Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-12 Thread Carrol Riddle
o look at others. > > > Carrol Riddle > > > > > > > On December 9, 2019 at 1:07 AM James Cameron wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Most web content demands large browser like Chromium or Firefox. > > > > > > &g

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread James Cameron
ber 9, 2019 at 1:07 AM James Cameron wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Most web content demands large browser like Chromium or Firefox. > > > > > > > > But where the web content is your own, or under your control, then a > > > >

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread Carrol Riddle
rote: > > > > > > > > > Most web content demands large browser like Chromium or Firefox. > > > > > > But where the web content is your own, or under your control, then a > > > simplified web browser like Dillo may be helpful. > > > > > >

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread James Cameron
your own, or under your control, then a > > simplified web browser like Dillo may be helpful. > > > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 12:13:36AM -0500, Carrol Riddle wrote: > > > XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero > > > W using X11

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread Carrol Riddle
> > > Most web content demands large browser like Chromium or Firefox. > > But where the web content is your own, or under your control, then a > simplified web browser like Dillo may be helpful. > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 12:13:36AM -0500, Carrol Riddle wrote: > >

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-08 Thread James Cameron
Most web content demands large browser like Chromium or Firefox. But where the web content is your own, or under your control, then a simplified web browser like Dillo may be helpful. On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 12:13:36AM -0500, Carrol Riddle wrote: > XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet

XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-08 Thread Carrol Riddle
XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W using X11 forwarding. XO usb port can be used to power Pi Zero W. XO can be used to prepare >64 GB SD by installing Exfat (per earlier post). Headless Pi Zero can be set up wirelessly with standard method

Linux next-20190625 on XO-1.75

2019-06-25 Thread Lubomir Rintel
Hi, just a quick note to whoever might be running a mainline kernel on a XO-1.75 laptop, or wishing to do so: Recently, the EC and CCIC support have been merged to the respective subsystem trees slated for Linux 5.3, and thus landed in linux-next. This means that the camera, power button, and

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-23 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 06:10 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 12:02:56PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 18:08 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:58:15AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 20:00 +1100, Jame

Ubuntu bionic running on XO 1.5

2019-04-22 Thread Neyder Achahuanco Apaza
Hi you all, I got to run Ubuntu 18.04 bionic on XO 1.5 with 512MB. [1] Here is a how to [2] first time i was using XO-1.5 3.10 kernel, working out of the box, but without loading modules. so no wifi nor network. After that i got to compile 5.0 kernel thanks to Quozl and Lubomir , for some

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-21 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 12:02:56PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 18:08 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:58:15AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 20:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:06:56PM +010

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-21 Thread Lubomir Rintel
wbie > > > at it because I can't dedicate the time. [...] > > > > So, over the last week or so, I spent some effort making this work with > > the OLPC RPM build tooling. Here's what I came up with: > > > > http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/olpc/green_ears.jpe

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-20 Thread James Cameron
k with > the OLPC RPM build tooling. Here's what I came up with: > > http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/olpc/green_ears.jpeg Thanks, that's fantastic. I've mostly reproduced your work, and have my build of your 5.0 kernel running on an XO-1.75 with an adjusted Fedora 18 user space and a fi

Re: XO 1.75 mainlining status

2019-04-19 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 04:23:28PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > I'm wondering how the clocks are determined for the GC860. > That should be the APMU + 0xcc register (0xd42828cc) Got it. > Sources [1] and [2] suggest that there is a multiplexer that chooses > between PLL1, PLL2 and USB PLL along

XO 1.75 mainlining status

2019-04-19 Thread Lubomir Rintel
In case anyone's interested, rough status of mainlining things follows. EC: Works, passed review. Hopes for 5.2. Battery: Queued for 5.2. Doesn't make much sense w/o the EC driver. Camera: Works, needs some more works. May make it into 5.2. Armada LCDC: Russel King's devel branch has things tha

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-19 Thread Lubomir Rintel
up with: http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/olpc/green_ears.jpeg The kernel: git pull https://github.com/hackerspace/olpc-xo175-linux/ olpc-5.0 Based on vanilla v5.0.8, a few parts taken from olpc-4.8, olpc-3.0-arm, along with my defconfig and a couple of changes to support cross-build on Fedora 30. I&

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-25 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:06:56PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:14:00PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > Also, which config? Mine is basically this: > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackerspace/olpc-xo

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-24 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: [snip] > > > > - booted it a few times trying to fix the missing root filesystem; > > > more work needed, the device name may have changed and i've not > > > found a way to find what it is, or it isn't being detected; serial > > > conso

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-23 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:14:00PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 17:23 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > > Thanks, very good progress. Here's what I've done; > > > > > > - reviewed the aggregate change from master br

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-22 Thread James Cameron
lf-test features, for example. > > - built the firmware on my xo-4 build server, flashed an xo-1.75 c2 > > sku200x2; it boots fine the old kernel from arm-3.0-wip branch, with > > some unimportant problems like keymapping, > > I intend to look into the key mapping at so

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-22 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 17:23 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > Thanks, very good progress. Here's what I've done; > > - reviewed the aggregate change from master branch, and each commit, Does it look, eh, reasonable? Got any comments/suggestions? > - built the firmware o

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-21 Thread James Cameron
Thanks, very good progress. Here's what I've done; - reviewed the aggregate change from master branch, and each commit, - built the firmware on my xo-4 build server, flashed an xo-1.75 c2 sku200x2; it boots fine the old kernel from arm-3.0-wip branch, with some unimportant pro

OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-21 Thread Lubomir Rintel
Hi, for the past few days I've been looking into updating the XO-1.75 OpenFirmware so that it's good enough to boot mainline Linux. It now looks usable enough: the essentials such as simple framebuffer, keyboard, Wi-Fi or USB all seem to work. The branch's pretty large; countin

XO laptop / Pi Zero share Chromium and Desktop

2019-01-25 Thread Carrol Riddle
Update for: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2018-November/039032.html XO / Raspbian ssh protocol default mismatch with Raspbian of Nov 2018. XO default is 1 and Raspbian no longer accepts 1. There is a commented out Protocol line in /etc/ssh/ssh_config on both and sshd_config on

Re: Linux next-20181204 on a XO-1.75

2018-12-18 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 11:39:19AM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Sat, 2018-12-08 at 17:26 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > Thanks. On my test unit, this change was needed; > > > > --- dt.fth.orig 2018-12-04 18:23:57.0 +1100 > > +++ dt.fth 2018-12-08 17:18:42.143073750 +1100 > > @@

Linux next-20181204 on a XO-1.75

2018-12-18 Thread Lubomir Rintel
Hello. Good news: [lkundrak@xo ~]$ uname -a Linux xo.local 4.20.0-rc5-next-20181204 #4 PREEMPT Tue Dec 4 08:55:53 CET 2018 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux As of next-20181204, linux-next (targetting v4.21 at this point) can successfully boot on a XO-1.75. That is thanks to the kindness of

Re: Linux next-20181204 on a XO-1.75

2018-12-18 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Sat, 2018-12-08 at 17:26 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > Thanks. On my test unit, this change was needed; > > --- dt.fth.orig 2018-12-04 18:23:57.0 +1100 > +++ dt.fth 2018-12-08 17:18:42.143073750 +1100 > @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ > " /clocks" encode-phandle MMP2_CLK_TWSI5 encode-in

Re: Linux next-20181204 on a XO-1.75

2018-12-07 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. On my test unit, this change was needed; --- dt.fth.orig 2018-12-04 18:23:57.0 +1100 +++ dt.fth 2018-12-08 17:18:42.143073750 +1100 @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ " /clocks" encode-phandle MMP2_CLK_TWSI5 encode-int encode+ " resets" property device-end -" dev /i2c@d4034000/ac

XO laptop / Pi Zero share Chromium and Desktop

2018-11-28 Thread Carrol Riddle
This is feedback to an earlier request to this list and the resulting assistance provided by the list for XO laptop sharing its keyboard, display and wifi with Raspberry Pi Zero to provide Chromium browser to XO. Below is a tested procedure for doing this using simple manual commands. This is

Re: XO Spare Parts

2018-08-06 Thread T Gillett
To answer James Cameron's question, approximate quantities are 300 keyboards 200 screen 100 batteries. On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:43 AM, T Gillett wrote: > Hi All > > I have a large quantity of XO spare parts that are surplus from the > Australian XO-4 deployment, including s

Re: XO Spare Parts

2018-08-06 Thread James Cameron
nts, rather than > try to ship the whole lot to one destination. > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:43 AM, T Gillett <[1]tgill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All > > I have a large quantity of XO spare parts that are surplus from the > Australian XO-4 deployment

Re: XO Spare Parts

2018-08-06 Thread T Gillett
Just to clarify, the idea is to make available suitable quantities of the parts to various groups supporting deployments, rather than try to ship the whole lot to one destination. On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:43 AM, T Gillett wrote: > Hi All > > I have a large quantity of XO spare parts

XO Spare Parts

2018-08-05 Thread T Gillett
Hi All I have a large quantity of XO spare parts that are surplus from the Australian XO-4 deployment, including screens, batteries, keyboards and antennas. The keyboards are the type with separate keys, not the membrane type, as used in some XO-1.75 and XO-4 laptops, and are very easy to change

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-28 Thread Carrol Riddle
power off. Connect Zero and power on XO. The Pi Zero connection is automatically establish and persists through subsequent boots. Note that the mac fields remain blank. No special configuration for XO is needed. The Raspberry Pi Zero setup is as in the first post. Basic setup -- 'host_addr

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-28 Thread James Cameron
That's great. I've a Raspberry Pi Zero and XO-1 that I can put together. Might even be room inside or etch some of the back plastic. On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 08:22:43PM -0400, Carrol Riddle wrote: > All: > With the possibilities narrowed by James Cameron, found something that wor

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-27 Thread Carrol Riddle
All: With the possibilities narrowed by James Cameron, found something that works repeatedly on my test XO-1. Must test again on a fresh system to find minimum configuration. Changes made to correct board id's, udev rules, connection method prepared from scratch, and unmanaged mac ent

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-26 Thread Carrol Riddle
erface and does not wait for interface to obtain IP address and then come online. NetworkManager-wait-online.service is enabled on XO (systemctl is-name). The parts in the above example fix (nohup,nm-online) are on the XO. Do not know ExecStart part. systemd-networkd-wait-online.service use

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-25 Thread James Cameron
In my tests just now on OLPC OS 13.2.9 and an XO-4, my USB ethernet adapters always come back after reconnection or reboot with the same MAC address. With or without Network Manager running. So that suggests that for adapters with a physical address ROM or preprogrammed flash, they will appear

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-20 Thread Carrol Riddle
I have tried static IP on Zero via adding ip=192.168.1.2 to cmdline.txt or in dhcpcd.config and udev rule on XO for ip=198.168.1.1 . Uncertain if udev rule needs additional specification (parent ATTRS ?). Reasoned that host_addr was telling Zero where to find existing MAC on XO and udev rule t

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-13 Thread James Cameron
Interesting. But why do you need to give a MAC address on cmdline.txt on the RPi and in the XO udev script? g_ether should assign an address, and cdc_ether should receive it from USB descriptors. On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:50:44AM -0400, Carrol Riddle wrote: > Soliciting info or pointers

Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-10 Thread Carrol Riddle
Soliciting info or pointers to resources for disabling mac address randomization by NetworkManager for USB0 (eth1) on XO's. Wifi mac addresses are not randomized. An XO can share its Wifi over wired ethernet link (USB0) where it can be used by a Chromium browser on a linked Raspberry Pi

Re: how to change Sugar's timezone+language after XO deployment

2018-04-19 Thread James Cameron
@ > [1]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel# > Setting_The_Timezone > > Adam > > [olpc@xo-4a-c3-b5 ~]$ sudo sugar-control-panel -s timezone America/ > Port-au-Prince > ERROR:root:Exception while loading extension: > Traceback (most recent call last): >

how to change Sugar's timezone+language after XO deployment

2018-04-11 Thread Adam Holt
posted below -- changes do not take effect, even after reboot. Original doc @ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel#Setting_The_Timezone Adam [olpc@xo-4a-c3-b5 ~]$ sudo sugar-control-panel -s timezone America/Port-au-Prince ERROR:root:Exception while loading extension: Traceback (most

Re: can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

2018-02-19 Thread James Cameron
tion, spring tension reduction, and brittle polymers. I've observed these in my test units that have had way less use than units in the hands of children. > Would it be reasonable to copy microSD to SD, move the SD card to > the target XO, and then copy SD to microSD? I expect an >

Re: can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

2018-02-19 Thread Hal Murray
> Better would be to use SD cards. The original goal was to copy microSD cards. Would it be reasonable to copy microSD to SD, move the SD card to the target XO, and then copy SD to microSD? I expect an OpenFirmware wizard could do it with no effort but I'm not that level of wizard. -

Re: can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

2018-02-19 Thread James Cameron
500, Adam Holt wrote: > James & All, > > Will it work if one extricates an XO-1.5's internal microSD card and then > places it inside another XO-1.5? > > e.g. allowing an Ace Teacher to make her own customized images offline in > Haiti, with the power of a screw

can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

2018-02-19 Thread Adam Holt
James & All, Will it work if one extricates an XO-1.5's internal microSD card and then places it inside another XO-1.5? e.g. allowing an Ace Teacher to make her own customized images offline in Haiti, with the power of a screwdriver, then simply re-assembling her very small collection

Re: "Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

2018-02-18 Thread James Cameron
As it ages, the microSD card takes longer and longer to erase and write blocks. Eventually the time it takes to erase and write may exceed the few seconds between end of reflashing and the reboot power cycle. In those situations, use fs-update instead of the four button method, and leave the syst

Re: "Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

2018-02-18 Thread Adam Holt
7;ve seen this symptom (sometimes intermittent, sometimes permanent) on a few similar XO-1.5's. Seems the internal microSD's are sometimes/likely running out of steam for mysterious reasons, despite minimal usage (though after ~7 years one cannot complain, and at least these microSD

Re: "Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

2018-02-18 Thread James Cameron
Either there is an SD card in the external slot with unsupported partition table, or there is a fault with the internal microSD card or slot. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

"Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

2018-02-18 Thread Adam Holt
Attached photo (in-lined below) should be an easy firmware/boot issue to solve I hope! Can anybody remind me what's need / what I need to try next? Clarif: this is an XO-1.5 (SKU100) with: - up-to-date RTC clock - up-to-date firmware (Q3C17) - up-to-date OS (OLPC OS 13.2.9) And yet I c

Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels

2017-09-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Greenfeld writes: > Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting > XO laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so > they can be used with newer Linux distributions? Or should we presume that > all public XO la

Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels

2017-09-17 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has > had any sort of major Operating System update. > > In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer > versions of the L

Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels

2017-09-16 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has had any sort of major Operating System update. In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer versions of the Linux kernel are required. And from limited exploratory work done years ago, the XO-1

Re: My xo-1 isn't multicolor

2017-03-28 Thread Chris Leonard
Here is the list of sku numbers manufactured. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_keeping_unit It is a common term used when identifying inventory and unique manufacturing batches. cjl On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:49

Re: My xo-1 isn't multicolor

2017-03-28 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Jhon Diaz wrote: > The x on the faceplate is orange and so is the o is this normal? its says > sku1 It is not abnormal. I think that this is the collection of possible x and o plastic colors. http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/59/Xo_colors.pdf You just happened t

My xo-1 isn't multicolor

2017-03-28 Thread Jhon Diaz
The x on the faceplate is orange and so is the o is this normal? its says sku1 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Help finding xo upgrade kit

2017-03-20 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for your interest. We make upgrade kits in large quantities as special orders for schools and other organisations. We would not normally keep any stock ourselves, because of the warehousing costs and the low demand. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ __

Help finding xo upgrade kit

2017-03-18 Thread Jhon Diaz
I really want an upgrade kit for my xo-1 because i can't afford a brand new xo laptop entirely ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: anyone want XOrduino or XO Stick bare boards

2017-03-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
: > paul wrote: > > doing some cleanup today, i found that i have 10 XO Stick and 14 > > XOrduino bare boards that i'm happy to mail to anyone that can make > > use of them -- either all at once, or as few as one to a "customer". > > i should have been more cle

Re: anyone want XOrduino or XO Stick bare boards

2017-03-10 Thread Paul Fox
paul wrote: > doing some cleanup today, i found that i have 10 XO Stick and 14 > XOrduino bare boards that i'm happy to mail to anyone that can make > use of them -- either all at once, or as few as one to a "customer". i should have been more clear, since someone has

anyone want XOrduino or XO Stick bare boards

2017-03-10 Thread Paul Fox
doing some cleanup today, i found that i have 10 XO Stick and 14 XOrduino bare boards that i'm happy to mail to anyone that can make use of them -- either all at once, or as few as one to a "customer". i've used a couple of the XO Stick boards for my own projects, and i'

Re: Firefox on XO

2017-01-08 Thread James Cameron
Firefox-26 from Fedora 18 using yum was built by the Fedora project, but Firefox-50 downloaded from Mozilla was built by the Mozilla project. Firefox-26 from Fedora 18 has different build configuration settings to Firefox-50 from Fedora latest. You might compare those settings by looking at the R

Re: Firefox on XO

2017-01-08 Thread T Gillett
A followup on the RE site. Disabling the Shockwave Flash plugin on FF Ubuntu does not affect the operation of the RE web site. So clearly this plugin is not essential to the operation of the site. But disabling it on the FF XO causes the site not to load the interactive picture. On Mon, Jan 9

Firefox on XO

2017-01-08 Thread T Gillett
Hi Adam At present I am mainly working with FF26 out of the repo because it is correctly configured for XO re screen sizing etc, and the behaviour in relation to sound seems to be the same as FF 50. As an aside, the performance of vanilla FF50 on XO-1.5 seems a bit sluggish compared to FF 26, and

Re: Firefox on XO

2017-01-07 Thread Adam Holt
mo Sites - working sound > > www.w3schools.com/html/html5_audio.asp > > www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp > > butlerccwebdev.net/support/html5-video/audio-demo.html > > www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro > > Also the YouTube sites work OK wi

Firefox on XO

2017-01-06 Thread T Gillett
www.w3schools.com/html/html5_audio.asp www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp butlerccwebdev.net/support/html5-video/audio-demo.html www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro Also the YouTube sites work OK with sound. So obviously FF on XO is quite capable of delivering

Firefox on XO

2017-01-04 Thread T Gillett
and this is not included in the XO software). So it is interesting that when you installed apulse, there is still an issue. Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/451074/firefox_to_make_pulseaudio_a_hard_requirement_on/ regards Terry > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:39:02 +1100

Re: Firefox on XO

2017-01-03 Thread James Cameron
b2 On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:52:39AM +1000, T Gillett wrote: > Hi All > > I have installed Firefox on the current 13.2.8 build on XO-1.5 and it works OK > except that there is no sound on some websites. > Other sites work OK. > > This seems to be a known problem: >  

Re: Firefox on XO

2016-12-31 Thread T Gillett
I should also mention that sound plays OK in Epiphany on the sites where it won't play on FF. So the issue seems to lie with FF... On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:52 AM, T Gillett wrote: > Hi All > > I have installed Firefox on the current 13.2.8 build on XO-1.5 and it > works OK exc

Firefox on XO

2016-12-31 Thread T Gillett
Hi All I have installed Firefox on the current 13.2.8 build on XO-1.5 and it works OK except that there is no sound on some websites. Other sites work OK. This seems to be a known problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803042 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t

Re: [XSCE] 2007 -> 2017 browser experience on XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

2016-12-28 Thread Adam Holt
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Tony Anderson > wrote: > >> measure the parameters of the video stream produced by the XO-1 after >> conversion to ogg. Any XO should be able to sustain that level. >> >> O

Re: [XSCE] 2007 -> 2017 browser experience on XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

2016-12-27 Thread Adam Holt
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > measure the parameters of the video stream produced by the XO-1 after > conversion to ogg. Any XO should be able to sustain that level. > > One current browser practice is to stream media where the browser is > capab

Re: [XSCE] 2007 -> 2017 browser experience on XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4

2016-12-27 Thread Adam Holt
t; >> I don't want to miss (or misrepresent) anybody's hard-fought "fieldback" >> / usability testing lessons, recommendations & opinions @ >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browser_improvements >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 2:04 AM, To

Re: Removing Adobe Flash on XO-1, XO-1.75 and XO-4 laptops (CVE-2015-7645)

2016-09-05 Thread James Cameron
An update from Adobe; https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html#sthash.zmBvj3cS.R31QTmNV.dpbs thanks to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/06/adobe_reverses_decision_to_kill_npapi_flash_plugin_for_linux/ This will likely work on XO-1.5. On XO-1

Re: "Physics with XO" by Guzmán Trinidad now available in English

2016-07-04 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 01:16:26AM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: > If you find anything that can be improved, do let us know; it will > be appreciated. Quoting from https://icarito.gitbooks.io/physics-with-xo/content/09_precision_accuracy_ADC.html > It is important to highlight th

"Physics with XO" by Guzmán Trinidad now available in English

2016-07-03 Thread Sebastian Silva
Our team would like to share with the community the immediate availability <https://www.gitbook.com/book/icarito/physics-with-xo/details> [1] of Guzmán Trinidad's "Physics with XO". It is a book that includes 30 experimental activities for the Physics Laboratory that ut

Re: replacement RTC batteries for XO-1 and XO-1.5; which are recommended?

2016-03-29 Thread James Cameron
es of search results) Plenty available from multiple vendors, with reasonably low MOQ, just make sure you get the right packaging, or be prepared to replace the holder as well. On an XO-1, to trade-off part cost for labour, get the cheaper battery with PCB tabs, solder wires to the tabs, cover in

Re: [Power] replacement RTC batteries for XO-1 and XO-1.5; which are recommended?

2016-03-29 Thread Adam Holt
dle has expertise obtaining many hundred -- > for XO-1 especially at this point -- but later the pony-tailed versions > might in future need to procured for XO-1.5+ > > (We'll take note to *avoid* the "CR1220" as mentioned on the page abov

replacement RTC batteries for XO-1 and XO-1.5; which are recommended?

2016-03-29 Thread Adam Holt
Does anyone have recommended RTC battery model number(s) handy for XO-1 and XO-1.5? In context with these very useful RTC (Real-Time-Clock on motherboard) rescue/maintenance tips here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock/Background Evidently some schools prefer a clean start, replacing all

Re: [UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

2016-03-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 21 March 2016 11:13:41 Adam Holt wrote: > Not our first choice, but the reason we are forced to consider this hack > (despite our distaste for sleeves/converters that sometimes fail) is that > full-size SD's are increasingly harder to procure -- as these are no > longer mass-market items

Re: [support-gang] [UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

2016-03-21 Thread Kevin Gordon
nction, even if not physically, sometimes their alignment. On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:38 AM, wrote: > Adam, > > My suggestion is a variation of Kevin's. Adhesive strip on SD card > (exposed 1/8 th inch). This would require removing XO back to remove strip > /card. > &g

Re: [UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

2016-03-21 Thread Adam Holt
On Mar 21, 2016 10:48 AM, "Kevin Gordon" wrote: > > Adam, we tried silicon over the slot applied from the inside, not glue. :-) Cards fail, and removing them once the case is off, without causing damage, was also a 'use case'. > > What ended up being a more reliable method to prevent theft, was

Re: [UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

2016-03-21 Thread Kevin Gordon
Adam, we tried silicon over the slot applied from the inside, not glue. :-) Cards fail, and removing them once the case is off, without causing damage, was also a 'use case'. What ended up being a more reliable method to prevent theft, was not using micro-SD's in adapters, but only full size car

Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

2016-03-21 Thread Adam Holt
As many thousands of SD cards are now being considered to be retrofit into legacy XO's, in quite exciting new experiments with content-packed OS's, Kevin Gordon is way ahead of us all as usual: What glues do people recommend, to reduce temptation from young kids who fidget/grab anything they can?

Re: [support-gang] A XO-1 BUA ("keyboard") replaced with a XO-1.75 BUA

2016-02-24 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Hey, This sounds great. I have a couple of XO-1s that could well do with this upgrade. Is it possible for the general public to buy the XO-1.75 BUA? Or even a XO-4 BUA if it's compatible. Cheers, Andrew On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 21:07 -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > Thanks Nathan!  Am circul

Re: [UKids] StarTech USB2VGA discontinued--XO laptop to Smart Board ideas?

2016-02-06 Thread Adam Holt
teboard as part of > the kit. (I imagine something like Nathan Riddle's deployment in a bag). > > As I recall, the XO-4 has an hdmi port. That should be a practical > alternative to access a projector (and, likely, a white board). However, > for some reason, > Rwanda is deploy

Re: [UKids] StarTech USB2VGA discontinued--XO laptop to Smart Board ideas?

2016-02-05 Thread Adam Holt
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > The problem with projectors and white boards is $. The schools in Rwanda, > for example, do not have funds to acquire them. > For sure. http://www.rwandagirlsinitiative.org/ggast/ is one exception, where Smart Boards seem to pre-installed i

StarTech USB2VGA discontinued--XO laptop to Smart Board ideas?

2016-02-05 Thread Adam Holt
1) Both the USB2VGA and USB2VGA*2* are now discontinued, to drive projectors (or Smart Boards etc) from an XO laptop: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA Do others recommend holding out with StarTech (buying used for about $15 is certainly an option) or rather, looking to another better

Re: [support-gang] XO-4 firmware upgrade blocked by EC 0.3.04 ?

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Holt
; > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lesson_23#Forcing_EC_Code_Update_on_XO-1.75_and_XO-4 > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:11:25PM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > > Clarif: XO-4 does not boot anymore, as a result of installing Release > 13.2.6 > > (oops! wishful thi

Re: XO-4 firmware upgrade blocked by EC 0.3.04 ?

2016-01-21 Thread James Cameron
te_on_XO-1.75_and_XO-4 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:11:25PM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > Clarif: XO-4 does not boot anymore, as a result of installing Release 13.2.6 > (oops! wishful thinking!) so machine now attempts to install Q7C05 on every > boot.  I'm unclear why bootup fails, given

Re: XO-4 firmware upgrade blocked by EC 0.3.04 ?

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Holt
Clarif: XO-4 does not boot anymore, as a result of installing Release 13.2.6 (oops! wishful thinking!) so machine now attempts to install Q7C05 on every boot. I'm unclear why bootup fails, given the following red warning appears, but fyi machine freezes as show: Got firmware version

XO-4 firmware upgrade blocked by EC 0.3.04 ?

2016-01-21 Thread Adam Holt
I'm trying to help someone upgrade their XO-4 Touch to the latest firmware (Q7C05) but this isn't working, seemingly blocked by the EC which cannot detect good white batteries inside this XO (each white battery's we tried is fully charged, as verified by other XO's). The ok p

Re: [support-gang] A XO-1 BUA ("keyboard") replaced with a XO-1.75 BUA

2016-01-12 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks Nathan! Am circulating to devel@laptop so we get more thoughts- On Jan 12, 2016 8:32 PM, wrote: > > A XO-1 BUA (Base Upper Assembly -- "keyboard" [ http://flickr.com/curiouslee/5932732888 http://flickr.com/curiouslee/5932732736 ] ) replaced with a XO-1.75 BUA and

Re: Debug android image on xo-4

2016-01-08 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks! On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:03 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:43:52PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > Hi, > > I need debug a android apk on the android image in use in ceibal. > > It's safe connect my laptop USB port to the xo-4 usb port to

Re: Debug android image on xo-4

2016-01-08 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 06:00:36PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > ... and, how are enabled the developer options in this android > image? :) On the OLPC images, the method was http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Android/DeveloperOptions There may be an option to disable this during build, but I'm not sure.

Re: Debug android image on xo-4

2016-01-08 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:43:52PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Hi, > I need debug a android apk on the android image in use in ceibal. > It's safe connect my laptop USB port to the xo-4 usb port to debug > or should i usb the xo-4 debug connector on the otherboard? > Thank

Re: Debug android image on xo-4

2016-01-08 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
t; Hi, >> I need debug a android apk on the android image in use in ceibal. >> It's safe connect my laptop USB port to the xo-4 usb port to debug >> or should i usb the xo-4 debug connector on the otherboard? >> Thanks, >> >> -- >>

Re: Debug android image on xo-4

2016-01-08 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
... and, how are enabled the developer options in this android image? :) Gonzalo On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Hi, > I need debug a android apk on the android image in use in ceibal. > It's safe connect my laptop USB port to the xo-4 usb port to debug

Debug android image on xo-4

2016-01-08 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Hi, I need debug a android apk on the android image in use in ceibal. It's safe connect my laptop USB port to the xo-4 usb port to debug or should i usb the xo-4 debug connector on the otherboard? Thanks, -- Gonzalo Odiard ___ Devel mailing list

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