Re: [Sugar-devel] Package Task for Fedora

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Yader, 2011/5/13 Yader Velásquez : > Hi guys, I just finished a little job like python/sugar programmer in a > local OLPC > deployment organization in Nicaragua. Now I have free time, and want to > collaborate > with this project. > Also I just approved as package maintainer in Fedora, I would

Fedora 14 on armv5tel status update

2011-05-20 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I've been working on getting Fedora 14 moving forward with the assistance of Dennis. I've almost got the build root done except for a few notable exceptions (glibc, python, perl, sqlite, nss I'm looking at you) and the things that depend on them. A lot of the of the failures (python/

Re: Raspberry Pi $25 computer

2011-05-22 Thread Peter Robinson
It wouldn't be hard to "Port" as there's nothing of Sugar to port. Sugar already runs on ARM platforms without issues getting Fedora running on it shouldn't be too hard. The lack of RAM would likely be a problem, but there are other issues. You need to add a microsd, USB hub and other bits that it

Re: Raspberry Pi $25 computer

2011-05-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Jerry wrote: > It's not a full computer w/o display/ touchscreen > So the pricepoint is a little misleading. > > But at those prices why aren't they giving you a batch and hoping someone > hacks on the MicroSD, adding expansion RAM + SSD and fit it in a tablet typ

Re: F14-build size

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > There is some discussion about the usability of F14 builds in relation to > their size [1] > F14 builds are _really big_ for the 1GB XO-1 NAND leaving very little space > for the user. If a few videos or wiki is installed or even tr

Re: Fedora 14 on armv5tel status update

2011-05-30 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, > I've been working on getting Fedora 14 moving forward with the > assistance of Dennis. > > I've almost got the build root done except for a few notable > exceptions (glibc, python, perl, sqlite, nss I'm looking at you) > and the things that depend on them. > > A lot of the of the fai

Re: buffer bloat - may be OT

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:32 PM, James Cameron wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:50:57AM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: >>> I don't know if any traffic shaping implications will affect the >>> school server, but in the hopes that it might, I'm c

Re: [OLPC-AU] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Firefox 3.5 is being EOLed by Mozilla[0] and Google is dropping > support for it[1]. In 10.1.3 this is default Web browser in GNOME and > the backend of the Browse activity, so we should be thinking of what > that means for us. > > The pl

Re: [OLPC-AU] [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > (hey, is the clock of your computer set correctly? your message appears > to be one day old!) > > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 20:37 -0400, David Farning wrote: >> > There was some discussion at EduJam. Browse is currently unmaintained, but >> > S

Re: [OLPC-AU] [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:42 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> On 5 June 2011 17:02, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> > Fedora 14 is still shipping xulrunner 1.9.2, which is roughly equivalent >> > to the version used by Firefox 3.6. Backportin

Re: [OLPC-AU] [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 15:50 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> (sorry - sending again because I had the wrong address for the olpc devel >> list) >> >> >> Firefox 3.5 is being EOLed by Mozilla[0] and Google is dropping >> support for it[1

Re: What's the right arch to set for our arm kernel?

2011-06-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi Peter, lists, > > As per subject -- what's the right arch name to set for our arm kernel? > > I may set it to arm5tel but it isn't really -- it's armv7l. Yet I > don't know what arch identifiers our current f-12/f-13 ARM builds will > ac

Re: OOB - can we teach imgcreator about our arm arch?

2011-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi Daniel, Peter, list > > I am wondering how we can teach imgcreator about our ARM arch, so that > it can build an image with some arm5tel packages and some armv7l > packages (such as the kernel). If we do something like run imgcreator as

Re: Current oob - any clear F13 incompat?

2011-06-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 15 June 2011 13:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > >> That sounds like a sensible approach. > > > > Yes but I am still based on a rather old OOB and wondering whether to > > rebase to ti

Re: Current oob - any clear F13 incompat?

2011-06-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Peter Robinson > wrote: > > The major change from F-13 -> F-14 was python 2.7, alot of the rest of it > > was quite a minor update from a desktop perspective, but I suspect for us >

Re: [OLPC-AU] More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more > 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English > literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. > > My understanding is that espeak is optimised for l

Re: New F13-arm build os15

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > The "olpc-utils and usable" build. > > http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os15/ > > Changelog: > > This build is very close to os14. Unless you are debugging boot > issues, skip os14. > > What's new? > > * Will trigger runin scripts if TS is

Re: Good news: mostly complete dist-f14 package list

2011-06-30 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > Missing 174 > > Missing 156 (22%) from 681 > > Your actually out some what and impatient :-P Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: any experience with micromax mmx352g

2011-07-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On 2 Jul 2011 18:57, "Sameer Verma" wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with a USB-stick based 3g unit made by > MicroMax. micromax mmx352g We are looking to use this in India, either > directly on an XO or on the XS. Wanted to ping the lists before I go > digging. It hasn't been plug-and-p

Re: Controlling Wi-Fi radio 'nap-time' reaps big power savings

2011-07-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Saw this on Slashdot. Wonder if it will impact power usage on XOs... > > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070111-duke-wifi.html?hpg1=bn > > Its entirely possible, I'm not sure if it required 11n network standard for any of the enhancement

Re: F15 - OS builder ?

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro < webmaster.ac@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all > > I have a builder asks the OS can be run from a computer with F15 > > Works fine for me, do you have any specific problem your seeing causing you to ask the question> Peter ___

Re: Good news: mostly complete dist-f14 package list

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Peter Robinson > wrote: > >> Missing 156 (22%) from 681 > > Your actually out some what and impatient :-P > > Impatient indeed :-) > > Missing 128 (18%) from 681 &g

Re: Good news: mostly complete dist-f14 package list

2011-07-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Peter Robinson > wrote: > > Yes, close to agreement and the above packages aren't really an issue, > some > > of the dependencies are though. Working on getting them resolved thi

Re: ATTN: AbiWord 2.9.1 released!

2011-07-07 Thread Peter Robinson
2.9.x are development releases so they're not yet in an upstream fedora release. We use the version that ships in Fedora so at the moment its not much use. Peter On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: > FYI. We are hosting PO files for AbiWord and helped improve L10n for a few > l

Re: ATTN: AbiWord 2.9.1 released!

2011-07-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> 2.9.x are development releases so they're not yet in an upstream fedora >> release. We use the version that ships in Fedora so at the moment its not >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding) results

2011-07-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: > On 07/10/2011 10:23 PM, Gary Martin wrote: > > I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email > > (subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some > > digging found it had been clobbered as junk email, s

Re: Quick note on running minicom

2011-07-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > Wad found that minicom is busted on F14 -- luckily the problem is > > trivial -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722814 > > Mikus points out I misdiagnosed the prob

Re: [Techteam] Kernel 3.0 rpm for XO-1.75

2011-07-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > From Jon Nettleton's notes on the xorg track, it is clear that we need > Linux 3.0 as it includes CMA support (at least enough bits of it that > Jon can get his job done). > > So cjb tackled an initial rebase of our patches to the 3.0, sk

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os31

2011-07-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Hey, no so bad :) > The good news first: > The following activities starts and works: > TurtleArt, Speak, TypingTurtle, Labyrinth, Memorize,Browse, Log, Words, > Help, Chat, Scratch, Distance, Finance, > Infoslicer, Implode, Terminal, Calcu

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build

2011-07-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > linux-firmware, the package that puts lots of stuff in /lib/firmware, > is growing and growing and is mostly irrelevant for us, including > firmware for (e.g.) SCSI controllers. > > I'm considering removing it - nothing in the XOs use

Re: [Sugar-devel] battery indicator missing on customized image based on 11.2.0 for XO 1.5

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, German Ruiz wrote: > Daniel and list, upower was not included in the build, so, by adding this > package with: > > [custom_packages] > add_packages=upower > > the battery indicator is now back on sugar :) > > Not sure why as the sugar packages have upower as a requi

Re: [Sugar-devel] battery indicator missing on customized image based on 11.2.0 for XO 1.5

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Robinson > wrote: > > Not sure why as the sugar packages have upower as a requirement. > > Looks like an issue with OLPC's forked sugar package, where this > dependency isn

Re: powerd-dbus network extension

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Daniel, Not sure if powerd makes use of it at all already (for things like watching videos in totem) but why not use the kernel/upower inhibit functionally just like totem and the like does. Then powerd just needs to listen/check/whatever for the inhibit and it would then also work (if it doesn

Re: powerd-dbus network extension

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Peter Robinson > wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > Not sure if powerd makes use of it at all already (for things like > watching > > videos in totem) but why not use the kernel/u

Re: Fixing yum on F14-arm build os31

2011-08-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > The "Switch to Fedora-14" build. > > > > Download from: > > > > http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os31/ > > The default yum config - which we include - points to the official >

Re: f14-dist-build: some packages mistagged?

2011-08-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I just ran a build and it seems to have picked up some older > packages... perhaps an indication that the package is mistagged? > > -dracut-006-3.fc14.noarch > -dracut-modules-olpc-0.5.3-1.fc14.1.armv5tel > +dracut-006-2.fc14.noarch > +dracu

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os36 - Sugar in sync, device-tree!

2011-08-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > The "Sugar in sync! device-tree" build. > > Download from: > >   http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os32/ > > Use with OFW Q4B07 - >   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4b07 > > Changes and notes: > >  - sugar and sugar-toolkit rpms are

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os36 - Sugar in sync, device-tree!

2011-08-09 Thread Peter Robinson
amer packages. We're in the middle of some mass churn since the weekend, its starting to settle out now. Once its settled I plan to do another OS build. That will likely be in the Thurs time frame. Peter > If you have rpms and want do tests, tell me > > Gonzalo > > On Sat, A

Re: f14-arm branch on OOB repo

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > The OOB repo has a "f14-arm" branch, with the bits I've used to build > os31 for the XO-1.75. > >  - The branch needs a cleanup before landing in master. Still ugly > bits in there. I've spent some time today cleaning this up. I think we'r

New F14-arm build os1 - Fedora mirror plus more!

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Robinson
The Peter's first release with Fedora Secondary Mirrors goodness plus much more release! Download from: http://build.laptop.org/~pbrobinson/f14-arm/os1/ Changes and notes from Martin's OS36: - All of sugar 0.92.4 release - abiword and pyabiword with network support - pybox2d distro package in

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os1 - Fedora mirror plus more!

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Peter Robinson wrote: >> The Peter's first release with Fedora Secondary Mirrors goodness plus >> much more release! >> >> Download from: >> >>   http://build

Re: Re: Skype on XO 1.5

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:50 PM, wrote: >> but just to tag this thread with a version number, i'm guessing >> you installed skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm ?  i'll give it a try. > > i think thats the file i tried today, it had a missing dependency, qt, on > both 0.88 (373pyg) and 0.92 (870) > >

Re: Rought csound and csound-python rpms for f14 arm

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Peter, Gonzalo, > > The koji buildfarm is busted. On one of my XOs I've built csound by > hand. It builds straight from the latest f14 spec, using `fedpkg > local`. Its not actually. Its that csound doesn't build with the specified cflags

Re: Rought csound and csound-python rpms for f14 arm

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > I have installed the packages csound, csound-devel and csound-python, > and all the dependencies needed to compile the binaries in TamTam suite > (alsa-lib-devel, gcc-c++, python-devel, make, gcc, pygtk-devel) > but when compile I have the

Re: Sugar and GTK updates

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: > > I always wondered why not put an SD of 2 instead of 1, suppose that > production costs differ in nothing (or very little) The XO-1 doesn't have an SD card, its a flash chip soldered to the motherboard. The 1.5 introduced the

Re: Sugar and GTK updates

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Robinson
Thank you Daniel, This is what I've been saying for some time! On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > wrote: >> 2.  The system requirements (especially disk space) are affected more by >> changes in Fedora than changes in S

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os1 - Fedora mirror plus more!

2011-08-17 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > peter wrote: >  > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >  > > Hi Peter, >  > > >  > > On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Peter Robinson wrote: >  > >> The Peter's first release with Fed

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os1 - Fedora mirror plus more!

2011-08-17 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:52 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:36:19AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >> In terms of when to do new builds, mostly it'll be when there's a >> reasonable amount of change or improvements that deem a new version be >&g

Re: Sugar and GTK updates

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:20 AM, S Page wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 13:49, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> I've been working on keeping Fedora's deps in check for quite some >> time (from around Fedora 8 or 9 if my memory serves me correctly). Its >> unfortuna

Re: Touchscreen driver

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > I've pushed touchscreen support to the olpc-kernel tree, and also fixes > for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11077 -- could we build a new kernel > RPM and spin a new ARM build for testing, please? I'm in the middle of building a new spin

New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
The please just exit the building already release! There's been quite a bit of churn since the last release so its likely possible I've missed some bits. I plan to cut another release Friday morning so let me know what I need to ensure is pulled in soon. Download from: http://build.laptop.org/F

Re: New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > The please just exit the building already release! > > There's been quite a bit of churn since the last release so its likely > possible I've missed some bits. I plan to cut another release Friday > morning so l

Re: New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, James Cameron wrote: > We could do with more ticket numbers in commits and the release > announce, thanks. Sorry, I was rushing to get this out as I had an exam this morning. They will be there for for future releases. The only ticket I'm aware (because it comes u

Re: New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:44 AM, James Cameron wrote: > Was there any difference in olpc-os-builder between what you used and > what is in the f14-arm branch? Yes. Will be pushed there by the next release. Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Re: New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Hi Peter, > > thanks for the new build! First of all, it does boot fine. Thanks for confirmation, was racing out the door! > On 08/23/2011 09:28 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> The please just exit the

Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:30 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:56:38PM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: >> http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os36/ >> http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q4b07/ >> should do the trick > > Not really.  That's just the current build and firmware, not a sta

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > >> Activity version changes: >> >> The Activities should now be synced with the 11.2.0 release based on >> olpc-os-builder which I presume is why some releases are olders >> (although confirmation of this would be grand) >> >> +Analyze-8 >>

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Well dsd is currently away and I can't see the process actually >> documented anywhere on the wiki! > > Our processes are quite dynamic -- please coord

Re: [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> SOPs covering the basics are always useful though, being "dynamic" is >> a cop out excuse IMO and SOPs help for when people get eaten by >> raptors

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Peter Robinson > wrote: > > SOPs covering the basics are

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 23 2011, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: >> At this point (with my limited knowledge) I don't believe o-o-b uses >> the Wiki at all. It just looks straight at activities.sugarlabs.org >> for the latest experimental activities compati

Re: new powerd

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > peter wrote: >  > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, James Cameron wrote: >  > > We could do with more ticket numbers in commits and the release >  > > announce, thanks. >  > >  > Sorry, I was rushing to get this out as I had an exam this morning.

[PATCH 0/2] 11.3.0 allow specify yum arch in config file and some cleanups

2011-08-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Two patches for 11.3.0 1) Cronie no longer depends on sendmail but will now write to syslog instead so we can drop the dep on ssmtp 2) adds farch so the architecture for the yum repos can be specified in the ini files, adds the arch to the existing x86 config files Peter Robinson (2

[PATCH 1/2] cronie no longer requires sendmail so we can drop a MTA

2011-08-24 Thread Peter Robinson
--- modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc |4 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc b/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc index 2d71de8..4cf98c9 100644 --- a/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc +++ b/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.in

[PATCH 2/2] add ability to specify arch for fedora repos

2011-08-24 Thread Peter Robinson
--- examples/f14-xo1.5.ini|1 + examples/f14-xo1.ini |1 + examples/olpc-os-11.2.0-xo1.5.ini |1 + examples/olpc-os-11.2.0-xo1.ini |1 + modules/repos/ksmain.50.repos.py |9 + 5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/exa

Re: [Sugar-devel] Help with OS Builder

2011-08-26 Thread Peter Robinson
2011/8/26 Christophe Guéret : > Hi all, > > I'm using the OS builder to create a customized 11.2.0 for my XOs 1 and I > can't figure out how to do two things: > * Include a new binary which is not packaged + the related start scripts > * Overwrite sugar-datastore with a custom version > > The infor

Re: olpc-f14 repo problem

2011-08-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Kevin Gordon wrote: > Hi: > > While attempting a yum update, I'm receiving a: > > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/repos/f14/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] > PYCURL ERROR 7 -** > Trying other mirror > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for rep

Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Tom Parker wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:02 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >> There will be new builds weekly or more often for large feature >> additions that could do with testing. These will be announced on >> de...@laptop.org list. Th

New F14-arm build os40 - Are we there yet? I'm hungry!

2011-08-26 Thread Peter Robinson
The are we there yet? I'm hungry release Lots of change this release... again! So I'll just get to the raw details... Download from: http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os41/ Bugs that should be fixed and need verification: #11161: Cant alt tab between activities #0: 1.75 build needs olpc-netu

Re: New F14-arm build os40 - Are we there yet? I'm hungry!

2011-08-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 08/26/2011 07:02 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> The are we there yet? I'm hungry release >> >> Lots of change this release... again! So I'll just get to the raw >> details... > > Wond

Re: booting issue with xo-1.75

2011-09-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:18 PM, carcellelist wrote: > Samuel, Bert, > > thanks for your replies. I have reflashed w/ q4b09.rom and it boots > completely. > > I still have an audio issue when booting like a "glitch sound". Is that > normal ? > any ticket about that ? I hear a glitch after it pla

New F14-arm build os42 - So long and Thanks for all the Fish

2011-09-04 Thread Peter Robinson
The So long and Thanks for all the Fish release This release should be fairly complete for Activity developers and testers. All the remaining core libraries are now in place, in most case now there's only minor revisions between ARM and x86 and that gap is closing fairly fast. With most of the rem

Re: Q4B08.rom works in debricking too 1.75 B1

2011-09-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:45 AM, James Cameron wrote: > So has anyone done it with Q4B09 yet? Unbricking a B!, or using it on a B1? I've used in on the clicky kbd B1 and my A3 without issues, except it has a horrible crackling after the startup sound, all else seems OK. I have a membrane B1 I've

Re: 11.3.0 build 4 released, for *XO-1.75*, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Kevin Gordon wrote: >> the same:  i.e.: os4.zd4.  It would be nice to be able to differentiate > > Use a filesystem that supports subdirectories ;-) I have 3 download dirs - I actually bought this up with d

Re: rpm-gpg-key problem on os4, xo 1.75

2011-09-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Gabriel Eirea wrote: > Hi: > > With os4 in an xo 1.75 I try to do "yum install emacs" from the > Ctrl-Alt-F2 console and get the error: > > GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file: > ///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-arm > > In fact, the

Re: 11.3.0 build 4 released, for *XO-1.75*, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-11 Thread Peter Robinson
g/11.3.0/os4 >> >> XO-1.75 support has been added. Woohoo! >> By bringing XO-1.75 into 11.3.0 and with some related efforts, loads >> of stuff has got fixed. >> Peter Robinson has full release notes, he'll post them later. >> This also includes Jon Nettleton&#

Re: rpm-gpg-key problem on os4, xo 1.75

2011-09-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Gabriel Eirea wrote: > 2011/9/10 Peter Robinson : >> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Gabriel Eirea wrote: >>> Hi: >>> >>> With os4 in an xo 1.75 I try to do "yum install emacs" from the >>> Ctrl-Alt-F2 cons

11.3.0 build 5 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Robinson
The "Sorry, i can't hear you can you turn it up to 11?" release. We're into Activity freeze so not minor changes. I'll add the OS4 release notes to this as well as clearly I've missed that ball. Download from: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os5/ Bugz fixed: #11190 Enable Sugar debugging by

Re: Syncronizing defconfig between XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2011-09-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I have gone through a diff between XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 defconfigs, and > updated XO-1.75 defconfig. The goals were > >  - Made various USB Ethernet drivers modular, to match XO-1.5 (sync) > >  - Changed USB_SERIAL_ to modules -- sync. This i

Re: ARM f14 secondary mirror... down?

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On my test XO-1.75 machines, running OS 5, yum bails out complaining > about not finding repomd.xml for the fedora and update repos. > > I've disabled mirrorlist, and tried with only baseurl, no difference. > yum's --debug 10 doesn't give y

Re: olpc-netutils 0.8.1 release

2011-09-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > New OLPC hardware uses device-tree to expose some of its hw and firmware > information, instead of the oldfashioned promfs. It is rumoured that new > kernels will do the same even on old hardware. > olpc-netutils needs to get on with the mo

Re: ARM gcc with alsa

2011-09-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Barry Vercoe wrote: > I'm the original author of Csound, and more recently of CsoundXO made > especially for the OLPC XO laptop.  Both are C-language programs, the latter > with a set of fast Python bindings for development of special interactive XO > Activities (a

11.3.0 build 6 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-21 Thread Peter Robinson
The "cows with water pistols, chickens in choppers" release. We're into Activity freeze so no major changes there Download from: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os6/ Bugz fixed: #11136 XO-1.75 os36 USB device removal may cause hangs and stops USB working #11255 os5, ARM: telepathy-salut package i

11.3.0 build 7 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Robinson
The "Come as you are? Oh Nevermind" release. We're into Activity freeze so no major changes. Download from: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os7/ Bugz fixed: Tap-to-click on AVC touchpads disabled XO-1.75 RenderAccel disabled for increased graphics stability #11275 NORM 11.3.0: Add Browse 127 to

11.3.0 build 8 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-10-01 Thread Peter Robinson
The "Mojito, Mojito, Yea Ha" release. Download from: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os8/ Bugz fixed: #11078 NORM 11.3.0: minicom, lockdev and screen don't work after reboot due to rwtab tmpfs mounts #11290 NORM 11.3.0: include browse 128 in the build #11106 Sugar RPM should depend on upower #112

Re: 11.3.0 build 8 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-10-02 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 02 2011, Chris Ball wrote: >> Yum doesn't work here on os8 for xo-1.75, it gives: >> >> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora. >> >> I discovered that "sed -ei 's/https/http/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo" >> fixe

Re: Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

2011-10-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of hosting > a wireless network. > > I'm asking because we are interested in using an XO as a lightweight XS > server. The XO 1.75 uses the exact same wifi module as the 1.5 so

Fwd: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-13 Thread Peter Robinson
Just a heads up for those that are Fedora contributors with either a FAS password or SSH key. Peter -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Fenzi Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:44 PM Subject: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30 To: annou...@lists.fe

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:15 AM, wrote: > Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at > wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. > > I am guessing the download is for x86 and not ARM. Skype doesn't produce a publicly available linux version of Skype so its not supported. gtalk work

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:15 AM,   wrote: >> Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at >> wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. >> >> I am guessing the download is for x86 and not ARM. > >

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Robinson
O On 19 Oct 2011 08:42, "James Cameron" wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:18:28AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > Skype doesn't produce a publicly available linux version of Skype so >

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM,   wrote: >> Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at >> wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. > > As others have pointed out, Skype (the company) does not publish a > "skype-for-linux, A

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Agreed, I think a Video Chat Activity might be out best bet. We're >> already got it on the gnome side. > > You mean ekiga? It's been fairly disapp

Re: skype on XO-1.75

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard > wrote: >> Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever >> tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an XO 1.75 >> >> Open Video Chat 1 >> http://act

opportunistic suspend article on LWN

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Robinson
I know we do this (or similar) on the XOs, it seems there's a discussion on it upstream. Not sure if its worth reviewing to ensure our requirements are met as part of that. I know it won't affect us now but we know its something that will likely come and bite us later, might be worthwhile if that w

Re: Dracut RTC development

2011-10-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Esteban Bordón wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any development of RTC anti rollback in dracut modules? Which > should be its behavior? What do you mean by RTC anti roll back? Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

Re: XO bluetooth support

2011-11-01 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > it seems that there's more interest in bluetooth support on the XO > laptops than there has been in the past -- unsurprising, i guess, > given the number of bt devices now available. > > i don't know how quickly we can get the support into an OLPC

Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.3.0 for XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2011-11-02 Thread Peter Robinson
Could someone update the green box in the top right of the main wiki page please :) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki Peter On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.3.0 for XO-1, > XO-1.5 and as a provisional releas

Re: XO 1.75 update

2011-11-02 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Kevin Gordon wrote: > For the past couple of days, the directory: > > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Everything/arm/os/repodata/ > > seems to be empty. > > This seems to  be the cause of why any yum install attempts are failing, as > t

Re: XO-1.75 relative performance

2011-11-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Jon Nettleton wrote: >> Hi Jon, >> >> We are doing some forwards-planing with regards to the XO-1.75. Would >> you be able to tell us what kind of performance we can expect from the >> graphics driver that you are working on? Would it support 3D hardware >> accelera

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