phantom stuck keys in XO shipment

2009-04-07 Thread Bryan Berry
We received 2525 XO's a week ago and have been imaging and repacking them. We have received XO 1.5's w/ Nepali keyboards. We have processed 1600 XO's so far and only found about 6 XO's DOA. I have encountered a very strange problem however. On about 50 XO's so far, the function, right arrow key,

Re: xapian and pyxapian

2009-04-07 Thread Simon Schampijer
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, Just looking at the pyxapian package in Fedora. Its only even been used in the OLPC-2 cvs branch. There is no build in mainline fedora branches. Is it still used? According to the pyxapian site its been obsoleted/replaced by xappy. So i'm just wondering if its

Re: GPS on XO

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I can't figure out how to get 45F9-9E44 out of that. Maybe it's a hash of a long string. I have *not* explored all the ins and outs of removable device identification. I have, however, cussed at them long enough to develop some rules of thumb: - The '45F9-9E44' is an 'UUID' (you might

move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I thought now that we're getting closer to the Fedora 11 freeze it would be a good time for everyone to where they're at as we move towards F-11/9.1.0/olpc-next. I've been keeping the wiki page up to date as I go along and filling in more details as I find out about them. The fixed list

Re: Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the One more interesting link - some benchmarking shows radical differences betwen fast paths vs slow and meandering paths on firefox (and comparison w

Re: Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the support for HTML5's Canvas present in Browse.xo. A very quick test felt fairly slow, but Alex and his colleagues are interested in studying, profiling and working towards a solution. So here's some notes I've collected for

Re: [Server-devel] soas2-20090403 testing

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
You are posting to server-devel,so I assume you've got a XS configured somewhere. - On the laptops - are they associated to the right AP? - did they get a dhcp lease that comes from the XS? - are they using telepathy-gabble or telepathy-salut (olpc-netstatus or its moral equivalent

Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the support for HTML5's Canvas present in Browse.xo. A very quick test felt fairly slow, but Alex and his colleagues are interested in studying, profiling and working towards a solution. So here's some notes I've collected for them --

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I thought now that we're getting closer to the Fedora 11 freeze it would be a good time for everyone to where they're at as we move towards F-11/9.1.0/olpc-next. My biggest current question is: When on my XO I enter 'yum check-update' (using either the latest SoaS2 .iso or the latest

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
 My biggest current question is:  When on my XO I enter 'yum check-update' (using either the latest SoaS2 .iso or the latest ~cjb/rawhide-xo .img), it tells me that there are more than 220 packages at the rawhide repositories that are at a more recent version level than those provided by the

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
 Why don't the SoaS/~cjb distributions contain the latest rawhide packages ? Because rawhide is a daily moving development target. Aren't you both right?  The builds contain the latest rawhide packages as of the image creation date, right?  Thus if it's no longer the instant the image

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, p...@laptop.org wrote: as mikus said, his applications all worked before. this is a regression, plain an simple, *with respect to the previous XO releases*. now, to the extent that fedora doesn't really care about any specific piece of hardware, especially one which

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
   II. - What for me is an inhibitor is the bugzilla section tell us how to   reproduce the problem.  I have no desire whatsoever to try to describe how   to obtain the Fluendo mp3 codec for an XO, nor how to follow its   instructions for seeing if it works.  I have even less desire to

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
If we are talking about 9.1.0, it would be nice if 'sound' and 'moving pictures' worked in F-11 on the XO. Currently they don't. Are there bugzilla reports for these? I. - I haven't figured out how to do an exhaustive search on bugzilla. 'OLPC' picks up some; 'XO' picks up some;

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Are there bugzilla reports for these?  I. - I haven't figured out how to do an exhaustive search on bugzilla.  'OLPC' picks up some; 'XO' picks up some; '461806' picks up some.  But let me emphasize once again - bugzilla appears to be aimed at the problems of developers (and isn't optimal

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread pgf
peter, and greg -- greg wrote: Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward. But it's never easy. It is my hope that

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, p...@laptop.org wrote: peter, and greg -- greg wrote: Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward. But

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread John Gilmore
The main and probably most major issues outstanding are the kernel/boot process - so kernel/initscripts/olpcrd/initscripts/upstart/rainbow collection of stuff of which I have no real idea about. Updates? It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to get maintainers

[Server-devel] jabber.sugarlabs.org is working

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Bauer
I got jabber.sugarlabs.org alias for schoolserver.solutiongrove.com working! I had to assign the hostname in the ejabberd-xs.cfg and add the shared roster group in the web UI for the virtual host for jabber.sugarlabs.org. Thanks everyone who helped out! Dave -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread pgf
john wrote: It looks like perhaps the kernel changes have slipped right through the F11 schedule. Is it seriously likely that the F11 kernel for the record, this was a conscious decision. everyone knew there wouldn't be time to get XO-specific changes upstream, and back to fedora, before

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Ball
Hi John, It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to get maintainers of half a dozen packages to adopt patches that let them deal with Rainbow. Yes, we aren't using rainbow in the F11 builds. Some of the initscript changes related to the bizarre idea of

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Paul,   Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are   required to fight through the problems.  If the community cares enough and   develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward.  But it's   never easy.     It is my hope that people continue to use

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris,   It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to   get maintainers of half a dozen packages to adopt patches that let   them deal with Rainbow. Yes, we aren't using rainbow in the F11 builds.   Some of the initscript changes related to the bizarre idea of

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, So is that trying to get them into 2.6.30? Yes, that would be ideal. - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [support-gang] Education Humor! Get a new perspective...

2009-04-07 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
ROFL!! Kids' Ideas About Love Kids, aged 5 to 10, were asked questions about what they thought of love and marriage. Here's what they said. Love and Marriage: * If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long. -- Glenn, age 7 * Love is like

Education Humor! Get a new perspective...

2009-04-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi, Some of you who are working on this wonderful education project may never have experienced the joy of actually being in a classroom...as a teacher. This was sent to me by a retired teacher friend. I have no doubt that somewhere, at some time every one of these things happened...perhaps

Re: Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Mihai Sucan
Le Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:15:36 +0300, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com a écrit: Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the support for HTML5's Canvas present in Browse.xo. A very quick test felt fairly slow, but Alex and his colleagues are interested in

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Kevin Sonney
Given everything discussed so far, is it worth considering an F11-OLPC branch, with the intent of merging with F12? -- Kevin Sonney -- ke...@sonney.com “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:17:09PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:  Why don't the SoaS/~cjb distributions contain the latest rawhide packages ? Because rawhide is a daily moving development target. Aren't you both right? The builds contain the latest rawhide packages as of the image creation

Re: [Server-devel] soas2-20090403 testing

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: You are posting to server-devel,so I assume you've got a XS configured somewhere. - On the laptops - are they associated to the right AP? They are connected to wired network. - did they get a dhcp

Re: [Server-devel] soas2-20090403 testing

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I apologize if I did not provide enough information. I am learning as I go. We all are :-) Is there a wiki page that explains how to debug the server side of collaboration? Not yet ;-) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com

[Server-devel] xs-activation-import deleting leases

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, xs-activation-import unconditionally deletes the lease files from the directory that it imports. This doesn't play nice with a system such as puppet, which we're using here: we configure puppet to send a json file full of leases to the server, and when that file is changed puppet then runs