Re: VGA output

2009-05-18 Thread John Watlington
Yeah, the pins are in two rows, not three (see pinout). On May 19, 2009, at 12:01 AM, da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2009, John Watlington wrote: > >> I guess Ian never put this info on the Wiki. >> Ian Daniher (it.dani...@gmail.com) was doing this >> as recently as this fall using connec

Re: Fwd: VGA output

2009-05-18 Thread david
On Mon, 18 May 2009, John Watlington wrote: > I guess Ian never put this info on the Wiki. > Ian Daniher (it.dani...@gmail.com) was doing this > as recently as this fall using connectors scavenged from > A-phase boards. > > The problem is going to be obtaining the VGA connector. > As far as I know

Fwd: VGA output

2009-05-18 Thread John Watlington
I guess Ian never put this info on the Wiki. Ian Daniher (it.dani...@gmail.com) was doing this as recently as this fall using connectors scavenged from A-phase boards. The problem is going to be obtaining the VGA connector. As far as I know, they are not available in small quantities. The pinout

Re: Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Graham
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 13:54 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Work on getting a top-notch polished $desktop on it, and continued > mantainership behind it, and it'll definitely be an option. It's > reasonably easy to get desktops "going", but good polish making it > suitable for end users takes a to

Re: Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Graham
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 13:54 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Work on getting a top-notch polished $desktop on it, and continued > mantainership behind it, and it'll definitely be an option. It's > reasonably easy to get desktops "going", but good polish making it > suitable for end users takes a to

Re: VGA questions

2009-05-18 Thread pgf
guylhem wrote: > Hello > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 20:54, Bobby Powers wrote: > > on a B4 (which just needed the VGA connector, no other components), > > Same here. I have a spare B4 board for these tests (I would like to > reproduce the identical picture of the XO on a projector for a >

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Ben, > >   > Of course, this equation gets still more complicated depending on >   > whether we have MTD or FTL flash.  Choosing a filesystem will be >   > an interesting exercise. > > I think it's clear that we'll be using an FTL of some kin

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 16:05, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other >>> base packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, >> >> One area we'll also need help with is the "under a tree" networking scenario. >> >> If you've used a

Re: VGA questions

2009-05-18 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 20:54, Bobby Powers wrote: > on a B4 (which just needed the VGA connector, no other components), Same here. I have a spare B4 board for these tests (I would like to reproduce the identical picture of the XO on a projector for a formation - and I'm talking about open

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Robinson
>> We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other >> base packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, > > One area we'll also need help with is the "under a tree" networking scenario. > > If you've used an XO, you know what it works like: by default the OS > autom

Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other > base packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, One area we'll also need help with is the "under a tree" networking scenario. If you've used an XO, you know

customizing boot animation

2009-05-18 Thread noutash
Greetings all, I am trying to customize the boot animation on the XOs.I found some instructions here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tweaking_the_boot_animation however I couldn't find anywhere in the wiki what the specification of the png files should be. Can somebody please give me some pointers. Th