On 14.10.2010, at 02:38, tom.staub...@fhtw-berlin.de wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >> (I'm copying the olpc devel list) >> >> On 12.10.2010, at 07:58, tom.staub...@fhtw-berlin.de wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm currently experimenting with Etoys' audio recorder on the XO. >>> It seems to be broken on the XO-1.5. >>> >>> While it works (more or less) ok on several XO-1s, all of them have a fresh >>> install of System 10.1.2/Sugar 0.84, it completely fails on the XO-1.5, >>> running the same System/Sugar version. >>> >>> Following is a description of what happens: >>> I create a new project, open the supplies box, fetch a Sound Recorder, and >>> place it somewhere on stage. >>> I press the record button, the microphone control light lights up and I'm >>> able to record about a second or two. Then Etoys gets kind of stuck. It is >>> hard to move the mouse cursor, stop the recording, remove the recorder... >>> It takes some time, then Etoys starts to be responding again and I'm able >>> to delete the recorder. Even if the recorder is deleted the microphone >>> control light still keeps burning until Etoys is finally stopped. >>> >>> I wrote more or less ok as on both XO's the quality of the audio is less >>> than satisfactory. Also the level of the recording is very low. Maybe a >>> control to adjust the input level might be a means to improve this. >>> >>> If this list should not be the appropriate address for reports like this, >>> please tell me and give me directions where to go to instead. >> >> The squeakland list is okay to report Etoys problems. If you are fine with a >> more technical discussion, the etoys-dev list is even better: >> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev >> >> Your report sounds like this issue: >> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-641 >> >> So we are aware of it, and there is a solution. But we (Etoys developers) do >> not build the XO operating system nor the Etoys/Squeak packages used there. >> To actually fix this for OLPC users in general, the packaging needs to >> change (in particular to fix older versions). The OLPC developers list is >> more appropriate to discuss that: >> >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> There are open tickets on the OLPC tracker too: >> >> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9724 >> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9527 > > Thanks for the links. I'll check the bug trackers next time before reporting.
We just did an update to the 4.1 release which might fix this, provided a "good" Squeak VM package is installed. >> Currently we have nobody driving the process of getting this fixed. But >> volunteer positions are always open, maybe you are interested in helping >> out? :) >> >> - Bert - > Any other time I'd say yes. But I'm currently writing my master's thesis, > have a couple of day time jobs, and a newborn baby. So I hardly will find the > time to actually fix stuff. > What I can offer to do though, is reporting bugs or issues that occur to me > while I'm doing research for my thesis. That is very valuable, too. Thank you! - Bert -
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