Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 07:08 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: Turtle Art v 114 has an accelerometer block in the sensor palette that should appear on 1.75 machines. Maybe you could play with it? (It pushes X, Y, Z values to the stack: you retrieve them with 3 consecutive 'pop' blocks (found on the

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 21:15 +1000, James Cameron wrote: In testing the speakers we found the sound to be scratchy like there are buffer issues. That's interesting. More please? Speak is the only activity we've which produces sound and works. The sound is full of clicks. Also the turn on

Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 07:38 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:39:38PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: Nice! I made a simple position the turtle based on accelerometer x and y and found the sensor to be quite noisy. Could you quantify that please? Normal shaking of hand

Re: Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Parker
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:46 +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I have noticed on the 1.5 and 1.75 mouse that if my finger is too far forward on the button it overhangs the pad and gives a jumpy cursor. The pad is not sure which finger to track. I tried very carefully using one finger from

Re: Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-25 Thread Tom Parker
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:30 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:57:25PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: I tried very carefully using one finger from directly above (no button pressing and no other hands nearby) and still experience the jumpy cursor problem. I was also able

Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:02 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: There will be new builds weekly or more often for large feature additions that could do with testing. These will be announced on de...@laptop.org list. There was OS40 released today. Next one should be on Friday. If it is released early

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 09:17 +1000, James Cameron wrote: We have some XO-1.5 prototypes with wich we could swap the touch pad and see if the problem follows the touchpad or stays with the 1.75. Is that useful? Yes, I think so. I swapped the bottom half of our clicky keyboard XO-1.75 with

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 11:07 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:12:20PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: Is there anything you want me to record (model number? from where?). No, I think what you've provided is sufficient. Do you want us to examine the working XO-1.75

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-27 Thread Tom Parker
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 11:52 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 01:36:01PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: Do you want us to examine the working XO-1.75 with membrane keyboard? Is it worth knowing whether it has the same touch pad as the not working clicky keyboard XO-1.75? You

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] XO 1.75 B1 build 11.3.1 testing

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:07 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:58:17PM +1300, Tom Parker wrote: I have noticed sudo halt does not halt the machine -- the screen goes blank and the power led stays green. Holding down the power button causes it to shut down with the normal

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] initial report post-flash 11.3.1 build 17

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:19 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 10:09:27PM +1300, Carlos Nazareno wrote: XO 1.75 1B1 (a B1 with non-membrane keyboard no SD, right?) XO-1.75 1B1 has eMMC instead of microSD as internal storage, but does have an external SD slot. Carlos has

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-09 Thread Tom Parker
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 08:56 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: I agree with your pragmatic argument, but... I am almost certain that what is being demoed on the XO-3.0 at CES is in fact Sugar running on Fedora. It looks to be all Sugar so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1238R-QY31E

Re: F17-ARM devel tools

2012-05-07 Thread Tom Parker
On 08/05/12 07:51, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: So, the 3.3.4 headers are fine for the 3.0.19 kernel? Yes for building userland stuff. Not for building kernel modules. We aren't currently building kernel headers

Re: Testing Summary, Auckland - 19 May 2012

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/05/12 05:18, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Tom Parkert...@carrott.org wrote: Had an XO freeze shortly after flashing. In the firmware? No, in the operating system, after entering a name and choosing a colour. I've also seen Whio (XO-1.75 SHC2050025B SKU204)

Testing Summary, Auckland - 26 May 2012

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Parker
Do not adjust your clocks! This is last weeks report more than a week late. This week's report will be less tardy (hopefully) and will have include the power logs from last week. Testing Summary, Auckland - 26 May 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom We tried using the nandblaster to

Testing Summary, Auckland - 2 June 2012

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland - 2 June 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Today we tested 12.1.0 os12 on XO-1.75 Installed os12 and updated to the new-old kernel. This was made more difficult by needing to find the rpm option to force installation of an old version. Found that none of the

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 06/06/12 02:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: The bottom line: have you seen this issue on XO-1.5 + 11.3.x? Even if ocassionally? Let us know, and join the bug-hunting party. We have seen this sort of problem in Auckland recently. However I can't really be sure if what we see is related. We test

Testing Summary, Auckland - 9 June 2012

2012-06-16 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland - 9 June 2012 Who: John, Tom Shutdown testing of au225 on XO-1.5. We shut down 3 XO-1.5s, one B2, one SKU99 and one SKU104. We shut them down probably 6 or 7 times each after a varying amount of idle time or very light use and on every occasion they shut down

Testing Summary, Auckland - 16 June 2012

2012-06-16 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland - 16 June 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Tested 12.1.0 build 14 on XO-1.5s and XO-1.75s. Ivy (an XO-1.5): Speak works. Why does Alice think my name is Seeker? Why can’t Alice find my laptop name? Wikipedia EN. Loads, tried a few pages, worked. Ruler works Maze

Re: [Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland - 16 June 2012

2012-06-23 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/06/12 12:14, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Memorize all preloaded games work but when pressed stop get “keep error: all changes will be lost”. Any change to get the log file? See attached. We were unable to reproduce this week. org.laptop.Memorize-1.log.bz2 Description:

Re: yum error -- cannot retrieve metalink on xo 12.1.0 build 21016o2.zd

2012-07-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 06/07/12 23:29, George Hunt wrote: Issuing URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum check-update returns lots of stuff -- most interesting seems to be remote certificate has expired message. Is the time on your laptop correct? We have some prototypes which forget the time occasionally and revert to a time

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Patch written for Presence not updated, when client disconencts from telepathy-salut

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Parker
(sending again reply all rather than reply-list) On 11/07/12 02:58, Martin Langhoff wrote: A multicast I'm here would also do it, perhaps with less noise. Either way, we need to nag Salut devs on this. I ran tcpdump (hint, it doesn't work on an XO unless you turn off promiscuous mode) a

Testing Summary, Auckland - 23 June 2012

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Parker
Not quite 1 month late, I present for your eduction: Auckland Testing Summary 23/06/12 Who - John, Fabiana, Tabitha, Tom We tested Build 12.1.0 RC 2 (build 15) on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Rosella: Geeze, need new glasses just to see what is going on! Tiny! I find those kissy lips at the bottom of

Testing Summary, Auckland 7 July 2012

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary: Auckland - 7 July 2012 Who: Barry, John, Tabitha, Tom Testing 12.1.0 build 17 on XO-1 and XO-1.75 Browse works, but cannot create google docs. Can edit docs on XO-1.75 that have already been created. Visiting http://blog.makezine.com on XO-1 causes the laptop to freeze.

Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012 Who: Brenda, Fabiana, John, Nevyn, Tom We tested 12.1.0 build 18 on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 Nolan (XO-1.75): paint - seems ok. Physics: get the strange behaviour at the top of the canvas where things don’t show over a band on the top (reported before) Record:

Testing Summary, Auckland 28 July 2012

2012-07-30 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland 28 July 2012 Who: John, Tom Testing 12.1.0 build 18 and 11.3.2 on XO-1.75 12.1.0 build 18: Distance does not work at all on XO-1.75. This activity should be removed if it cannot be fixed, see https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11596 Browse still cannot create docs in

OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012

2012-08-17 Thread Tom Parker
OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Today we tested XO-1s build 860 Sugar 0.84.31 with a bunch of customizations for NZ teacher training and XO-1.5s on 12.1.0 build 20. Tux, XO-1, build 860 + customisations: Touchpad drove me crazy during the

Re: [OLPC-AU] OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012

2012-08-18 Thread Tom Parker
On 19/08/12 00:29, Walter Bender wrote: Tom: Any chance you guys could drop the latest Measure bits [1] onto an 860 machine to see if some of these issues are resolved? I tested measure 42 on build 860 on XO-1 and it seems to work well, except that if you switch to resistance or voltage

Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012

2012-08-25 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Testing 12.1.0 Build 20 on XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Simba XO-1 Measure: starts up ok - single channel recording. Gain and time control seem ok. Waveform looks reasonable - FFT ok. Pause ok. Query: Are these scaling

Re: Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012

2012-08-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/08/12 10:24, Tom Parker wrote: Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Testing 12.1.0 Build 20 on XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Power logs attached. powerlogs.tar.bz2 Description: application/bzip ___ Devel

Auckland Testing Summary 1 September 2012

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Parker
Only a few weeks late! Auckland Testing Summary 1 September 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Build 12.1.0 for xo-1.75 (build 21) and also on XO-1.5 Physics: Still doing that odd refresh thing at the top of the screen. Calculate When you do x-1 it shows x-1 (not as superscript - so looks

Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012 Who: John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing build 44 11.3.1-au XO-1.75: Browse 192.3!! Rocking like it’s January 2010! Based on Firefox 3.6.23, 5 security releases made since! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_3.6#cite_note-41 Crashes if you visit

Re: Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

2012-10-13 Thread Tom Parker
On 14/10/12 06:49, Chris Leonard wrote: I could not find a list of activity versions present in the build you are testing. Version number is a critical piece of information for tracking back to check on whether L10n issues are due to an incomplete PO file at the time of version release or some

Re: [OLPC-AU] Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-13 Thread Tom Parker
On 08/10/12 18:33, Deepak Muddha wrote: Edit starts with the focus somewhere invisible, you have to click on the canvas before it does anything. Can you explain in a detail for the above defect please. Start Edit. Type something. Observe that nothing appears on the screen. Click on

Re: flashing a XO 4

2012-12-02 Thread Tom Parker
On 02/12/12 22:59, Sameer Verma wrote: I've tried flashing a XO 4 with os15 from http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os15/xo-4/ I got the .zd file on a USB stick and ran fs-update at the openfirmware prompt. It reflashes, but after rebooting, it sits at the ok prompt of openfirmware. I had this

Auckland Testing Summary 1 December 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary (only 2 weeks late) Who: Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing 13.1.0 build 15 on XO-1.75 and XO-4 hoiho xo-1.75 c2 getbooks and read work Mohua: measure - tried recording - then went to frame and journal but not sure I can find file - system is slowed to a

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 15 November 2012

2012-12-15 Thread Tom Parker
On 16/12/12 13:34, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Thanks Tom for testing, and specially by filling tickets, is the way to have the issues solved. I generally only raise tickets if I have a reproducible problem to report. That said, we should probably raise a ticket complaining about the whole failed

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 15 November 2012

2012-12-16 Thread Tom Parker
On 16/12/12 17:20, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I believe the symptom has to do with the presence of multiple windows by an Activity. Sugar starts the initial window - if in time certain things do not happen in that window, the failed to start message eventually gets displayed. But if in the

Re: 13.1.0 release candidate 3 (build 22) released

2013-01-04 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/01/13 09:29, Martin Langhoff wrote: I think there are serious bugs in Fedora infra for secondary arches. In my naive perception, most mirrors don't have 18/armfp, but the mirror redirector doesn't care. This was a big problem when the XO-1.75 was first available for testing. It's a lot

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 15 November 2012

2013-01-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/12/12 02:58, Daniel Drake wrote: Had Hoiho freeze completely after inserting a USB flash drive. Was this XO-1.75 or XO-4? To diagnose such failures we really need to reproduce them while a serial console is connected. I know thats not always trivial to have around. Not reproducible.

Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013

2013-03-02 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013 Who: John, Hans, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing 3.1.0 build 30 on XO-1.75 and build 32 on XO-4 In Physics on XO-1.75 the top couple of cm of the screen is white. The exact line where this happens moves around. This has been reported before. This doesn’t

Re: Video on XO 1.75 (URGENT)

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/03/13 17:40, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: I am making the transition from XO 1 to XO 1.75. I plug in a USB with some *.ogv to play on a FEW new XO1.75 (12.1.0 customised build 10 ). When I click on it some files will play but some would not play at all - as if it is choking!. Run

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013

2013-03-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/03/13 07:28, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Write works well, but inserting an image is strange. On one laptop the insert image window appeared behind write, giving the impression that the clicking on the button does nothing. We opened log and during CC'd Gonzalo to

Re: VIDEO testing on XO 1.75

2013-03-08 Thread Tom Parker
On 08/03/13 17:00, tkk...@nurturingeducation.com wrote: Managed to install the two RPM on a XO 1.75 and do some testing. Thanks for the support. gstreamer-plugins-marvell-0.10-3.olpc.armv7hl.rpm libvmeta-marvell-005-1.olpc.armv7hl.rpm Now able to see videos on Youtube at 360p setting. Not

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013

2013-03-09 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/03/13 07:04, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: In Physics on XO-1.75 the top couple of cm of the screen is white. The exact line where this happens moves around. This has been reported before. This doesn’t happen in the same way

Re: video broken on 1.75?

2013-03-20 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/03/13 14:27, Sameer Verma wrote: I got the source from TED as a MP4 wrapper. http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2009/None/RennyGleeson_2009-light.mp4 Interesting, the XO-1.75 with VMETA drivers plays most .mp4 videos from the internet as-is, but it does not play this one -- the sound

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/03/13 05:00, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: On Karearea, the UI did not respond to mouse clicks or keyboard input, but the neighbourhood/friends/activity list keys worked. After 3 reboots this started working and we discovered

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 24/03/13 17:56, Gary Martin wrote: Physics still has the top of screen problem on XO-1.75 but is working very well on XO-4. How critical do you think this one is? It's quite annoying if you happen to build something in physics that extends to the top of the screen and certainly doesn't

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 13 April 2013

2013-04-16 Thread Tom Parker
On 16/04/13 01:58, Manuel Quiñones wrote: 2013/4/14 Tom Parker t...@carrott.org: Prepared this report using Browse with google docs -- everything worked well. However browse but still hangs logging in to Zimbra. Does Zimbra site work on GNOME Epiphany? Epiphany 3.6.1-2.fc18.armv7hl hangs

Re: Aggressive screen blanking with 13.1.0 build 35

2013-04-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/04/13 09:20, Andrew Ruthven wrote: I've just updated an XO 1.75 to 13.1.0 build 35. But I've noticed that it blanks the screen after 12 seconds of inactivity. Then approximately 30 seconds later it flashes the screen on and blanks it again a couple of times then goes into suspend. Do you

Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-17 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013 Who: John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75 and XO-system 1a for XO-4 (build 32) on XO-4. One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75: Sound doesn’t work due to OLPC #12637 downgrading the firmware to Q4D24

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/05/13 16:17, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 03:52:42PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75: Sound doesn’t work due to OLPC #12637 downgrading the firmware to Q4D24 fixes it. What firmware version was installed? Our XO-1.75s had Q4D27

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-18 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/05/13 22:00, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 05:08:26PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: On 18/05/13 16:17, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 03:52:42PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75: Sound doesn’t work due to OLPC #12637

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-20 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/05/13 10:37, James Cameron wrote: Sound doesn't work with Q4D29. This image has kernel 3.0.19_xo1.75-20120714.1244.olpc.91e4ce2 Wow. Okay. Ten months ago. This is apparently the build that One Education want to use in New Zealand this year.

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/05/13 23:20, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Testing One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75 and XO-system 1a for XO-4 (build 32) on XO-4. Browse is really old and slow! Many websites work badly! What version is that? (you can see the number in the list view in the home) This

Auckland Testing Summary 25 May 2013

2013-05-25 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 25 May 2013 Who: Alana, Barry, Charlotte, Fabiana, Hans, John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing olpc au build on XO-1.75 and dextrose on XO-4 One Education OS 1.2 (build au891) on XO-1.75: The laptop fails to start with a white screen after choosing the name, age and

Re: [Testing] Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 23/05/13 23:57, Manuel Quiñones wrote: 2013/5/22 Tom Parker t...@carrott.org: On 20/05/13 23:20, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Testing One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75 and XO-system 1a for XO-4 (build 32) on XO-4. Browse is really old and slow! Many websites work

Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Tom Parker
Hi, I'm looking at how you enter a macron for Māori language users. It seems that the olpc us international keyboard binds a ̄ COMBINING MACRON (unicode U+0304) to algr + hyphan. When typed after the letter a you get ā which is similar to but not the same as ā LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH

Re: Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 24/06/13 23:43, Walter Bender wrote: Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it to your build if it is reasonably recent. I don't know which build they are running. I've tried One Education OS

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-26 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 10:52, Walter Bender wrote: The widget was broken until recently. Not sure my patches have landed in any releases yet. But we should be able to make a layout that works for both English and Maori without any end-user intervention. Will try to get to it this week. Attached is a

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 22:16, Tom Parker wrote: What is the best way to modify the laptops? Copying modified output of xkbcomp to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi and running setxkbmap mi does the trick, but setting the content of /home/olpc/.Xkbmap to mi does not make this the default after reboot

Re: GNOME on XO-1.75

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
On 01/07/13 19:55, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: Another little issue is that clicking on the scroll bar in epiphany (and also gedit and terminal) moves the page to the cursor instead of 1 page down. This is not happening in firefox. None of these is happening in the sugar side with browse

Significant Browse performance problem

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
In Build 3.2.0 for XO-4 (build 11) I have noticed a significant browse performance problem. On some pages, browse causes X to lock up for many seconds. The mouse pointer stops moving and you can see (if logged in via SSH) that X is consuming 80% of the cpu.

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 01/07/13 19:53, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb patch -p0 maori.patch sudo cp orig.xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ... Is Jerry's xs.custom http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 07/07/13 01:39, Walter Bender wrote: I'm not sure at what point you guys started posted your Sugar bugs in the Dextrose tracker instead of the Sugar tracker, but I would urge you to post in the Sugar tracker going forward. It will give your bugs broader exposure to the Sugar community and

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-08 Thread Tom Parker
On 07/07/13 04:09, Chris Leonard wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org mailto:t...@carrott.org wrote: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013 Moon still fails to start when the XO language is Maori. Previously reported in https://sugardextrose.org

XO-4 HDMI output

2013-07-17 Thread Tom Parker
Hi, How does the HDMI output on the XO-4 work? I've got a micro-HDMI to regular HDMI cable and also an HDMI-DVI adaptor. I tried connecting to the the HDMI input of a TV and that worked in both sugar and the firmware. Quality was kinda poor (like it was doing some scaling, which I guess it

Re: XO-4 HDMI output

2013-07-18 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/07/13 21:21, Jon Nettleton wrote: If you want to provide the output of dmesg when you connect your DVI cable I will gladly take a look and see why you aren't at least getting a VESA VGA resolution. Today it behaved much better. I don't know why I had such poor luck yesterday. Today I

Re: XO-4 HDMI output

2013-07-19 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/07/13 21:43, Jon Nettleton wrote: Is this a B1 model? We had a positioning problem with the jack on the B1's that was fixed in subsequent revisions. I'm testing with a C2. Power Manager should be disabling fast S/R if the hdmi connection is detected this is just to keep the external

Re: hdmi out

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/08/13 15:01, Barry Vercoe wrote: Tom, attached is a file dmesg.output. Sending just to you since I didn't understand what mailing list you meant. olpc-devel, Jon Nettleton who was involved with the HDMI code is monitoring that list. I've copied them in and re-attached your dmesg output.

Re: hdmi out

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/08/13 17:05, Barry Vercoe wrote: OK, with tail -f ... messages, I do see a burst of messages and the projector shows the exact screen. But only for 15 seconds, when the projector then goes blank and reverts to _No Signal_ until I touch something on the XO like the screen, track pad or

Re: [Sugar-devel] Using a new keyboard layout for XO4

2013-11-22 Thread Tom Parker
On 21/11/13 23:27, Basanta Shrestha wrote: Dear all, We are planing on using a different keyboard layout for XO4. The new layout we think is phonetically based and easier for children. I simply switched the /usr/share/X11/symbols/np file with a new one but did not work. I guess there are some

[Server-devel] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

2010-07-18 Thread Tom Parker
Hi, We are going to Samoa for 2 primary school deployments with 50 XO-1.0 laptops in each school, on 30 July 2010. We've been asked to set up a wifi network and School Server at each school. Here is what we think we are going to buy for each school (ie, we buy twice what is presented here, one

Re: [Server-devel] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

2010-07-20 Thread Tom Parker
: In Paraguay we decided (and tested) Tp-Link TL-WR741ND, Access point plus router around 26 USS, which is fully supported by OpenWrt, in case you want to monitor usage (telnet + ssh). With two of this you can cover a school with 50 laptops, provided there are 25 per classroom. 2010/7/18 Tom Parker

Re: [Server-devel] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

2010-07-21 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, July 21, 2010 12:06 pm, James Cameron wrote: A rapidly updating signal strength meter can be very helpful during a site survey. Set up the access point, then wander around with the meter. An XO-based meter program that I wrote last year can be found here:

[Server-devel] School Server installation report

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Parker
I'm trying to install the XS on my laptop as it resembles the hardware we are taking to Samoa. The laptop is an HP Mini 311, an Atom N280 with nvidia ion chipset and a broadcom wireless adapter which requires a non-free driver. I'm installing on an SD card rather than the hard drive. I followed

Re: [Server-devel] School Server installation report

2010-07-24 Thread Tom Parker
On Sat, July 24, 2010 2:52 am, Jerry Vonau wrote: I looked at what xs-swapnics did, and I think it would have done the same thing, but I didn't run it since I don't want to swap the nics, I simply want to ignore the WAN (the school will have no uplink). Would of worked anyway. I've updated

[Server-devel] Wikipedia on XS

2010-07-25 Thread Tom Parker
I've been looking at how to provide an offline wikipedia for the Samoan deployments we are visiting. They don't have an uplink to the internet so the solution has to be local. David Leeming talked about Schools Wikipedia on this list in March:

Re: [Server-devel] XO Registration Failed with XS

2010-07-25 Thread Tom Parker
On Sun, July 25, 2010 9:34 pm, ganesh gajre wrote: As per the given suggestion by all of you, I tried to follow the procedure. I didn't find schoolserver.py file neither on the machine which are registered with schoolserver nor which failed to register. We have to bind 100 XO's to

[Server-devel] Mirroring the olpc wiki for disconnected School Server?

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Parker
We're about to go to Samoa with two school servers for two schools which have no internet access. We would like, both for our own reference, and for after we leave, to have a copy of the olpc wiki on the school server. I don't find any mention of this on the olpc wiki. It seems like the least

Re: [Server-devel] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, July 28, 2010 4:45 am, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: We are going to Samoa for 2 primary school deployments with 50 XO-1.0 laptops in each school, on 30 July 2010. We've been asked to set up a Excellent! That sounds very

Re: [Server-devel] Wikipedia on XS

2010-07-29 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, July 28, 2010 5:05 am, Martin Langhoff wrote: Given that your planned XS is fairly powerful for the task, and has abundant storage, you have another alternative: http://static.wikipedia.org/ -- it lacks search, images and content curation, but it definitely has coverage. They did a

[Server-devel] Upstream Proxy

2010-08-02 Thread Tom Parker
I just spent some time getting the XS squid proxy to us a peer cache (inside the ministry you mut use a proxy for http access). The instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#HTTP_proxies didn't work so well -- I could access the internet, but not the school server.

[Server-devel] wifi setup

2010-08-03 Thread Tom Parker
Howdy from Samoa. I'm doing wifi testing here and I am wondering if there is a way to make the access points merge together, so only one shows up on in the neighbourhood and the laptop connects to the closest one? I'm using Ubiquiti PicoStations http://www.ubnt.com/picostation If I set them all

Re: [Server-devel] wifi setup

2010-08-18 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 13:48 +1000, James Cameron wrote: Different OLPC OS builds present access points with same essid in different ways. There was a problem with multiple access point presentation fixed somewhere along the way in development, but I'd have to go looking for it. Which build

Re: [Server-devel] How to configure XS with only one Ethernet port

2010-10-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 23:31 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: Can I configure it to work with the single port working normally as the LAN (i.e. functioning as the eth1 interface in default case)? If all you need to do is rename eth0 to eth1 just run as root: xs-swapnics and then reboot.

Re: [Server-devel] How to configure XS with only one Ethernet port

2010-10-27 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:26 +1100, David Leeming wrote: Would that leave the machine with all the normal services running on that single Ethernet port, and otherwise function exactly as the eth1 network on a machine with two NICs? I guess I'll find out soon enough... Yes, it does. My second

Re: [Server-devel] One server NIC - using Sugar on Linux, not OLPCs

2010-12-31 Thread Tom Parker
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 13:44 -0800, Rob Echlin wrote: I tried xs-swapnics, but that did not put the LAN stuff on eth0. It eliminated eth0, and gave me a phantom eth1 with no ethernet address. Actually, it may have put the eth1 on the NIC, but since it no longer had an IP address, it was hard to

Re: [Server-devel] Schoolserver and eth1

2011-01-16 Thread Tom Parker
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 10:38 -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: I did install a third nic in one of the Dells, thinking that this would fix the problem. But only one was recognized by the XS. Either one could be recognized as eth0, but neither was recognized as Eth1. Post the output of lspci,

Re: [Server-devel] Picostation APs

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Parker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:26 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: Any useful feedback/criticisms on the Ubiquiti Picostation units being used in the Samoa deployment? http://www.ubnt.com/picostation We are debating between these and WRT54GL units for Jamaica. Unfortunately, I can't give a large amount of

Re: [Server-devel] Picostation APs

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Parker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 09:04 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: Thanks for the feedback. It helps. Were you able to fix the AP on a specific channel (1, 6 ,or 11)? Absolutely. The Picostation AirOS software is very full featured with an easy to use web interface for configuration.

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-05 Thread Tom Parker
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:18 -0500, Andra DuPont wrote: I have deployed two servers using netbooks. One is an Acer Aspire One 532h and the other is an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB. Both are using the Atom 450 processor at ~1.67 Ghz with 1 GB ram. I put 500 GB hard drives in each, which added $75. They

Re: [Server-devel] Registering to XS stable FC9 0.6 with XO stable FC14 11.2.0

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Parker
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 20:36 -0500, Anna wrote: I was trying out 11.2.0 and attempted to register to my XS 0.6. Sugar gave me Registration Failed. Cannot connect to the server. We had intermittent trouble registering with our XS 0.6 with os874 (I think that's the same as 11.2.0). After trying

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/08/13 16:21, Jerry Vonau wrote: Think the issue is mainly about off-grid systems, those are usually 12v. What would be neat is if there was a power supply that you could replace in your standard PC that used 12v as the supply voltage. Anybody know of a manufacture that supplies one? I'd