Re: Tuxpaint activity is bloated

2008-07-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sugar-is-lame string comes from a value that activities are required to provide, even when the value is of no use. Activity authors are being forced to provide a random string that is of no use to the activity, so of

Re: Definition of Stable Enough To Release for 8.2.0

2008-07-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9 - Always boots up, especially when there is no space on NAND Always is a tricky one :-) - might be useful to focus on specific issues - boots even with no space on NAND to a mode that allows user-controlled file

Re: Calling all small keyboards

2008-07-25 Thread Walter Bender
I left my Sinclair in the 1CC conference room. It probably qualifies as well. -walter On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking for examples of keyboards for small children present before 1993. Specifically, we are looking for keyboards whose

Re: joyride keyboard problems GL/glx

2008-07-25 Thread Chris Marshall
Daniel Drake wrote: Resyncing the X server was not quite as simple as you might expect. Previously, X was compiled along with the mesa sources to offer software-based GL. The software GL is very slow but word on the street is that some activities use it anyway. ... Anyway, at the

Re: SMS messaging

2008-07-25 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le jeudi 24 juillet 2008 à 09:59 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes a écrit : The plan with Gadget is to allow user to request random buddies (and activities) or perform search based on different criteria. As you can see on [1], currently only search based on buddy properties is implemented but we

Re: joyride keyboard problems GL/glx

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:10:21AM -0400, Chris Marshall wrote: For a lot of applications, using the 3D framework with the simpler geometries and more image-oriented, a software OpenGL can be quite acceptable. Forgive the uninformed question, but this would be a requirement for clutter to run

Re: joyride keyboard problems GL/glx

2008-07-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/7/25 Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:10:21AM -0400, Chris Marshall wrote: For a lot of applications, using the 3D framework with the simpler geometries and more image-oriented, a software OpenGL can be quite acceptable. Forgive the uninformed question, but

Re: Congratulations! but Sugar sucks

2008-07-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 24.07.2008 um 17:53 schrieb Benjamin M. Schwartz: Bert Freudenberg wrote: | Am 24.07.2008 um 14:25 schrieb Benjamin M. Schwartz: | | 1. The datastore | 2. OS Updates | 3. File Sharing | 4. Activity Modification | 5. Bitfrost | 6. Power management | | Note that half of these items

Re: joyride keyboard problems GL/glx

2008-07-25 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick FYI: the keyboard bugs in recent joyrides (various buttons not working or misbehaving) is fixed by the X server update in joyride 2207. The problem was that a Fedora 9 update included an updated evdev driver,

odd yum dependency issues in joyride

2008-07-25 Thread pgf
i've been slowly moving my g1g1 machine forward to joyride (from 656). i had customized it quite a bit, and am trying to restore those changes. i've got xfce running, but a couple of yum dependencies (which were fine with F7) are failing. to wit: # yum install gcc olpc_development

Re: Cannot boot joyride-2200 from USB stick

2008-07-25 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 24 2008, at 11:46, Deepak Saxena was caught saying: Tried with your version of 14:57 (2720066 bytes). Same result. Same messages, still failure to mount /dev/sda1. Apologies for the disappointing result. Do we

Re: joyride keyboard problems GL/glx

2008-07-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just FYI. Tried to boot both joyride-2207 and joyride-2210 (the devel-ext3 variant) on qemu (on win XP/SP2) but both fail with the same error: (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/sri/swrast_dri.so failed

Re: odd yum dependency issues in joyride

2008-07-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been slowly moving my g1g1 machine forward to joyride (from 656). i had customized it quite a bit, and am trying to restore those changes. i've got xfce running, but a couple of yum dependencies (which were fine with F7) are

Re: odd yum dependency issues in joyride

2008-07-25 Thread pgf
c. scott ananian wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been slowly moving my g1g1 machine forward to joyride (from 656). i had customized it quite a bit, and am trying to restore those changes. i've got xfce running, but a couple of yum dependencies

Re: joyride keyboard problems GL/glx

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:22 -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Just FYI. Tried to boot both joyride-2207 and joyride-2210 (the devel-ext3 variant) on qemu (on win XP/SP2) but both fail with the same error: (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/sri/swrast_dri.so failed

Re: [RFC] Four solutions to NAND fillup

2008-07-25 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello A suggestion for similar problems, which I experienced in the past for other hardware. The /var tree is mostly used for logs and caches - stuff that could be discarded at reboot. And usually, there's a lof ot them (see with du -ksh) There are some important subdirs that however should be

Re: [sugar] Congratulations! but Sugar sucks

2008-07-25 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
| 1. The datastore | 2. OS Updates | 3. File Sharing | 4. Activity Modification | 5. Bitfrost | 6. Power management On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: really surprisingly

Re: [RFC] Four solutions to NAND fillup

2008-07-25 Thread pgf
guylhem wrote: Hello A suggestion for similar problems, which I experienced in the past for other hardware. The /var tree is mostly used for logs and caches - stuff that could be discarded at reboot. And usually, there's a lof ot them (see with du -ksh) There are some

forking PAM to remove cracklib dependency

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, pam currently depends on cracklib which brings in an 8.5mb dictionary. It's quite easy to remove this dependency. Any objections to me requesting a pam OLPC-3 branch and applying the attached changes on the F-9 package? This has been in joyride for the last few releases and nobody has

Re: odd yum dependency issues in joyride

2008-07-25 Thread NoiseEHC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c. scott ananian wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been slowly moving my g1g1 machine forward to joyride (from 656). i had customized it quite a bit, and am trying to restore those changes. i've got xfce running, but

project hosting application: Larry

2008-07-25 Thread Meli Kim
1. Project name :Language Learning with Larry 2. Existing website, if any :http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Larry 3. One-line description :RPG that teaches foreign language vocabulary. 4. Longer description :RPG that teaches foreign language vocabulary.

Re: odd yum dependency issues in joyride

2008-07-25 Thread pgf
martin wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:33:08PM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote: With 2181 this worked: yum install mc yum install make gcc I've been yum install'ing gcc after every olpc-update to joyride since about 1559, and have never had any problems. interesting. i wonder why

Re: NAND full issue

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Kimberley Quirk wrote: OLPC's response is Failsafe for 656, per703, and 8.1.2; and a formal bug fix for 8.2 going forward: Uruguay: Erik is working with Uruguay on the solution described as Union Mount below. It is important that Uruguay own this bug fix themselves and can maintain it

Re: Calling all small keyboards

2008-07-25 Thread Robert Howard
Not sure if this helps but look at patent 5700097 http:// patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO% 2Fsrchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=5700097.PN.OS=PN/5700097RS=PN/5700097 It may lead to something else via the patents it references including a Japanese

New joyride build 2214

2008-07-25 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2214 Changes in build 2214 from build: 2213 Size delta: 0.00M -pygtk2 2.12.1-6.fc9 +pygtk2 2.12.1-7.olpc3 -pygtk2-libglade 2.12.1-6.fc9 +pygtk2-libglade 2.12.1-7.olpc3 -xkeyboard-config 1.2-3.fc9 +xkeyboard-config 1.3-1.olpc3 ---

Re: [Techteam] NAND full issue

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unionfs will involve a kernel change. Erik's got a ko to add to the initrd AIUI. Have we considered sorting by date and removing from oldest to new until the threshold is reached? Perhaps excluding starred items. Both

Re: [Techteam] NAND full issue

2008-07-25 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 25 2008, at 20:00, Daniel Drake was caught saying: So unionfs is the formal bug fix for 8.2 going forward, or is it a Uruguay-specific thing? unionfs will involve a kernel change. Are we planning to shift them from 2.6.22 to 2.6.25 where unionfs has been included, or are we going to

Re: New joyride build 2213

2008-07-25 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 25.07.2008 um 17:29 schrieb Build Announcer v2: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2213 -gnome-python2-gnomevfs 2.22.1-5.olpc3 +gnome-python2-gnomevfs 2.22.1-3.olpc3 Was this intentional? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing

Re: New joyride build 2213

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Bert Freudenberg wrote: Am 25.07.2008 um 17:29 schrieb Build Announcer v2: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2213 -gnome-python2-gnomevfs 2.22.1-5.olpc3 +gnome-python2-gnomevfs 2.22.1-3.olpc3 Was this intentional? Yes, it's the same package, I just moved it from

[Server-devel] Static Ip settings

2008-07-25 Thread David Leeming
I am a little new to Linux at this level, please can the list advise me regarding changing the network settings for static IP. I'm also not a wizard on general networking. I am in the field in the Solomon Islands, in the middle of single-class deployments in 3 primary schools. I have a demo XS

[Server-devel] [PATCH] xs-config: Cleanup of the RPM build scripts

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
Now the RPM version is derived from the git tags as per git-describe. --- Makefile | 29 ++- xs-config.spec| 95 - xs-config.spec.in | 95 + 3 files changed, 114