[Sugar-devel] testers wanted: grab keys, and touchpad rotation

2009-03-04 Thread Paul Fox
it on my thinkpad all week. it turns out the blue Fn key in the corner can be used as a modifier, so that plus my trackstick gives 2D scrolling -- it came in very handy for looking at the bootchart images this morning. =- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma

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

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
. 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 =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

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 p...@laptop.org: 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 1. What effect does this have? see man xset as a reference

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

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
it gets loaded, but i think that will happen by itself. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Fox
in README.txt too.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] New F11 for the XO-1 Build 6

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: csound on Fedora 11 and rawhide

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 for XO-1 (was Re: Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94)

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Design mockup of a different activity launcher

2009-10-17 Thread Paul Fox
visual paradigm could be mostly preserved, but in a way that might be much cheaper to render. [1] paul [1] says he who hasn't even looked at the problem. =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO 1.5 hang on Type your name screen

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-01 Thread Paul Fox
is. If any of these are not to your liking, the time to speak up is now, before it all happens. :) =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-01 Thread Paul Fox
luke wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:19, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: * bugs.sugarlabs.org is moving from Trac to Launchpad. * Existing bug data will be imported, but the bug numbers won't be the same. what happens to bug numbers (i.e., referring to other bugs

Re: [Sugar-devel] Terminal.xo patch: do not die if the cwd is gone

2009-11-03 Thread paul fox
, m -- =- paul fox, pgf at laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Fox
- don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p

Re: [Sugar-devel] F11 for the XO - Build 9 issues

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Fox
(unless you've applied the patch from #9687). it's causing several of the symptoms i've seen reported. i'll commit the fix shortly. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Scrollbar width

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Fox
if the olpc-kbdshim package is installed. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] RFC: change to XO sleep behavior

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fox
wakeable from keyboard that are visually indistinguishable? is it worth adding yet another LED blink behavior to differentiate these states? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: change to XO sleep behavior

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fox
isaac wrote: On 03/23/10 15:16, Paul Fox wrote: are you comfortable having two laptop states: - dark screen wakeable from keyboard - dark screen _not_ wakeable from keyboard that are visually indistinguishable? by the way, if you have entered dark

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for shutdown/reboot

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for shutdown/reboot

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Fox
james wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:37:54PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: so, can someone tell me (gently) why either of these techniques is better than simply invoking /bin/reboot or /bin/shutdown? (other than the fact that those will work even if hal isn't running?) Lets Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Fox
that in the codebase. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for

2010-04-25 Thread Paul Fox
to be taking over the platform. As bad as it may seem, now at least we've got a unified IPC system with a consistent security model across many different daemons. unified, perhaps, except that access from shell (last i looked) was fairly inadequate. paul =- paul fox, p

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for shutdown/reboot

2010-04-25 Thread Paul Fox
and power off. As we're there, how do we get rid of the useless UL screen with its ugly inverted color scheme? i believe the UL screen is mandated, but i don't know the details. i.e., we may not have a choice. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Default ad-hoc networks

2010-05-03 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Default ad-hoc networks

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Fox
becomes the only member? again, due to the anonymous nature of ad-hoc networks, i'm not sure i see the importance of this. and we don't provide similar indication for the mesh. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Default ad-hoc networks

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Fox
., the opposite of managed or requiring infrastructure. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Default ad-hoc networks

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Fox
simon wrote: On 05/06/2010 02:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: simon wrote: Did we settle on the naming of the network. I was in favor of 'local network' as that mimics well the range of the network for me. James meant that this could be confused with 'localhost', if I remember

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Fox
a stylus, for instance, and a fair amount of pressure. but it's predictable, which is something you can't really say for capacitive mode. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Supporting Sugar .88 on the XO1

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Fox
the touch command -- the touch could change to opening the file for writing, then closing. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Fixes to the record UI

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Fox
offscreen to resize or else we get flashes on # screen, and setting hide() doesn't allow resize moves paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Displaying the current status of system resources (such as memory, cpu)

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Permission problems and accessing usb dispositive

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Make initial DCON unfreeze conditional on the presence of a DCON.

2010-06-27 Thread Paul Fox
already. except that the the current calls are pretty ohm-specific, aren't they? (i haven't looked at them in a while.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Add cpu and memory resource indicator to frame

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Fox
cpu_free = (idle + iowait) * 100 / sum(cpu_times_current) =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Restart

2010-07-17 Thread Paul Fox
bernie wrote: El Fri, 16-07-2010 a las 08:40 -0400, Paul Fox escribió: if so, it's the first large-scale usage of the new suspend-or-shutdown menu, so i'm interested in reaction to that. for instance -- is shutdown really the most often used menu item, now that the machine can

Re: [Sugar-devel] behaviour of F-keys on XO HS

2010-07-19 Thread Paul Fox
-07-2010 a las 23:08 -0400, Paul Fox escribió: i think everyone (except apple, i'm learning tonight) agrees this is the correct setup when not in sugar. Lenovo also seems to be switching to the Apple layout: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01

Re: [Sugar-devel] behaviour of F-keys on XO HS

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Fox
in order for all the characters to work correctly. i don't know if there's a programming API lurking under the covers in setxkbmap -print, or not. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-07-28 Thread Paul Fox
builds, not in Sugar mainline. can you remind me of the specific issue(s) here? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Fox
@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Fox
walter wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: walter wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:27 AM, pbrobin...@gmail.com pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-07-30 Thread Paul Fox
+node_file_handle.write(value) +node_file_handle.close() On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: walter wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: walter wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:27 AM, pbrobin...@gmail.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-08-02 Thread Paul Fox
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[Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

2010-08-06 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
. :-) pre-linking has been in the builds for some time, i believe. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] touchpad mode selection

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Fox
normal mode). the more i think about it, the more i think that's a good idea. what do other people (who, hopefully have tried both modes) think? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/2006/0001-touchpad

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dbus signal when ebook switch is activated

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Dbus signal when ebook switch is activated

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Fox
as a special key. we're talking about the ebook switch, which is an open or closed magnetic sensor that can tell you when the screen is fully folded into the ebook position. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dbus signal when ebook switch is activated

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Fox
not the case -- if focus isn't on the text area, then you're stuck, and have to open the laptop to click. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] prevent screen rotation in a sugar activity?

2010-12-13 Thread Paul Fox
the older instance. i click on it, and annoyingly, i have to yet again change my hold on the laptop. perhaps this is smooth/seamless on an iphone or android, but i'm having trouble picturing it on an XO. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] pygame activities stop XO sleep?

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Fox
: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4371 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] pygame activities stop XO sleep?

2011-01-02 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: Moving Sugar to GPLv3+

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Fox
for moving sugar to GPL3, but somehow i think there must be more to it. i.e., what exactly are the arguments in favor of _sugar_ changing licenses? i have no stake in this decision at all -- i'm just wondering about the why. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO-1 touchpad [EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay; Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 6]

2011-05-03 Thread Paul Fox
them? i can't remember if there's still an appropriate trac ticket open -- if not, create a new one. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release I know America-2

2011-08-21 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Control Panel About my Computer: show information on XO 1.75 OLPC #11232

2011-09-29 Thread Paul Fox
-tree/banner-name, right? That was my understanding. Discussion I had was with Paul Fox on 16th August, and had to do with keymap rules and the need to not parse the text, but rather support equivalence checking. It was first available in Q4B08. olpc-utils [1] should be updated

Re: [Sugar-devel] Adding git to Sugar platform?

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES] Display Device

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
Regards, Simon [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Display_Device ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

[Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES] Display Device

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
peter wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: El 21/11/11 15:18, Paul Fox escribió: simon wrote: Hi, I would like to propose the following Feature to enhance the Sugar learning environment: Add a frame

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
)) /sys/devices/platform/dcon/monochrome don =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display#The_theory =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: On 21.11.2011, at 15:22, Paul Fox wrote: it quickly became clear (to me, at least) that it would be confusing if user-dimming behaved differently than auto-backlight-control, with respect to monochrome mode. whether or not it's confusing to the user, it's definitely

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
the sensor, the circuitry behind it, the concept of hysteresis, energy conservation (tie in the battery power meter), contrast, and industrial controls. =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES] Display Device

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/power/gsd-backlig ht-helper.c ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Fox
i wrote: please try os12, when available, and see how it feels. i'm afraid the necessary firmware didn't make the deadline for os12, so you'll need to either wait for os13, or q4c05 firmware, whichever comes first. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Fox
at the end of set_brightness() and brightness_ramp(). paul Tony ___ Devel mailing list de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Fox
in powerd? Line 1793 looked like it was going to be the culprit. no, i coded it in /usr/bin/olpc-brightness. the code in powerd is there for suspend dimming, and now, auto-backlight turnoff. thanks, paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Fox
://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: On 24.11.2011, at 16:09, Paul Fox wrote: bert wrote: Today is a sunny day in cold Germany, unlike in the first half of the week. So I took the 1.75 outside. IMHO the auto-off is fine as implemented in os12. Not distracting at all. Someone suggested

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Fox
kevin wrote: I too will test this weekend. Silly q: should I test both sugar and gnome, or just sugar? by all means, try both. it should work on VT console screens, too. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: On 24.11.2011, at 17:23, Paul Fox wrote: bert wrote: So I would rather not add that extra step below 0. okay, i'm fine with that -- i was on the fence. but i think you and gary are saying two slightly different things. you're saying that the manual

Re: [Sugar-devel] automatic backlight control

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: - hitting brightness down one more time when at level 0 will switch to mono. users that use auto-repeat to get there probably won't see a difference. as discussed on this thread on friday (i think

Re: [Sugar-devel] USB permissions for educational robots

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] USB permissions for educational robots

2012-01-22 Thread Paul Fox
, but don't know, that this would not be hard to implement. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Disable the XO keyboard

2012-03-11 Thread Paul Fox
Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Disable the XO keyboard

2012-03-11 Thread Paul Fox
is supported in 1.75 firmware. but that's the only incompatibility i know of. paul Gonzalo On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: walter wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez a...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hello

Re: [Sugar-devel] Disable the XO keyboard

2012-03-12 Thread Paul Fox
the touchpad. Won't have to type a thing! Before I go experimenting with this though, I was hoping someone could let me know what commands should be run to re-enable the keyboard! Danny Iland On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: walter wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] Some questions about root and olpc logins.

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-26 Thread Paul Fox
benefit from keeping it powered during sleep. Tony =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-26 Thread Paul Fox
.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-26 Thread Paul Fox
jerry wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:54 -0400, Paul Fox wrote: jerry wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:44 +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: David This message was sent with a gsm dongle on an xo-1 modem:Huawei E160E carrier:Locked to Dodo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-27 Thread Paul Fox
of view), then press the power button to wake the laptop, the dongle is briefly turned off and the connection is lost, negating any benefit from keeping it powered during sleep. Tony =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Fox
- ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Fox
this, and get back to you once done. Thanks a ton Regards, Ajay On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: martin wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Ajay Garg ajaygargn...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that the number of packets

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Fox
on a patch by Paul Fox p...@laptop.org. Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe si...@activitycentral.com Signed-off-by: John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com - The reason we've not gone the module parameter route so far (in Dextrose 3) is that we didn't want to divert from upstream (OLPC

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Fox
kevin wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: sascha wrote: i've cherry-picked 65a5f2b3 onto olpc-2.6.35, and the autobuilder did the rest. this implements a new libertas_disablemesh module parameter which should keep mesh from being

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Sugar] Inhibit power suspend while playing text to speech - OLPC #11830

2012-05-09 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Sugar] Inhibit power suspend while playing text to speech - OLPC #11830

2012-05-09 Thread Paul Fox
gonzalo wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i would much prefer that we could prevent suspend during any audio playback, rather than have to have anyone that wants to make noise do it individually. But this should be done at a lower level

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Terminal activity, become root functionality issues

2012-06-19 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] How to disable Authentication Required By Wireless Network popup in Fedora 17

2012-06-20 Thread Paul Fox
for being unclear the last time around. Thanks and Regards, Ajay On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: ajay wrote: Any ideas ? Please, Please. i'm confused. when i get that dialog, it's because that network is secured, and requires

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Help Button with useful commands

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] XO-hang on 1.75-touch

2012-11-28 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Locations for bitfrost src-rpm packages

2012-12-19 Thread Paul Fox
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [TRANSIENT] Peer XOs NOT shown in Neighborhood view when Power Management is enabled

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Fox
match on the longer string of zeros:14B6 in /proc/net/tcp6 and not check both files for speed. why would ipv4 backward compatibility not be a concern? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

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