is to autostart the pulseaudio deamon from the gnome session (and load the x11 modules as well). Thanks. We've been trying to avoid

Re: Reset the resolver cache after bringing up the network

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 May 2010 16:18, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Clearly, some python lib caches stale DNS resolver data, and refuses to let go, but we didn't know where the problem was. The anaconda folks have just hit the same prob, and fixed it. We probably need to do the same on the

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 04:19, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:14:33PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: You're definitely onto something there. Do old images with earlier kernels show the problem? IOWs is there a reasonable starting point for a bisection? Sorry, no.  

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 10:59, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Laptops have not yet been handed out here in La Rioja, but a few have been handed around to various parts of the MinEd and support staff, so we're already seeing some bug reports and user experiences rolling in. The idle-suspend

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 10:15, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I previously went even deeper: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9688 Um, ugly. Wad seems to blame the SD card there -- his scripts possibly favour cards

Re: Problems with F11 for XO (Build os140py)

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On 11 May 2010 16:07, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: The sound in Sugar works, but sound in gnome doesn't. Moreover, in Totem Movie player, the volume icon appears grey, and there's no sound configuration button in Preferences menu (task-bar) at all. Is that a common bug in that

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 22:45, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: daniel wrote:   The video does work absolutely great in the Jukebox activity. But...   ...it doesn't inhibit suspend, so the machine goes to sleep   during playback (should I file a bug?) if the laptop is suspending, that means jukebox is

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 8 May 2010 14:44, Kushal Das kushal...@gmail.com wrote: Released Jukebox v19 [1] , you can try this one , no suspend related code in that. Not tested too much due to unavailability of hardware. Many thanks! Is this version definitely compatible with Sugar 0.84? I ask because according to

Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Laptops have not yet been handed out here in La Rioja, but a few have been handed around to various parts of the MinEd and support staff, so we're already seeing some bug reports and user experiences rolling in. The idle-suspend experience has been causing some discomfort. Specifically 4 cases:

[Server-devel] Mass deployment thoughts

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Just a small braindump... With my experience on deployments I'm finding that customizing and adding more functionality/content to the XS is not a one-time thing, it's something that happens more and more over time. For this reason, the kickstart-based method of XS customization does not feel so

Re: [XO-1.5] yum update

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 13:07, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   Hey, just wanted to update my XO-1.5 machine. After dependency   resolving and downloading the RPM packages, yum complains about   several conflicts. You're trying to install the Fedora kernel, which is not a good idea

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 15:47, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: Is it suspending in the act of sending or while waiting for the response packet? Any suggestions on how to identify this? I'm curious why the the incoming response packets are not causing a WOL. This is certainly not working

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 22:45, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: if the laptop is suspending, that means jukebox is using less than 15% of the cpu during playback, which is impressive. Another case where we saw this: playing audio. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list

[Server-devel] automatic OS updates from school server

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
In my opinion one of the bigger holes left in the school server is the fact that we can't push OS updates to the XOs. And the team here in La Rioja keep asking about it, Actually the hard work is all done (XS has updates server, XO has update client, both work well), the only missing bit is a

XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
The education team in La Rioja have a good number of videos they want to ship on the laptops and servers. After the initial argh the XO's cant play AVI panic, I showed them how to convert to theora+vorbis on their regular PCs. No problems there. Unfortunately the next steps did not go so

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 14:53, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately the next steps did not go so smoothly. We put a freshly recorded 7mb ogg video on USB, plugged it into the laptop, and opened it from the Journal. The Browse activity came up but really struggled to play the video.

Re: Mesh network between xo1 and 1.5?

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On 6 May 2010 21:03, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Have you tested this?  I've just tested it and it doesn't work for me. The ad-hoc network is not shown on the neighbourhood view of the XO-1. It is, however, shown on the output of iwlist eth0 scan on the XO-1, so it is as if Sugar

[Server-devel] documentation for customizing XS ISO

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I thought I saw some official documentation once for how deployments can customize kickstart, add more packages, etc. Can't find it now. Was I dreaming? We're hitting various roadblocks in La Rioja and I'd like to make sure we're following what's documented, and that the docs are correct.

Re: [Server-devel] documentation for customizing XS ISO

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On 4 May 2010 12:58, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I thought I saw some official documentation once for how deployments can customize kickstart, add more packages, etc. Can't find it now. Was I dreaming

Re: Review pull request: dracut-modules-olpc

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On 30 April 2010 19:39, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Fair enough. One of the problems is that normally the expiry check is done inside bitfrost lib and the code there only respects the system clock. So it's a bit messy. Rework bitfrost libs (with impact on users if the

Re: Review pull request: dracut-modules-olpc

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 13:23, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/dracut-modules-olpc/log/?h=clockset-pyx Tested on an XO-1.5 on top of build 121. The branch includes Looks good, thanks. Maybe I asked this already, but I can't find the discussion. When

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 22 April 2010 11:47, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: In other news: I've restored non-Xv support in my git tree. 10.2.0 build 120 fixes the video corruption issue. jnettlet says he's fixed the openchrome video scaling problem. (waiting for RPMs) Audio/video sink has regressed

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 11:57, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Updated again git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/record/ Aleksey, what do you think of these changes? You mentioned before about being open to the idea but needing a new maintainer -- I don't

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 14:15, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Video scaling problem is fixed in XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 121 Audio/video sink is fixed. Image quality problems (w.r.t. lighting conditions) fixed. No remaining issues, as far as I can see. In my 4/24 email to devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 14:16, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: I'm testing it on XO-1 and got several issues Which OS version? 1) Record tries to test plughw alsa device, but gst just crashes   I removed this test and Record started well. Not sure if it is right   to have such check at

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 15:30, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:41:58PM -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: On 29 April 2010 14:16, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: I'm testing it on XO-1 and got several issues Which OS version? 802 That's fedora 9

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 16:39, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: The problem here is that fc10 has gst-0.10.20 but even for 0.88 Sugar Platform has 0.10.14 minimum version http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Platform_Components So, new Record couldn't be nominated to be public on ASLO. i.e.

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 17:23, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Are there chances to decrease gst version? issue w/ core dump could be solved just by removing plughw check. I spent weeks on this during my OLPC internship. The gstreamer versions back then simply have too many bugs.

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 April 2010 20:26, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Sugar 0.88: There is a UI element over the top of the live image ... needs work. See attached screenshot. Yeah, but this is nothing new -- same as all versions of Record to date. this was broken over a year ago by the change to

Re: How to create a proper fs.zip ?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 06:20, Bastien b...@laptop.org wrote: It fails, the XO is looking for fs.zip, then for a school mesh, etc.  I have no OK prompt and I cannot use copy-nand. How do I create the requested fs.zip? You can't. This file is a signature, so you need OLPC's private keys in order to

Re: Pyrex experts? Looking to expose settimeofday() and RTC_SET_TIME ioctl()

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 April 2010 20:21, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: I am porting some awkward patches I have against the old olpc initramfs to the new dracut-based, all bling initramfs. The python part is mostly done, but the fun part is that we're trying to set the clock (both system

Re: Pyrex experts? Looking to expose settimeofday() and RTC_SET_TIME ioctl()

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 09:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Our chvt() is in pyrex, and all it does is call ioctl() on /dev/console. If there's a better way to call ioctl() then we can get rid of pyrex in our initramfs completely. It's not quite that simple, see e.g. pyfb/pyvt.

Re: How to create a proper fs.zip ?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 11:30, Bastien bastien.gue...@wikimedia.fr wrote: The problem is that our 100 XOs (in Madagascar) are *not* connected to the Internet. Is there a way to get a developer key (or to disable security) for all our 100 (soon 160) XO without an internet access? Do you have a

Re: Testing rebuilding dracut-modules-olpc?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 13:06, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Porting some patches to d-m-o...  - Is there a handy way to test changes to dracut-modules-olpc without building an RPM and installing it? (Other than unpacking / repacking the initramfs by hand with cpio, naturally...)

Re: [Server-devel] OATs delegations -- change in procedure -- need to use sig01 format too...

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 April 2010 09:28, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Does the XS need a software update now? Hoping to work on that today afternoon. We have a bit of a tangle because we have build spec changes

Re: Testing rebuilding dracut-modules-olpc?

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 15:05, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Out build toolchains and dev/build environments are extremely specific and brittle. Without some notes, it's pretty hard (and timeconsuming) to get going... Agreed, lets drop the (already unused) spec and build stuff from

Re: [Server-devel] OATs delegations -- change in procedure -- need to use sig01 format too...

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On 28 April 2010 14:54, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: All fixed now, see my earlier messages. The truncated needs fixing was related to the brokenness of dynlibs in olpc-bios-crypto and the -utils splitoff. I have reverted both temporarily and built an RPM that works well.

VncLauncher doesn't run on F11

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Using VncLauncher-4 on F11: it fails to start the VNC server because the binary links against the wrong version of libssl. This activity is used very often in deployments for presentations, training sessions, etc, so it would be nice to have a new version. Daniel

[Server-devel] problems installing xs-activation on F12

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/stable/olpc/xs-0.6/i386/xs-activation-0.2.39.g2277cdf-1.xs9.noarch.rpm Straightforward rpm -ivh of the RPM gives dependency errors. It needs: olpc-contents python = 2.5 python-json usbmount xs-tools olpc-contents and python-json easily installed by yum. xs-tools

Re: [Server-devel] problems installing xs-activation on F12

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On 27 April 2010 10:34, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Does a recompile of this against a F-12 system not fix the python 2.5 - 2.6 problem? Probably yes, but not so sure I want to leave such a task in the hands of the deployment here, as this is something that will have to be

Re: [Server-devel] olpc-bios-crypto - relative vs abs symlinks?

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On 27 April 2010 11:44, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Curious - I see in your makefile and spec fixups you've changes the obc-* symlinks from abs to relative. Is it better in some sense in the context of an RPM? Can't recall, but I suspect it would have been something in

Re: [Server-devel] olpc-bios-crypto - relative vs abs symlinks?

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On 27 April 2010 11:51, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 27 April 2010 11:44, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Curious - I see in your makefile and spec fixups you've changes the obc-* symlinks from abs to relative. Is it better in some sense in the context of an RPM

olpc-os-builder .iso output - usable@

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Drake
Had an interesting question from Sebastian M here in La Rioja... The .iso output of olpc-os-builder (and published on build.laptop.org) -- is it useful? Can it be run in emulation? Has anyone tried? Personally I suspect it won't work, because it has OLPC's XO-specific kernel, and also the build

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 April 2010 01:01, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: What do you do with scan results that show an ad-hoc network is available with the same name?  Pick one: with the same name as what? Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] OATs delegations -- change in procedure -- need to use sig01 format too...

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 April 2010 01:40, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:  - We should make --act a no-op, so we just forget about it in the future. Gonzalo and Daniel have been working on the scripts and I am a bit behind on what they've done. Guys, would be great if you apply this -- or I'll

Re: [Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 April 2010 10:07, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@gmail.com wrote: I can do a python version. I don't like having hundreds of files opened, it's ok with you? I just wrote one, committing now. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list

Re: Pain building olpc-update rpm

2010-04-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 April 2010 03:16, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Right now, if you do clone of the olpc-update repo, and try to build it... well, it doesn't work very well. Pretty sure you're looking at the wrong repo or something. The Makefile has the right version number and you don't

Re: [Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On 23 April 2010 12:54, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: OK, no problem. Just curious though, whats the justification behind this? is there an existing project that runs in this way? The single file model

[Server-devel] Roadblocks for a central OATS server

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, As discussed we're planning on putting a central internet-accessible OATS server in La Rioja, in addition to the ones in the schools. The purpose is to be able to deactivate stolen laptops before their lease expiry (assuming the thief doesn't take the laptop to the school, but does put

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On 22 April 2010 05:42, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: If there is an intention to have dev.l.o branch on git.sl.o, I can add new user to commiters list to merge/reset master to dev.l.o code. In this case we just need someone who will maintain it and also git.sl.o code is targeting

[Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, We're working on the antitheft stage where the private signing server generates delegations and sends them to the internet-accessible antitheft server. We can work with the scripts that are already in bios-crypto but we're a bit confused by their design. Perhaps we are missing

Re: [Server-devel] make-server-delegations output and importing to XS

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On 22 April 2010 17:39, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: I propose a different design: Works for me as long as you also craft a script that handles the run from a whole CSV file. In other words, the main workflow starts with a single 3-field CSV file exported from an inventory

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 19:07, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: In my mind, switch to camerabin would be the best way to go. Unfortunately camerabin cant work as is on XO-1, it should be patched to let Record use two phases encoding and it looks like pretty special in case of upstream. But

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 18:06, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, Here's a version of the Record activity which works on XO-1.5: git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record I updated this git tree. The code I announced yesterday is now in the v60-plus-tweaks branch. The master branch (non-fast

Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Here's a version of the Record activity which works on XO-1.5: git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record It's basically Record v60 plus a few tweaks. Unfortunately it seems like Record v61 included a rewrite, cutting out most of the hard work I did on this activity in summer 2008 :( and that

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 18:06, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, Here's a version of the Record activity which works on XO-1.5: git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/record forgot to mention the known issues, both residing outside the code of Record (I think): - new version uses much less CPU than

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 19:07, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: In fact original idea was to do something similar what camerabin does - smooth switching between Record modes, w/o any delays. But it was pretty undoable due to python binding restrictions and lack of gst knowledge. but v60 does

Re: Record activity for XO-1.5

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 20:20, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: The latest Record 66 seems to work quite well on Fedora 13 without any of the binary blobs which is more than can be said for some of the other releases. What's the difference between that release and what you have? It would be

Re: B3 with different RAM chips

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 April 2010 21:30, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: Just on cards I bought after market, either on the XO-1 or 1.5. Only one SD card from Sandisk has been working perfectly for me, in the XO-1. I'm looking at ways to test faster USB Flash drives, since the SD card on the XO 1.5

strange keyboard problem with synaptics controller

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
I've seen this issue on several XO-1s with the Synaptics hardware, and now on an XO-1.5 ramp unit running firmware Q3A36. Upon booting, the keyboard under Linux doesn't work right, e.g. pressing q results in d (fictional example -- can't recall if this is an exact example of a mismatch).

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On 16 April 2010 19:52, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Regardless of whether you use the updates bit or not, you'll want to reinstate that server configuration so that the laptops can receive lease updates before expiration (Raul told me that they have switched this feature on a

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 09:48, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: what changed between the first and second boots that might have made the second successful after the first failed? See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/028172.html above This sounds like

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 10:01, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: so one possibility is that os140py isn't successfully enabling smbios, or not recognizing the results correctly. (assuming this bug is indeed an instance of #9100...) SMBIOS should not be required for not-crashing during early boot.

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 11:40, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Sebastian Silva sebast...@fuentelibre.org wrote: BTW how do you disable it? Yeah -- can we disable it easily on F11 builds? (speaking only for XO) No. We would have to change mouse

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 April 2010 15:48, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: I noticed that Stephen Parrish had removed olpc-update from F11-XO1, which made /versions also superfluous. Besides the nice saving in space, disabling the versioned fs considerably sped up olpc-os-builder. I'd be surprised if

Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
After the switch to the ALPS touchpad + controller, it's nice to see the departure of the 2 ribbon cables that don't have clips (the extra bit of plastic came off too easily, making it hard to disconnect the cables), but we now have a new difficulty: The small ribbon cable that connects the mouse

Re: Flash Lite Community for XO, Gnash, Free RIA Tools

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 13:15, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote:  I see one thing I should point out on this page, Gnash 0.8.3 is ridiculously ancient, and should be avoided. Much of the problems of Gnash on the XO are because the packages on the XO are *years* out of date. :-(

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 13:22, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:  * Remove olpc-update and disable the /versions kludge (me, smparrish) Great work Bernie! This is the only bit that seems a bit surprising to me. Granted, the /versions system is a little perplexing (but it works, and is being

Re: Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 20:06, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Teach the repair centers to not disconnect that cable. I might be wrong but isn't it necessary to unplug it in order to replace the keyboard? It certainly makes replacing the keyboard controller impossible, but that isn't something

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 19:13, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: That's because of the exim. Do a 'yum install ssmtp' then a 'yum remove exim' and most of that problem goes away. the auto depsolving for '/usr/bin/sendmail' get exim by default because its the shortest name and comes first.

olpc-os-builder config tweaks

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Chris, I added a mechanism so that we can keep separate the OLPC-specific configuration from the sample config that can be reused by deployments, and I stripped out the OLPC-specific bits from those default configs. So you'll want to create a cjb-specific config file somewhere with this

Re: olpc-os-builder config tweaks

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
I also fixed a small issue in the configuration where public_rpm packages were not overriding F11 updates...be sure to double-check the list of package changes in the next build. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 14:51, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I've got some more time and have finally had a chance to look at these further. From an initial looks it looks like your getting exim due to the cronie deps on /usr/bin/sendmail. If you add an explicit 'ssmtp' into the .ks that

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 15:45, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: Except for where I specified extra stuff I needed. :) like lm_sensors which requires perl. So I need to find a way to read the CPU temp without lm_sensors or we somehow need to break lm_sensors use of perl. It's really easy

Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On 27 March 2010 09:42, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: in any case, all of this points at having separate default configurations for powerd on XO-1 and XO-1.5.  i guess this should be handled by the rpm install -- but i'm not sure how.  (help appreciated.) It can't be done cleanly in RPM

Fix clock instructions updated

2010-03-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Having seen a handful of RTC battery problems in Nicaragua I found myself revisiting the process, and struggling to explain the wiki page to the team. So I restructured it a bit, mainly to take the focus away from the problems caused by ancient firmware versions and badly shaped holders, and

Re: Fuzzy screen problem in Nicaragua

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On 15 March 2010 11:48, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Please provide us with serial numbers of affected units. I'm a little perplexed as to how Nicaragua ended up with such a high failure rate with this issue. Germán is on a field trip so I'll step in... SHC92502C19 SHC925021D6

Re: [Server-devel] Now completely fixed - ejabberd crashes when segregating presence by course...

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On 29 December 2009 12:37, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to Devon's good reporting, a few peeks at the server, and some discussion with the ejabberd dev team, this is completely fixed. Short version:   yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install moodle-xs ejabberd-xs

Re: [SoaS] Using SoaS Blueberry to emulate OLPC F11 builds

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On 9 February 2010 15:58, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: FWIW, I tried almost the same exact process on a machine that I had installed Blueberry on by using the zyx-installer. Blueberry was installed. I ran yum groupinstall GNOME Desktop Environment and then yum install

[Server-devel] OpenDNS instructions don't work

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Drake
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Use_OpenDNS This doesn't work - xs-config.make says it shouldnt be used for named-xs.conf, and named doesn't work afterwards since the config file is borked. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list

Re: Build system and repos for F11/XO-1.5?

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On 2 February 2010 13:17, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: couple questions about it...  - Can it build F11/XO-1 images, with jffs2? Yes, it is used for Steven's recent F11-XO1 releases  - Can it build partitioned images? Yes, it has been used for all recent XO-1.5 OS builds

Fuzzy screen problem in Nicaragua

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel Drake
We've seen a handful of XOs with an interesting problem here. There is a large vertical stripe of fuzzyness on the left side of the screen. It seems to be in the same place on every XO that we've seen. It is not always obvious. For example, on the static-white OFW background, it is completely

Re: Impact of changing default Screen depth on other XO Apps

2010-01-27 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/27 shivaprasad javali jbs...@gmail.com: Hi All,     We are developing an Activity for the XO. During development we ran into an issue with the default screen depth on the XO. Our application assumes that the screen depth is 32 and does all the draw math. But as the screen depth on

quick Forth question

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Can anyone help me with a tiny Forth script? Can never quite get my head around the language. I'm trying to set up an if-else based on whether a mfg tag exists (or whether writing a mfg tag succeeded or not) I'm trying: add-tag ak 0 catch if 2drop . Laptop already activated cr then But, if

Re: offtopic question about high density wifi

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/25 da...@lang.hm: but my question is if there is a limit (other than the effective limit of the RF channel) on the number of systems that can assocciate with a single access point? Yes - APs often have a limit. The limit is not defined by any kind of specification. It depends on the

Re: quick Forth question

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
2010/1/25 Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org: I worked it out. : check-ak add-tag ak 0 eval ; ok ' check-ak catch if . Laptop already activated cr then Thanks muchly! It works well. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Lots of broken chargers in Nicaragua

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, What seems to be a lesser-common problem in the other deployments I have seen seems to be quite common here: chargers are breaking due to damage to the cable and the point where the cable enters the big green plug that goes into the power socket. Although these problems seem to be due to

School internet restricted to XOs in Uruguay

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Apparently, in Uruguayan schools, the wireless networks are setup so that only XOs can go online. Other computers that connect won't be able to use the internet (or perhaps aren't able to connect at all?) Does anyone have details of the implementation? cheers, Daniel

[Server-devel] nocat/internet restriction plans

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel Drake
I've read the threads about NoCat and am a little confused about the plan for restricting internet access to XOs. Is Jerry's suggestion (at http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/iptables/) designed to complement NoCatAuth, or is it a standalone replacement? At which point do we add and remove these

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