Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-11-02 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Cahalan wrote: Memory reservations are a different beast entirely. Running out of memory becomes approximately impossible because the user is blocked from starting too many activities. This seems like a

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic system is working, where do I get started to enable the less common features of the XO? specificly 1. controlling the backlight (and therefor

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:44:14 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic system is working, where do I get started to enable the less common

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread pgf
andres wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:44:14 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic system is working, where do I get started to

Re: Pycon'09 CFP

2008-11-02 Thread Michael Stone
Folks, Turns out that the Pycon'09 deadline for proposal submission is tomorrow. Are we giving any talks? Michael ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

os 8.2 on SD for boot?

2008-11-02 Thread Chris Marshall
I would like to put the current 8.2 release onto an SD card for booting (with a developer's key) to allow me to better support my family and friends XOs. Right now, any customizations such as printer support or additional applications get wiped whenever there is an os update. The thought was to

Re: os 8.2 on SD for boot?

2008-11-02 Thread Peter Robinson
I would like to put the current 8.2 release onto an SD card for booting (with a developer's key) to allow me to better support my family and friends XOs. Right now, any customizations such as printer support or additional applications get wiped whenever there is an os update. The

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andres wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:44:14 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for doing this. I never thought that putting KDE or Gnome on any system would seem like a speedup, but it definantly does. so now that the basic

Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-11-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Nov 2008, at 06:07, Albert Cahalan wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Cahalan wrote: Memory reservations are a different beast entirely. Running out of memory becomes approximately impossible because the user is blocked from

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread pgf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... i suggest searching olpcnews.com/forum for things like this -- last year's g1g1 users have done a lot of work supporting the XO h/w under non-sugary environments. well, I was hoping that with an open

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, I was hoping that with an open hardware platform running opensource software there would not be a need to search forums for reverse engineered 'secrets' or 'hacks', but instead such information would be readily available (ideally already documented, I

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread Ian Daniher
Hello all, I have a collection of useful XO scripts at daniher.com/shscripts/. Anything in the format of conf.* is a media-setup script. While /extremely/ useful, consider everything beta with no warranty explicit or implicit. The script titled b is one you want to look at - b 0 will set the

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might start with this: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xfce_keybindings which contains a few of the things you're looking for. Also , Screen Brightness/Rotation, Sound Volume, and Battery Status Control in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XFCE references olpc-keybind and

Re: os 8.2 on SD for boot?

2008-11-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Right now, any customizations such as printer support or additional applications get wiped whenever there is an os update. I've been wrestling with concepts like this ever since I got my G1G1. The XO-1 limitation is the available storage. Sooner or later, both the executables and the data

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... i suggest searching olpcnews.com/forum for things like this -- last year's g1g1 users have done a lot of work supporting the XO h/w under non-sugary environments.

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mic input (kmix sees the sound device, including DC input mode, which I didn't expect, but I haven't sucessfully recorded anything yet) I found that I had the mic muted. once that was changed I got feedback :-) everthing seems to be supported by

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread pgf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a traditional PC keyboard, the keypad area to the right contains duplicate arrow, pgup/down and home/end keys that are operational when numlock is not in effect. the gamepad produces the same keycodes

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread John Gilmore
things that I can see as possibly needed: hardware encryption engine (does this show up to the kernel as an available encryption device? (it would be handy if at least the development builds of the kernel enabled /proc/config.gz for all xo distros (including the OLPC builds) it costs about

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a traditional PC keyboard, the keypad area to the right contains duplicate arrow, pgup/down and home/end keys that are operational when numlock is not in effect.

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, John Gilmore wrote: things that I can see as possibly needed: hardware encryption engine (does this show up to the kernel as an available encryption device? (it would be handy if at least the development builds of the kernel enabled /proc/config.gz for all xo distros

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread James Cameron
The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this thread has discussed. -- cut -- hardware enablement --- keymap for the extra keyboard keys and game buttons key to right of esc,

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this thread has discussed. link to xodist please? keymap for the extra keyboard keys and game buttons key to

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:27:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this thread has discussed. link to xodist please?

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-02 Thread david
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:27:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote: The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this

Game keys

2008-11-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
David Lang wrote: ideally I want to figure out how to get these keys into the kernel, at that point any userspace can deal with them. The game keys produce scancodes that are folded into the keyboard data stream. The kernel sees them interspersed with ordinary keyboard scan codes. What it

Re: setup for XO development

2008-11-02 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very interesting. you mentioned working to integrate rainbow with sugar-jhbuid. It seems like that should be using this native version. If we're not using the d-bus daemon, would we then have to start jhbuild with