Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-05-02 Thread NoiseEHC
I still don't understand what you mean, but the clock timings that are in the data sheet, are the same ones on my documentation. You would have to find somebody more skilled then I to debate if they are correct or not. Okay, here are some exaples (intel notation): First, the 2 cycles

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 02 May 2008 11:11:15 +0545 Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dilinger/andres does this build have the latest touchpad driver? http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/olpc3/build8/devel_jffs2/ I will download it and try it out Nope. We have not included the latest

Re: Cursor does not move left/right using touchpad on 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, This sounds different, though. I'm aware of a hardware issue that would cause this problem, and that's why your XO was shipped back for repair. However, Denver sees it go away when he switches back to 2.6.22; that doesn't sound like a hardware issue. On Fri, 2 May 2008 08:14:40 -0700 Ixo

Re: Cursor does not move left/right using touchpad on 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, I am one of the support-gang volunteer, and a recent startup XO Repair Center. And I was shipped a XO for repair.. which has this this exact problem. It is original build 656. It is untouched since I received it, and reproduce the problem at anytime. The 'four-finger-touchpad-reset'

Re: Touchpad Bugs

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Stone
Wow, just curious, what units they should measure in for cost and benefit? As with all proposed features, I'm principally interested in measures of cost and benefit like: [resources]- What kind of expertise is necessary to accomplish the work and is this expertise

Re: Cursor does not move left/right using touchpad on 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread Denver Gingerich
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008 23:38:15 -0400 Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels (specifically 2.6.22-20080123.4, 2.6.25-20080430.1, 2.6.25-20080501.2, and

Re: Cursor does not move left/right using touchpad on 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread Paul Fox
andres wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008 23:38:15 -0400 Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels (specifically 2.6.22-20080123.4, 2.6.25-20080430.1, 2.6.25-20080501.2, and 2.6.25-20080501.3), the cursor cannot move from side to side with the

Re: Cursor does not move left/right using touchpad on 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread Denver Gingerich
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008 23:38:15 -0400 Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2.6.22-20080123.4 and newer master kernels

Re: udevsettle takes 33.5 seconds on 2.6.25 master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /sbin/udevsettle takes less than 3 seconds on the 2.6.22-20080123.4 master kernel. Additionally, none of the warning messages that are present in the 2.6.25 kernel log (Firmware does not seem to support PS mode,

Re: Occasional mmc0 timeout on 2.6.25 master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When booting 2.6.25 master kernels (specifically seen on 20080501.2 and 20080501.3) from an SD card, the following error occurs every 5th boot or so: [ 3.512185] Waiting 2sec before mounting root device... [

Re: Occasional mmc0 timeout on 2.6.25 master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread Denver Gingerich
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:12 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When booting 2.6.25 master kernels (specifically seen on 20080501.2 and 20080501.3) from an SD card, the following error occurs every 5th

olpc fedora build source code

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Mccormick
Hey folks, Sorry to bug you with another newbie question, but I'm now stuck. Where do I get the fedora src code? I found a couple of links on the fedora site and on your wiki, but they aren't doing it. I kinda expected to find a joyride project in the /dev.laptop.org/git repository, but I

Re: udevsettle takes 33.5 seconds on 2.6.25 master kernels

2008-05-02 Thread linaccess
On Fri, 2 May 2008 12:10:35 -0400 C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So these failures are not isolated to 2.6.25, and are probably not the direct cause of udevsettle taking such a long time. just to talk at large because I had such problems on another system. Removing ide-generic and

Battery Life Estimation: First try

2008-05-02 Thread Richard A. Smith
Over the past week or so during my walk to and from 1cc I've been pondering about about battery life estimation. I've also had a conversation with a G1G1 user who made me realize that it really doesn't even have to be that accurate. It just has to be reasonable. Since my power logging script

Re: Battery Life Estimation: First try

2008-05-02 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:24:10PM -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: The script is available at: http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/olpc-bat_ttl I've hacked[1] my {model,view}/.../battery.py to use your TTL_INST for showing the user the time remaining. Thanks for putting this together. Martin 1.

Re: Battery Life Estimation: First try

2008-05-02 Thread Richard A. Smith
Martin Dengler wrote: Martin 1. Obviously I wouldn't want to submit my hack as a patch, but what should be done? Should we add this logic to the Hal so I can retrieve it via dbus? Dunno. dbus should perhaps be able to feed up the ACR value when requested but I don't think its the place

A small present. (PenTablet-support installation script for 656/703)

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Stone
Friends, Over a month ago, Blake and I pieced together some software to turn on PenTablet support. At Kim's and SJ's urging, I have prepared http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/fix-tablet.sh which makes it a bit easier to install the relevant pieces. I believe it will enable the PT on both 656

[Server-devel] solar above 3500 m, was Re: [OLPC-Peru] Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Javier, Great note, let me just segue with my own issue snip *ENERGY* snip we have discuss solar panels and other options that seems not very useful for our mountains... hmm. Could you please give details? I am planning to use panels in Bolivia altitudes 3800 - 4200 m. If you or

[Server-devel] solar Re: Extreme Linux Server Available to North America

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Johannes dixit, snip 10W Solar panels will be deployed with the first laptops in areas without power.We are working on other ways of charging our batteries (the multi-battery charger) and better ways of distributing power to laptops within a classroom, but not on larger power

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-Peru] GPRS connectivity

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Somebody might care to contact ANTEL in Uruguay. They invested humongous sums in this sort of thing, sums that later were questioned :-) In the 1997 they hooked up to big fanfare every single one-room school in the country with some sort of wall-mounted hardware that apparently was cell-phone

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
OK guys, I took one but I won't take two. I'm a blue blooded hidalgo, after all, descendant of the Virrey Toledo, and also of Inca Yupanqui, fact which probably would take away my pretensions :-) I have found Javier an opinionated person. We do not always agree in the Peru list. Yet I found

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-05-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Yama Ploskonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al hijo de mi madre nadie le pisa el poncho Rioplatense saying I _am_ rioplatense and I can tell you - Javier is talking nonsense. m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-05-02 Thread Yama Ploskonka
O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen und freudenvollere. Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Yama Ploskonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al hijo de mi madre nadie le pisa el poncho Rioplatense saying I _am_ rioplatense and I can tell you -