XO-1.5 thin firmware wireless testing

2010-07-09 Thread James Cameron
G'day, We'd like some testers of new wireless firmware and kernel drivers for the XO-1.5. You'll need an XO-1.5, our stable build os206, and a wireless access point. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-1.5_Wireless_Test_Setup has the test instructions. I'm interested in experiences connecting to

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-09 Thread Hal Murray
http://build.laptop.org/10.1.2/xo-1/os300/ Here's the first build in our 10.1.2 F11/XO-1 release stream, as promised yesterday. Thanks to Daniel Drake for working on getting this started! Thanks. Please test and report bugs! I've seen it hang during booting, 2 out of 6-10 tries. There

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-09 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On N, 2010-07-08 at 16:07 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: It's particularly significant because (when the release goes final) it means we have synchronized software between XO-1 and XO-1.5. Are we aiming for a synchronised

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mart Raudsepp l...@gentoo.org wrote: On N, 2010-07-08 at 16:07 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: [ I am still eyeing some bugs -- ie: screen rotation -- for a 10.1.2 ... ] Please work on Xorg (driver) bugs and tasks together with the wider community of Geode

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I'm setting up a XS machine (XS 0.6) that has only one Ethernet port. This port gets appropriated at eth0 and acts as the primary LAN interface for XOs to talk to it (via a bridged AP). I also want to get this box to talk to

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On 9 July 2010 00:52, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: I've seen it hang during booting, 2 out of 6-10 tries.  There is one dot visible and the big X is still an X before it changes to a V and goes around in a circle.  Is there anything I can do to collect more info? Could be

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:19 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: I'm setting up a XS machine (XS 0.6) that has only one Ethernet port. This port gets appropriated at eth0 and acts as the primary LAN interface for XOs to talk to it (via a bridged AP). I also want to get this box to talk to the outside

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 09:47 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:19 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: [r...@schoolserver ~]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:C0:05:AD:5D inet addr:172.18.96.34 Bcast:172.18.96.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Where is that

[Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
Given that backing up of journals from several tens or hundreds of XOs can put a significant load on the XS, what would be a good approach to simulate such a load in the context of jmeter testing? Any ideas? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems

GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, In Peru, they are customizing their GNOME build in that they are setting Nautilus to browser mode by default. The existing default in our version of GNOME is to open one window per directory that is opened, browser mode looks more like:

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Given that backing up of journals from several tens or hundreds of XOs can put a significant load on the XS, what would be a good approach to simulate such a load in the context of jmeter testing? Any ideas? JMeter is for web

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Given that backing up of journals from several tens or hundreds of XOs can put a significant load on the XS, what would be a good approach to

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Tiago Marques
For me the one window per directory is pretty annoying, so I would say to go for that browser mode. Best regards, Tiago On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, In Peru, they are customizing their GNOME build in that they are setting Nautilus to browser mode

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 09:47 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:19 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: [r...@schoolserver ~]# ifconfig eth0 eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:C0:05:AD:5D           inet

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: For me the one window per directory is pretty annoying, so I would say to go for that browser mode. Best regards, Tiago I agree. Default mode on all my machines for myself and my family (on Ubuntu) has been one window

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Any suggestions on simulating load for rsync + ssh? Use a for loop in bash, combined with some forking... ;-) m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  -

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Me
Does anyone have an opinion whether we should make this change worldwide? Or make it an option in the build configuration for olpc-os-builder users? (in the 2nd case, which would be the default?) In all cases, the user can change preferences later. As of GNOME 2.30 nautilus defaults to

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Any suggestions on simulating load for rsync + ssh? Use a for loop in bash, combined with some forking... ;-) OK. anybody have a good

July 11th, 4PM NYC time: Virtual Field Trip Realness (Classrooms ain't in Kansas Nomore)

2010-07-09 Thread Holt
Reply to holt @ laptop.org for our phone presentation's conf-call number, and the below speaker's PDF slides expected within ~24hrs. Parallel Live Chat for those who unable to telephone: http://forum.laptop.org/chat (that's *#olpc-help* on irc.freenode.net) *Sunday July 11 - Virtual Field

Backing up the Journal

2010-07-09 Thread John Watlington
What is the currently recommended method of archiving the contents of a journal on one laptop (say to a USB key) and restoring them on another laptop ? Thanks, wad ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Disabling Xv -- from xorg.conf or olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi list, do we have a way to disable Xv, dynamically or at boot? cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

Re: Disabling Xv -- from xorg.conf or olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Me
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, do we have a way to disable Xv, dynamically or at boot? cheers, There is no way to do this automatically. You can do this manually by adding the following to your xorg.conf Section Extensions

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks for the feedback here and IRC, I set the default to browser mode like they are doing in peru. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Disabling Xv -- from xorg.conf or olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Me jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: There is no way to do this automatically.  You can do this manually by adding the following to your xorg.conf Section Extensions        Option      XVideo Disable EndSection Thanks! I also found another technique -- passing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:   What about the compiler? IIUC currently a commercial compiler is   required. If that continues to be the case (as I expect it to),   would it be possible for OLPC to provide the (probably very few)   users interested in

Re: Disabling powersaving temporarily from olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Hal Murray
martin.langh...@gmail.com said: what would be the right way to signal to powerd that for this session aggressive suspend should be suspended, or its timeout lengthened to several minutes, without affecting the normal setting? My notes say that: touch /var/run/powerd-inhibit-suspend Will

Re: Disabling powersaving temporarily from olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Fox
hal wrote: martin.langh...@gmail.com said: what would be the right way to signal to powerd that for this session aggressive suspend should be suspended, or its timeout lengthened to several minutes, without affecting the normal setting? My notes say that: touch