Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: My wish list has generate an image without an internet connection. I just haven't had the chance to work through the details as this has not been made a priority for me. I'm thinking that the gathering of the activities and

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: think the Trimslice H is going to one of the best models as you can put a decent HDD in there and have a self contained unit, although I would love a dual eth option. It has a HDD bay! Yay! Wanna! m --  

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If 100, an XO-1.75 will do ok. Want to sign up for the Contributors Programme (search in the wiki for the URL).

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: When I took the picture in the following url, I was focusing on what it would take to run off of 12V deep cycle battery: http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/xs-0-7-running-on-xo-1-5/ That's very cool!

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: I have been meaning to email you an update about XS on ARM for a while. I had to take a hiatus from what I was doing with it, but started back on it a while back. Great that you're back on track. True, Fedora

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Why is it such a bad idea? The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP server. You want to run a network of federated XMPP servers? It's

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation.  So now I'm in the market for another toy. If you have time towork with us through some hitches, I'd

Porting alsa-info to sysfs -- for ARM platforms

2012-04-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Jaroslav, Takashi, I am addressing you, because you seem to be the alsa-info maintainers. I am part of OLPC's dev team, and our latest XO laptop model is based on a very power-efficient ARM CPU. One of the oddities of the ARM platform is that it doesn't have a PCI bus, so alsa works fine, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:06 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: A few stumbling blocks for me; (1) the two localinstall commands below each need Internet connections to succeed on a fresh install, or the error is cannot retrieve repository metadata. Correct. This is the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:23 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: My current procedure with Internet connection is as follows start from a fresh install on an XO yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-free-stable.rpm yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-nonfree-stable.rpm

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mar 29, 2012 5:52 PM, Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca wrote: (btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) I've seen that happen when the disk has strange partitioning information. Anaconda queries the disk, gets

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-29 Thread Gary Martin
On 26 Mar 2012, at 17:30, Gary Martin wrote: On 26 Mar 2012, at 16:24, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: The release is our first combined 12.1.0 / Fedora 17 release, such a small release but represents so much

Re: [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Have been looking into the on-screen keyboard overlay, added to GNOME 3.2 Simon is investigating the same topic right now. Just in the off-chance case you guys aren't in touch :-) cheers, m --  mar...@laptop.org

Re: New boot animation for 12.1.0

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
2012/3/29 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Looks great! +1 The first frame should have the bottom-center dot in dark-grey to match the firmware. (currently you have that in frame 2) Maybe that counts as a step, and perhaps can help us diagnose freeze in the firmware/linux transition? If

Re: New boot animation for 12.1.0

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: The first frame will have the complete ring, plus the sugar/Fedora logos, so this transition is already clear. Ah, true. Hmm, maybe it's time to have an OLPC logo in there. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Through some profiling I found that an inefficient trac design causes about 17,000 identical SQL queries to be executed during each page load, related to the number of users in the system (we have about 5.5k). Sad, track is

Re: Disable mesh

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: In this particular use-case, in this setting, on all of the XO's, both power saving check-boxes are turned off.  The screen may dim if someone walks away You can still close the lid, and reopen it. That triggers S/R/ You

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Through some profiling I found that an inefficient trac design causes about 17,000 identical SQL queries to be executed during each page load

Re: PATCH: revise firmware name used in OOB

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Sorry that was meant for version 4.1, but I see dsd just fixed that. Is version 4.1 in git going to be released as an rpm at some point in the future? Normally, we release it at the same time as we release the matching OS

11.3.1 development build 32 for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
This build brings fixes to powerd and OFW on all platforms. XO-1.75 gets a kernel fix for Libertas reset. Updatable via olpc-update -- try the cmdline below. Notes:  - On XO-1.75 the getty on the serial port is _disabled_ by default now (that's the workaround). It gets enabled when you hold the

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: Another option could be to add some javascript to the page that uses ajax to query the users only when the drop down menu is initiated. For best results you should follow the coding style of Trac and issue 3

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop through a crossover cable. That's a very cool trick. So only XO-1.75 can be the host, but any

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: [They are __NOT__ referenced by http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/ -- which is the activity group URL listed by  My Settings - Software update - Modify activity groups. WHERE in laptop.org is the official URL for

[Server-devel] oatslite under RHEL/CentOS x86_64

2012-03-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
We just had some fun debugging of oatslite on CentOS 6.2 x86_64. A quick note of warning in case someone else is mad or foolish enough to try it too :-) The short version of it is: bitfrost is currently broken on 64 bits. This is what an XS based on CentOS x86_64 needs to run oatslite:  -

Re: [Server-devel] oatslite under RHEL/CentOS x86_64

2012-03-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Does this effect xs-activation installed on XS 0.7? XS-0.7 is 32-bits only. Yeah, and there be dragons in the 64 bit path, confirmed. I got the burn

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread Gary Martin
On 26 Mar 2012, at 16:24, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: The release is our first combined 12.1.0 / Fedora 17 release, such a small release but represents so much time by so many people in both OLPC and Fedora in

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-25 Thread Gary Martin
On 25 Mar 2012, at 19:40, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 03/25/2012 07:59 PM, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, On Sun, Mar 25 2012, Simon Schampijer wrote: I have filed the Browse related tickets 11716, 11718 testing on the XO-1.5. My 1.75 does boot until the naming screen but I can not use the trackpad

11.3.1 release candidate 1 (build 884) released

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
We're pleased to announce our first release candidate of our 11.3.1 software release. This first RC only supports XO-1.75 -- next RC will also support XO-1 and XO-1.5. We apologize for the inconvenience, which will be cured shortly. Information and installation instructions can be found here:

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Martin, On 21 Mar 2012, at 21:56, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Upgrade online with: # XO-1 olpc-update 11.3.1_xo1.5-31 # XO-1.5 olpc-update 11.3.1_xo1-31 That's obviously backwards :-) -- success/fail reports

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1.75

2012-03-22 Thread Gary Martin
On 21 Mar 2012, at 00:38, Martin Langhoff wrote: Are we there yet? This build brings fixes for two critical camera and Sugar crash bugs. Updatable via olpc-update -- try the cmdline below. olpc-update worked well on two different XO1.75s. Fixes (please help us confirm): #11657 XO

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1.75

2012-03-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: No panics yet with Record (five 6min videos so far). Changing quality to high causes the video to stall after a handful of frames, but no panic, and Recored would respond to Stop even if it was beach-balling. Low

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1.75

2012-03-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I am testing the camera on 1.75-31 in Turtle Art. There is an artifact I had not noticed before: what seems to be a funny timing problem with the AGC? The top 25-50% of the image is darker than the bottom 50-75% of

Re: HOWTO: Extra disk space on XO-1.5 11.3.1 using fs-resize

2012-03-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:27 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: How to obtain an extra 100 MB of disk space on an XO-1.5 using 11.3.1. Also: plan of record is to have this work automagically during the first boot in OS12.1.0. cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q4D06 for XO-1.75

2012-03-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:11 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: - correction to ARM MMP2 timer reads, Do we need this, and Dilinger's kernel patches, for a good RTC user experience? My suspicion is that this is only interesting while you're running S/R loops in OFW, so not high

11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
The don't leave us out build. This build applies high priority fixes from the 11.3.1 series to XO-1 and XO-1.5 platforms. Updatable via olpc-update -- try the cmdline below. Notes:  - Please test!  - The package versions are in sync between the x86 platforms, but not completely in sync with

Re: Video chat activity (was: Re: C and Sugar/GTK)

2012-03-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, the Collabora guys wrote a video chat for Sugar back in 2007. I demoed it in Buenos Aires, connected to Boston. Where is that code?! I wanna! :-) cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Upgrade online with:  # XO-1   olpc-update 11.3.1_xo1.5-31  # XO-1.5   olpc-update 11.3.1_xo1-31 That's obviously backwards :-) -- success/fail reports on this welcome, as at least one user had a failure (I believe

Intending to build OS31 / RC 11.3.0 ARM

2012-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi folks, I'll be intending to build an OS31 for ARM, or the corresponding official build number (OS887?) this morning. Once the ARM one is built (we're under pressure there), I'll also spin an x86 one (almost no changes on the x86 side). What changes from OS30? I am expecting to fold in kernel

11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1.75

2012-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
Are we there yet? This build brings fixes for two critical camera and Sugar crash bugs. Updatable via olpc-update -- try the cmdline below. Notes: - Building the first ARM RC in a couple of hours, based on this build. - Building XO-1 and XO-1.5 OS31 builds for testing tomorrow.  - The

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1.75

2012-03-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Are we there yet? Fittingly, I sent the email too soon, and the build is still transferring. Allow 30 minutes or so for the transfer to complete. And the package diff was incorrect - updated below -kernel-3.0.19_xo1.75

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I think I see a potential problem here. The problem is that during upgrades, we run fs-update before upgrading firmware, and a firmware upgrade is necessary for this new functionality. (...) Maybe I have just made a good

mmp-camera DMA crash fix

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
in a different luminance, this does not happen if I just take a picture, without involving audio This is of course minor :-) cheers, martin On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: We have what looks like a fix for the Record crash! Yum update your kernel

Re: New boot animation for 12.1.0

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I've just pushed everything needed for a new boot animation for 12.1.0, it will arrive in the next build. Yay! Eager to see it! The new animation is based on plymouth, Good to hear Plymouth is a bit better than it used to

Re: Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: 1. Is the above the right way to do it, if someone with more Fedora experience than I can verify.. That's exactly how I'd do it. 2. In our narrowband countries it takes an hour and downloads a lot per laptop,

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mar 16, 2012 11:03 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Attached is a revised patch, which places the resize: before zblocks-end: with a wrapper to prevent warning. This allows the resize: request to be added to olpc-os-builder without requiring OpenFirmware support. This completely

Re: Debuginfo package for Python-2.7 on F14 mismatched or (l)user error?

2012-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
2012 20:46:16 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: Argh, that could be. But our kernel is a custom built rpm, You have a bug for Fedora there, in the core file by readelf -l: Program Headers:  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align [...]  LOAD          0x1933000

Re: Urgent -- help needed diagnosing possible DMA conflict

2012-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
We have what looks like a fix for the Record crash! Yum update your kernel and rsync the kernel+inird into place, and help us test :-) m On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Saadia Husain Baloch saa...@laptop.org wrote: Jon C. These are definitely a breakthrough! I have not been able to crash

Stacktraces from core dump files in 11.2.x and 11.3.x OSs

2012-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
We recently found that we cannot easily read core dumps generated by our 11.x.y OS builds. With help from Jan and John Gilmore we got to the bottom of it. I've prepared a patched GDB rpm with the patch that can handle our core files, and documented this quirk at

Re: [Server-devel] XO/XS Networking Issues

2012-03-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
You have a chicken-and-egg problem there. Maybe you can download the rpms you need from another computer? m On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Shaun Pickford shaun.pickf...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently in Haiti working to set up a school server in a partner school that has ~20 XO's.  We have

Re: Debuginfo package for Python-2.7 on F14 mismatched or (l)user error?

2012-03-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
, we disabled the cronjob :-) should be already fixed in your GDB version gdb-7.2-52.fc14, You got that one right :-) If it helps please contact me off-list, with your disk image.  It assumes the system generating the core file was not prelinked. Uploading at http://dev.laptop.org/~martin

Re: [Sugar-devel] Some questions about root and olpc logins.

2012-03-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Ajay Garg a...@activitycentral.com wrote: I just compared the root and olpc logins functioning on os883.img, and my F14 laptop; and I am curious about the following things :: You can lock down access to root in the OS image. For that, and other customizations,

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

2012-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Some work needs to be done before that is possible, but we also need a naming scheme. I think the key considerations for this are: We also need - a stream id - perhaps 2-digit year for the development builds - a custom

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

2012-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I'm not personally convinced that these are hard requirements, at least the first one. Well, we switched streams for arm builds at least once (maybe twice) so in the last ~12 months, there are two os30 for arm builds. Only

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

2012-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: For 12.1.1 would you reset to build 1 (causing a potential-but-harmless name conflict), or would you continue on from the last build number of 12.1.0? I'd continue. Agreed is cryptic. We're packing a lot of info in 8 chars.

Debuginfo package for Python-2.7 on F14 mismatched or (l)user error?

2012-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Fedorans, we are facing a very strange Python segfault in an OLPC build, based on F14, for XO-1.5 (I know, do you remember _that_ far ago?). The state of the OS and disk is well known, but we cannot make it happen at will. So I got my hands on a coredump, installed the exact same OS (so exact

Re: Debuginfo package for Python-2.7 on F14 mismatched or (l)user error?

2012-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.com wrote: All those GDB messages mean your system libraries do not match the core file. Well, that should just not be. The machine that fails, and my machine have both been installed from the same disk image, which gets

Re: Debuginfo package for Python-2.7 on F14 mismatched or (l)user error?

2012-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi John, thanks for the reply - looping back devel@lfo and devel@llo... On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:14 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Irreproducible bugs are a real pain. Indeed -- Try typing info files to gdb and see what sections it sees in the core file and in the executable. I

11.3.1 development build 30 for XO-1.75

2012-03-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
This build brings in OFW improvements, audio fixes, s/r hang fixes, powerd, keybdshim and touchpad fixes. Updatable via olpc-update -- try the cmdline below. Notes:  - Record Activity will sometimes hang - #11657  - The getty on the serial port is _disabled_ by default now (that's the

Re: 11.3.1 development build 30 for XO-1.75

2012-03-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: This build brings in OFW improvements, audio fixes, s/r hang fixes, powerd, keybdshim and touchpad fixes. One nice thing about os30 is that the combined kernel and olpc-powerd fixes and tunings mean you can actually use

Re: XO-1.75 - Kernel news

2012-03-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: = be20def marvell-cam: ensure that the camera stops when requested Opening Record and recording many videos or many audio files does not end up in a hard freeze (#11657). At least not for me, helps us corroborate

Re: XO-1.75 - Kernel news

2012-03-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Saadia Husain Baloch saa...@laptop.org wrote: Martin, Our emails crossed, and I would like to warn people that I experienced some questionable results with just be20def applied, after my machine got a corruption of the mmc EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): group descriptors corrupted

Re: Kernel

2012-03-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Being adventurous, I did the yum update kernel separately, then did the cp - . instruction from the readme. uname -a shows the new kernel is running. Excellent! How does it work for you? Happy? However, it looks

Re: olpc-os-builder config file format change

2012-03-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mar 2, 2012 6:21 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I propose that we simplify this: remove the global.modules variable, and make the presence of a section become the hint that a module is loaded. For example: Yes please. It's a common mistake to forget to add the module in the modules

Re: olpc-os-builder config file format change

2012-03-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Maybe it looks a bit odd, but I think it is the best option, because it retains consistency, makes documentation/training simpler, and will reduce confusion. A bit of DWIM won't hurt ;-) m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  

11.3.1 development build 29 for XO-1.75

2012-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
This build brings in OFW improvements, audio fixes, olpc-update, ds-backup, powerd and new power logging scripts. It should be updatable via olpc-update -- try the cmdline below. Notes:  - In normal use, the laptop sometimes hangs when idle; very likely when it is suspending or resuming; please

Re: [Server-devel] XS on XO

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
incompat, I'd try this next. cheers, m { Martin Langhoff - one laptop per child } ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS on XO

2012-02-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
I'd recommend, on XO-1.5 - take a 11.x.y buid - use the yum repos dsd prepared for XS, groupinstall the right group (OLPC School Server?) - disable the prefdm service (remove/rename /etc/init/prefdm) - disable NM service, enable the 'network' service (using chkconfig) F14 and RHEL/CentOS6.2 are

11.3.1 development build 28 for XO-1.75

2012-02-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
This build brings in wake-on-lan fixes, audio fixes, gfx driver fixes, powed tuning, and new cursors for Gnome. It should also be updatable via olpc-update -- try it out and let us know! Notes:  - In normal use, the laptop sometimes hangs when idle; very likely when it is suspending or

Re: 11.3.1 development build 28 for XO-1.75

2012-02-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: It should also be updatable via olpc-update -- try it out and let us know! Chris says the command is, `olpc-update 11.3.1_xo1.75-28` maybe something like `olpc-update --latest 11.3.1_xo1.75` works, too. cheers, m

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 1 released

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: In /isolinux/isolinux.cfg, upgradeany is used with full install options, think that will force anaconda into upgrade mode. This was copied over from the earlier XS-0.7 work. I see that XS-0.6 does not include this option.

Re: [OLPC-AU] lid close while shutting down

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: What about if it's also charging in an XOP rack? Tell people your actual adventure, all details. The time of the OLPC team is valuable; we try to help you, but we have a lot of other things on our table. Help us

XO-1.75 ramp units -- get one now!

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
We have a batch of RAMP units for people to play with! Develop, hack, report bugs, take them to the park when you walk your dog! And write notes on how it works, file bugs, help us test our builds. Want one? Same drill as before!

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 1 released

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:55 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: CD?  Haven't used one of those for a while.  You might use it as a media file for VirtualBox or some other software, in order to avoid burning to CD. Heh. What you do, is use livecd-iso-to-disk to prep a USB stick as a

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Ubuntu - what is the status?

2012-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Adam, with the cleanup and reorganization work that's being done for xs-0.7, it is now a lot more reasonable to say that the XS software and configuration could be ported/packaged to Debian/Ubuntu. There is of course work to do on that track -- some of the most trivial packages may just

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 review round 3

2012-02-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Friday, February 10, 2012, Daniel Drake wrote: Everything acked so far has been pushed and built, output is at http://dev.laptop.org/xs/repos/stable/olpc/xs-0.7/i386/ Pending items are: 1. Moodle - needs 'pu' branch review, and the possible updates you mentioned. For now, the repo

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 CentOS6.2 rebase - other pending items

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
slightly http://dev.laptop.org/xs/ repos is now a subdirectory there, which will be our main URL from now on. But the other URLs still work: http://dev.laptop.org/xsrepos/ http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/xsrepos Also, I have created aliases at http://dev.laptop.org/xs/stable and http://dev.laptop.org

Latest ARM kernel wants to be paired with latest olpc-utils

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On XO-1.75, if you updated your kernel in the last couple of days, your serial console won't be happy. Even if you don't use it, it spins constantly and annoyingly. Latest olpc-utils (v1.3.12) will fix that for you, so yum update to it, or install the upcoming OS27 which has a well-matched pair.

Running OOB for XO-1.75? Fetch latest updates from git...

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
For those about to build XO-1.75 images, (we salute you!) I just pushed 2 pending patches. They are of minor impact, but I want to make sure we are all on the same page, and that you can build the same OS images I am building. If you do find useful tweaks or improvements, I'm interested in

Pretty gnome cursor theme on XO-1.75

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
If you've been using XO-1.75, you've seen the cursors are pretty ugly under Gnome. OS26 brought in a major improvement in these cursors, thanks to Manuel's work on this topic. I've asked him to improve it a bit further, and I think his new version is much nicer. Grab OS26 or OS27 (in a few hs),

Re: Running OOB for XO-1.75? Fetch latest updates from git...

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:39 AM, German Ruiz germa...@opensuse.org.ni wrote:   ee8fc44..a9739d5  f12-arm    - origin/f12-arm that was an accident, sorry   3da60ed..c45229b  v4.0       - origin/v4.0 yep, that's the right thing! OS11.3.1 series is built from that branch. m --  

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: In our next build, we will be doing two things [1]:  1. enabling the patch  2. disabling wake-on-LAN I would not do #2. Living up to its name, wake-on-LAN keeps the XOs awake whenever a network connection is

Re: [Server-devel] ejabberd-2.1.10 issues

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: As you've seen - getting this old version to build is difficult. Getting it to run is even harder. Yep. Was just a stab in the alternative path. Now that you've root-cause'd the issue, things look better. I think I've found

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Ad-hoc connections only scale to a limited number of participants before problems begin to occur. The technically correct answer is it depends. And it is true, it depends on a ton of factors. As a rule of thumb,

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: wiki.laptop.org/images/a/a3/Country_Technical_Support.pdf recommends 10 per channel on mesh. Given that 802.11s draft vs ad-hoc is really a layer 2 issue, the numbers should be in that neighborhood? I would fix that document

Re: Image for XO 1.75 Nicaragua

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM, German Ruiz germa...@opensuse.org.ni wrote: Right now i'm working on the image for the XO 1.75 to Nicaragua using OS Builder on XO hardware that OLPC send me, i have a few questions for the process. Taking this private for mfg support. m --  

Re: limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Can we impose a hard limit on the number of clients to prevent too many XOs connecting to a single ad-hoc session? As James says... unfortunately no. This is possible on many wireless access points. Why isn't it

Re: [OLPC-AU] limits on ad-hoc connections

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
To expand on James' excellent notes... On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:59 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The beacon is used for timing the transmissions, so that they occur in And that is _all_ it can do. It just broadcasts a beacon, like a metronome for a band recording in a studio.

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
should I be working with? Branch mdl19-xs from git+ssh://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/moodle.git cheers, m --  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:23 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: Which releases of erlang and ejabbered are you using? I unfortunately don't have the version number handy, but this should help: this coming XS release only ships a configuration and init scripts for ejabberd -- it's

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: I have likely missed some previous discussions, but are we moving to Moodle 2.x or staying with Moodle 1.9.x on XS? Daniel is doing a very focused update of the XS, to run on a more current Linux base

Re: [Server-devel] New XS release very soon

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: How will this play with XS on ARM? It won't at all, yet. However, the liberation of the packages from the base install is the first step in this direction.

Re: [Server-devel] New XS release very soon

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: As agreed and directed by Martin this will become the next OLPC XS release. And you can't imagine how pleased I am with this! Here in Nicaragua, the Zamora Teran Foundation has the task *this month* of deploying One Laptop

Re: [Server-devel] XS rebase review

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Pushed an old branch - please look again now. Looks great. The only problem is the name - rename pu to master. ds-backup: pu branch ready for review Looks good.  We'll make a server client release together. I have a

Re: Notes on touchpad testing @ wiki

2012-02-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_testing Looks like we have a final recommended configuration, known as 5F. Please this olpc-fsp-regs script: http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-utils/plain/usr/bin/olpc-fsp-regs?h

Re: Notes on touchpad testing @ wiki

2012-02-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Thanks Martin. We'll roll this into our next build for testing. Tabitha and Tom, hopefully we'll have this available in time for you to test next week. I just pushed olpc-utils-1.3.11-1.fc14 to our 'olpc-f14' repo

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: 3G is a separate problem. We don't know yet what USB modems we'll be using, so we can't inhibit their USB IDs. Doing it through NM would be preferable. I've updated the tracker: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10708

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I'm worried about the expertise required in order to identify such repos and packages. We need this process to be doable without me in the room. Agreed. I assume that RHEL is pretty good for server-class hardware found in

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: we could also consider adding a new config file, called, perhaps, program-inhibits, which would cause powerd to inhibit automatic suspend when it detects a listed named program is running, via ps. Actually, it's about whether

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent Fedora). With CentOS,

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Maybe it should be standard to suspend power management for any collaboration session? That would be smarter than turning it off entirely. I'd be supportive of a patch that does that. Simon, given the

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