Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-04-02 Thread David Leeming
Martin, My current procedure with Internet connection is as follows yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-free-stable.rpm yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-nonfree-stable.rpm yum install -y gstreamer-plugins-ugly yum install -y gstreamer-ffmpeg Each of the stages above (even the locali

Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-04-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:51 AM, David Leeming wrote: > I am interested in trying this out, as I am going to be doing some teacher > training workshops in remote PNG areas where there is no Internet access. the quickest, surest path is use yumdownloader --resolve to grab all the rpms, and have the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Local server equivalent of "jabber.sugarlabs.org"

2012-04-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Ajay Garg's message of 2012-03-29 06:55:19 +0200: > I am wanting to play around with a Jabber server, which is same in the > basics as "jabber.sugarlabs.org". > So, what should I install locally? jabberd? ejabberd? any other server? Depends on what exactly you want. Possibilities:

[Sugar-devel] Cautions on using a f17 beta DVD to upgrade a f16 hard disk installed with sugar-desktop

2012-04-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caution; Just using the f17 Beta DVD to do an upgrade from f16 to f17 will leave an incomplete upgrade. DVD upgrade of F16 - to F17 requires "yum update" on Reboot to complete. [1] This is a very large update. There is no indication after you reboot after the DVD upgrade that this is required.

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Don't treat SSID as UTF-8 character sequence (fixes SL#2023)

2012-04-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
IEEE 802.11 [2] defines the SSID as a sequence of octets (i.e. bytes), but Sugar treated it as UTF-8 character data. While in most cases the SSID is actually some human-readable string, there's neither a guarantee for that nor does any (de-facto or de-jure) standard specify the encoding to use. As

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Fix Traceback when connecting to a network for the first time

2012-04-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
When connecting to a network that we don't have settings for yet, the following Traceback was logged: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 586, in msg_reply_handler reply_handler(*message.get_args_list(**get_args_opts)) TypeErro

Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

2012-04-02 Thread David Leeming
-Original Message- From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Mark Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 4:03 p.m. To: Kevin Mark Cc: David Leeming; 'Sugar devel' Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on

Re: [Sugar-devel] MP4 playback on XO-1.75?

2012-04-02 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:34:26AM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just tried playing back the downloaded version of the recent > littleBits TED > > talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/ > > ayah_bdeir_building_blocks_that_bl