Re: Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: [sugar] Design Question)

2008-07-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Jul 2008, at 04:13, John Watlington wrote: > Please remember that the B4 is pre-production hardware. > We lengthened the cable between the camera and the motherboard to > improve this problem > in production. Thanks John, that's good to know, glad it was B4 specific. --Gary

Re: Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: [sugar] Design Question)

2008-07-20 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 20, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 20 Jul 2008, at 22:27, John Watlington wrote: > >> Take a look at: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ >> XO_Troubleshooting_AV#Errors_communicating_with_the_camera >> >> The majority of these problems are due to a latch on the flex >> cable co

Re: Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: [sugar] Design Question)

2008-07-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Jul 2008, at 22:27, John Watlington wrote: > Take a look at: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_AV#Errors_communicating_with_the_camera > > The majority of these problems are due to a latch on the flex cable > connector coming loose. > If you disassemble the laptop, and find th

current "olpc-2.6" git tree Makefile minor patch

2008-07-20 Thread Hero_xbd!.RRR
Hey. I found there is parenthesis mismatching in olpc-2.6/Makefile, which causes "make help" to fall. I figured it out but do have the permission to git commit. Cheers! diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9652cc5..5d8

Re: Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: [sugar] Design Question)

2008-07-20 Thread John Watlington
Take a look at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ XO_Troubleshooting_AV#Errors_communicating_with_the_camera The majority of these problems are due to a latch on the flex cable connector coming loose. If you disassemble the laptop, and find that it was due to another source, pleased either add it t

Re: Report on `views with many icons' profiling

2008-07-20 Thread riccardo
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 11:49 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > This is really awesome, congrats. > thanks ! > I would like to know how much time takes every switch (including the > redraw), is that 130ms and 170ms? Looks like it should be more to me. for the ring layout: favorite's view -> list view :

Record-55 issue was B4 hardware failure (Was: [sugar] Design Question)

2008-07-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:40, Bobby Powers wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Works quite well here in a MP with last joyride. Just did some light >> testing, though. > > I've also tested it (lightly) on 3 machines running Joyride ~2170. > >> Tomeu

Re: LZO support

2008-07-20 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:38:36PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote: > How are you producing the test data (test.dat) used by the test? Excuse me. You clearly stated that in your email! > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:57:37AM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: > > The program needs a test.dat file, I have used "c

Re: LZO support

2008-07-20 Thread Erik Garrison
How are you producing the test data (test.dat) used by the test? On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:57:37AM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: > Okay, I have become a little more advanced lately, and was able to > compile the kernel zlib and lzo in userspace (last year I gave up...). > > So here is the code (with r

Re: [sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

2008-07-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 17.07.2008 um 07:37 schrieb Bert Freudenberg: > >> Am 17.07.2008 um 00:10 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: >> >>> Marco has added a session manager to Sugar (in 8.2.0) that takes care >>> of telling activities to save their work

Re: [sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

2008-07-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for not answering, Hmm? Both Tomeu and me answered. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016914.html http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016951.html > and not updating the API doc, T

Re: Autosave in 8.2.0?

2008-07-20 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 17.07.2008 um 07:37 schrieb Bert Freudenberg: > Am 17.07.2008 um 00:10 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: > >> Marco has added a session manager to Sugar (in 8.2.0) that takes care >> of telling activities to save their work because the system is being >> shut down. Haven't verified if this is complete and

Re: running speech-dispatcher as non-root using setuid on XO and accompanying security issues

2008-07-20 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi James, The point I was trying to make was that the Sugar API itself could have > removed the burden of setting these options from the developer. > Yes that is indeed what is happening :). And there is no API call involved whatsoeverl with the present design :). Perhaps once the code is release

Re: experiencing unexpected OLPC behavior from a misplaced click

2008-07-20 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Mikus, I didn't mean to put you in a difficult position. I assume that if the XO doesn't do what the user expects its a bug (maybe a low priority one). No problem if you don't want to file this one. Can you write a brief blurb in the 8.2.0 release notes to preserve the knowledge. Maybe just

Re: PlayGo Patches/Commit access

2008-07-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2008/7/20 Andrés Ambrois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 19 July 2008 21:25:55 Nate Ridderman wrote: >> Andrés, >> >> Go is one of my favorite games, so I'm excited to see that someone has >> picked up development again! It requires such balance between >> aggressiveness and defense, as well as

Re: LZO support

2008-07-20 Thread NoiseEHC
Okay, I have become a little more advanced lately, and was able to compile the kernel zlib and lzo in userspace (last year I gave up...). So here is the code (with results, the lib file is the compiled lzo 2.03): http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/5b/Zlibtest5.tar.gz Since I did not find any assemb