Happy New Year.
Good to see the release of 13.2.10 OS for XO1 to XO4. Great work from James and
new developers who just keep making it better. With that I hope 2019 can be
more productive for deployments still using XOs.
I have a few things I hope to see if he XO can function properly.
1.
I have been testing the Ventrilo server on my XO1.5 XSCE and it works well.
With connection from AP to schoolserver via my Android phone and window
machines I can have voice conversation. There is no Ventrilo client for Linux.
Have not been able to run the alternative Mumble client on the XO.
Have seen my son use this and host his chat session with teammates in game play
10 years ago. It has been around for long time and works well for him.
http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php
Nice if it can run on Sugar or can be a XSCE addon!
Also bigbluebutton is an opensource videoconferencing
Great news .. indeed.
I am trying out the new 13.2.4 release in my XO-1 now.
When I try to use the sugar-install-bundle to install/add new
activities (e.g. recall-4.xo) it stall at the end with the message:
caution: excluded filename not matched: mimetype
I need to use Ctrl-C as keyboard
Who actually is using/testing these images? Why?
I am as I try to to see if I could still get some life out of XO with whatever
development that is going forward with upgrades.
Is there a reason you are not looking into using an official (OLPC or
deployment) build?
Use that also but
Things seems normal to me.
You mean the language control panel?
Yes
The other laptop buddy icons not appearing is probably a known
problem, to verify type:
sudo systemctl status avahi-daemon.service
and look for error SO_REUSEPORT failed: Protocol not available.
I get output:
-
Things seems normal to me.
For the XO-1 wireless and mesh in not working well. I have been only been able
to login to my non-password wireless network ystem and other XO do not showup
in the network when I am sucessfully connected.
This confirm Samuel report of issue of networking in XO-1 on
Looking forward to a rebuild that would work on a SD card for XO-1.
To make life easier when running the XO from SD, turning power management off
is good:-)
[powerd]
enable_idle_suspend=0
-Original Message-
From: Samuel Greenfeld [mailto:sam...@greenfeld.org]
Sent: Thursday, March
It will work BUT it will freeze the SD functioning. The XO will hang. Hence if
the build has if ON the user do not need to turn if off manually
after logon ASAP before power management kick in!
-Original Message-
From: Sebastian Silva [mailto:sebast...@fuentelibre.org]
Sent: Friday,
+1 as I am in that category :-)
-Original Message-
From: James Cameron [mailto:qu...@laptop.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 08:06 PM
To: 'Samuel Greenfeld'
Cc: 'OLPC Devel', sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: Community OS 14.1.0 Version 2
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 06:55:13AM
I will be really interested in a build that make the XO multi-media capable
with all the necessary stuff installed . With more powerful XO I wonder what it
takes to make video/audio streaming of *.mp4 files without a need to convert
things to *ogv.
Cheers and it is reassuring to see some
Yes I can confirm that with my current testing.
Cheers
-Original Message-
From: James Cameron [mailto:qu...@laptop.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:56 AM
To: tkk...@nurturingasia.com
Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: Logitech USB wireless keyboard with trackpad on XO-1.75
Well at least we know the reasons.
Need to stay plugged in for the 2 older models for the time being!
-Original Message-
From: James Cameron [mailto:qu...@laptop.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:47 AM
To: tkk...@nurturingasia.com
Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: Logitech
When the USB wireless keyboard/trackpad is plugin unlike the XO 1.75 both won't
work. Tried disabling the olpc-kbdshim but stil does not work. Using the 13.2.1
(build 4) on the XO-1.
problem?
-Original Message-
From: James Cameron [mailto:qu...@laptop.org]
Sent: Monday, September 22,
Here is the results:
run sudo evtest. this will show you a list of
system input devices.
- one of those devices should be your logitech device. select
it by number.
There are 2 events tied that showed up with sudo evtest:
--
Event 6:
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input
Tried both XO-1 and XO-1.5. Can't get usbutils to check the lsusb test (mirror
fails to get file)
Did the evtest and I don't see the 2 events for Logitech USB receiver unlike
the XO 1.75
Here is the dmesg
http://pastebin.com/ydKGicV6
-Original Message-
From: James Cameron
Sorry for messing up the OS version.
I didn't see the Logitec wireless device listed in the list of event when I
type sudo evtest.
lsusb output:
http://pastebin.com/ks936UGE
dmesg output:
http://pastebin.com/c3MRPTSn
-Original Message-
From: James Cameron [mailto:qu...@laptop.org]
Thanks and I will be happy to test the patch, etc.
Wondering what is needed for XO-1 laptop to work.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Fox [mailto:p...@laptop.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 11:19 PM
To: tkk...@nurturingasia.com
Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: Logitech USB
Managed to get via yum install usbutils
sudo lsusb -v command gives a long list:
For the Logitec k400r (wireless keyboard with trackpad) I get this output:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass
Tried this first thing in the morning. Disabling kdbshim and the MakeyMakey
activity does the trick on my XO 1.75!
Thanks for the advice from all! There is so much to learn :-)
Have a great weekend!
-Original Message-
From: Paul Fox [mailto:p...@laptop.org]
Sent: Saturday, September
The XO-1 does not recognise the USB wireless keyboard. Must be some missing
drivers. It has worked before as in this writeup.
http://www.olpcnews.com/laptops/xo1/recommended_accessories_for_your_xo.html#sthash.mFC4Cqrj.dpuf
XO wireless mouse: I admit it, before receiving the XO wireless mouse
I plug a logitech wireless trackpad with keyboard on to a XO1.75. The keyboard
is recognised but not the trackpad. No luck with just a stand alone wireless
mouse also.
Are there things I need to do to get wireless input access on the XO?
-Original Message-
From: James Cameron
Thanks for starting this thread. Neat to have no cables as keyboard/trackpad
replacement when I have a few keyboards that failed badly on me :-(
Just hoping for a plug and play solution
Can't get the lsusb utility ... said package not found by yum.
The wireless stuff are from Logitec...with
Maybe this information is already known.
Played around and found the following:
1. Piano and Write not working.
2. Browse will work but sometime it just kick you out :-(
3. Other connected XO will not show in neighbourhood.
4. Picture taken by record normal but when view from clicking the picture
Below is what we found on the XSCE on followup 7 weeks later in the wild.
Hope that will help in future installations...
--
Dear T. K.,
Here's a detailed explanation of what happened that day.
We found that the /library/cache/swap.state is sized 47G, which occupies the
whole partition of /.
The technical team member remounted it on other existing partition to overcome
the default limit of 50M from what I hear. I wil try to get more updates to
know what they did to get it working.
Cheers
-Original Message-
From: Tim Moody [mailto:t...@timmoody.com]
Sent: Thursday, April
Thanks for the instructions. Let see if we could get that going.
Because of the default Fedora 18 partition limited space was reserved for the
/library in our XSCE. This lead to error :-)and also ejabberd crash.
The team back in HK and waiting for remote sessions to rectify, etc. With
frequent
A little documentation of my journey:
http://olpcbasecamp.blogspot.hk/2014/02/eduvolunterism-my-olpc-schoolserver.html
-Original Message-
From: Adam Holt [mailto:h...@laptop.org]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 01:04 AM
To: 'Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT
Need to some advice in schoolserver installation, testing and actual deployment.
After XO registration on the school server.. and testing that all is well, what
is the best way to restore the schoolserver back to its virgin state for the
real deployment?
Good weekend.
---
T.K. Kang
I was thinking that real testing of the XSCE, mesh-potatoe AP (if available),
or openWRT TP-Link could be done in the wild during the Basecamp@Malacca on
Nov 16-18. Can get direct feedback of users with the 20+ XO and other devices
from this direct/indirect stress test.
Cheers.. for BYOD
Managed to install it. Nice ansible and all the goodies for server management
How stable is the system? I am able to load the IIAB demo files (on a USB
stick). It will work for a while and then crash...
Keep up the great work!
-Original Message-
From: Anna [mailto:ascho...@gmail.com]
I am looking forward to the XSCE4-R2 as I want to put it into a test in the
wild (and see if it is OK) everytime I do a talk with a group of audience.
Nice if I could plug in a USB and the XSCE will just make a link to
presentation to the audience.
This Saturday it will be at the HK Software
Agree that we need to do testing before it goes in the wild as it can be pretty
embarassing that things are broken. The last time I had good experience with
XSCE 3.0 and 15 XO-1 (on transition to elsewhere). Have been recently testing
the XSCE-4 loaded on a XO-175 with a few XOs and it seems to
TK
Can you ping me off list with your specific needs. I'll try to make sure
your needs are meet in the next couple of releases.
Love to just plug TL-WN727N into the USB port of the XO as an AP - that would
be neat :-). What about restoration from Moodle via the web-interface - still
data
Good news indeed and my appreciation to all the hard work the XSCE team have
put into.
I recently installed R2 on SD a card for XO 1.75 (512 Mib) with 3 APs. It seems
to be working fine with 30 XO-1s connected via different AP. Registration went
well, ejabberdctl displayed registered users,
Good news indeed and my appreciation to all the hard work the XSCE team have
put into.
I recently installed R2 on SD a card for XO 1.75 (512 Mib) with 3 APs. It seems
to be working fine with 30 XO-1s connected via different AP. Registration went
well, ejabberdctl displayed registered users,
More testing outcome.
1. Able to run with 2 USB-ethernet adaptor with one hardwire to the internet
replacing the XO wireless internet connection.
2. Collaborative work e.g. few registered machine running memorize game while
6 XOs non-registered running write.
3. SOAS have problem starting
Great work. I installed the XSCE on a Class 10 SD card today to run on a
XO1.75. Still get a blank screen towards the end of the installation.
Connection seems working well so far. Manage to connect a bunch of XO to test.
Tested two registration and was able to autologin to Moodle on OS 12.1.0
Some XSCE Release 1 testing outcomes. Some happy news.
1. Registration went OK for 12.1, 13.1 on XO-1.75, Soas-Fedora17 and Dextrose3
(XO-1)
2. Autologin works for all of them into Moodle
(http://schoolserver.local/moodle).
3. /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh works for 12.1, 13.1 (new patch applied).
In my last e-mail mentioned about instability. Reinstalled again today and so
far things are looking good. Registration went well and showing up when I ran
the ejabberdctl connected-user command.
On a XO and I did a ds-back.py and it seems to work. Have not found where in
the XO will it be
The installation is a breeze now! I am sure alot of work has been putted in
over the past 24 hours!
Manage to get it running with 2 USB-Ethernet plugin with wireless turned off
and power management off. When it works it works!!
I will for more testing. The XO-1.75-server seems to freeze quite
Is anyone booting XO-1 with 12.1.0 or higher on SD card? I found it easy to do
that for XO 1.75
Are there any instructions to create a SD boot card for XO-1 machines. I found
this instruction but for older OS.
Will it work for OS 12.1.0 and above?
Tried a number of time .. all went well until the ejabberd part where the
installation failed. Wireless is off and 2 usb-ethernet adaptor is plugged in.
-Original Message-
From: Tim Moody [mailto:timmo...@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 09:05 AM
To:
Awesome!! Installation went smoothly. Looking forward to 13.1.0 version and
other addons... etc for testing! My $US5 USB-Adaptor working well on it. Love
to try two adaptors - on for LAN and one for WAN!
Cheers
-Original Message-
From: Anish Mangal [mailto:an...@activitycentral.com]
I plugged 2 USB XO now in the XO. Both of them are in the 172.. range - hence
Internet is not working unless I connect to wireless again. Are there extra
procedures or configurations I am missing?
-Original Message-
From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:jvo...@shaw.ca]
Sent: Thursday, March 14,
I have XO 1.75 which already have 12.1.0 installed. I created a SD for booting
with the 12.1.0 image but get the following error while booting with the SD:
Emergency condition encountered, halting.
To obtain a debug shelll . boot with the 'olpc.emergency'kernal parameter
[ 27.438857]
Instead I use ds-backup.py and immediately I get the backup - instant
gratification.
When moodle give data corrupt error (know error XS) how best to restore the
files then? Will we see this error ticket get resolved?
-Original Message-
From: tkk...@nurturingasia.com
All this are working fine and the registration has created the necessary files
in the XS 0.7 with the serial number, etc. Just that nothing seems to happen
after a long wait after I done a force backup with ds-backup.sh
I installed the older XS 0.6 to see if things work. Ejabberdctl work with
Yes I am aware that setting the domain is different in the 0.6 0.7. Loading
0.6 everything seems to work - ejabberctl and ds-backup.
I tried so MANY times to use the kickstart with 0.7 and after doing all the
necessary configuration I get the error in ejabberd process - i.e. ejabberdctl
Has anyone have a successfully done a /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh to backup the XO
1.75 on a 0.7 XS? After hours of waiting nothing seems to have happen. My XO
are successfully registered. My ds-backup.log and datastore.log has 0 byte.
I do not have ejabberdctl errors now -I install from USB
Yes, I installed the XS using the USB with 0.7 XS image download from the
source. If I select Install using kickstart at the initial boot screen I won'
be asked : Please name this computer. The hostname identifies the computer on
the network. Leaving it as default: localhost.localdomain I can't
Your last day! Yes everything is hardwork and team work but the joy is things
do happen. Yes I am in HK but this year will spent more time in Australia.
Incubating the idea of a Learning conference
somewhere where things are cheaper and close to HK, Singapre, Thailand, etc ..
(hint: Malacca,
Thanks for the instruction and I am getting good quality video playback on the
XO 1.75 now! Work on 12.1.0 and 13.1.0 loaded XO 1.75.
After seeing how well whaawmp work I won't even bother to play with the JukeBox
or Browser as performance is very inconsistent.
Is there a way to make a
Dear Martin,
All the best to you in your seacrh for live balance - I am seeking that too as
the 2 weeks have been overwhelm while preparing for a new deployment with the
new XO 1.75 (now old) . I think you were the first OLPC software developer that
I had contact with while I took the
I am installed the latest 0.7 schoolserver and testing it with XO 1.75 loaded
with 13.1.0 (with latest build 35). I did the necessary xs-setup (reboot)
xs-setup-network (reboot). Register 2 XO and auto login was OK for Moodle via
wireless access.
On my XO I type olpc-netstatus. Telepathy:
I am making the transition from XO 1 to XO 1.75. I plug in a USB with some
*.ogv to play on a FEW new XO1.75 (12.1.0 customised build 10 ). When I click
on it some files will play but some would not play at all - as if it is
choking!. Run fine on my XO 1.0.
What are the additional (if this
Dear Alan,
I am running it on Sugar. I think Jukebox open the *.ogv files.
On Gnome it is not smooth unfortunately.
Cheers
Hi,In sugar or gnome?With which activity/program open the .ogv
files?Regards!Alan
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Devel mailing list
With the right build 12.1.0-21 the XSCE installation work well.
Thank you all for responding as I learned more about the process of
installation the difficult way. Much appreciated.
Now will be testing to see how things work with wireless internet and USB AP.
Will shift to 2 USB later on in my
I followed the procedures here
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2/Hacking#Installing)
and manage get to the part where I was advice to take a coffee break (ejjaberd
starting, etc).
After a long wait I get the following info:
systemctl start ejabberd-xs-service
Job
Thanks for the reply and support!
No.. I tried a number of time and it NEVER got me to the end where it ask me to
reboot with a message of a successful installation. Drop me there with
instruction to manuall start ejjaberd.
For the time being when I reboot .. at least it works with my the AP
Yes it is a 12.1.0 (build 10) as I cannot flash the new build 21 since the
image I have is customised.
For the 1st installation I did not have the USB-Ethernet-AP connection plugin.
Maybe I should use another XO to start all over again!
Thanks for the detail step by step. Hope I have better
Just registered for developer key for the XO. See if I could run XS-setup again
with the XO unlock. Pity I have no way of flashing to the latest 12.1.0 build
21.
Without ejabberd running or http runnig at least I am able to support 10 XO via
a external AP and a wired WAN from another
It has been sometime since I played with the XS. Have a few problems:
1. Registered went OK with a XO 1 and can login automatically on the Moodle but
when try to force a manual back up with sudo /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh I get the
message: Not Registered yet, nothing to do
2. Register with a XO
I am having problem with SoAS registration. I get can't connect error to server
I check.. and idmgr (pid 3484) is running..
Not able to confirm if it is listening to 8080 with netstat --listen -pe
--inet
Am I missing something?
-Original Message-
From: Tim Moody
Thanks. As I read the threads I figured out that I need to make some change to
the idmgr.conf so that it listen to specific IP of my XS. Timely help from Dave
Hamilton save my day - added BIND_ADDRESS=192.168.1.22 (my XS IP) and the
registration is now working.
Cheers
-Original
Different photos from various individual upload via mobile iphone facebook
upload. The photo I sent is from is from http://www.facebook.com/cktsoi
The AP is from Altai Technologies' A8 Super WiFi Base Station. Here is snip
from a press release:
Thimphu is the capital of Bhutan with a
Installed it ... went very well and I notice I don't even need to make changes
to the /etc/named-xs.conf file as forwarders while setting a fix ip on boot up.
Great work as getting it running each time is reassuring grin
Will kick in more testing .. to see if my old notes still fnction!!
Installed it ... went very well and I notice I don't even need to make changes
to the /etc/named-xs.conf file as forwarders while setting a fix ip on boot up.
Great work as getting it running each time is reassuring grin
Will kick in more testing .. to see if my old notes still fnction!!
Congtatulation...Nice feeling to see it working.
I now have my SoAS registered at the SS and I left it online for 2 hours..It is
backing up my stuff automatically and across the globe.
Agree that the next step is how to make the information useful. As I look at
the backup information I have
Different photos from various individual upload via mobile iphone facebook
upload. The photo I sent is from is from http://www.facebook.com/cktsoi
The AP is from Altai Technologies' A8 Super WiFi Base Station. Here is snip
from a press release:
Thimphu is the capital of Bhutan with a
I followed up on reading your request and went to the Open Univeristy of UK.
Downloaded a few of their units and they are now Zap into the school server for
outside testing by interested individuals.
Course listing:
http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/index.php
What is needed is to locate
I wasn't sure initially if I type in wrongly, etc. After have the same problem
with two different XS I started to query that my memory and eyesight should be
OK grin
I am a non technical person - could it be changes in the authenticity method?
I presume it should be manual for admin - anyway
Cool.. and great work Martin.
I ran the command on 2 dev XS and all is well - installed the 3 language packs.
Will allow external access for volunteers to play with the moodle via teacher
and student accounts - before they can teach the teachers in deployment
followups.
Cheers
Now with the a fixed internal IP I am able to map the actual external IP with
it for external access. Change the apache httpd-xs.conf to listen to
192.168.1.30:80 as well as 172.18.0.1:80 Loaded the pafm application and
external upload and download working well.
I maybe missing something - but
I can't really recommend that. Moodle and other services should only be in
the internal network. Publishing it in the external network creates security
issues.
Yes, with a real school deployment this is a major concern. The XS I understand
is designed for minimal maintence without this
Thanks for all the advice and help. I went to sleep after setting it without
success ... and came back after work at it again - when I ping it works!!
Maybe the lesson is to wait for the network stuff to sort things out and be
patient?
Have set the forwarders commands to my actual DNS and the
Maybe the WIKI need an update that include ... take a break and come back for
the cache stuff
Working normally..and I am amazed by the level of automation via the XS. Just
registered 2 XOs via wireless. Now I need to see how the Moodle could be a mix
of external users and XOs registered
I tried your config - thanks. No luck.
I get a fixed IP of 192.168.1.230 and could ping 192.168.1.1, etc and even the
designated public IP of my router given by my ISP. However I can't ping any
external network outside.
Have you go this working with a XS server with a static IP?
Yes, I followed the instruction and created a ifcfg-eth0-local and change the
/etc/resolv.conf with the original nameserver 172.18.0.1 to 192.168.1.1
It boot and set my ip to 192.168.1.230. I could not ping an external IP not
resolve domain names. The orignal dhcp setting just works well. I
A very large team is to their Sichuan, China today. We managed to do some very
initial testing of the XS last weekend but unable to stress test it as we had
limited time and lack of APs.
A photo of trying to monitor memory usage here:
http://www.meet2learn.net/egallery/main.php?g2_itemId=886
Thanks for the great reply and enlightenment. It is timely as we are just
rounding up people for tommorrow. I will pass the message to the team and see
how we approach it.
Will have a long domain name: schoolserver.schoolname.example.org
I hope this is OK.
-Original Message-
From:
More test result for interpretation and debugging
A. Registration Test 1 (English XO):
O.K. I am doing a another step by step testing on another XS 0.6 alpha clean
install
My English XO: Build 767 Sugar 0.82.1 Firmware Q2E18
Use this english XO as a first registration with the user name
Yes,.. the culprit is the Browser version!! My apologies.
I had 2 English XOs and one was 102 and later when I used software update the
next XO work!! Umm.. and sorry for all the pain.
Now I need to tell the Chinese team how they can update the browser to 102 as
it is version 98!!
What
Great. Looking forward to the link for the alpha 0.6 version for testing.
-Original Message-
From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 06:57 PM
To: tkk...@nurturingasia.com
Cc: Server-devel@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS testing
Great... and I am amazed by the work done till now with XS - it rocks!
I manage to download it and did a clean install.
1. All went well
2. Gave a name to it example.org I did not edit the hostname like in the past -
is this step needed?)
3. Registered (first) with a Chinese XO (3 chinese
serialID
2. When I change back to the normal name of tkkang a moodle account is
created and works O.K.
3. Hence chinese names (double bytes) will have the same issue as describe
above.
4. Have not solved the problem of not chinese character in the ds-restore view.
When downloaded
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