Re: No surprise on memory

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Ball
h doesn't mention how he feels about swapping in particular. We could perhaps attempt to conduct some experiments.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Ball
start out with #8893 and move on to #7958 if it still exists and we get time. I've updated the wiki ("Requirement 12 addressed by..") to say so. - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Ball
or power management, which would be a fine model for the new one. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Improved_battery_life Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-16 Thread Chris Ball
cy: gnome-python2 = 2.22.1-3.olpc3 is needed by package gnome-python2-gnome-2.22.1-3.olpc3.i386 (olpc_development) Error: Missing Dependency: gnome-python2 = 2.22.1-3.olpc3 is needed by package gnome-python2-bonobo-2.22.1-3.olpc3.i386 (olpc_development) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball __

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-16 Thread Chris Ball
trol panel * write a GNOME menu item/desktop icon to switch back to Sugar - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations

2008-12-12 Thread Chris Ball
es. -- http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/translations.html So the English text is always canonical. - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 2588 - Journal unusable

2008-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
h to help shake out the bugs, we'd love your help; if you don't, that's fine too and you should stay on 8.2.x for another few weeks. Hope that helps! - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Ball
driver) optimizations are required to > make a particular filesystem fast on that device. Does e.g. "dd if=mtd0 of=somefile bs=1M count=20" accomplish this? (When a program expects a block device argument, you can give a raw "mtd0&

Re: Joyride Build 2582

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > The logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html say: > joyride-2582 (pkgs) ! Build incomplete Error Downloading Packages: > Any idea someone? xs-dev was out of disk space, and isn't anymore; let's see what happens with the next build. - Chris. -- C

Re: Way to tell if it is an XO

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
ess can reply to your test in whatever way is necessary. I think you probably shouldn't try to accomplish this, or should try to use a different method such as a pre-shared credential. Hope that helps, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
h 8.2.0; we chose a set of activities to ship on a G1G1 image. Each deployment creates its own conjunction of {XO release+Activities}, with G1G1 being one such deployment when it's running. Could you elaborate on what the list of chosen activities would mean this time around? Thanks, - Chris. --

Re: Start python script into terminal

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
mport" or with os.system), and then do "save as bundle" in Pippy to create an activity that does the same. Hope that helps, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Cleaning up Trac for 8.2.1

2008-12-08 Thread Chris Ball
to work items for 9.1 or beyond.) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 2579 - power saving (un)setting was not in effect

2008-12-06 Thread Chris Ball
/dev.laptop.org/ticket/9086 - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
gnome.img - sugar.img (80M) tells us that we might be able to get something acceptable, perhaps requiring some package rework. Then we'd just need to turn Scott's Sugar+XFCE into a Sugar+GNOME, and work out how much space we can use for GNOME apps.. - Chris. --

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
it seems hard to get there from here. Maybe we can run GNOME and some tiny set of apps without blowing the NAND budget, though.. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
it sounds like we should resurrect Scott's work from about six months ago on Xfce-and-Sugar in the "faster" builds. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
S builds on the NAND at the same time after olpc-update, as we do now? Anyway, you get the idea -- this brings up a massive amount of issues, so we should be talking about it more than we have been. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
one needs to become much more concrete. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 2572

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Ball
&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&keywords=~F10 (Note that we're nowhere near recommending these builds to users yet; just to developers who are interested in working out where the rest of the bugs are.) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Info on developer key request page on XO

2008-12-02 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Yes. For example, we can add information about postal-mail > requests to the page, without opening up the 767 build. I think Ed's point is that someone who wants to take advantage of a postal-mail request necessarily can't talk to activation.l.o. :) - Chris

Re: Info on developer key request page on XO

2008-12-02 Thread Chris Ball
G1 image deadline) to pull this together, and decided that it's much more flexible to fix bugs and handle translations and giving instructions on devkey installation on the server-side, rather than needing to preload them all ahead of time. Scott will know more, since he did the work. -

Power Management plan for December.

2008-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
ance wins in suspend/resume. Comments welcome. Are there important power management bugs that I've left out? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 2563

2008-11-23 Thread Chris Ball
me' not found. $GTK2_RC_FILES is correct inside the rainbow child, yet we look for icons in /usr/share/icons/hicolor instead of /usr/share/icons/sugar. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: debxo 0.4 release

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Ball
anks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 2548

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Ball
ing usable again in the even the most basic way, I'm sure the news will make it to the list. In the meantime, please don't have any expectations *at all* about the workings of Joyride. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: Rebase joyride to Fedora 10

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Ball
/sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pilgrim-joyride]$ - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Rebase joyride to Fedora 10

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Ball
p `pilgrim' ... Done. crank:cjb~ % Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Rebase joyride to Fedora 10

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Ball
ith the plan above -- it's the plan of record. We should go ahead and ask the Fedora folks to make these changes (and point Joyride at them); Marco, perhaps you could ask around in #fedora-admin for someone willing? Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Ball
easily adapt Sugar to the OLPC > hardware. I'm fine with giving commit access to pilgrim/joyride to any Sugar developers who want it. Shall we just do that instead? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel m

Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-10-31 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Every time I try one of the debxo 0.3 or debxo 0.2 JFFS2 images, I > get the error message "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:75: Error writing to NAND > FLASH" and it fails. You need to upgrade Open Firmware to q2e20. - Chris. -- Chris

Re: Status of Joyride

2008-10-30 Thread Chris Ball
d joyride-2521 is the first build with a "master"-branch kernel which is based on 2.6.27 -- please do file bugs if you see any odd kernel behaviors. I've checked that both the kernel and sugar boot successfully on 2521. Thanks, - Chris. -- C

9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Ball
words, so that language vocabulary could be taught even without textual translation to a local language? Feel free to come up with questions/ideas around language learning on the XO in general in this thread, and they'll make it into the conference talk. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Ball
web cache and restarting Firefox doesn't help, and milestone/version fields are duplicated on http://dev.laptop.org/newticket . Still can't reproduce on my own machine for some reason.. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: Cannot edit Trac tickets

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Ball
he same problem if you use a different browser?) I can't reproduce this here, but we did make a change yesterday that's probably responsible. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Power.

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Ball
fter idleness starts, so we're definitely less aggressive than OS X already.. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Power.

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Ball
e+5m: wakeup to turn off the screen, back to sleep I'm not yet entirely convinced that we should wait that long, though. Anyone who has used a laptop running OS X will have noticed that it dims the backlight after just a few (ten?) seconds of inactivity. I'll add this topic to the ta

9.1 Proposal: Power.

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Ball
for wakeup during collaboration * exposing a wakeup-timer API in Sugar to allow scheduled wakeups * faster resume - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 9.1 Proposal: shutdown menu

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Ball
er a five second opportunity to cancel, if you like)? We'd have to define a clean shutdown first. I think using power button to suspend is mostly a holdover from before lid closing was reliable. I'm not sure we still have a good rationale for it. - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Joyride is open for development!

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Ball
plan is to wait until F10 is released (end of November) before rebasing Joyride onto it. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Master kernel in Joyride.

2008-10-16 Thread Chris Ball
, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [olpc-office-announce] [sugar] Audio from demo of Scott's next-gen journal ideas, noon, 10/15/2008

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Ball
ydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php is popular with the GNOME folks, but haven't used it myself. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Ball
shed up for another month or so, and we ran into troubles with rebasing too late in the release cycle last time. Just some thoughts, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: e-books examples on 767

2008-10-12 Thread Chris Ball
ing from build 703 or 708 you will not see the Library" section in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0 for how to enable the G1G1 updates group. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Serious -- Bug in Wiki-browse/Rainbow in gg-767-4

2008-10-12 Thread Chris Ball
). Is there something your instructions fail to mention, such as having another Browse window open at the same time? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Ball
t times from a known point (e.g. from "Starting udev") and of activity startup times. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Ball
t learning in this way.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Major power concern

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Ball
> searching didn't turn it up for me today. gnome-power-manager does this. (Perhaps it should move into HAL.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 5 sec boot

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Ball
amental reason that we need partitioning if we go to ubifs: we need OFW to be able to boot the system, and it doesn't have an ubifs driver. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 2486

2008-09-25 Thread Chris Ball
3 still hits OOM immediately. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: mechanisms tied to mesh: "under a tree" collab

2008-09-24 Thread Chris Ball
mmediately if you > close/open your lid, or otherwise suspend. :-/ Yeah, the USB bus is entirely unpowered during suspend. If there's a software bug or regression here (rather than a failure of physics), we should file it. - Chris. -- Chris

New pyweek games.

2008-09-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, There's a new set of pyweek games available: http://www.pyweek.org/7/entries/ http://www.pyweek.org/ If someone has time, it'd be good to try some of them and see which are suitable for installing on the XO. (And there are previous pyweek collections, too.) - Chris. --

Re: xs-devel disk full - XS OS Builds related?

2008-09-21 Thread Chris Ball
Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/XS-srv917G 871G 38G 96% /srv > ISTR talking about moving all this stuff _away_ from xs-dev, and to > a machine with no internet-facing services? This was many moons > ago... Henry could answer that, I think.. - Chris. -- Chris B

Re: suspend resume strangeness...

2008-09-21 Thread Chris Ball
ck. Both are running > Q2E12 Lid open was unreliable (it's likely sporadic on both machines) in update.1, and should be fixed in the latest 8.2 candidates as part of Trac #5703. Let us know if the problem occurs in 8.2-760. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: Ideas for Journal: How epiphany browser manages bookmarks just with tags

2008-09-20 Thread Chris Ball
ston GNOME Summit is October 11-13, so that'd be a great place to get people together and give a talk, I think? - Chris. ¹: http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-07.html#document-centric-gnome -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mail

Re: G1G1v2 Activities

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Ball
arning much about what new things we should include. People replying might decide to give 20 suggestions instead of 10, or to omit original G1G1 activities from their list. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Speech to Text Support in OLPC

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Ball
t. check this > out: Satya's talking about speech-to-text, not text-to-speech. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2.0 Release Criteria & ECO Documentation (Michael Stone)

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Ball
ider shipping the WikiBrowse English activity (available on the Activities page) with G1G1. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announce: WikipediaEN.xo

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Ball
.7 release team². Thanks to Madeleine Ball for preparing the snapshot, and Martin Walker and the Wikipedia 0.7 release team for making the article selection. - Chris. ¹: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8318 ²: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Release_Version -- Chris Ball &l

Re: Automatic power management disabled in control panel

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Ball
agement being a different mode to what's the default setting)? This was a new bug in Trac #8062, which I've just fixed and pushed to Joyride. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lap

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Ball
ff the backlight. (I look through the USB port after I close the > lid and the light is still on. ). This is #8137, and is unlikely to be fixed in time for 8.2.0; the workaround is to either wake the machine before closing the lid, or to open and cl

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Ball
"pardon me". I don't think we have anyone working on better WPA support, but I might be wrong -- if this is important to you, make sure to let Greg know you think someone should be tackling it as a release blocker. (Current 8.2 blockers: <http://dev.laptop.org/report/32>.)

Re: How did the testing go on 8.2-757?

2008-09-04 Thread Chris Ball
activity that fails to load when installed via the software updater on 757. (Although Measure has a bug where it isn't rendering..) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Clock activity? Activities about time?

2008-09-01 Thread Chris Ball
n't think there is one yet. We could do this in a Pippy example, or in eToys? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Ext3 images from recent 8.2 builds do not boot in qemu.

2008-08-27 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I am working with the construction of a Qemu ext3 image. On Qemu > boot I get the following error: > Checking filesystems fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=OLPCRoot' `tune2fs -L OLPCRoot` on the device should set the label correctly, if you can do that.

Re: CSound server questions

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Ball
es with csound. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Workaround for the sound lockup?

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Ball
ay? Today is > gone - but it can help testers until the gstreamer downgrade is > done. It's fixed in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapt

Re: #7893 -- Presence service gets confused.

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Ball
bora folks -- what debugging would you like independent > testers to be turning on? http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7972 is in a similar state and describes a similar problem. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list

Re: customization key + system modifications

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Ball
lt via customization. Please file a bug. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: reverting to ancient gstreamer, good time to implement change control?

2008-08-19 Thread Chris Ball
e 8.2, until we get a new (or acting) build master who has time to maintain two trees. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Techteam] wireless 'lights went out' issue

2008-08-15 Thread Chris Ball
USB bus is zonked, so I can't transfer the logs over > until reboot. This is exactly http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7973. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: joyride images for downloading and installing them with a USB key

2008-08-12 Thread Chris Ball
in the wiki, thanks!) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Suspend vs Network Traffic - blockers

2008-08-12 Thread Chris Ball
can use the existing filter Not if Deepak doesn't merge it, surely? Maybe I misunderstood something? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Suspend vs Network Traffic - blockers

2008-08-12 Thread Chris Ball
he bits are ready. Does this mean we'll be without wake-on-ARP for 8.2? Is there something we can do to avoid that? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Suspend vs Network Traffic - blockers

2008-08-12 Thread Chris Ball
C now suppresses 8388 wakeups when in sleep/lid closed mode, so we don't need to change the filter/wol behavior when switching between suspend and sleep; we can leave it in "suspend" configuration.) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: First impressions of joyride-2280

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Ball
won't look for a new connection when coming out of sleep, and will re-use whatever you were connected to before. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Tinderbox is hanging (?)

2008-08-10 Thread Chris Ball
. Should be back tomorrow. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: suspend on 'idle'

2008-08-08 Thread Chris Ball
gt; I wonder if there's a method to simulate this in software, so one > could keep a 'console' window (2 or 3?) open running the > 'non-idle-keyboard' application and keep the laptop awake when you > want it ? :) Why not just `touch /etc/oh

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Ball
and who want to test against a build that has passed our basic smoke tests and is likely to "work". Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sugared Wine project begins

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Ball
hat to aim for with Sugared Wine. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Thanks for the Joyride test results

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Ball
0". (The wiki page is correct.) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: suspend on 'idle'

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Ball
're just going to be woken up by the next incoming packet. As a result, I'm not so interested in adding this given that you can inhibit suspend manually. * Not to suspend when a USB device capable of generating external interrupts (USB keyboard, USB ethernet) is plugged

Re: New faster build 2242

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I've unretired the faster branch temporarily to collect some > measurements on the costs of adding xfce to our builds. Could we see what the cost is to go to a full GNOME/nautilus, too? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[E

Re: forking PAM to remove cracklib dependency

2008-07-25 Thread Chris Ball
nk you can get it upstream, too? In cases like these, I wonder whether just patching Pilgrim to remove the cracklib file after installation is a good idea -- it lets us avoid the package fork. Getting the patch accepted upstream would be best of all, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: Definition of "Stable Enough To Release" for 8.2.0

2008-07-23 Thread Chris Ball
y. (And then Perl another couple of times, for good luck.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Ball
d should probably also look for extremely large activities to delete, but it's not sufficient by itself -- it will only help for one reboot or so. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: NAND Full Requirement

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Ball
ren't* few of them or we can't fix them, we should instead use a non-Sugar GUI for performing the deletion. * To repeat, the above "full fix" would live in the 8.2 branch, and not be backported to 656 as part of this solution. - Chris. -

Re: NAND Full Requirement

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Ball
und-level, not the correct "Sugar always launches and never runs out of space or deletes user data" fix, which is still an unknown amount of research away from reality. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Deve

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Ball
t messages, so these users won't see anything different at all. If they did see text messages during boot, they would see: Not enough disk space. Deleting /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store/XXX-XXX (repeated if necessary) .. scroll past on the Linux console. -

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Ball
the space, before deciding the algorithm. > Deleting large rarely used system files will not solve this > problem. The space will just get used up again until there are no > more large rarely used files left. It can buy us a week or two but > wont solve the problem longer ter

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Ball
full, I don't know how I can search the datastore in that way. We don't have the full query interface available from the initrd. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

For review: NAND out of space patch.

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Ball
ee space, delete datastore objects # until it does. This doesn't modify the datastore's index. # Author: Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> import os, sys, statvfs, subprocess THRESHOLD = 1024 * 50 # 50MB PATH = "/home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store/*-*"

Re: Abiword 2.6.4 on Ubuntu

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Ball
> (The correct name on Ubuntu is libglib2.0-0) It's talking about pkgconfig packages, not Ubuntu ones. > Then make says: make won't work until configure has run successfully. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Ball
ding a Write buffer into Pippy, once it has syntax highlighting. Another useful feature would be for Write to have unique background colors for collaborators, as Gobby does. I wonder if that would be a small enough task for someone to take on. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: planet.l.o

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Ball
ategory-specific feed. Thanks! Any other takers, please mail me personally with an OLPC feed URL. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Faster Launch of Activities

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Ball
ng -- the dbus signals that I monitor are exposed at different points in launch depending on which activity launch scheme you're using. I think a stopwatch is the best idea for now. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel

Re: Faster Launch of Activities

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Ball
s planning on doing this measurement myself, but it's not getting to the top of my stack. Could I persuade someone else to volunteer? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: LZO support

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Ball
fs2.img -rw-r--r-- 1 cjb cjb 264M 2008-07-14 01:57 joyride-2158.ext3.img.bz2 - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: LZO support

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Ball
ess to zip the file with gzip :P. Deepak suggests (in #2886) using something like an O_NOCOMPRESSION flag to open(2), which sounds fine to me. We'd either pass it to Python's open() (how?) or set it immediately after open with fcntl(, F_SETFL, ). - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: LZO support

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Ball
ing the logistical cost of LZO support in OFW or partitions. Saving a movie would be faster still than LZO if we could just tell jffs2 that we're giving it compressed data that it shouldn't recompress. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

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