How do I clear an OFW flag?

2009-01-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Trying to test the fix for #8976 , I am stumped at what I thought would be a trivial step - clearing the AK flag. My laptop has ak and dk flags set, and I have both leases handy in case something goes wrong. The NAND has a good signed image. The only hint I was able to find was in a script in http

Re: UDP broadcast from an XO

2009-01-02 Thread shivaprasad javali
Hi, Is there any way I can ask the OLPC to broadcast the UDP packets. I am broadcasting the UDP packets by writing to the UDP port and setting the destination address to 255.255.255.255 . I am using ports 61556 and 61557 for communication. So if the antenna of the OLPC ( and hence its wireless c

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi Stan! > I'm having problems: Adobe FlashPlayer doesn't detect the XO's built-in > webcam so it can't transmit video out to the Internet on Flash-enabled > web sites, I've documented this problem as well at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash -> The XO's webcam is not interfacing properly wi

Re: UDP broadcast from an XO

2009-01-02 Thread david
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, shivaprasad javali wrote: > Hi, > Is there any way I can ask the OLPC to broadcast the UDP packets. I am > broadcasting the UDP packets by writing to the UDP port and setting the > destination address to 255.255.255.255 . I am using ports 61556 and 61557 > for communication.

Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-02 Thread Brian Pepple
Hi All, A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has passed an initial smoke test and now needs broader testing. The build download and problem reporting instructions are here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing#Current_status The very early draft release notes are

Re: Flash wiki entries

2009-01-02 Thread Samuel Klein
>> Just in time for New Year's resolutions: edit the wiki page first. :-) On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Hey Skier! Your wish is my command :) > > Just did a massive update to the Adobe Flash page, hope to update the > main Flash Player and Gnash pages as well soon, pe

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:56:59PM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote: >Ditto. I've tried Sugarizing newer versions of Opera myself, but we're >out of luck because of the Rainbow Security implemented in newer XO OS >builds don't allow writing of files by Activities to certain >directories that Opera inst

Re: Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 02.01.2009, at 17:09, Brian Pepple wrote: > Hi All, > > A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has > passed > an initial smoke test and now needs broader testing. > > The build download and problem reporting instructions are here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Carlos Nazareno
> Could you be more specific about what writes are failing? > Hi Michael! Basically the problem is this one from the Opera Wiki page: "There is at present an incompatibility between the Opera activity and the OLPC Rainbow security system on some builds. If when you launch the Opera activity, the s

Re: Flash & Opera on the XO + Firefox

2009-01-02 Thread Carlos Nazareno
>Since Opera's newer releases still won't see the XO's webcam, I won't be >installing Opera updates until >someone (OLPC people or Adobe) gets the driver situation fixed. I don't think >either organization has much >motivation to fix it, though. Yeah, a shame IMO. The IT world has gone full-cir

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-02 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Greg, Sorry for delayed response, I've had little internet connectivity so have only had limited mail access and mostly through a windows box :( > I'm still looking for help resolving the dependencies Chris found when he > tried to install Gnome. > > The issue and thread are documented in the

Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

2009-01-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:56:59PM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote: >>Ditto. I've tried Sugarizing newer versions of Opera myself, but we're >>out of luck because of the Rainbow Security implemented in newer XO OS >>builds don't allow writing of files by Activities to certain >>directories that Oper

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-02 Thread Peter Robinson
> Hi Greg, > > Sorry for delayed response, I've had little internet connectivity so > have only had limited mail access and mostly through a windows box :( > >> I'm still looking for help resolving the dependencies Chris found when he >> tried to install Gnome. >> >> The issue and thread are docume

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Peter, thanks for the reply, > Is this on 8.2.0 or joyride? It looks like 8.2 due to the > gnome-python version being olpc3. It's running a joyride F10 build, but looks like you're right about olpc3. Here's the /etc/yum.repos.d/olpc-development.repo shipped in Joyride: [olpc_developmen

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-02 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, No probs on the reply. > Hi Peter, thanks for the reply, > > > Is this on 8.2.0 or joyride? It looks like 8.2 due to the > > gnome-python version being olpc3. > > It's running a joyride F10 build, but looks like you're right about > olpc3. Here's the /etc/yum.repos.d/olpc-developme

zen root (was Re: Flash wiki entries)

2009-01-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >>> Anyway, why does this wiki page tell you to enter >>> sudo su - > > Some future zen compilation of sudo may support infinite nesting of > levels of protectedness, so that you have to really REALLY mean it to > say sudo sudo sudo 'make me