Re: Disabling powersaving temporarily from olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Fox
hal wrote: > > martin.langh...@gmail.com said: > > what would be the right way to signal to powerd that for this session > > aggressive suspend should be suspended, or its timeout lengthened to > > several > > minutes, without affecting the "normal" setting? > > My notes say that: >

Re: Disabling powersaving temporarily from olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Hal Murray
martin.langh...@gmail.com said: > what would be the right way to signal to powerd that for this session > aggressive suspend should be suspended, or its timeout lengthened to several > minutes, without affecting the "normal" setting? My notes say that: touch /var/run/powerd-inhibit-suspend Wil

Disabling powersaving temporarily from olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Paul, list, what would be the right way to signal to powerd that for this session aggressive suspend should be suspended, or its timeout lengthened to several minutes, without affecting the "normal" setting? cheers, m -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Langhoff Date: Fri, Ju

Re: [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > XO-1.5: > === > > We'll be continuing to work on XO-1.5 improvements, incorporating > fixes to the "Known Problems" section of the 10.1.1 release notes¹ > into the 10.1.2 release. Chris, James, can we rename the upcoming milestone to 10.1.2

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > For monitors/projectors that can handle something close to 1200x900 -- > 1152x864, you can use Xinerama instead. Here is an xorg.conf that does > exactly that: The Xinerama approach turned out to be a winner in terms of performance and !bug

Re: [Sugar-devel] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >   > What about the compiler? IIUC currently a commercial compiler is >   > required. If that continues to be the case (as I expect it to), >   > would it be possible for OLPC to provide the (probably very few) >   > users interested in hacking on

Re: Disabling Xv -- from xorg.conf or olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Me wrote: > There is no way to do this automatically.  You can do this manually by > adding the following to your xorg.conf > > > Section "Extensions" >        Option      "XVideo" "Disable" > EndSection Thanks! I also found another technique -- passing -noxv to Xe

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks for the feedback here and IRC, I set the default to browser mode like they are doing in peru. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Disabling Xv -- from xorg.conf or olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Me
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi list, > > do we have a way to disable Xv, dynamically or at boot? > > cheers, > There is no way to do this automatically. You can do this manually by adding the following to your xorg.conf Section "Extensions" Option "XV

Disabling Xv -- from xorg.conf or olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi list, do we have a way to disable Xv, dynamically or at boot? cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff __

Backing up the Journal

2010-07-09 Thread John Watlington
What is the currently recommended method of archiving the contents of a journal on one laptop (say to a USB key) and restoring them on another laptop ? Thanks, wad ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

July 11th, 4PM NYC time: "Virtual Field Trip Realness (Classrooms ain't in Kansas Nomore)"

2010-07-09 Thread Holt
Reply to holt @ laptop.org for our phone presentation's conf-call number, and the below speaker's PDF slides expected within ~24hrs. Parallel Live Chat for those who unable to telephone: http://forum.laptop.org/chat (that's *#olpc-help* on irc.freenode.net) *Sunday July 11 - Virtual Field

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Any suggestions on simulating load for rsync + ssh? > > Use a for loop in bash, combined with some forking... ;-) > > OK. anybody have a good estimate of the typical filesize for jou

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Me
>>> >>> Does anyone have an opinion whether we should make this change >>> worldwide? Or make it an option in the build configuration for >>> olpc-os-builder users? (in the 2nd case, which would be the default?) >>> >>> In all cases, the user can change preferences later. >>> As of GNOME 2.30 naut

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Any suggestions on simulating load for rsync + ssh? Use a for loop in bash, combined with some forking... ;-) m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distract

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tiago Marques wrote: > For me the one window per directory is pretty annoying, so I would say to go > for that browser mode. > Best regards, > Tiago > I agree. Default mode on all my machines for myself and my family (on Ubuntu) has been one window for all nested

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 09:47 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:19 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: >> > [r...@schoolserver ~]# ifconfig eth0 >> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:C0:05:AD:5D >> >           inet addr:172.1

Re: GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Tiago Marques
For me the one window per directory is pretty annoying, so I would say to go for that browser mode. Best regards, Tiago On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > In Peru, they are customizing their GNOME build in that they are > setting Nautilus to browser mode by default. >

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Given that backing up of journals from several tens or hundreds of XOs >> can put a significant load on the XS, what would be a good approach to >> simulate such a load in the context

Re: [Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Given that backing up of journals from several tens or hundreds of XOs > can put a significant load on the XS, what would be a good approach to > simulate such a load in the context of jmeter testing? Any ideas? JMeter is for web stuff -- thi

GNOME/nautilus: set default to browser mode

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, In Peru, they are customizing their GNOME build in that they are setting Nautilus to browser mode by default. The existing default in our version of GNOME is to open one window per directory that is opened, browser mode looks more like: http://richbradshaw.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/nautilus.

[Server-devel] simulating load of journal backup

2010-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
Given that backing up of journals from several tens or hundreds of XOs can put a significant load on the XS, what would be a good approach to simulate such a load in the context of jmeter testing? Any ideas? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Direct

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 09:47 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:19 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > > [r...@schoolserver ~]# ifconfig eth0 > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:C0:05:AD:5D > > inet addr:172.18.96.34 Bcast:172.18.96.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Where is

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:19 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > I'm setting up a XS machine (XS 0.6) that has only one Ethernet port. > This port gets appropriated at eth0 and acts as the primary LAN > interface for XOs to talk to it (via a bridged AP). I also want to get > this box to talk to the outside

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On 9 July 2010 00:52, Hal Murray wrote: > I've seen it hang during booting, 2 out of 6-10 tries.  There is one dot > visible and the big X is still an X before it changes to a V and goes around > in a circle.  Is there anything I can do to collect more info? Could be http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/

Re: [Server-devel] XS eth1 problems

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > I'm setting up a XS machine (XS 0.6) that has only one Ethernet port. > This port gets appropriated at eth0 and acts as the primary LAN > interface for XOs to talk to it (via a bridged AP). I also want to get > this box to talk to the outside (

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On N, 2010-07-08 at 16:07 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> [ I am still eyeing some bugs -- ie: screen rotation -- for a 10.1.2 ... ] > > Please work on Xorg (driver) bugs and tasks together with the wider > community of Geode graphics. For ex

Re: New XO-1 10.1.2 build 300

2010-07-09 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On N, 2010-07-08 at 16:07 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > > It's particularly significant because (when the release goes final) it > > means we have synchronized software between XO-1 and XO-1.5. > > Are we aiming for a "synchronised" 10.1.2 f