If you are still having trouble, make a copy of the Live CD for your wife. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Live_Cd It boots and runs TamTam fine on my Linux Laptop, on Windows PCs, and even on x86 Macs. I find TamTam and eToys to be the best programs to demo at conferences and user group meetings.
On 8/19/07, imm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > > Sorry for the noise - the following questions are probably all > embarrassingly obvious to every one but me. And this is probably the > wrong list to ask on anyway... > > But here goes: First, my state so far. > > My wife's a music educator, working with younger kids, and I am > trying to get TamTam running for her to try out. My initial idea was > to make it as much like the XO environment as I could manage, so I > installed FC7 on an old ITX PC I had, then used sugar-jhbuild update/ > build/run to get a working "XO" running in Xephyr. This seems to have > been largely successful. > However, the default sugar-jhbuild checkout does not include TamTam, > so I then git cloned TamTam from the repo and manually copied that > into a TamTam.activity folder in my built tree. > When I run my "XO" I see the TamTam icon, but launching it (usually) > the icon appears and pulses, with a tooltip that says "Starting..." > pretty much indefinitely. No activity appears, and there is no sound. > Sometimes, the icon stops pulsing then disappears, and the speakers > start buzzing. No activity appears. > > Clearly, then, I am doing something wrong. Now, some questions. > > - I had a trawl around the wiki before I started this. I didn't find > any instructions to get this working - is it (as I suspect) there and > I just missed it? If so, where, please? > > - If I start TamTam from the developer console using sugar-activity, > I get roughly the same behaviour, but I also see that TamTam is > complaining it can't load the sounds. Which is fair enough, as I > don't seem to have them. I don't see the sound files in the git tree > either - where do I get them? (Actually, I think I saw something > about this in my wiki/mailinglist reading earlier, but can not now > find the reference...) > > - I'm using the csound that's on my machine - should I be getting an > olpc specific csound from the repo and using that? If so, how do I > install it in my build tree? > > - Would I be better off just trying to run TamTam "natively" on the > linux box? If so, pointers as to how to do that would be very welcome > (although I'd prefer the sugar setup if possible.) > > (drifting OT now) > > - When I run sugar-jhbuild build, I get errors flagged at build (and > install) of libabiword-plugins, and errors flagged installing chat- > activity - is this normal? I assume it is because the master tree is > in constant flux and I just caught it at a bad time? > > - Is it possible to (e.g.) set git checkout stable and get sugar- > jhbuild to checkout and use the last stable tree rather than the > changeable master tree? (I know nothing about jhbuild, or how it does > what it does - seems quite impressive though!) Would that be a better > way to go, or is the master tree the preferred set to be working with? > > Right - well that was longer than I intended. Please be gentle when > telling me I'm an idiot and have missed some really obvious reference... > > TIA > -- > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Earth_Treasury WIRE AFRICA http//www.wireafrica.org/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin
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