Re: Devel Digest, Vol 53, Issue 56

2010-07-30 Thread Franco Miceli
HI, I was wondering if there was a way to have a different resolution on the screen of the XO 1.5. I know that due to the DCON chip the res cannot be changed to other value that 1200x900, and have been told about Xephyr ( http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10210). Does anyone have any

Re: Changing screen resolution XO 1.5

2010-07-30 Thread Franco Miceli
Sorry, Re: field corrected. Cheers 2010/7/30 Franco Miceli fmic...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy HI, I was wondering if there was a way to have a different resolution on the screen of the XO 1.5. I know that due to the DCON chip the res cannot be changed to other value that 1200x900, and have been

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Mitch, wasn't aware you were on vacation. Techteam - I am hoping for independent confirmation -- the USB disks on my bench are pretty shit. Can anyone with a known to behave well usb get a collection key to work on XO-1.5 or on XO-1+Q2E44? cheers, m On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:28 PM,

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Ed McNierney
Martin - We've done some quick testing here in the office. It appears that collection keys on Q3A40, Q3A42, and Q3A46 work, provided the laptop is secure-booting. If your machines are not secured, you need to hold down the x game key while booting. Remember that with prettyboot enabled, an

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Ed McNierney
Martin - Just another note of advice - I discovered a normal-looking USB key that *wasn't* working had a single FAT partition on it, but it had been erased on a Mac and had a GUID partition table. Reformatting with an MBR fixed it. - Ed On Jul 30, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Martin Langhoff

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Ed McNierney e...@laptop.org wrote: (...) provided the laptop is secure-booting Thanks! I did wonder about secure boot influence. So what I am getting here is a combination of un-secure machines and bad quality USB sticks muddying the waters. Richard and I

Re: [Server-devel] XO Registration Failed with XS

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:43 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: Maybe the sugar-control-panel cli can help, but again I don't know the incantation. Probably because it doesn't work, again.

[Server-devel] New olpc-bios-crypto 0.5.29.g2e774b1

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Fixes a couple of annoying issues when parsing CSV files, and fixes (again, finally) resolving LIBEXEC. Recommended for anyone using our antitheft toolchain: yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing install olpc-bios-crypto cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- School

New 10.1.2 build os303 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-07-30 Thread Chris Ball
http://build.laptop.org/10.1.2/xo-1/os303 http://build.laptop.org/10.1.2/xo-1.5/os303 Compressed image size: 595.62mb (no change from build 302) Description of changes in this build: * kernel, #9323: Fix viafb color corruption on VT after suspend/resume * sugar, #10213: Fix frame key on UY High

Re: New 10.1.2 build os303 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-07-30 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
http://build.laptop.org/10.1.2/xo-1.5/os303 Has XO-1.5 development use of http://build.laptop.org/10.1.2/xo-1.5/ now supplanted development use of http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0/ ? Thanks, mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: New 10.1.2 build os303 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-07-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Has XO-1.5 development use of http://build.laptop.org/10.1.2/xo-1.5/ now supplanted development use of http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0/ ? Yes. (Until 10.1.2 is released.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child

Re: [Server-devel] Configuration Management Automation : cfpull

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Mike, good to see you are thinking along this lines. How advanced are you down this specific track with cfpull? For XS, several deployments are using Puppet, and after a bit of review, I am extremely happy with Puppet, to the extent that expect that (when time allows) we'll have whatever's

Re: [Server-devel] Turn Editing On missing and joining multiple courses

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:52 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: In our PNG deployment and elsewhere I am finding with Moodle that when the initial administrator XO creates additional course creators, the “Turn Editing On” button does not appear on the new Course Creator XOs

[Server-devel] Server performance feedback and testing suggestions

2010-07-30 Thread David Leeming
In our PNG deployment we have only just got the system up for testing due to late delivery of most of the infrastructure eqt (we had the laptops so were able to complete the initial training); - 250 XOs divided into six classes G3A - G5B and all 15 teachers - One eBox fanless VIA server with

Re: [Server-devel] Turn Editing On missing and joining multiple courses

2010-07-30 Thread David Leeming
Martin, My request is about the Front Page. In courses it is clear how to manage editing. On the Front Page only the first XO seems to be able to create global links to public folders and site resources (the menus that become editable through Turn Editing On). It may seem a point of detail but