Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-14 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: With time running out on 10.1.3 RC, I've had to narrow my scope here in order to get anything concrete. I'm now using just the 358 build on the 2xXO 1.5's and the 2 XO 1.0's. What I can say is that the behaviour of both the USB2VGA and USB2VGA2 Startechs appear to be equivalent in

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: I cant seem to get Xrandr to turn the external off and return control to the XO display when the XO is running.  The output of xrandr only shows that Correct. xrandr cannot control 2 video cards. It can control 1 video

Re: Why do we rfkill in Sugar?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Fox
[ moving to devel ] martin wrote: Hi Paul, techteam, you patched the codepath that controls the wireless disable to run rfkill to *really* kill the network when wwe mean to kill the network. Why did we do this? Regulatory reasons? Is there a tracking bug where I can get more

Re: Why do we rfkill in Sugar?

2010-12-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: [ snip ] thanks for the explanations! what are your workarounds? See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10532#comment:7 cheers, m --  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  - don't get

[PATCH OpenFirmware] XO-1.5 DSDT: enable THRM# GPIO (ebook) by default

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Drake
This change means that the ebook switch is automatically functional, without an ugly code block in the ebook switch driver which changes low-level system registers. This should be a safe change; any working ebook switch driver will already have been making this config space tweak anyway. But it

Re: USB to VGA

2010-12-14 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:53:53AM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: One other thing I need to check further is that the XO 1.0 seems to have a sluggish keyboard echo response to the screen when plugged into the external monitor. sometimes when I'm tapping a sentence it pauses for up to 2 seconds

Re: [PATCH OpenFirmware] XO-1.5 DSDT: enable THRM# GPIO (ebook) by default

2010-12-14 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:09:58PM +, Daniel Drake wrote: This change means that the ebook switch is automatically functional, without an ugly code block in the ebook switch driver which changes low-level system registers. This should be a safe change; any working ebook switch driver