Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Luke, On Sunday 16 November 2008 04:14, Luke Faraone wrote: Something strange when installing/removing packages under the base installation: http://pastebin.ca/1254906 This warning/error also occured when I was using the olpc-update debian installation. you can fix this by running

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:14:23PM -0800, Luke Faraone wrote: Andres Salomon-4 wrote: - A new 'base' desktop has been added. This is a minimal install, with no graphics or X at all. It's good for rescue situations, or where you have a local package mirror and don't want to waste

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread luke
On 2008-11-17, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you can resolve these warnings by running the locale-gen utility. I had already run that, and the discouraging results pasted in the top of the pastebin. -lf ___ Devel mailing list

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:42:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-17, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you can resolve these warnings by running the locale-gen utility. I had already run that, and the discouraging results pasted in the top of the pastebin.

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 15:04, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:42:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-17, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you can resolve these warnings by running the locale-gen utility. I had already

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:43:27PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 15:04, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:42:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-17, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you can resolve

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-15 Thread Luke Faraone
when installing/removing packages under the base installation: http://pastebin.ca/1254906 This warning/error also occured when I was using the olpc-update debian installation. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/debxo-0.3-release-tp1392012p1504816.html Sent from the OLPC

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-15 Thread pgf
luke wrote: Andres Salomon-4 wrote: - A new 'base' desktop has been added. This is a minimal install, with no graphics or X at all. It's good for rescue situations, or where you have a local package mirror and don't want to waste bandwidth downloading a graphical desktop

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-09 Thread Ian Daniher
Hey all, tidbits: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2240.msg26267;topicseen#msg26267 * working power management(tested) modprobe olpc_battery * enables battery level detection - grab battery-status script from an XO running 8.2 sudo ifconfig eth0 up * makes the eth0 interface show up if

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-09 Thread pgf
ian wrote: Hey all, tidbits: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2240.msg26267;topicseen#msg26267 * working power management(tested) modprobe olpc_battery * enables battery level detection - grab battery-status script from an XO running 8.2 sudo ifconfig eth0 up * makes

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-03 Thread Ian Daniher
RE Suspend / Resume : talk to CJB(Chris Ball) about OHM. I spoke with him a few weeks ago and, if I recall correctly, all one needs to do is use the official OLPC Kernel and install the OHM packages. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-03 Thread Erik Garrison
This sounds right. The OHM packages aren't in any debian repo afaik, so we'll have to package them. Then we'd need a debian repository for these packages. On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:53:40AM -0500, Ian Daniher wrote: RE Suspend / Resume : talk to CJB(Chris Ball) about OHM. I spoke with him a

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic system is working, where do I get started to enable the less common features of the XO? specificly 1. controlling the backlight (and therefor

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:44:14 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic system is working, where do I get started to enable the less common

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread pgf
andres wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:44:14 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic system is working, where do I get started to

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andres wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:44:14 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread pgf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... i suggest searching olpcnews.com/forum for things like this -- last year's g1g1 users have done a lot of work supporting the XO h/w under non-sugary environments. well, I was hoping that with an open

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, I was hoping that with an open hardware platform running opensource software there would not be a need to search forums for reverse engineered 'secrets' or 'hacks', but instead such information would be readily available (ideally already documented, I

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread Ian Daniher
Hello all, I have a collection of useful XO scripts at daniher.com/shscripts/. Anything in the format of conf.* is a media-setup script. While /extremely/ useful, consider everything beta with no warranty explicit or implicit. The script titled b is one you want to look at - b 0 will set the

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might start with this: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xfce_keybindings which contains a few of the things you're looking for. Also , Screen Brightness/Rotation, Sound Volume, and Battery Status Control in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XFCE references olpc-keybind and

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... i suggest searching olpcnews.com/forum for things like this -- last year's g1g1 users have done a lot of work supporting the XO h/w under non-sugary environments.

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mic input (kmix sees the sound device, including DC input mode, which I didn't expect, but I haven't sucessfully recorded anything yet) I found that I had the mic muted. once that was changed I got feedback :-) everthing seems to be supported by

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread pgf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a traditional PC keyboard, the keypad area to the right contains duplicate arrow, pgup/down and home/end keys that are operational when numlock is not in effect. the gamepad produces the same keycodes

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread John Gilmore
things that I can see as possibly needed: hardware encryption engine (does this show up to the kernel as an available encryption device? (it would be handy if at least the development builds of the kernel enabled /proc/config.gz for all xo distros (including the OLPC builds) it costs about

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a traditional PC keyboard, the keypad area to the right contains duplicate arrow, pgup/down and home/end keys that are operational when numlock is not in effect.

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, John Gilmore wrote: things that I can see as possibly needed: hardware encryption engine (does this show up to the kernel as an available encryption device? (it would be handy if at least the development builds of the kernel enabled /proc/config.gz for all xo distros

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread James Cameron
The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this thread has discussed. -- cut -- hardware enablement --- keymap for the extra keyboard keys and game buttons key to right of esc,

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this thread has discussed. link to xodist please? keymap for the extra keyboard keys and game buttons key to

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:27:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this thread has discussed. link to xodist please?

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:27:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-01 Thread kawk
Or, as I found out, if you have the developer key on a pen drive, you can boot into debxo from that, and copy develop.sig into /boot/security/, and have security enabled and debxo at the same time, should you want to. Thanks, all. I'll see what I can do about creating a wiki page if there

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-01 Thread S Page
kawk wrote: Or, as I found out, if you have the developer key on a pen drive, you can boot into debxo from that, and copy develop.sig into /boot/security/, and have security enabled and debxo at the same time, should you want to. Thanks, all. I'll see what I can do about creating a wiki

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread kawk
Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I get the error message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:75: Error writing to NAND FLASH and it fails. From 0.3, I've tried JFFS2 base and kde, and from 0.2 I've tried KDE. Same error message. I've re-downloaded the images, tried a md5sum on

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I get the error message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:75: Error writing to NAND FLASH and it fails. You need to upgrade Open Firmware to q2e20. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:10:08PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I get the error message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:75: Error writing to NAND FLASH and it fails. You need to upgrade Open Firmware to q2e20. You can do so

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:26:35PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote: You can do so by downloading http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q2e20/q2e20.rom to a usb key, booting into the the OFW prompt, and typing: flash disk:q2e20.rom You can also do this from the OFW prompt without using any USB

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread kawk
I have updated the firmware to Q2E20, and that error message is gone. Instead, once its complete, and I try to boot into debxo, it gives me a sad face and powers off after 10 seconds. Is this because it's an unsigned build, and I have no devel key after the reflash? If so, how can I put a devel

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:52:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have updated the firmware to Q2E20, and that error message is gone. Instead, once its complete, and I try to boot into debxo, it gives me a sad face and powers off after 10 seconds. Is this because it's an unsigned build, and

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Richard A. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have updated the firmware to Q2E20, and that error message is gone. Instead, once its complete, and I try to boot into debxo, it gives me a sad face and powers off after 10 seconds. Is this because it's an unsigned build, and I have no devel key after the reflash?

debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-28 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, Here's a (mostly) bugfix release of DebXO. There was a nasty bug related to JFFS2 and kernel upgrades in 0.2; this release fixes it. Note that there's a known bug on first boot with the gnome install on JFFS2. A warning will pop up due to dbus not starting quickly enough. This can safely be