2PM EDT Friday: BRIEF Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting)

2009-04-03 Thread Holt
Join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects today 2PM EDT (Boston Time) -- in 3.5hrs from now: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Which projects would you enjoy Mentoring? * Fast review of a couple of the latest (greatest!)

Re: XS Restore UI and account aliasing are ready for testing...

2009-04-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:  - Setup a XS 5.2 and grab my development version of moodle - instructions here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-March/003126.html There's a new series of patches with minor tidyups,

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Bauer
Did you properly configured ejabberd as explained in Gadget's README? You should have something like that: {5560, ejabberd_service, [ {ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}}, {access, all}, {host, gadget.jabber.sugarlabs.org, [{password, }]}]}, Your gadget.config should match these

Recompiling the firmware

2009-04-03 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello I couldn't find a lot of informations about firmware recompilation. From what I've read, I think I can get it from http://openbios.org/viewvc/?root=OpenFirmware But how do I recompile it, to get a new .rom file ready to by flashed ? (the same question appears on Firmware_hobby_hacking on

Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Here's a build of the F11 beta release for XO: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/ Instructions on flashing are at http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/. Enjoy, - Chris, with thanks to the SoaS and Fedora teams. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Chris, are there release notes somewhere? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, Here's a build of the F11 beta release for XO: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/ Instructions on flashing are

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Peter Robinson
The Fedora F11 beta announcement is here http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg02103.html Peter On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Chris, are there release notes somewhere? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Chris Ball

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
That is somewhat helpful, but I suppose I was hoping for the XO-specific parts. E.g. power management? Does all the hardware work (leaving aside the stylus area, of course)? Is sugar installed and if so what version? Does wifi definition work in the sugar gui? That stuff. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Peter Robinson
It is as far as I'm aware plain rawhide which means it will be sugar 0.84 with default Fedora power stuff using the new devicekit [1]. All the hardware should work as expected and if it doesn't please report it, either here or in the Fedora Bugzilla. Cheers, Peter [1]

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Carol, That is somewhat helpful, but I suppose I was hoping for the XO-specific parts. E.g. power management? This build is pure Fedora, so there are many XO-specific things that do not work, but the build is still quite generally usable, and contains Sugar 0.84. We're looking at

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread pgf
peter wrote: It is as far as I'm aware plain rawhide which means it will be sugar 0.84 with default Fedora power stuff using the new devicekit [1]. All the hardware should work as expected and if it doesn't please report it, either here or in the Fedora Bugzilla. i don't understand.

Re: [support-gang] 2PM EDT Friday: BRIEF Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting)

2009-04-03 Thread sandra . thaxter
Hi I would enjoy mentoring - 4 projects - I'll pick some and email them out I can't get onto the /join #olpc-meeting maybe it is because of my id - I'm using sandrat as the session nameSandra Thaxtersan...@thaxter.net1-617-320-1098Apr 3, 2009 02:35:24 PM, support-g...@lists.laptop.org wrote:

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Peter Robinson
  It is as far as I'm aware plain rawhide which means it will be sugar   0.84 with default Fedora power stuff using the new devicekit [1]. All   the hardware should work as expected and if it doesn't please report   it, either here or in the Fedora Bugzilla. i don't understand.  wasn't there

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread pgf
peter wrote:   It is as far as I'm aware plain rawhide which means it will be sugar   0.84 with default Fedora power stuff using the new devicekit [1]. All   the hardware should work as expected and if it doesn't please report   it, either here or in the Fedora Bugzilla. i don't

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Peter Robinson
  i don't understand.  wasn't there just a thread yesterday or the   day before about how there are major XO-specific pieces (e.g.   suspend/resume, the dcon driver) missing from the fedora kernel?   what do you mean by hardware should work as expected?     Yes. This isn't a joyride

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:58:22PM -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: right. joyride or not, it's simply not the case that hardware should work as expected. :-) Actually, the hardware should work as expected, but the software might not. ;-) -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
joyride or not, it's simply not the case that hardware should work as expected. :-) Actually, the hardware should work as expected, but the software might not. ;-) I'm running ~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/20090403.img on my XO. [I don't know it that was built with the correct repositories

Testing summary - Saturday 4 April 2009

2009-04-03 Thread Tabitha Roder
Hello Found it hard to find the emails of the developers to let them know we have tested their activities... can they put their contacts on their activities page please? Who was there - Uli and the girls, Grant, Callum, Brenda, Tabitha Bridge-2 Trains crashing into each other rolling over each

Re: Testing summary - Saturday 4 April 2009

2009-04-03 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/3 Tabitha Roder tabi...@hrdnz.com: Bridge-2 Trains crashing into each other rolling over each other and the tangle of train parts made it hard to play... is there a way that you can restrict next train to not come until a certain time length has gone by? or a clear debris option for

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade to 5.2

2009-04-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi David, - yes you can upgrade from 0.5 to 0.5.x with _yum_ (which is fairly close to apt-get). - if you are on 0.4 -- yum might work but the download will be huge and the results uncertain. Download the iso, burn it to a CD and run the installation from CD, it has an upgrade option that works

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: If you are running 0.5.2, you should have ejabberd-xs-2.0.3-2.fc9.olpc.i386 . The problem is that the ejabberd-xs package should say it 'provides:ejabberd' but it doesn't. That's a bug on my side. Which is now

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Bauer
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: If you are running 0.5.2, you should have ejabberd-xs-2.0.3-2.fc9.olpc.i386 . The problem is that the ejabberd-xs package

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Bauer
Error On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: If you are running 0.5.2, you should have

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Guillaume Desmottes guillaume.desmot...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Le mardi 31 mars 2009 à 13:45 -0400, Dave Bauer a écrit : Hi, I am trying to get gadget working on my XS at schoolserver.solutiongrove.com First I downloaded the source and built it, but I

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-03 Thread Dave Bauer
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Guillaume Desmottes guillaume.desmot...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 09:41 -0400, Dave Bauer a écrit : On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Guillaume Desmottes guillaume.desmot...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Le mardi 31 mars 2009 à