Re: Re: Turtle Art sensor xo 1.75 range voltage

2012-06-01 Thread James Cameron
t; I am not getting channel shorting, different results on the 2 channels. > > > > > After the socket, there is a 470 ohm series resistor on each channel. > > > > After that, reverse diodes to ground and +3.3. > > > > Thanks for confirming I'm not sure about the wattage of the 470 ohm resistor though, I'll leave that to someone else to confirm. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Turtle Art sensor xo 1.75 range voltage

2012-06-01 Thread James Cameron
resistor on each channel. After that, reverse diodes to ground and +3.3. After this protection, there is the microphone bias supply, DC mode switch and the codec. All these are under software control. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-31 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:56:19PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > There are a couple of reasons why the XO ignores the stick and boots > normally: > > 1. the laptop is not secured ... so hold down the X game key during > boot and this will temporarily secure it, Nathan explained

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
or Microsoft Windows scandisk, -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
That's odd. I didn't think the collection stick software needed to reach into the filesystem to get at the operating system. So an operating system dependency is confusing. What firmware versions have you tried it with? -- James Cameron http://quozl.li

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

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 03:14:49AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: > > On May 30, 2012, at 2:04 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:08:40AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > >> Or is a "software reset" (i.e. CMD0) insufficient for > >&g

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

2012-05-29 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:08:40AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > James Cameron writes: > > > The XO-1 SD card slot power supply circuit does not have a discharge > > clamping function, and so when the firmware or software turns off the > > power to the slot, the voltage f

Open Firmware wildcard characters

2012-05-28 Thread James Cameron
d by the dir command will be the file chosen for other commands. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO battery/performance

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

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

2012-05-27 Thread James Cameron
f Open Firmware. It is currently 250ms on XO-1: ok dev /pci/sd power-off-time .d 250 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] First impressions of a new XO user

2012-05-24 Thread James Cameron
eminds me. Got sick of having to tell people on IRC not to read the rest of the page, and made a different page with only the XO-1 installation section on it: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0/Installation/XO-1 -- James Cameron http://quo

Announcing Q4D15 for XO-1.75

2012-05-24 Thread James Cameron
) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: en_GB in OLPC OS 12.1.0

2012-05-24 Thread James Cameron
pecified fallback is necessary. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Offtopic: directional antenna for XO-1.75?

2012-05-23 Thread James Cameron
the connectors in the XO to a connector for an antenna. Watch for static discharge. I suggest a yagi style, not to high a gain, otherwise it would be too sensitive to changes in heading of the boat when anchored. (I'm an ex-sailor ... there's no large bodies of water out here). -- Jam

Re: Booting OLPC OS 12.1 from USB sticks and SD cards

2012-05-22 Thread James Cameron
Have the filesystems passed consistency checks? Booting requires a different pattern of access to flashing, so no surprise that the symptom is different. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] #11599 LOW 3-softw: Requesting new TS mode: DEVL

2012-05-21 Thread James Cameron
users/quozl/runin/commit/?id=86b7b2445ebc23b6f815c47603ce3da414acd540 > Richard is thinking about whether or not to keep the battery test. Okay. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://li

Re: [PATCH powerd] Inhibit suspend while audio device is open

2012-05-20 Thread James Cameron
Reviewed-by: James Cameron -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q4D14 for XO-1.75

2012-05-18 Thread James Cameron
output during game key pause. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q2F11 for XO-1

2012-05-17 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2f11 - fix SD card slot test, ticket #11844, - fix build date time, it was a month out in previous builds, - rebuilt with fixed metacompiler. There is no need to upgrade unless you specifically want to test SD card slot. -- James Cameron http

Re: Re: Downgrading XO-1.75

2012-05-16 Thread James Cameron
Good to hear. I've updated a few Wiki pages. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Downgrading XO-1.75

2012-05-16 Thread James Cameron
s. If it boots fine, edit /bootpart/boot/olpc.fth add "false to use-fdt?" after the first line of the file. That should remove the need to use the command on every boot. If you don't get it working with this, we should next look at a serial console boot log. -- James Cam

Re: pointer (touchpad) aceleration and threshold too low in 11.3.* builds

2012-05-16 Thread James Cameron
ads beyond that, those numbers are incorrect. i recall an x server change that caused me to adjust my own xset, without any change to hardware, but i don't know if we experienced that change on XO-1. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _

Re: rpm into .xo

2012-05-15 Thread James Cameron
mance improvement could be gained by unpacking the RPM and including the files in the .xo instead of the RPM. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-14 Thread James Cameron
Are there any deployments that still want the mesh to work? It might be simpler to pull it out now, given that only XO-1 supports it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [PATCH runin] Port to systemd

2012-05-09 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:48:31AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:15 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > It seems to work now. > > > > How can I get the serial console back during runin? > > Try this: > > mkdir /etc/systemd/system/runin.target.w

Re: expand fs issue(?)

2012-05-07 Thread James Cameron
y serves me, go into the kernel message log. Capture the dmesg output, check that the filesystem has not been resized, and then attach the dmesg output to ticket #10040. Thanks. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@l

Announcing Q3C06 for XO-1.5

2012-05-03 Thread James Cameron
Power Log Collector, have Open Firmware scripts that read or write the microSD filesystems, or have USB drives with these filesystem types, tickets #11812, #11799, #11787 and #11786, - fix build date time as shown by .built command at ok prompt, -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-02 Thread James Cameron
port at runtime, i.e. without having to build and maintain a custom kernel. 4. http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/f14-xo1/?C=M;O=D -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Switching to randomly generated hostnames

2012-05-02 Thread James Cameron
le to cope with this too. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
Okay. Take care not to add any when you change all those lines of code. ;-) On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:47:41AM +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: > Well.. Hmm.. So that it could mean less (leftover-half-bits) bugs to play with > :P > > Regards, > Ajay > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
"normal" wifi network. > remove > # any such normal networks if they have been created > > -- > Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> > One Laptop Per Child > > -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:33:36AM +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: > Thanks James for the reply. > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:14:26AM +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: > > Is there an already tested-cum-recommended metho

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
m you think you will solve with this? There might be an alternate solution. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing Q2F10 for XO-1

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
g obvious. I've looked through the changes from Q2F09 to Q2F10 for anything that might have caused this. There is one tiny change in svn 2943 that removes UFS partition support, and this _may_ have led to less elapsed time between probe and access. But this does not explain what you sa

Re: Announcing Q2F10 for XO-1

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
h u:\q2f10.rom" works for me. I'd like to know what changed to make it not work for you. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH runin] Port to systemd

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
then touch /runin/quick reboot -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q2F10 for XO-1

2012-04-30 Thread James Cameron
to use it in Open FIrmware, - fix help to cover copy-nand and update-nand, now that ubifs will not be used in 12.1.0, - avoid overwriting serial terminal emulator display when game keys are used during boot. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: Determining whether we are doing pretty boot -- in olpc-configure - 12.1.0

2012-04-26 Thread James Cameron
On XO-1.75 we have ttyS2 option passed by olpc.fth if the tick key is held down. Why not add an option that represents the tick key held down and use that for both purposes; enabling serial console and disabling the plymouth mediated display. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration XO-1 with XS

2012-04-26 Thread James Cameron
by reconnecting. That you currently reconnect to work around the problem may be a coincidence, or it might be this same kind of problem. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q4D11 for XO-1.75

2012-04-24 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d11 - a fix to power consumption test during manufacturing, - a few ext2 filesystem fixes. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [PATCH runin] Port to systemd

2012-04-23 Thread James Cameron
runin-check systemctl invocation does not transmit the environment. I plan to move most of this to runin-main. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [fedora-arm] 12.1.0 devel build 8 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-04-22 Thread James Cameron
updated to reflect the > move back to jffs for the XO-1 and the method for installing. Fixed. Feel free to edit the Wiki. > OFW help on XO-1 may need to be changed to reflect this. Fixed in svn 2948 and will be included in the next XO-1 release. -- James Cameron h

Announcing Q4D10 for XO-1.75

2012-04-18 Thread James Cameron
ges seen during tag operations. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 7 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-04-17 Thread James Cameron
ry by build; previously this value remained static across builds, 4. the rate of green blocks filling grey blocks will be faster, because the number of blocks per square is lower; previously it was higher, and this slowed the display. -- James Cameron http://quozl.l

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:31:44AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:43 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > Jerry could also write a startup script that does these actions > > All the startup (or shutdown) scripts I can think of that could return > the filesy

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:58:00PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 09:46 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the > > > inter

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the > internal organization of the .zd files. So the fix willbe in the OOB > toolchain. Applied, #11776. -- James Cameron http://quozl.lin

Customisation using an unsecure bootable USB drive and runin

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
n unsecure laptops. On secure laptops the USB drive boot script is ignored. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
e ago. For use with laypersons, this method could be placed in a virtual appliance with a UI that separates the components into plugins that can be enabled or disabled. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:43:02PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > We do not have a program available at the moment for the reverse of > fs-copy, Sorry, fs-save. fs-copy was a name used in early development but it was changed to fs-save. The reverse, if written, would be fs-restore. --

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
. This would have worked against you. You might modify zhashfs further to write an empty zero block first, then write the remaining blocks, then write the real zero block. What you are seeing is the re-use of the previous installation's partition table against the new installation. --

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:10:16PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 9 April 2012 13:25, James Cameron wrote: > > - add new fs-save command [1] for preparing an image copy of internal > > ?storage, > > > > [1] ?http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread James Cameron
command again, or script what the test command does: ols-led-ec-control Presumably one could cause minor consternation for comic effect by preparing a laptop with the red glow before handing it to a colleague. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread James Cameron
duino or similar, and play with that. It is much easier than opening an XO and changing the wiring. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-08 Thread James Cameron
/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q4D09 for XO-1.75

2012-04-08 Thread James Cameron
/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1 to switch back to JFFS2

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

Announcing Q2F09 for XO-1

2012-04-03 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2f09 - debugger fixes, - graphical test menu fixes. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q3C04 for XO-1.5

2012-04-03 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3c04 - close audio device after startup sound to prevent a page fault, - graphical menu fixes, - graphical debugger fixes. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 6 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-04-03 Thread James Cameron
ndard". I'd be happy to continue to hear your problems with non-standard system configurations, as these have been valuable in the past for identifying underlying problems. Thanks for testing outside-the-box. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ __

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
re are robots out there trained in the account creation business. The accounts are not listed in the administration interface. Every now and then we have a flurry of ticket updates containing advertising links, and we respond by adding a pattern to a BadContent list. -- James Camero

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
2 FGrose 1 pbrobinson 1 manuq 1 garysu (mairix zarro ... | grep Changes |sed 's/Changes (by //g'|sed 's/)://g'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
vertheless, if things become very slow again, I think we should > switch to the text field and benefit from a huge speedup. Will keep an > eye on it. I would prefer to switch now. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailin

Re: XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 02:04:21PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 29.03.2012, at 08:07, James Cameron wrote: > > > I agree with Mitch, the size of it is insignificant. Even without any > > tuning and integration with existing code, the dictionary only grows by > >

Re: XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread James Cameron
I agree with Mitch, the size of it is insignificant. Even without any tuning and integration with existing code, the dictionary only grows by about 2400 bytes for the 5248 byte source file. If you think it will be useful, we can add it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open > > Firmware. > > > > Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop th

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open > > Firmware. > > > > Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-27 Thread James Cameron
hand, this has to be balanced against the power consumed while the laptop is in suspend. the effect of a depowering on the radio network is negative but minor. an identity slot for the device is held available until the keep-alive is not answered. --

XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-27 Thread James Cameron
existing Open Firmware serial port FIFO queue implementation. Couldn't have made it stable without it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ \ serial.fth \ usage: \ok fl u:\serial.fth \ok serial \connect cable last \ cable to cable crossover pin map \gnd t

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:41:27PM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 3/26/12, James Cameron wrote: > > > From: James Cameron > > Subject: Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 > > To: "Walter Bender"

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
17 builds to use the old name instead? Or release note it? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO1/os31 update-nand issues

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
ny) went into it, sorry. The first mention of q2e46a in mail was from you on 23rd October 2011, and you were quoting a message from Mitch, saying it was on "10/11". The nearest USB related change was svn 2591, http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/openfirmware/changeset/2591 And yes, this is in the q2f series, though there may have been other changes since. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing an OpenFirmware-based Power Log Collector

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
these functions have been known to make the corruption far worse, to the point of losing files. Testing of FAT filesystems is especially needed, with an image of the filesystem taken before running the program. Recently verified FAT filesystems have not shown any problem. -- James Cameron http

Re: XO1/os31 update-nand issues

2012-03-25 Thread James Cameron
between copy-nand and update-nand isn't important for the end user. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

HOWTO: Extra disk space on XO-1.5 11.3.1 using fs-resize

2012-03-21 Thread James Cameron
057988 45% / bash-4.1# References http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10040 (this will eventually be automatic) http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11690 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3c03 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d06 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d06/fs-resize -- Jam

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q4D06 for XO-1.75

2012-03-21 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:10:49AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:11 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > - correction to ARM MMP2 timer reads, > > Do we need this, and Dilinger's kernel patches, for a good RTC "user > experience"? No. I'

Announcing Q2F08 for XO-1

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2f08 - fix NANDblaster receive bug, ticket #11696, - fix black-boxes regression in autorun-mfg-tests graphical test menu, ticket #11688, - consistent help across platforms, - full screen debugger, - decompiler syntax highlighting, -- James Cameron

Announcing Q3C03 for XO-1.5

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
] - common NANDblaster source update, ticket #11696, - consistent help across platforms, - full screen debugger, - decompiler syntax highlighting, [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d06/fs-resize (sic) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Announcing Q4D06 for XO-1.75

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
, - decompiler syntax highlighting. [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d06/fs-resize -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: How to run sugar on ArchLinux

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
from: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/325706 > > After run this: > gconftool-2 -s /desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout -t string ring-layout > > The Sugar and Etoys works on archlinux with sugar-unstable package. > > Thanks, > > On Wed, Ma

Re: How to run sugar on ArchLinux

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:04:11AM +0800, lite li wrote: > Hi, James Cameron, > > > 1. ?run sugar-emulator, or > > 2. ?Log out of your desktop, then on the login screen look for a desktop > > option for Sugar. > > Both of them not working. > Run sugar-emulato

Re: How to run sugar on ArchLinux

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
edesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.laptop.Shell > was not prvided by any .service files. Expected. sugar-launch is only useful when Sugar is running. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
ot yet ready. I've reduced the OpenFirmware change, removing the .zd file resize: verb support, leaving just the new utility command fs-resize. There's no change to fs-update, and no need to change olpc-os-builder. -- James Cameron http://qu

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-18 Thread James Cameron
ong time, then i don't think we can do it in initramfs, can we? that earlier test was on external card. retested today with six units using eMMC, and the resize time for 4GB to 8GB was around 14sec, as you had reported. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ __

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-18 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:20:26PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2012 11:03 PM, "James Cameron" wrote: > > Attached is a revised patch, which places the resize: before > > zblocks-end: with a wrapper to prevent warning. This allows the resize: > &

Re: 12.1.0 trac milestone organisation (Devel Digest, Vol 73, Issue 25)

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
f some value during development. > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
an we? i agree. i haven't done timings yet, all the units i could do them on are on a runin suspend resume test. also, i don't see the advantage to doing the resize in initramfs, because that would delay booting. i think it should be done with the system up and running. i gather it

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:58:05AM +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:58:51AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > In OpenFirmware, we might either: > > * do the resize only if the .zd file requests it, (a new ''resize:'' >line after '&#x

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
in the 12.1.0 series, leaving the 11.3.1 series unchanged, but we don't easily separate OpenFirmware in that way. Adding resize: to the end of an .zd file does not cause any error on the current version of OpenFirmware on XO-1.75, so it can be added now: >From 7ed7ac8452da32bce60208558d0e

Re: Some questions about "root" and "olpc" logins.

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
is NEVER successful, no matter what > password is entered. >(ii) on my F14 machine, doing "su -" from "olpc" login DOES ask for the > "root" password, and authentication is successful upon entering the correct > root-password. > > What is the reason for this difference in behaviour? Same as above. > It might very well be a design decision; just my bad that I am unaware > of it :| ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-15 Thread James Cameron
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Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:28:29AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:48 PM, James Cameron wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:33:32PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM, James Cameron wrote: > >> > On Wed, Ma

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
n't think this confusion would be very likely. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:20:45PM -0400, John Watlington wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:29 PM, James Cameron wrote: > > > fs-verify is used after fs-update in factory to ensure that the > > fs-update was successful. > > But the factory can use the correct size im

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:33:32PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM, James Cameron wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:02:51PM -0400, John Watlington wrote: > >> > >> On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:04 PM, James Cameron wrote: > >> >

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:02:51PM -0400, John Watlington wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:04 PM, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:37:23AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Richard Smith wrote: > >>> On

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
having it exposed. The .au deployment installation method avoids some of this by providing a user interface for installation of builds. I was not involved in the design. They unzip a file onto a USB drive, which contains an OpenFirmware script and the build images. But the design does mean t

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:37:23AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Richard Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:35 AM, James Cameron wrote: > >> Grows the second partition so that it takes up all remaining space on > >> the eMM

[PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-13 Thread James Cameron
( p-end d-end )( r: p-start ) + r> 3drop( )( r: ) + then ( )( r: ) + mbr-ih close-dev +; + : set-command-line ( -- ) button-check game-key? enable-serial or if " ttyS2 " " SP"

Announcing Q4D05 for XO-1.75

2012-03-04 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d05 - support a new camera sensor, - another fix for null-fsdisk, - avoid promising a menu, #11650, - fix SDHCI and keyboard self tests, #11651, #11652, -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel

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