Re: debxo 0.1 release

2008-08-28 Thread James Cameron
Recent changes: - addition of documentation, - generate name.crc instead of name.img.crc, - rename package list for gnome build, - fix to gdm and kdm configuration to use correct username. Stability of the KDE Lenny build seems good, and on a B4 over 8 hours use of the konqueror web browser showe

Re: ibus, a new input framework

2008-08-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I just came across ibus, an input framework which seems to be designed > to be a better replacement for scim. A presentation is available > online at http://ibus-user.googlegroups.com/web/ibus.pdf > Has anyone u

Re: [DCON]: Make sure the backlight level gets restored after sleep

2008-08-28 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:27:08 -0600 Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently somewhere along the line, the backlight value gets reset to > full in the DCON silicon after coming back from a DCON sleep. > > This patch should remedy that. > > Jordan > Thanks, committed and pushed. __

Re: Plural-Forms header in sugar-toolkit.po (Re: Plural form in timestamp of Journal entry)

2008-08-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
I added some plural information manually for certain files: I used the data from http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms Thanks, Sayamindu On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Korakurider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Sayamindu > > Today I noticed there is Plural-Forms header in sug

Re: Plural-Forms header in sugar-toolkit.po (Re: Plural form in timestamp of Journal entry)

2008-08-28 Thread Korakurider
Fixed POs have been pushed already. http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar-toolkit;a=commit;h=4abbca5a92f9b4c9af8c9b26e4000e1b3586fc23 Thanks! /Korakurider On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Korakurider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Sayamindu > > Today I noticed there is Plural-Forms header in suga

Plural-Forms header in sugar-toolkit.po (Re: Plural form in timestamp of Journal entry)

2008-08-28 Thread Korakurider
Hi, Sayamindu Today I noticed there is Plural-Forms header in sugar-toolkit.po that had been missing and affected timestamp display in Journal (see #8086) But X-Generator and POT-Creation-Date haven't been changed. How can we know the changes... So what did you change actually? And I believe w

Re: debxo 0.1 release

2008-08-28 Thread Andres Salomon
Thanks for all this! I still need to sort through patches (and someone reported a bug with 0.1 which is apparently leaving the dcon frozen..) On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:48:41 +1000 James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've added some features to debxo aka xodist; > > 1. caching of the kern

Early activation with an AP instead of AA

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
Douglas is preparing an rpm with all the bits needed to run an activation server -- for the initial at-boot- activation only scenario -- on the XS. This is meant to work with an AA (active antenna), but looking at the python code in the initrd, I wonder whether an AP or a machine with a wlan inter

Re: OFW Q2E14 is available for testing

2008-08-28 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:13:29PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: > Anyone know if deb XO will work on the Eee? (old gen) and classmate > (new gen)? No, and not intended to. The main task of debxo is to generate an image suitable for OpenFirmware and the XO hardware. If you wish to use an Eee wi

Re: [Server-devel] RFH: Anaconda install with alternative default disk layout (kickstart?)

2008-08-28 Thread Robin Norwood
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect this is trivial for kickstart/anaconda experts -- and help > would be appreciated with this. > > What I am after is a kickstart file to drive XS installs to have a > default disk layout that is _different_ from

Re: debxo 0.1 release

2008-08-28 Thread James Cameron
I've added some features to debxo aka xodist; 1. caching of the kernel package, so that it does not need to be downloaded every time a build is done, 2. a KDE build, which yields a 520Mb JFFS2 image containing a complete KDE environment, 3. an LXDE build, which yields a 189Mb JFFS2 image, 4.

Re: Scratch fails to write to Scratch.activity/Projects

2008-08-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> Scratch-6.xo is now at > http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/bundles/Scratch-6.xo I attempted to install Scratch-6.xo with 'sugar-install-bundle'. Aside from LOTS of warning messages about invalid entries in MANIFEST, the bundle install crashed with > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/u

Re: olpc.fth and OFW api docs

2008-08-28 Thread S Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mitch wrote: > > My recent rewrite of the Olpc.fth wiki page documents the basics from > > the XO perspective. > > thanks. that page is now the excellent boot reference i was > hoping for. :-) I put all the pages I could find that describe aspects of XO startup in

Bug Triage Update

2008-08-28 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We pushed ahead and triaged bugs up to 8179. The next triage is planned for freenode.net #olpc-meeting tomorrow (Friday) at 1PM US ET. I plan to catch up to the newest bugs at that time. Next up after that we will go over everything marked blocks:8.2.0 and blocks?:8.2.0 one more time

Re: Default permissions of /home/olpc/Activities/

2008-08-28 Thread Erik Garrison
On first boot olpc-configure sets the permissions of all directories in /home/olpc (excepting isolation directories) to chmod 755. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:56:44PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hello, > What is the default permission of any file/directory under > /home/olpc/Activities ? I a

Default permissions of /home/olpc/Activities/

2008-08-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, What is the default permission of any file/directory under /home/olpc/Activities ? I am specifically interested in the permissions of the i18n and l10n related directories, since the language packs will be playing around with a lot of theses files and folders. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamin

All joyride builds since 2346 are failing.

2008-08-28 Thread Ton van Overbeek
It seems the joyride builds since 2346 try to implement the reversal of the gstreamer packages. However all builds fail with a missing dependency issue: Error: Missing Dependency: gstreamer-plugins-base >= 0.10.17.2-4 is needed by package totem-gstreamer Anybody trying to fix this? It is a kind o

Re: OFW Q2E14 is available for testing

2008-08-28 Thread David Van Assche
heys... Anyone know if deb XO will work on the Eee? (old gen) and classmate (new gen)? David Van Assche 2008/8/28 Christoph Derndorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:32 AM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Mitch Bradley wrote: >> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmwa

Re: OFW Q2E14 is available for testing

2008-08-28 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:32 AM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mitch Bradley wrote: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14 > > > > It's the latest and greatest test candidate for 8.2.0, with numerous > > fixes and a few features. > > I believe the new "friends in testing" build 8.

Re: CSound server questions

2008-08-28 Thread victor
I'd just like to correct, for the record, that the Csound 5 project leader, of which I am part, is and has always been John ffitch. I am the fedora package maintainer for the olpcsound subset (and I'lll probably pick up the full Csound5 package too). John has also done a substantial work in settin

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
Jerry Vonau wrote: > > OR do you want msh0, msh1, and msh2 on the same bridge? That would > require editing the BRIDGE= line to be the same bridge device in all > three ifcfg-mshX files Sorry make that read TYPE= time for sleep in a bit, Jerry ___ Se

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Vonau
John Watlington wrote: > Martin, that shouldn't be needed. > Somewhere, network_config has gotten screwed up... > > On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > yup, all three ifcfg-brX files have device=br0 edit ifcfg-br1: DEVICE=br1 and ifcfg-br2 DEVICE=br2 OR do you want msh0, msh1,

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we're trying to get the XS to reply to the activation requests from > the XO. The service is listening on 172.18.0.1:191 which is what the > non-activated laptops are trying. > > The laptop, however, picks an address in t

Re: XO Faster build?

2008-08-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/8/28 BlistovMHz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Faster has been unmaintained since Koji puked. Is this coming back up, or > being deprecated in favor of Joyride? > Its been suggested that someone may have simply forgot to turn it back on :) 'Faster' is always a short-lived experimental branch. It wa

Re: CSound server questions

2008-08-28 Thread Jim Gettys
John, We cannot use code from Barry since he tends to work by himself, his code is unmaintainable except by him and its licensing has also been somewhat questionable at times, though the licening problems may have been addressed.. Were he to be run over by a truck (God forbid!), we'd be in a comp

Re: qemu: generating ext3 images including activities

2008-08-28 Thread Erik Garrison
I need to change the language to Spanish. This is for use in an educational video. The ext3 images don't have .mo files for Sugar and other system utils. So unless the livecd already has those, I'm going to continue with this route. Erik On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:22:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECT

XO Faster build?

2008-08-28 Thread BlistovMHz
Faster has been unmaintained since Koji puked. Is this coming back up, or being deprecated in favor of Joyride? Its been suggested that someone may have simply forgot to turn it back on :) ? Ben Selinger Sentai Software -- _ Fact: 1. Ninjas are mammals. 2. Ninjas fight ALL the time. 3. The p

Re: [Server-devel] Network address for activation - Fwd: [Techteam] Activating laptops from the school server

2008-08-28 Thread John Watlington
Martin, that shouldn't be needed. Somewhere, network_config has gotten screwed up... On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> we're trying to get the XS to reply to the activation requests from >> the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Change PILGRIM_LOCALES_* to better reflect the current situation

2008-08-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 28.08.2008 um 15:34 schrieb Daniel Drake: > >> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:04 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >>> b) To reflect the current and near future deployments (including G1G1 >>> 2008) and the level of transl

Re: [PROPOSAL] Change PILGRIM_LOCALES_* to better reflect the current situation

2008-08-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 28.08.2008 um 15:34 schrieb Daniel Drake: > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:04 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> b) To reflect the current and near future deployments (including G1G1 >> 2008) and the level of translations that we have in Pootle, the >> variables get changed to >> >> en:es:ar:pl:pt_

Re: [PROPOSAL] Change PILGRIM_LOCALES_* to better reflect the current situation

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:04 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > b) To reflect the current and near future deployments (including G1G1 > 2008) and the level of translations that we have in Pootle, the > variables get changed to > > en:es:ar:pl:pt_BR:pt:it:fr:ht:el:mn:mr_IN:th:am_ET:km_KH:ne_NP:ur_PK

[PROPOSAL] Change PILGRIM_LOCALES_* to better reflect the current situation

2008-08-28 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello everyone, Currently our pilgrim installation filters out translations from RPMs that it installs. I'm not sure what is the logic behind this action, but it seems that this is an effort to conserve space. However, since activities are not yet managed via Pilgrim, only the sugar (base libraries

Re: qemu: generating ext3 images including activities

2008-08-28 Thread WolfgangRohrmoser
Hi Eric, just a suggestion. Have you already tried to use the existing XO-LiveCD? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCD You can run the ISO with qemu, you can use VirtualBox (probably much faster), or just boot it on your hardware. Maybe you save time, because many activities are already

Re: OFW Q2E14 is available for testing

2008-08-28 Thread S Page
Mitch Bradley wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14 > > It's the latest and greatest test candidate for 8.2.0, with numerous > fixes and a few features. I believe the new "friends in testing" build 8.2-757 incorporates q2e14. My XO seems fine. I added the following to