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

2009-08-26 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:50:12AM -0400, Steven M. Parrish wrote: > All normal warnings apply. This is development code. Please report any > issues you may have. I tried flashing os6 to NAND. It boots until X comes up, then it gets stuck on a white screen. I am experiencing the same problem w

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

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/8/27 Yioryos Asprobounitis : > I had this issue with os5 (see "...-swap" posts above in the   > fedora-olpc-list). It is something not related to swap but is happening often > enough. Usually after 1-3 attempts removing all peripherals (and overclocking > :) recovers and boots fine. Didn't h

Re: [Sugar-devel] erasing the journal and config

2009-08-26 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Sameer Verma wrote: > So, here's my request. Can someone whip up an activity that does the > following: In my view, this is not appropriate for an Activity. Sugar Activities are not for managing the system. Also, as you noted, if Rainbow is active then this is difficult or impossible, and this

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

2009-08-26 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Q2E18, haven't noticed how old it was. :) Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > Which version of Open Firmware are you using? > > Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: >> Thanks for your reply  Mitch. >> >> Even thought, i pressed the '√' gamepad button at boot

[Sugar-devel] erasing the journal and config

2009-08-26 Thread Sameer Verma
I posed this question on OLPC Support Gang earlier and got responses that its not possible to do so under bitfrost and rainbow. === "Hello everybody, We have a lending library at SFSU, ready to go, but we need to have a way to erase the config and journal every time the XO comes b

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

2009-08-26 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Thanks for your reply Mitch. Even thought, i pressed the '√' gamepad button at boot the system does not pass from loading ramdisk, can any body build a new F11 on XO .img with the solution propossed by Mitch ? wmb: The solution for this is to add "dcon-unfreeze unfreeze" to /boot/olpc.fth, some

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

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fox
mitch wrote: > It's probably the same thing as the first item in > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rawhide-XO#Known_issues > > We made "pretty boot" the default in later versions of Open Firmware, > but many alternative operating systems don't know how to "unfreeze" the > screen. i doubt that'

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

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Yioryos, On 26 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > Thank you. > > Now olpc-powerd works as advertised. Kudos. However the problem with > the overlap with the GNOME PM remains. > > I guess the X-server and Gnome power management updates also did > not affect the battery moni

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

2009-08-26 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello i was trying these instructions (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1) on an XO-1 for the new build, but the booting gets stuck on loading the ramdisk image is there something else i should be doing ?. Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > Than

[Sugar-devel] temporary bug workaround: prebuilt hulahop .debs available for ubuntu 9 i386 architecture

2009-08-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
there's a bug been reported from various sources about the sugar-hulahop .debs for ubuntu, which successfully build but don't actually install, indicating that whoever built them for ubuntu didn't actually bother to ... install them. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar-hulahop/+bu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:43, Eben Eliason wrote: >> You really do need to upgrade ;-p > > I know! I've been waiting to figure out how to get the latest releases > flashed onto my XOs. The last time I looked I didn't see clear > instructions for doing so. Any pointers? :-) Good timing (see

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:09, Jim Simmons wrote: > >> Eben, >> >> I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files >> from removable media and I think I have a workable plan.  Before I >> describe it I'd like to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
I think I'm looking in the right place, but the info isn't as readily available as I'd hoped. I'm looking here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC In particular, I'm looking at options 2 and 3. The third says it's not yet supported. The second says it's not fully suppo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:09, Jim Simmons wrote: > Eben, > > I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files > from removable media and I think I have a workable plan. Before I > describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code > will show objects on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:43:54AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > > You really do need to upgrade ;-p > > I know! I've been waiting to figure out how to get the latest releases > flashed onto my XOs. The last time I looked I didn't see clear >

[Sugar-devel] New F11 for the XO-1 Build 6

2009-08-26 Thread Steven M. Parrish
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/ The main point of this release is to ensure that only 0.84 compatible activities are downloaded from ASLO. here are the file differences since os5 -atlas-sse-3.8.3-7.fc11.i586 +atlas-sse-3.8.3-4.fc11.i586 -cup

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Eben, > > On 26 Aug 2009, at 14:53, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Sascha >> Silbe wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:41:28AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> The public API is the POSIX one, though I d

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Jim Simmons
Eben, I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files from removable media and I think I have a workable plan. Before I describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code will show objects on the root directory of a thumb drive. It won't show *anything* on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Etoys packages

2009-08-26 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 26.08.2009, at 14:53, Gavin Romig-Koch wrote: > > On 08/26/2009 08:27 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > I keep forgetting to copy Gavin on new release announcements. But then, I > can't possibly cc all the package maintainers for all the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Etoys packages

2009-08-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 26.08.2009, at 14:53, Gavin Romig-Koch wrote: On 08/26/2009 08:27 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: I keep forgetting to copy Gavin on new release announcements. But then, I can't possibly cc all the package maintainers for all the distros out there (unless they subscribe to an etoys-announ

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:41:28AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> The public API is the POSIX one, though I don't know how this will be >> affected by future versions of Rainbow. > > I can't find anything regarding mount points in POSIX 2001.

Re: [Sugar-devel] buildslave2.sugarlabs.org unreachable

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:41:00AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:29, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:24, Sascha > > Silbe wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02:29AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> > >>> Anybody knows what's up with buildslave2.sugarl

Re: [Sugar-devel] Etoys packages

2009-08-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 26.08.2009, at 12:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:48, Bert > Freudenberg wrote: >> On 26.08.2009, at 11:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> >>> Btw, can we update the rawhide package for etoys? >> >> I don't even know what "rawhide" is but sure, go ahead. Or am I >> misunderstan

Re: [Sugar-devel] [karma] early draft of karma presentation

2009-08-26 Thread Lucian Branescu
You could send strings for function blocks that can later be eval-ed. But the eval itself might slow things down a lot. You can also send JSON objects between workers. Some browsers serialise the JSON to string and then re-eval it, others send the actual object. About shared data, try to stay away

Re: [Sugar-devel] Etoys packages (was Re: [IAEP] Labyrinth)

2009-08-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:48, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 26.08.2009, at 11:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:41, Bert >> Freudenberg wrote: >>> On 26.08.2009, at 03:22, Gary C Martin wrote: >>> -- Feature roadmap/Concept maps: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roa

[Sugar-devel] Etoys packages (was Re: [IAEP] Labyrinth)

2009-08-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 26.08.2009, at 11:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:41, Bert > Freudenberg wrote: >> On 26.08.2009, at 03:22, Gary C Martin wrote: >> >>> -- Feature roadmap/Concept maps: >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Concept_maps >>> >>> Me, me, ME!! ;-) No, actually Tomeu

Re: [Sugar-devel] buildslave2.sugarlabs.org unreachable

2009-08-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:29, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:24, Sascha > Silbe wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02:29AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> Anybody knows what's up with buildslave2.sugarlabs.org ? >> >> Nop, but it hasn't been updated lately anyway because we n

Re: [Sugar-devel] buildslave2.sugarlabs.org unreachable

2009-08-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:24, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02:29AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> Anybody knows what's up with buildslave2.sugarlabs.org ? > > Nop, but it hasn't been updated lately anyway because we now have > buildslave-fedora-11-32bit. Is there a reason you'

[Sugar-devel] buildslave2.sugarlabs.org unreachable

2009-08-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Anybody knows what's up with buildslave2.sugarlabs.org ? Thanks, Tomeu [to...@zviratko ~]$ ping buildslave2.sugarlabs.org PING sugarlabs2.xen.prgmr.com (216.218.223.77) 56(84) bytes of data. >From LaFrance-Internet-Services.gigabitethernet3-15.core1.fmt1.he.net (66.220.10.126) icmp_seq=2 Destina

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

2009-08-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 15:40, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Christian Schmidt > wrote: >> >> >> From: Tomeu Vizoso [mailto:to...@sugarlabs.org] >> To: Daniel Drake [mailto:d...@laptop.org] >> Cc: Gary C Martin [mailto:g...@garycmartin.com]