Peter Krenesky (CC'd) from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State has
discussed some printing basics with me, and may have already begun
further research in this area. There is some info in the wiki on the
subject: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_CUPS,
Carlos,
Looks like my previous problem with yum update was with build 766
itself, not due to to any repositories I added.
I just installed a fresh copy of build 767 via USB stick, installed
latest version of activities, updated activities, then did:
su
yum update
After yum update had
I'm running 760. I just edited ReadEtextsActivity.py to change the font
to serif (I've done this before in other builds).
I then ran ReadEtexts and the change didn't show.
I removed ReadEtexts.pyc and ran. ReadEtexts fails to launch. The bottom
of the log says:
Greg,
We're working on the next pre-release candidate image. Will alert on
that as soon as we know more.
There will only be a few more before we call it done!
How did the testing go on 8.2-757?
Links to download instructions, testing and bug reporting conventions
and a brief write
Sebastian,
4. Longer description : we're going to provide a Fedora-based
: traditional linux desktop environment
: for the XO. if we can, we'd like in allow
: a parallel installation of this and
Greg,
Do we support Java in our browser?
I may have a large opportunity in the Americas dependent on our ability
to support their application which I believe requires Java.
I did read this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Java
Is there any news or latest thinking since then?
The
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On Wednesday 06 August 2008 7:08:33 am Alex Levenson wrote:
Searching for X2o using the wiki search doesn't find it.
ILXO is sponsoring a game jam this weekend. I'm going to talk about
Physics games on the XO.
Here's what I'm familiar with:
Asteroids (and what I've done to it)
X2o
Space Tag
Physics-0.2
Bounce (hey, it bounces and has gravity)
Related stuff:
Upcoming Jam in Cambridge
Wiki discussions of
Greg,
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
We are looking for examples of keyboards for small children
present before 1993.
A request for clarification here. Are you looking for keyboards designed
for small children, or for keyboards and devices with keyboards that
meet your size specs?
Specifically, we are looking for keyboards
I recently upgraded to Joyride and am having trouble with the microphone.
In the powerup selftest the microphone works, but the level of the
playback is much lower than the powerup chime or the sound sweep test.
The microphone does not work in Record or Measure.
Version particulars:
Firmware
Tomeu,
can you check if the java plugin gets installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins?
Can you tell me how did you installed it? Which rpms/tarballs did you use?
I'm answering on David's behalf. It sounds like he saw the restricted
formats page and my bug report and got discouraged.
I filed
David,
Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the
Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have
installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials
Strengthening ICTs in Schools and Schoolnet Project in the
Answering my own question...
I just upgraded to Joyride and this now works properly.
I'm trying to get IDLE running on my XO, so that I can show Python
development directly on it.
IDLE needs Tk-inter to run. I've installed it, and IDLE runs. The font is
very small. However I can't get tk
I'm trying to get IDLE running on my XO, so that I can show Python
development directly on it.
IDLE needs Tk-inter to run. I've installed it, and IDLE runs. The font
is very small. However I can't get tk to recognize fonts or size changes.
If I open Options/Configure IDLE.../'Fonts/Tabs', I
I'm trying to get Panda3D running on an XO, as a feasibility study, more
than for any specific goal.
I've successfully loaded Panda3D and Mesa-OpenGL. When I try to run a
sample program, Panda3D complains about not finding GLX.
Last month there was a discussion here about OpenGL and GLX, but
Deepak,
I've spent some time debugging trac #6532: SD corruption on
suspend resume and propose that we provide some sort of update
with a proposed workaround as this is an issue that has been seen
by multiple G1G1 users. Doing a full USR may be overkill for this
issue as we may just be
I run Opera on the XO, but if started as an activity it doesn't run
(it runs fine when started from terminal). There is a note on the
Opera install page that there is an incompatibility between Rainbow
and Opera:
Note: There is at present an incompatibility between the Opera
Chris,
That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when
the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're
referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too.
Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125.
What do people think of the
ffm, and others,
The real issue is that there is no way to back up a user's data if the OS is
borked sans developer key. If the autoreinstallation image's backup features
were incorporated in offline upgrade, that would solve a lot of headaches.
Use case: Alice has worked on her final paper
Ok, I started this thread. So here's why I was asking.
I'm on board with Todd's comments. I got a XO though G1G1 and one of the
listed features was 'view source'. Meaning specifically to open the
Python underlying an activity.
I discovered that 1) very few activities currently support this. 2)
There's a lot of discussion about whether OLPC is an education project,
or a laptop project. Many folks here think that recent developments show
that the balance is tipped to the latter rather than the former.
It's neither. It's a _sales_ project. If people don't buy them, it
doesn't matter
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Walter,
I didn't mean to minimize the successes that the XO has had to date.
Nicholas' projections were undeniably optimistic
Ok, Here's where it gets scary.
That being said, I believe Bill G is a prime example of 'Daniel
Plainview' capitalism -- it's not enough for him to win, everyone
else has to lose. So OLPC has to be careful.
NN said in his release
Open Firmware V2, the free and open source BIOS, is now
Ok, back to development issues.
'View Source' is touted as one of the user win features of the XO. There
doesn't seem to be much useful discussion of it on the wiki.
What's the best path for making an activity 'view source' friendly?
Reverse engineering from Chat, which is? Some other way?
Richard,
Sorry.
1) I knew about the separate memory for the firmware. I've reloaded it
often enough :-). I was more interested in publishing that thinking
deeply about how the XO works.
2) Again, sorry about my loose use of language. I should know better,
and try to be more precise. However,
Where we fail to meet expectations is when G1G1 users change
from the old, monolithic, OS + activities to the new, unbundled
OS without hand-holding (installing the G1G1 activity bundle).
And, in fact, last I checked our Wiki had the correct instructions for
doing an upgrade w/o losing
I'm trying to edge my way into the development community here.
Initially, I'd like to be able to update activity bundles. As a test
case I've been fiddling with the 'Asteroids' activity.
I'm trying to get to the point where I can create and commit a changed
bundle. I started down the path at
Are there any images (.png or whatever) of the rocker and gamepad keys?
Foe example, to use if you wanted to include an image along with 'press
square gamepad key' or 'press rocker left' in documentation?
I couldn't find anything easily on the wiki.
TIA,
Bob
Kate,
If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback on this project
please let me know.
It's funny that you bring the up, because a couple of things came
together to make me think about the issue also.
There is a commercial dedicated typing trainer available The Writer
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