Hardware certifications

2008-07-09 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, I'm getting the XO certified to the Australian power and safety standard (which makes it legal and certifiably safe in Australia, Nz and the Pacific with a little tweaking :)) and I need to know whether the testing page is up to date. Are there any updates on the certifications pending?

Re: permission to add activity to joyride

2008-07-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I 'm asking for permission to add an activity to Joyride to be used primarily for debugging cerebro. Hi, Pol, AFAIK activities are not included in joyride any more, I suggest you to add it to

Re: Incidental notes.

2008-07-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:40:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: * updates to the puritan UI and the f9 compilation which make combine to deliver a bootable image. (As of this instant, you'll need to start X manually with

Re: Introduction to `picker' and git link

2008-07-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could modify the display so that each track is prominently labeled with the full arguments to the process? Yes, I'm curious to see the same graph with the process name as well as the full command. Thanks,

Re: Colour blindness

2008-07-09 Thread Hal Murray
My two cents... The black on green keyboard is not a disaster, but it's far from great. For me, it's OK in good light, but I find it much harder to read in poor light. (My eyes are a lot older than any child.) I think it would be a great idea to get some color blind people to help with

Re: Introduction to `picker' and git link

2008-07-09 Thread Riccardo Lucchese
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could modify the display so that each track is prominently labeled with the full arguments to the process? Yes, I'm curious to see the

Re: [IAEP] Sucrose 0.81.4 Development Release

2008-07-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
Joyride = 2129 contains the packages for this release. The bundled version of the activities can be found here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/CurrentRelease/Sucrose#Fructose_modules_bundled Enjoy, Simon ___ Devel mailing list

Re: qemu on Kubuntu - error regarding 3dnow support.

2008-07-09 Thread Torello Querci
Hi Alle sabato 28 giugno 2008, Kent Dahl ha scritto: Hi. I was going through the instruction on the Wiki regarding setup of qemu on Linux: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Linux But once I select a boot entry (such as 'OLPC for qemu target (Full size)') it fails to

Re: Home View appearance

2008-07-09 Thread NoiseEHC
Another problem is that the Activity button (the 4th zoom level) can select the Journal if that was the last active activity. It has an own button so I cannot see any reason why it has to be the way it is. It is an annoyance that when I download several things then go from Browse to the

Re: Incidental notes.

2008-07-09 Thread Morgan Collett
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:12, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:40:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: * updates to the puritan UI and the f9 compilation which make combine to deliver a

Re: Log Activity log posting.

2008-07-09 Thread Eben Eliason
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that logs posted in the Log Activity go, by default, to olpc.scheffers.net/olpc/submit.tcl Of interest, recent discussion on IRC discussed the possibility of providing a mechanism for getting logs to the right

Re: 8.2.0 Release Notes

2008-07-09 Thread Michael Stone
Specifically, the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.2.0_Software_Release_Notes page. Michael ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: qemu on Kubuntu - error regarding 3dnow support.

2008-07-09 Thread Joel Stanley
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Kent Dahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going through the instruction on the Wiki regarding setup of qemu on Linux: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Linux But once I select a boot entry (such as 'OLPC for qemu target (Full size)') it

Re: Home View appearance

2008-07-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:55:25PM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: I am not sure if this bug is in joyride. Since my XO cannot connect to my WPA router easily Do I correctly understand that 1. You CAN connect to your WPA router easily from 708 2. You CANNOT connect to your WPA router easily from

Re: Colour blindness

2008-07-09 Thread Ricardo Medina
In case it helps, I am quite colorblind (I mix up anything that CAN be mixed up...) and I haven't had any problems with the keyboard. With respect to apps, I used to have issues with a couple of game activities, but as I haven't been using sugar a lot in the past months, I don't know if

Re: qemu on Kubuntu - error regarding 3dnow support.

2008-07-09 Thread Torello Querci
Hi Joel Alle mercoledì 9 luglio 2008, Joel Stanley ha scritto: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Kent Dahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going through the instruction on the Wiki regarding setup of qemu on Linux: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Linux But once I

Re: 8.2.0 Release Notes

2008-07-09 Thread Eben Eliason
Would anyone complain if I made some minor organizational changes? It makes more sense to me to have wiki.laptoporg/go/Release_Notes (which we do already have) link to (wiki.laptoporg/go/Release_notes/release). Including OLPC in the title is redundant, because this is the OLPC wiki, and keeping

XO Motherboard - Do *you* have information to contribute?

2008-07-09 Thread Ian Daniher
Hi all, I've been working on collecting information for a document detailing the location and information about all the low(machine) level I/Os on the XO. The beginnings of this document can be found at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MoBo_I/O. I plan on merging this into [[Datasheets]] as a central

Re: 8.2.0 Release Notes

2008-07-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:57:17AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: Would anyone complain if I made some minor organizational changes? It makes more sense to me to have wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes (which we already have) link to (wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/release). Go for it. PS.

Re: Home View appearance

2008-07-09 Thread NoiseEHC
You did not understand correctly. Neither 708 nor joyride can connect to my router easily. The difference is that I have made my 708 to connect with some mumbo-jumbo and since tested joyrides do not fix this bug, I simply do not want to do the same mumbo-jumbo with them (currently I use my XO

joyride 2128 smoketest

2008-07-09 Thread Murphy, Charles
I've been running a smoketest on the recent joyride-2128 build, and have just posted the results of what i've done so far at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes#Joyride_Builds . Here's a short summary of some of the more glaring issues: - The two XOs tested could not see each

New joyride build 2134

2008-07-09 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2134 Changes in build 2134 from build: 2131 Size delta: 2.10M -sugar 0.81.6-1.olpc3 +sugar 0.81.6-2.20080709git8f4819a62e.fc9 -sugar-artwork 0.81.1-1.olpc3 +sugar-artwork 0.81.1-2.20080709gitc77b345c02.fc9 -sugar-toolkit 0.81.6-1.olpc3

Re: New joyride build 2134

2008-07-09 Thread Bobby Powers
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2134 Changes in build 2134 from build: 2131 Size delta: 2.10M -sugar 0.81.6-1.olpc3 ... +xorg-x11-server-Xephyr 1.4.99.902-3.20080612.olpc3.1 awesome! I

Re: 8.2.0 Release Notes

2008-07-09 Thread Eben Eliason
Here's a first pass: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes. - Eben On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:57:17AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: Would anyone complain if I made some minor organizational changes? It makes more sense

Re: qemu on Kubuntu - error regarding 3dnow support.

2008-07-09 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 09 2008, at 15:14, Torello Querci was caught saying: The ext2 image, I suppose, is oriented to be used in external device or virtualization system. If qemu, vmware and virtualbox are not able to handle 3dnow extension, since I suppose to be run on more power system like AMD64 or

Re: qemu on Kubuntu - error regarding 3dnow support.

2008-07-09 Thread Torello Querci
Alle mercoledì 9 luglio 2008, Deepak Saxena ha scritto: On Jul 09 2008, at 15:14, Torello Querci was caught saying: The ext2 image, I suppose, is oriented to be used in external device or virtualization system. If qemu, vmware and virtualbox are not able to handle 3dnow extension, since I

Re: python parser for dotconf file

2008-07-09 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi Hynek, I was working on the parser the whole day today, and have developed something that we can at least start working with. I like the idea of simply commenting out the parameters instead of deleting them. That will require me to make certain changes to the current code, I'll make those

Easiest way to run the latest activities

2008-07-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, The easiest way, perhaps, to run the bleeding edge version of Sugar on an XO is to run the latest joyride. Is there a similar way to run the latest activities on an XO ? I am a bit concerned that many people who are playing with the latest joyrides still have older activities from a pack

Re: Easiest way to run the latest activities

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:11 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: The easiest way, perhaps, to run the bleeding edge version of Sugar on an XO is to run the latest joyride. Is there a similar way to run the latest activities on an XO ? I use: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-activities.py see

Re: Easiest way to run the latest activities

2008-07-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:11 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: The easiest way, perhaps, to run the bleeding edge version of Sugar on an XO is to run the latest joyride. Is there a similar way to run the latest activities on

Activity dependency upon resident functions

2008-07-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I often have builds (in /versions) on my XO from dissimilar streams (e.g., Joyride vs. Update.1). Now that installation of Activities is a separate process, I'm assuming that if an Activity in /home/olpc/Activities works when one stream has been booted, then it will work as well when the

Re: [sugar] Record-55 released

2008-07-09 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Thanks, I'm so happy to have 'record' back (even with these known issues)! :-) Cheers, Christoph Daniel Drake schrieb: Hi, I've released version 55 of the Record activity, available at: http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/record/Record-55.xo http://dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/record/Record-55.xo git

Re: joyride 2128 smoketest

2008-07-09 Thread Kim Quirk
With almost 400,000 deployed in the world, we need to have some good discussions on the backward compatibilty and upgradability of Activities. Some of the bugs Charlie is writing up from the QA first look at joyride may be answered by upgrading an activity to a newer one. So here are the

Re: joyride 2128 smoketest

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:06 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: My 2c worth here... There haven't been API breaks for activities. I've had to do nothing to my activities to keep them working from 8.1.0 to joyride current. Some external things have bitten us though. gtksourceview API change prevents

Re: joyride 2128 smoketest

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:06 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: My 2c worth here... There haven't been API breaks for activities. I've had to do nothing to my activities to keep them working from 8.1.0 to joyride current. Some external things have bitten us though. gtksourceview

Re: Easiest way to run the latest activities

2008-07-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 09.07.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:11 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: The easiest way, perhaps, to run the bleeding edge version of Sugar on an XO is to run the latest joyride.

Re: Easiest way to run the latest activities

2008-07-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 09.07.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:11 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: The easiest way, perhaps, to run

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM EDT, #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We should meet to discuss our release at a high level (procedures, resources) and at a low level (tickets). This week, we will meet at our regular places and times -- 2:00 PM EDT on Tuesday (high-level) and Wednesday (low-level) in #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org for

Re: Easiest way to run the latest activities

2008-07-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 09.07.2008 um 21:37 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 09.07.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:11 +0530,

Fwd: [FM Discuss] tracking doc requests

2008-07-09 Thread Seth Woodworth
-- Forwarded message -- From: Anne Gentle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:04 AM Subject: [FM Discuss] tracking doc requests To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi again all, I don't know if it's appropriate to use this list to discuss specifics of one set of books, but you all

Re: [IAEP] booting XO-Live CD from usb key

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Kerr
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 June 2008 11:17, you wrote: Bill, your best bet might be to ask the LiveCD creator himself - cc'ed. - Bert - Begin forwarded message: From: Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16. Juni 2008 08:47:25 MESZ

Re: python parser for dotconf file

2008-07-09 Thread Hynek Hanke
So I think that the only reasonable way to modify them is to read all such options first, construct the list, then modify it and write back. I don't think it makes sense to modify them separately. Hmmm, so can we expect to get a list of dotConfObject(s) from the programmer I

Re: Easiest way to run the latest activities

2008-07-09 Thread Korakurider
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The easiest way, perhaps, to run the bleeding edge version of Sugar on an XO is to run the latest joyride. Now kernel in joyride requires 3DNOW and it prevent from emulating in typical environment. That

Re: 8.2.0 Release Notes

2008-07-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Eben, Thanks for the link, very useful! FYI I have a Releases page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases Its still under construction but its basically meant to give the status, target users and link to documentation for all current releases. I added a link to your master release notes

Re: 8.2.0 Release Notes

2008-07-09 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Eben, Thanks for the link, very useful! FYI I have a Releases page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases I saw this. I'm wondering how it's meant to be differentiated from eg. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/8.2.0. Perhaps

No display

2008-07-09 Thread pradosh Kharel
Just for your information, I had an XO that did not give out a display. I tried changing the screen with a working one but that did not help. However, the XO worked fine when I switched the motherboard with a known good one. It seems something was wrong with the motherboard itself.

Re: [Server-devel] volunteer for offline Moodle

2008-07-09 Thread David Van Assche
Pre-empting Martin, I've now moved the thread from sugar to the XS Devel list... On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Anderson has contacted me to find out where Nepal could use the