nandblaster: can't open fs.plc for reading

2008-12-17 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Hi everyone! We're doing some tests with firmware q2e24 but we're having trouble when trying to serve an unsigned build. As it says at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update , we need an fs.plc file, but we don't know how to generate it. Any tips? -- Emiliano Pastorino LATU -

Re: performance work

2008-12-17 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Neil Graham l...@screamingduck.com wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:23 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: The first thing you need to do is determine which operations you really care about. I would first target the operations that deal with text and rounded

Re: [Server-devel] New xs-config and a 5.1-dev iso...

2008-12-17 Thread Anna
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: Are there any other showstoppers or serious annoyances with 0.5? In one experiment, I registered 2 XOs (XOA and XOB) to the XS and it created the moodle logins with links on the moodle login page. For some

olpc-update from 703 to 8.2 wipes out Journal

2008-12-17 Thread Ties Stuij
I updated an XO from 703 to 8.2 with the latest olpc-update, and to my disappointment the journal content was wiped. Is this to be expected? /Ties ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: nandblaster: can't open fs.plc for reading

2008-12-17 Thread Erik Garrison
Hi Emiliano! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:22:37PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: Hi everyone! We're doing some tests with firmware q2e24 but we're having trouble when trying to serve an unsigned build. As it says at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update , we need an fs.plc

Re: Fixed Puritan bug on F10/Intrepid

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:03:08PM -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote: Michael, The build was successfully made on both F10 and Intrepid. How could I slip in a language pack? How could I set the Timezone for the build? How could I set the default language for sugar? Well, first, figure out how would

Re: performance work

2008-12-17 Thread Neil Graham
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:23 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: I recommend running the Cairo benchmarks on the XO again with acceleration turned off in the X driver. This will give you a good indication of which operations are being accelerated and which are not. Done.

Re: Loosing the Activity window after displaying a OpenFile dialog box

2008-12-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:37:55PM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote: Hi , In the application that I am developing for the XO there is a Open button which displays an Open File dialog box and lets you choose which file to open in the activity. But when I click on the button and the dialog box

Re: nandblaster: can't open fs.plc for reading

2008-12-17 Thread Erik Garrison
Emiliano, Great to hear that it works for you! Thanks for the valuable testing. To avoid future confusion about this filetype I have updated git://dev.laptop.org/users/erik/image-digestor so that it refers to a 'placement control file' and produces image file basename.plc as output. This

9.1 Planning Meeting Today (Wed.) 2PM US ET #olpc-meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are on for the weekly 9.1 planning meeting today (Wed. 12/17) at 2PM US East Coast Time. Its an IRC meeting on freenode.net #olpc-meeting. Here are the minutes from last week: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-December/021740.html Per Michael's request, I blocked two

Re: nandblaster: can't open fs.plc for reading

2008-12-17 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Thanks, Erik! I'll try it right now On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Erik Garrison e...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Emiliano! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:22:37PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: Hi everyone! We're doing some tests with firmware q2e24 but we're having trouble when trying to

Re: nandblaster: can't open fs.plc for reading

2008-12-17 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
It worked. I'll continue with my tests. Thanks again, Erik! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Emiliano Pastorino epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Thanks, Erik! I'll try it right now On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Erik Garrison e...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Emiliano! On Wed, Dec 17,

Re: Downloading Scratch project to XO

2008-12-17 Thread Bert Freudenberg
The simplest would be something like if [ -n $object_id ] ; then filename=$SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/instance/temp.sb copy-from-journal -o $object_id $filename #... append $filename to Scratch command line ... fi (assuming the Scratch wrapper still basically looks like the

Re: Debugging tips for presence over Telepathy/Gabble?

2008-12-17 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 12:19 -0200, Martin Langhoff a écrit : Looking for Telepathy/Gabble hints... With the new ejabberd in 0.5 (2.0.1 + Collabora's patches) people have reported very unreliable Network View listings. The problem seems to be that everyone disappears after a short

9.1.0 Meeting Minutes

2008-12-17 Thread Greg Smith
Greg, Ed, Simon, Chris, Deepak, Sayamindu, Dan, cjl, Ben, Morgan, Marco, SJ and possibly others met on IRC on Wed. 12/17. Minutes: - XO Camp - Page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2) needs updating. See Greg's action item below. Focus on design and requirements review of 9.1.0 target

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Greg, * Chris to make some additions to requirement linking in the existing documentation, including what happens when the lid is closed. I believe Joe is waiting for Chris to update the requirements before he writes the test cases. I am waiting for the test cases so I

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Smith wrote: Comments and questions welcome. I think it would be good to clarify what the 9.1.0 plans are for #7958 (DCON shows old image with noise artifacts for the duration of suspend) and #8893 (image jumps vertically for a single frame

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I think it would be good to clarify what the 9.1.0 plans are for #7958 (DCON shows old image with noise artifacts for the duration of suspend) and #8893 (image jumps vertically for a single frame during resume). These two tickets seem to have been confused on the

Re: Help runnning a script after Installing an activity from .xo

2008-12-17 Thread quozl
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:31:31PM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote: So I have to modify the /etc/sysconfig/modules/olpc-1.modules file so that I ask the XO to load the OSS module when it boots. Why when it boots? Why not when the activity starts? #!/usr/bin/python import os os.system(/bin/su

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Ball wrote: Hi, I think it would be good to clarify what the 9.1.0 plans are for #7958 (DCON shows old image with noise artifacts for the duration of suspend) and #8893 (image jumps vertically for a single frame during

Re: Help runnning a script after Installing an activity from .xo

2008-12-17 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 18.12.2008, at 00:51, qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:31:31PM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote: So I have to modify the /etc/sysconfig/modules/olpc-1.modules file so that I ask the XO to load the OSS module when it boots. Why when it boots? Why not when the activity

Re: Help runnning a script after Installing an activity from .xo

2008-12-17 Thread Wade Brainerd
2008/12/16 shivaprasad javali jbs...@gmail.com Hi, I am developing an activity for the XO. I have the .xo file ready to install but I still have one problem. After Installing the activity I need to make the XO run a script. I need to do this because the Application makes use of the OSS

Re: Downloading Scratch project to XO

2008-12-17 Thread Philipp Kocher
Hi Bert, John There is a bug in copy-from-journal, it is adding an additional dot before the file extension. Otherwise it is working. [o...@localhost ~]$ copy-from-journal -o 07474cf4-4883-4ded-a994-ab5511cfc29c /tmp/test.sb /home/olpc/.sugar/default/data/07474cf4-4883-4ded-a994-ab5511cfc29c -

Journal integration for Scratch

2008-12-17 Thread Philipp Kocher
Hi John Do you plan a journal integration for scratch? At the moment it is not possible to delete scratch projects easily (just in terminal) and our students have difficulty to understand the file and folder structure in the dialog with the very small font. If you don't want to change the

[Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to diagnose why an active antenna was failing to work on my test mauhine. Not only it was failing, over time stranger and stranger messages would appear in dmesg, random strings, chunks of hex. The machine would get less and less stable, things would fail

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Anna
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to reproduce the problem. Any hints as to how long it takes for it to happen? What triggers laptops not seeing eachother? I'll keep trying stuff... but any hint... I just created a jabber login

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:12 -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: It was, however, something a lot more mundane. This test machine is a laptop, and sports its own wifi gear (centrino). Our device naming scheme for the pair of devices that the Libertas appears as is wlanN/mshN. However, the built-in

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging tips for presence over Telepathy/Gabble?

2008-12-17 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 12:19 -0200, Martin Langhoff a écrit : Looking for Telepathy/Gabble hints... With the new ejabberd in 0.5 (2.0.1 + Collabora's patches) people have reported very unreliable Network View listings. The problem seems to be that everyone disappears after a short

Re: [Server-devel] Exploding wireless interfaces on your laptop

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: How do you debug this thing? Can you give me a hand? ;-) Right, so I've told udev to get into debug mode, and what it tells me is *very* interesting. When I plug in the antenna (which will trigger 2 device-add

Re: [Server-devel] New xs-config and a 5.1-dev iso...

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: - A new iso candidate http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/?C=M;O=D That iso is taking several attempts to upload - I suspect the local ISP is throttling connections. This is what it fixes:

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: I just created a jabber login called anna-test via the webadmin interface and logged in via pidgin. I didn't see anyone online, though I logged out and logged back in repeatedly. My previously established login could see seven

[Server-devel] Blog Integration Forewarded Workflow Simplification

2008-12-17 Thread Lucas Wojciehcowski
What do you think about the moodle Elgg integration? Is that too much extra baggage for the OLPC project, or could it be a nice solution for blog integration? I'm not sure how we are going to be able to tackle some of your more ambitious moodle modifications (such as blog integration) working

[Server-devel] stability of XS 0.5

2008-12-17 Thread Sameer Verma
Given that we still have issues cropping up with XS 0.5, are we still going to call it stable? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/