Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh?

2010-07-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Is there a way to tweak the os300 build so that it brings up the Libertas device just as eth0 I presume you are asking about installing a distribution which embodies that definition - I myself do not understand how to modify the build process. But if the question refers only to hacking an

Re: [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 July 2010 19:27, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I'm still unconvinced that this is worth changing, given the additional work that it will cause. I'd like to hear from the heavy users of trac, in particular Chris (cjb), Daniel (dsd), and Paul (pgf). I think our current system

Activity Proposal.

2010-07-13 Thread Vishal Garg
Hello This is my bio - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Vishal I would like to propose the following activity for XO - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VedicMaths , please feel free to comment. I even seek a mentor for the same. VISHAL GARG ___ Linux User # 487206 Web

Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh?

2010-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 July 2010 17:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to tweak the os300 build so that it brings up the Libertas device just as eth0 (and doesn't enable the 802.11s features in the firmware)? Just curious, why? The usual NetworkManager methods (if

Re: [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
why would you want to know what tickets were closed as part of work toward a particular release? Let me give an answer from the user's perspective (I'm seconding what Martin's response said): Consider build 800 versus build 802. Suppose I as an user had a problem on build 767 which prevented

Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh?

2010-07-13 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:03 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: Is there a way to tweak the os300 build so that it brings up the Libertas device just as eth0 (and doesn't enable the 802.11s features in the firmware)? was there a

Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh?

2010-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:22 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: As far as I know, there is NO way to completely disable mesh support on XO-1 without holding the WLAN card in reset. Boo. Ok. Even if you don't support it at the OS level, the firmware will still behave badly if it

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 53, Issue 32

2010-07-13 Thread Reuben K. Caron
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:00 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Message: 7 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:22:27 -0400 From: John Watlington w...@laptop.org Subject: Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh? To: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com Cc: OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID:

Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh?

2010-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Um, I think this should send a mesh stop command to the firmware. echo 0 /sys/class/net/eth1/lbs_mesh From: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5144 I like hearing from people who know stuff :-) Excellent, so adding that

10.1.1 and os300 -- DPI vs fontsizes on FF vs Browse.xo

2010-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
I was aware that maybe we had different in scaling/dpi on our browsers, but Aliosh (from the Perú team) pointed out how large the difference is between Firefox and Browse.xo: Here shown between an XO-1.5 on 10.1.1 and an XO-1 on os300, both showing wiki.laptop.org:

Re: 10.1.1 and os300 -- DPI vs fontsizes on FF vs Browse.xo

2010-07-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: I was aware that maybe we had different in scaling/dpi on our browsers, but Aliosh (from the Perú team) pointed out how large the difference is between Firefox and Browse.xo: Here shown between an XO-1.5 on

Re: 10.1.1 and os300 -- DPI vs fontsizes on FF vs Browse.xo

2010-07-13 Thread rihoward1
Put about:config in the address bar and check the layout.css.dpi setting FF may have the default of -1 set. Change it to an actual dpi and see what happens - Original message - I was aware that maybe we had different in scaling/dpi on our browsers, but Aliosh (from the Perú team)

Re: 10.1.1 and os300 -- DPI vs fontsizes on FF vs Browse.xo

2010-07-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Why is FF super-sizing my internets? You should probably include the preferences from: http://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/firefox-activity/tree/vendor.js Thank you. I had previously not been paying attention to that file. [I'm currently using FireFox version 4.0b2pre on my XOs. I've

Re: 10.1.1 and os300 -- DPI vs fontsizes on FF vs Browse.xo

2010-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: You should probably include the preferences from:  http://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/firefox-activity/tree/vendor.js Thanks -- has the DPI and several other things that are worthwhile. We *have* a bug tracking this,

Re: [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 13 July 2010 06:17, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 12 July 2010 19:27, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I'm still unconvinced that this is worth changing, given the additional work that it will cause. I'd like to hear from the heavy users of trac, in particular Chris (cjb),