RE: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1 (solved)

2012-04-04 Thread David Leeming
All done and it works well. It was a question of trying to do it without fully understanding the process. In summary, steps 1 and 2 using gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-ffmpeg were all that were needed. The rpms thus collected were then tested on a freshly installed XO and all working, furth

Re: XO-1 to switch back to JFFS2

2012-04-04 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 4, 2012, at 10:37 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Comments/objections? JFFS2 worked well enough when those laptops were built and tested! > It's sad that this space (raw NAND filesystems) isn't seeing more > attention from filesystems

Re: XO-1 to switch back to JFFS2

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Comments/objections? It's sad that this space (raw NAND filesystems) isn't seeing more attention from filesystems people. But it seems a pretty established trend, now that FTLs have gotten better and their cost has for all practical purposes d

Re: XO-1 to switch back to JFFS2

2012-04-04 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning on moving the XO-1 back to JFFS2 for 12.1.0 - and likely > for the future too. > > The reasons being: > > 1. UBIFS is considerably less space-efficient than JFFS2. > > http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_jf

Re: XO-1 to switch back to JFFS2

2012-04-04 Thread James Cameron
+1 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

XO-1 to switch back to JFFS2

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I'm planning on moving the XO-1 back to JFFS2 for 12.1.0 - and likely for the future too. The reasons being: 1. UBIFS is considerably less space-efficient than JFFS2. http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_jffs2_space We needed the disk space already, and we're battling consta

Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:06 AM, David Leeming wrote: > > A few stumbling blocks for me; > > (1) the two localinstall commands below each need Internet connections to > succeed on a fresh install, or the error is "cannot retrieve repository > metadata". Or: rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:06 AM, David Leeming wrote: > A few stumbling blocks for me; > > (1) the two localinstall commands below each need Internet connections to > succeed on a fresh install, or the error is "cannot retrieve repository > metadata". Correct. This is the preparation stage, where