My view of OS7 on XO-1

2009-09-29 Thread Hal Murray
It now connects to my home AP without manual intervention, and quickly too. Yea! Thanks. I haven't figured out how to setup a mesh network. I've got two circles on the frame. One is a copy of the icon for my AP in the neighborhood view. The other one is gray and the text says "Create new

Re: os30

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Bert, > Is there a way to test os30 without an XO-1.5? I think you can boot the os30.iso that's output by the build process in your VM environment of choice: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/ Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child __

os30

2009-09-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Just noticed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9459 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9467 Is there a way to test os30 without an XO-1.5? Or shouldn't I worry about these? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

[Server-devel] firewalling/nocat

2009-09-29 Thread Jerry Vonau
Hi Martin: I've worked up what I think the basic layout of what the firewall rules need to look like that would be used with nocat's access.fw I've stripped and ported nocat's initialize.fw script for our needs, should set up the required iptable rules. access.fw accepts 4 inputs: [permit\|deny]

Re: soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Regarding _using_ the 'new' toolbar: > I would argue your 'significant amount of XO screen real estate' is a > rather large exaggeration ;-) My XO-1 screen is 4.5 inches vertically. On soas70xo, two toolbars together visually "black out" .75 inches vertically. That's 1/6 of my entire screen.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error running socialcalc on sugar live cd

2009-09-29 Thread vijit singh
Hello Walter and all, The directory /home/olpc/Activities should be writable by user olpc. > Yes, they should be in the live cd also as they are writable in the normal xo and the sugar emulator as well. > That would explain your trouble with installing activities. The > question remains, why wa

Re: soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Robinson
>> The "X crash" scrolling problem is a BLOCKER > > I know, you heard it here first.  Care to bugzilla it? > >> 'rpm -q kernel' attests to sloppy composing of the build. > > Sloppy is hardly the moniker for the general practice of having two > kernels installed (one backup/running and one to-be-boo

Re: soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:14:34AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > The "X crash" scrolling problem is a BLOCKER I know, you heard it here first. Care to bugzilla it? > 'rpm -q kernel' attests to sloppy composing of the build. Sloppy is hardly the moniker for the general practice of having two k

Re: soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Mikus, > > On 29 Sep 2009, at 15:14, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > >> With now more exposure to it, I still do not like the new toolbar >> design.  The XO has a *small* display screen.  Now many Activity >> capabilities (such as 'Edit' in Termi

soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Ran with soas70xo (booted from nand) on my XO-1. Many of the difficulties with previous SoaS builds were still present, with some new ones added. The "X crash" scrolling problem is a BLOCKER - for instance, because of this pr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error running socialcalc on sugar live cd

2009-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:54 AM, vijit singh wrote: > Hello Tomeu and all, > > I just got the chance to try installing socialcalc on the sugar live cd and > I have been able to install it properly. Here is the review of the process, > might be helpful for other activities also in case anybody fac

Re: Error running socialcalc on sugar live cd

2009-09-29 Thread vijit singh
Hello Tomeu and all, I just got the chance to try installing socialcalc on the sugar live cd and I have been able to install it properly. Here is the review of the process, might be helpful for other activities also in case anybody faces a similar problem-- 1. Actually, the error which was coming