Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Ball
that than turn them off, since we're throwing away useful in-the-field debugging information (for anyone who wants to help fix laptops remotely, not just us) if we turn them off. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Ball
and battery) and rebooting, in case the problem goes away. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: RSS feed for several git modules not working

2007-07-08 Thread Chris Ball
. I have 1.5.2.2 installed. Looks like the new version of gitweb isn't handling Unicode correctly: Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Encode.pm line 166. (And those two modules have Ivan's name, containing Unicode, as the owner.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL

Re: Teleconference information for software status meeting (today, 21:00 EDT Boston

2007-08-14 Thread Chris Ball
System software meeting minutes, 2007-08-14: Joel Stanley, Bernando Innocenti, Mitch, Bryan, Luna, Richard Smith, Jim, Jordan, Andres, Scott, Marcelo, Javier, Chris Ball Status: --- Wireless resume problems: We have firmware from Javier that appears to work, but we don't understand

Teleconference information for software status meeting (today, 21:00 EDT Boston)

2007-08-21 Thread Chris Ball
=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedpriority=blockermilestone=Trial-3order=priority School server status -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Board Revision

2007-08-23 Thread Chris Ball
and MP). We should probably change the kernel identifier from C1 to R1 in arch/i386/kernel/olpc.c, then. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Questions on LinuxBIOS and OpenFirmware

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Ball
with his own OFW init about six months ago -- Ivan described the situation before that. So, we're using pure OFW. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: sugar-update: your friendly neighborhood auto-installation script

2007-08-29 Thread Chris Ball
olpc.fth. It shouldn't be difficult to do a git clone of the olpc-auto.zip and unzip that into place too. I think that'd be really useful. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: HID support

2007-09-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Ankita, Can someone tell whether the Fedora distribution on XO has HID support? Yes, USB HID works fine. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Teleconference information for software status meeting (today, 21:00 EDT Boston)

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Ball
conference. If anyone who wants to be on the call is unable or unwilling to use IRC, we could consider opening up the bridge in order to relay their questions to the conference. Thoughts? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Re: Increasing performance by tuning swappiness

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Any thoughts on this subject? Yes: we don't use swap. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fixed memory address

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Ball
exactly this: # prelink -avm / # reboot And it made no discernible difference (with a stopwatch) to boot time, activity startup time, or activity memory use. It was pretty confusing. If someone wants to see if they can have better luck with it, that'd be fine with me. - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: Alternative neighborhood in mesh networks

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Ball
displayed. http://web.media.mit.edu/~ypod/mesh/ Wow, this looks great. Does it rely on the mesh beacons from each laptop, though? I think we're about to turn those off -- see: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2750#comment:4 - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: connect to network?

2007-10-11 Thread Chris Ball
of encrypted APs. In the absence of a physical network port, this would be the only way I can copy files to/from the X0. You could also use a USB disk, SD card, or USB ethernet device. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing

Re: OFW

2007-10-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Can someone provide a pointer to the OFW tree? My purpose is simply to review the code. http://openbios.org/Open_Firmware - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Teleconference information for software status meeting (tonight, 2100 EDT)

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Ball
800-526-2655 or 205-206-2301 Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: MP Build... FYI

2007-11-04 Thread Chris Ball
use the trial-3 series of kernels, which did not see this patch. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EST Boston)

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Ball
for update-1 blockers by owner: http://tinyurl.com/2fuzpv - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

New power management features in joyride-build-258+.

2007-11-12 Thread Chris Ball
! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EST Boston)

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We'll be having the regular software meeting on IRC (irc.freenode.net #olpc-meeting) tonight at 9pm EST. See you there! Date/time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11day=20year=2007hour=21min=0sec=0p1=43 - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [RFC PATCH] libertas: turn radio off when down

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Ball
/search so that we can wrap them?) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EST Boston)

2007-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We'll be having the regular software meeting on IRC (irc.freenode.net #olpc-meeting) tonight at 9pm EST. See you there! Date/time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12day=04year=2007hour=21min=0sec=0p1=43 - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: joyride, ship.1 etc.

2007-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
. I'm not one of the build masters -- perhaps they could follow up and correct me if I've misunderstood something. Hope that helps, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: Prohibition of binaries

2007-12-08 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Someone mentioned that there will be (or already is?) a prohibition on loading any binaries and that all custom content must be Python and only Python? Is this true? No. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to 4 %

2007-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
there isn't new input to handle. - Chris. [1]: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/pippy/Pippy-11.xo , with thanks to Henry Holtzman for the new pygame examples. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Reducing pygame cpu-load to 4 %

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
system load. It's plugin-based and outputs as text in the console and/or as graph with gtk: Looks good! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
is the start of another long mail thread. Let's not and pretend we did.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: updated GStreamer RPMs

2007-12-14 Thread Chris Ball
been decided. ;-) (My reason for disagreeing is the standard progress vs. support dichotomy. I'd rather we kept the base OS as a known quantity but worked really hard on things like performance.) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Enable security in Update.1 builds

2007-12-15 Thread Chris Ball
before Ship.2 was released, so all clear from me. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Oprofile, swap

2007-12-18 Thread Chris Ball
lives in olpc-2.6/arch/i386/configs. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Software status meeting on IRC (today, 21:00 EST Boston).

2007-12-18 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We'll be having the regular software meeting on IRC (irc.freenode.net #olpc-meeting) tonight at 9pm EST. See you there! Date/time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12day=18year=2007hour=21min=0sec=0p1=43 - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: upgrading firmware on activated laptops

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Ball
: This page is for software developers only. It does not apply to Give One Get One laptops unless you first get a developer key; until then, please use the olpc-update or activated upgrade method. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: suspend/resume support?

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Ball
joyride? Please let me know. Thanks. Yes, the power management features were not ready in time for the G1G1 build, but they are in Joyride. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: file compare ?

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Ball
data. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: suspend/resume support?

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Ball
the display. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: I got a developer key -- now what? :)

2007-12-28 Thread Chris Ball
? Is there some kind of documentation on what's risky and what's safe? You're safe no matter what you do to the NAND, because the firmware can flash a new NAND image from USB. If you want to be sure of not bricking it, you should avoid flashing firmware that isn't signed by OLPC. - Chris. -- Chris

Re: Screen saver on B4 units

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Ball
it to sleep is disabled. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 1500

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Ball
. * #4843: Preserve user choice of brightness after dimming, and don't dim if it would *increase* brightness. I'd like it if we could either prefer ChangeLog entries to RPM changelog entries, or print both in the build changelog. What do others think? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris

Re: Weird WLAN problem after stupid upgrade attempt

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Tom, Once you have your developer key, please run: ok test /wlan If that fails too, it should be clear that we need to RMA and replace your laptop. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Offering Hosting For OLPC Projects?

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Ball
don't think hosting is a good one. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: auto screen rotation

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Ball
in, with outdated bugs. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: auto screen rotation

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Ball
. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: can suspend be prevented ?

2008-01-12 Thread Chris Ball
).] Yes, we've considered refusing to suspend when certain classes of USB devices are plugged in. This hasn't been implemented yet, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: q2d08A firmware anywhere?

2008-01-13 Thread Chris Ball
or two after that.) For Update.2, I'd like to tell the EC about sleep mode, and avoid the temporary wakeups altogether. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: q2d08A firmware anywhere?

2008-01-13 Thread Chris Ball
about sleep mode, and avoid the temporary wakeups altogether. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: q2d08A firmware anywhere?

2008-01-13 Thread Chris Ball
still allowing power button wakeups, though? I know we see power button presses in the Southbridge -- can the EC see them too? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: power savings will stop transfers

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Ball
CPU (for example, rsync) it should inhibit suspend automatically by virtue of the CPU use. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New PyGTK Tutorials

2008-01-17 Thread Chris Ball
in trying to create 3DPong inside Pippy, I'd like to hear about whether it works well for you, and whether there are any changes we should make to the pygame wrapper. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Voting in Trac

2008-01-17 Thread Chris Ball
we're thinking of: allowing external users and developers to have a say over how we prioritize bugs. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC and GLX

2008-01-20 Thread Chris Ball
on that window, but also on the contents of the rest of the screen at the time. Perhaps the Ubuntu desktop had xfce in the background, and the OLPC desktop had the sugar home view, and perhaps there is a difference in rendering load between the two? (He said, with gale-force handwaving.) - Chris. -- Chris

Re: New joyride build 1568

2008-01-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Someone want to test it? Tested, boots, works so far. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 1569 (fixed in 1570)

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I'm also seeing the backlight dimming/brightening behavior at the text console that you originally reported. This console dimming is fixed as of yesterday, but the Joyride builds have been down so it hasn't made it into a build yet. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: power management experiences with joyride-1572

2008-01-23 Thread Chris Ball
of battery life with the mix of awake and asleep modes currently present in the Joyride build. I'd also be interested in opinions on the timeouts I've chosen for the idle-suspend mode -- currently we suspend after 30 seconds of user input idleness, if the CPU is also idle. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris

Re: power management experiences with joyride-1572

2008-01-23 Thread Chris Ball
for +59s before going to sleep. This is a long-term feature, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: power management experiences with joyride-1572

2008-01-23 Thread Chris Ball
don't support it. You can set your own wakeups easily: # rtcwake -s 120 after 30s, the laptop should suspend due to idleness after another 90s, the laptop should wake itself rtcwake is in the OLPC build already. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Joyride---Update.1 transition

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Ball
the decision process. As it suggests, the bits are copied by tagging RPMS that are already in Joyride into the Update.1 branch in Koji. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: ssh key for project hosting application

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Ball
. We encourage you to use a passphrase. You can use ssh-add to avoid typing your passphrase more than once per session. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Python Development

2008-01-28 Thread Chris Ball
/xo-1-olpc-stream-update.1-devel_ext3.img.bz2 Hope that helps. Further questions are probably best posted to the sugar@ list instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Battery charging and display intensity in joyride-1594

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
are. The timeouts aren't locked into place for Update.1; if we find that going from 30-60 seconds before suspend makes people happier, I'll change it. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 14:00pm EST)

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We'll be having a software status meeting on irc.freenode.net / #olpc-meeting today (Wednesday) at 2pm EST. Agenda: * What needs to happen before we can ship/sign Update.1-RC1? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list

Re: screen dims and brightens

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Though it would be nicer to me if OHM could keep the back light level if not suspending to avoid this problem. This is the case in recent Joyride builds. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Chris Ball
; at other times, if the screen is off when we wake up, turn it on. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-10 Thread Chris Ball
this (or something similar) working makes it worth investigating even solutions that make the mesh slower to respond. (But my job is to get our battery to last longer, so of course I'm going to say that. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Only Pippy actually crashes - it fails to launch completely. Logged #6475 for Pippy, with a minimal patch attached. Applied, thanks. I've pushed a Pippy-19.xo release to Joyride. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Standalone mesh deployment ideas.

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Ball
. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Ball
? What is it in Avahi's code path that causes its peer list to be emptied on resume? If we have to disable OHM to test something in particular, that's okay, but we won't be testing what we plan on shipping if we do so. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Ball
. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Mesh testing on Monday.

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Ball
request timeout, for example. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: show me the code

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Ball
*itself* in Pippy, where you can make modifications to it and build a new Pippy bundle from them). - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Today's mesh testing.

2008-03-02 Thread Chris Ball
%. (In general, wireless networks seem to start degrading around 40%.) - Chris and Daf. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Read ETexts Activity is set up

2008-03-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Project name : Read ETexts Activity Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/read We already ship an activity called Read with the XO -- could we call the repository for this one something like etexts to avoid confusion? - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: How can I prevent 'suspend' ?

2008-03-06 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Mikus, How do I prevent 'Read' (or whatever) from letting my XO 'suspend'? touch /etc/inhibit-ebook-sleep - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Physics with Python and Pygame (Chipmunk 2D Physics Engine)

2008-03-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pymunx Wow, how awesome! Do you have an XO to test on? Have you thought about releasing a standalone .xo, or throwing these into Pippy? What are the dependencies and disk usage like for the underlying chipmunk library? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: A proposal to give some DICTIONARY pre-installed on the XOs that will be delivered to Peruvian Kids

2008-03-10 Thread Chris Ball
, and if you have any suggestions on which dictionaries are best to use. I'm using this one for Spanish at the moment: http://www.june29.com/IDP/files/Spanish.txt Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: New update.1 build 699

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, -Web 86 I think we need to leave Web in, to bootstrap installing other activities via the network. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New update.1 build 699

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, what does inhibit-idle-suspend do? It allows you to disable automatic idle suspend while keeping enabled the explicit suspend on power button press or lid close. Previously, there was only the inhibit-suspend file that inhibits both of the above. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL

Re: New update.1 build 702

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Ball
key. I'll prepare a zip file of a customization key with the G1G1 activities on tomorrow, we can see if there are any version discrepencies between our bundles, and I'll release a G1G1 customization key and the script tomorrow. Sound okay? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Update.1 testing with activity packs.

2008-03-24 Thread Chris Ball
/1_Hour_Smoke_Test) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Update.1 testing with activity packs.

2008-03-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, # olpc-update update.1-702 Gary C Martin mailed me off-list to point out that this will need to be /usr/sbin/olpc-update update.1-702 unless you're logged in as root directly, or have root's environment through sudo su -. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ACPI/APM

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
way is to download the latest Joyride build and test the automatic power management there. There are also some related wiki pages: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Power_Management http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OHM_power_management http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Suspend_and_resume - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL

Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
.1 is finished -- it's still very important that we keep on top of the remaining testing and bugs in that stream. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
of activities will help to get those activities tested. If you have an activity that works and is ready for testing by the community at large, feel free to push it into Joyride. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 14:00pm EDT)

2008-03-26 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We'll be meeting in #olpc-meeting on Freenode in fifteen minutes from now. Agenda: * State of update.1. Report available at: http://dev.laptop.org/report/16?TIME=40 - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: [Testing] Automated testing, OLPC, code+screencasts.

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Ball
(bonobo, corba..) but there wouldn't be a need to put them in every build, just builds that we want to run a test harness against. Thanks, - Chris. ¹: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ ²: http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/ -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Testing] [sugar] Testing Update.1-702

2008-03-28 Thread Chris Ball
this is a regression -- the current theory in the bug is that we're simply not receiving packets from the network. I'll be testing that theory by posting a log of network traffic during a failure today. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Re: Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

2008-03-30 Thread Chris Ball
/G1G1_Activity_Pack .. or you can use Bert's script: wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py python update-activities.py - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-14 Thread Chris Ball
of how much power each activity uses as well. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I *think* Richard mentioned that he planned to move the gnome-power-manager logic to OHM at some point. Sounds good. There haven't been any upstream commits to OHM in over six months, though, so I think we'd have to do this ourselves. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fun and games with trying to un-suspend

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Ball
is to inhibit suspends altogether when an SD card is inserted. I've just filed #6893 to track doing that for the next release. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: Internet wide chat

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Ball
for Salut, but not for Gabble, so video chat would be on the local mesh only. It would be worth someone checking out the Theora team's latest optimizations, which might make Theora solve the codec problem. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Re: Document sharing issues

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Ball
the downloader internals, it won't require introducing a new API dependency between activities and sugar. Sugar gang, any thoughts? - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 1889

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Ball
kernel. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Internet wide chat

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Ball
addresses to our users. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Joyride

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Ball
. I think 1892 is a decent bet. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Joyride

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Ball
, and that Write opened its root window, on 1894 and 1895, and it hasn't run against 1896 yet. So, we can suspect that it's either in 1896 only or local to your build. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Internet wide chat

2008-04-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Guillaume, FYI, I did some packaging work and resurrected the video-chat activity. I was able to videocall my 2 XO's and to call one XO using Empathy from my desktop. You rock! - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-04-30 Thread Chris Ball
translate it to whatever they'd like. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: olpc build environment

2008-05-01 Thread Chris Ball
. Adding: %define _enable_debug_packages 0 to the top of the specfile disables that part of the build, and produced a working kernel package. Hope that helps. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: New joyride build 1918

2008-05-03 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I don't remember seeing this error before joyride-1914. I suspect part of the idle-power-save strategy is interfering with data transfer ? Yes, that's right; touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-idle-suspend will disable it temporarily, and you can rm the file when done. - Chris. -- Chris

New ssh key fingerprint for dev.laptop.org.

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Ball
-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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