Questions about openfirmware build environment

2008-01-22 Thread llandre
Hi all, I have some questions about openfirmware build environment. I could not find these information on OLCP wiki. I successfully cloned the git repository and built ofw on x86-64 host running CentOS, however I'd like to understand exactly how the build process works. At the end of the

Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa

2008-01-22 Thread william romsay
Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50 nations, each with a special culture, history and language, South of Sahara. Zulu musical instruments are part of this multilingual

Re: Questions about openfirmware build environment

2008-01-22 Thread Mitch Bradley
llandre wrote: Hi all, I have some questions about openfirmware build environment. I could not find these information on OLCP wiki. I successfully cloned the git repository and built ofw on x86-64 host running CentOS, however I'd like to understand exactly how the build process works. At

Re: Questions about openfirmware build environment

2008-01-22 Thread llandre
1) During building, some *.public, *.bin and *.img files are downloaded. What are these files? *.public - public keys for the OLPC security mechanism. When an OLPC ... Ok, thanks for the clear explanation. 2) I see a couple of warnings during building of memtest module: ld:

Re: Misuse of Trac

2008-01-22 Thread Simon Schampijer
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:32 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #6137: Better browsers - +-- Reporter: clash| Owner: clash Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority:

Re: Misuse of Trac

2008-01-22 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:32 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #6137: Better browsers - +-- Reporter: clash| Owner: clash Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: high

Re: Misuse of Trac

2008-01-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 22, 2008, at 12:06 , Noah Kantrowitz wrote: Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:32 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #6137: Better browsers - +-- Reporter: clash| Owner: clash

New update.1 build 685

2008-01-22 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build685 Changes in build 685 from build: 684 Size delta: 14M -ohm 0.1.1-6.3.20080102git.fc7 +ohm 0.1.1-6.4.20080119git.fc7 -olpc-library-core 1-16 +olpc-library-core 1-20 -e2fsprogs 1.40.2-2.fc7 +e2fsprogs 1.40.2-3.fc7 -e2fsprogs-libs

Re: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa

2008-01-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
william romsay wrote: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50 nations, each with a special culture, history and language, South of Sahara. Zulu musical

Re: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments

2008-01-22 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 22, 2008, at 5:09 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: 2. I think it's time the OLPC project had a list specific to audio on the XO and the world music aspects of it. Does someone on the project want to create such a list in the main MailMan area, or should I go ahead and start a Google

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-22 Thread Patrick Dubroy
I've got my hands on a B2 machine, and finally got around to giving this a go. When I boot into the firmware tests and get to the tablet test, it doesn't seem to detect anything at all except in the center third (the capactive area). Does this mean that the firmware in this machine doesn't

Re: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa

2008-01-22 Thread Cesare Marilungo
You're answering to a spambot message. Regards, -c. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: william romsay wrote: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50 nations, each

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-22 Thread imm
On 22 Jan 2008, at 3:43, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: By the way -- as far as microtonal and xentonal and world music scales are concerned, MIDI's pitch bends are an awkward hack. Serious *microtonal* algocompsynth practitioners either have to spend time working around MIDI or use

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-22 Thread imm
On 22 Jan 2008, at 4:11, Albert Cahalan wrote: You don't need to abuse pitch bends. MIDI lets you redefine the pitches of the notes. You can redefine middle C to be 1234 Hz if you like. Mmm, well, yes, but... It's not so much the pitches that are the issue, it's the intervals, and MIDI kind

Re: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa

2008-01-22 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Jan 22, 2008 8:09 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: william romsay wrote: Hershey Felder, Zulu Musical Instruments, Essential To Develop Musical Traditions In Africa African music is the music of Africans who live in a large region of 50 nations, each with a

Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

2008-01-22 Thread Bryan Berry
Hey guys, The purpose of this e-mail is to let the wider OLPC community know what we are planning for the school server in Nepal's spring test school and to solicit your ideas on what we can do better. Sulochan Acharya and I are leading the work on the school server for the test school. If you

Re: Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

2008-01-22 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: We are looking to use WebDav to back up the individual student's home folder to the school server. Why on earth WebDAV? Incidentally, I had an almost-finished incremental backup according to this spec:

Re: Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

2008-01-22 Thread Bryan Berry
Awesome, great answers like this is why I sent out the e-mail. We really need the incremental backup feature. That is a core requirement that came up many times in last week's OLPC Learning Conference. But how do you archive personal files once they exceed local storage? And how would you browse

Re: Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

2008-01-22 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: We really need the incremental backup feature. That is a core requirement that came up many times in last week's OLPC Learning Conference. I'll see about finishing it up for you, then. Please ping me from time to time to make sure this doesn't

Re: #6051 HIGH Update.: sugar-control-panel does not support setting the language to Amharic

2008-01-22 Thread Jim Gettys
We did have a report of setting the locale to Turkish in trac that caused the machine to lose its cookies entirely. I don't remember the root cause, or whether it has been solved. - Jim On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:41 +, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #6051:

New update.1 build 686

2008-01-22 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build686 Changes in build 686 from build: 685 Size delta: 0M -bootanim 0.12-0 +bootanim 0.13-0 +lohit-fonts-hindi 2.1.6-1.olpc2 -olpc-hardware-manager 0.4.1-7.olpc2 +olpc-hardware-manager 0.4.2-1.olpc2 -olpcrd 0.37-0 +olpcrd 0.39-0

Re: New joyride build 1569 (fixed in 1570)

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Jepson
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded from build 682 to joyride 1569 and I found that the web activity doesn't start. sometimes I get the toolbar on the top, sometimes just parts of it. after it grinds for a while it

Re: New update.1 build 686

2008-01-22 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build686 Changes in build 686 from build: 685 there is a build 687 on its way. the only change being that we will use the olpc.fth from bootfw not the one pilgrim wrote to the

Re: New joyride build 1569 (fixed in 1570)

2008-01-22 Thread Walter Bender
Are you seeing this behavior on a beta machine or an MP machine? The beta machines have limitations re power management. -walter On Jan 22, 2008 5:57 PM, Brian Jepson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: New joyride build 1569 (fixed in 1570)

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I'm also seeing the backlight dimming/brightening behavior at the text console that you originally reported. This console dimming is fixed as of yesterday, but the Joyride builds have been down so it hasn't made it into a build yet. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New joyride build 1569 (fixed in 1570)

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Jepson
Hi Walter, I'm on a G1G1 machine. I did pick up the q2d09 firmware upgrade from my upgrade to joyride-1568 (I assume that was in later builds, too, though). - Brian On Jan 22, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Are you seeing this behavior on a beta machine or an MP machine? The

Re: New joyride build 1574

2008-01-22 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Build Announcer v2 wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1574 Changes in build 1574 from build: 1570 Size delta: 0M -ohm 0.1.1-6.4.20080119git.fc7 +ohm 0.1.1-6.5.20080119git.fc7 -bootfw q2d09-3.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2d07-0 ---

New joyride build 1574

2008-01-22 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1574 Changes in build 1574 from build: 1570 Size delta: 0M -ohm 0.1.1-6.4.20080119git.fc7 +ohm 0.1.1-6.5.20080119git.fc7 -bootfw q2d09-3.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2d07-0 --- Changes for ohm 0.1.1-6.5.20080119git.fc7 from

Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

2008-01-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
imm wrote: On 22 Jan 2008, at 3:43, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: By the way -- as far as microtonal and xentonal and world music scales are concerned, MIDI's pitch bends are an awkward hack. Serious *microtonal* algocompsynth practitioners either have to spend time working around MIDI

New joyride build 1575

2008-01-22 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1575 Changes in build 1575 from build: 1574 Size delta: 0M -bootfw q2d07-0 +bootfw q2d09-3.olpc2.unsigned -Poll 16 --- Changes for bootfw q2d09-3.olpc2.unsigned from q2d07-0 --- + update firmware to q2d09 this is an unsigned image

MIDI does support non-Western music (was: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO)

2008-01-22 Thread Albert Cahalan
imm ian writes: On 22 Jan 2008, at 4:11, Albert Cahalan wrote: You don't need to abuse pitch bends. MIDI lets you redefine the pitches of the notes. You can redefine middle C to be 1234 Hz if you like. Mmm, well, yes, but... No but. You can redefine at will, for individual notes. If you

Re: MIDI does support non-Western music (was: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO)

2008-01-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Albert Cahalan wrote: imm ian writes: On 22 Jan 2008, at 4:11, Albert Cahalan wrote: You don't need to abuse pitch bends. MIDI lets you redefine the pitches of the notes. You can redefine middle C to be 1234 Hz if you like. Mmm, well, yes, but... No but. You can redefine at will, for