Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.6 -

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/7 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: 65d0816e002fe83f4e0130b6a92577377b9fd2e3  OLPC-School-Server-0.6-i386.iso c872907f1f696ea7bb1bb6e95319fa27e62ce76c  OLPC-School-Server-0.6-i386.img.gz Great! What's changed since 0.6d5? Daniel ___

Re: complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/6 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com: I checked out Arabic rendering under Fedora 11, Abiword 2.6.8, and there seems to be some problems. With 1 exception, all the fixes I referenced are not included in abiword 2.6.8 - they are newer. Daniel

[Server-devel] what is xs-callhome?

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Drake
I just noticed for the first time this xs-callhome thing. What's the intended purpose of it? It seems quite broken at the moment. It is launched by cron every few hours, but looks for configuration in the wrong place (/etc/sysconfig/callhome instead of /etc/sysconfig/callhome/callhome.conf). Can

complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've been working on various bugs related to Nepali/Sanskrit text in AbiWord which likely fall over to other languages too. There were several pretty big bugs before, and now it is much more usable. I'd be interested to know if this solves any problems for other deployments. Here's a

Re: complex langs/scripts in abiword

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/5 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Hi, I've been working on various bugs related to Nepali/Sanskrit text in AbiWord which likely fall over to other languages too. There were several pretty big bugs before, and now it is much more usable. I'd be interested to know if this solves any

Re: Quick notes from a lazy smoketest of os30

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/5 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Got my 1.5-B2 prototype in the mail last week. (Yay! Toys!) I used it a bit over the week (it is nice and fast), and then yesterday I had a bit of downtime, so I updated it to cjb's os30. Overall, lots of things work (wohoo!). Also, lots of

[Server-devel] noisy service dhcpd status

2009-09-24 Thread Daniel Drake
Running XS-0.6d, service dhcpd status is unusually noisy. It looks like it is regenerating the config file every time I check its status. Is this intentional? # service dhcpd status /etc / xs-commitchanged -m 'Dirty state' dhcpd-xs.conf #SERVERNUM := 1 #BASEDNSNAME := testxs.olenepal.org cp

Re: XO-1 Mesh support in F11, testing request

2009-09-19 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/19 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: Anyone interested in helping the last few steps in getting XO-1 mesh support running again? Sorry - but my news (testing mesh support in F11) is not good. Thanks for the feedback. I think we can summarize the problems into a few groups: -

Re: XO-1 Mesh support in F11, testing request

2009-09-18 Thread Daniel Drake
All fixed and tested! new RPMs at http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090918/ patches submitted to NetworkManager-0.7 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1 Mesh support in F11, testing request

2009-09-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/16 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: all rpms at http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090916/ found a few minutes to find a few problems: forgot to install the fdi file olpcmesh.py is not being installed from the sugar package shortened dhcpcd timeout not working Sugar never seems to give up trying

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/16 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: That should be do-able using mkslim (read it first) from xs-livecd's git repo, along with my idea to use a pre-configured updates repo on the iso. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-February/002937.html Thanks! Got it working as follows:

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-17 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/17 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: Well not quite the way I would of done it, I was hoping someone else would test my idea, but glad you got what you needed done. Mind sharing the yumdownloader routine? I might try to use something like that to populate my updates repo, then remove any

XO-1 Mesh support in F11, testing request

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Anyone interested in helping the last few steps in getting XO-1 mesh support running again? Recently, OLPC mesh support was committed to NetworkManager-0.8 git master. I've now backported this to 0.7 and packaged it up, and packaged sugar to readd OLPC mesh support there too. Completely

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org: We need doublequotes for interpolation. Single quotes look more symmetrical in if [ $a == 'x' ] constructs but we want the left side to be interpolated and the right side to be taken literally. oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but looks like I completely forgot to send a fixed one. Thanks for taking care of that! Bad boy! Question: have you got

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: Are you just adding rpms to the install media? Or are you trying something more difficult? I have a process in mind if you're just adding rpms to the mix... Just adding RPMs would be enough, but also we're customizing the kickstart file a little.

Re: [Server-devel] splitting large xol

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/4 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: The page says:    How big is your collection? If the size of your entire collection is between 5-20MB, you're all set. Otherwise, you'll need to make two bundles-- one bundle of 5-20MB for use on individual laptops, and a second bundle of unlimited (but

Re: [Server-devel] splitting large xol

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/4 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: We have a offline dictionary that we'd like to ship as xol. Its tar.bz2 is at 63MB. Reading the instructions, it looks like the bundle will have to be split across two files. Why? 63mb should be fine in 1 bundle. Daniel

[Server-devel] disable makewhatis

2009-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, By default, makewhatis runs every day on the XS. Seems like a waste of resources. Could we turn it off by default? The setting is in /etc/man.config Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: XO automatic clock setting

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/31 C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: The server will respond with: time01: TIMESTAMP sig0x: xxx I don't understand why this is necessary; there is already a 'time' field in the server response for this purpose:  

Re: Pilgrim workflow: Getting signatures into images?

2009-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/29 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Daniel and Reuben have done it, and may have notes on the workflow, gotchas, etc. http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org/index.php/Construir_OS ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

XO automatic clock setting

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I'd like to start a discussion about some of Martin's changes to the olpcrd, OATS and olpc-update components -- at the very least I'd like to make sure that the design of the new functionality has been at least glanced at by Michael and Scott (and that they are unable to immediately think of

Re: XO automatic clock setting

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/27 Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org: 4. sig02 leases are still unsupported in the latest OpenFirmware, but it looks like we have renewed interest in getting this finished off, so no initramfs changes will be needed in this area. Here Daniel skips the fact that there is a homely but

Re: [Sugar-devel] erasing the journal and config

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/27 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: I posed this question on OLPC Support Gang earlier and got responses that its not possible to do so under bitfrost and rainbow. === Hello everybody, We have a lending library at SFSU, ready to go, but we need to have a way to erase

Re: XO automatic clock setting

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/27 Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: This is a good thing if we assume that the initramfs can evolve faster than OFW,  and the case OFW doesn't recognise this sig format but Initramfs does is a valid one. Except,

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 Build 6

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/27 Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com: I had this issue with os5 (see ...-swap posts above in the   fedora-olpc-list). It is something not related to swap but is happening often enough. Usually after 1-3 attempts removing all peripherals (and overclocking :) recovers and boots

Re: olpcrd-rough -- patches queued for initrd on 8.2.x

2009-08-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/20 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Daniel, these need to be ported to the dracut setup. I've given it a cursory look (but quickly realised that it probably won't work on our F9 builds) but not that much. Happy if you grab them, happy if you post a quick 'how to hack on dracut

Re: olpcrd-rough -- patches queued for initrd on 8.2.x

2009-08-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/21 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: The dracut documentation is all you need. It's remarkably simple. I would not suggest trying to get it working on F9. Riiight. At least, you are  - grabbing the fully

Any success with the synaptics driver?

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Has anyone ever got the synaptics driver (xorg-x11-drv-synaptics) working on the XOs with the new touchpad? I just tried it and was surprised to find out that it doesn't work: (EE) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device (EE) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad

Fix Sound activity

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, All OLPC OS releases including 8.2.1 have an annoying issue, where activities can trash sound mixer settings. The result is that all Sugar activities lose the ability to play sound (they are muted) and sugar's volume control does not fix it. And unfortunately this becomes a very common issue

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fix Sound activity

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/19 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Same thought -- what's the fix applied in the F11-based images? oops, I lied. It's not fixed there yet. Only is for XO-1.5, inside olpc-configure. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list

[Server-devel] idmgr broken in latest 0.6

2009-08-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, Latest idmgr in the XS is broken. No laptops can register because the database is still in the v2 format. /home/idmgr/create_registration only creates a v2 database, and marks the fs accordingly: echo 2 /home/idmgr/storage_format_version The spec file would then ordinarily cause

Re: [Server-devel] idmgr broken in latest 0.6

2009-08-18 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/18 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: The spec file would then ordinarily cause the upgrade_2_to_3 to be run, but it doesn't because commit 5ef89de945 makes the spec file update that file to '3' Also upgrade_users_2_to_3 doesn't work if idmgr was running. The wasrunning check is broken

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Paul Fox p...@laptop.org: one thing we've recently realized that would be very low risk would be to change the xset command in /usr/bin/olpc-session from xset 7/4 0 to either xset 7/6 0 or xset 7/4 1. What effect does this have? Daniel ___

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: F11 testing for XS

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Over the last could of weeks Jerry's been exploring the F11 rebase. Here are his notes. Thanks. I agree that the Python stuff will be fixed with a rebuild (perhaps with some trivial spec file tweaks) and ejabberd should be too. olpc-contents

Re: Good intro boot to Linux management... ?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: This is somewhat offtopic but important when we get to work with deployments. (And working with deployment teams is how we get laptops in the hands of kids, so it is right there where it matters...) Some local teams have very low exposure

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/11 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: In the _completely hypothetical_ case that I had some time and chance to spin a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the paper cuts[1] and low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - have *you* got any candidates? Tell me

Re: [Server-devel] how to copy activation leases to XS?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/10 Joshua N Pritikin jpriti...@pobox.com: Is there an easy way to disable security on 30 laptops besides requesting dev keys, etc? You could send the 30 serial numbers to OLPC and ask if they will create developer keys on your behalf. Daniel

[Server-devel] revisor-2.1.8 rebuilt for F9

2009-08-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, In case anyone is interested... the revisor in F9 (used for XS builds) is quite out of date. It downloads everything twice, which is a real pain for Nepal. The revisor developers told me this is fixed in the latest version, so I rebuilt it for F9. everything you need is here:

Re: [Server-devel] revisor-2.1.8 rebuilt for F9

2009-08-06 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/6 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: I'm running a build with it now, so I'm not yet sure if it works or of it actually does avoid the duplicate downloading It didn't work. Revisor is quite tied into anaconda, and revisor takes advantage of various new changes in anaconda. It fails

Re: Another F11 build for the XO-1 has been released

2009-08-05 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/6 Steven M. Parrish smparr...@gmail.com: I have released a new build of F11 for the XO-1 named OS4 You can find it at http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/ This new build includes the addition of the ImageViewer, Physics and Jukebox Activities, an update to the Write

Re: [Server-devel] skipping or automating anaconda during install

2009-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/3 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: Might be an anaconda bug, can't recall off the top of my head. Are you being prompted for language/keyboard/timezone info only? Try # out interactive in the ks.cfg file. That did it, thanks! ___ Server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS backup/restore feature

2009-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Here are new, tested versions of the backup/restore scripts. They are more robust (not using temporary disk space any more), which has a small speed penalty but should improve reliability and decrease disk space requirements. xs-backup now has a --uncompressed option which produces an un-gzipped

[Server-devel] skipping or automating anaconda during install

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Does anyone know how to automate the anaconda step of the XS install? I placed the details that we want (disk layout, root password and timezone) in the .ks file but anaconda still prompts for that information and more or less ignores all of my additions except for the default disk layout

Re: [Server-devel] XS automount design

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/3 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: The other thing that bothers me is that unmounting it automatically makes a mess for anyone working interactively with USB sticks from the commandline. Remounting it RO at least leaves the mountpoint in place, and it's relatively easy and

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/1 James Cameron qu...@laptop.org: Can this build be updated to using olpc-update in order to only fetch the changes via rsync? Not yet but the code is written.. see the discussion in the other thread about the versioned layout filesystem, and feel free to jump in with a patch :) Daniel

Re: [Server-devel] XS automount design

2009-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/30 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: I don't know if usbmount is sane in the face of triggering the unmount from the mount-post-processing scripts. It works fine and the usbmount code is already crafted to cleanly handle such a situation. how do you feel about this 98-umount

Re: [Server-devel] the first user is admin moodle policy

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/30 Joshua N Pritikin jpriti...@pobox.com: If you guys need any help testing the XO laptop autologin stuff, don't hesitate to ask. I'll do whatever I can to help you figure out why it's not working for us. I did a fresh XS-0.6d2 install and it works just fine here. Is anyone else

[Server-devel] XS automount design

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
It seems a little strange to me that the XS scripts that process files on USB sticks do not unmount the disk after use. In fact they don't even mount the disk in read-only mode. Do we encourage users to login as root and unmount the disk before unplug, or are we actually encouraging users that

Re: [Server-devel] XS automount design

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/30 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: No, we encourage them to wait for the done bells. Let me explain.  - we don't have any scripts that write, but we will likely do, so mounting ro is not a good idea  - we're either mounting sync or with the not-so-lazy async that was

Re: [Server-devel] XS build setup

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
One more build question... Do you do anything special with the iso after revisor has finished? I just built it and it ended up at 780mb in size, vs your 549mb. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

[Server-devel] XS backup/restore feature

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, Any interest in adding functionality to the XS to back up and restore user data? Including: - stuff that has been posted on moodle - XO backups - registration information but *not* stuff where deployments should always have a master copy elsewhere: - activities from activity

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/29 rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com: Any thoughts on moving from jffs to ubifs ? Seems like ubifs has really improved in stability recently. I think we are ready to do this without too much hassle - but first let's wait until someone has actually made and published a build and

Re: [OT] XO-1 radio range testing team at Parkes Radiotelescope

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/28 James Cameron qu...@laptop.org: I'm told that CSIRO, which operates the telescope, was responsible for much of the research that went into wireless ethernet. And suing everyone who implemented it. :( Thanks for the report! Daniel ___ Devel

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-26 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/24 James Cameron qu...@laptop.org: Tested os2 on XO-1 C2. 0.  the boot animation seen with 802 was missing, Fixed for next build ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/25 Adric Net ad...@adric.net: We (OLPC folks, me) are still trying to find a spot to host the build machine for this so that we can do continuous or daily automated builds for testing. I know it's jumping ahead a bit, but is this (for xo1 or 1.5) going to be updatable with yum? You

Re: Need some space

2009-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/25 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com: Is there a reason why we can't have a single image? AFAICT there's a couple of extra kernel modules and an extra xserver package and most of the rest of it should be the same between the XO-1 and XO-1.5. There are too many differences. We do not

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-24 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/24 James Cameron qu...@laptop.org: Tested os2 on XO-1 C2. Thanks James! All of those except for #0 were as I would expect. I should have os2 downloaded by monday, and hopefully I'll have some spare time to investigate that one at least. 1.  font size changed on console during boot, but

Re: recent olpc-update changes

2009-07-24 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/24 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Sorry about the long delay. Just reviewed your code in the dracut-modules-olpc package. Looks good. Question: can you build initrds on F9 with dracut? Or did you port your patches from an oldstyle olpcrd-rootskel? Deployments using

[Server-devel] registration questions

2009-07-24 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Is registration a requirement for accessing jabber on the XS? How about for backups? I am looking into automating registration of the XOs, to occur as soon as a network connection is established. However this is difficult as there is no asynchronous python xmlrpclib that I can find, other

Re: [Server-devel] registration questions

2009-07-24 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/24 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: Is registration a requirement for accessing jabber on the XS? How about for backups? Yes for both.  - For Jabber, it's client-controlled: Sugar won't try

new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I just built 2 images of F11-for-XO1 on OLPC infrastructure according to my own instructions. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 The first one is based on the backport that I built and tested before (a few weeks ago), so it will probably work: http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/f11-xo1/os1 and

[Server-devel] fixing the installation instructions

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
The XS installation instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software seem to have been subject to a fair amount of confusion recently. For example, the instructions to use domain_config were deleted, and instead they advised you to modify all of the config files entering the

[Server-devel] moodle admin policy again

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, I remember replying to your mail at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-June/003590.html but I can't find the response anywhere so maybe i was dreaming :) The solution you propose there sounds good. I am now dealing with a similar situation in Nepal. In this case I

Re: [Server-devel] Newbie problems

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/22 Varun Arora futuregeni...@gmail.com: I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern with installation of XS in a pilot deployment in Niue: I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X

Re: [PATCH] don't show ul-warning when switching to runlevels 3 or 4

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/21 Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com: ---  init.d/ul-warning |    2 +-  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)  mode change 100644 = 100755 init.d/ul-warning diff --git a/init.d/ul-warning b/init.d/ul-warning old mode 100644 new mode 100755 index 045979e..86c51a8

[PATCH] ALSA: hda - Add CX20582 and OLPC XO-1.5 support

2009-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
This adds support for the Conexant CX20582 codec, based on code from http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-linuxant-1.0.19ppch12-1.noarch.rpm.zip This is the codec to be shipped in the OLPC XO-1.5, so this patch also includes an XO-specific profile. Resultant configuration:

Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Add CX20582 and OLPC XO-1.5 support

2009-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:53 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:46:57 +0100 (BST), Daniel Drake wrote: This adds support for the Conexant CX20582 codec, based on code from http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-linuxant-1.0.19ppch12-1.noarch.rpm.zip

[PATCH] viafb: Don't accelerate blit of color images

2009-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
When the Tux boot logo is enabled, the boot penguin does not get rendered correctly and under certain circumstances the system will hang. This appears to be because the accelerated blitting code only supports mono images at the moment, as suggested by a high bit 8 of the GECMD in

NetworkManager and OLPC mesh update

2009-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
I've recently been working on reimplementing mesh support in NetworkManager and sugar. I've written all the code and submitted all the NetworkManager patches for their development branch, but unfortunately it looks like I won't have time to follow up on the upstream review, backport and submit to

reviving XO-1 OS builds

2009-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I wrote some notes on how someone could build new OS images for XO-1 based on the ongoing XO-1.5 software efforts, and how this could be run as a community-driven process: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO1 A fairly decent general knowledge of the Linux ecosystem is necessary, but it is

Re: recent olpc-update changes

2009-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 17:52 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 04:12 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: As I mentioned, that's more realistic once the initrd can associate to an AP-based wireless and get its lease there. OK, so would you change your mind if that was the case

Re: Performance hit while working with screen depth 16

2009-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 15:59 +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote: My original question still remains unanswered. Is it acceptable for my activity to change the screen depth to increase its performance? Perhaps you should ask this question to the users of your activity. That doesn't appear to be us,

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 21:06 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: That's what users are for! -- not all those users have the resources to compile (then test) new builds/kernels themselves. I didn't suggest that users would compile anything. I simply pointed out that our usual early-development

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 19:13 -0700, S Page wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Paul Foxp...@laptop.org wrote: plus, no immediate release for the XO-1 is even on the drawing board. D'oh! I would have thought OLPC deployments would want one software release for XO-1 and XO-1.5. Is a

Re: XO-1 Camera in F11?

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:43 +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: Has anyone seen the XO-1 camera working (or even just detected) in Record or Cheese with F11? I'm using the latest kernels with this change, so I don't think it's (just) that:

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:12 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: I discussed at Fudcon with Sebastian, Scott etc about resurrecting the Sugar Spin in Fedora which would allow us to have automated builds and make use of the new autoqa stuff. I can assist in this stuff as well if you like although at

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 12:07 +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: One also needs good bandwidth between the build machine and download site, which is all I'm lacking now or I'd be happy to do it...the problem is that I'd want to test the build before pushing, and I'd want to be able to distribute what

recent olpc-update changes

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, Thanks for your recent work on olpc-update. I'd like to propose a few changes though: 1. I think that checking for new leases every 15 minutes when expiry is near is too much. It will simply put too much load on any server that has to handle a lot of laptops when there are no new

Re: recent olpc-update changes

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 04:12 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: As I mentioned, that's more realistic once the initrd can associate to an AP-based wireless and get its lease there. OK, so would you change your mind if that was the case? :) I already wrote that code and it is deployed in Paraguay.

Re: recent olpc-update changes

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 12:43 -0700, Hal Murray wrote: What's the current status of the NetworkManager tangle? The old/released stuff (802) wasn't very happy with APs. This is unrelated, we're talking about the initramfs. Feel free to start another topic with a more detailed report of your

Re: FIltering out languages via kickstart

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 21:58 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: I'm completely ignorant regarding how translations work even in plain Fedora and even more so for the OLPC systems, but pray tell, why can't these translations be shipped as regular Fedora updates? Because we have no way of

Re: user-space XO hardware detection

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:20 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: It's getting more and more important to be able to detect XO hardware from userspace. One can no longer assume that Sugar implies XO because Sugar runs elsewhere and because non-Sugar is getting common on the XO. Considering the 1.5

Re: user-space XO hardware detection

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/7/10 Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com: You can probably poke HAL. http://pastebin.be/19650 will give you the vendor name (which should be OLPC). Be careful. In current builds, that only works for XOs with ALPS touchpads. This will be fixed as we move to DMI-based detection. Daniel

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Deepak, On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:43 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: Since the kernels for the two generations of XO boards have been merged, I've had to change the commands for building RPMs and kernels. These are: make xo_1_defconfig: configure kernel for OLPC XO-1 make

Re: IP addressing + XO MPP connectivity

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi John, On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 02:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote: If you are getting a self-assigned IP address, it is because the laptop is not discovering the MPP. This is probably due to a short cut in the MPP discovery process. The NM-0.6 code *definitely* ignores the IP address

Re: [Server-devel] IP addressing + XO MPP connectivity

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi John, On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 02:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote: If you are getting a self-assigned IP address, it is because the laptop is not discovering the MPP. This is probably due to a short cut in the MPP discovery process. The NM-0.6 code *definitely* ignores the IP address

IP addressing + XO MPP connectivity

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, When connecting to a MPP-based mesh, the XO ignores the IP address from the MPP DHCP server and instead picks one using autoipd. Does anyone know the motivation behind this? http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/src/nm-device-802-11-mesh-olpc.c?h=nm-0-6-olpc I'm

XO-1.5 microphone testing

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Chris, As you pointed out, my board has incorrect microphone wiring. When you have time, I need you to run some tests on a correctly-wired board. Here's a kernel: http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090703/kernel-2.6.30-20090703.1.olpc.0517950.i586.rpm Please configure modules.conf to pass the

Re: XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:17 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, I've been looking into the sound issue where we could not record any audio from Linux on the XO-1.5 A1. I now have it working. I have observed a few low-level sound issues though. Many thanks to Tony Vroon for some helpful input

Re: XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:16 +1000, James Cameron wrote: A hack like this could change a no audio from speakers laptop into a speakers do not turn off when headphones used laptop ... reducing the need for a return or replacement. One of the switches that the conexant code adds is called

Re: Create and sign Country specific XO image

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/6/30 Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net: The XOs got manufactured some time ago and just not delivered because localization wasn't finished (localization is still not finished, but the XO arrived yesterday). So getting our own keys in the manufacturing data is not an option. You can

XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've been looking into the sound issue where we could not record any audio from Linux on the XO-1.5 A1. I now have it working. I have observed a few low-level sound issues though. Many thanks to Tony Vroon for some helpful input here. Firstly, the issue was that there are 3 microphone

Re: Create and sign Country specific XO image

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 11:25 +0700, Philipp Kocher wrote: Hello Cambodia is getting 1000 new XOs very soon. This are the first ones with a Khmer keyboard. To make the installation process easier, I would like to create a country specific image based on build 802, which includes Khmer

Re: #9361 NORM 1.5-F11: drm not working

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 07:16 +0200, Harald Welte wrote: you have a chrome9 system, please don't try to use it with the old DRM code in the kernel which is for chrome/unichrome. OK, thanks for your input! Much appreciated, glad to have you around and following our work... I'd be interested to

bitfrost python modules mess

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, In the latest sugar, the activity updater doesn't work because it can't import bitfrost.update.actutils The entire bitfrost.update python module tree is shipped by sugar-update-control, not any separate package. The error appears because these 2 (empty) files are missing:

Re: 1.5 power management, input events, wakeup events

2009-06-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:08 -0400, Paul Fox wrote: the input devices /dev/input/event[012] (which currently report on power button, ebook, and lid events) are also implemented in olpc-pm.c -- i'm not sure what their fate might be. The end-user interface for those is unlikely to change much (if

update mechanism for new releases

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We have a bug open here which is a difficult question, in my opinion: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9349 For the upcoming XO-1.5 software build (which will hopefully make it onto XO-1 in the near future), do we want to ship olpc-update or use standard Fedora technologies? My unconclusive

rpm vs xo activity updates

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Just a quick summary of a discussion and a decision that we reached on IRC, which will hold at least for now with our XO-1.5 software builds. Further input is welcome, although this is at risk of starting another huge discussion... Question: In the early XO-1.5 OS builds right now, we have a mix

Re: rpm vs xo activity updates

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:52 +0200, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: - rpm-based packages cannot be updated with Sugar's updater utility, which is the primary way for updating activities right now. There is no upgrade path for activities installed by rpms (without updating the whole OS,

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