Re: Please update etoys in 8.2.1

2009-02-06 Thread James Cameron
ng on the > fedora-olpc list? debxo. No. Thanks for the heads-up. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: FoodForce2 Storyboard

2009-02-12 Thread James Cameron
The attachment was readable using xpdf. Nice work. You should seek hosting for HTTP download of large attachments though, because many many people are given the attachment who may not need it. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org

Re: Wireless test results (Was: Announcing the first 8.2.1 release candidate)

2009-02-15 Thread James Cameron
dialogue; it will start trawling for a mesh; you have to click the AP > again; it will now connect. Good simplification of previous workaround, well done. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mai

Re: Wireless test results (Was: Announcing the first 8.2.1 release candidate)

2009-02-15 Thread James Cameron
in /lib/firmware/usb8388.bin from the older build. After that, you could try swapping the old kernel in. I didn't get that far in my tests. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel maili

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-16 Thread James Cameron
s too soon".) > > How far off is it? The EC actually tries to detect this. The ACR > register will decrease when you use the battery outside the laptop. Last I checked, some months ago, it was no more than about 30% error. I didn't proceed with the test beyond about that po

Re: [Testing] Wireless test results

2009-02-16 Thread James Cameron
s anyone else got the recent OS build to operate fine on WPA with an older version of OFW? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-25 Thread James Cameron
able, so I tried with time cat file file Results were 7.147s, 7.151s, 7.183s. I'm certainly not seeing 15 seconds or 45 seconds. Do you have any rxvt customisations? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ __

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-25 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:42:52PM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: > I don't think timing the run time of x11perf is a usable benchmark. Agreed. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing li

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-26 Thread James Cameron
seeing what you're seeing. Perhaps there is something else affecting your system. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-26 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:16:24AM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 12:02:46 am James Cameron wrote: > > > > I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Perhaps there is something else > > affecting your system. > > > > Agreed. Now i

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-26 Thread James Cameron
ing else on the unit, and allowing the boot time garbage collection enough time to complete. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-26 Thread James Cameron
from USB: 4.406s, 4.360s, 4.369s ... same as the results from debxo 0.4. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-28 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:24:19PM -0800, da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, James Cameron wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:50:58PM -0800, da...@lang.hm wrote: >>> since the effect seems to be related to the amount of text on the screen >>> at any one

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-28 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:22PM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 05:09:27 pm James Cameron wrote: > > > Something is wrong with my olpc in either the xserver or hardware. For > > > other non-drawing tasks its speed seems to be reasonable. > >

Re: XO memory size

2009-02-28 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:51:40PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: > I *think* a save-nand to USB disk will work, but I don't know if a > copy-nand from it will work. I'll give it a go. Verified. save-nand succeeds. copy-nand results in an unbootable system, on power-up OFW prompts

Re: XO memory size

2009-03-01 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:05:51PM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: > On Saturday 28 February 2009 05:51:40 pm James Cameron wrote: > > > 3, every once in a while (10 mins or so) there is a message in console > > > like: > > > JFFS2 warning: jffs2_sum_write_sumnode

Re: Opportunity for speedup

2009-03-01 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:44:01PM -0500, Bobby Powers wrote: > I can't seem to get ul-warning to come up properly, so if anyone can > tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be great. What actually goes wrong? Is ul-warning executed? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.net

Re: XO memory size

2009-03-02 Thread James Cameron
I see entirely different results to rxvt under kwin: 14.422s, 14.366s, 14.392s. [80x24] And for a fully maximised rxvt, 25 seconds. That's very similar to your numbers. You've clearly narrowed the field. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___

debxo ohmd testers wanted

2009-03-03 Thread James Cameron
ents welcome. I'm yet to learn some tricks. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: debxo ohmd testers wanted

2009-03-09 Thread James Cameron
-6.21.20090304git.quozl-1_i386.deb Tested on an XO for half an hour. Test reports wanted. None posted publically so far. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Introducing the OLPC Multi-Battery Charger.

2009-03-24 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:20:34PM -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Reply-to-all this email with responses to the questions below, a contact > person and a shipping method (see note *[2]). James Cameron, via previous shipping address, which I don't really want to place on mailing li

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:58:22PM -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: > right. joyride or not, it's simply not the case that "hardware > should work as expected". :-) Actually, the hardware should work as expected, but the software might not. ;-) -- James Cameronmailt

Re: segfault in ohmd

2009-04-21 Thread James Cameron
A segfault can be reproduced in ohmd on debxo if one ensures that hald is not running at the time ohmd is started. I'd like to know the debxo version, the ohm package version used, and whether you have hald running at the time. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org

Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-04-25 Thread James Cameron
. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-04-26 Thread James Cameron
I don't know of anyone who plans to teach electronics and control systems though. -- [1] the analog input can be used as a digital output with additional circuitry that detects the switching of the bias voltage, but that is quite complex for a student to comprehend. -- James

Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-04-28 Thread James Cameron
use a photodiode, or light dependent resistor. Then there's the spectrum of light being received. Then there's reflection from the laptop display itself to consider. I recall we also once had a discussion on whether the camera could be used as an ambient light detector. --

Re: application for project hosting: PhoneticExplorer

2009-04-29 Thread James Cameron
wear the duplicates. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: plz test Build 802 + Firmware Q2E41 = Candidate Release 8.2.1

2009-04-30 Thread James Cameron
os802.img tested briefly fine, covering mainly install, first boot, lid close, portable use on a trip, recharge. Didn't test WPA. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-30 Thread James Cameron
placed domestic 110V or 240V outlets? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-30 Thread James Cameron
tial contact point. I've just inspected the adapters here; the B1/B2 series have negligible cavitation, the C2 series have easily detected cavitation. One can hear the arc on insertion of the C2 series adapter into a 240V socket. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org

Re: Videos of XO 1.5 in Taipei

2009-06-03 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:26:34PM +0100, Tiago Marques wrote: > I would have some uses for the slot, even if internal, like a SWAP > device. Even after the massive memory and flash size increase? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netr

Re: libertas private ioctls

2009-06-13 Thread James Cameron
device driver, such that operation of the LEDs becomes the perceived responsibility of this driver? It would check if it is an XO. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@li

Re: equivalent copy-nand interface ideas for XO-1.5

2009-06-14 Thread James Cameron
ithout actually erasing it? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: issue with snapshots from command line via gstreamer

2009-06-17 Thread James Cameron
then just use the last one. No idea, but the last time I needed this I used motion.sourceforge.net configured for a very low frame rate. One process instead of a pipe. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ __

Re: XO-1.5 A1 HDA issues

2009-07-01 Thread James Cameron
like this could change a "no audio from speakers" laptop into a "speakers do not turn off when headphones used" laptop ... reducing the need for a return or replacement. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___

Re: XO-1.5 microphone testing

2009-07-03 Thread James Cameron
hardware. I'm also curious as to how successful this analog input mode has been in deployments. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO with no radio...

2009-07-10 Thread James Cameron
. I've not investigated it fully yet. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Performance hit while working with screen depth 16

2009-07-13 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:28:37PM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote: > To improve the performance on the XO I wrote a small script to be used > along with my activity. This script changed the screen depth of the XO > to 24 and restarted X. Where is it? -- James Cameron

Re: Performance hit while working with screen depth 16

2009-07-13 Thread James Cameron
> If you are asking which file I changed to get the screen depth of the XO to be > 24, it is the xorg.conf file present at /etc/X11. Yes, I was asking about your small script. Can you provide your small script that changes teh screen depth and restarts X? -- James Cameronmailto:qu.

Re: Performance hit while working with screen depth 16

2009-07-13 Thread James Cameron
ivities, or (b) cause other activities to fail because you have changed the environment. I looked at the script, but the build I'm using doesn't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, so I don't think it can work ... the mv would fail. What operating system build are you using? -- James Came

Re: Performance hit while working with screen depth 16

2009-07-13 Thread James Cameron
ge atomic. You should also prepare code that will undo the change on reboot. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?

2009-07-21 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:33:14PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > That one-way road was unacceptable to Nicholas. He insisted that, if > any machines were to be able to run Windows, they must be able to > dual-boot. Good work, both of you. -- James Cameron http://quozl.lin

Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?

2009-07-21 Thread James Cameron
t very efficient, since the interface is SMTP rather than HTTP for posting. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 41, Issue 37

2009-07-21 Thread James Cameron
tions of it to > Slashdot? The mailing list archives are public. You can refer to the archives. You don't need permission to do so. Cut and paste a URL. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org h

Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?

2009-07-21 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:12:42PM +0200, Bastien wrote: > Thanks. But a blog entry would still look more official, and would > have more context explaining why those explanations are necessary. I'm not able to help with that, sorry. I'm only a volunteer, and do not represent

Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?

2009-07-21 Thread James Cameron
g system" ... and this will no doubt be remembered as "Sugar". We found about 25% of our visitors already used Sugar desktop on their kids. Quite a select visitor group ... they had shown dedication to science and technology by travelling four to six hours by car to get there.

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-24 Thread James Cameron
ems to fix it. Rebooting ... automatically reassociated with access point, other XOs seen in Neighbourhood view. Hope this helps. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-24 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:16:45PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/7/24 James Cameron : > > 1. ?font size changed on console during boot, but it went back to normal > > before X started, > > What do you mean by "normal"? I assume it went big-to-small-to-

[OT] XO-1 radio range testing team at Parkes Radiotelescope

2009-07-27 Thread James Cameron
A set of XO-1 units was demonstrated by Petria and James Cameron at Parkes Radiotelescope a week and a half ago, with about 6500 visitors to the site walking past the demonstration. It was a hit with the kids, who automatically clustered around the table to fit the available keyboard slots. The

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-27 Thread James Cameron
I agree with the proposal. I'm on the other side with respect to size of root ... 2 GB doesn't seem safe enough given the current 1.1 GB size we have. But on the other hand, repartitioning later is probably quite practical. -- James Cameron http://quozl.li

Re: Windows on the XO (was: Re: Devel Digest, Vol 41, Issue 41)

2009-07-28 Thread James Cameron
at have chosen this configuration. Perhaps you misunderstand what "selling" means. It doesn't mean a sale has completed. That would be "sold". I'm taking this to mean it is orderable. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-28 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:13:34PM -0700, rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: > Wish I knew how to create drivers for OFW so it could boot from UBIFS. Why bother? Do what debxo does and leave OFW a boot partition to deal with, that way you wouldn't need to have UBIFS in OFW. -- James Came

Re: [Sugar-devel] problem connecting to irc

2009-07-31 Thread James Cameron
ect to freenode. You should determine why your IP address is listed. If you are purchasing IP service from a company, you could ask them for advice, but the situation is usually caused by someone else who used your IP before you doing something particularly evil. -- James Cameron http://quo

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-01 Thread James Cameron
Can this build be updated to using olpc-update in order to only fetch the changes via rsync? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-01 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 06:32:45AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > I downloaded twice and still can not install (crc/img discrepancies at > different points) Either the file changed (unlikely), or your download did not complete? Check the sizes and md5sums. -- James Camero

Re: MPPT

2009-08-06 Thread James Cameron
of time a system can be used. I did some tests a while ago with a 12W panel, XO-1, and OFW's watch-battery, and while the current input to the battery was low, it was certainly better than nothing. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-10 Thread James Cameron
expressed as circles of varying radii. Press q to quit. Tested on OLPC build 802 and debxo. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ #!/usr/bin/python """ Signal Strength Meter Copyright (C) 2009 James Cameron (qu...@laptop.org) This program is free software; you c

Re: [Sugar-devel] ESSIDs and BSSIDs, NM and Sugar

2009-08-11 Thread James Cameron
antenna, which is coincidently the one with the shortest internal RF cable. It also less frequently tries the other antenna. (I wish more data was exposed). -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-12 Thread James Cameron
Boot tested, nothing unusual seen. rtcwake testing has shown that it needs --utc after the first shutdown. Prior to then the /etc/adjtime file is zero. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-13 Thread James Cameron
results in reliable wakeup, 100% of the time, within 13 seconds of the command being typed. Total five tests on two XO-1s. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-14 Thread James Cameron
h for solar time. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5-timezones

2009-08-14 Thread James Cameron
; when > opened for editing. Is this normal? Since /etc/localtime is a binary file, which means not text, then it is expected that accidentally editing it may trigger parts of an editor that are designed to recognise strange text files. -- James Cameron htt

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFH - Journal corruption reports fom 8.2.1 users in Uy

2009-08-20 Thread James Cameron
2.1 being used by children of a friend, and one of them reported a loss event recently ... what do I look for in the filesystem to check for evidence of this? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org htt

Re: erasing the journal and config

2009-08-27 Thread James Cameron
ng a "ruin everything" object (the USB flash key) means it can be scripted, made simple, yet secured in a locked draw to prevent accidental use. I've tested this method only on unlocked laptops. For locked laptops some similar method might be used. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linu

Re: OHMD Power Control Scripts (James Cameron)

2009-09-02 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the thanks. I hear rumours we may find powerd in the next DebXO. You may notice little difference. It's getting to be hard to tell unless you dig and find out how they work. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___

Re: XO-1.5 B2 bringup

2009-09-15 Thread James Cameron
Congratulations, and well done. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1 Mesh support in F11, testing request

2009-09-17 Thread James Cameron
Haven't had a chance to try this yet, been busy with assessment tasks ... but what particular F11 for XO-1 build are you testing with? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapto

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-17 Thread James Cameron
ther system hiding in the background. Still, kernel handling a keyboard key still requires some sanity on the part of the kernel. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Images partitioned right?

2009-10-10 Thread James Cameron
ally determine to be partitioning related. Repartitioning them always seems to fix it. I'm talking about 10 USB or SD devices in 12 XO-1's though, not a particularly large sample. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] MANIFEST experiments

2009-10-14 Thread James Cameron
aze Measure Memorize Moon Paint Pippy Read Record Ruler Scratch Speak TamTamMini TamTamSynthLab Terminal TurtleArt Write" 2. the change was to activitybundle.py in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/bundle/ and removed all code in read_manifest(), leaving just "pass":

Re: XO-1 Build 802 doesn't turn off speaker amplifier

2009-10-14 Thread James Cameron
esult of disabling the amplifier with alsamixer. The hiss from the speakers also went away. (I had to place my ears within a few inches to be able to hear the change). The input voltage 12.06V. There was no change to the current consumed during suspend. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linu

Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

2009-10-16 Thread James Cameron
nsor don't permit this method of deployment. I'm no expert in that product. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-20 Thread James Cameron
itha Roder wrote: > tested install activity from browse - installed geoquiz-4 successfully > from wiki.laptop and started game successfully Good. > tried installing foodforce2-beta.xo from code.google.com - failed, > gave file in journal but not activity > can download foodforce2-

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
cable involved, and it may be a cause), 4. whether the problem goes away for a short time after a full power removal (battery and AC), (we had something like this on XO-1 B1, long since fixed, unlikely), 5. whether any of the keys get stuck in their active sta

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO in 2 identical SSID scenario

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
lts and points of view. No, I have not done such a test. It is a good idea, but I lack sufficient knowledge of your configuration in order to verify that the test would be true. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
would take to make this work, if there was a real need for it that would cover the huge cost. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines [#9343]

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
nal solution to your problem, but only as a workaround so that you can test collaboration further. I've tested the procedure with two XO-1.5's. I didn't have any more than two to test with. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines [#9343]

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:24:08AM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: > eek! no need to get dirty; you can create an ad-hoc network from a > single click in the frame, and then the others can join it from the > neighborhood view. Sounds neat. Doesn't work. #9540 raised. -- Jame

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines [#9343]

2009-10-21 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:31:28PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote: > > Just checking this scenario I am a teacher and have just been > > handed 5 XOs for my students. I am told you can have a child start > > wri

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-22 Thread James Cameron
esting possibility. > > Ad-hoc will work well for the cases where the children get together in > > a small space and explicitly create a throwaway network. > > The "small space" works with younger kids. The "explicitly create"... > doesn't. X

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2009-10-22 Thread James Cameron
I can only relate personal experience ... yes, it caught me by surprise quite a few times in the past few days. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2009-10-22 Thread James Cameron
is all I did: xorg.conf: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: wlan interface (was: first play with new XO 1.5 machines)

2009-10-23 Thread James Cameron
d everyone > else who's synchronized to B). At this point, frames coming from A are > just noise. Aside ... in larger and different radio networks, this problem is addressed by using some form of timing other than one station beaconing. This isn't an option for us here. -- James

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-25 Thread James Cameron
o do it that one should worry. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-26 Thread James Cameron
her readers here don't attempt to reproduce and create a ticket, then they mustn't think it is important enough to fix. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-11-02 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:16:45PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/7/24 James Cameron : > > Tested os2 on XO-1 C2. > > > 10. screen rotate button caused screen to go black. ?That's puzzling, I'll > > try to reproduce. ?Yep, the screen rotate button causes the

Re: [Sugar-devel] In gconf-based Sugar, how do I read config values (nickname, etc)...

2009-11-03 Thread James Cameron
I used this as root: su -c "gconftool-2 --get /desktop/sugar/user/nick" olpc -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: crond disabled?

2009-11-04 Thread James Cameron
may be a design I'm not aware of. F9 for XO-1 (802) uses crond for ds-backup, olpc-pwr-prof, and olpc-update. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: crond disabled? [#9605]

2009-11-04 Thread James Cameron
Being tracked. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9605 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] MANIFEST experiments

2009-11-08 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:29:51PM +0700, Philipp Kocher wrote: > The patch is good to reduce the boot time, but doesn't work for > activity developers. Yes, this is a known side-effect. It is an optimisation for users not developers. -- James Cameron http://quozl.l

Re: OS38 don't boot

2009-11-08 Thread James Cameron
g else, I noticed a filesystem write performance which was low compared to read performance. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 39

2009-11-09 Thread James Cameron
#9587 reopened, thanks for pointing it out. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Reopening a ticket on dev.laptop.org

2009-11-10 Thread James Cameron
I've reopened several tickets but haven't seen any loss of problem description. I'd like to know the ticket number too, so that I can check the database directly. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mai

Re: old ticket triage

2009-11-11 Thread James Cameron
look. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO problems with 32 characters SSID [laptop.org #9652]

2009-11-12 Thread James Cameron
This is being tracked as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9652 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Does anyone boot OLPC on nfsroot?

2009-11-17 Thread James Cameron
Consider the rdshell boot option so that you can gain control instead of sleeping forever. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Why does Sugar mount removable volumes ?

2009-11-18 Thread James Cameron
ould have expected the volume to be mounted by Sugar. > My question -- how come Sugar mounts *all* removable volumes ? So that when a volume is made available at a hardware level, the user is able to access it automatically. At least, that's my understanding of the Sugar design. -- J

Re: XO-1.5 slow disk writes

2009-11-18 Thread James Cameron
s in my man mount output. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OS and Firmware testing for XO 1.5 B2

2009-11-18 Thread James Cameron
. 4. fix the problem and send us a patch. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

trac, 1.5 milestone changes

2009-11-19 Thread James Cameron
system build is ready for mass production manufacturing loading. The list of milestones will certainly change, but a naming convention is being enforced. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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