Re: xo-1 os300 -- switch off mesh?

2010-07-12 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to tweak the os300 build so that it brings up the > Libertas device just as eth0 (and doesn't enable the 802.11s features > in the firmware)? was there a way to do that in 802? paul =--------- paul

Re: Disabling powersaving temporarily from olpc-session?

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Fox
f the session. i.e., in olpc-session, do: touch /var/run/powerd-inhibit-suspend/$$ there's no need to clean up, so the exec at the end of olpc-session isn't a problem. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Permission problems and accessing usb dispositive

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Fox
v/ttyACM0 we see that the its access permission is uucp > > while > > the group of our activity is olpc. > > > > Using chmod o=rw /dev/ttyACM0 solves the problem. > > > > Thanks again > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: F11-0.88 os260py

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Fox
the mouse cursor over that area it > redraws the toolbar with some garbage. > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: libertas vs. suspend (was: [IAEP] F11-0.88 os260py)

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Fox
thout a lot of actual discovery. :-) i think there are several issues, at least a couple of which have to do with races between suspend/resume and other driver activity. (e.g. #10176) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Fox
;proper" places. paul > > Best regards, > Tiago > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > tiago wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Will you be keeping that arrow key arrangement or is it still a > >

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Fox
://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Testing] F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate 2

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Fox
some information on what was going on before the hang. paul > > > Might also be worth running memtest from OFW as well, just to exclude > > certain other causes. > > Ran memtest (from 30m up as Richard suggested), passed, no errors. > > I also took ou

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Fox
n? it would have to run our kernel -- or, at least, a rebuilt ubuntu kernel that included our drivers. a lot of work was done for ubuntu on XO-1. much of that work might be applicable as well. i don't have a link handy, i'm afraid. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: Am now getting a "zero dot" hang on my XO-1.5

2010-06-11 Thread Paul Fox
-old) kernel. XO-1.5 B2. Q3A39C. so, what's the sequence for repeating? once you clear the problem, how do you make it happen again? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Reason for the "one dot" hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Fox
t; > to be reverted from the new kernel. > > good catch, good call. commit 8815ea29a9bcbab2a3c7fbc28987cac67c2c41d0 > is a revert for 6d77444aca298b43a88086be446f943cd0442ef7, and is present > in the testing branch (i.e., XO-1 802 and earlier), but not in our > current 2.6.31

Re: Reason for the "one dot" hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Fox
atch, good call. commit 8815ea29a9bcbab2a3c7fbc28987cac67c2c41d0 is a revert for 6d77444aca298b43a88086be446f943cd0442ef7, and is present in the testing branch (i.e., XO-1 802 and earlier), but not in our current 2.6.31 branch. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _

Re: Alternative option for solving Fedora i686 vs geode problems

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Fox
purposes. > > John > > > > > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: create new XO-1 build with Gnash update?

2010-06-06 Thread Paul Fox
ter releases (0.88 on F11) linked to from here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Sugar-0.88_Notes (but they're not "official", nor signed.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Flash,Gnash,AIR: which builds to test against?

2010-06-06 Thread Paul Fox
nscripters > http://www.phlashers.com > -- > poverty is violence > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: What's the current status of suspend/resume?

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Fox
that manifests itself during s/r. i'm hoping to start looking at it seriously soon. as i recall, reproducing it isn't an issue. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sound troubles

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Fox
r process goes away. paul > > Thx, > Thomas > > -----Message d'origine- > De : Paul Fox [mailto:p...@laptop.org] > Envoyé : June-03-10 3:32 PM > À : Thomas PLESSIS > Cc : devel > Objet : Re: Sound troubles > > thomas wrote: > > Hi guy

Re: Sound troubles

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Fox
de examples pointed to in the last comment on #10168 -- i.e., by handling alsa's -ESTRPIPE error condition properly. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Testing] os240py - collaboration over wireless

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Fox
> > Both the iptables and ip6tables sysvinit services are disabled in > osXXXpy. a bit off-topic, but just fyi -- i know you have power management disabled, but when enabled, powerd wants to use iptables to do network activity tracking. paul =--

Re: [PATCH] Fix ethtool reporting no WOL options supported if WOL is not already active

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Fox
KE_UCAST; > if (priv->wol_criteria & EHS_WAKE_ON_MULTICAST_DATA) > -- > 1.6.5 > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [support-gang] XO 1.5 troubles: Touchpad has become non-responsive after an update

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
3. Change "sugar" to "gnome" > > 4. Save and reboot > > > > Non-shell-users: Note the period at the start of .olpc-active-desktop. > > Interesting. There is no such file on my XO-1.5 (nor on any XO-1). > > Is that because I normally

Re: Dead Production WLAN card

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
es it affect the output of iwconfig. i don't actually know what it really does do. (annoyingly, unchecking the applet's "Enable Networking" disables networking in a way that i can't undo. oh -- restarting gnome seems to fix it.) paul =- paul f

Re: Dead Production WLAN card

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Fox
regular basis to their XO-1.5 ? to be clear, the mechanism he was using wasn't via NM, but via the sugar network control panel "Radio" checkbox. (that checkbox is directly hooked up to the shell command "rfkill un/block wifi".) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Fox
directly from X (perhaps via xset, or perhaps more directly). paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: F11 on XO-1: keyboard + mouse not responding.

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Fox
le-suspend -- the system will suspend after 15 seconds of inactivity. because of wireless bugs, it may not wake up correctly, and the system will lock up. this doesn't match up with your USB experience, but i don't think i've ever tried a USB keyboard aft

touchpad woes: quick fix?

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Fox
arts. but the touchpad do, unfortunately, work reasonably well in our typically climate-controlled office. =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-12 Thread Paul Fox
erring specifically to the 1.5's current lack of wake-on-arp (thank you for making me realize there's no specific bug open for this issue -- though it's buried in #9535), and also to bug #9960, which describes a fairly serious bug in our wake-on-wlan behavior. > > I don'

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-11 Thread Paul Fox
suspicious in terms of unwanted suspends during both video and audio playback that need to be looked into. but the biggest problem area in terms of suspending and not coming back is the network, and without "wake-on-precisely-what-i'm-waiting-for", that's problema

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-11 Thread Paul Fox
ning. so it's hard to tell a real disconnected from a "transient" disconnected. i think the right solution, at least until we understand the root cause of #9854, is simply to inhibit idle suspend for a full 60 seconds after waking from led or power button sleep. this change wil

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Fox
present a > reliable idle-suspend system, IMO) > > Daniel > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Fox
smith wrote: > On 05/10/2010 10:38 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > > 2. The machine suspends frequently while it is loading a web page, and > > > does not wake up, meaning that the web page doesn't finish loading > > > until you realise what's ha

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Fox
timeout from 15 seconds to 15 minutes. I managed to > persuade them not to do this until we've actually seen how it holds up > in the hands of actual users (children) but in the mean time they will > be increasing that timeout to 60 seconds in order to soften the blow. &

Re: Fwd: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-08 Thread Paul Fox
; > The heatspreader I can hack with a heatpipe and some coolers, I'm going to > do it anyway since it is already going to 85ºC in load. The speed is of some > use to me most of the time, I'm just worried that the VRM can't handle the > extra current. > > Best regards, > Tiago > > > > > > -- > > > > Richard A. Smith > > One Laptop per Child > > ___ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Fox
i wrote: > expected. can you make one of your ogg samples available? feel free > to attach it to a bug against powerd. never mind -- i found it in one of your other bugs. (and it seems to take even more cpu than my sample.) paul =- paul fox, p...@lapt

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Fox
st, as used by olpc-update, and also unused (unneeded) patches against the Distance activity attached to: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10036 paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Fox
t's fun watching the powertop numbers change. =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH (V2) 0/3] battery: add properties required by UPower

2010-05-01 Thread Paul Fox
thanks sascha! these look good. i'll apply soon. paul sascha wrote: > After some research and comments from Paul Fox and Richard Smith (thanks!) > I've revised and split up the patch. > > Changes: > - calculate CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN based on technology and

firmware release q3a37 for XO-1.5

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Fox
paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New keyboard layouts

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Fox
'search'. Should the 'frame' function be assigned to the F5 > >>>> key, since on external keyboards the F5 key might be easier to locate ? > >>>> > >>>> mikus > >>>> > >>>> ________

Re: New keyboard layouts

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Fox
n use case... probably not but I don't do deployments :| yes, i agree. unlike F1-F4, the F9-F12 keys are captured and don't produce their traditional keycodes. we need to do something about that. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New keyboard layouts

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Fox
> could all be a single key, because they are never used together. If > the keyboard controller would turn altgr+left into Home (etc.), there > should be no regression of functionality, even under windows. > > --Ben > > ___ > Devel ma

Re: New keyboard layouts

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Fox
tiago wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > tiago wrote: > > > I must ask, what's the default behavior of function keys in the new > > layout? > > > Fn changes them to F keys, or are they F keys without Fn pressed? >

Re: New keyboard layouts

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Fox
s.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Q3a36c.rom

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Fox
a couple of weeks ago. the changes between the two releases aren't major, but it would probably be best if richard's q3a36c.rom stayed north of the equator until we release a 'd' or a 37. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 121

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 4/26/10, Paul Fox wrote: > > > From: Paul Fox > > Subject: Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 121 > > To: "Martin Langhoff" > > Cc: "Devel" , "Fedora OLPC" > , "Tiago Marques"

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 121

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Fox
ernel change happened a release or two ago. the needed change is a conf file in /etc/modprobe.d, which will come in with a new olpc-utils. paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 120

2010-04-24 Thread Paul Fox
-1.fc11.noarch > > -xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.904-6.1.fc11.i586 > > +xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.904-6.2.fc11.i586 > > -yp-tools-2.9-6.fc11.i586 > > +yp-tools-2.9-7.fc11.i586 > > ___ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Total power from USB

2010-04-24 Thread Paul Fox
tition onto an external drive. > > > > cheers, > > Sameer > > > > -- > > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > > Associate Professor, Information Systems > > Director, Campus Business Solutions > > San Francisco State University > > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > > http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ > > http://is.sfsu.edu/ > > > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: the old keypad behavior gets too sensitive

2010-04-16 Thread Paul Fox
stephen john smoogen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > stephen john smoogen wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > > > I usually operate my XO with an external USB trackball, and have no > >

Re: the old keypad behavior gets too sensitive

2010-04-16 Thread Paul Fox
hpads, which is what mikus was using. i think this is the first report of serious erratic operation on an XO-1.5. :-/ paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: the old keypad behavior gets too sensitive

2010-04-16 Thread Paul Fox
l pentablet mode. but i've just booted an os13 machine, and for some reason the control for that mode isn't present, which confuses me -- i need to investigate why it isn't in that kernel. in any case, i doubt you'll like it, but you never know. it requires very firm pressur

Re: illusion (Re: tap-to-click feedback)

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Fox
eemed reasonable since the _only_ downside of not doing so was the tap-to-click issue. given the huge problems we'd been having (and still have!) with the previous touchpad, i think tap-to-click seemed very minor by comparison. in any case, i guess

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Fox
by default. correct? (i know that i myself find it annoying. the XO is annoying enough to type on, without having my windows flip out from under me because i have careless thumbs.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 4/15/10, Paul Fox wrote: > > > From: Paul Fox > > Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released > > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > > Cc: "OLPC Devel" , "Fedora OLPC List&qu

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Fox
ad it with os129py > (not > with os140py yet) but I considered it a consequence of my broken camera. > Maybe > not then. > > =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fwd: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Fox
r modifying my own kernel is far lower than for modifying my browser, though the stakes are higher, of course. ;-) the barrier to entry for modifying applications written in a scripting language are lower still, and i'm more likely to do so, or, at least, to examine the code to see why s

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Fox
ependencies don't get created automatically. it must be due to something in your spec file, no? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Fox
ame written in flash, they can't. it's really as simple as that. whether one agrees with the notion that this is important will vary, of course. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Fox
1 AM, Stanley Sokolow > wrote: ... > > interfaces and binding data to them, has an open-source free-to-use (from > > Adobe) compiler, has a free-open-source IDE (FlashDevelop) from a > > community, does this run on the XO? paul =--

Re: Fwd: [IAEP] olpc on southpark

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Fox
eferred to was on the foremost character's head. it's a better green. :-) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: USB keyboard replacement

2010-04-06 Thread Paul Fox
board if i had a choice. it's useable, but still too small. and it lacks a right-hand shift key. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 network disconnection button testing

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Fox
james wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:42:53AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > was it logically necessary to force the disconnect? > > It was more of a side-effect of removing all the connection settings > from the user settings object, and cascading that change through to

Re: XO-1.5 network disconnection button testing

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Fox
try other scenarios, such as whether there is > any impact on wired networking, > > I. report success or failure to the tickets or the mailing list or me. > > Thanks! > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: (fwd) Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Fox
iffs and trace logs if you > think it may help the issue at hand) > > > > > paul > > > > > > > in DIM=180, BLANK=480, SLEEP=600. No huge power > > savings but > > > at least the build is usable. > > > > >

Re: New release of F11 for the XO-1 is available for testing - OS13

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Fox
spam. > > > > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: (fwd) Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Fox
well as powerd.trace. (enable powerd tracing with "sudo powerd-config =trace-on".) paul > in DIM=180, BLANK=480, SLEEP=600. No huge power savings but > at least the build is usable. > > > --- On Sat, 3/27/10, Paul Fox wrote: > > > From: Paul Fox

Re: (fwd) Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Fox
don't know. paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

(fwd) Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Fox
when i reply to my own posts, my mailer screws up. resending with proper headers... (only new info: i've filed #10090) paul i wrote: > Date:Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:44:40 EDT > cc: OLPC Devel , > fedora-olpc-list > From:Paul Fox > Subject: Re: powerd

Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Fox
i wrote: > mathieu wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 16:42, Paul Fox wrote: > > > steven m. parrish wrote: > > >  > OS13 is now available for testing. > > > > I just tried it and am encountering a very annoying issue: if I don't &g

Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: > On 27 March 2010 09:42, Paul Fox wrote: > > in any case, all of this points at having separate default > > configurations for powerd on XO-1 and XO-1.5. i guess this should be > > handled by the rpm install -- but i'm not sure how. (help > >

Re: powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Fox
mathieu wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 16:42, Paul Fox wrote: > > steven m. parrish wrote: > >  > OS13 is now available for testing. > > I just tried it and am encountering a very annoying issue: if I don't > do anything, the screen dims, and everything

powerd on XO-1 (was Re: New release ... OS13 )

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Fox
ts at having separate default configurations for powerd on XO-1 and XO-1.5. i guess this should be handled by the rpm install -- but i'm not sure how. (help appreciated.) thanks again for all your great work! paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Fox
mikus wrote: > > - if the screen is dark, the power button will just wake up the > >laptop > > Please define "dark". Is "dark" different from "dim" ? yes -- "dark" == "off". =- paul fox, p...@lapt

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Fox
just wake up the laptop (or power it up, of course, if it was off). the switch from option 'a' to 'b', i.e., allowing keypresses to wake the laptop from a dark-screen idle-suspend, should have had no effect on this behavior. are you seeing something else?

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 116

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Fox
-xapian-core-libs-1.0.17-1.fc11.i586 > +xapian-core-libs-1.0.18-1.fc11.i586 > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: RFC: change to XO sleep behavior

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Fox
is "awake" (then the user normally wants it > to go into sleep), versus pushing the power button when the system is > "not awake" (then the user normally wants it to come out of sleep). > > Since "going beyond s

Re: RFC: change to XO sleep behavior

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Fox
red down > completely. Please - make sure that it takes a multi-second duration of > the power button to perform a *complete* shutdown. no, definitely not. training users to hold down power buttons is/was a huge mistake, since getting in the habit is a little like parking your car by letting i

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 indistinguishabl

RFC: change to XO sleep behavior

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fox
- dark screen wakeable from keyboard - dark screen _not_ 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 _

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 114

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fox
by all these. So if you > manage to switch you are safe. However, is still a breaker > for me, given that is generated by a gnome panel option. hi yioryos -- perhaps you could file a trac ticket? there is a growing collection of gnome-re

Re: Fix clock instructions updated

2010-03-19 Thread Paul Fox
of the battery available (though hopefully they won't be needed right away). in the meantime, the wiki page should suggest searching for "ml1220 legs" or "ml1220 pins". here's an example of a suitable replacement: http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/602-25682-4052

Re: Powerd comments

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Fox
er and not as root. well, it's a system service. but perhaps something can be done. paul > > Thanks again for all the work on powerd > > james > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.lap

Re: powerd intro

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Fox
g? > > - if on battery, the laptop will auto-shutdown after its been > asleep for 1 hour. if plugged in, it will sleep forever. > > > paul > [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/pleaseconfirm.png (it looks a lot > better centered on the XO screen) &

powerd intro

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Fox
ttp://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/pleaseconfirm.png (it looks a lot better centered on the XO screen) =--------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 112

2010-03-14 Thread Paul Fox
from 10.0.0.164: icmp_seq=104 ttl=64 time=2.27 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.164: icmp_seq=105 ttl=64 time=2.20 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.164: icmp_seq=106 ttl=64 time=2.27 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.164: icmp_seq=107 ttl=64 time=2.19 ms > > (at this point the power LED

Re: GNOME hesitance build 112

2010-03-14 Thread Paul Fox
e power light flicker/go out at about that time? you could try disabling power management ("touch /var/powerd-inhibit-suspend/1" is one way) and see if it keeps happening. (i'll be surprised if that's it, but...) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 112

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > note to others: mikus is describing non-default behavior. the > > default behavior is for the CPU to suspend after about 15 seconds > > of inactivity. > > And I assume powerd should play nice

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 112

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Fox
tes later, the screen will be blanked, and the system will sleep. these are the settings that we'd most like testing with. feedback on the durations of the timers themselves would also be interesting, though finding bugs is moreso. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 112

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Fox
thousands of kids will be using sometime soon. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: q3a35 problem

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Fox
hen all that stopping at the next reboot to check the resulting banner accomplishes is double-checking that he flashed the right file. (not that there's no value in that, but it's not going to catch a h/w or s/w programming error.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Where's the "kernel module wishlist"?

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Fox
ew times about having an rpm with > additional kernel modules. Is there a wishlist anywhere? > > I want to case a vote for the sisusbvga.ko -- to be used and abused as > outlined here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA > =---

Re: Wake on USB

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Fox
; +598 98867573 > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Fox
system that, when it boots, resizes the > root filesystem every time to try to fill up the entire drive > it's on, fills me with horror. :-) well, that was certainly never my intention. > I prefer to partition my disks myself, thank you. i take your point, and martin'

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > martin -- can you remind me of the use case for this flag? > > "I've right-sized my OS image and would like to have one less moving thing". > > Deployment teams can probably just set

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Fox
flag is set. i'd say that if they're that close to filling the disk, the filesystem size should be made larger at build time. the only reason not to do that is if the target disk is very small, and if it's that small, then they've added too many bundles. paul =-

Re: aggressive suspend and yum...

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Fox
than done... > > Again, or just inhibiting suspend in the first place if the current > network transfer rate is significant. We shouldn't need this wakeup, > though; the module already knows how to wake us up when there are new > packets for us, and should already be doin

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 111

2010-03-07 Thread Paul Fox
c > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
uction (near the time that the new touchpad was introduced?), but i don't know that anything specific changed for 1.5. paul > > John > =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > i.e., if power fails, will > > the ext3 journal fix things as well as it ever does? > > That would be my question... time to... yank that powercord! i've only tried it once. when the machine r

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: > On 05.03.2010, at 07:31, Paul Fox wrote: > > > > credit where credit is due -- i followed the instructions (i feel > > like i should be writing "destructions") at instructables.com: > > > http://www.instructables.com/id/Installi

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   >