Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55:54PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: i'm a little confused. i know i reported that filesystem resize was quite fast now, but then james reported that a resize took a really long time still, and i haven't retested. if a resize takes a really long time, then i don't think

New boot animation for 12.1.0

2012-03-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've just pushed everything needed for a new boot animation for 12.1.0, it will arrive in the next build. The old olpc-bootanim system was barely working in F17, mostly due to the move to systemd. As the init sequence is no longer linear (it includes a lot of parallelization) it would be

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi James, On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:58 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Consensus is to implement a partition resize in OpenFirmware as the last step of ''fs-update''.  This doesn't preclude the initramfs doing it, and the initramfs will do the filesystem resize. In OpenFirmware, we

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I think I see a potential problem here. The problem is that during upgrades, we run fs-update before upgrading firmware, and a firmware upgrade is necessary for this new functionality. (...) Maybe I have just made a good

mmp-camera DMA crash fix

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Jon, Saadia, all in my initial testing, this seems to be working _much_ better. - I don't get garbled audio - I don't get crashes - dmesg shows lots of cma dma_alloc_from_contiguous() and vb2_common_vm_{open,close} spam - the captured picture is always greenish, with the top band in a

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 02:30:22PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: Maybe I have just made a good argument as to why this needs to be done in the initramfs: to avoid tricky upgrade considerations. Yes, you must do it in initramfs for that reason. However the initramfs implementation is not yet

Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-03-19 Thread David Leeming
I have tried to install media codecs on an XO-1 running 11.3.0 so that we can play FLV video files directly (from a flashdrive, school server or network location)., in either Sugar or GNOME. (I have not been able to find a way to do that using Sugar). I had trouble getting it work using the

Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-03-19 Thread David Leeming
I have tried to install media codecs on an XO-1 running 11.3.0 so that we can play FLV video files directly (from a flashdrive, school server or network location)., in either Sugar or GNOME. I had trouble getting it work using the instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GStreamer#Totem_plugin

Re: New boot animation for 12.1.0

2012-03-19 Thread Hal Murray
If the indication can track fraction_completed - so much the better - but I do not expect the user to leave the room if the boot process takes longer than he expects. Seeing only 25% to go is frosting; the chocolate_cake is knowing no problems thus far. Watching the number of files in

Re: New boot animation for 12.1.0

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I've just pushed everything needed for a new boot animation for 12.1.0, it will arrive in the next build. Yay! Eager to see it! The new animation is based on plymouth, Good to hear Plymouth is a bit better than it used to

Re: Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: 1. Is the above the right way to do it, if someone with more Fedora experience than I can verify.. That's exactly how I'd do it. 2. In our narrowband countries it takes an hour and downloads a lot per laptop,

Sugar 0.94.1

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Leonard
So Sugar 0.94 is changing to 0.94.1 http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit/mainline/commit/9010760a107e7661e75bec91f4d13da85d384052 ### Checking POT for Sugar Toolkit (0.94) ## From git.sugarlabs.org:sugar-toolkit/mainline bab9c63..9010760 sucrose-0.94 - origin/sucrose-0.94 * [new

Re: How to run sugar on ArchLinux

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:21:17PM +0800, lite li wrote: Hi, After I install sugar-unstable on ArchLinux by: yaourt sugar-unstable But I don't know how to run sugar on ArchLinux. Usually one of two methods: 1. run sugar-emulator, or 2. Log out of your desktop, then on the login