Re: GPS on XO

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> I can't figure out how to get 45F9-9E44 out of that. Maybe it's a hash of a > long string. I have *not* explored all the ins and outs of removable device identification. I have, however, cussed at them long enough to develop some "rules of thumb": - The '45F9-9E44' is an 'UUID' (you migh

move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I thought now that we're getting closer to the Fedora 11 freeze it would be a good time for everyone to where they're at as we move towards F-11/9.1.0/olpc-next. I've been keeping the wiki page up to date as I go along and filling in more details as I find out about them. The fixed list i

Re: Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the One more interesting link - some benchmarking shows radical differences betwen fast paths vs slow and meandering paths on firefox (and comparison w other browsers). http://b

Re: Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
> Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the > support for HTML5's Canvas present in Browse.xo. A very quick test > felt fairly slow, but Alex and his colleagues are interested in > studying, profiling and working towards a solution. > > So here's some notes I've collected f

Re: [Server-devel] soas2-20090403 testing

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
You are posting to server-devel,so I assume you've got a XS configured somewhere. - On the laptops - are they associated to the right AP? - did they get a dhcp lease that comes from the XS? - are they using telepathy-gabble or telepathy-salut (olpc-netstatus or its moral equivalent on

Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the support for HTML5's Canvas present in Browse.xo. A very quick test felt fairly slow, but Alex and his colleagues are interested in studying, profiling and working towards a solution. So here's some notes I've collected for them --

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> I thought now that we're getting closer to the Fedora 11 freeze it > would be a good time for everyone to where they're at as we move > towards F-11/9.1.0/olpc-next. My biggest current question is: When on my XO I enter 'yum check-update' (using either the latest SoaS2 .iso or the latest ~

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
>  My biggest current question is:  When on my XO I enter 'yum check-update' > (using either the latest SoaS2 .iso or the latest ~cjb/rawhide-xo .img), it > tells me that there are more than 220 packages at the rawhide repositories > that are at a more recent version level than those provided by th

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
>> >  Why don't the SoaS/~cjb distributions contain the latest rawhide packages >> > ? >> >> Because rawhide is a daily moving development target. > > Aren't you both right?  The builds contain the latest rawhide packages > as of the image creation date, right?  Thus if it's no longer the > instan

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, p...@laptop.org wrote: > as mikus said, his applications all worked before. this is a > regression, plain an simple, *with respect to the previous XO releases*. > now, to the extent that fedora doesn't really care about any specific > piece of hardware, especially one whic

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
>  > >  II. - What for me is an inhibitor is the bugzilla section "tell us how > to >  > > reproduce the problem".  I have no desire whatsoever to try to describe > how >  > > to obtain the Fluendo mp3 codec for an XO, nor how to follow its >  > > instructions for seeing if it works.  I have even

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread pgf
peter wrote: > >  II. - What for me is an inhibitor is the bugzilla section "tell us how to > > reproduce the problem".  I have no desire whatsoever to try to describe how > > to obtain the Fluendo mp3 codec for an XO, nor how to follow its > > instructions for seeing if it works.  I have even

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
>> If we are talking about 9.1.0, it would be nice if 'sound' and >> 'moving pictures' worked in F-11 on the XO. Currently they don't. > > Are there bugzilla reports for these? I. - I haven't figured out how to do an exhaustive search on bugzilla. 'OLPC' picks up some; 'XO' picks up some;

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
>> Are there bugzilla reports for these? > >  I. - I haven't figured out how to do an exhaustive search on bugzilla. >  'OLPC' picks up some; 'XO' picks up some; '461806' picks up some.  But let > me emphasize once again - bugzilla appears to be aimed at the problems of > developers (and isn't opti

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread pgf
peter, and greg -- greg wrote: > Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are > required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and > develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward. But it's > never easy. > > It is my hope th

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, p...@laptop.org wrote: > peter, and greg -- > > greg wrote: > > Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are > > required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and > > develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread John Gilmore
> The main and probably most major issues outstanding are the > kernel/boot process - so > kernel/initscripts/olpcrd/initscripts/upstart/rainbow collection of > stuff of which I have no real idea about. Updates? It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to get maintainer

[Server-devel] jabber.sugarlabs.org is working

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Bauer
I got jabber.sugarlabs.org alias for schoolserver.solutiongrove.com working! I had to assign the hostname in the ejabberd-xs.cfg and add the shared roster group in the web UI for the virtual host for jabber.sugarlabs.org. Thanks everyone who helped out! Dave -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread pgf
john wrote: > It looks like perhaps the kernel changes have slipped right through > the F11 schedule. Is it seriously likely that the F11 kernel for the record, this was a conscious decision. everyone knew there wouldn't be time to get XO-specific changes upstream, and back to fedora, before F

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Ball
Hi John, > It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to > get maintainers of half a dozen packages to adopt patches that let > them deal with Rainbow. Yes, we aren't using rainbow in the F11 builds. > Some of the initscript changes related to the bizarre idea o

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Paul, >  > Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are >  > required to fight through the problems.  If the community cares enough and >  > develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward.  But it's >  > never easy. >  > >  > It is my hope that people continu

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, >   > It's pretty trivial to disable Rainbow, whereas it's not trivial to >   > get maintainers of half a dozen packages to adopt patches that let >   > them deal with Rainbow. > > Yes, we aren't using rainbow in the F11 builds. > >   > Some of the initscript changes related to the bizar

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > So is that trying to get them into 2.6.30? Yes, that would be ideal. - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [support-gang] Education Humor! Get a new perspective...

2009-04-07 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
ROFL!! Kids' Ideas About Love Kids, aged 5 to 10, were asked questions about what they thought of love and marriage. Here's what they said. Love and Marriage: * "If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long." -- Glenn, age 7 * "Love is lik

Education Humor! Get a new perspective...

2009-04-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi, Some of you who are working on this wonderful education project may never have experienced the joy of actually being in a classroom...as a teacher. This was sent to me by a retired teacher friend. I have no doubt that somewhere, at some time every one of these things happened...perhaps mo

Re: Random notes on making Gecko's canvas go fast on XO...

2009-04-07 Thread Mihai Sucan
Le Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:15:36 +0300, Martin Langhoff a écrit: > Over the last few weeks there's been growing interest in using the > support for HTML5's Canvas present in Browse.xo. A very quick test > felt fairly slow, but Alex and his colleagues are interested in > studying, profiling and workin

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Kevin Sonney
Given everything discussed so far, is it worth considering an F11-OLPC branch, with the intent of merging with F12? -- Kevin Sonney -- ke...@sonney.com “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity ke

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:17:09PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >  Why don't the SoaS/~cjb distributions contain the latest rawhide packages ? > > Because rawhide is a daily moving development target. Aren't you both right? The builds contain the latest rawhide packages as of the image creatio

Occasional stuck keys on devanagari keyboard

2009-04-07 Thread Bryan Berry
I have about 40 XO's out of 2000 so far that occasionally show "stuck keys" in the corners of the keyboard, particularly the frame, fn, and right arrow key. The keys seem to stick occasionally but not consistently. For instance, w/ 5 XO's yesterday the keys were stuck on the first boot. On the seco