Open-door Fridays in Wellington, NZ (and a SHDH)

2008-05-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
We just had a Super Happy Dev House thing here in Wellington, organized by the superlative Shiny Brenda. I'll post a link to pics soon. There is a big and growing OSS community here, and several people keen on hacking and testing the XO and the XS. So starting on Friday 16th I will be running an "

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

2008-05-03 Thread Denver Gingerich
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Denver Gingerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:38 PM, 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

fresh reflash with joyride build

2008-05-03 Thread Mark Bauer
I have been running joyride builds on an unlocked G1G1 machine, and for the most part they run well. Lately some application such as record have permissions issues and I have also added a bunch of junk that I want to clean up. I would like to start over with a clean build and reflash off o

Re: [Olpc-open] jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Fox
as a datapoint on touchpad problems, today my XO was showing the "psychic" behavior -- i could move the cursor with my finger 1/4" to 1/2" above the surface. it was not particularly "jumpy". i assume it was fairly humid, given the drizzle in boston today. i grounded myself to the screw, as descr

Re: NYC schools and cloaked APs

2008-05-03 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 03.05.2008, at 21:48, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> I have a feeling that enabling support to cloaked APs may be >> quicker than >> hatching a workaround, but to do it fast we would need help in the >> NM part. >> > > I was completely surprised when I read that NetworkManager is needed

Re: New joyride build 1918

2008-05-03 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I don't remember seeing this error before joyride-1914. I suspect > part of the idle-power-save strategy is interfering with data > transfer ? Yes, that's right; "touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-idle-suspend" will disable it temporarily, and you can rm the file when done. - Chris. -- Chr

Re: New joyride build 1918

2008-05-03 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, in build 1914, from Terminal as root, doing a simple # yum install -y svn git mc xawtv (results in 50+ packages to install) During the package resolution and installation. Every 1 to 5 minutes, the screen goes dark (power save?), the eta transfer time goes up, the screen goes brigh

Re: NYC schools and cloaked APs

2008-05-03 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, On 03.05.2008 16:52, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > While the support is not there, NYC is considering disabling NetworkManager > but this is not a good solution for (1) the XO will not boot into sugar and > That would be a bug. > (2) collaboration will not work, because the mesh view will be b

Re: jumpy cursor problem and sugar issue

2008-05-03 Thread Ixo X oxI
One thing to note also, I have observed that many people (including myself) out of habit do a quick 'double-tap' on the touchpad for a 'left-click' (which is standard for most US 'typical' laptops). I've noticed, 8 times out of 10 times touching the keyboard like this, the cursor and sensitivel

Re: notes from first few days at Bashuki and Bishwamitra

2008-05-03 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks! all credit goes to the designer Ram Singh. It is working quite well so far. On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 11:14 -0700, Ixo X oxI wrote: > Bryan, > Glancing through the OLE Nepal Wordpress blog, I saw an impressive > implementation of a home-grown solution to the XO charging rack. > >http:

Re: notes from first few days at Bashuki and Bishwamitra

2008-05-03 Thread Ixo X oxI
Bryan, Glancing through the OLE Nepal Wordpress blog, I saw an impressive implementation of a home-grown solution to the XO charging rack. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/254 Wow! Very well done. Love to see more of this type of work in the U.S. ! :) -iXo 2008/5/1 Bryan Berry

Re: NYC schools and cloaked APs

2008-05-03 Thread Ixo X oxI
Although, this may not be what you are looking for.. I was looking for myself, all the hints on trying to make connecting to hidden SSID networks easier. So your question prodded me to gather the links together :) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WPA_Manual_Setting http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_C

NYC schools and cloaked APs

2008-05-03 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi! Please contribute with your ideas to the following: NYC schools use cloaked access points to provide wireless connectivity. We currently do not support cloaked APs (and ... ok, they hardly provide any additional security). Support for cloaked APs is being discussed in #6237 and it involves c

Re: Battery Life Estimation: First try

2008-05-03 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:32:52PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > Based on a g-p-m presentation[1] and the results[2,3] of my 5-10 minutes > of looking through the g-p-m source, it seems that g-p-m relies on the > HAL making "battery.remaining_time" (time-in-seconds) available. Those who do not un

Re: Battery Life Estimation: First try

2008-05-03 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:07:25PM -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: > 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 b