Re: Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
Alan, Thanks very much for the detailed writeup of your findings (and for your efforts make OLPC's software distribution more friendly to people who like Java). I can't personally resolve any of the questions which you raise with any authority but I can direct you toward the people who might be

[Server-devel] Notes on replacing bridging with bonding

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
Read http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bonding in depth - excellent docs! - and performed some tests on one of my XS sample machines, replacing br0 with bond0. It works and I will attempt the switchover. We'll need quite a bit of testing to feel confident with this though... This is roughly

Help activity content

2008-09-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, the deadline for the Help activity content was yesterday. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7526#comment:9 Is it available? If not, what should we do? Marco ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

RE: Terminal Text Fragment Drop Support Patch

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Dengler
- original message - From: Cortland Setlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am looking for suggestions on how to upload patches from Sugar. I use copy-to-journal (olpc-support-scripts) on the git-format-patch/diff output to get things in the journal. I wonder how hard it'd be to teach Web/Browse to try

Re: Short circuting USB port?

2008-09-08 Thread James Cameron
G'day Timothy, Thanks for getting back to me. Pardon me for being fascinated, but it's one of my pet topics. The key to understanding this symptom might be the low voltage cutoff. which is independent of the capacity indicator. The red battery light is based on a calculation. The calculation

Re: Short circuting USB port?

2008-09-08 Thread Tim hobbs
First off, thank you for the fast reply. I did a backup today, and I could not reproduce the problem either with AC or on a full charge battery. I don't believe that my AC was plugged in when this problem occurred last night. I had been working outside for 3 hours outside before I ran into this

Re: Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-08 Thread Alan Eliasen
Michael Stone wrote: Alan, Thanks very much for the detailed writeup of your findings (and for your efforts make OLPC's software distribution more friendly to people who like Java). I can't personally resolve any of the questions which you raise with any authority but I can direct you

Re: Terminal Text Fragment Drop Support Patch

2008-09-08 Thread Eben Eliason
2008/9/8 Cortland Setlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Terminal really should support dropping dev key commands, I think. Here's a patch to make it do so. Could we update the devkey page to explain frame-based cut and paste? The current devkey hassles should be resolved in 9.1, when we will add a

Re: 8.2-759 Running 'Software update' to upgrade from Measure 17 to Measure 19 restarts sugar.

2008-09-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 7 Sep 2008, at 07:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Software update indicates that there is an update from Measure 17 to Measure 19. When I click Install selected Sugar restarts. Then when I try Software update again and attempt to install Measure 19 it just refreshes but never

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-08 Thread Eben Eliason
I know I've said this before, but I really want to get some UI polish into this part of the system. Instead of the cryptic AC not present we should be displaying a fullscreen graphic picturing the power cord (in the style of the shutdown warnings) to make it blatantly obvious what's needed.

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Well, even spelling it external power required is better than the cryptic AC not present. - Bert - Am 08.09.2008 um 17:25 schrieb Eben Eliason: I know I've said this before, but I really want to get some UI polish into this part of the system. Instead of the cryptic AC not present we

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-08 Thread Bastien
Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, even spelling it external power required is better than the cryptic AC not present. +1 -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Short circuting USB port?

2008-09-08 Thread Richard A. Smith
James Cameron wrote: 1. a battery that is faulty, Very likely. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_LiFePO4_Recovery_Procedure For diagnostic and repair. 3. a USB device that is faulty, in that it draws more current than it ought to do, The ports are limited to a max of 1A summed across

Re: Font problems (affecting Java and others?)

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
Thanks for the suggestions. So is all RPM packaging done by the Red Hat team? OLPC and some of its friends help maintain several packages important to OLPC in Fedora. RedHat employees assist other Fedora volunteers in the same task. (Understand that Fedora and RedHat are related but

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on replacing bridging with bonding

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: Jerry Vonau wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Alexander Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have placed TYPE=Bonding in the ifcfg-bond0 config files, but this is not needed for Fedora 7 or later (it doesn't hurt to have it, though) well, I grepped

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-08 Thread Mitch Bradley
Bert Freudenberg wrote: Well, even spelling it external power required is better than the cryptic AC not present. The message was changed to No external power in release Q2D14 . - Bert - Am 08.09.2008 um 17:25 schrieb Eben Eliason: I know I've said this before, but I really want to get

Re: Terminal Text Fragment Drop Support Patch

2008-09-08 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The current devkey hassles should be resolved in 9.1, when we will add a Security module to the control panel, including a section for dev keys. This new interface will explain what a key is, offer a 'Request key button, indicate progress, and automatically handle the installation of the new

Re: AC not present?

2008-09-08 Thread Mitch Bradley
Eben Eliason wrote: I know I've said this before, but I really want to get some UI polish into this part of the system. Instead of the cryptic AC not present we should be displaying a fullscreen graphic picturing the power cord (in the style of the shutdown warnings) to make it blatantly

Re: Help activity content

2008-09-08 Thread Samuel Klein
There's a bundle posted at [[Help (activity)]] you can test, but it doesn't have the latest bits. Seth may have an update - there was a lot of activity over the weekend. SJ On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, the deadline for the Help activity

Re: #8240 NORM 9.1.0: Implement a dynamic tabbing stack, to allow ping-pong shortcut

2008-09-08 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Zarro Boogs per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #8240: Implement a dynamic tabbing stack, to allow ping-pong shortcut +--- Reporter: mikus | Owner: Eben Type:

#6930 shipped activities need to be audited for licensing information

2008-09-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Does anyone have advice on how to deal with this blocking ticket? Some questions I would have: - which activities do we ship? - do we *require* or just encourage that such activities add COPYING files before 8.2 is released? - where do we document the procedure for new activities to ensure

New joyride build 2402

2008-09-08 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2402 Changes in build 2402 from build: 2401 Size delta: 0.00M -olpc-licenses 3-1.fc9 +olpc-licenses 8.2.0.0-1.olpc3 --- Changes for olpc-licenses 8.2.0.0-1.olpc3 from 3-1.fc9 --- + Updates from John Gilmore + Add spanish license

Re: #6930 shipped activities need to be audited for licensing information

2008-09-08 Thread S Page
Daniel Drake wrote: - which activities do we ship? In Browse, clicking activities finding activities from the OLPC Library main page links to an Activity and Library Bundles web page from November 2007 in /usr/share/activities/bundle-archive/ that still offers links to the following

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on replacing bridging with bonding

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: Jerry Vonau wrote: Jerry Vonau wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Alexander Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have placed TYPE=Bonding in the ifcfg-bond0 config files, but this is not needed for Fedora 7 or later (it doesn't hurt to have it,

Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-08 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi all, What follows is the flow of chapters (devised by Seth, Adam, Cynthia and myself) for the Sugar / XO manual to (hopefully) be included on the XO for G1G1. Make all reviews, edits and contributions to these sections as soon as possible! XO - Introduction

Re: [sugar] Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-08 Thread Walter Bender
What about the Activity manuals? -walter On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What follows is the flow of chapters (devised by Seth, Adam, Cynthia and myself) for the Sugar / XO manual to (hopefully) be included on the XO for G1G1. Make all

Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-08 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, Is the expected release date for 8.2.0 still September 17th? I have a trial that depends on this coming out (for various functionality, mainly the software updates and flash) so I just wanted to see whether it was still looking likely to be released then. Thanks all! The joyrides are

Re: [Server-devel] xen and XS.... development

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Tom Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently learned that xen was hobbled on a fedora9 host with older processors. Yes, I've seen all that. It's the Xen upstream not supporting current kernels. I'm mainly using Qemu a bit (assigning usb devices is useful),

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
Pia, The final weeks of September seem more likely to me at the moment. If you want to stay up to date, please watch http://wiki.laptop.org/go/8.2.0 Then you'll receive instant notifications. :) Also, will you be able to help test our next release candidate(s)? Michael

New update.1 build 713

2008-09-08 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build713 Changes in build 713 from build: 712 Size delta: 0.00M -bootfw q2e12-1.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2e15-1.olpc2.unsigned --- Changes for bootfw q2e15-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2e12-1.olpc2.unsigned --- + q2e15 this is an unsigned

Re: [OLPC library] [sugar] Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-08 Thread adam hyde
wowsa...looks good to me and certainly makes all that work worthwhile :) can u give us some dates? i would like to be ready for the roll out, and also for any PR that you will send out. It will be important to be especially attentive to incoming requests at those times. adam On Mon,

New joyride build 2403

2008-09-08 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2403 Changes in build 2403 from build: 2402 Size delta: 0.00M -etoys 3.0.2126-1 +etoys 3.0.2139-1 --- Changes for etoys 3.0.2139-1 from 3.0.2126-1 --- + Updated translations: de + Fix saving projects with non-ascii names (#8212)

New joyride build 2404

2008-09-08 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2404 Changes in build 2404 from build: 2403 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.25-20080905.1.olpc.e31284e8bd4c73a +kernel 2.6.25-20080908.1.olpc.63579b21df15ab7 -- This mail was automatically generated See

Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
Dear devel@, Kim, Greg, and I have concluded that the instability we experience under memory-pressure in 8.2-759 and similar is the single hard issue that we wish to _attempt_ to address before releasing 8.2 on current timeframes. (We recognize that there are several other issues marked as

Does anyone care about beecrypt on the XS?

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On xs-0.4 and earlier we have beecrypt. On the F9 builds yum gets its panties in a knot over beecrypt while building the Pungi or revisor imgs. I can't understand it, help is not forthcoming, and I have, hmmm, other priorities in mind. - Do you use beecrypt or plan to use it for something? - On

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on replacing bridging with bonding

2008-09-08 Thread Alexander Dupuy
Martin Langhoff escribió: This is roughly what I am doing: # mark the device as a bonding device # - for some reason TYPE does not work I have placed TYPE=Bonding in the ifcfg-bond0 config files, but this is not needed for Fedora 7 or later (it doesn't hurt to have it, though) # cat

[Server-devel] A few F9 upgrade things I need help with...

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
As part of the XS upgrade, I've ended up caught with a number of F9 oddities -- none of them a complete blocker, but definitely rought edges... - Cannot include beecrypt in Pungi/Revisor build - this is probably a bug worthy of filing in BZ but needs a bit of diagnosys.

[Server-devel] F9 XS - Take it for a spin...

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
with some caveats... this is a developer preview, lots of things are b0rken, but still... - download all 759MB of iso here http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/Fedora-0.5.dev2-i386.iso - Burn it to a DVD (see notes below on using USB sticks) - Install it on a new machine - use the