If the laptops have a newer (but broken) OFW in /boot/bootfw.zip,
then you can downgrade it, but in the next boot it will be re-upgraded
to the version in /boot/bootfw.zip
If that is actually the problem you are seeing, then,
- You can try to delete or replace /boot/bootfw.zip in your same
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
L10n of long-form content is an area where I think there are some
excellent bits and pieces, but I'm not convinced that there is a
really nice end-to-end solution yet. I think very highly of
FLOSSManuals as a book
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK FLOSSManuals software infra is being worked on, and that
...
By no means should my *critique* of FLOSSManuals L10n be taken for
*criticism* of FLOSSManuals, As both a community and a tool, they
Oh, all I
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
As for the use of FLOSSManuals as the source and L10n workflow for the
Help Activity, sadly, I think the more pressing challenge may be the
lack of documentation of the process employed by Seth and his
collaborators in
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
Right, here I am not sure if you have seen: the current Help activity
is a combination of several floss manuals mixed together. And it looks
like it may have some tweaks and customizations.
Quoting a contemporary
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:04 PM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote:
Either should work. They have the minimum needed for mock builds, but
they do have yum so you can yum install gcc make (after a yum
update perhaps ;).
Thanks. Yesterday yum was having trouble finding the yum repos, so I
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
In any refresh of the XO manual (Help Activity), I would very much
appreciate if some structural choices could be made to facilitate the
internationalization of the text
Agreed on the general goal. My understanding
DJ pointed me recently to the bootstrap environment at
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap/rootfs_stage4_20110825/
whoever, it doesn't have gcc / make.
there is a newer one at
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/f15hardfp/bootstrap/rootfs_stage4_20110918/
--
Hi Tabs!
that's great! Here's an idea: I was looking at recently at the FLOSS
Manuals manuals for Sugar and activities... and they are a bit dated
-- they cover Sugar 0.86 or so. Screens have changed quite a bit :-)
and some procedures are much simpler (ad hoc networking for example).
And the
OLPC RPM: ship and install olpc.fth (#11214)
Jon Nettleton (2):
Revert [galcore] ioremap reserved memory nocache
Change the Event ID queue management
Martin Langhoff (1):
psmouse: add taptoclick=0 support for Sentelic / AVC (dlo#11265)
Saadia Baloch (1):
Added DC mode
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
Saadia Baloch (1):
Added DC mode control and other controls that Sugar expects.
Quick audio check
- TamTamMini (Drum icon) seems to work, and the sound samples in
Pippy seem to work
- Record cannot
So we have a new repo tracking Jon Nettleton's work:
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/jnettlet/xf86-video-dove/
git://dev.laptop.org/users/jnettlet/xf86-video-dove
ssh://dev.laptop.org/git/users/jnettlet/xf86-video-dove
It has an 'old' branch, where I grafted a commit with a snapshot of
the src
Hi Sameer,
On 22 Sep 2011, at 04:23, Sameer Verma wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
The cows with water pistols, chickens in choppers release.
We're into Activity freeze so no major changes there
Download from:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
Reflashed a 1.75B1 with os6 It boots up with text messages scrolling, but
when it gets to X with the mouse pointer, it doesn't show me the name
screen. Mouse isn't frozen, but the blank white screen just sits there.
Anyone
New OLPC hardware uses device-tree to expose some of its hw and firmware
information, instead of the oldfashioned promfs. It is rumoured that new
kernels will do the same even on old hardware.
olpc-netutils needs to get on with the modern times, so I've patched it and
released 0.8.1 with minimal
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:24 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:19:08PM +, kgordon...@gmail.com wrote:
Works on both xo1 and 1.5 at 11.2, can play and burn using standard fedora
programs on the gnome side. +1 for keeping this functionality, please.
Sent
On my test XO-1.75 machines, running OS 5, yum bails out complaining
about not finding repomd.xml for the fedora and update repos.
I've disabled mirrorlist, and tried with only baseurl, no difference.
yum's --debug 10 doesn't give you much info on what mirrors URLs it's
hitting so it's a bit hard
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM, ganesh gajre ganeshga...@gmail.com wrote:
I am deploying more than 30 XO-1 in a village where I don't have Internet
facility. I have to update the firmware of all the XO.
Currently all XO-1 has q2e41 firmware version, which has to be updated to
q2e46.
As
I have gone through a diff between XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 defconfigs, and
updated XO-1.75 defconfig. The goals were
- to syncronize driver support for USB-pluggable devices - anything
supported on XO-1.5 we expect to work on XO-1.75
- to syncronize kernel services and options for consistency --
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote:
- Did not enable drivers for Joliet and other CD filesystems. I doubt
we care -- we don't seem to have CD-ROM drivers anyway. Why do we have
this on XO-1.5?
It's nice to be able to plug in a usb cd/dvd and have it work.
On 15 Sep 2011, at 09:44, Daniel Drake wrote:
http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os5/
Thanks Peter.
It would be neat if someone can test the olpc-update from build 4
(*not* any previous one) to this one, with
sudo olpc-update 11.3.0_xo1.75-5
Not going so well here... Going from build 4,
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote:
This last one is interesting – the yum install completes successfully
all the usual output to screen, but vim/git/pylint are all 'command not found'
Actually, what happens is that it fetches the rpm, but refuses
On 15 Sep 2011, at 22:15, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com
wrote:
This last one is interesting – the yum install completes successfully
all the usual output to screen, but vim/git/pylint are all 'command not
found'
Actually
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:11 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
I think we're wasting the first two characters of the name. On the
I agree -- keeping the scheme we have, and given the constraints, the
leading 2 chars are the most viable option.
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:
The leading 2 chars ARE really useful to distinguish Australian builds from
South American builds from North American builds.
Oh my! They sure are. But we have 24² options there.
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Hi Sameer,
On 11 Sep 2011, at 02:32, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
I installed os4 on a XO 1.75 B1 last night. I see a screen corruption
with text on both the GNOME and Sugar sides. Entering text into a
textbox in a browser will start corrupting to a point that I can no
longer see some
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote:
the same: i.e.: os4.zd4. It would be nice to be able to differentiate
Use a filesystem that supports subdirectories ;-) I have 3 download dirs -
m
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:51 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:55:05PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
We've just renamed the olpc-kernel arm-3.0 to arm-3.0-wip (Work In
Progress).
No worries.
How do non-committing developers who have a clone of the repository
Hi Paul,
on os42, I see lots of failed ictl EVIOCGID errors from olpc-kbdshim.
Are these normal or related to a known issue?
cheers,
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote:
However, I've noticed that if I leave the machine alone for many hours, then
wake it back up, the little gadget cranks up the external monitor like a
charm as it restarts. I was kinda looking for a better work-around
A quick heads up -- we've seen Jon Nettleton hit some disk corruption
repeatedly on his development/test machine. Diagnosis of the prob led
us to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11210 (erase-blocks doesn't work
with Toshiba eMMC devices - which is what we have on SKU 198 -
membrane kb units) but it
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:
can you clarify the final point? if a package is in an f14 dropbox,
OOB fetches packages from the relevant olpc repos, and then passes
that list of packages as packages to _ignore_ in the fedora repos.
So a package Z in one of
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:17 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:39:47PM -0700, Cherry Withers wrote:
I don't know if this was verified already or not, but it seems to work
so far.
Thanks, you've been brave. The worst outcome would have been a brick.
Why
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote:
For Python work on an XO (for Activity and/or Sugar hacking) I find all the
extras I need from a regular build is to yum install git, vim and pylint —
usually the first habitual reflex thing I do after reflashing
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:04 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
Fixed it yesterday, please give it a try.
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7
Interesting.
My preference on this -- following earlier discussions -- would be to
be able to bundle graphics in the bootfw.zip bundle, so that
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
We're close to having ARM builds in 11.3.0, just a couple more
in-progress issues to resolve.
Cool -- I'd like to know more about how you Peter see the joint
11.3.0 build cycle would work.
My main concern is that 1.75 is
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
My main concern is that 1.75 is gonna see more churn than x86...
Can you elaborate?
Ahm, ofw/kernel and xorg are moving, and as soon as we have important
ofw/kernel/xorg chunks landing I _will_ want to trigger a build, and
Hi Gonzalo,
on os41, if you launch Maze, it fails to start (that's logged
already)... and the launcher fails to register the failure, which I
don't think has been discussed.
shell.log says ERROR root: Cannot send NotifyLaunchFailure to the
shell -- could this be related to the new activity
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote:
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:02 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
There will be new builds weekly or more often for large feature
additions that could do with testing. These will be announced on
de...@laptop.org list. There was OS40
Congrats on your new toys! It does seem you're finding some
interesting things... comments below.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote:
Our clicky keyboard unit has some kind of mouse problem. Sometimes, the
mouse jumps, especially when you are holding a button.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think shortly (maybe next build) we should move to auto firmware
updates with the OS release so that with each OS update we're running
the recommended OFW release. We're shipping it in OS40, not sure if it
auto
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Well dsd is currently away and I can't see the process actually
documented anywhere on the wiki!
Our processes are quite dynamic -- please coord with Gonzalo to get
the latest activities. Gonzalo is working hard to get
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
SOPs covering the basics are always useful though, being dynamic is
a cop out excuse IMO and SOPs help for when people get eaten by
raptors.
I can't find what you say documented anywhere ;-)
Peter -- stop for a second
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
You should modify the subpage for the release you're working on --
see e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.2
Not yet :-) that's what we do when we freeze activity versions. During
development, we take the latest
http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib/browse_thread/thread/decef84c1b9b21a6
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[uploading now]
Changelog between v3.0-79-g59d69ef and v3.0-91-ga0dfcf3
James Cameron (1):
Trivial fix to olpc-ec-1.75 messages for readability of dmesg.
Leo Yan (1):
ARM: mmp: add sram allocator
Paul Fox (6):
xo_175_defconfig: enable the DCON driver
simplify config
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Its impossible and a waste of time to watch random locations for a new
Agreed. Let's settle on a strategy that has served us well in the past...
1 - Put your rpms in public_rpms/f14-arm
2 - If you have a bug/task in
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote:
That is indeed correct, but it was also to reduce cost.
Exactly what Ed and cjb say.
- Early on, raw NAND was cheaper, and FTLs in SD/microSD were
unusable. This drove XO-1 decisions.
- SD/microSD prices dipped below raw
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote:
At around $6.75 per unit
Please remember to multiply times 500K -- that's roughly the sizes our
largest deployments deal with. Others clock in at ~60K. Unless you're
offering to fund the move, they might be unimpressed
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
At the moment, the fallback environment is working well on XO-1 in my
testing. It's really not that different from before - nothing has
That's really good news! All the pointless ranting has given me the
impression that it was
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
At the behest (more like pestering) of my mother, I installed Skype
(Fedora 13+ version) on a XO 1.5 with build 874 and it all works. This
is on the GNOME side. Both audio and video. I'm going to add a +1 in
my mother's
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Peter's first release with Fedora Secondary Mirrors goodness plus
much more release!
Yay!
(Can we have the next one be called os37 or os38??? ;-) )
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Hi Paul,
I reworked your olpc-hwinfo slightly, refactored all the utilities
reading /ofw . See
http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-utils/commit/
My only concern is that it can't tell you whether ak/wp/ww tags
_exist_. It can read values, but empty tags return the same as a
missing tag. You
Quick notes from some FAQs that have been bouncing over IRC...
(This is a lightly edited version of a great email by Simon -- thanks!)
When you receive the XO-1.75... it will NOT boot; it will only light
up the screen. You need to unbrick it with a serial adapter --
instructions at [1].
Once
Hi Mitch,
On 1.75, looking at chosen/bootpath, as exposed by device-tree, shows
the path prefixed with /sd@d428/ .
Is that prefix stable? Does it refer to something (memory location)
that might change?
We parse this value in the init scripts that mount the boot partition,
and in the
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:
this information is easy to provide by using an exit code to mean
missing. probably should have done that in the first place.
untested patch below.
If it tests alright, please go ahead and commit it :-)
You may also note
Early xo 1.75 support was held back from being in 'master' by hacky
workarounds while we didn't have means to read mfg-data from OFW.
Now we do; workarounds are gone, patches landed.
cheers,
m
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Peter, Gonzalo,
The koji buildfarm is busted. On one of my XOs I've built csound by
hand. It builds straight from the latest f14 spec, using `fedpkg
local`.
RPMs here - http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/public_rpms/f14-arm/ so
hopefully they'll land in the next build...
- Peter, do tell me if/when
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:34 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
I can't see any olpc-update patches in repositories, perhaps you meant
olpc-utils?
Yes of course. olpc-utils. Good catch, apologies.
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:
thoughts/comments? better approaches? obvious additions?
Hi Paul
timely - I was just hacking on olpc-utils, bitfrost and sugar on
exactly the same thing (while on the plane, no internet).
Something along the lines of what you
The Sugar in sync! device-tree build.
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os32/
Use with OFW Q4B07 -
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b07
Changes and notes:
- sugar and sugar-toolkit rpms are at 0.92.4!
- abiword and libabiword are in, but may have been built
I just ran a build and it seems to have picked up some older
packages... perhaps an indication that the package is mistagged?
-dracut-006-3.fc14.noarch
-dracut-modules-olpc-0.5.3-1.fc14.1.armv5tel
+dracut-006-2.fc14.noarch
+dracut-modules-olpc-0.5.3-1.fc14.armv5tel
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
The Switch to Fedora-14 build.
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os31/
The default yum config - which we include - points to the official
Fedora mirrors, and those don't really support unsupported
Hi Gonzalo,
On 2 Aug 2011, at 21:18, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
Gary
I have tested Physics in XO 1.75 installing the package pybox2d and removing
the file Box2D...egg
and works ok.
Fab. Thanks for re-testing. Have filed myself a ticket to remind me to make
Physics check if the system already
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
Congrats!
On behalf of the combined foundation association team -- thanks!
Oh, and is that a green non-membrane keyboard I'm seeing there? :-)
Will this be a standard feature on XO-1.75s, an option for
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
That's not to say there isn't an issue here (there may well be), but
you need to prove this with a test that looks at the quantity of data
that can be stored.
Yioryos,
du -shx / before and after will give you uncompressed
The OOB repo has a f14-arm branch, with the bits I've used to build
os31 for the XO-1.75.
- The branch needs a cleanup before landing in master. Still ugly
bits in there.
- There's plenty of oddness in using the arm koji repo -- it picks
the wrong package sometimes -- so I don't think these
Hi Gonzalo,
On 31 Jul 2011, at 06:15, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
Moon: does not start, but with a python error in the activity, must try
update it
For Moon also check you have the date set to the current time (I have a
ticket still open for having it fail more gracefully). Latest release is
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
Hey, no so bad :)
We're off to a great start!
Activities with errors:
...
TamTam*: no blobs, probably only recompile
This is missing csound packages as well.
Puppy: starts ok and many examples work, but no the
file
Could be olpcgame/pygame related?
Regards,
--Gary
Read: no module webkit
Gonzalo
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
The Switch to Fedora-14 build.
http
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:29 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
We currently sort them by placing them in a dropbox according to the
XO model, and use the model-specific dropbox in olpc-os-builder. (The
firmware build scripts handle this in the copyme step).
Right - but I think this is
CL2 and CL2A, B1-stage engineering prototypes, just arrived in Miami and Boston
http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/xo1.75-b1-look/
If you want one, you know what to do... :-)
http://blog.laptop.org/2011/07/25/new-xo-1-75-contributors-program-test-our-new-prototypes/
cheers,
m
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Thanks for your input. USB VGA and USB storage devices do not draw
firmware from Linux, so they would be unaffected. I am fairly sure
that the same is true for robotics.
+10 on removal :-)
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One topic for 11.3.0 is whether to maintain separate repos for x86 and
arm platforms, or to share the repos and count on proper 'arch' being
set on rpms so that OOB pulls the right package.
If we keep them separate,
- we'll want to sync noarch packages
- we'll want a script to check that
The Switch to Fedora-14 build.
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os31/
Use with OFW Q4B05 -
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b05
Changes and notes:
- Fedora version bump!
- Note that we are using dist-14 packages, no updates repo yet.
- Sugar v 0.90 as per
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
The Switch to Fedora-14 build.
http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os31/
Looks like we have major framebuffer performance diference in F14.
Comparing os23 (f13) and os31 (f14), both with the same kernel...
Camera
, drives the camera, audio
output, reads accelerometer, battery, keyboard, tp, runs runin, and
generally seems to make sense.
I didn't try any of the new Linux 3.0 features -- Kinect support anyone? :-)
git repo at http://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-3.0
rpms at http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/public_rpms
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
I know in Fedora 16 there were a number of tools that didn't play well with
the 3.0 (likely not a complete problem as I think the final release was in
Yep - so that's one of many reasons to switch early, rather than
The Linux 3.0! build.
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os23/
Use with OFW Q4B05 -
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b05
Changes:
- New kernel, with our patches rebased courtesy of cjb. Please test
and report any regressions / oddities. We don't use any of the
happy.
martin
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Devel mailing
, and there is a lot to do between
now and the end of the year.
hoping to hear from you -
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Hi Daniel,
On 22 Jul 2011, at 21:32, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and
XO-1.5. Details of new features, known issues, and how to
download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes:
Hi Alan,
On 21 Jul 2011, at 20:46, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote:
Hi Gary,
Complicated! ;)
As to why there is no 'don't save', well a couple of points:
1) the Journal was designed to be a log of activity not just a flat
list of saved data files, it would be great to
The Fix serial TTY and tighten runin build.
Donwload from:
http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os21/
Use with OFW Q4B02:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b02
Changes:
- Updates olpc-runin-tests to the version we are using during B1 build.
- Updates olpc-utils to disable X zapping
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
- Updates olpc-utils to disable X zapping and fix serial port terminal
Initial testing seems to indicate serial port needs a bit more
attention. I've also tested it with a newer kernel containing Paul's
tty config fix
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:
what's the X zapping part of this? unfamiliar with the reference.
DontZap is the xorg.conf option to disable ctrl-alt-backspace. I've
updated olpc-utils to use that option, so that operators in the prod
line don't accidentally hit
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
Use with OFW Q4B02:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b02
Wad points out I am seriously out of date w my OFW recommendations.
Please use Q4B05
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b05
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mar
Hi Alan,
On 21 Jul 2011, at 00:37, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote:
The idea of the X is not save the entry..
to avoid a shutdown by mistake could add the classic triangle of return ...
The final windows may be with 3 options:
Triangle: return to the activity (The
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:
- Updates olpc-utils to disable X zapping and fix serial port terminal
Initial testing seems to indicate serial port needs a bit more
attention
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
Wad found that minicom is busted on F14 -- luckily the problem is
trivial -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722814
Mikus points out I misdiagnosed the problem. The right dep is in place
and lockdev
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not entirely sure where lockdev should tell initscripts about it -
probably /etc/rwtab.d
I would look at what Fedora 15 does here as it has /var/lock as a tmpfs so
would need to deal with creating it on boot.
I
Wad found that minicom is busted on F14 -- luckily the problem is
trivial -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722814
I've added a mention of the problem and workaround at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Serial_adapters#Linux
Why minicom?
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote:
Looks to me that what is provided by scratch should be part of
olpc-utils.
Yes. For 11.3.0 I'm planning to either update the rules provided in
olpc-utils or split it off to a separate package - I've already posted
a review
Hi Luke,
I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email
(subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some digging found
it had been clobbered as junk email, so not sure who else this may have hit,
but thought it worth mentioning.
Regards,
--Gary
On 10
Hi Luke,
On 11 Jul 2011, at 16:43, Luke Faraone wrote:
On 07/10/2011 10:23 PM, Gary Martin wrote:
I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email
(subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some
digging found it had been clobbered as junk email, so
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, close to agreement and the above packages aren't really an issue, some
of the dependencies are though. Working on getting them resolved this week.
Looking good. The list has shortened quite a bit. At this moment,
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you post your current list to fpaste.org?
Here's list straight from the script - of course there are a number of
packages we don't care about.
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PolicyKit-olpc.fc14
SDL_Pango-0.1.2-11.i686
Hi,
On 1 Jul 2011, at 12:18, Daniel Drake wrote:
Hi,
We're pleased to announce our second release candidate of our new
11.2.0 software release.
Information and installation instructions can be found here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0
Quick links for those who know
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Missing 156 (22%) from 681
Your actually out some what and impatient :-P
Impatient indeed :-)
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I think that right now the main blockers there are
pygame.fc14
The TS runin tag fixup build.
Donwload from:
http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os19/http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os18/
Use with OFW Q4B01 -
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b01
Changes:
- Fix olpc.fth handling of the TS tag for runin tests. Thanks to Chia-Hsiu
and Richard for
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