Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread James Cameron
On 28/11/2009, at 3:00 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: found lots of filesystem errors even when running tests from OS42 chrooted to the SD card. I use a permanent SD card on my XOs to store additional data and executables (including lots of Activities). I don't know if it is me, or the

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread James Cameron
On 28/11/2009, at 11:18 AM, Tiago Marques wrote: Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems to want to review the code...

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: me, or the hardware, or the software -- but I've had to run 'fsck' several times this November on my XO-1.5's SD card -- because of significant corruption of the (ext2) filesystem on that card. Makes sense. Due to a problem

Re: Transparent proxy

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/11/27 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com: We are working with the XS-0.6 version and for the moment all is working well. We want to disable the transparent proxy, for security,  and put it as an intermediary proxy in a different port. Jerry's instructions are right. However, the

Re: [Server-devel] Transparent proxy

2009-11-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 10:11 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: 2009/11/27 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com: We are working with the XS-0.6 version and for the moment all is working well. We want to disable the transparent proxy, for security, and put it as an intermediary proxy in a

Proxy auto-configuration (was: Re: Transparent proxy)

2009-11-28 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:11:44AM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: A while ago Pia Waugh figured out how to serve the proxy config via DHCP and to make the XOs obey it (you'll have to google for it as I don't have a link, when you find it... maybe add it to the techiques page?) Please share the

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread James Cameron
On 28/11/2009, at 8:06 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: me, or the hardware, or the software -- but I've had to run 'fsck' several times this November on my XO-1.5's SD card -- because of significant corruption of the (ext2)

Re: [Server-devel] Transparent proxy

2009-11-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 10:11 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: 2009/11/27 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com: We are working with the XS-0.6 version and for the moment all is working well. We want to disable the transparent proxy, for security, and put it as an intermediary proxy in a

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/11/28 Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com: Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems to want to review the code... http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=62692B81D079DA49BA9287A3CDF6B41C9FD818%40exchtp12.taipei.via.com.twforum_name=dri-devel I

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Have you directed OpenFirmware to write to this filesystem since it was created with mke2fs? I'm not sure of what you are thinking about. The only time I explicitly ask OFW to write anything is to the internal SD card, when I do 'fs-update' to install a new build. Other than that, if OFW

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Have you directed OpenFirmware to write to this filesystem since it was created with mke2fs? I'm not sure of what you are thinking about. The only time I explicitly ask OFW to write anything is to the internal SD card,

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: me, or the hardware, or the software -- but I've had to run 'fsck' several times this November on my XO-1.5's SD card -- because of

Re: B3 with different RAM chips

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi Richard, Thanks, I'll have a go at them and report back. Best regards, Tiago On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: Can you provide me with the software or scripts you use to do your internal SD card testing? I would love to put this card and the other

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel fixed this -- and the fix should be in the recent builds. Does it continue to happen with current builds? Current builds means it was fixed in kernel, right? Nope - in initrd -- look for changes in

Re: Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-28 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:35:17PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: IIRC, Pia had found that if she got dhcpd to serve the PAC file URL (in WPAD-style), then the browser on the XO would DTRT. Now, I cannot recall if she was using Browse.xo or one of the Firefox-on-Sugar incarnations. Interesting,

Re: Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-28 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: - The DHCP payload must contain a url to the PAC file - this is the WPAD protocol, and what Pia was playing with. Sure, but for that the browser must send a DHCP request, which it doesn't seem to do. Or does Fedora contain any

Re: Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 14:54, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: - The DHCP payload must contain a url to the PAC file - this is the WPAD protocol, and what Pia was playing with. Sure, but for that the

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:34 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On 28/11/2009, at 11:18 AM, Tiago Marques wrote: Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems to want to review the code...

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi Daniel, On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/11/28 Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com: Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems to want to review the code...

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, IMHO, it is quite sad that they're paying an employee to get the code merged and the person is apparently being ignored. The lack of time by the maintainer certainly doesn't help Linux out on hardware support... As I understand it, the only use for that particular DRM code is

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 15:51 +, Tiago Marques wrote: It seems to be DRM code necessary to support 3D in the actual driver. Am I wrong? It looks like small fixes to a standard video playback acceleration path to me. The mails even talk about an MPEG application that prompted the patches.

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Also it seems to be a patch against the unichrome DRM driver, whereas a separate DRM driver is needed for the Chrome9 hardware on the VX855. Here's the submitted chrome9 DRM, and discussion:

Re: Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-28 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:47:17PM +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: OK, so it should work with Iceweasel. Either it got disabled (upstream? Debian?) or there was some kind of configuration (dhclient? Firefox?) to enable it... From these links, looks like Mozilla uses WPAD through DNS (and not

F9 repositories

2009-11-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I just did 'yum' on build 802, and it told me the pointer in /etc/yum.repos.d/ to mock.laptop.org failed. Should the olpc.development.repo entry there be deleted from build 802 ? mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: F9 repositories

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I just did 'yum' on build 802, and it told me the pointer in /etc/yum.repos.d/ to mock.laptop.org failed. Should the olpc.development.repo entry there be deleted from build 802 ? mock.laptop.org was down. It's been rebooted now. - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One

Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
Ok... my bad. I'm all for the GPL'd driver but if they could provide a working driver in the mean time, the better. The best Linux 3D driver out there is Nvidia's one, which is a blob but works. Intel has been putting some efforts into the open source driver but it is nothing more than a disaster

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 15:47 +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 14:54, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: - The DHCP payload must contain a url to the PAC file - this is the WPAD

ANN: rainbow-0.8.5 release.

2009-11-28 Thread Michael Stone
Friends, I am pleased to announce the release of rainbow-0.8.5. Rainbow implements portions of the isolation shell described in the Bitfrost threat model and security architecture. The key differences between this release and its predecessor are bug fixes, preliminary support for network

Re: B3 with different RAM chips

2009-11-28 Thread John Watlington
Be aware that the test.sh script tends to be destructive to the device. If a device is close to failing (which is when you start seeing a larger number of errors), they will push it over the edge quickly. Some less reliable cards fail after as little as 900 GB written. Cheers, wad On Nov 28,

New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os47 Compressed image size: 410.43mb (+0.12mb since build 46) Description of changes in this build: * Add OHM for XO-1.5 power management. To disable it, use touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-idle-suspend for the moment. * Add

Re: [Server-devel] Transparent proxy

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/11/27 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com: We are working with the XS-0.6 version and for the moment all is working well. We want to disable the transparent proxy, for security,  and put it as an intermediary proxy in a different port. Jerry's instructions are right. However, the

Re: [Server-devel] Transparent proxy

2009-11-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 10:11 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: 2009/11/27 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com: We are working with the XS-0.6 version and for the moment all is working well. We want to disable the transparent proxy, for security, and put it as an intermediary proxy in a

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration (was: Re: Transparent proxy)

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/11/28 Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:11:44AM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: A while ago Pia Waugh figured out how to serve the proxy config via DHCP and to make the XOs obey it (you'll have to google for it as I don't have a link, when you

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 15:47 +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 14:54, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: - The DHCP payload must contain a url to the PAC file - this is the WPAD