Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 18:29, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: To me, Bitfrost was just one more lofty windmill OLPC tried to tilt because it seemed like an interesting challenge.  I'm not clear why Sugar needs more protection from rogue activities than a normal desktop environment has

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-25 Thread quozl
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:33:59PM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: Another thing is X drawing is very slow; however if I add: Option FBSize 8388608 to xorg.conf, it becomes visibly faster. I've tried to reproduce this, and failed. Please give me a copy of your xorg.conf file. What I did was install

New joyride build 2663

2009-02-25 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2663 Changes in build 2663 from build: 2658 Size delta: -0.13M -anacron 2.3-65.fc10 +anacron 2.3-66.fc10 -crontabs 1.10-25.fc10 +crontabs 1.10-26.fc10 -e2fsprogs 1.41.3-2.fc10 +e2fsprogs 1.41.4-1.fc10 -e2fsprogs-libs 1.41.3-2.fc10

TamTam

2009-02-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Aaron and other music enthusiasts... Aaron asked for info on how to use TamTam. Here is the MiniTamTam information in Spanish. It has a link to a demo in English on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31L9qaxOrp0 Here is one for the synthLab:

Re: [OLPC-devel] Re: boot OLPC laptop from USB flash drive?

2009-02-25 Thread Crapgame99
Richard A. Smith-2 wrote: On 8/19/06, Richard Smith smithb...@gmail.com wrote: OLPC guys -- this transition is important enough that I think it should be on the front page -- I can't find it. Zach -- you have to make the change, so let's see if we can help you. Zach, If you

Re: TamTam

2009-02-25 Thread Andres Cabrera
Since TamTam uses Csound internally it is actually easier to use a MIDI keyboard than the QWERTY keyboard. It shouldn't be hard to add, but who is maintaining TamTam currently (and where?). I could help with this. Cheers, Andrés 2009/2/25 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com: Hi Aaron and other

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-25 Thread John Gilmore
The userland application privilege isolation is hugely important, as we are pushing for making our apps heavily network oriented, the risks of other network hosts trying to take advantage of vulnerable apps is huge. A problem with expanding Rainbow to other

OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Marshall
With the spin-off of Sugar development to sugarlabs, it is nice to see the development continued. However, it seems that the OLPC layoffs and refocus has scuttled the work to complete some OS and system software support for the XO-1 hardware features. For example, I have been waiting for the

Re: TamTam

2009-02-25 Thread Caroline Meeks
2009/2/25 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Hi Aaron and other music enthusiasts... Aaron asked for info on how to use TamTam. Here is the MiniTamTam information in Spanish. It has a link to a demo in English on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31L9qaxOrp0 This is a great

Journal empty in Soas-200902231225 and what is Soas-200902241809.iso in snapshots/2/ ?

2009-02-25 Thread Ton van Overbeek
When trying out Soas-200902231225 the journal stays empty. Anybody else seen this ? Also in http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ there is now a Soas-200902241809.iso. What is this ? Is there a changelog or buildlog somewhere for the various Soas versions? Ton van Overbeek

Re: Journal empty in Soas-200902231225 and what is Soas-200902241809.iso in snapshots/2/ ?

2009-02-25 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Ton van Overbeek tvoverb...@gmail.com wrote: When trying out Soas-200902231225 the journal stays empty. Anybody else seen this ? This is true in several versions of Sugar, including Ubuntu packages. Jonas Smedegård has made a patch for it, available from

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal empty in Soas-200902231225 and what is Soas-200902241809.iso in snapshots/2/ ?

2009-02-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:41:43PM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Ton van Overbeek tvoverb...@gmail.com wrote: When trying out Soas-200902231225 the journal stays empty. Anybody else seen this ? Please look at the

Re: OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-25 Thread david
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Chris Marshall wrote: With the spin-off of Sugar development to sugarlabs, it is nice to see the development continued. However, it seems that the OLPC layoffs and refocus has scuttled the work to complete some OS and system software support for the XO-1 hardware

Re: OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
da...@lang.hm wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Chris Marshall wrote: With the spin-off of Sugar development to sugarlabs, it is nice to see the development continued. However, it seems that the OLPC layoffs and refocus has scuttled the work to complete some OS and system software support for

Re: OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
da...@lang.hm wrote: It would allow for much improved video performance since you could play back a 320x240 video on the full screen at considerable CPU savings. except that you would spend those CPU savings doing the scaling up from 320x240 to the higher resolution. Argh and double

Re: OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-25 Thread Hal Murray
programs that don't allow you to scale ther text/fonts are broken on _many_ systems, not just the XO. many distros let you install a 'large font' set (look at debxo 0.4 vs debxo 0.5 for an example of this, with 0.5 they moved to a large font set) Is there anything I can do on my XO running

Re: OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

2009-02-25 Thread quozl
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:47:07PM -0800, Hal Murray wrote: Is there anything I can do on my XO running terminal so that when I ssh to another system and run a text based X program the fonts will come out useable without a magnifying glass? Not that I know of. The X server dimensions and

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-25 Thread Derek Zhou
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 02:11:08 am qu...@laptop.org wrote: I tried placing just the Option line you specified in an empty xorg.conf, but X would not start, complaining of syntax error in the file. You have to make valid xorg.conf file and add it to the Device section. The easiest way to

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-25 Thread Derek Zhou
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 02:11:08 am qu...@laptop.org wrote: Then I installed the Debian x11-apps package, and did some performance timings, using time x11perf -time 1 -repeat 1 -all, with different configurations, to try to reproduce your observation; By the way, I don't think timing the

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-25 Thread James Cameron
debxo 0.5 KDE variant booted from USB, installed rxvt, started rxvt -fn 12x24, maximised, took a sample log (dmesg) which was 523 lines, appended it many times to generate a file 7322 lines long, then used: time cat file Results were 3.569s, 3.569s, 3.569s. Very predictable, so I tried

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-25 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:42:52PM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: I don't think timing the run time of x11perf is a usable benchmark. Agreed. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list

[Server-devel] Moodle on XS Install

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Bauer
I am using XS 0.5.1 beta. On there the moodle instance is not comfigured. Should I expect it to work out of the box or are there additional steps I need to take to get it working. The XS install docs don't mention moodle at all, only ejabberd. Thanks Dave -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle on XS Install

2009-02-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/2/26 Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com: I am using XS 0.5.1 beta. On there the moodle instance is not comfigured. Should I expect it to work out of the box or are there additional steps I need to take to get it working. The XS install docs don't mention moodle at all, only ejabberd. It's

[Server-devel] Please test - XS-0.5.2-dev01

2009-02-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
Grab the 0.5.2-dev01 iso from http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ - @online@ should now work - please test with http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-February/002949.html - Daniel's enhancements and fixes to xs-activity-server are in there too... cheers, m --