Re: Proposal: the 'faster' branch.

2008-02-09 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
C. Scott Ananian wrote: [...] So: welcome the 'faster' branch, a repository for all these unsafe ideas. [...] Scott, I think this is a great idea! First thing, I think we need Reinier's script watching it. Can we prevent it from doing spurious runs when stuff gets changed in joyride but not

Re: How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

2008-02-09 Thread Albert Cahalan
James Simmons writes: I agree I have no business inventing my own MIME type. Yes you do, and you should ignore the x- disaster. Pick something sane, descriptive but not too generic, and be done with it. (If you use x-, then you **still** face any collision problems and you're expected to

Mesh Portal Question

2008-02-09 Thread Waqas Toor
Hello All, He is my scenario, XS XO-1 --- XO-2 I am unable to access school server from XO-2 via XO-1 route, I have 656 build on my XOs and server build 150 on my server with 1 active antennae what could be the problem, how to access XS from different hops

Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread James
Hi everyone, Following the first 4 instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup I have managed to set my G1G1 XO laptop to accept input in Amharic. That's the good news. The bad news is that I can no longer switch back to a US keyboard. Even commands typed into the Terminal

Re: screen dims and brightens

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Though it would be nicer to me if OHM could keep the back light level if not suspending to avoid this problem. This is the case in recent Joyride builds. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list

Re: screen dims and brightens

2008-02-09 Thread Yuan Chao
2008/2/9 ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 8, 2008 10:42 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a wired connection for my G1G1. To preserve that connection, I've entered 'touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-suspend'. With the more recent firmware updates, my screen periodically dims

Re: status of startup speedup

2008-02-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 14:23 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Tomeu, The only remaining issue is that activities cannot update their journal entries. They are able to create the entries in the datastore, but the second call to the DS service fails. Please publish the traceback so that I can

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
Short term solution; - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the mesh view key and F2 the friends view key - edit /home/olpc/.i18n - nano /home/olpc/.i18n - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - ctrl+o for save and ctrl+x for quitting You can not use the

OLPC News (2008-02-09)

2008-02-09 Thread Walter Bender
1. Embedded controller: Richard Smith found a few more corner cases where the the EC side of the command protocol can wedge. He also discovered—while looking at the kernel's EC SCI handler—that the unwedge workaround only works when the EC is reporting up a single byte. EC command failure does not

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread James
On 9 Feb 2008, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote: Short term solution; - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the mesh view key and F2 the friends view key - edit /home/olpc/.i18n - nano /home/olpc/.i18n - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - ctrl+o for save and ctrl+x for

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
Instructions how you can use the s.c.p in the virtual console are as well on the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel#Languages Simon Simon Schampijer wrote: Short term solution; - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the mesh view key and F2 the

Re: Updating translations for release...

2008-02-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 22:38 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: 1) Can the activities be updated by you updating the packages, or will this require work by the activity developers? Yes one can simply do a git pull from dev.laptop.org and the latest translations will go in. Have updated the

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi James, sorry that you have so much trouble with this. James wrote: On 9 Feb 2008, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote: Short term solution; - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the mesh view key and F2 the friends view key - edit /home/olpc/.i18n - nano

New joyride build 1670

2008-02-09 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1670 Changes in build 1670 from build: 1664 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar 0.75.11-2.olpc2 +sugar 0.75.12-1.olpc2 -sugar-base 0.2.2-1.olpc2 +sugar-base 0.2.3-1.olpc2 --- Changes for sugar 0.75.12-1.olpc2 from 0.75.11-2.olpc2 --- + Revert

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread James
On 9 Feb 2008, at 13:04, Simon Schampijer wrote: How should I have left the virtual console to return to the Sugar GUI? sugar runs on the third virtual console. ctrl+alt+F3 (F3 is the home-key) Hi Simon, Thanks for helping me out with this. I'm learning more about the innards of the

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread Walter Bender
If you can still boot and get to the console, you should be able to both configure your network and do an update. Are you familiar with the iwconfig command? It is in /sbin olpc-update lives in the /usr/sbin directory, which should be in your path on the root shell on the console. But if not,

Re: status of startup speedup

2008-02-09 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: * Why is it necessary to import gtk twice? Well, we import first in the parent process so the initialization is inherited by all children. The second time is just because we need to reopen the connection to X (and need a gtk name in that scope). Has anybody looked into

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
James wrote: The page at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup helpfully suggests that: You can toggle between the us and the et layouts by hitting the group switch key, which is mapped to the rightmost key below enter (labeled multiply/divide on US keyboards). In my

Re: Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic US

2008-02-09 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Walter Bender wrote: olpc-update lives in the /usr/sbin directory, which should be in your path on the root shell on the console. But if not, just use the full pathnames. For convenicence, in recent joyride and update-1 builds I made a change to re-add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path of

Re: New update.1 build 691

2008-02-09 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Jim Gettys date=Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:46:02PM -0500 Did you do a request for update in trac? Without that, we have no way to know if your testing in joyride has completed. I did. It was approved by cjb while you were away. It's #6328 a couple days before RC2. Regards, Mako --