Re: LANG=am_ET causes funny collating order

2007-10-06 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Ulrich Drepper wrote: Define latest. It should work in 2.6.90-17. Indeed, it does. I was still using 2.6.90-16, from two days ago. What was the fix? I think we'll need to backport the patch to F7's glibc for fork the package off in OLPC-2. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti -

Re: LANG=am_ET causes funny collating order

2007-10-06 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Ulrich Drepper wrote: Bernardo Innocenti wrote: What was the fix? I think we'll need to backport the patch to F7's glibc for fork the package off in OLPC-2. Lot's of changes in at least three completely different places. Just use the F8 glibc, it can only be better. Thanks! -- \___/

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
(adding devel@ to cc) Mitch Bradley wrote: Jim Gettys wrote: What are the olpc vs. olpc2 variants? The way that I understand it based on Bernie's IRC explanation, is that these are different usage models based on how you interpret one of the keys. It is not a property of the keyboard

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Jim Gettys
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:33 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: (adding devel@ to cc) Mitch Bradley wrote: Jim Gettys wrote: What are the olpc vs. olpc2 variants? The way that I understand it based on Bernie's IRC explanation, is that these are different usage models based on how you

What's the status of Xiph codecs support in the Helix project?

2007-10-06 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
Hello lists, Personally, I have not yet had an opportunity to test the different components in the Helix project. As such, most of what I know comes from Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, it is stated that the Helix DNA Client supports Vorbis and Theora, but apparently, not Speex. Is it this true? How

New manufacturing data flags for keyboards.

2007-10-06 Thread Jim Gettys
I've been chatting with Sergey Udaltsov about defining keyboard better, so we might introduce new keyboards without having to revise firmware or often even the software for new keyboard types we want to introduce. Right now, we have an unholy mess left from before B1, where we divine the keyboard

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Jim's proposal solves the X problem, and I think we should adopt it. We also have the problem of letting OFW and the Linux kernel know enough about the keyboard so developers can type US ASCII , which is the common subset that is sufficient for managing diagnostics, booting, and installation

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Mitch Bradley wrote: One solution would be to include a lot of keymaps in OFW and select one based on the new KL tag. However, I'm not keen on having to carry around a lot of keymaps in the ROM, and extend that list from time to time. There's also a trivial, good enough solution to the

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Oct 7, 2007, at 0:08 , Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Mitch Bradley wrote: One solution would be to include a lot of keymaps in OFW and select one based on the new KL tag. However, I'm not keen on having to carry around a lot of keymaps in the ROM, and extend that list from time to

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Bert Freudenberg wrote: I disagree. It's a major hassle if the keys you press do not do what's printed on them. Simply assuming a US layout when the machine can know quite well what keyboard is attached is unacceptable. It's a shortcoming of external keyboards that they do not

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Walter Bender
Back to the original question, in case it is needed: Keyboard Layout KM KLKVComment USInternational_Keyboard olpc usolpc OLPC_Argentina_Keyboard olpc esolpc (Spanish) OLPC_Brasil_Keyboard olpc brolpc

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Mitch Bradley wrote: One solution would be to include a lot of keymaps in OFW and select one based on the new KL tag. However, I'm not keen on having to carry around a lot of keymaps in the ROM, and extend that list from time to time. There's also a

Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft).

2007-10-06 Thread Albert Cahalan
Re: New manufacturing data flags for keyboards (2nd draft). Keyboard Layout KMKL KV Comment USInternational_Keyboard olpc us olpc OLPC_Argentina_Keyboard olpc es olpc(Spanish) OLPC_Brasil_Keyboard olpc br olpc(Portuguese)