Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.comwrote: Sorry if this has been asked before. The Mac Mini was tested by someone here with a watt meter and ran between 16 and 30 watts max. Very useful for solar powered locations. Are there any issues with

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Good question. Could we run Paul's power daemon configured to dim screen completely if there is no VT user actvity? cc' ing Paul and devel - m On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Is there any way to turn off the backlight on a XS-on-XO1? Keyboard control

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:19 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before. The Mac Mini was tested by someone here with a watt meter and ran between 16 and 30 watts max. Very useful for solar powered locations. Agreed with Peter -- it'll just work,

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: yes, that would probably work. there's no X11 requirement in kbdshim or powerd. but to be clear: is the requirement for blanking after an idle period? or do you just want a command to blank the screen?

Re: [Server-devel] Schools Wikipedia

2010-03-02 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, The current Wikipedia activities already work as web servers on the XS, and require much less space due to the content being compressed -- for Spanish, 25,000 articles and 3,000 images in 100MB. David pointed out that this isn't actually documented anywhere. :) Here's the

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread John Watlington
It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are. The Kirkwood ARM processor in the guruplug should be well supported by the current Fedora release --- this may be mostly a matter of moving to an F12 base. My main concern with the guruplug would be the external USB disks

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Anna
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: martin wrote: Good question. Could we run Paul's power daemon configured to dim screen completely if there is no VT user actvity? yes, that would probably work. there's no X11 requirement in kbdshim or powerd. but to be

[Server-devel] Manual for install XS over Debian

2010-03-02 Thread José David Calderón Serrano
Somebody tell me that the developers of XS use Debian. I'm interested in a manual of how to do for use a Debian server for do a implementation in this way. In El Salvador want to use for the security, and we want to know if a manual exists for do that in a Debian server. -- Atentamente: José

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:40 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are. Not many. There are good bootable images for F11/F12 on ARM. Current XS is on F9, for which I haven't

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: For some reason I find it humorous that we actually have to rebuild erlang, not ejabberd-xs...   But erlang has already been rebuilt, as it is standard with Fedora. Good point. Erlang is in the arm repos. The ejabberd-xs

Re: [Server-devel] Manual for install XS over Debian

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: What we can do here is help you understand how to do things in Fedora. It's not particularly hard ;-) Eveything starts at wiki.laptop.org -- follow the link that says School Server. m --

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:00:50PM -0600, Anna wrote: I'd appreciate a command to blank the screen. Your subject line mentions the backlight, and blanking the screen is potentially a different task. I've tested an XO-1 with build 802b1. If you mean the backlight, you can manually control this