Re: [OT] Test run of 2009/05/25 image

2009-06-10 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Mikus, I've been using the Ubuntu version customized for the XO for a couple of days now. (See www.olpcnews.com for info about "Teapot's" XO-customized Ubuntu 8.10 release.) It is a little slow compared with my other computers, as expected for a computer running at less than .5 GHz, but much mo

Free digital textbooks coming to California schools

2009-06-10 Thread John Gilmore
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/open-source-digital-textbooks-coming-to-california-schools.ars Open source, digital textbooks coming to California schools The cash-strapped Golden State has decided that, starting next school year, schools will be able to use open source, digital

Re: Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
thanks.. i'll have a look to see if anything is damaged arround or in it cheers.. R On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > >   > I'm not familiar with the parts that you're talking about, but >   > the screen itself i already changed, i thought that perhaps was >   > something

Re: Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
now that i read what you sended.. i don't think i'll be able to fix aything.. LOL :-) cheers.. R On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote: > thanks.. i'll have a look to see if anything is damaged arround or in it > > cheers.. R > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Chris Ball wr

Re: Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I'm not familiar with the parts that you're talking about, but > the screen itself i already changed, i thought that perhaps was > something wrong inside, so i disassembled it entirely The DCON is the Display Controller, and is the part on the motherboard that the screen receives v

Re: Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
I'm not familiar with the parts that you're talking about, but the screen itself i already changed, i thought that perhaps was something wrong inside, so i disassembled it entirely I could see any aparent damages neither to the board or some of the big components.. but then again.. i don't have a

Re: Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I can't see anything, but everything works _except_ for the > screen, while doing the firmware test, i hear the sweeps from the > sound test and I also hear my own voice, which is recorded, i > just can't see anything Perhaps bad DCON RAM, bad DCON itself, or broken cable betwee

Re: Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
I can't see anything, but everything works _except_ for the screen, while doing the firmware test, i hear the sweeps from the sound test and I also hear my own voice, which is recorded, i just can't see anything The operating system starts normally (aparently) I don't think that the flash rom is

Re: Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Holt
If you're seeing a blank white screen every time, who may want to investigate this (challenging!) repair procedure: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Replacing_SPI_flash http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SPI_FLASH_Recovery Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I'm having trouble with a lapt

Problem with screen.. or with laptop

2009-06-10 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
Hello everyone: I'm having trouble with a laptop, All I see is a blanck screen, but i don't see anything else, when i do the firmware test, blank screen as well, I've tryed changing the screen and the problem remains, i suppose it's related to the system Any ideas on what it might be? greetings

Re: wifi on the XO 1.5

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Peter, > Hi All, Not sure if this of any use but it seems the palm pre > uses a SDIO-attached Marvell wifi chipset [1]. Not sure if > getting the source code for that will provide any help with > support for the gen 1.5 which I think is using the same. The libertas_sdio driver in t

wifi on the XO 1.5

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, Not sure if this of any use but it seems the palm pre uses a SDIO-attached Marvell wifi chipset [1]. Not sure if getting the source code for that will provide any help with support for the gen 1.5 which I think is using the same. Cheers, Peter [1] http://www.advogato.org/person/mjg59/dia

libertas private ioctls

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Deepak, In OLPC OS 8.2, libertas had private ioctls which /etc/init.d/olpc-configure used to configure the LEDs: iwpriv eth0 ledgpio 1 1 2 12 3 16 These aren't present in the 2.6.30-rc5 kernel I am running on my XO-1, and presumably neither on the xo-1.5 kernel. I think the ledgpio co