On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Assim Deodia wrote:
> I am trying to load libertas_tf_usb module on XO-1 to use it as an AP.
> but when I modprobe libertas_tf_usb (after unloading libertas and usb8xxx
Hi Assim!
I don't think many people have been playing with it recently -- though
it is importa
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 2) FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) is dealing with the
> issue upstream [1][2] in Fedora with the view of getting it fixed
> upstream for F-14 or at the very least clarified.
Good to hear there's a good chance that F14 will sup
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> A mountain of packages and their corresponding effects on the system,
...
> It also invalidates many processes that myself and others have been
> training in the field, such as usage of rpm/yum, how to write spec
> files, etc.
These two poin
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> For those of you who've successfully installed AIR, can you email me
> in private with the steps you went through (and on which OS/image) so
> I can put it on the Wiki?
Good effort. The trick is -- roughly -- to
- take an XO with the desi
Hi list,
While I am waiting for Q2E44, I've drafted a relnotes page for "8.2.2"
-- here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff/Release_notes/8.2.2
.
The script used to create it is at
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/image-builder/ and the rpms and
activities involved at http://dev.l
I have uploaded 802b6 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ --
special thanks to NZ testers! This update includes some changes made
based on your feedback.
Changes in this build:
- Write has been fixed, by rolling back the libxml2 upgrade. This
breaks "modern" versions of GCompris -- use
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> I've attached two patches: (1) a new touchpad section for the control
> panel and (2) new icons for sugar-artwork used by the control panel.
Bravo! -- any chances can you add a slider control for acceleration?
We're shipping hardcoded value
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43 is a candidate for a
> general-availability firmware release for XO-1. It fixes problems found
> during testing of q2e42, which was not intended for general availability
> (because we suspected i
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
> the OLPC world headquarters corporate penthouse suite
Ah, the pampering! How you guys suffer. Come to the Miami "sweatshop"
to repro sometime ;-)
Our office here is also airconditioned to the max, but you can go out
and feel the humidity and he
Hi Lists,
A while ago dsd reported that after an initial "failed" registration,
it registration was broken. This turned out to be after registering
with no network, or with an invalid network. This is tracked in
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1940 (and in a few places in OLPC's
trac too).
Clear
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:46 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> With the 250Mb test I've been doing, this causes 8 seconds in dd, 147
> seconds in sync, and a nice distribution of write latencies (largest
> samples 0.2s 0.1s 44ms 15ms 8ms, median 85us, smallest sample 80us).
Great! Must say that dirty_ra
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:41 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> Yes, significantly. What I've observed is most likely entirely due to
> vm.dirty_* behaviour.
Interesting! There was discussion on the kernel list (reported on lwn
iirc) about how to tweak this to improve behaviour under heavy write
scenar
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:59 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
>> > just fix the kernel so the suspend
>> > ends when the next process wants to run.
>>
>> Have a look at powertop -- you'll never suspend, there are several
>> hundred wakeups per second.
>
> Did we give up on fixing these?
No, and as Ben men
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> No. Most writes pass in a time consistent with caching, and the latency
> is so small that I'm certain they aren't reaching the media (60us).
> It's only some writes that are delayed by 600ms to 3000ms.
What you are saying is that this is a
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> just fix the kernel so the suspend
> ends when the next process wants to run.
Have a look at powertop -- you'll never suspend, there are several
hundred wakeups per second.
If you want to do better than super-idling the way that recent kerne
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> I previously went even deeper:
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9688
Um, ugly. Wad seems to blame the SD card there -- his scripts possibly
favour cards with longer life, even if writes are slow. Does this get
better with a Class 6 card?
cheer
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> No, no Sugar log files are opened O_SYNC at the moment. I fixed that.
>
> The test also reproduces without Sugar running, and also in single user
> mode. This excludes Sugar and all user-space, suggesting the problem is
> isolatable to or a
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/dracut-modules-olpc/log/?h=clockset-pyx
>
> Tested on an XO-1.5 on top of build 121. The branch includes
>
> - Greplease patch so that the right lease is picked form huge
> lease.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:37 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> I've no explanation for this behaviour.
Do we still have some (sugar?) log files opened 'sync'? ext3/4 still
'fsync' the whole partition, which may explain the erratic
performance.
Linus has been railing against this (with the "FF freezes l
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Sorry, the 1.5 machine doesn't support 802.11s yet, so it needs to
> use ad-hoc or managed mode to talk to an XO-1.
So either get both on the same Access Point, or, if you don't have an
access point...
- On the XO-1.5, use the "create a new ne
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Tiago Marques wrote:
> Let me see if I understand what you said. I understand how it works on
> desktop and regular laptops. You load the module for the specific power
> saving feature and either a kernel module to do the job
I am far from being a true expert in th
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Tiago Marques wrote:
> I have been wondering for some time how are you controlling the frequency of
> the C7 processor in Fedora. Is this being done in the background by
LWN recently did a nice post on "idle". That should give you good
background info.
AIUI, the j
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Maybe I asked this already, but I can't find the discussion. When the
> server communicates the time to the XO and the XO sets the clock based
> on that, shouldn't the XO verify that the delegation has not expired?
> By that I mean it should r
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/dracut-modules-olpc/log/?h=clockset-pyx
>
> Tested on an XO-1.5 on top of build 121. The branch includes
Add 2 patches on top that include the ctypes implementation and switch
to it. P
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Oops. If it holds up. I'll release a 37 tomorrow.
Make sure it includes Daniel's fix to delegated sigs checking. A
buffer was too short, and bits spilled all over, complicating use of
antitheft magic and staining the carpet.
n
--
ma
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/dracut-modules-olpc/log/?h=clockset-pyx
Tested on an XO-1.5 on top of build 121. The branch includes
- Greplease patch so that the right lease is picked form huge
lease.sig files are with mmap instead of parsing it into memory (and
OOM'ing in the process).
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Yeah, using the dracut program. You can find the exact command used in
> the kernel spec file.
Yep - I remembered that, and just grabbed it. However, it's not just
that -- on an XO you
./configure --prefix /usr
make && make install
dracut
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> What exactly needs fixing? I guessed xs-activation-server but that
> already looks OK (oat.py reads the UUID from the OATS delegation).
All fixed now, see my earlier messages. The truncated "needs fixing"
was related to the brokenness of dynl
Porting some patches to d-m-o...
- Is there a handy way to test changes to dracut-modules-olpc without
building an RPM and installing it? (Other than unpacking / repacking
the initramfs by hand with cpio, naturally...)
- How is this package built / maintained? I have gotten as far as:
- edi
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> I don't have any ctypes experience, but from what I read, it looks
Just to make sure there's water before anyone jumps.
What impact would it have in our initramfs? Does it expect header
files to do its job? Does it require new modules / so f
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> I wouldn't have thought pyrex is necessary. I suggest using
> fnctl.ioctl() for RTC_SET_TIME, and ctypes for settimeofday().
Our chvt() is in pyrex, and all it does is call ioctl() on
/dev/console. If there's a better way to call ioctl() then
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/stable/olpc/xs-0.6/i386/xs-activation-0.2.39.g2277cdf-1.xs9.noarch.rpm
Setup a yum repo pointing at
http://fedora.laptop.org/xsrepos/testin
The recent changes to antitheft-related scripts and various bugfixen
are now rolled into a new RPM for F-9 (available in the olpcxs-testing
repo), and I have also rolled a F11 RPM that works well in F12 as
well.
Unfortunately, Daniel's work to make the binaries use nice dynamically
loaded librarie
I am porting some awkward patches I have against the old olpc
initramfs to the new dracut-based, all bling initramfs.
The python part is mostly done, but the fun part is that we're trying
to set the clock (both system clock and rtc) based on network
messages.
The general approach in our initramfs
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tiago Marques wrote:
> Tap to click is still working for me after using olpc-upgrade.
Can you tell us the output of uname -a, to confirm you got the new
kernel in place?
cheers,
m
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-
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 25 April 2010 03:16, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> Right now, if you do clone of the olpc-update repo, and try to build
>> it... well, it doesn't work very well.
>
> Pretty sure you're looking at the wrong re
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Had an interesting question from Sebastian M here in La Rioja...
>
> The .iso output of olpc-os-builder (and published on build.laptop.org)
> -- is it useful? Can it be run in emulation? Has anyone tried?
Is it easy to build with an extra (va
Current OFW has a bug in its delegated lease support
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10118 which affects one of our headline
features for the 10.x.y series.
Not sure how high antitheft ranks for 10.2.0 (10.1.1?)...
cheers,
m
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mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Archit
Right now, if you do clone of the olpc-update repo, and try to build
it... well, it doesn't work very well.
- First, you have to know to "make mock". That's an easy makefile read ;-)
- You need to handcraft your .gitmodules and then git submodule init ;
git submodule update . Make your .gitmodule
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> As discussed we're planning on putting a central internet-accessible
> OATS server in La Rioja, in addition to the ones in the schools.
Excellent!
> 1. Our central internet-accessible server for this task runs Fedora 12
> and will need to be
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> OK, no problem.
> Just curious though, whats the justification behind this? is there an
> existing project that runs in this way?
> The single file model just doesn't seem so scalable.
Thanks! If we have a utility script that splits up such
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> To me, the greatest drawback to the existing icon(s) is that they do not
> show the channel. If you have three icons, for heaven's sake draw them
> with static symbols ("1", "6", "11") to show where a connection would be
> attempted.
I l
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> based on the discussion in this thread I have created a first patch
> attached to ticket #9845 [1] implementing the three default ad hoc
> networks for channel 1, 6 and 11. A screenshot can be found there, too.
> There are a few open ques
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM, John Watlington wrote:
> You want us to add software to our build so that
> you can support an $89 USB peripheral that requires
> a separate screen, keyboard, and mouse ?
OTOH, we are including some drivers for usbvga devices -- useful if
there's an ext monitor
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Just checked git, I had to touch also idmanager.py in order to have it
> respect the variable in the config file.
> /BIND_ADDRESS/#BIND_ADDRESS
Ok. So you had to unset the default value... then the code block below
that (Config.__init__()), wh
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> And there is a perfect reason for a stable distro such as RHEL or CentOS :-)
:-)
Two quick things I want to inject into this conversation.
- Timing affects this decision. We're not in the abstract -- this is
_now_. If RHEL6/CentOS6 is re
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
> Who are the ones that like it? I don't remember any good feedback.
+1
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Sebastian Silva
wrote:
> BTW how do you disable it?
Yeah -- can we disable it easily on F11 builds?
m
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:10 PM, John Watlington wrote:
> I believe that if you examine the connector and the part that came off
> carefully, you can reattach them. Again, it could also have been ripped
> off in a manner that broke it.
I had similar connectors on other XOs come off (but intact)
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Stanley Sokolow
wrote:
> A bug report on the camera problem with FlashPlayer 10 on the XO-1 was
> submitted 19 months ago to the OLPC Trac and nothing's been done with it
Didn't know that there was an existing bug report. Great!
We see a lot of problems mentione
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Stanley Sokolow
wrote:
> maybe getting FlashPlayer to
> run correctly on Sugar is a non-issue by now
I think it Just Works, but if there are technical issues we will be
interested in hearing about them and exploring solutions. Let us know
how it goes, file bugs a
Hi,
sorry I'm brief (to the unfortunate point of rudeness) -- I am working
30hr days in a 60K deployment. Which happens to want to use Flash. In
fact I just helped the local team find adobe.com and we are adding the
relevant rpm to the build.
I find it puzzling that there is so much over the top
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
>>>And shiny distracts.
>
> Then write an app that's not shiny. Can you please get over your gut
> revulsion? I have the same reaction to Macs.
Ok gentlemen. Let's put things this way -- we are cluttering the
development list of olpc just as
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> In the longer term its likely that it will be. The libraries in CentOS
> 5 are too old. The problem is that RHEL-6 isn't out yet, nor is there
At least this XS guy is hopefuly that RHEL-6 will appear soon and XS
0.7 or 0.8 will be based on
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Speaking of the network, do we have a logical diagram of the network
> on the XS (interface, bond memberships, etc) ?
Not that I know of. I posted here explaining my plan right before
implementing it, and it did have some mappings.
For a mor
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> Martin, how is this Flash's fault?
I didn't say it was its fault -- I did point out the same cultural
issue you mention.
And shiny distracts. You are writing very long emails and not pointing
to compelling deep and rich stuff.
Maybe what
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Stanley Sokolow
wrote:
> So, please explain why "constructionist" educational models can't be
Nobody has stated that it can't be done. But experience shows the
opposite correlation (and I have worked in many edu projects using
Flash myself, some huge such as TLF'
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:03 PM, John Watlington wrote:
> It is extremely hard to see how anyone conversant with constructionist
> learning could get excited about Flash + OLPC.
Ditto here. I have never seen anyone who understands learning in depth
advocating Flash. Social constructionism and Fla
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> hey guys! Good news, I was able to get in touch with John Dowdell of
> Adobe (email below).
jd is still around! We used to correspond over bug and quirks in
Director versions 3 to 6.
>From my PoV, Flash is ok installation wise (hey! some o
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> XO-1.0 build 802B5 (laptop named simba)
>
Thanks for testing 802B5! I'll downgrade the activities you suggest -- and
there are reports that hint at some mixup with kernel setup that leads to a
subtle bug.
Hopefully I'll have an 802B6 Real So
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> (she had previous iPhone experience)
That's called cheating! ;-)
m
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On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>>>
>>> ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin -silent -eulaAccepted
>>
>> Excelent! Where the #$%^ did you find that that documented?
>>
>
> http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/ai
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin -silent -eulaAccepted
Excelent! Where the #$%^ did you find that that documented?
cheers,
m
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- don't get di
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> However, it looks like it would take a couple of months of effort to get
I think you are overengineering this.
- Single-file restore is well solved by Moodle's backup/restore UI + Browse
- As you found out, librsync isn't what you wan
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 14:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> I'm a bit confused, is the problem reliable full restore with limited
>> local space or the DS having the xapian DB open while the copy
>> happens? Or both?
>
> Both, but somehow we
2010/3/28 Tomeu Vizoso :
> was wondering if you were already aware of this request from the field.
The wording of the request is a bit confusing, so to clarify, I think
Walter means that we're missing the dots on the keys F J and 5 (in num
keypad).
But actually... they are present, and I can feel
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis
wrote:
> I'll go with Mikus on that.
> With at least 3 development streams some qualifier is needed in the naming.
> eg os115x1/os115x15/os115py
+1 -- and remember to keep it all 8.3 :-)
cheers,
m
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Our short-term goal is to meet a release criteria of "no
> regressions against build 801". Once this is done, we'll re-sync with
> the latest improvements from our upstreams, F11-XO1.5 and F11-XO1.
Bravo. To Stephen, to all the ParaguayEd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Suggestions?
Use (perhaps improve?) copy-to-journal cli script.
cheers,
m
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Andra DuPont wrote:
> I took Jerry's second approach and configured wwwoffle to use port 3128.
Excellent path. I am trying to get a newer version of wwwoffle built
as a good rpm for the XS, and to give you a clear recipe on how to get
this working. I think you are
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Children discovered some very creative ways to break their systems
> through Gnome.
LOL! And whatever we fix up, more creative ways of making a mess will appear.
All I can suggest is that having a hardlinked tree of the "core"
Activities
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> Yes and no. Anyone technically capable to rebuild our build system, as you
> mention below, will be able to easily script the installation of AIR.
Nope. I am fairly good with it, and I cannot script the installation
of AIR. If you have a t
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> THERE ARE NOW FREE AND OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR CREATING FLASH CONTENT.
Don't scream! They are new, it'll take a while... until someone does
the work of getting the right rpms into Fedora, Debian, etc. This is a
DIY world. Get it done if you
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> Who shall be the official contact from OLPC they should talk to? (name
> + email address)
d...@lists.laptop.org just like everyone else. We don't give linux
kernel developers any "special" contact, same with Sugar devs.
cheers,
m
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
> IMHO, OLPC would be able to provide deployments with the option of including
> Adobe Flash, while continuing to include Gnash as default
There are some aspects that are outside of OLPC control
- We need RPMs from Adobe -- in the case if
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> There is now an open-source SDK (Flex SDK (there's 2 versions, the
You don't say open source in the OSI sense right?
> Martin's previous arguments about the quality of educational content
> is not a problem with a platform like flash, it
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> I know most people here prefer free as in Libre as opposed to free as
> in beer, but what do you think of coordinating with Adobe to get Flash
> 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO?
Flash 10 AFAIK is available as an rpm, so a local deployment hoping
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
>> - Measure 24 -> 29 -- "Keep error"
> Could you please post a ticket with the log file? Might be something simple.
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1845 :-)
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I am uploading 802b5 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ --
the main purpose of this build is to test updated activities.
The focus is on somespecific activities that may be better... or not.
- Colors 13 -> 15 -- the build includes v15. It mostly worked
correctly. I found odd bugs in
s
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Andra DuPont wrote:
> Any thoughts from the team?
Any interesting entries in the squid log? Are there any files in the
/library/squid directories?
cheers,
m
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
> wad just reminded me of another user-visible change: people need
> to know how to inhibit automatic suspend.
>
> to inhibit suspend...
I have to say, that's *very* nice and comprehensive. Takes a lot to go
from the "it works in my machine" proof
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> I am uploading 802b4 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ --
> the main purpose of this build is to test updated activities. I did an
> initial round of smoketesting, and activities fall in 3 buckets:
BTW, this build als
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM, milan zimmermann
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Martin Langhoff
> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I am uploading 802b4 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ --
>
> I only see 802b3 there so far.
Ah, the transfer landed i
Hi all!
I am uploading 802b4 to http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ --
the main purpose of this build is to test updated activities. I did an
initial round of smoketesting, and activities fall in 3 buckets:
- no update
- updated, superficial testing didn't find problems
- updated, found
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> So no XS in place?
>
> The repair lab is not nearby any of the schools.
Ah - ok. Thanks for clarifying.
>> Downstreams that go to deployment (OLPC!) want to wait until a release
>> is reasonably well tested and stabilised.
>
> We have a
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM, John Watlington wrote:
> And indeed, the XS services are intended for such reuse. I'm not sure
> how many patches to the stock ejabberd are still needed...
It's not so much the patches (you can grab the ejabberd-xs rpm from
our repo), but the integration with o
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Me too, but it's not as bad as it seems: the techies use a simple shell
> script to backup and restore the journal (and scratch data) across
So no XS in place?
>> It feels uncomfortable that Sugar 0.84 is already a year old effort
>> as
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
wrote:
> Thank you very much for that explanation. It certainly helps to keep
> everything in perspective.
My pleasure.
> What I think we really need is a turn-key ejabberd solution that
> integrates with existing network services. If you or a
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
> how exactly do we think this is supposed to work? as far as i
> can see, "wake-on-lan" is only half the solution. don't we also
> need a "don't-go-to-sleep-because-i-still-might-have
> something-to-send" feature?
I agree -- I suspect our WOL wa
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, German R S wrote:
> The problem in Nicaragua is that we have more than 0.1%, we think that the
> percentage is around 1%.
>
> What we can do whit this problem???
Hi Germán,
can you give us more detail about the problem? A few good quality
pictures of the screens
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> If you ask me: our recent F11-XO1 builds have reached equal or better
> quality than build 801, provided you disable automatic power management.
Are all activities working, including collaboration? In Gnome, can you
actually use FF? Came
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:33 -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote:
>
>> By the way, how do you upgrade the XOs (we have XO-1s) to .84? This is
>> a very big deal for us.
>
> We use a local variant of the F11-XO1 images by Stephen Parrish, signed
> wi
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
> note to others: mikus is describing non-default behavior. the
> default behavior is for the CPU to suspend after about 15 seconds
> of inactivity.
And I assume powerd should play nice with the wol settings?
I am somewhat intrigued by the behav
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:54 AM, John Watlington wrote:
> Hmm. I need to communicate more.
> There have been a number of changes in the XO-1 keyboard
> since production started.
IME, the changes are quite subtle for those who aren't "in the know"
-- except for the non-membrane one ;-)
For exa
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> Seems to work -- now dealing with the ofw cli is more confusing that usual ;-)
Installed os802b3 from http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ and
it works a charm. Thanks for the RPM!
The deadkeys work and seem to make sense. I
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> For the KA part, from http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/ofw-ka-files,
> put setka.fth and azerty.ka in a USB stick, put the USB stick in the
> XO, and from OFW, issue the command
> fload setka.fth azerty
Thanks! The setka.fth script di
As Chris pointed out in private - I got Deepak Saxena mixed up with
Deepank Gumpta. Apologies to both.
Thanks to Deepak and Paul for looking after the kernel and modules.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
... lots of silly words...
m
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mar
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
> as chris forwarded, this was #9532 for XO-1.5. were you asking
> about XO-1.5, or XO-1?
I am hoping to use it on XO-1.5 - yes, I should have clarified. Thanks
for the track items.
My next step is to get one of those devices and see what I can d
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-2.6/commit/?h=olpc-2.6.31&id=b80d4cde6f36c76e2c3777dd594ab21151545acc
Excellent - thanks. I had looked in /lib/modules/.../drivers/video and
didn't find it -- it lands in drivers/usb/misc instead.
m
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Deepak, Paul,
there's been discussion a few times about having an rpm with
additional kernel modules. Is there a wishlist anywhere?
I want to case a vote for the sisusbvga.ko -- to be used and abused as
outlined here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA
cheers,
m
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