ctrl:nocaps for qemu emulation

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Fox
a borrowed XO, i suspect i'll be attaching one fairly often.) thanks, paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 37.4 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Fox
nwrt is running and working on the OLPC laptop itself. (perhaps this is old news here.) paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 36.1 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: How can I prevent 'suspend' ?

2008-03-06 Thread Paul Fox
appeared as eth1. how/why is eth0 going away completely? and if that's not preventable, could ifrename help? i'm just thinking that allowing suspend to be graceful might be preferable to disallowing it at all. (but forgive me if you've already discarded these options.) paul =---

Re: Update.1

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Fox
ved manually from /usr/share to /home before the upgrade? i.e., assuming the activity was properly written, will any of the meta-info surrounding its installation or operation contain location-specific references? paul =--------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where

security and passwd ordering

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Fox
ce at first. "shutdown" (from the "XO Guy" menu) doesn't work if my 'pgf' line comes first, for instance -- but i didn't notice that because i so often ssh in, and use "shutdown -h now" from the command prompt. =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 37.2 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: State of Update.1, March 24, 2008

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Fox
ably it would be _one_ manual process, and not one process per activity). of course, this all assumes that the added burden of supporting the G1G1 community in this effort wouldn't swamp the benefits of having them/us involved. i'm sure that's not a decision to be made lightly. :-) paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 30.0 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Connecting a non python activity to sugar

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Fox
w about its window in at least some minimal way? without this, the program gets "lost" from a UI point of view. (i realize that needing a second window is rather un-sugary. in a new activity, it would probably be a tab, for instance.) paul =- paul fox, [EMA

Re: Connecting a non python activity to sugar

2008-04-02 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: > On 31.03.2008, at 14:52, Paul Fox wrote: > > bert wrote: > >> Also, try the sugarize script and library: > >> > >> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-January/009387.html > >> > >> (maybe that should be added

update.1 "breaking" wrapped activities?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul Fox
at olpcnews). can someone confirm that i'm not wrong? paul (above quote from: http://www.olpcnews.com/software/applications/sugar_open_developer_software.html) =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 39.0 degrees) ___

"fake" X11 input driver?

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Fox
l:nocaps" or "emulate3buttons". is there a way to get the equivalent functionality some other way? (i've tried xmodmap, with no success. which also surprises me.) paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 46.0 degrees)

Re: "fake" X11 input driver?

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Fox
), btw, isn't obsoleted by the inspired control key placement on the XO keyboard. it's an issue with external usb keyboards.) paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 33.8 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: "fake" X11 input driver?

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Fox
the built-in keyboard still works normally. obviously there needs to be more to this, since what i've done requires knowing the specific model name reported by the keyboard. but i confess i'm having trouble picturing the general solution. (i played with trying to find a similar solution t

Re: Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-08 Thread Paul Fox
egularly refer to them as "my OLPC" -- perhaps encouraged by the unfortunate "PC" in the acronym. as for numbers: sequential is good, but starting higher than 1 might give room for adding structure later if necessary. (e.g. the 200 series of releases might be a break from the 100 s

Re: RPMs and Activity bundles

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Fox
e rpm before packaging the activity, and zipping the piece-parts i need along with the rest of my stuff. (the "pieces" in my case are simply a couple of runtime libraries that aren't in the build.) depending on the rpm, and how you're using it, this may or may not work.

Re: Disk Images and Version Control

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Fox
s is necessary when you introduce the second generation of a product, which share most, but not all, of the original product's filesystem properties.) paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 74.1 degrees) ___

Re: Better anti-aliasing

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Fox
nal single-pixel-width lines, but the effect is definitely there. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 58.3 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Better anti-aliasing

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: > > On 25.04.2008, at 15:07, Paul Fox wrote: > > unlike a traditional display, every pixel has a single color. > > given this, it seems wrong to talk about the "red channel of the > > first pixel". you either use some of that pixel, or you don

Re: Cursor does not move left/right using touchpad on 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread Paul Fox
ause movement in one direction only (always vertically). mike lee has sent me one (it's a "thumbelina" microtrackball) to take a look at it. it works perfectly on an ubuntu 2.6.22 kernel (stock gutsy) but not on XO release 656. i haven't had time yet to investigate what's

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Fox
t; > Systems Engineer > > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org > > > > > > > > ___ > > Olpc-open mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > > > &

Re: very simple datastore reimplementation

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Fox
made these points > before, so I'm not going to belabor them again. > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox,

Re: VGA external on OLPC

2008-05-13 Thread Paul Fox
bility for users would go up. (there may be a trac item already on this -- i admit to not looking.) paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 53.6 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [support-gang] [sugar] Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Fox
s". there's been no "announcement" (that i've seen), and no corresponding announcement from OLPC, so an observer is sort of left to wonder what's going on. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 57.4 degrees)

Re: View Source question

2008-05-19 Thread Paul Fox
to external sites for more information (e.g., wikipedia, the activity's project homepage), or just about anything that can be delivered via a browser. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 52.7 degrees)

Re: olpc fedora build source code

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
you know when the time comes. :-) paul p.s. http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html and the "faster" equivalent don't seem to be working. =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 60.3 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: olpc fedora build source code

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
michael wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > it's not clear (to me) from the Build_system page linked above > > where the final contents of a give release is determined. > > The determination is usually made by yum as it is run fr

Re: Creating a non-python activity

2008-05-21 Thread Paul Fox
e-id, --activity-id, etc) and a pre-load shared library that contrives to get those values into the X properties where they need to go. see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Factory paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 50.4 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Fox
evious best effort.) i think your earlier proposal for establishing a liaison/ambassador role was spot on -- that role of evangelism and outreach was missing throughout G1G1, and is still missing today. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 54.3 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Slides from the week's country meetings.

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Fox
unfortunately, it seems that nicholas' and chuck kane's slides didn't convert to pdf well (or something like that). some fonts are all wrong in the former. and many pages are blank (except for the heading) in the latter. (most other talks look fine though.) paul =

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Fox
-key acquisition process, which > currently works more clearly in large batches for countries > than for individuals). i would have thought G1G1 proved that dev-key acquisition works just fine. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 64.9 degrees) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO frequently hangs on shutdown w/ 0.82

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Fox
:-) if it's the hang i'm guessing it is, it stops showing a text console screen, and will resume if you use alt-rightarrow to bring the UL warning screen into view. could you verify that? i believe there's a bug already for that one. i'll try and find

Re: XO frequently hangs on shutdown w/ 0.82

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Fox
dan -- have you considered trying to create a new console ioctl to help avoid this? a variant of VT_WAITACTIVE with a timeout, perhaps? it's such an old problem... paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO frequently hangs on shutdown w/ 0.82

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Fox
or 11 seconds off our current boot times: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/023688.html given the optimization that bobby and mitch put in, i suspect plymouth won't match it, time-wise. (though i'd love to be proven wrong, of course!) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO frequently hangs on shutdown w/ 0.82

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Fox
bios (on a standard PC) through to X, and speed. the old rhgb was > slow. Would be interesting to see a comparison. i agree -- i'm glad that there's so much more attention being paid to performance these days. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: equivalent copy-nand interface ideas for XO-1.5

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Fox
stallation. (of course, if OFW could do a bulk erase, it could probably also do a bulk write, meaning it could perhaps continue working much as it does today.) paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.lapto

kernel work, branches

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Fox
int of view, at least) for commiting to them? e.g. what can be put in, whether you need to be told, etc? paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

lid wakeups

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Fox
the geode gpio connections are key to the process. are there cases where the geode isn't awake enough to force a wakeup by itself? (i'm talking exclusively about gen1 here, btw.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: lid wakeups

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Fox
smith wrote: > Paul Fox wrote: > > > but what thinking about this has really made me realize is that i > > don't fully understand how lid wakeups work, even for the > > lid-open case that we do support. it seems that EC involvement > > is required, even

1.5 power management, input events, wakeup events

2009-06-24 Thread Paul Fox
n would be helpful too.) paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Fox
XO-1 is even on the drawing board. so, while we're trying to keep the kernel differences for the two boards neatly segregated, and hopefully in a way that it can all someday be turned into a runtime decision, it's not a runtime decision right now. paul =- paul fox,

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Fox
27;s no convenient packaging format to piggy-back on. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > etc).  one could picture an add-on RPM or "extra-modules". > > unfortunately, no other (?) distro does this, so there's no > > convenient packaging format to piggy-back on. > >

Re: Availability of XO-1.5 ATest-2 machines

2009-07-20 Thread Paul Fox
he system must be re-awakened with user input, and then put to sleep in one of the usual (power switch or lid) ways. this is simply a limitation of current s/w. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Availability of XO-1.5 ATest-2 machines

2009-07-20 Thread Paul Fox
da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Paul Fox wrote: > > > chris wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > >> my understanding from watching discussions here was that when the > > >> system went to sleep it powered down the display,

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.5 Kernel Update (i.e My Weekly Status)

2009-07-20 Thread Paul Fox
ossible to add more states as well. Therefore, it seems to me that the > logical thing to do is to add the "frozen" state to cpuidle's menu. perhaps this should be obvious, but can it handle S-states as well? because i believe that's the goal -- freeze the display

Re: is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Fox
t. > Everything is custom. Porting from desktop Linux to MacOS is easier > than porting to the Sugar environment. For many apps, even a Windows > port is easier. Plain old Linux development is not unusually expensive. > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Fox
______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Fox
utilize the total disk space. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Fox
sascha wrote: thank you. i was aware of LVM, but didn't realize it would accomplish quite what i was proposing. paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/lis

Re: Another F11 build for the XO-1 has been released

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Fox
> Thanks > > > > thanks for your efforts! > > > > Daniel > > > > ___ > > Fedora-olpc-list mailing list > > fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedor

Re: Another F11 build for the XO-1 has been released

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Fox
nts". could someone with SoaS3 insider info please verify that the XO-1 kernel is being built from the olpc-2.6.30 branch of olpc-2.6 repository? i've seen that message before, but only on misconfigured kernels. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: MPPT

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Fox
end the battery life > slightly as well. how much remaining runtime are we talking about, when we talk about "very low"? and again, how much can we affect the end result? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
o settle on some mouse driver changes, hoping to improve the jumpiness/recalibration issues we've been seeing forever. if nothing else, a next release _must_ be built with a modular mouse driver, to make deploying incremental changes to that driver more feasible. paul =---

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: > 2009/8/11 Paul Fox : > > one thing we've recently realized that would be very low risk > > would be to change the "xset" command in /usr/bin/olpc-session > > from "xset 7/4 0" to either "xset 7/6 0" or "xset 7/4

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > if nothing else, a next release _must_ be built > > with a modular mouse driver... > > Hmmm. The 5th reply makes a beeline to "must rebuild the kernel". Not > quite a record, but pre

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fox
akeup_events/all the lid, the power button, and the RTC alarm should still be capable of waking the system at this point. now run: # rtcwake --utc -m mem -s 10 paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 8/13/09, Paul Fox wrote: > > > From: Paul Fox > > Subject: Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5 > > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > > Cc: "OLPC Development" , "OLPC Testing" > , &quo

touchpad redux

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Fox
he field was made much easier with the help of a script put together by James Cameron. See the final section ("Large Jump Logging Technique") of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Three_known_touchpad_issues =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: touchpad redux

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Fox
script put together by James Cameron. See the > final section ("Large Jump Logging Technique") of > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Three_known_touchpad_issues the data was gathered by students and teachers and the team in rwanda many thanks!! paul =--

Re: Any success with the synaptics driver?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Fox
nel driver, then in order to control it properly, and make the mouse behavior manageable, we needed the X11 driver, which we didn't have. we can try this again, however, now that all the cards are up in the air. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: [Sugar-devel] New SoaS-on-XO-1 build done: soasxo57

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Fox
s absent, the system won't resume. i'll poke at it a little more, but i've spent too much time on this today, so i'm really hoping someone else will understand what's going on. (i've verified on my own laptop that disabling the getty causes the same re

Re: initrd build from lenny -

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fox
mp; leases from wireless > > So I will now finish updating the "Building initramfsen" page. > > The patches I pushed are at > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/olpcrd-rootskel.git/ > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/olpcrd/ > =---

Re: [Testing] New F11 for the XO-1 Build 6

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fox
t;> > >> Should I be filling tickets with (if not present)? I mean is F11-XO1 > >> going > to be the way to Sugar0.84? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______

Re: Problems compiling bluetooth module

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Fox
paul > run "insmod btusb.ko" it gives an error about the above symbols > being undefined. > > Any tips? Am I missing something like defining a path? > > Thanks! > Emiliano > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___

Re: Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-30 Thread Paul Fox
d upstream but > only if it is needed... patches are always easier to read, and are the preferred way of getting someone to take a look at your code. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Count bad blocks on NAND -

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Fox
Looking at strace output over several XOs, it is always the last 4 > blocks on the MTD device that are marked as 'bad'. > > Maybe my patch is overshooting the mark somehow. Clearly those 4 "bad" > blocks are bogus. i believe the bad block table is stored i

Re: Request for help - can variable values be passed to an Activity ?

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Fox
there a way to ensure that that a particular global > variable __does__ get passed to an Activity ? > > Thanks, mikus > > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--

OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
lly easier: "echo y > /proc/sysrq-trigger". use "resume" from OFW to let linux run again. OFW itself prevents invocation on secure machines, so this only works when unlocked. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:42:46AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > on the XO, openfirmware stays resident when linux runs, and is > > accessible via an API specified in arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c. i've > > just pushed a commit to our 2.6.30 kernel branch t

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
op row, and then pressing the > M-for-Mitch key? i would applaud, encourage, and otherwise buy beer for anyone that could help out in making something like this happen. (i might get to it someday, myself, but that will no doubt be _after_ i need it.) paul =- paul fox

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Fox
#x27;d say, the more the merrier -- i'd love to use kgdb regularly, but it requires a second machine, and it ties up scarce serial ports. so OFW is a win, for my current uses. mitch -- i think i saw something that implied OFW could do symbolic kernel debug -- true? is there a howto, or other doc

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Fox
deepak wrote: > On Sep 15 2009, at 17:31, Paul Fox was caught saying: > > john wrote: > > > > there's no SysRq key on the XO keyboard, so you'll need to use a > > > > break on the serial console to invoke it... > > > > > > Ple

Re: 0.84 for XO-1 (was Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94)

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Fox
ommonly this feature was used, before. paul > > I spoke with Chris and I think we'll be able to have a section on > OLPC trac to keep track of these things sometime now. > > Daniel > ___ > Devel mailing list &g

Re: 0.84 for XO-1 (was Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94)

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Fox
ted (as if it could be any _less_ complicated :-). there's support in the design for a separate /boot, but i can't help but think there might be some surprises there. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: My view of OS7 on XO-1

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Fox
n/powerd. from a terminal window, you may be able to run "powerd-config", but you may need to "yum install dialog" first. (or, just use a text editor to modify /etc/powerd/powerd.conf) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Fox
rtunately, I can't find another interrupt input > not owned by ACPI that is powered in S3. if the DCONIRQ move proves successful, then that will free up SMBALRT (powered in S3) to be used for the EC. paul > > - The HDD_LED# signal (yet to be support

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Fox
john wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > john wrote: > >> > >> I'm proposing a new GPIO map for XO-1.5 B3 and beyond. > >> > >> The changes are: > >> - Moved the control signals for the internal an

Re: XO-1 Build 802 doesn't turn off speaker amplifier

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Fox
Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 unexpected behavior

2009-10-17 Thread Paul Fox
the built-in keyboard > and the built-in touchpad work correctly. Serial SHC93700111D. > > mikus > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/l

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Fox
FW and /boot can agree on a single filesystem type, and we can have more freedom to change the type of / more flexibly (e.g., ext4, ext5, ext6,... ext3). in pre-os32, the system was seeing the extra available partition and mounting it, just as it would an external SD or USB. paul =

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Fox
t on os32. You > didn't mention which build you were using. > > Frame giving flickers is #9333. > > > many keys only work intermittently on some of these XOs. particularly > > - frame key and the key next to it, search key, function key, hand > > keys, di

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Fox
#x27;s important to also > > have it in /boot because then you can read it from OFW if the / > > partition is in a FS format that OFW doesn't know about. > > > > cheers, > > > > > > > > m > > > ___

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Fox
p-to-click, someone needs to build a new kernel with the synaptics driver enabled (maybe just the module can be built), then they need to figure out how to make it all work well. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Fox
gt; > > > I'm seeing the "keyboard stops working" problem on my XO1.5B2, and > since the keyboard doesn't work, I can hit x to get to ofw prompt to > flash the new rom. Any suggestions? have you removed the battery and AC power? that should bring

Re: B3 GPIO changes: new EC -> Host IRQ

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Fox
em, although the EC > may preceed it with an SCI interrupt to wake the system. > > This allows this second interrupt to now use one of the available > inputs. > One slight hitch is that the host control of the WLAN LED will be > bumped. > This will now

Re: Terminal.xo patch: do not die if the cwd is gone

2009-11-03 Thread paul fox
disk >  - try to open Terminal.xo => fails to start > > cheers, > > > > m -- =- paul fox, pgf at laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: crond disabled?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul Fox
-day scheduling. as dsd pointed out to me on IRC, anacron is driven by cron -- at least these days it seems to be. so without cron, anacron probably won't work either. (i was under the impression they were separate, but perhaps that's ancient history, or i was just wrong.) paul =----

Re: OS38 don't boot

2009-11-07 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: Reopening a ticket on dev.laptop.org

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fox
ieved from trac ? > > What can I do in a future situation to ensure that reopening a > ticket does not over-write the problem's original description ? this shouldn't normally happen. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: Diagnosing hard lockup on tab-completion on VT

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fox
i suspect these are related (but perhaps not, of course). i currently can't recall if we've seen lockups purely from VT usage, before. paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Reopening a ticket on dev.laptop.org

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fox
error. forgot to relay what i learned. paul =--------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 and SD device node names

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Fox
nitrd) were proposed for this, but someone followed up the existing trac ticket (#9457) with a driver patch used on the maemo. (haven't looked at it.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Information on XO-1 power efficiency

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Fox
cond) suspend timeouts when the laptop is configured in ebook format.) paul > > As I said it's only a short talk (10min max.) but there's anything else > significant when it comes to the power consumption and underlying design > that I've left out above then p

Re: Information on XO-1 power efficiency

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Fox
eds to get flushed. If the XO had dirty pages in memory, you are in > trouble. Open files should probably get errors. There is probably a mount > count/time that could be checked to catch this case. > > > -- > These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's

Re: NANDblaster design notes for XO-1.5

2009-11-14 Thread Paul Fox
the partition-related comments had been in a separate section.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OS40 feedback

2009-11-14 Thread Paul Fox
e of data in such a case is whether or not the game keys work, since these follow a different codepath through the EC. on the sugar home screen, you should be able to toggle between the icons for home or list view (in the upper right corner) by using the u/d/r/l D-pad keys, and with the s

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO 1.5 with USB webcam

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Fox
> > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______

Re: GSM/CDMA Modems support

2009-11-17 Thread Paul Fox
ht also be that on XO-1.5 we have the luxury of shipping a lot more modules. haven't really looked into that much.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New gamepad!

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: > On 18.11.2009, at 06:52, John Watlington wrote: > > > > > > We have a new gamepad design for XO-1.5, to fix the difficulty in pressing > > a single gamepad keys at once. Thanks to Paul Fox and Richard Smith > > for pursuing this. (The actua

SysRq on XO (was Re: OFW access from linux)

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Fox
command to sysrq (on XO-1.5). when invoking from the keyboard, the kernel never gets the "key up" event from the command, so the keyboard's input state is messed up after you "resume" from OFW. i was able to clear this state by invoking another sysrq command, i.e. "alt-F8-h". paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Fox
necessary -- it's always possible to build and install a full kernel RPM. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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