Re: screen dims and brightens

Hi, > Though it would be nicer to me if OHM could keep the back light > level if not suspending to avoid this problem. This is the case in recent Joyride builds. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailin

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

If woken up by the timer, turn off the screen and suspend; at other times, if the screen is off when we wake up, turn it on. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-02-09)

ility of having this (or something similar) working makes it worth investigating even solutions that make the mesh slower to respond. (But my job is to get our battery to last longer, so of course I'm going to say that. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: screen dims and brightens

Hi, >> > Though it would be nicer to me if OHM could keep the back light >> > level if not suspending to avoid this problem. Thanks to Andrew and Mikus for noticing this happening with inhibited suspend, the fix is in a new OHM that'll be in the next Joyride build.

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

Hi, >> Only Pippy actually crashes - it fails to launch completely. > Logged #6475 for Pippy, with a minimal patch attached. Applied, thanks. I've pushed a Pippy-19.xo release to Joyride. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: Shell account

It's fine that you didn't know that, 'cause I only just decided it. I'll update the wiki.) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Standalone mesh deployment ideas.

mments/more ideas to add to the list? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

nicast traffic instead? What is it in Avahi's code path that causes its peer list to be emptied on resume? If we have to disable OHM to test something in particular, that's okay, but we won't be testing what we plan on shipping if we do so. Thanks, - Chri

Re: Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

, except the mesh circles. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Mesh testing on Monday.

eters to tweak? Path request timeout, for example. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: show me the code

rce too (and opens *itself* in Pippy, where you can make modifications to it and build a new Pippy bundle from them). - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Today's mesh testing.

er is now at 28%. (In general, wireless networks seem to start degrading around 40%.) - Chris and Daf. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Read ETexts Activity is set up

Hi, >> Project name : Read ETexts Activity > Done. Your tree is here: > git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/read We already ship an activity called Read with the XO -- could we call the repository for this one something like "etexts" to avoid confusion? -

Re: How can I prevent 'suspend' ?

Hi Mikus, > How do I prevent 'Read' (or whatever) from letting my XO 'suspend'? touch /etc/inhibit-ebook-sleep - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Physics with Python and Pygame (Chipmunk 2D Physics Engine)

Hi, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pymunx Wow, how awesome! Do you have an XO to test on? Have you thought about releasing a standalone .xo, or throwing these into Pippy? What are the dependencies and disk usage like for the underlying chipmunk library? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris B

Re: Physics with Python and Pygame (Chipmunk 2D Physics Engine)

unx (pippy/library) into Pippy, and most of them worked. Some of them depend on pyglet, I think. Let me know if you'd like to go ahead and roll these up into Pippy -- maybe we could pick three or so of the examples for it? Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris B

Re: A proposal to give some DICTIONARY pre-installed on the XOs that will be delivered to Peruvian Kids

terested to hear your feedback on the activity, and if you have any suggestions on which dictionaries are best to use. I'm using this one for Spanish at the moment: http://www.june29.com/IDP/files/Spanish.txt Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: New update.1 build 699

Hi, > -Web 86 I think we need to leave Web in, to bootstrap installing other activities via the network. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New update.1 build 699

Hi, > what does inhibit-idle-suspend do? It allows you to disable automatic idle suspend while keeping enabled the explicit suspend on power button press or lid close. Previously, there was only the inhibit-suspend file that inhibits both of the above. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <

Re: New update.1 build 702

ru, Mexico or G1G1 customization key. I'll prepare a zip file of a customization key with the G1G1 activities on tomorrow, we can see if there are any version discrepencies between our bundles, and I'll release a G1G1 customization key and the script tomorrow. Sound okay? Thanks, - Chr

Update.1 testing with activity packs.

icularly awesome. (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/1_Hour_Smoke_Test) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Update.1 testing with activity packs.

Hi, > # olpc-update update.1-702 Gary C Martin mailed me off-list to point out that this will need to be "/usr/sbin/olpc-update update.1-702" unless you're logged in as root directly, or have root's environment through "sudo su -". - Chris. -

Re: ACPI/APM

e easiest way is to download the latest Joyride build and test the automatic power management there. There are also some related wiki pages: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Power_Management http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OHM_power_management http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Suspend_and_resume - Chris. -- C

Joyride is reopened for development.

7;t mean that Update.1 is finished -- it's still very important that we keep on top of the remaining testing and bugs in that stream. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Joyride is reopened for development.

for XO development, and including plenty of activities will help to get those activities tested. If you have an activity that works and is ready for testing by the community at large, feel free to push it into Joyride. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 14:00pm EDT)

Hi, We'll be meeting in #olpc-meeting on Freenode in fifteen minutes from now. Agenda: * State of update.1. Report available at: http://dev.laptop.org/report/16?TIME=40 - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel m

Re: [Testing] Automated testing, OLPC, code+screencasts.

gnarly dependencies (bonobo, corba..) but there wouldn't be a need to put them in every build, just builds that we want to run a test harness against. Thanks, - Chris. ¹: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ ²: http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/ -- Chris

Re: [Testing] [sugar] Testing Update.1-702

created by running "olpc-netlog" to #6739, and I'll take a look. I don't know whether this is a regression -- the current theory in the bug is that we're simply not receiving packets from the network. I'll be testing that theory b

Mini-conference Proposal: State of Power Management.

le, having each subsystem able to manage requests for devices that haven't woken up yet -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

op.org/go/G1G1_Activity_Pack .. or you can use Bert's script: wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py python update-activities.py - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@l

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

ong period of time) a view of how much power each activity uses as well. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Battery life estimation considered impossible?

Hi, > I *think* Richard mentioned that he planned to move the > gnome-power-manager logic to OHM at some point. Sounds good. There haven't been any upstream commits to OHM in over six months, though, so I think we'd have to do this ourselves. - Chris. -- Chris Ball &

Re: fun and games with trying to un-suspend

think the only option is to inhibit suspends altogether when an SD card is inserted. I've just filed #6893 to track doing that for the next release. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.l

Re: Internet wide chat

rt for Salut, but not for Gabble, so video chat would be on the local mesh only. It would be worth someone checking out the Theora team's latest optimizations, which might make Theora solve the codec problem. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[E

Re: Document sharing issues

e is that, even though it's groveling inside the downloader internals, it won't require introducing a new API dependency between activities and sugar. Sugar gang, any thoughts? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing

Re: New joyride build 1889

dora kernel instead of our OLPC kernel. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Internet wide chat

27;re designing from scratch to avoid exposing IP addresses to our users. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Joyride

many sugar changes in 1894. I think 1892 is a decent bet. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Joyride

could launch Write, and that Write opened its root window, on 1894 and 1895, and it hasn't run against 1896 yet. So, we can suspect that it's either in 1896 only or local to your build. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ D

Re: Internet wide chat

Hi Guillaume, > FYI, I did some packaging work and resurrected the video-chat > activity. I was able to videocall my 2 XO's and to call one XO > using Empathy from my desktop. You rock! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: (unknown)

ugar. I think there is a more friendly way involving the control panel, too. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Signed build for Italy

Sugar uses gettext for the activity name, we can translate it to whatever they'd like. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: olpc build environment

-2.6.[0-9][0-9]/Makefile' * The debuginfo packaging failed. Adding: %define _enable_debug_packages 0 to the top of the specfile disables that part of the build, and produced a working kernel package. Hope that helps. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: New joyride build 1918

the file when done. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Record app in joyride 1927 has problems

what's up? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: An OLPC Development Model

#x27;t have an activity that updates and installs activities yet. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

New ssh key fingerprint for dev.laptop.org.

org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

SSH DSA logins on crank.

EMAIL PROTECTED] if you were using a DSA key that you now need to replace. - Chris. ¹: http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2008-05-14-17-21_some_maths.html -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.o

Re: Priorities for Develop?

scott/icon-draw-activity;a=summary - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

e RSA patents have expired.) > By the way, will remaining and new RSA keys be tested for bad > randomness? Yes. We have the openssh-blacklist package installed, which contains keyhashes of all possible weak keys and disallows logins using them. - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: XO-2

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/presentations/Closing05/mgp00021.html - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-2 software plans

s that deployment > happened before development. This isn't true at all. I got my first hardware, as a non-employee with no relationship to the project, in May 2006. We'd sent hundreds of laptops out via the public developer program by the time G1G1 happened. - Chris. --

Re: XO-2 software plans

tech.com/article2/0,1697,1039254,00.asp ²: http://www.fingerworks.com/downloads.html -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announce: Spanish Wikipedia snapshot activity.

n iPhone" project that was the basis for ours. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

cket/7125. What do people think of the straw man in that ticket? Should we implement it? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.

r's USB > stick. I agree that we could look for large activities to delete in preference to large user-generated files. I'm trying to keep this somewhat simple because we're doing it before Sugar has even launched. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Wikipedia activity - unstoppable... bug?

y, X crashing, or so on. The thread-based solution should be more robust, now that it works; we can guarantee the child thread will die when the parent does. - Chris. ¹: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/wikiserver;a=commitdiff;h=50c23b4fc0e85d27b654d9b7f64932b3dab44225 ²: http://dev.laptop.org/~

Synaptics multitouch.

Hi, This article's very interesting: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-touchpad/ Looks like Synaptics touchpads can detect (up to three?) fingers independently. This would allow us to start prototyping multitouch software using normal laptops. - Chris. -- Chris Ball &l

Re: Synaptics multitouch.

ou can specify gestures that only fire when the required number of fingers are down -- but there's only one set of x/y coordinates coming from the touchpad rather than one set per finger. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

List of Peru activities

Speak Memorize Implode JigsawPuzzle SliderPuzzle chesscomputerActivity sudokuActivity tangramActivity Connect Maze TamTamJam TamTamEdit TamTamSynthLab NewsReader Terminal Analyze LogViewer Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: TCP is broken in mesh mode

ch would mean it's a kernel/firmware issue. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Build streams; preparing for 8.2 release.

Anyone familiar with Debian's build naming will see intentional similarities here. Apologies in advance for any misunderstandings or omissions from the discussion that crept in to this mail -- don't take this summary as ratified until this thread stops getting new replies. :) Thanks! - C

Re: Build streams; preparing for 8.2 release.

ining three build names, and (our own) processes for moving packages between them. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Build streams; preparing for 8.2 release.

ora process for all of > fedora's users derivatives. I don't know of a "Fedora way" (or a "Debian way") for creating a separate build stream for testing at a slower rate than Rawhide; let me know if there is. It sounds like you're chiefly upset that we'r

Re: Release Status Report - 8.2.0

suspend when an SD card is plugged in. * pushing wakeup decisions to the EC (#6010) -- this will make the wakeup logic more reliable. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Build streams

is unsupported as of approximately today, which makes it a non-starter for future releases. The F9 build does boot into Sugar -- we aren't going to leave everyone with a broken build for long. It has bugs, though. We need help fixing the bugs more than we need a demand for constantly stable

Re: Release Status Report - 8.2.0

/5703 That's not the main reason for doing it, though; we've always planned on having the wakeup decision made by the EC, but didn't have the ability to set the wakeup mask until recently. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH #3355] Add sysfs support for powering down the OLPC 88W8838 wireless chip.

This uses the OLPC EC 0x35/0x25 interface. Question: is simple_strtoul() safe here? Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/kernel/olpc-pm.c | 19 +++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc-pm.c b/ar

Re: [PATCH #6010] Add sysfs interface to enable/disable wakeup events

hoping for a lid-switch attribute as well -- Richard and Jordan, does that route through the Southbridge, or should it be listed here? (If it should be, where in the SCI mask is it?) Similarly, I'm guessing there's no way for the EC to inhibit power button press wakeups? Thanks! - Chri

Re: [PATCH #3355] Add sysfs support for powering down the OLPC 88W8838 wireless chip.

e-only bit. > My preffered option is to make it r/w, call it wlan_enabled and > than we could check the state via the file too by storing the > current setting. All applied in the replacement patch below. Thanks! - Chris. From: Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri,

Re: Trac: release management

omeone's willing to volunteer to do the install, I don't see a reason not to go for it. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: custom kernel problem

Hi Scott, > Unfortunately, after I boot up the custom kernel, the X server > fails to start because /home is mounted read-only. It's a bug in the "master" series kernel RPMs (or rather, in the initrd that accompanies them). It's being worked on. Thanks, - Chris

Re: Parallel desktops

oceed on with our regularly-scheduled world-saving. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Testing power management on Fedora 9.

also allow suspend/resume with either swap or the root fs on SD. Please give it a try! Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2 Kernel status update

#x27;t solve the main user problem, which is that Sugar refuses to boot if the filesystem is full, because it can't write its logfiles. Having 4M reserved for root won't change that, since Sugar runs as olpc. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release & Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM EDT, #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

; on an Ubuntu laptop. The server will be at pullcord.laptop.org. I'll help folks at 1cc to get logged in before the meeting tomorrow, to avoid distractions. If you're unable to use Gobby, we'll keep IRC open for you. Thanks, - Chris. ¹: ht

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release & Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM EDT, #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

e, Greg, Kim and Jim will do so together here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.2.0_Software_Release_Notes Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Colour blindness

ge as if it were being seen by a colorblind person: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=;l=9;j=1;u=flickr.com/photos/lesliewong/2127314893/sizes/o;t=p - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: joyride 2128 smoketest

ernal things have bitten us though. gtksourceview API > change prevents Pippy-20 from launching (that's the version > installed by Bert's script, even today) > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3488 And an Sugar API change caused Pippy to stop being able to build activities:

Re: Reminder: Tuesday Release & Wednesday Software Meetings -- 2:00 PM EDT, #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org

. #7353 : F-9 bloat \- needs help. Lots of Fedora people are paying attention to this right now so we should try to make use of their talents. Activity updates: \- cscott has an activity updater activity. \- marco has a Help activity that needs an icon and content. - C

Re: low power actions?

ink the Sugar side is done; I just need a way to trigger the state saving from OHM when power is low. I've added the request to #6014. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: low power actions?

Hi, > What would it take to put in a journaling filesystem? The "j" in "jffs2" stands for "journalling". - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: LZO support

ing the logistical cost of LZO support in OFW or partitions. Saving a movie would be faster still than LZO if we could just tell jffs2 that we're giving it compressed data that it shouldn't recompress. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

Re: LZO support

ess to zip the file with gzip :P. Deepak suggests (in #2886) using something like an O_NOCOMPRESSION flag to open(2), which sounds fine to me. We'd either pass it to Python's open() (how?) or set it immediately after open with fcntl(, F_SETFL, ). - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: LZO support

fs2.img -rw-r--r-- 1 cjb cjb 264M 2008-07-14 01:57 joyride-2158.ext3.img.bz2 - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Faster Launch of Activities

s planning on doing this measurement myself, but it's not getting to the top of my stack. Could I persuade someone else to volunteer? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Faster Launch of Activities

ng -- the dbus signals that I monitor are exposed at different points in launch depending on which activity launch scheme you're using. I think a stopwatch is the best idea for now. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel

Re: planet.l.o

ategory-specific feed. Thanks! Any other takers, please mail me personally with an OLPC feed URL. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Programming environments on the XO

ding a Write buffer into Pippy, once it has syntax highlighting. Another useful feature would be for Write to have unique background colors for collaborators, as Gobby does. I wonder if that would be a small enough task for someone to take on. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: Abiword 2.6.4 on Ubuntu

> (The correct name on Ubuntu is libglib2.0-0) It's talking about pkgconfig packages, not Ubuntu ones. > Then make says: make won't work until configure has run successfully. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

For review: NAND out of space patch.

ee space, delete datastore objects # until it does. This doesn't modify the datastore's index. # Author: Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> import os, sys, statvfs, subprocess THRESHOLD = 1024 * 50 # 50MB PATH = "/home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store/*-*"

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

full, I don't know how I can search the datastore in that way. We don't have the full query interface available from the initrd. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

the space, before deciding the algorithm. > Deleting large rarely used system files will not solve this > problem. The space will just get used up again until there are no > more large rarely used files left. It can buy us a week or two but > wont solve the problem longer ter

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

t messages, so these users won't see anything different at all. If they did see text messages during boot, they would see: Not enough disk space. Deleting /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store/XXX-XXX (repeated if necessary) .. scroll past on the Linux console. -

Re: NAND Full Requirement

und-level, not the correct "Sugar always launches and never runs out of space or deletes user data" fix, which is still an unknown amount of research away from reality. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Deve

Re: NAND Full Requirement

ren't* few of them or we can't fix them, we should instead use a non-Sugar GUI for performing the deletion. * To repeat, the above "full fix" would live in the 8.2 branch, and not be backported to 656 as part of this solution. - Chris. -

Re: For review: NAND out of space patch.

d should probably also look for extremely large activities to delete, but it's not sufficient by itself -- it will only help for one reboot or so. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Definition of "Stable Enough To Release" for 8.2.0

y. (And then Perl another couple of times, for good luck.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: forking PAM to remove cracklib dependency

nk you can get it upstream, too? In cases like these, I wonder whether just patching Pilgrim to remove the cracklib file after installation is a good idea -- it lets us avoid the package fork. Getting the patch accepted upstream would be best of all, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: New faster build 2242

Hi, > I've unretired the faster branch temporarily to collect some > measurements on the costs of adding xfce to our builds. Could we see what the cost is to go to a full GNOME/nautilus, too? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[E

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   >