Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com wrote: I run WPAD here with Mozilla, and it works well.  It will generally be through DNS since that's the more reliable way of finding it, but it does require the browser to make a check for it. Looks like we need some

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANN: rainbow-0.8.5 release.

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Bringing these very useful notes back to the list. Below, Michael outlines steps-to-integrate... On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Michael Stone michael.r.st...@gmail.com wrote: If there was someone interested in re-integrating rainbow into the stack, beyond the obvious of packaging the latest

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: hi martin -- sorry for the delay.  the Weekend of Big Meals got in the way.  :-) I hope it was a good time over there. Get some padding to keep warm through the winter :-) Hard to keep track of the holidays across various

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-30 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Christoph, Hi, The power-management kicks in as expected however to wake the XO up again you actually have to press the power-button, hitting a key or moving the cursor doesn't wake it up (as it does on the

Re: Re: Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: Is it possible to make a small and low risk JPEG-patch for abiword 2.6.4 so it could be included in release 8.2.2? Hubert, Phillip, Small update: libabiword for 8.2.2 will be 2.6.5 (to include some Nepali script

Re: Importing images in Write documents makes file huge

2009-11-30 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 30.11.2009, at 12:00, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net wrote: Is it possible to make a small and low risk JPEG-patch for abiword 2.6.4 so it could be included in release 8.2.2? Hubert, Phillip, Small update: libabiword

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:52, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com wrote: I run WPAD here with Mozilla, and it works well.  It will generally be through DNS since that's the more reliable way of finding it, but

About 8.2.2

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: What's the 8.2.2 schedule? What is changing? Very succintly: - It won't be signed by OLPC. You have to be on an unlocked XO, or be a deployment signing your own builds. - Improvements in antitheft and tools

Re: About 8.2.2

2009-11-30 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 30.11.2009, at 12:30, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: What's the 8.2.2 schedule? What is changing? Very succintly: - It won't be signed by OLPC. You have to be on an unlocked XO, or be a deployment signing your

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:17:19AM +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: - tweak some of Browse's configuration ( ~/.sugar/default/org.laptop.WebActivity/data/gecko/prefs.js ), Can we make Browse read some global configuration (e.g. /etc/sugar/browserc, slightly similar to /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc) as

Re: About 8.2.2

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: So a deployment could customize the image-builder script to include a newer RPM, e.g. if they wanted a more recent version of Etoys. Bingo. It actually supports an rpms dir. Drop something there and go. And I am

Re: About 8.2.2

2009-11-30 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: So a deployment could customize the image-builder script to include a newer RPM, e.g. if they wanted a more recent version of Etoys.

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: daniel recently pointed out to me that we could build in the synaptics protocol, but explicitly not choose it (i.e., override auto-detection) by using a module parameter. this would let

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-30 Thread John Watlington
On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, You can also disable it using My Settings - Power - Automatic power management. (Cool, I didn't think that would work yet! But it does.) I also confirm that it

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:07 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Try running powertop (yum install powertop), to see what amount of time We do have some powertop strangeness at play - http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9630 The C-7M is a strange beast, in that it already runs at minimum

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-30 Thread Tiago Marques
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:07 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   You can also disable it using My Settings - Power - Automatic   power management. (Cool, I

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-30 Thread Tiago Marques
By the way, powertop was indeed showing it spending almost all cpu time in C4. Best regards On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:07 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: On

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 47

2009-11-30 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Christoph, The power-management kicks in as expected however to wake the XO up again you actually have to press the power-button, hitting a key or moving the cursor doesn't wake it up (as it does on the XO-1).

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 48

2009-11-30 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os48 Compressed image size: 411.28mb (+0.85mb since build 47) Description of changes in this build: * fix Implode keep error on quit (#9736) * OHM

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 48

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Christoph, As mentioned on the other thread waking up on keyboard and touchpad input now seems to work just fine. However now pressing the power button only seems to turn off the screen without actually going into suspend because after about 5 seconds the screen comes on

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 45, Issue 53

2009-11-30 Thread Reuben K. Caron
How about suggestions for programs on the Gnome side? On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:57 PM, devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:05:53 -0500 From: Chris Ball c...@laptop.org Subject: Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5 To: devel@lists.laptop.org Cc:

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 45, Issue 53

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, [Added ericb to CC; Eric, we're talking about which applications to include by default on our OLPC XO-1.5 software release.] How about suggestions for programs on the Gnome side? That's a good idea, thanks. I haven't decided what to do about OpenOffice yet -- at the moment we don't

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 48

2009-11-30 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi again, On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Another observation is that the dimming of the screen kicks in after about 20sec of inactivity but it takes another 5sec before suspend really happens. I for one find these timings slightly confusing and

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 48

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, The advantages in terms of energy use must surely be tiny given that we're talking about 5sec of reducing consumption by maybe 0.5W. On the other hand turning off the backlight completely after a certain amount of time as a first measure to reduce power consumption

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 48

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Fox
chris wrote: Hi, The advantages in terms of energy use must surely be tiny given that we're talking about 5sec of reducing consumption by maybe 0.5W. On the other hand turning off the backlight completely after a certain amount of time as a first measure to reduce

Re: [Server-devel] Transparent proxy

2009-11-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/11/28 Henry Vélez Molina henry.lap...@gmail.com:  We want to prevent strangers in our network. Ok. Then we need something else I think. The proxy stuff won't help there. Short term options: A - Use WPA with PSK. You can add the password by hand on each XO, or add (again by hand) a

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:52, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Andrew McMillan and...@morphoss.com wrote: I run WPAD here with Mozilla, and it works well.  It will generally be through DNS since that's the more reliable way of finding it, but

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:35:17PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: IIRC, Pia had found that if she got dhcpd to serve the PAC file URL (in WPAD-style), then the browser on the XO would DTRT. Now, I cannot recall if she was using Browse.xo or one of the Firefox-on-Sugar incarnations. Interesting,

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: - The DHCP payload must contain a url to the PAC file - this is the WPAD protocol, and what Pia was playing with. Sure, but for that the browser must send a DHCP request, which it doesn't seem to do. Or does Fedora contain any

Re: [Server-devel] Proxy auto-configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:47:17PM +, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: OK, so it should work with Iceweasel. Either it got disabled (upstream? Debian?) or there was some kind of configuration (dhclient? Firefox?) to enable it... From these links, looks like Mozilla uses WPAD through DNS (and not

Re: [Server-devel] Fresh install of XS 0.6 -- Moodle is disabled at the moment.

2009-11-30 Thread Ben T
Hi Martin, Thanks for checking in .. I took a break from this for a few days .. Will give it another attempt sometime tomorrow and update. -Ben On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Martin Langhoff