Reassembled XOs fail heat spreader test

2011-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
We are currently engaged in changing the motherboards in over a
hundred XO-1.5s. In many cases, the XOs are failing the heat spreader
test afterwards.

However, we can get the test to pass if we press down on the lid,
behind the screen. This suggests to me that the heat spreader is not
in proper contact with the chips.

Without the lid plastic affixed (heat spreader exposed), we can see
that the spreader is not touching the chips properly. We have tried
bending the metal slightly near the screw points, but the contact
doesn't last.

Is there any way that we can deal with this better? We are changing
the motherboards in these XOs because they have succumbed to
overheating. I want to avoid that from happening again.

Thanks,
Sridhar


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Re: 11.2.0 release notes ready for review

2011-07-22 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hi Alan,

 On 21 Jul 2011, at 20:46, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote:

 Hi Gary,

      Complicated! ;)

      As to why there is no 'don't save', well a couple of points:

      1) the Journal was designed to be a log of activity not just a flat 
 list of saved data files, it would be great to have more interesting 
 metadata auto stored (e.g. length of time spent in activity,   number of 
 times resumed), and/or to be able to better encourage the child to write 
 short descriptions about what they were doing for later review (e.g. I 
 searched google for cool pictures of         sharks with lasers, for my 
 school essay, but didn't find one I liked.).


 Yes, in theory. I am Uruguayan. I have seen thousands of XO .. No one uses 
 the journal that way, the little disk space (1 GB 400 MB are available) and 
 when you have hundreds of entries, and begins to complicate, to walk slower.

 Journal entries, especially ones that are just metadata that an activity was 
 used are very small amounts of data on the disk. I think perhaps the worst 
 case would be if a child is making lots of video or audio recordings using 
 the Record activity, EToys projects, and perhaps Paint being the next worse 
 for disk size. I would love to know what children are using up their disk 
 space with. I'm guessing some of it is downloads of the less disk space 
 efficient Activity software ports from Gnome (Tux Paint, Open Office, 
 Firefox, some of the GCompris activities), and perhaps using Browse to save 
 music, video and pictures from the Internet. Would be great if you have any 
 information/data on how you see children have used up most of their disk 
 space!

One more note re Journal entries: with the default in recent Sugar
builds being resume on click, most activities that do generate emty
Journal entries only generate one such entry.

regards.

-walter

 With the new builds OLPC are currently finishing up for release, the version 
 of Sugar in them supports sorting the Journal by size, and by creation date 
 (in addition to the default modification date). Sorting by size is great for 
 tracking down where all your disk space went, sorting by creation date is 
 helpful when you are looking for work you know you started last Monday, or at 
 the beginning of term, or you can remember other activities you did at the 
 same time (I took 5 photos and then started the essay I'm looking for).

 And the problem of find nothing is repeated often. Cause: You may need to 
 teach children the proper use of labels. But the kids out of an activity and 
 never notice that ... I have come across many machines you have to reflash 
 because it does not leave or enter the newspaper to delete things (in old 
 sugar images, in this new I not do a stress test) …

 I'm hoping this is only an issue with an old version of Sugar, and it's now 
 been fixed… But please do report back if you continue to see such things in 
 new releases.


      2) The naming dialogue was added as an opportunity for the child to 
 provide a useful name, description and tags when they stop a new activity 
 instance. The activity state will very likely have        been already 
 automatically stored in the Journal (e.g. activity state is stored in the 
 Journal whenever you switch views). So the 'don't save' button would really 
 be an 'erase this entry from the     journal' button.


 Changing the implementation of the saved, change this too

      FWIW, there is already an accepted design for dropping this naming 
 dialogue (at least one deployment has already removed it from their builds) 
 as the psychology of a user who has just clicked         'Stop' is one of 
 get me out of here, I want to do something else now, not I would like to 
 describe what I was just doing, most folks seem to skips past the dialogue 
 as fast as they can,   annoyed/distracted by the interruption. The 
 replacement design is a system wide 'detail view' dialogue (similar 
 features as per the current Journal details view) that can be opened at the 
 users       discretion while working in an activity.

 most folks seem to skips past the dialogue as fast as they can, 
 annoyed/distracted by the interruption

 Yes, I'm agree.
 Also is annoying is to have the obligation (not freedom) the save something 
 ..
 For example, when I use the Activity Maze, entered to play at level 1. When 
 I return to the entrance that, start in 1! That's the point? Many of the 
 activities create an entry habit, butbear no relevant information,

 For the Maze activity, this is considered a missing feature. I'm pretty sure 
 we have a bug ticket (or two) open requesting that a resumed Maze activity 
 continues from the level you had last reached (and perhaps having a leader 
 board for who solved the maze first/second/third for each level completed). 
 Over time, Activities are getting better and better at keeping useful state 
 in 

Re: Reassembled XOs fail heat spreader test

2011-07-22 Thread John Watlington

Do your heat spreaders have four screws or three ?

The final heat spreader for XO-1.5 production had four screws
holding it down, to ensure a good fit.If your heat spreaders
only have three, OLPCA should be able to get proper replacements
from Quanta.

Regards,
wad

On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:

 We are currently engaged in changing the motherboards in over a
 hundred XO-1.5s. In many cases, the XOs are failing the heat spreader
 test afterwards.
 
 However, we can get the test to pass if we press down on the lid,
 behind the screen. This suggests to me that the heat spreader is not
 in proper contact with the chips.
 
 Without the lid plastic affixed (heat spreader exposed), we can see
 that the spreader is not touching the chips properly. We have tried
 bending the metal slightly near the screw points, but the contact
 doesn't last.
 
 Is there any way that we can deal with this better? We are changing
 the motherboards in these XOs because they have succumbed to
 overheating. I want to avoid that from happening again.
 
 Thanks,
 Sridhar
 
 
 Sridhar Dhanapalan
 Engineering Manager
 One Laptop per Child Australia
 M: +61 425 239 701
 E: srid...@laptop.org.au
 A: G.P.O. Box 731
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Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi,

We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and
XO-1.5. Details of new features, known issues, and how to
download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0

Many thanks to all contributors, testers, upstreams, and those who
have provided feedback of any kind.

For those who were following the release candidate process in the last
few weeks: candidate build 874 is released as final with no changes.

Thanks and enjoy!
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Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel,

On 22 Jul 2011, at 21:32, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:

 We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and
 XO-1.5. Details of new features, known issues, and how to
 download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes:
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0
 
 Many thanks to all contributors, testers, upstreams, and those who
 have provided feedback of any kind.
 
 For those who were following the release candidate process in the last
 few weeks: candidate build 874 is released as final with no changes.

Fantastic — thanks for all your hard work getting this release out the door!

--Gary

 Thanks and enjoy!
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Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread Ed McNierney
Daniel -

Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make this happen.  It's a great 
improvement and a fine job!

- Ed


On Jul 22, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:

 Hi,
 
 We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and
 XO-1.5. Details of new features, known issues, and how to
 download/install/upgrade can all be found in the release notes:
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0
 
 Many thanks to all contributors, testers, upstreams, and those who
 have provided feedback of any kind.
 
 For those who were following the release candidate process in the last
 few weeks: candidate build 874 is released as final with no changes.
 
 Thanks and enjoy!
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Re: [support-gang] 11.2.0 release notes ready for review

2011-07-22 Thread James Simmons
The Sugar Commander Activity I put together lets you do interesting things
with the Journal even if you're using an old version of Sugar.  You can sort
Journal entries by name, MIME type, size, etc. both ascending and
descending.  You can see the screen grab and metadata for a Journal entry on
the same screen as the list of Journal entries is on.  You can resize images
and make them take up less disk space.  You can see the contents of thumb
drives and SD cards as a hierarchical file system instead of as imitating
the Journal.  You can copy files into the Journal from anywhere on the file
system.  It is my idea of what the Journal should be like.  You can check it
out here:

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4291

James Simmons


 Journal entries, especially ones that are just metadata that an activity
 was used are very small amounts of data on the disk. I think perhaps the
 worst case would be if a child is making lots of video or audio recordings
 using the Record activity, EToys projects, and perhaps Paint being the next
 worse for disk size. I would love to know what children are using up their
 disk space with. I'm guessing some of it is downloads of the less disk space
 efficient Activity software ports from Gnome (Tux Paint, Open Office,
 Firefox, some of the GCompris activities), and perhaps using Browse to save
 music, video and pictures from the Internet. Would be great if you have any
 information/data on how you see children have used up most of their disk
 space!

 With the new builds OLPC are currently finishing up for release, the
 version of Sugar in them supports sorting the Journal by size, and by
 creation date (in addition to the default modification date). Sorting by
 size is great for tracking down where all your disk space went, sorting by
 creation date is helpful when you are looking for work you know you started
 last Monday, or at the beginning of term, or you can remember other
 activities you did at the same time (I took 5 photos and then started the
 essay I'm looking for).


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Re: Reassembled XOs fail heat spreader test

2011-07-22 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
The unused hole actually is filled by one of the screws which holds in the
rear plastic panel.  That's why the screw holes which only secure the heat
spreader have arrows pointed at them.

The fanciest (newest?) XO-1.5 heat spreader design I've seen adds a support
bar up to the green screw hole above near your area of concern, again filled
by a screw used to secure the back cover.  I'm not certain though if this is
the design John is referring to, but I have seen a few XO-1.5s with it.

It may be possible to bend the existing heat spreader in a certain manner
which solves the problem.  But I would *not* be someone who could recommend
this approach for deployments.

Some of OLPC's hardware engineers may be traveling this weekend, so I'm just
trying to provide you with a quick explanation in the meantime.



On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
srid...@laptop.org.auwrote:

 All of the XOs I've seen have three screws on their heat spreaders.
 I've attached an annotated image. Hopefully the lists don't strip it
 out.

 There is an unanchored screw point in the bottom-left. However, the
 danger area is at the top, particularly in the top-left. This affects
 contact between the heat spreader and the Companion Chip, and might
 also be affecting contact with the CPU. Do the four-screw versions of
 the heat spreader address this problem?

 Thanks,
 Sridhar



 On 23 July 2011 01:21, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
 
  Do your heat spreaders have four screws or three ?
 
  The final heat spreader for XO-1.5 production had four screws
  holding it down, to ensure a good fit.If your heat spreaders
  only have three, OLPCA should be able to get proper replacements
  from Quanta.
 
  Regards,
  wad
 
  On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
 
  We are currently engaged in changing the motherboards in over a
  hundred XO-1.5s. In many cases, the XOs are failing the heat spreader
  test afterwards.
 
  However, we can get the test to pass if we press down on the lid,
  behind the screen. This suggests to me that the heat spreader is not
  in proper contact with the chips.
 
  Without the lid plastic affixed (heat spreader exposed), we can see
  that the spreader is not touching the chips properly. We have tried
  bending the metal slightly near the screw points, but the contact
  doesn't last.
 
  Is there any way that we can deal with this better? We are changing
  the motherboards in these XOs because they have succumbed to
  overheating. I want to avoid that from happening again.
 
  Thanks,
  Sridhar
 
 
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  Engineering Manager
  One Laptop per Child Australia
  M: +61 425 239 701
  E: srid...@laptop.org.au
  A: G.P.O. Box 731
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Re: Reassembled XOs fail heat spreader test

2011-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Thanks Samuel. I'll be talking in more depth with OLPCA about this.

Any suggestions on how to deal with this in the meanwhile are welcome :)

I have found that it can help to bend the spreader near the screw
points to make it slightly concave. However, I agree with you that
this is not a good recommendation for deployments.

Sridhar



On 23 July 2011 12:18, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote:
 The unused hole actually is filled by one of the screws which holds in the
 rear plastic panel.  That's why the screw holes which only secure the heat
 spreader have arrows pointed at them.

 The fanciest (newest?) XO-1.5 heat spreader design I've seen adds a support
 bar up to the green screw hole above near your area of concern, again filled
 by a screw used to secure the back cover.  I'm not certain though if this is
 the design John is referring to, but I have seen a few XO-1.5s with it.

 It may be possible to bend the existing heat spreader in a certain manner
 which solves the problem.  But I would *not* be someone who could recommend
 this approach for deployments.

 Some of OLPC's hardware engineers may be traveling this weekend, so I'm just
 trying to provide you with a quick explanation in the meantime.



 On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au
 wrote:

 All of the XOs I've seen have three screws on their heat spreaders.
 I've attached an annotated image. Hopefully the lists don't strip it
 out.

 There is an unanchored screw point in the bottom-left. However, the
 danger area is at the top, particularly in the top-left. This affects
 contact between the heat spreader and the Companion Chip, and might
 also be affecting contact with the CPU. Do the four-screw versions of
 the heat spreader address this problem?

 Thanks,
 Sridhar



 On 23 July 2011 01:21, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
 
  Do your heat spreaders have four screws or three ?
 
  The final heat spreader for XO-1.5 production had four screws
  holding it down, to ensure a good fit.    If your heat spreaders
  only have three, OLPCA should be able to get proper replacements
  from Quanta.
 
  Regards,
  wad
 
  On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
 
  We are currently engaged in changing the motherboards in over a
  hundred XO-1.5s. In many cases, the XOs are failing the heat spreader
  test afterwards.
 
  However, we can get the test to pass if we press down on the lid,
  behind the screen. This suggests to me that the heat spreader is not
  in proper contact with the chips.
 
  Without the lid plastic affixed (heat spreader exposed), we can see
  that the spreader is not touching the chips properly. We have tried
  bending the metal slightly near the screw points, but the contact
  doesn't last.
 
  Is there any way that we can deal with this better? We are changing
  the motherboards in these XOs because they have succumbed to
  overheating. I want to avoid that from happening again.
 
  Thanks,
  Sridhar
 
 
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  Engineering Manager
  One Laptop per Child Australia
  M: +61 425 239 701
  E: srid...@laptop.org.au
  A: G.P.O. Box 731
       Sydney, NSW 2001
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Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread Anna
Ran into a bit of a pickle after an update attempt.  I flashed os874.img
fresh on an XO-1, got into Sugar, connected to my wifi.  All good at that
point.  I tried this three times and when I tried to boot back up into
Sugar, I got a blank screen.  I can get to a root console from the white
screen and switch back and forth, but I can never get back into Sugar.  So I
ssh'd in to a freshly flashed 11.2.0 XO-1 to record it.  Yep, I'm using a
swap drive.  After I power off via the ssh console, then hit the XO-1 power
button, I get just a white screen.  No boot animation or anything.  I
haven't tried switching to Gnome yet.  Here's my third attempt, done over
ssh so I can paste.

anna@derp-desktop:~$ ssh olpc@gorn
olpc@gorn's password:
[olpc@xo-14-75-26 ~]$ sudo su -
-bash-4.1# swapon LABEL=myswap
-bash-4.1# free -m
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:   226193 32  0  0106
-/+ buffers/cache: 87138
Swap: 1905  0   1905
-bash-4.1# yum -y update
fedora/metalink  |  22 kB
00:00
fedora   | 4.3 kB
00:00
fedora/primary_db|  11 MB
00:17
olpc-f14 |  951 B
00:00
olpc-f14/primary |  16 kB
00:00
olpc-f14
75/75
olpc-f14-xo1 |  951 B
00:00
olpc-f14-xo1/primary |  29 kB
00:00
olpc-f14-xo1
248/248
updates/metalink |  13 kB
00:00
updates  | 4.7 kB
00:00
updates/primary_db   | 4.9 MB
00:18
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
-- Running transaction check
--- Package bash.i686 0:4.1.7-4.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package curl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package firefox.i686 0:3.6.18-1.fc14 set to be updated
-- Processing Dependency: xulrunner = 1.9.2.18-1 for package:
firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14.i686
--- Package gnumeric.i686 1:1.10.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package goffice.i686 0:0.8.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package grep.i686 0:2.8-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b set to
be installed
--- Package krb5-libs.i686 0:1.8.4-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libcurl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libjpeg-turbo.i686 0:1.1.1-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libpurple.i686 0:2.9.0-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package olpc-kbdshim.i686 0:18-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler-glib.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package sugar-toolkit.i686 0:0.92.3.1.g3a81ba7-1.fc14.olpc set to be
updated
--- Package tzdata.noarch 0:2011h-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package xkeyboard-config.noarch 0:1.9-11.fc14.olpc set to be updated
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14.i686 (updates)
   Requires: xulrunner = 1.9.2.18-1
   Installed: xulrunner-1.9.2.17-3.fc14.olpc.i686
(@local.11.2.0/$releasever)
   xulrunner = 1.9.2.17-3.fc14.olpc
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
-bash-4.1# yum --skip-broken -y update
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
-- Running transaction check
--- Package bash.i686 0:4.1.7-4.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package curl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package firefox.i686 0:3.6.18-1.fc14 set to be updated
-- Processing Dependency: xulrunner = 1.9.2.18-1 for package:
firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14.i686
--- Package gnumeric.i686 1:1.10.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package goffice.i686 0:0.8.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package grep.i686 0:2.8-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b set to
be installed
--- Package krb5-libs.i686 0:1.8.4-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libcurl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libjpeg-turbo.i686 0:1.1.1-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libpurple.i686 0:2.9.0-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package olpc-kbdshim.i686 0:18-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler-glib.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package sugar-toolkit.i686 0:0.92.3.1.g3a81ba7-1.fc14.olpc set to be
updated
--- Package tzdata.noarch 0:2011h-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package xkeyboard-config.noarch 0:1.9-11.fc14.olpc set to be updated
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
updates/filelists_db | 8.5 MB
00:31
-- Running transaction check
--- Package firefox.i686 0:3.6.18-1.fc14 set to be updated
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
-- Running transaction check
--- Package 

Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread James Cameron
Does it also happen if you avoid updating packages?

(The update you did applied a new kernel and several other interesting
things that are on the forefront of development, not part of 11.2.0, so
my guess is you found a bug.)

Given that you can get to a root console from the white screen, there's
an opportunity to debug further.  For instance, check for an X process,
and if absent try start prefdm.

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http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread Anna
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:13 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:

 Does it also happen if you avoid updating packages?


Well, I should have tried installing stuff before I hauled off and ran
updates.  Sorry!


 (The update you did applied a new kernel and several other interesting
 things that are on the forefront of development, not part of 11.2.0, so
 my guess is you found a bug.)



This worked.  Got me back to Sugar and I ran updates.  We noticed that
sugar-toolkit had a hyphen in Daniel Drake's repo, but not in what the XO
was pulling down.  And then the kernel update was taken out of the update
stream.

First I did this:

rpm -Uvh
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/f14/sugar-toolkit-0.92.3-1.fc14.olpc.i686.rpm

Then I did this:

-bash-4.1# yum --skip-broken --exclude=sugar-toolkit -y update
fedora/metalink  |  21 kB
00:00
fedora   | 4.3 kB
00:00
fedora/primary_db|  11 MB
00:25
olpc-f14 |  951 B
00:00
olpc-f14/primary |  16 kB
00:00
olpc-f14
75/75
olpc-f14-xo1 |  951 B
00:00
olpc-f14-xo1/primary |  29 kB
00:00
olpc-f14-xo1
248/248
updates/metalink | 9.6 kB
00:00
updates  | 4.7 kB
00:00
updates/primary_db   | 4.9 MB
00:22
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
-- Running transaction check
--- Package bash.i686 0:4.1.7-4.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package curl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package firefox.i686 0:3.6.18-1.fc14 set to be updated
-- Processing Dependency: xulrunner = 1.9.2.18-1 for package:
firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14.i686
--- Package gnumeric.i686 1:1.10.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package goffice.i686 0:0.8.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package grep.i686 0:2.8-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b set to
be installed
--- Package krb5-libs.i686 0:1.8.4-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libcurl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libjpeg-turbo.i686 0:1.1.1-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libpurple.i686 0:2.9.0-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package olpc-kbdshim.i686 0:18-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler-glib.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package tzdata.noarch 0:2011h-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package xkeyboard-config.noarch 0:1.9-11.fc14.olpc set to be updated
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
updates/filelists_db | 8.5 MB
00:28
-- Running transaction check
--- Package firefox.i686 0:3.6.18-1.fc14 set to be updated
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
-- Running transaction check
--- Package bash.i686 0:4.1.7-4.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package curl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package gnumeric.i686 1:1.10.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package goffice.i686 0:0.8.16-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package grep.i686 0:2.8-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b set to
be installed
--- Package krb5-libs.i686 0:1.8.4-2.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libcurl.i686 0:7.21.0-8.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libjpeg-turbo.i686 0:1.1.1-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package libpurple.i686 0:2.9.0-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package olpc-kbdshim.i686 0:18-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package poppler-glib.i686 0:0.14.5-3.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package tzdata.noarch 0:2011h-1.fc14 set to be updated
--- Package xkeyboard-config.noarch 0:1.9-11.fc14.olpc set to be updated
-- Finished Dependency Resolution

Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14.i686 from updates

Dependencies Resolved


 Package  Arch   Version Repository
Size

Installing:
 kernel   i586   2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b
 olpc-f14-xo1
12 M
Updating:
 bash i686   4.1.7-4.fc14updates
886 k
 curl i686   7.21.0-8.fc14   updates
210 k
 gnumeric i686   1:1.10.16-1.fc14updates
11 M
 goffice  i686   0.8.16-1.fc14   updates
1.4 M
 grep i686   2.8-2.fc14  updates
274 k
 krb5-libsi686   1.8.4-2.fc14updates
696 k
 libcurl  i686   7.21.0-8.fc14   updates
193 k
 

olpc-update in 11.2.0 release notes

2011-07-22 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
The 11.2.0 release notes for olpc-update point to official-874 or 
official_xo1.5-874.
However, updates.laptop.org has candidate-847 and candidate_xo1.5-847
Thus olpc-update fails
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Avoid losing your screws

2011-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've found that inverted side bumpers make nice little holding
containers for your screws.

Sridhar
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Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:04:12PM -0500, Anna wrote:
 This worked.  Got me back to Sugar and I ran updates.  We noticed that
 sugar-toolkit had a hyphen in Daniel Drake's repo, but not in what the
 XO was pulling down.

Interesting, thanks.

We don't really expect deployments to do a yum update in this way.

 And then the kernel update was taken out of the update stream.

I'm not so sure about that.

 Error Downloading Packages:
   kernel-2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b.i586: failure:
 kernel-2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b.i586.rpm from olpc-f14-xo1:
 [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
 
 And... I guess the kernel package was just taken out of the repo.

No, it's still there.  I was able to download it.  The repodata hasn't
changed.  Perhaps you had a momentary network problem.  If you'd like to
test it, try again, and remember that you have to manually update the
boot configuration afterwards.  Then after reboot, check with uname -a
to see that you are using the new kernel.

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Re: Sugar Commander

2011-07-22 Thread Carlos Nazareno
You can see the contents of thumb
 drives and SD cards as a hierarchical file system instead of as imitating
 the Journal.  You can copy files into the Journal from anywhere on the file
 system.  It is my idea of what the Journal should be like.  You can check it
 out here:


*thank god*

I'm sorry, I don't mean to ruffle any feathers, but the flat journal
is a really broken model when you stick in a USB stick with 2000+
files in heirarchical directories and you want to copy files to XO's
journal (like ebook pdfs).

It just becomes plain unusable.

It's fine when you have a few files on your USB stick, but if it's a
USB stick that's in common use with hundreds of files and you just
want to sneakernet a few files to XOOS-Sugar from one machine to the
XO, it's a real pain (so much so that I just backed up the contents of
my USB stick, deleted everything except the files I wanted to transfer
to XO-Sugar, then did the transer).

Telling people to just use the command line or midnight commander is
not a solution, it's a hack because you're breaking out of the sugar
model/system. The better solution would be something like the above,
an alternate file browser that's a native sugar app.

Kudos!

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Re: Announcing OLPC OS 11.2.0 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2011-07-22 Thread Anna
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:35 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote


  And then the kernel update was taken out of the update stream.

 I'm not so sure about that.

  Error Downloading Packages:
kernel-2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b.i586: failure:
  kernel-2.6.35.13_xo1-20110707.0803.olpc.da7074b.i586.rpm from
 olpc-f14-xo1:
  [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
 
  And... I guess the kernel package was just taken out of the repo.

 No, it's still there.  I was able to download it.  The repodata hasn't
 changed.  Perhaps you had a momentary network problem.  If you'd like to
 test it, try again, and remember that you have to manually update the
 boot configuration afterwards.  Then after reboot, check with uname -a
 to see that you are using the new kernel.

 I've compiled an XO-1 and XO-1.5 kernel and it's damn annoying to install.
(And other Linux kernels, but whatever.)  Are y'all seriously gonna expect
regular users to deal with that?  If not, take the kernel out of the
updates.  Most folks can barely adjust the volume on an XO, let alone create
a new initrd and vmlinuz.  That's just crazy talk.

Bless your heart,

Anna
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