Re: XO memory size

2009-03-01 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:05:51PM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2009 05:51:40 pm James Cameron wrote: 3, every once in a while (10 mins or so) there is a message in console like: JFFS2 warning: jffs2_sum_write_sumnode: Not enough space for summary, padsize=-60

Activities Under Emulation

2009-03-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I am working on a presentation I will be doing about OLPC and Sugar at a huge educator's conference in Palm Springs next week. I realize I need some nitty-gritty type info about the current state of Sugar emulation on PCs and Macs. Can anyone fill me in on the latest, most

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 2 (0.83.6)

2009-03-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 23:08, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Simon Schampijer wrote: da...@lang.hm wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Simon Schampijer wrote: Dear Sugar Community, this is Release Candidate 2 for the upcoming 0.84 Release - see the [1] for more details. Only one more

rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread NoiseEHC
Hello! Just today I have noticed some things about the rotate button (which is below the directional buttons on the display part): 1. When the screen is rotated the mouse does not so if I turn the XO to be able to read letters, I cannot navigate with the mouse. 2. An Xvideo RGB overlay displays

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread pgf
while i can understand the frustration when something that seems simple and obvious doesn't work, starting wout with sucks probably isn't the best way to get people to listen to your issues. how do other people feel about this problem? are there any good reasons to _not_ make the touchpad

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread NoiseEHC
p...@laptop.org wrote: while i can understand the frustration when something that seems simple and obvious doesn't work, starting wout with sucks probably isn't the best way to get people to listen to your issues. From my experience, it is the most straightforward way to get some

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread NoiseEHC
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:06 +0100, NoiseEHC wrote: Hello! Just today I have noticed some things about the rotate button (which is below the directional buttons on the display part): 1. When the screen is rotated the mouse does not so if I turn the XO to be able to

Re: Opportunity for speedup

2009-03-01 Thread Bobby Powers
I've fixed a few issues, packaged up bootanim-2.3-1, and (finally) actually ran some benchmarks. Results (all times in seconds): fresh os801, from pressing the power button to appearance of sugar's prompt for name screen 80 79 78 with rhgb-client renamed so that init can't find it: 69 68 and

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless. That's just my opinion, of course. The touchpad isn't readily accessible in handheld mode, and was never made to be. I'll continue to suggest that the cursor simply be automatically hidden in handheld mode, and that a simple means for taking full

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread david
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless. That's just my opinion, of course. The touchpad isn't readily accessible in handheld mode, and was never made to be. I'll continue to suggest that the cursor simply be automatically hidden in handheld mode,

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread NoiseEHC
Eben Eliason wrote: This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless. That's just my opinion, of course. The touchpad isn't readily accessible in handheld mode, and was never made to be. I'll continue to suggest that the cursor simply be automatically hidden in handheld mode, and that a simple

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless.  That's just my opinion, of course. The touchpad isn't readily accessible in handheld mode, and was never made to be.  I'll continue to suggest that the

Re: Opportunity for speedup

2009-03-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:44, Bobby Powers wrote: I've fixed a few issues, packaged up bootanim-2.3-1, and (finally) actually ran some benchmarks. Results (all times in seconds): fresh os801, from pressing the power button to appearance of sugar's prompt for name screen 80 79 78 with

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread david
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless.  That's just my opinion, of course. The touchpad isn't readily accessible in handheld mode, and was never made to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:09:26AM -0800, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: My post was a request to the most knowledgeable person, Michael to do the service of taking the time to write a document that clearly lays out . the purpose (not in security speak but in terms of the benefits it brings to end

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:43 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM,  da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless.  That's just my opinion, of course. The touchpad isn't

8.2.1 WPA testing

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I've been working on trying to quantify the difference in WPA behavior between 8.2.0 and 8.2.1. My test setup involves attempting to connect to a WPA AP inside Sugar, performing suspend/resume, and trying again. A success involves Sugar reporting Connected, and a failure involves Sugar

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Frederick Grose
By opening the XO in its traditional laptop configuration and then holding it by the handle as if it were an opened book (twist 90 degrees), results in a portrait mode configuration that is more ergonomic for a standing user and perhaps more comfortable for casual use while sitting on a couch or

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:58 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:53 PM, NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu wrote: Eben Eliason wrote: This whole argument, I feel, is fruitless.  That's just my opinion, of course. The touchpad isn't readily

eBook controls (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:43 PM,  da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Eben Eliason wrote: second, you may want to use the keys for something else and not dedicate them to moving the mouse around. For example, next page,

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
NoiseEHC wrote: 2. An Xvideo RGB overlay displays the big nothing (black) while the screen is rotated. Indeed - XV is purposely turned off when the screen is rotated (or at least, not displayed): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode/tree/src/lx_video.c#n465 Jordan

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Jordan Crouse wrote: NoiseEHC wrote: 2. An Xvideo RGB overlay displays the big nothing (black) while the screen is rotated. Indeed - XV is purposely turned off when the screen is rotated (or at least, not displayed): The LX hardware supports rotated blits, right? So in principle,

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Jordan Crouse wrote: NoiseEHC wrote: 2. An Xvideo RGB overlay displays the big nothing (black) while the screen is rotated. Indeed - XV is purposely turned off when the screen is rotated (or at least, not displayed): The LX hardware supports rotated blits,

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

2009-03-01 Thread pgf
eben wrote: Start with the most basic, and build up. There's a limited set of buttons there; that's something to be dealt with. Video game consoles have done a pretty good job with similar limitations. At least in the 90s they did. These days they've caved in to many more buttons.

Re: Opportunity for speedup

2009-03-01 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:44:01PM -0500, Bobby Powers wrote: I can't seem to get ul-warning to come up properly, so if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be great. What actually goes wrong? Is ul-warning executed? -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org