Re: XO battery/performance

2012-05-27 Thread James Cameron
G'day, Your test script is a good test for scrolling performance in Terminal, thanks. I don't agree with the implications you have drawn though. I agree that the scrolling hesitations would ruin the test ... because if the bash process is blocked the counter would not increase. -- James Camero

Re: XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-27 Thread James Cameron
G'day Mikus, The XO-1 SD card slot power supply circuit does not have a discharge clamping function, and so when the firmware or software turns off the power to the slot, the voltage falls slowly. The fall rate violates the specification for cards. We have seen cards becoming confused because of

maintainer proposal for libusb lua binding

2012-05-27 Thread Andres Aguirre
Hi, we are working at the project ButiĆ” ( www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia), creating an inexpensive, open-source and versatile robotic platform to teach robotics and computer science in public schools. It builds on the Sugar software and XO hardware, in order to turn the XO into a low-cost edu

XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-27 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
DISCLAIMER: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Encountered an interesting situation on one XO-1 with os11 (12.1.0): On completely random occasions, the boot-up sequence stops because of i/o errors on device mmcblk0. Without making any changes whatsoever, the very next bo

12.1.0 devel build 12 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-05-27 Thread Peter Robinson
The "No one needs anything here. It's all about want." release. This is the end of the development cycle. We're now headed into the stabilisation and bug fixing phase. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/12.1.0/Release_plan Fixed bugs: #11828 olpc UID has changed in 12.1.0 #11874 udev refers to user 'us