Re: [Sugar-devel] Error on Write activity: no module named abiword

2014-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > Do you have a abiword rpm with introspection enabled? > Hint: we use a custom rpm > > http://harvest.one-education.org/public/au1b-updates/RPMS/abiword-2.9.3-1.git20121011.fc18.olpc12.armv7hl.rpm The error that he's seeing suggests that t

Re: gnome applet can't initialize Clutter

2014-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Scott Chapman wrote: > Paul, > The Gnome Control Panel is not present in the build. Am I missing something > or is it left out also? You aren't missing anything - based on feedback from OLPC's deployments we always tried to ship a minimal GNOME environment witho

Re: gnome applet can't initialize Clutter

2014-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Scott, On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Scott Chapman wrote: > We don't have opengl support in the X drivers because of the video type on > these? There is indeed a GPU capable of 3D graphics in the hardware, but we never completed the engineering effort required to make OpenGL/OpenGLES work

Re: XO on Fedora 20 (was Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Porting To Python3)

2014-05-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > On 7 May 2014 01:44, James Cameron wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:24:39PM +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote: >> > [...] And with the XO stuck on Fedora 18 we might not have good >> > enough introspection to make the port compatible with i

XO-1.75 early boot codes

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, When booting the XO-1.75 with the check key pressed, 2-digit boot codes fill the screen briefly before OFW boots the system. Can anyone remind me where these numbers are defined in the code? I know it's in cforth git somewhere... Thanks Daniel ___

Re: The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

2013-12-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Basanta Shrestha > wrote: >> yes it works! But the value goes back to original ie. '1' after reboot and >> /etc/rc.local doesn't work here. > > It works, but it will get overridden by olpc-configure which r

Re: Using a new keyboard layout for XO4

2013-12-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Basanta, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Dear all, > We are planing on using a different keyboard layout for XO4. The new layout > we think is phonetically based and easier for children. I simply switched the > /usr/share/X11/symbols/np file with a new one but did

Re: The mouse touch pad doesn't work on XO4

2013-12-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Its SynRelPS/2 > > And I created file /etc/modprobe.d/olpc-psmouse.conf with line > options psmouse proto=bare taptoclick=1 > > But it altogether made my touchpad to stop functioning. Looks like that wiki page is out of date for recent so

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2013-11-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Amazingly changing the manufacturing data didn't do the job but changing > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard did. Wow! Now I have Nepali input system. Thank you > all. > > Now I need to find a place to change default locale to ne_NP, so that the >

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron wrote: > If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact > reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing da

Re: seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

2013-11-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > But for XO-4 we will just be getting ones with English layout. I was > wondering how we can enable nepali keyboard input on it. Are these keyboards hard/clicky/high-school style, or soft/membrane? Daniel _

New 13.2.0 NetworkManager package fixes upgrades

2013-09-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Upgrading from 12.1.0 to 13.2.0 results in previous wifi connections not re-activating (haven't tried 13.1.0). This was a NetworkManager bug: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2013-September/msg00018.html Fixed in NetworkManager-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.olpc1 available a

Re: gst-vmeta testing

2013-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: >> Now for human observation: there is no flicker problem. > > Interesting. Try again with this video please: > http://download.openbricks.org/sample/H264/SampleClip.m4v > With this one, I could definitely see flickering in past tests. N

pygobject performance optimizations posted

2013-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f18/ now includes pygobject3-3.4.2-6.fc18.olpc2 (on 13.2.0 developers can install with "yum update pygobject3") This new package includes some optimizations from pygobject upstream. I can't say the improvement is as visible as I was hoping for, but some progress

rawhide changes pushed to olpc-os-builder

2013-08-24 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, olpc-os-builder master now includes a few updates to build for rawhide (currently F21). This work is experimental, for developers. The main reason I did it was to have an easy platform to check the latest Sugar against the latest pygobject etc. Various things broken, some things working :) Co

gst-vmeta testing

2013-08-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Carlos, I have given your gstreamer-1.0 plugins a spin on XO-4. Thanks for working on this. I additionally installed gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free for the mpeg4 container support and I'm testing with this video: http://archive.org/download/hellmans_mayonnaise_commercial/hellmans_mayonnaise_comme

Re: vMeta GStreamer 1.0 plugins

2013-08-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: > First, I will paste from a chat I had in IRC with an X and Wayland > developer: > > are you familiar with xvideo together with xshm? > if not, who could know about internals? > hi, sure > what about it? > the problem is that there

Re: vMeta GStreamer 1.0 plugins

2013-08-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: > Yes, it is written from scratch. First, I wanted to use the GStreamer video > decoder base class, which the Marvell decoder didn't. Second, the Marvell > code uses many hacks that simply won't translate to GStreamer 1.0 . Third, > it wa

Re: vMeta GStreamer 1.0 plugins

2013-08-21 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: > I have written GStreamer 1.0 plugins for vMeta . You can find it here: > https://github.com/dv1/gst-vmeta Excellent! Thanks for working on this and sharing it. It looks like you have rewritten the plugin more or less from scratch, is

Re: Headphone volume adjustment

2013-08-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > Do you know if a mainline kernel will actually run sensibly on your > system? I have a XO-1.75 (this was part of the reason I was looking) > but I'm mostly interested in advancing the state of the art. I am working on that at the moment, ther

Re: Headphone volume adjustment

2013-08-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >> Yes, we try not to. I do not recall the technical arguments in full, >> Daniel would, but they included very limited processing power, very >> limited memory, it didn't work when we first tried it, and a suite of >> applications that use the A

Re: olpc-os-builder

2013-08-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:48 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Yes. I would prefer if olpc-os-builder could operate in two modes; > one where it did all the downloads, and a separate one where it can be > used offline. This is what I did for mktinycorexo. Try the --cache-only option. Daniel _

Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.0

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 13.2.0 for XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4. Details of new features, known issues, and how to download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.0 Many thanks to all contributors, testers

Re: Issue

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Julian Goldstein wrote: > Ok thanks! I may just install Fedora then. Is there any C, or non-GUI stuff > I can contribute with on Ubuntu like any low level projects? We normally do have a short wishlist for the components sits directly beneath Sugar, i.e. the GTK+

Re: Issue

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Please keep the list on CC. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Julian Goldstein wrote: > Should I just apt-get those packages? I don't know, sorry. Here we generally work with Fedora where these things are known to be working. Daniel ___ Devel mailing

Re: Issue

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Julian Goldstein wrote: > Here are the logs for the hello world and turtle art. This is an incompatibility between old sugar-toolkit-gtk3 versions and new pygobject versions. You need to update your version of sugar-toolkit-gtk3 where this issue is solved. If you

13.2.0 release candidate 6 (build 13) released

2013-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.2.0 software release. Probably the final build. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and sav

13.2.0 release candidate 5 (build 12) released

2013-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.2.0 software release. Probably the final build. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and sav

Clock-12.5 startup timing on XO-1

2013-07-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I ran Clock-12.5 on 11.3.1, 12.1.0 and 13.2.0 build 11, all on the same XO-1, to see if we have any difference in startup time. This is a GTK2 activity. Launching 10 times from hot caches and averaging, my measurements are: 11.3.1: 12.52 seconds 12.1.0: 11.53 seconds 13.2.0: 11.74 seconds S

Re: Headphone volume adjustment

2013-07-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:47 PM, James Cameron wrote: > The DAC volume control has the greatest range, all the way down to > -96.625 dB, which coupled to our XO-1.75 hardware is effectively > silent, but not guaranteed to be. You can see the details of this > control in the XO-1.75 and XO-4 source

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Tom Parker wrote: > Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013 > Who: John, Tabitha, Tom > > Testing XO-system 1a For XO-4 (build 46) > Sugar 0.98.7 > Firmware Q7B35 > > Found that my previously described customization script was not working > right -- the /etc/sysconfig/

Re: Headphone volume adjustment

2013-07-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:40 AM, James Cameron wrote: > Fixed for XO-4 in: > > http://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-kernel/commit/?h=arm-3.5&id=e77de3d4ec7589af2e88014018c69528ceab3293 Thanks for looking at this. I'm trying to review the change. I am a bit stuck though, because I still don't unde

Re: XO-1(.75)

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Of the total available, would that not be a 100% increase in CPU time > used by the process running X? What do you mean by "the process running X"? The parent process of the X process? Daniel ___ Dev

Re: XO-1(.75)

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > The following script appears to work as expected, but is the result valid? That's hard to judge without having an explanation for what you are trying to measure. I can't immediately see your intentions from reading the script. Daniel

Re: XO-1(.75)

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > Tried the following little script but I can not find a way to get the output > of 'time' command to the output.txt file. Not really sure what you are trying to do here - sugar-launch will not return until the activity exits. I ran

Re: XO-1(.75)

2013-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > No inconsistency here. > Most of the activities you see slower were ported to Gtk3. > Tam-tam suit, speak, calculate, turtle art, maze, moon, record were not > ported > scratch and etoys are not related with Gtk > Browse received a lot of car

Re: GNOME on XO-1.75

2013-07-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > Another little issue is that clicking on the scroll bar in epiphany (and also > gedit and terminal) moves the page to the cursor instead of 1 page down. This was a GNOME design decision. It is configurable somewhere. You don't see th

Re: compiling and running webkit2gtk on xo-1.75/os/candidate/13.2.0-9

2013-06-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:11 PM, NoiseEHC wrote: > Now I looked at the source of webkit2gtk and it seems that opengl support is > compiled into the library or not, so if OPENGL is specified then it will > call into libGL.so and will crash. Maybe we should not lie about 3d support? > What is the st

13.2.0 release candidate 4 (build 11) released

2013-06-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://dow

Re: compiling and running webkit2gtk on xo-1.75/os/candidate/13.2.0-9

2013-06-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:08 AM, NoiseEHC wrote: > which updated a lot of packages and my program finally started. If I compile > with webkitgtk1 then it runs, with webkitgtk2 it crashes. > The crash (SIGSEGV) happens in glXCreateContext in /lib/ligBL.so.1 > > As I do not really understand all tho

Re: Different boot sound on XO1.75

2013-06-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Juan Cubillo wrote: > That might be an option, but not in my case. Both XOs have Build 13.0.1 and > Firmware Q4D28. > > I'll wait for James to wake up :) In the mean time maybe you can explain why changing firmware version and/or OS version is not an option. It m

Re: Different boot sound on XO1.75

2013-06-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Juan Cubillo wrote: > Hello, > > Quick question> I have two 1.75XO that make a "beep beep" sound while > booting instead of the usual XO booting sound. Why is this so? Can this be > changed? This likely means that you are running a new firmware on an old OS relea

13.2.0 build 10 for XO-4 released

2013-06-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Here is a quick XO-4-only build with a memory corruption fix in the XO-4 wireless driver (#12701). Part of our ongoing work to fix stability issues preventing successful factory testing. http://download.laptop.org/xo-4/os/candidate/13.2.0-10/ Daniel __

Re: Upstreaming MMP clock devicetree support

2013-06-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > does this imply a future flag day, at which time new firmware will be > incompatible with old kernels, and vice-versa? Unfortunately even without the DT changes described here, old firmware versions already will not be able to boot new/upstream

Upstreaming MMP clock devicetree support

2013-06-13 Thread Daniel Drake
mp-apmu-clock" +compatible 0 " #clock-cells" integer-property " /pll1_2" encode-phandle " clocks" property h# a4 " reg" integer-property h# 1b " enable-mask" integer-property finish-device new-device

Re: OOB V6.0 does not installs example ini files (SOLVED)

2013-06-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Juan Cubillo wrote: > Thank you for the info! > > Yeah the ../docs/... was a typo... I was looking inside ../doc/ > > I also always wondered why the wiki instructions didn't used yum to install > the software... another mystery solved! That is mainly because the w

Re: OOB V6.0 does not installs example ini files

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Juan Cubillo wrote: > Hello, > > I just flashed a 1.75XO with the stable 13.1.0 image from OLPC. Then, I > installed OOB via yum install olpc-os-builder > > I wanted to build a test image but no example files were installed in > /usr/share/docs/ XOs are configure

13.2.0 release candidate 3 (build 9) released

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Sorry - I sent this out yesterday but with the wrong subject line. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.2.0 > software release. > > Information and installation instructions ca

MMP interrupt controller DT layout

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I am looking at upstreaming these patches: http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20130611/0003-ARM-mmp-Fix-MMP2-interrupt-controller-DT-nodes.patch http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20130611/0004-ARM-mmp-irq-Use-of_get_address-instead-of-of_address.patch Could one of you summarise the background here, and co

13.2.0 release candidate 2 (build 8) released

2013-06-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://dow

School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system is protected by a cheap UPS which supposedly offe

13.2.0 release candidate 2 (build 8) released

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://dow

Re: Install Firefox

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > Firefox and xulrunner 17 are the late known good (and matching) builds > for Fedora 17, you need the major versions to be matching (so > 12/13/17) but if you were pulling in all the latest stable updates > into the build you would have matc

Re: Install Firefox

2013-05-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Adding firefox did install firefox but gave following error while trying to > execute on XO: > > $ firefox > Error: Platform version '13.0' is not compatible with > minVersion >= 12.0 > maxVersion <= 12.0 > ---

Re: 13.2.0 release candidate 1 (build 7) released

2013-05-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > One significant known issue is an XO-4 crash when it goes into "deep > sleep" with the screen off, which can also be triggered in other > similar sleep modes (#12657). We've hopefully fixed this issue now, ready for t

13.2.0 release candidate 1 (build 7) released

2013-05-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the first release candidate of our new 13.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://do

Re: 13.2.0 schedule update

2013-05-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > May 23 - packages and activities frozen, first signed release > candidate published, only fixes to significant regressions taken > beyond this point. We have now reached this point, the release candidate will be published mo

Re: Install Firefox

2013-05-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > Hi there, > I use fedora ARM to build OS for XO1.75. I have recently successfully built > OS12.1.0 using olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini. Now I am in need of preparing a > build with firefox and flashplugin. Is it possible? If yes, what additio

Re: 13.2.0 schedule update

2013-05-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > May 23 - packages and activities frozen, first signed release > candidate published, only fixes to significant regressions taken > beyond this point. To clarify/correct this point: The build will actually be made a day before. So

13.2.0 schedule update

2013-05-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Development on 13.2.0 is going well, we are completing all of the things we planned to work on. We have defined a schedule: May 23 - packages and activities frozen, first signed release candidate published, only fixes to significant regressions taken beyond this point. June 13 - final 13.2.0

Re: 13.2.0 development build 6 released

2013-05-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.0 > http://build.laptop.org/13.2.0/os6 Sorry, made a silly mistake in a kernel patch, and XO-4 audio is not working as a result. To fix: yum update ke

13.2.0 development build 6 released

2013-05-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.0 http://build.laptop.org/13.2.0/os6 TamTam updated to v67: fixes audio crackle on XO-4 (#12651) JournalShare updated to v5 TurtleBlocks updated to v176 The XO-4 bluetooth driver is now loaded, it coexists happily with the wireless driver (#12657) XO-4 audi

Announcing OLPC OS 13.1.0

2013-05-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 13.1.0 for XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4. Details of new features, known issues, and how to download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.1.0 Many thanks to all contributors, testers

Re: Question About 13.1.0 on XO-1s

2013-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Do they have to be completely reflashed? They cannot be connected to the > internet since they are in a shelter for battered women and it is a very > secure facility. That is why we are field testing Braddock Gaskill's > "Intern

Re: Question About 13.1.0 on XO-1s

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi... > > Today I was helping some folks reflash the XO-1s they will be using in a > small deployment in Los Angeles. After installing 13.1.0 we found that a > scrolling display of code or something white on black... went by too > fast to

Re: 13.2.0 development build 5 released

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.0 > http://build.laptop.org/13.2.0/os5 > > The XO-1.75 build is missing at the moment, it will be added shortly. The XO-1.75 build has now been

13.2.0 development build 5 released

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.0 http://build.laptop.org/13.2.0/os5 The XO-1.75 build is missing at the moment, it will be added shortly. Changes are: Help updated to v16 JournalShare updated to v4 Log updated to v34 MusicKeyboard updated to v7: no longer crackles on XO-4. TamTam still c

Re: Update firmware with a custom image

2013-04-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:08 PM, wrote: > I’ve created my own image using OS Builder and customized the bootloader. > > So I’ve got now an USB key that update the os image but I wonder if the key > could update also the firmware version. > > I understand that the OS Image embed a new firmware. Is

13.1.0 release candidate 8 (build 36) released

2013-04-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.1.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.1.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://dow

Re: Aggressive screen blanking with 13.1.0 build 35

2013-04-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:41 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Yes, SKU198 doesn't have DCON RAM. > > #10916 has some additional history "only half of XO-1.75 B1s have DCON > RAM -- those that have mechanical keyboards." and "SKU-198 (which > don't have DCON RAM)". And as this is pre-production hardware

Re: Updating from 31035o[0,2] to 32002o[0,2]

2013-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > On the XO-1 olpc-update failed on 2 consecutive attempts with different > manifest error each time. > In both case when was getting tight on disk space. > The update requires significant free space (more than 250MB) and time (more

13.2.0 development build 4 released

2013-04-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.0 http://build.laptop.org/13.2.0/os4 Latest Sugar (0.98.7) and activity updates: - Browse updated to v151. - FotoToon updated to v14. - JournalShare updated to v3. - Jukebox updated to v30. - Log updated to v33. - Read updated to v108. GTK3 fix for Sugar clipbo

Re: olpc-dev-kernel and yum update

2013-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:48 PM, John Watlington wrote: > > This isn't a bug report, just an observation to keep anyone else from > spending time on this known condition (cjb's comment was "of course!"): > > If you want to update a kernel on a 13.1.0/13.2.0 build, you must first > run olpc-dev-kern

Re: Re: 13.2.0 development build 3 released

2013-04-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:19 PM, wrote: > updating build2 to build3> > > [olpc@xo-92-f0-ca ~]$ sudo olpc-update 13.2.0d_xo4-3 > Downloading contents of build 13.2.0d_xo4-3. > Updating to version hash 41492c63f1bb3013b6b8582ac26057ad > Trying irsync_pristine update from > rsync://updates.laptop.or

Re: 13.2.0 development build 3 released

2013-04-07 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:10 AM, wrote: > Hi > > olpc-update 13.2.0d_xo4-3 > > contents manifest failure at line453 Please share the full error message, and let us know which build you are updating from. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop

13.2.0 development build 3 released

2013-04-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.0 http://build.laptop.org/13.2.0/os3 Another XO-4 bad touchscreen/mouse input interaction was fixed (#12640). XO-4 cursor corruption after suspend should be fixed (#12556). An occasional XO-4 8787 wireless failure after wake-on-LAN should be fixed (#12573). S

Re: wifi power on/off

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > If the system were to use several (static) self-assigned addresses, and > "ifconfig eth0 down" was the way to terminate the use of the current IP > address so that the next IP address could be activated - would it be > desirable to have the

Re: olpc-dev-kernel and yum update

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:48 PM, John Watlington wrote: > > This isn't a bug report, just an observation to keep anyone else from > spending time on this known condition (cjb's comment was "of course!"): > > If you want to update a kernel on a 13.1.0/13.2.0 build, you must first > run olpc-dev-kern

Re: Problem compiling bios-crypto in XO1.75 hardware

2013-04-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Juan Cubillo wrote: > Yes, I cloned the git repo, changed directory and issued the make command > but I get the error described. I'm running this on the latest stable image > for the xo1.75. > From your reply I assume that this error is not normal. Should the make

Re: Problem compiling bios-crypto in XO1.75 hardware

2013-04-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Juan Cubillo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm creating xo1.75 OS images on a 1.75 XO since that's the only ARM > hardware I have around. In order to sign the images I need to compile > bios-crypto following the instructions from the wiki: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Bu

Re: [Testing] 13.2.0 development build 2 released

2013-04-01 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Hal Murray wrote: > > Would somebody with an XO-1 please try switching to Gnome. Mine went into a > loop trying to start X. I reproduced this too. Filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12643 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@l

Re: gnome error on WebActivity in 12.1.0 custom

2013-03-31 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:26 PM, wrote: > But: why the latest version is not... the latest version? The activities.sugarlabs.org admin has decided which version of Sugar is the most common (he picked an old one, maybe 0.94?), and the website offers up activities compatible with that Sugar versio

Re: gnome error on WebActivity in 12.1.0 custom

2013-03-31 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Lionel Laské wrote: > BTW I don't understand where this version come from: > - Latest Browse version mentioned on Sugar App store is 129 [1], Click "View older versions" to view newer versions http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addons/versions/4024 or acc

Re: Confusion regarding 13.1.0 / 13.2.0

2013-03-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Hey everyone, > > after seeing the 13.2.0 build 2 discussions this morning I'm a bit confused. > Has 13.1.0 been declared stable and released yet? For all XO models? The current status is noted in the 13.2.0 build 1 announcement: 13.

13.2.0 development build 2 released

2013-03-26 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, http://build.laptop.org/13.2.0/os2 Sugar updated to 0.98.6. Welcome screen is back (#12628) and now unlocks the screen at the correct moment (#11995). Paint updated to v57. The Journal Share activity was added. This is a prototype/experiment. We want to provide a non-intrusive initial solut

Re: minimizing footprint

2013-03-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > i think the point john (gilmore) was making is that it's a bad > precedent that simply because a) systemd offers a second-rate API for > scheduling events, and b) we only have a couple of uses for an event > scheduler, that we should therefore swi

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks for testing. On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Tom Parker wrote: > No sound in TamTam or Speak on 3 out 5 XO-1.75s. Speak hung when saying a > sentence, scratch failed to start with an error in it’s log about missing > sound driver. Record hangs when you take a photo on those laptops that h

Re: Customize default language with OS Builder

2013-03-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:16 AM, wrote: > Great ! I did'nt know that default language could be change directly in the > firmware. > I guess it depends of the SKU value. Could I set French with an English > keyboard ? Yes. LO is for system language, KL is for keyboard language. Daniel __

Kernel RPMs now auto-install to boot partition

2013-03-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Found some time to implement something that has been desired for a while: now when you install a kernel RPM on the XO, it will additionally auto-install to the boot partition, so now you can just install a new kernel RPM with rpm/yum and reboot and expect it to be used, no additional steps nee

Removing cron in 13.2

2013-03-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, As a simple step in reducing base system footprint a little, I'm thinking of removing cron in 13.2.0. The 2 current users of cron (ds-backup and olpc-update-query) will be moved to systemd timer units which have equivalent functionality. Any objections? Daniel ___

Re: video broken on 1.75?

2013-03-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Looking at codec info via VLC tells me that the resolution is 320x180 > but Display Resolution is 320x192 > I don't know enough about this to know the difference. How should I > got about encoding the MP4 differently? Maybe try: ffmpeg2theor

Re: video broken on 1.75?

2013-03-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > We have a bunch of XO 1.75 going to Madagascar. These have build > 13.1.0 (candidate 35). This ogv file [1] works well on a XO-1 but does > not play via jukebox. The ogv file plays well in Browse (trouble with > going fullscreen). It plays ok

Re: XO-1 Sugar startup profiling

2013-03-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2. Do python-level profiling of sugar to figure out why we are also > spending a lot of time executing pure Python code. Its easy to hook up the python profiler: Change the last line of /usr/bin/sugar to exec python -m cProfile -

Re: XO-1 Sugar startup profiling

2013-03-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > I then re-ran the test through perf on 13.2.0 build 1. > 8.66% of this time is spent in g_typelib_get_dir_entry > (libgobject-introspection). > 6.79% is spent in pure Python (EvalFrameEx) > 5.8% of the time is spent in libc. O

XO-1 Sugar startup profiling

2013-03-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I spent an hour comparing and investigating Sugar startup time on XO-1 for 12.1.0 vs 13.2.0 build 1. To measure this, I modified sugar-session to add a glib idle_add call to gtk.main_quit(), after the other bunch of idle_add calls that are made. Then startup can be timed by stopping X and run

Re: OLPC France 12.1.0 testing results

2013-03-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, wrote: > We're currently preparing the 2013 mission to our Nosy Komba deployment: 150 > XO-1 + 50 XO-1.5. > > So, a team of volunteer have tested on 12.1.0/Sugar 0.96 our 63 activities > currently deployed there on OLPC 883/Sugar 0.94.1. > > I know it's a "hot top

Re: trouble making actrd with dracut

2013-03-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Esteban Bordón wrote: > I'm having a problem trying to import httplib: > > ImportError: No module named hashlib Please try again with the updated python-contents.txt that I just pushed http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/plain/30olpc-python/pyth

Re: [PATCH] World Digital Library content bundle: images list pages doesn't work

2013-03-15 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Hi All, > > Small issue with World Digital Library, while pressing the "back" button > in World culture image list pages, it says "File not found". Thanks. New version released here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:WorldDigitalLibrary-6.xol Dan

13.2.0 development build 1 released

2013-03-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, 13.1.0 was developed with a focus on XO-4 factory requirements for mass production. We are now very close to that point, so it is likely that build 36 will be marked as 13.1.0 final shortly. We are far from done with XO-4 in terms of the user experience though, so lets open up again to new de

Re: OOB: Failure in ImageStage: module sd_card_image

2013-03-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Esteban Bordón wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to make a custom build for XO-1.75 using oob and > image.50.makefs.sh throws an error. > > Anyone know how to solve it? Which version of olpc-os-builder are you using? It looks like you are using an old one (v5.0.0 or older)

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