Re: Transparent proxy

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/11/27 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com: We are working with the XS-0.6 version and for the moment all is working well. We want to disable the transparent proxy, for security,  and put it as an intermediary proxy in a different port. Jerry's instructions are right. However, the

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel fixed this -- and the fix should be in the recent builds. Does it continue to happen with current builds? Current builds means it was fixed in kernel, right? Nope - in initrd -- look for changes in

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com wrote: I run WPAD here with Mozilla, and it works well.  It will generally be through DNS since that's the more reliable way of finding it, but it does require the browser to make a check for it. Looks like we need some

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANN: rainbow-0.8.5 release.

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Bringing these very useful notes back to the list. Below, Michael outlines steps-to-integrate... On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Michael Stone michael.r.st...@gmail.com wrote: If there was someone interested in re-integrating rainbow into the stack, beyond the obvious of packaging the latest

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: hi martin -- sorry for the delay.  the Weekend of Big Meals got in the way.  :-) I hope it was a good time over there. Get some padding to keep warm through the winter :-) Hard to keep track of the holidays across various

Re: Re: Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: Is it possible to make a small and low risk JPEG-patch for abiword 2.6.4 so it could be included in release 8.2.2? Hubert, Phillip, Small update: libabiword for 8.2.2 will be 2.6.5 (to include some Nepali script

About 8.2.2

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: What's the 8.2.2 schedule? What is changing? Very succintly: - It won't be signed by OLPC. You have to be on an unlocked XO, or be a deployment signing your own builds. - Improvements in antitheft and tools

Re: About 8.2.2

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: So a deployment could customize the image-builder script to include a newer RPM, e.g. if they wanted a more recent version of Etoys. Bingo. It actually supports an rpms dir. Drop something there and go. And I am

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:07 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Try running powertop (yum install powertop), to see what amount of time We do have some powertop strangeness at play - http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9630 The C-7M is a strange beast, in that it already runs at minimum

Re: About 8.2.2

2009-12-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote:  - It won't be signed by OLPC. You have to be on an unlocked XO, or be a deployment signing your own builds. Is there a reason why 8.2.2 doesn't get signed by OLPC? I do understand that the main target group are big

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 48

2009-12-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os48 And as the wiki says - remember to use the latest OFW with it. My XO had a bad case of psychedelic UI with q3a15, cured with q3a16... m. --

Re: About 8.2.2

2009-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: What is the plan for the Fedora 11 build for XO-1, will OLPC sign such a build or is 802 the last build signed by OLPC? I think the F11 images will follow the policy I outlined: no more signed builds. I don't think

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Franco Miceli fmic...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Can someone explain to me why these registers have been set to such values? Is this a mistake or it is something done for some reason in particular? Hi Franco, What values are you expecting, and why? cheers, m

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Ok, and what about the documentation? Also - what does the firmware on the card do with that? Could it be overwritten by a DCW algorythm? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: For now the plan is to one version per language on ASLO. Is that so inconvenient for massive deployments? Sounds reasonable. Some deployments will want to ship more than one l10n pack, can they do that without

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Ed, note that the l10n packs for OO are *massive*. I think it is because they include large dictionaries thesaurii, template files, localised iconsets... etc. There is probably room for trimming them down, and perhaps even hardlinking identical images after installation. Hard to know what'll

Re: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:48 PM, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote: To avoid useless discussion, and just FYI, *it is of course* possible to create something similar to the existing Linux language packs. No doubt, and thanks for the clarification. I think Ed was pointing to a desire @ OLPC to

Re: VT_WAITACTIVE (was: Re: ffreep support on Geode LX (XO-1))

2009-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote: There's been some work in 2.6.32 on some shiny new interface that is supposed not to have the VT_WAITACTIVE bugs: [1] Maybe ul-warning can switch to that once the olpc tree has been rebased on top of

Kernel build on the magic kernel builder...

2009-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am hoping a kind soul can rebuild an SRPM of my slighly patched kernel, which is headed for 8.2.2, using the magic FC6 kernel builder... if anyone remembers where that thing is! :-) The SRPM builds very nice RPMs that test well on my XO-1s -- but there are probably subtle dangers lurking there.

8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
Note! We are also testing the XO-1.5 builds, and hoping to make a release Real Soon Now. If you have XO-1.5 hardware, help us test the 1.5 builds. On the other hand, if you have XO-1s to test, I need help with... The build is '802B1' -- find it at: http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/

TurtleArt - right version for OLPC builds?

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
Walter, Sugaristas, What is the correct latest version of TA that works correctly on Sugar 0.84? I am seeing an issue -- discussed below -- when using TA-79 (as included in os48 of the OLPC builds for XO-1.5) but when I look at the TA changelog, I find that it states that TA-63 is the newest one

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clean-install_procedure#Development_builds On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Martin Langhoff =Touchpad= The build has a rebuilt kernel with new touchpad drivers, and some configuration tweaks. This is for both old 'ALPS' touchpads and new 'Synaptics' touchpads. (Do

Re: TurtleArt - right version for OLPC builds?

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: What is the issue with TA-80 (new Finnish translations) on os48? I don't recall the ticket? The issue I am finding -- with TA-79 -- is that files saved to the Journal seem to be in a different format. I expected gtar.

Re: TurtleArt - right version for OLPC builds?

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: As of TA-66 (or there abouts) I added in support for old-style toolbars. Bravo! thanks. And thanks for updating ASLO too. As regards the file format, I got rid of gtar, but still open old-style files. I just save to

Journal behaviour on ext disk: what is sl#1262 about?

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Aleksey, all, I am trying to improve some Journal behaviours re external disks, so trying to understand the logic. Looking at git, dsd recently backported the fix for sl#1262 to 0.84. What is it supposed to do? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server

Re: Journal behaviour on ext disk: what is sl#1262 about?

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Sugar doesn't full support external disks(e.g. writing) Well, 0.82 mostly did :-) Anyway, I have a few patches for that I am working on right now. , so after #1262 patch applied, 0.86 doesn't try to write metadata(like

Re: side/side batt. life in suspend

2009-12-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: These are excellent news! How many cells do current shipping batteries have?(out of curiosity) Battery specs easily found on the wiki ;-) -- the batteries aren't changing from xo-1 to xo-1.5 m --

Re: User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-12-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On os34, if I Filed it as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9657 - can't find anything on this topic on the SL trac; apparently

Technique to extract all records from xapian DB?

2009-12-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am trying to add minimal support on 0.84 for the old 0.82 format in which JE metadata was saved on external disks. By minimal I mean read-only, fail-safe, and generally with small impact on the codebase. I sure don't want to reimplement the old DS code Is there a simple (and cheap) way to read

Re: [support-gang] FW: Secure or Unsecure?

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:27 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: For you, given our conversation last night, I think this option (play until break) is probably the best.  You will naturally play with things that others might not.  That will be good value.  Duplication isn't necessarily a

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Good thing we reinvented the wheel here.  RPM packaging was too complete and flexible for kids or teachers (or school administrators). I had the same gripe, and then talkedemailed with Seth Vidal and RPM devs. The answer is

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: -Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality? -Or would including it increase the complexities of managing deployments? One disadvantage of doing this is

Offer of help with Sugar and related packages

2009-12-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
Sorry about the crosspost -- I think the best is to keep this thread going on fedora-olpc-list and to cc Guillermo Gomez ('gomix'). Note! IIRC, fedora-olpc-list has broken reply-to behaviour so to keep him cc'd takes extra effort (if you don't cc him explicitly, he'll get dropped). Guillermo is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Technique to extract all records from xapian DB?

2009-12-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I think it's worth trying, but not sure if worth merging and deploying. 0.82 didn't used directly the python xapian bindings, but some wrapper on top of it that tried to make easier the mapping between keys in the B-tree

Re: [Sugar-devel] Technique to extract all records from xapian DB?

2009-12-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: The mapping mentioned before is persisted in index/config inside the DS dir. Ah, it's not static? The number-field mapping It seems stable to me testing it. So the right way is to read that 'config', how do you

Re: [Server-devel] Fresh install of XS 0.6 -- Moodle is disabled at the moment.

2009-12-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Ben T benjt...@gmail.com wrote: This was on VirtualBox. Ah! I had missed that completely -- yes, it's a problem with the virtualization sw clearly. Nothing else is having that issue. Can I suggest something? The install makes an LVM for the /library partition,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Technique to extract all records from xapian DB?

2009-12-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 17:48, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Yeah. It's a very complex beast that, after following the callstack

Re: a trac milestone for F11-for-XO1 work

2009-12-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM, César D. Rodas cro...@paraguayeduca.org wrote: I was talking to Raul and he told me we could help adding tickets for the XO1 (from the mailing list, and if we find some bugs). Also, we can help trying (as hard as we can) to hunt down those bugs. Great! We're

Re: Little issue with Midore

2009-12-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: As I said before, it is not a proper bug, and I fixed it by setting the default font size to 6px, in the ~/.config/midori/config, and it looks better. Is there a way to set this configuration by

Re: Little issue with Midore

2009-12-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, crodas cro...@paraguayeduca.org wrote: When I said messages before, I meant error messages. In order to reproduce it, just open a non valid URL. Oh! Does the same happen with other error messages from other apps? If so, we might need to bump gnome's font sizes.

Re: [Server-devel] XO 1.5 to XS-onXO1 behavior

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Sameer, that's expected, unfortunately. The XS-on-XO runs an active antenna / mesh gateway in the sense of 802.11s. As the current XO-1.5 drivers/firmware don't talk 802.11s, it won't work. In that sense, the XO-1.5 is the same as any other 802.11a/b/g device. There are two paths to address

Re: [Server-devel] XO 1.5 to XS-onXO1 behavior

2009-12-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:41 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: The least common denominator in the XO-1 and XO-2 clients is a connection to an access point.  So making the XS (on any hardware) provide a standard 802.11 access point would probably be the easiest path forward. That's right.

Re: [Server-devel] XO 1.5 to XS-onXO1 behavior

2009-12-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:14 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 03:00:44PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: When the XO1.5 associates with school-mesh-0 (I have to click on it in the Neighborhood view) the association happens, but the XO1.5 gets 169.254.xxx.xxx

Re: Marvell 88W8388 USB Development Dongles

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 5:29 PM, vbx dev vbx...@gmail.com wrote: OLPC XO-1 uses the Marvell 88W8388 USB wireless adapter. I want to contribute to the development of the libertas/libertas-tf driver for this wireless adapter. Could I buy a few 88W8388 USB development dongles from OLPC to get

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Cecilia Abalde caba...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: I download the patch, then run rpm-ivh Name patch but there is a problem with the files: ... Any ideas ??? Yes - you are trying to upgrade the RPM, instead of installing a previously not installed package, so do

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:56 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:             I would argue that an operating system that doesn't natively host its development tools is not appropriate for OLPC's target audience. Does the XO-1 host its own development tools?  I don't think anyone has ever

Re: User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
-- the patches haven't changed but the r? might draw some attention. My old post below is still very relevant, and my notes after it, plus a request for help. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:  I have 4 patches that fix this up so that we DTRT

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: j/k. ;-) emacs is what I am using on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 so pretty good going ;-) (Along with vim! Peace!) Lots of people here want to claim we need Eclipse to have an IDE. Of all the developers involved in the whole

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:47 AM, NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu wrote: For the other people talking about IDEs: an usable IDE is not a text editor. Of course. What I do (and most other productive programmers I know do) is use the window manager (gnome, kde, awesome...), xterms, a webbrowser,

Re: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: You got some good replies already, but you may want to consider contacting Gustavo Ibarra or Gonzalo Odiard (cc'ed) who are pushing Sugar in Argentina. My thoughts exactly. Also -- if you're going to be in Buenos Aires,

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/12/29 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: me. Another (optional) question is why did you left out gdb from the list? All sorts of things run on the 3/4 xterms i use. valgrind, gdb, python -m pdb, tail -f /path/to/log, ipython, ps_mem.py, psql, git commands... All your code is perfect because

When debugging NetworkManager / wpa_supplicant -- fixing logs...

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
For people still looking at issues lurking in the NM/wpa_supplicant/driver interactions, I have written this simple script that helps correlate the wpa_supplicant logs (in seconds-since-boot) with the NM logs (timestamped by syslog).   log-secs-to-utc.py log-in-secs.log log-in-utc.log  - You

Re: User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: I've uploaded patch with minor fixes and delete fix (b0113bf67c31dbeaa08cf0f1710c1be8d02a9b25 should be cherry-picked) Excellent! thanks! Will be re-diffing it a bit later today. to last sucrose-0.84, was backported

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:15 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: the advantage of a loosly coupled IDE is that one component can be replaced by something else without having to change/loose all the other things. Bingo! As soon as git was working, I switched fulltime to it (and dragged my team with me ;-)

os64 - strange freeze

2009-12-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
I just reflashed my 1.5 B2 (non-ECOd in any way), did the disable power mgmt twice trick, and on the 3rd boot started the Terminal Activity. The icon pulsed on the screen a few times, and then froze hard. I don't have logs or anything meaningful to show -- but don't want to let it slide either.

Re: User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-12-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: I've uploaded sugar-1636-pre.patch with all reverts and cherry patches (be warned, I reverted f93c9de3ff6b7d7f1730c5056b0b4fae9f00a201 patch partially) and reuploaded sugar-1636.patch Done some more work on this, and

Re: [olpc-nz] Battery LED flashing

2010-01-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
hi Tabs, the behavious sounds exactlt like a case of trickle charge. This triggers when the batt charge is so low that we cannot charge it (or measure it). When it happens, it's ususlly because a batt has not been used for a while. It's normal that it will trckle charge for a while, and then

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1test request

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: The 802B1 build does not include package libv4l.  I had to manually install that package in order to be able to watch movies. The original 802 build did not include v4l, and there does not seem to be any bug filed related to

Re: New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:43 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Keyboard and mouse will not wakeup from sleep.  Can be fixed by disabling power management in Sugar. Is there any reason for cutting release after release that don't work unless end users disable power management (sometimes

Shutdown proces on F9 (8.2.x builds)... who kills X.org?

2010-01-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
With the help of Mikus, a specific shutdown bug has been narrowed down, and I think it's a race with the X.org server needing a little bit longer to shut down cleanly. More details on the bug itself at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9943 (Shutdown process stops in text console when USB keyboard in

Re: Trac usage

2010-01-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Please don't get defensive when a developer ask followup questions about your ambiguous bug reports. +1 -- your bughunting + our prodding questions have fixed a lot of bugs. Some cases are one-off anomalies, are so hard to repro that seem one-off anomalies, or have gotten fixed in the

spam on dev.l.o

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9984 And they linked to it from a few bugs -- at least from #8976 Can we delete trac entries? Can we block this hooligan? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny

gcompris connect4 locking up / oom'ing

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi GCompris devs, I am seeing a problem with gcompris-connect4-12.xo when used on the latest stable version of the XO OS (8.2.1 aka 802). The symptom looks a lot like this libxml2-related bug that appeared in other gcompris components about 16 months ago -- http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8641 . In

Re: [Sugar-devel] gcompris connect4 locking up / oom'ing

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Got similar issue, after upgrading libxml it was ok. Was testing same -- and an update to libxml2-2.7.3-1.fc9 and libxml2-python-2.7.3-1.fc9 (latest in F9 updates) fixes the startup. That's good. I still get Couldn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] gcompris connect4 locking up / oom'ing

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: 8.2 on XO-1 Excellent -- thanks! * timing tuning for some dynamic activities  (overwise they can brick XO-1) Brick XOs? Do you literally mean brick it, or just crash / OOM? some dynamic games can eat lots of CPU

Re: gcompris connect4 locking up / oom'ing

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a known issue, is there a fix? In summary -- yes it's known, and the gcompris bundles of version 10 are the ones to use on 8.2.x -- they are available from this wikipage http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris

Getting Rainbow to read new permissions.info

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
Working with the Rainbow we shipped in 8.2.1, and looking at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8814#comment:19 Briefly, Wikipedia-xo packages have been seeing warnings from the xulrunner engine (and some minor bugs) because they should use persistent-uid in permissions.info... and they don't. Now, if

Re: spam on dev.l.o

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Yes; done and done. grr - more spam at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8434 m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff -

Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
Late last year Gary and others volunteered to test my 802b1 build, with a nice test practice from Gary of drawing spirals. It took me a while to get back onto this (apologies - real life intruded in a big way), but I have been working on this again, hoping to close it. I took 4 laptops (2 with

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:  in my testing, setting the final argument to 0 resulted in extremely jerky performance. Was that with the new or old psmouse code? Have you got a test procedure I can try, maybe drawing spirals isn't the only relevant test...?  

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: What you see as a regression I see as an enhancement.  My evidence is based on what deployments/pilots talk about when they come give reports at 1cc.  When we talk about touchpad problems it often mentioned that the

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:   According to the man page the 2nd parameter is the threshold at which   the acceleration value is applied so I'm not surprised that you don't   see any difference between 0 and 1.  Even 4 might be hard to see.  I   think that

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: okay, i've now done so, and i now think i see what you mean about    xset m 7/4 0 vs.    xset m 7/4 1 ok - glad that I'm not so crazy ;-) i think setting acceleration to 7/4 as we're doing is a little aggressive, and i

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:   Ok. How does t165/100 test? So far we have suggested tests:      - spirals test    - using etoys / scratch So we are now testing with  xset m 7/4 0 vs xset m 165/100 0 this afternoon i was using spirals in Paint for

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:29 PM, James Zaki james.z...@gmail.com wrote: I've just setup my xo-1 with os11 and updated to near-latest (within a week off the top of my head) kernel + kernel-firmware. I'd like to do some touchpad testing if its of any help, but will need do a bit of a mental

Re: offtopic question about high density wifi

2010-01-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:26 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: Ok, having gone back and re-reading this, I'm confused. This seems to be exactly the RF contention issues that I understand and am prepared Yes, RF contention, but what Scott is pointing out is that due to various implementation glitches,

Re: [Server-devel] question about ds_version in dsbackuplib.php

2010-01-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
ds-backup does the right thing for v1 and v2. Anything different than that is an unknown format. So yes, you are correct :-) cheers, m On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin. I just wanted to ask what the significance is of the version file in

Re: Lots of broken chargers in Nicaragua

2010-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:41 PM, ismael schinca ischi...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: It would be really difficult to ask all the users to always pull the cord from the connector rather than from the cable and to also properly wrap the cable after using the charger. They are kids after all :)

Build system and repos for F11/XO-1.5?

2010-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am starting to work with deployments on how to respin our F11/XO-1.5 OS. What is the current build system for the F11/XO-1.5? Are we still using livecd-creator? Or dsd's new toy (for which I haven't found the code or the doco yet)? BTW, if instead of re-spinning an image (like image-creator

Re: Build system and repos for F11/XO-1.5?

2010-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: We're using dsd's new tool, which is: Excellent, thanks for the confirmation. To reproduce the latest 10.1.1 build: # python osbuilder.py examples/olpc-os-10.1.1-xo1.5.ini Right. I will have to work on it to... - provide

Re: Build system and repos for F11/XO-1.5?

2010-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/doc/README To Daniel, couple questions about it... - Can it build F11/XO-1 images, with jffs2? - Can it build partitioned images? - I see the stern warning about

Re: Build system and repos for F11/XO-1.5?

2010-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: It's already got one of those -- see modules/signing/README. gawjus! Thanks Daniel and Chris for the responses. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: The idea is to get this into Fedora to make it

Re: [Server-devel] Broken download link for XS-0.6 iso

2010-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: If you go here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server Thanks for the heads up - fixed. This confused the team here into thinking that 0.6d5 was final :( Ugh. Apologies. I'm also renaming the 0.7 iso to say alpha. m --

svn repo for Inventario?

2010-02-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hola Raúl, I am trying to test / review / play with Inventario, but can't get to the SVN repo... $ svn co svn://codigo.paraguayeduca.org/inventario svn: URL 'svn://codigo.paraguayeduca.org/inventario' doesn't exist $ svn co http://codigo.paraguayeduca.org/inventario/ svn: OPTIONS of

Which one is the latest signed image for 1.5? os64? os20x?

2010-02-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Chris, few days ago I understood that the os20x images were the signed ones, so I thought the official signed image would be os201 because you wrote On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: os200 is a signed os108, and os201 is a signed os109 minus the Fedora 11

Re: Using SoaS Blueberry to emulate OLPC F11 builds

2010-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: It looks like SOAS Strawberry will more closely relate to OLPC F11 builds. Strawberry is based on F11 and Sugar 0.84. Good point! Talk about starting off on the wrong place. (I knew this, and yet in the heat of the battle

Re: [SoaS] Using SoaS Blueberry to emulate OLPC F11 builds

2010-02-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: 2.2 GB Cool. BTW, I just reviewed the src for olpc-switch-desktop and I think that if you just ln -s /home/liveuser /home/olpc before installing the rpm, it'll just work. (You can remove reinstall for example).

Test request: Wifi encryption changes...

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi lists, I've recently been working on wifi wpa association issues on the 8.2.x releases (F-9, NM-6.5, Sugar 0.82) and there is bug I would like to ask people to test for with Strawberry (of F11 images on XO), Blueberry and the 0.87 SoaS builds. I have definitely seen it a long time ago, and

Test request: Overwhelm chat

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
Long time ago, we've seen Chat.xo get slower and slower as messages pile up. It didn't seem to be a network issue, but a draw it on the screen or perhaps on the scrollable canvas. Here is the original bug report. It was done with an XS, and the networking side (wifi, XS) was not saturated. It

Building Q2E41 - errors in missing nandblaster_tx.bin nandblaster_rx.bin

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
$ cd cpu/x86/pc/olpc/build $ make (...) nandblaster_rx.o:/usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:105: more undefined references to `__printf_chk' follow rx_ofw.o: In function `strncpy': /usr/include/bits/string3.h:122: undefined reference to `__strncpy_chk' make[1]: *** [nandblaster_rx.elf] Error 1 make[1]:

Re: Building Q2E41 - errors in missing nandblaster_tx.bin nandblaster_rx.bin

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: They're missing because they failed to build, but I think you might have missed some of the build errors in your paste. All earlier msgs were gcc warnings, no errors. In any case, it's a local linker problem of some kind -- I

Re: Building Q2E41 - errors in missing nandblaster_tx.bin nandblaster_rx.bin

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Richard Smith smithb...@gmail.com wrote: I did check out the Q2E41 commit, and it pulled down those files using wget and built a nandblaster_tx.bin from them.  You don't have one only because you're ignoring your linker errors; try on a different machine. On

Re: Building Q2E41 - errors in missing nandblaster_tx.bin nandblaster_rx.bin

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/wmb/multicast-nand/commit/?id=c1d8bd53a39532558e07fb0a0bd022f57fa3001a That commit is... evil. m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting

Re: Activation on F11-XO1

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: With the following patch series, we could successfully boot a locked XO-1 with F11-XO1 with leases.dat stored on a USB stick. We've not yet tested activation over wifi. Cool. I'm interested in hearing about the wifi

Re: Announcing Q2E42 firmware for XO-1.0

2010-02-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e42 Great!    * Trac 9045 - key delegation I'll be testing this on monday.    * Trac 9362 - setup-smbios for Linux boots From conversations and code review about 2 months ago, I

Re: [IAEP] Video Chat, Video Editing and VOIP activities for Sugar

2010-02-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:33 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: Old one http://cinelerra.org/about.php still , also can look at the distros like ubuntu studio . Cinelerra is a quirky beast, designed for high end hw, with lots of UI complexity, abundant unexplained segfaults and

Notes for people creating / porting / testing content for XOs

2010-02-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
In Spanish, but useful - covers using SoaS, screen issues, Flash/Gnash, and Ogg. Not meant for the super-technical audience that already knows what gnash and ogg vorbis are. I am guilty of simplifying some things ;-)

SoaS Strawberry + Gnome + Switch Desktop

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
Thanks to some good hints from Sebastian (and the scripts from his git repo), I got a respin of SoaS that is fairly similar to the 10.1.0 image. What's good about it? - It has Gnome and the desktop switcher - It has the OLPC packages, including updated Sugar packages, olpc-utils

Re: SoaS Strawberry + Gnome + Switch Desktop

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:  - On the first boot, it does not shutdown properly (and doesn't log anything). One interesting thing aspect is that this problem does not appear booting from CDROM. Only from live-USB with overlays. Saying su

Re: mount root filesystem on secure boot (signed initrd)

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Esteban Bordón ebordon...@gmail.com wrote: Somebody have any idea about it? Bernie posted on this list 2 patches last week, one of them fixes this issue (by adding rootfstype=jffs2) . cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server

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