power saving available in different stages

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi All: I'm wonder if anybody would know what the potential power savings might be while in the stages of dim, blank, and sleep? Thanks for any feedback, Jerry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: powerd and wlanpacket [PATCH]

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Fox
hi jerry -- jerry wrote: Hi All: While working with powerd in debug mode I noticed that wlanpacket would always cause a break in snooze(). I realized that yes -- that 'break' is intentional, but perhaps you're observing something i didn't expect? my thinking was, if we don't break out

Re: powerd and wlanpacket [PATCH]

2012-02-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi Paul: I'll see if I can be clearer in my explanation. On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 08:47 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: hi jerry -- jerry wrote: Hi All: While working with powerd in debug mode I noticed that wlanpacket would always cause a break in snooze(). I realized that yes -- that

Re: powerd and wlanpacket [PATCH]

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Fox
jerry wrote: Hi Paul: I'll see if I can be clearer in my explanation. On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 08:47 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: hi jerry -- jerry wrote: Hi All: While working with powerd in debug mode I noticed that wlanpacket would always cause a break in

[Server-devel] XS-0.7 Ometepe released

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Named after the island for which it was developed, XS-0.7 Ometepe is released. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 Changes since beta 2: - Fixed xs-activation listening on IPv6 local Thanks to everyone who has looked at this, and especially to Martin for his help/guidance,

Re: power saving available in different stages

2012-02-20 Thread John Watlington
Can you tell us which generation XO you are asking about ? They are all somewhat different. The backlight in all XO laptops draws 1W at full brightness. dim it, and you can save 40% of that. Blank it, and you save the full 1W, plus another 300 mW or so for the DCON and display electronics.

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-20 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:33:12PM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: For your interest, next time you need it, there's an OpenFirmware test feature for checking the fs-update transfer rates from USB. ok null-fsdisk fs-update

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-20 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:39:43PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: On an XO-1.75 using null-fsdisk, the fs-update reduced from 5:05 to 4:36, which shows that most of the time cost is the decompression. The same file read in without decompression [2] cost 1:26. That result was using a different

Re: [Server-devel] How to make a public antitheft server

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Juan Cubillo jcubi...@fundacionqt.org wrote: Hello, Could anyone please tell me if there are up-to-date instructions to create a centralized antitheft server? Currently the wiki page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antitheft:Public_Server talks about Fedora

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 2 released

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I used the unetbootin approach to build a USB stick to boot from. I've had trouble with the step where it looks for the media. Says something like hd: LABEL=OLPC School Server 0.7 i386:olpcxs.ks and loops at that step.

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 2 released

2012-02-20 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I used the unetbootin approach to build a USB stick to boot from. I've had trouble with the step where it looks for the media. Says something like hd: