Opportunities to slim down 13.1.0 build file cruft

2012-10-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi folks, I was just having a dig around in 13.1.0 build 6 for the XO-4 (using GrandPerspective), and noticed that we are still including libgweather and its 88Mb worth of Locations.xml files. I know this came up in a previous release cycle, but just want to check again that we can't save this

Re: disable color balancing on XO webcam

2010-10-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sebatian, On 25 Oct 2010, at 15:28, sebaroc...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Im working on a computer vision project in the XO and i would like to disable > the color balancing on the XO webcam but i don't know how. > In this link http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification says that it i

Calculate-33 request for activities wiki update page

2010-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Folks, Not sure where this email should be going, but now that the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 and equivalent update pages are locked down, could I request the links for Calculate be updated to the current version? {{Activity-oneline |icon = activity-calculate.svg |activity_na

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reason

2010-03-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Mar 2010, at 18:12, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 12:07 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> 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

Re: Running SWF files standalone in Sugar? Simple Activity wrapper?

2010-03-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Thomas, On 10 Mar 2010, at 15:44, Thomas PLESSIS wrote: > I've try this solution too, but it seems that it does not work perfectly with > Adobe Flash player (as you said). My game is running, but there're no mouse > interaction, no sounds, the introduction popup of the game didn't appears...

Re: Running SWF files standalone in Sugar? Simple Activity wrapper?

2010-03-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 10 Mar 2010, at 14:38, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Is there a smart way to run a swf in Sugar, starting it up as an > Activity? Hopefully something that works with Gnash and (if installed) > Adobe's version? > > I had the impression the Nepal team had a way to do this... but I > can't

Re: [olpc-nz] Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-12-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:54, Alastair Munro wrote: > Hi Cameron, > > I checked a couple of the laptops after seeing your email about the > suspending, the wifi disappearing was after a suspend. I was thinking of > suspend in the terms of a normal laptop where suspending effectively turns > off th

Re: Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2009-12-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Steven, Testing on XO-1 CL1. On 11 Dec 2009, at 18:55, Steven M. Parrish wrote: > If you are going to try out OS10 for the XO-1 here are a few things that need > testing. > > Does it boot consistently into Sugar? Gnome? Yes, but only tested over a few reboot cycles for each. > Any strang

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 53

2009-12-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Chris, On 4 Dec 2009, at 15:59, Chris Ball wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 > http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os53 > > Compressed image size: 659.12mb (-0.68mb since build 52) > > Description of changes in this build: > * working camera! > * kernel exposes wakeup reasons to

Re: Alternative to Create a new wireless network

2009-12-08 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Reuben, Daniel, On 8 Dec 2009, at 09:59, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron : >> -Create three faux "Mesh Channel #" icons in the Network view >> -When the child wants to join a mesh network they will select one of the >> networks >> -Upon selection: the XO will: 1. Scan to see if

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

2009-12-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mike, On 5 Dec 2009, at 20:43, Mike Dawson wrote: > Hi All, > > The GCompris stuff is very very nice indeed and I would highly > recommend having some of them. Even just because it has such great > demo power and then further activities can be installed from the > school server. My concern

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 4 Dec 2009, at 12:34, Martin Langhoff wrote: > 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

Re: [IAEP] Help Activity on XO-1.5 [was: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5]

2009-11-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Adam, On 29 Nov 2009, at 22:36, Holt wrote: > Brian/Seth > Sandy raised a critical issue on our Support call today-- how much work would > it be to upgrade your great Help Activity from Sugar 0.82.1 to Sugar 0.84.x > for the XO-1.5? > > And how can experienced Support people help Help (and

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Paul, On 26 Nov 2009, at 13:45, Paul Fox wrote: > i wrote: >> martin wrote: > ... >>> >>> = CL1 Alps users >>> - better kmod? >>> - pgf proposed an xset command to tweak responsiveness? >> >> both of the above points are covered here: >>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes

Re: [Testing] Testing summary - 21 November 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-11-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tabitha, On 21 Nov 2009, at 00:21, Tabitha Roder wrote: > Testing summary - 21 November 2009 Wellington, NZ > > Who: Tabitha, Fabiana, Joel, Grant, Tim, Brenda, Callum, David -- snip -- > 2 of the XO 1.5 machines 0.84.2 OLPC build release 11 (Leonadis) are > showing duplicated names when h

Re: Diagnosing hard lockup on tab-completion on VT

2009-11-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 10 Nov 2009, at 16:12, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I am seeing a very strange lockup while doing tab completion on a VT > - filed at > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9650 - any good debugging hints > welcome... Hmm, I vaguely remember a similar sounding behaviour at one point. I t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Terminal.xo patch: do not die if the cwd is gone

2009-11-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Nov 2009, at 14:56, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:08:20PM -0500, paul fox wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Martin Langhoff >> wrote: >>> Attached is a trivial patch that handles gracefully the situation >>> where cwd does not exist anymore or is no longer acces

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the "Chat/collab leader" issue...

2009-11-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 3 Nov 2009, at 13:18, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> We can set a new baseline for Sugar, but the behavior you are >> describing is largely one determined by the activities themselves. > > I understood it was a limitation in Tel

Re: F11 wired vs. jabber

2009-10-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:52, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > I don't have wireless (i.e., no AP), but use a local ethernet LAN. > When I boot a F11 system, usually Neighborhood View shows me the > (running) XOs connected to my ethernet. But sometimes what I see is > the XOs connected to th

Re: soas63xo impressions

2009-09-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 16 Sep 2009, at 01:37, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > One less nice thing for me is the new toolbar design, as exemplified > in Turtle_Art. It was nice to see the "Title" always in the toolbar > - to remind "what am I on this screen for". Now that the user needs > to hover (a parti

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Ben, On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: > I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle > for "Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK", since the versioning issues (which > OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 & > GPLv2+classpath-excepti

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 Build 6

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Yioryos, On 26 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > Thank you. > > Now olpc-powerd works as advertised. Kudos. However the problem with > the overlap with the GNOME PM remains. > > I guess the X-server and Gnome power management updates also did > not affect the battery moni

Re: soas3 for X11

2009-08-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 4 Aug 2009, at 14:18, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > [Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; just sharing my experience.] > Tried the new SoaS3-200908021950.iso image (with Sugar 0.85) on my > XO-1 - it works. > > Just about the first thing I do upon installing a build is to use > Terminal

Re: [Sugar-devel] Can I use the keep or title_set_by_user key of metadata to store info about my activity

2009-08-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Sumit, On 4 Aug 2009, at 02:09, sumit singh wrote: > Hi Tomeu, > > This is in continuation with our chat yesterday. The write/report > activity would be having 3 states , I mean whether the user is working > on a blank document , designing a new template or using a previously > designed templa

Re: Requesting hosting for new activity

2009-07-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Xenofon, Most Activity related work is now going on over at Sugar Labs (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org ). You can create an account for your git repository at: http://git.sugarlabs.org/ And your Activity can be publicly distributed from: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ For mor

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam meeting on Friday June 26th - 17:00 UTC

2009-07-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Jul 2009, at 05:12, S Page wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:04 PM, David > Farning wrote: > >>> Maybe. Stand back, what the heck is Activities/All for? I marked >>> the >>> page obsolete and nobody has disagreed. ... >> >> Someone disagreed quite enthusiastically the other day. Their

ActivityTeam meeting on Friday June 26th - 17:00 UTC

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi All, David Farning has suggested agenda items for the ActivityTeam to cover; I'm not sure we can realistically solve many, but it would at least be good to see what page each of us is on, where we might be able to pull in the same direction, and bounce about some ideas in realtime :-)

Re: rpm vs xo & activity updates

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Daniel, On 23 Jun 2009, at 21:13, Daniel Drake wrote: >> I proposed the following some times ago [1], but no one responded. I >> would have loved for someone actually knowledgeable (i.e. not some >> random guy like me throwing out ideas he can't even implement) to >> explain how this would be

Re: Problem creating .xo bundle

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jun 2009, at 17:28, Art Hunkins wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Gary (Aaron as well!) > > Yes, execute permissions are set correctly for setup.py. > > My setup.py file reads exactly the same as yours. > > I'm still getting the same problemmatic results as below. > > I'm developing largely on

Re: Problem creating .xo bundle

2009-06-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Art, On 23 Jun 2009, at 03:40, Art Hunkins wrote: > I've got an XO Activity ready to go, and working perfectly in my (XO) > Activities folder. (It's called OurMusic.activity.) > > I just can't seem to make an .xo bundle of it. > > From my activity's folder (OurMusic.activity) I run: > ./setup.

Re: new content bundle

2009-06-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 20 Jun 2009, at 18:41, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 2009/6/20 Walter Bender : >> We have a Google Summer of Code project to do exactly that... stay >> tuned... > > But if you really wanted and didn't feared messing with python code, > you could make a duplicate of Browse and change the de

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-06-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 31 May 2009, at 15:34, Reinder de Haan wrote: > Tiago Marques wrote: >> On 5/31/09, Reinder de Haan wrote: >>> >>> Sascha Silbe wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:16:53PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > 1. Earthing. The current design has no earth at the AC end, > and is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing the 'Erase' options from activity righ click menu

2009-05-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 May 2009, at 13:59, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote: > This is a recurrent problem. Perhaps we should have an option in the > control panel to enable/disable the showing of the Erase option for > activities or make moving the Erase option a few more clicks away > (perhaps > inside the control

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

2009-04-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Clean installed on 2 XOs here (Peru/Spanish 1xB4, and US/English 1xXO-1). All went fine, no new issues to report. Working fine with WEP AP connections (full activity update via control panel), but haven't re-tested on WPA or WPA2 yet. Have a 3rd XO-1 that I'll run an upgrade on to test that

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Apr 2009, at 14:23, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC : > >> Hi! >> I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff: >>> Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that new software is going to require a computer more

Re: Occasional stuck keys on devanagari keyboard

2009-04-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 Apr 2009, at 07:20, Bryan Berry wrote: > I have about 40 XO's out of 2000 so far that occasionally show "stuck > keys" in the corners of the keyboard, particularly the frame, fn, and > right arrow key. The keys seem to stick occasionally but not > consistently. For instance, w/ 5 XO's yesterd

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal oddity: metadata with no file?

2009-03-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Mar 2009, at 17:27, Eben Eliason wrote: > 2009/3/30 Sascha Silbe : >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:11:46PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> >>> Only if something useful is stored. I was wrong to point a finger to >>> Browse - the culprit is Terminal. >> >> Try the latest version of Terminal. I

Re: Journal oddity: metadata with no file?

2009-03-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 30 Mar 2009, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Working a bit on the restore angle of things, if I look at the > metadata entries to build a restorable Journal Entry Bundle... well... > in many cases there is no file to build it from. I know previous releases of Sugar had a design

Re: How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 16 Mar 2009, at 15:29, James Simmons wrote: > It looks like my last naive question about collaboration started a > discussion so notable that Walter Bender wrote about it in his blog > http://walterbender.org/. Let's see what you can do with this one. > > Both my Activities, Read ETexts and Vi

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 6 Mar 2009, at 18:19, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > below are some instructions for flashing the last Sugar on a Stick > image (containing Sugar 0.84) on a XO (provided you have a developer > key). > > Could someone volunteer to test and wikify them? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > > --- > > on a F10 s

rawhide-xo 20090303 build fails to boot on XO

2009-03-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Just a quick note say that after copying the latest rawhide-xo image to an XO's nand: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/20090303/ It's failing to boot into Sugar, with the console error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'jffs2' FWIW: The previous 20090227 image is booting fi

Re: Lockup of 800 and 801

2009-03-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Mar 2009, at 20:14, Tiago Marques wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary C Martin > wrote: > On 3 Mar 2009, at 16:35, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Both 800 and 801 lockup completely fairly regularly. Once locked up > > the > > keys don't work . All

Re: Opportunity for speedup

2009-03-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bobby, On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:44, Bobby Powers wrote: > I've fixed a few issues, packaged up bootanim-2.3-1, and (finally) > actually ran some benchmarks. Results (all times in seconds): > > fresh os801, from pressing the power button to appearance of sugar's > prompt for name screen > 80 > 79

Re: Lockup of 800 and 801

2009-03-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Mar 2009, at 16:35, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Both 800 and 801 lockup completely fairly regularly. Once locked up > the > keys don't work . All I can do is hit the start button to turn the > machine off and then turn it back on. > > Am I the only one having this problem? Hi Aaron, Occasional

Some quick rawhide-xo/20090227 notes

2009-03-02 Thread Gary C Martin
Just some feedback relating to: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/ No tickets filed, ping back if you want one on any of these items: - By default the builds boot into GNOME desktop, not Sugar. As a non regular Fedora/GNOME user, it took me a day or so before I spotted the partia

Re: Collaboration test environment problem

2009-03-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Mar 2009, at 16:35, James Simmons wrote: > Benjamin, > > There is another difference I thought of. The machine that seems to > be working OK is running in a Xepher window. I'm using a wide > screen flat monitor running at 1440 x 900. > > The machine that doesn't seem to be working runs

Re: Opportunity for speedup

2009-03-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:44, Bobby Powers wrote: > I've fixed a few issues, packaged up bootanim-2.3-1, and (finally) > actually ran some benchmarks. Results (all times in seconds): > > fresh os801, from pressing the power button to appearance of sugar's > prompt for name screen > 80 > 79 > 78 > > wi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Feb 2009, at 17:52, Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > > wrote: > They are a single, indivisible cause, and also the entire reason for > the > existence of Sugar. > > Many operating systems provide users with a set of powerful tools for > mani

Re: 8.2.1 activity launch failure not recorded

2009-02-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Feb 2009, at 22:27, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > I had the RoadMap Activity installed on my 800 system. I just > updated (via manual 'sugar-install-bundle') to the latest version. > Now it does not launch. > > The fault is likely to be mine - I either goofed the "manual" > install, or should no

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Feb 2009, at 02:28, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hey James, > > I always have set my XOs using the Control Panel to one of the > servers listed here: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers > > Most often it's the schoolserver.media.mit.edu server which is > designated as for de

Re: 8.2.1 candidate-800 giving incorrect keyboard language maps?

2009-02-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Feb 2009, at 12:10, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/2/17 Gary C Martin : >> Just wanted to post incase anyone can easily confirm/deny; but after >> clean flashing a Spanish language XO to 8.2.1 candidate-800, the >> language correctly defaults to Spanish, but the keyboa

8.2.1 candidate-800 giving incorrect keyboard language maps?

2009-02-17 Thread Gary C Martin
Just wanted to post incase anyone can easily confirm/deny; but after clean flashing a Spanish language XO to 8.2.1 candidate-800, the language correctly defaults to Spanish, but the keyboard is responding only as a US-English keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9262 Hopefully jus

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities migration status

2009-02-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Feb 2009, at 00:29, S Page wrote: > Ed McNierney wrote: > >> On the other hand, anyone working on Sugar efforts such as Activity >> development should be encouraged to put all those efforts under the >> Sugar Labs roof where they can be more readily available to the >> entire >> Sugar comm

Re: Wireless test results

2009-02-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 16 Feb 2009, at 05:32, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > >> Last I checked, it was either the firmware or the kernel changes >> that did it. I posted my findings to the mailing list in the past >> two weeks. > > I think your findings actually say "it was either the firmware, > kernel, > or something

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

2009-02-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 16 Feb 2009, at 03:18, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:05:59AM +0000, Gary C Martin wrote: >> Summary: 8.2.1 has regressed relative to 8.2 for WPA access points. >> You now have to enter the security string; it will fail to associate >> and prompt you fo

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

2009-02-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 10 Feb 2009, at 23:53, Chris Ball wrote: > Some particular areas we'd like to see testing of: > > * Connecting to encrypted wireless access points. We believe there > are > regressions here that we're trying to understand. The test procedure > is: > - connect to a WEP/WPA AP > - suspend

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Feb 2009, at 05:36, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > My apologies for not being clear. I'll try again: > > I want to feel that the battery that I just put into the XO I'm > walking out the door with is as "charged up" as it normally can be. > > 1) If that battery came from an XO that was plugged i

Re: [Sugar-devel] 'Resume activity' is confusing for user

2009-02-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Mikus, On 15 Feb 2009, at 00:24, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > My observation from running Joyride 2650 on an XO-1: > > With 'Resume by default' checked in the "Favorite view" dropdown in > Home View, those activity_icons for which a Journal entry now exists > are colored. I __naively__ thought that

Re: XO BW mode (was Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques)

2009-02-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Feb 2009, at 10:16, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 13.02.2009, at 19:27, Gary C Martin wrote: >> >> Note the backlight goes through the colour refractive screen magic, >> even in BW mode, so it's not as sharp as with the backlight 100% off > > That explan

Re: XO BW mode (was Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques)

2009-02-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Feb 2009, at 17:28, Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Gary C Martin > wrote: > The below will switch to BW, but still leave the backlight on: > >su >echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/dcon/output > > And to kill backlight an

Re: Guidance sought on collaboration techniques

2009-02-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 13 Feb 2009, at 16:16, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hey James, > > FYI here is the collaboration code in Colors! > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/colors/repos/mainline/blobs/master/colors.py#line641 > > It's fairly well commented but let me know if you have any questions > about how it works,

Re: [Sugar-devel] XFT emacs rocks on the XO...

2009-02-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Feb 2009, at 16:25, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 16:52, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> On 11 Feb 2009, at 05:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> >>> Stock F9 emacs isn't very usable on the XO screen, unfortunately. >>> Lack >>> o

Re: [Sugar-devel] XFT emacs rocks on the XO...

2009-02-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Feb 2009, at 05:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Stock F9 emacs isn't very usable on the XO screen, unfortunately. Lack > of fonts and high dpi make it rather painful. After struggling a bit > to get a comfy hacking/editing environment on my XOs, I ended up > installing the precooked Xft-enabled

Re: Life in an insecure world

2009-02-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Feb 2009, at 12:14, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/2/4 John Watlington : >> I insist on b) in order to prevent inadvertent "bricking" of laptops >> by typing "enable-security", > > Are you concerned that there is a realistic and common use case when a > particular type of user would want or need

Re: readetexts and viewslides moved to git.sugarlabs.org

2009-02-03 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jan 2009, at 17:28, Morgan Collett wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 17:52, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> On 19 Jan 2009, at 15:19, James Simmons wrote: >> >>> Over the weekend I updated Read Etexts and View Slides to be more >>> like >>> the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable "sharing" for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Feb 2009, at 01:02, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eben Eliason wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz >> wrote: > In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, > whereby > any activity th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Aside: Neighborhood participants

2009-02-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Feb 2009, at 16:43, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Morgan Collett wrote: >> Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every >> time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can >> jump >> to the appropriat

Mesh support very likely to miss Sugar 0.84

2009-02-01 Thread Gary C Martin
Not sure who's able to contribute, but just wanted to wave a red flag here to warn that it's looking like any mesh support is very unlikely to make the 0.84 Sugar release, unless someone is interested/able to work on it: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/230 It officially slipped to t

Re: Soas snapshot

2009-01-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 Jan 2009, at 10:02, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Gary C Martin > wrote: >> Cool. >> >> Any tips as to what to do with these 2 on an XO? The only thing >> I've done >> with .img and .crc before is copy-nand f

Re: Soas snapshot

2009-01-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Marco, On 27 Jan 2009, at 23:00, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > You can download the iso here: > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas-200901271941.iso > > Instructions on how to install it are here: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick > > I also made an experimental im

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Jan 2009, at 22:06, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: > Hi folks. I guess I'm somewhat confused with all the recent changes > taking place in the OLPC/Sugar world. I have an XO, and for a while I > was keeping up with all the latest joyrides. I think the last one I > installed was just before the o

Re: Browser Problem

2009-01-20 Thread Gary C Martin
On 20 Jan 2009, at 16:20, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote: > Hello guys! > > I'm testing the worpress 2.7 in my XO and i'm having some problems > with > pictures(buttons and menus). > > Please, see this picture http://imagebin.org/36284 Yes I've seen this on a range of web page buttons (but n

Re: readetexts and viewslides moved to git.sugarlabs.org

2009-01-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jan 2009, at 15:19, James Simmons wrote: > Over the weekend I updated Read Etexts and View Slides to be more like > the current Read activity. Previously they only attempted to save > metadata on closing instead of writing a new file. I was getting > "keep" > errors because of that, so n

Re: OLPC trac not allowing login?

2009-01-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jan 2009, at 14:19, p...@laptop.org wrote: > gary c martin wrote: >> Any one else getting "Invalid username or password" errors trying to >> log in to trac? >> >> https://dev.laptop.org/login > > yes. me too. Thanks all. For any one else e

OLPC trac not allowing login?

2009-01-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Any one else getting "Invalid username or password" errors trying to log in to trac? https://dev.laptop.org/login --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: touchpad tunables

2009-01-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Paul On 10 Jan 2009, at 17:29, p...@laptop.org wrote: > (i'd appreciate it someone running an 8.2.1 > staging candidate could verify these parameters really are present -- > i'm running a development kernel.) Not sure if this helps, but just looked in /sys/module/psmouse/ parameters/* on an

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jan 2009, at 23:09, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Gary wrote: >> Browse-98 . . . . . . . x x Browse-101 needed for 8.2.1 PDF support > > I Tested Browse-101 using the staging-7 build: > > - Browse-101 listed on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 >(i.e., http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jan 2009, at 20:15, Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary C Martin > wrote: > Here's my Activity specific testing run through of all the activities > as currently installed by Activities/G1G1 > > What's required to get your activity listed

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jan 2009, at 20:28, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 04.01.2009, at 20:26, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> build 8.2.1-7 Could start >> . = success | Could stop (all must work ctrl-q, alt-esc, >> toolbar, frame) >> - = N/A | | Sound >> x

Re: [Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jan 2009, at 16:09, Brian Pepple wrote: > Hi All, > > A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has > passed > an initial smoke test and now needs broader testing. > > The build download and problem reporting instructions are here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_

Re: New Browse ready for Emilianio?

2009-01-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Dec 2008, at 16:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hi Greg, > It has not passed through formal QA (yet), but there is a test case on > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9112 > I tried it out on 767, and it seems to work fine. I did not test on > 656. > The bundle can be downloaded from > http://de

Some firmware Q2E24 nand blasting results

2008-12-12 Thread Gary C Martin
Here's a first pass focusing on Q2E24 nand blasting between 2 XOs (one B4 and one XO-1). These tests only used the new nb-clone OFW command of an 8.2.1-760 image. I'll try testing the nb-update and nb-secure later (hopefully once I get a 3rd XO unlocked for unsigned firmware testing). Q2E2

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Chris, On 11 Dec 2008, at 02:58, Chris Marshall wrote: > There appeared to be a problem with the Zoom in and > out function as zooming all the way out, and then back in > results in the canvas offset by various amounts. I was not > able to make it shift back without restarting the Activity.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-10 Thread Gary C Martin
On 9 Dec 2008, at 17:42, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi Stan, > > Try a 'depmod' and then 'modprobe wacom' from the Terminal, and see > if that helps. Feel free to grab me on IRC (as wadeb), I can help > troubleshoot it. > > -Wade Hi Wade, this script worked well for me, and the tablet stays work

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-08 Thread Gary C Martin
> > > > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:37:59 -0800 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam? > > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; devel@lists.laptop.org > > > > See also > > > > http://www.flickr.com

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 Dec 2008, at 19:29, Erik Garrison wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:04:23AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> Hi all, >> We are trying to figure out a way to bundle the mozplugger plugin[1] >> in Browse, so that PDF files can be viewed from within Browse itself. >> Does anyone know how th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 Dec 2008, at 13:02, Chris Marshall wrote: > Wade Brainerd wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Chris Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>Gary C Martin wrote: >>On 7 Dec 2008, at 00:58, Wade Brainerd

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 7 Dec 2008, at 00:58, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Okay, Colors! v11 supports Wacom tablets, with pressure sensitivity. > Instructions for setup are on the activity page, it's really pretty > simple. > > OLPC folks, it might be nice to update xorg-dcon.conf to support Wacom > tablets, and to include

Re: [Sugar-devel] Removing "Register" button from sugar on non-XO machine

2008-12-06 Thread Gary C Martin
On 6 Dec 2008, at 22:20, Eben Eliason wrote: > That depends. I suppose we might be able to support some services, > like backup, in interesting ways in non-school situations. I think the > more appropriate course of action is to pursue the idea of the > "collaboration server" as a unique device i

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Dec 2008, at 04:01, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 30 Nov 2008, at 22:16, Erik Garrison wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Gary C Martin >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 30 Nov 2008, at 01:29, Erik Garrison wrote: >>> >>>> On Mo

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Nov 2008, at 22:16, Erik Garrison wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Gary C Martin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 30 Nov 2008, at 01:29, Erik Garrison wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>&g

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Nov 2008, at 01:29, Erik Garrison wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ignacio wrote: >>> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: >>>> On a more disappointing note I found this ticket "G1G1 tamtam s

Re: Fake sudo?

2008-11-26 Thread Gary C Martin
On 26 Nov 2008, at 15:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > gary c martin wrote: >> >> "standard in must be a tty" >> >> After much poking I discovered sudo on the XO was a custom script >> using su (su does not allow non ttys to become privileged, only

Fake sudo?

2008-11-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi list, Noticed last night that the XO distro has a custom python script (from Scott) as a fake replacement to sudo. I was trying to script some remote privileged operations over ssh (it's a QA script to help work with testbeds of XO), but what tested fine on a debian distro kept erroring

Re: "Yay!, Bee, See" (ABC) software

2008-11-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Nov 2008, at 04:55, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: > 2. Is there some way to install the .xol more user-friendly than just > unzipping it into the ~/Library directory? Hi Ben, on an XO, Browse will recognise .xol bundles and will download and hand them to Journal which installs and adds them (i

Re: "Yay!, Bee, See" (ABC) software

2008-11-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Nov 2008, at 17:21, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: > Hi, > > I have just joined this list and read through the archives, but could > not find anything similar. I also didn't find mention of anything > similar on the OLPC Wiki. > > I recently wrote some software for use by my daughter on her OLPC.

Screen burn in question (XO B4 ~10 months use)

2008-11-24 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi list, Just a quick ping on the expected behaviour regarding 'screen burn in'. I'm starting to notice ghost image burn in across the top of the screen (XO B4** ~10 months use), where the standard toolbar dark grey usually sits. It's clear enough I can make out the search area, spyglass i

Re: Differents behaviours of my application

2008-11-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Nov 2008, at 17:55, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Aleix, > > On 18 Nov 2008, at 17:13, Aleix Palet wrote: > >> To do this, I've reading the wiki (which is a bit confusing) and I >> learned that I have to play with the read_file and write_file >> options.

Re: Differents behaviours of my application

2008-11-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Aleix, On 18 Nov 2008, at 17:13, Aleix Palet wrote: > To do this, I've reading the wiki (which is a bit confusing) and I > learned that I have to play with the read_file and write_file > options. What I've done is what I write next (with the consequent > problems): Wiki baptism by fire

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Nov 2008, at 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > chris wrote: >> Has anyone had any success getting a >> Wacom USB tablet working with the XO? >> >> The new Bamboo series is affordable >> ($79 US), about the same size active >> area as the XO display, and could be >> a substitute for the depre

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