Re: csound vs olpcsound

/listinfo/devel Dr Victor Lazzarini, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Music,National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

status of OLPC project

if they are the ones to work for now, as far as audio development is concerned). I am very sorry for all those leaving and wish all the best for their future. Thanks Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Re: status of OLPC project

:54 09/01/2009, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi everyone, I have not been able to work on anything new for OLPC for the past four months, given my heavy teaching schedule. However, now I am just about to go on research

Re: CSound server questions

yes, that is possible. I will provide an example as soon as Iam back at work in Ireland.Victor- Original Message -From: John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Monday, September 1, 2008 2:02 pmSubject: Re: CSound server questionsTo: victor [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL

Re: CSound server questions

There is no CsoundServer anymore; we use Csound as a librarythrough its API. If anyone wants some help on how to use it, toplay MIDI or anything else, he/she can talk to me, privately oron this list. I'm away to ICMC at the moment, so replies mightbe slow. But I'll give as much help as I

A-board

Hello everyone, I have an A-board in my office which I would like to bring back to life if possible. But on booting, I get the message Evaluation period has expired, halting Validate from 05/16/2006 to 08/23/2006. Any suggestions? Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department

Re: A-board

is no good. Where can I find a usable one? Victor At 16:25 18/08/2008, you wrote: Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hello everyone, I have an A-board in my office which I would like to bring back to life if possible. But on booting, I get the message Evaluation period has expired, halting Validate from 05

Re: [OLPC Security] permissions for setting scheduler policy

set what you need as root, and then drop the privileges before execing the real image that does the work. But Michael may have something else in mind for Rainbow. - Jim On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:21 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hello everyone, I am working on trying

permissions for setting scheduler policy

if activities using csound could take advantage of this code, because it seems to help performance. We could set up group permissions for that in /etc/security/limits.conf What are your thoughts (esp. Deepak and Daniel D)? Dr Victor Lazzarini Senior Lecturer Music Technology Laboratory, Music

user 10002

with the activity, but it will work on the terminal for user olpc. Any clues are very welcome, thanks Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

RT performance, joyride-2288

get a solid performance. I think this bit of scheduler code could be moved to the csound library so that it can be used by sugar activities as well. I'll see what I can do. Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth

kernel preemption

Hi all, a question for the OS people: what is the level of preemption in the olpc supplied kernel? Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

getting started with mesh networking

internet because it uses VPN and (unless someone shows me how to do otherwise) I can't use it with the XO (but I am happy with just using ethernet). Any suggestions welcome. Thanks for your earlier replies to my other queries. Dr Victor Lazzarini Senior Lecturer Music Technology Laboratory, Music

Re: activity bar

documentation for more information on the re-designed home-view: http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/sandbox/Homehttp://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/sandbox/Home Hope that helps, Christoph On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Victor Lazzarini mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: activity bar

Not sure which logs. I can see all the installed activities but none of my custom ones. Victor At 14:51 01/08/2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Victor Lazzarini wrote: Now, another bit of info I can't find in Walter's minimalist draft for the updated Sugar is how access newly created activities

Re: activity bar

I know where the logs are. I am not sure which of the logs Marco was referring to. At 15:13 01/08/2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 01.08.2008, at 16:01, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Not sure which logs. I can see all the installed activities but none of my custom ones. Then your custom activity

What is the best way

... to connect the XO to a projector? Are there USB vga/etc cards known to work to with the XO? Thanks Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel

how to get a screenshot

Hello everyone, I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is the best way: 1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora: the only problem here is that the widgets have all wrong sizes (how to fix this?) 2. using the XO: I have no idea how to print the screen. Thanks! Victor

Re: how to get a screenshot

Thanks everyone, I got the screenshot I needed using method 2. Victor At 16:12 28/07/2008, Bastien wrote: Hello Victor, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is the best way: 1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora

Re: Olpc3 vs Joyride

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who sets SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT?

an activity it would this variable too. But os.getenv(SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT) fails. Could someone indicate how to retrieve the activity datastore? Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth

lbgnomevfs warning

. But is this a problem? Or should I just ignore it? Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: who sets SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT?

Not to worry, I can access the path using activity.get_activity_root(), as pointed out by Simon, so I am OK. Thanks At 12:59 14/03/2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to work out how to access the correct

memorize (drumgit game) broken

through a software bus channel. But I have prepared the 5.08 RPM to run oggplay, so it should work when this is fixed. Thanks everyone Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel

Re: drawing, structured graphics

like that on top of cairo for TK canvas equivalent functionality... Marco? - Jim On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 20:08 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, what would be the best bet

drawing, structured graphics

/2006/07/25/writing-a-custom-widget-using-pygtk/ but the code wouldn't work. Are there others? Thanks Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel

set_canvas() type

Hi everyone, what is the type expected by Activity.set_canvas(). Is there a general-purpose canvas widget for structured graphics in sugar (a la Tkinter canvas) ? Where should I be looking for reference documentation? Thanks Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department

dial widget on sugar

Is there a dial widget in Sugar? I don't think GTK offers one (I never found it), although writing one in C seems easy (but how to include in the XO builds?). In addition, is there a reference for GUI components in Sugar, above and beyond the ones provided by GTK? Thanks Victor Victor

dial widget on sugar

Is there a dial widget in Sugar? I don't think GTK offers one (I never found it), although writing one in C seems easy (but how to include in the XO builds?). In addition, is there a reference for GUI components in Sugar, above and beyond the ones provided by GTK? Thanks Victor Victor

project hosting request

E-mail - -- #1 Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2 #3 ... If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach them

Re: connect to network?

I have found that a USB ethernet card works very well. Victor Hi, Another newbie question: is the machine supposed to be able to connect to an ordinary wireless network? It finds my router name (and indeed all the other networks alive locally), and asks for my WEP key

retrieving the activity bundle directory

Hi everyone, does anyone know if is there a way to retrieve the activity bundle top directory name under python/sugar? Thanks Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel

Re: retrieving the activity bundle directory

Not in build 602 I presume (as it does not work here). Will upgrade and test (but Dan's solution works fine). Victor At 17:13 11/10/2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Oct 11, 2007, at 15:59 , Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:29 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi everyone, does anyone

stderr/stdout msgs in sugar

Hello everyone, when debugging an activity how does one get stderr/stdout messages from Python in sugar. It is quite hard to debug blindly, not knowing what errors Python is spewing out. Thanks Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland

Re: funny behaviour gtk+python

') _ http://jeanpiche.com On 4-Oct-07, at 9:49 AM, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Yes setting LANG=C at the console solves the problem. Would you care to explain why? Victor At 13:15 04/10/2007, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On 10/4/07, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (OLPC build

olpc password?

Is there a password for user olpc? I set one for it to be able to ssh to the XO, but it seems to have upset the X server and on reboot I could not get the graphics (flashed in and then failed). Thanks Victor ___ Devel mailing list

funny behaviour gtk+python

this behaviour? thanks Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

reason? (was Re: funny behaviour gtk+python)

would this be the reason? https://bugs.launchpad.net/pygtk/+bug/27112 import gtk Changing the default encoding? Funny I am not getting it on my other fedora systems (perhaps because they are one version behind?). Victor At 14:23 04/10/2007, Victor Lazzarini wrote: Just to add a little to say

Re: funny behaviour gtk+python

|| *tmp != (char) 0) { synterr(csound, Str(numeric syntax '%s'), s); return 0; } } (...) } Somehow the 'strtod' conversion is getting it wrong. But why only after 'import gtk', I cannot understand. Victor At 13:12 04/10/2007, Victor Lazzarini wrote: (OLPC build

funny behaviour gtk+python

? thanks Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

wireless networking

in Sugar's neighboorhood? I opened the terminal and set them to the same essid but still no sign. Also, should they not see other AdHoc machines around them (say other windows, linux, OSX). Suggestions? Victor Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland