Re: 870 on XO1

2011-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 June 2011 00:03, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, on XO 1 with new 870 build : 1) At boot, once the animation has completed its little circle, the screen goes black for about 17 seconds before the favourite wheel comes up. Does this on multiple XO's.  Does not happen on

Re: 870 on XO1

2011-06-26 Thread Kevin Gordon
dsd: Yes sir, 860 behaves just like 870 in identical comparisons in terms of time of booting and activity launching, just as you predicted. However 860 leaves the completed boot animation circle up, instead of turning the screen black for that rather long period of time between animation

Screen dimming XO1 vs XO 1.5

2011-06-26 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: On the XO 1 with the osxx builds and 870, with no power setting options turned on, the screen still dims after a period of inactivity. The unit is active, but just the screen has dimmed off. Tapping a key or the trackpad brings the screen back on, and everything else including wifi is

Re: 870 on XO1

2011-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 June 2011 14:47, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Yes sir, 860 behaves just like 870 in identical comparisons in terms of time of booting and activity launching, just as you predicted. However 860 leaves the completed boot animation circle up, instead of turning the screen black

Re: Screen dimming XO1 vs XO 1.5

2011-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 June 2011 14:55, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Folks: On the XO 1 with the osxx builds and 870, with no power setting options turned on, the screen still dims after a period of inactivity. The unit is active, but just the screen has dimmed off. You might be talking about

Updates for OLPC English Keyboard mappings table

2011-06-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have been consulting http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Keyboard and performing some of my own tests with an external US-style keyboard (Logitech Internet 350) on an XO-1.5 running XO-AU OS 10.1.3-au2. So far I have determined that: * F1-F4 changes views

Re: Screen dimming XO1 vs XO 1.5

2011-06-26 Thread Kevin Gordon
Sorry, soon I will learn to use terminology correctly. In this case, by dim I meant instant off. :-) If I just walk away from an XO1 leaving it up, let's say, on the favourites wheel, after about 15 mins the screen backlight goes off, not dark, not dim, it goes completely off. This is with no

Re: Screen dimming XO1 vs XO 1.5

2011-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 June 2011 15:22, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, soon I will learn to use terminology correctly.  In this case, by dim I meant instant off.  :-) Yep, this is a known issue - but one that we treat only with low priority. Auto screen poweroff on inactivity has been

Re: Screen dimming XO1 vs XO 1.5

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: On 26 June 2011 15:22, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, soon I will learn to use terminology correctly. In this case, by dim I meant instant off. :-) Yep, this is a known issue - but one that we treat only with low priority. Auto screen poweroff