need help troubleshooting possible jffs2 problem

2008-09-02 Thread Bryan Berry
I am having w/ one of the XO's from a pilot school. I cannot copy large files from a USB key to the local SSD. The SSD mtd0 is only 47% full. I am trying to transfer a 156 MB file. The XO crashes when I try to copy the file locally. The XO works fine otherwise. I have run test-all and seen no

Hardware Errors -- any hope?

2008-09-02 Thread Bryan Berry
I have what appear to be two hardware errors and I would like to know if there is any hope of fixing them short of swapping out the motherboards. Machine #1 Possible bad USB controller On this machine, I can't copy a file larger than 29 MB from a USB stick to the SSD. The machine completely

Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-02 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 19:01 -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: Hi maybe this can be of interest, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Robots this is planned with open hardware. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware. On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Carlos mauro

Re: OFW vs. proprietary BIOS

2008-09-02 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/08/08 14:07 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: Edward Cherlin wrote. I also want to see Open Firmware replace proprietary BIOSes everywhere. I'd like that too, but it won't happen. The market forces that drive the computer business still favor proprietary thinking, notwithstanding the

Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Jordan
Photos of a group Learn 2 teach, teach 2 learn that seems to have worked with a robot and XO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/connors934/2799061287/in/set-72157606960529196/ Found via tag olpc on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/olpc/ Cheers, and good luck Carlos! Brian On Tue, Sep 2,

New joyride build 2375

2008-09-02 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2375 Changes in build 2375 from build: 2373 Size delta: 0.00M -pygtk2 2.12.1-7.olpc3 +pygtk2 2.12.1-6.olpc3.1 -pygtk2-libglade 2.12.1-7.olpc3 +pygtk2-libglade 2.12.1-6.olpc3.1 -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: Problems using pilgrim

2008-09-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/8/30 Niklaus Giger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I am a member of olpc-ch which is promoting OLPC in Switzerland. See also http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ngiger. As I had to customize manually 10 OLPCs to use German/Switzerland as language for a presentation of OLPC to more than 100 children in

Re: How to get packages on the 8.2 branch?

2008-09-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:52 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do we need to do to get packages on the stable 8.2

New update.1 build 712

2008-09-02 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build712 Changes in build 712 from build: 711 Size delta: 0.00M -libX11 1.1.3-3.git20071123.olpc2 +libX11 1.1.3-4.git20071123.olpc2 -olpc-utils 0.74-2.olpc2 +olpc-utils 0.74-3.olpc2 -xkeyboard-config 1.1-20.20071130cvs.olpc2

Re: Faster build with XFCE

2008-09-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/8/30 BlistovMHz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can we turn faster back on with XFCE? I'm spending more time installing/configuring XFCE under joyride, than I am doing any real development. I'm working on power management, specifically with regards to dynamic idle suspend times based on user input vs

New joyride build 2378

2008-09-02 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2378 Changes in build 2378 from build: 2375 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-update-control 0.9-1 +sugar-update-control 0.10-1 -rainbow 0.7.19-1.fc9 +rainbow 0.7.20-1.fc9 -kernel 2.6.25-20080829.1.olpc.278a61522038c37 +kernel

New joyride build 2379

2008-09-02 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2379 Changes in build 2379 from build: 2378 Size delta: 0.00M -gnash-plugin 0.8.3-1.olpc3 +gnash-plugin 0.8.3-1.olpc3.2 -gnash 0.8.3-1.olpc3 +gnash 0.8.3-1.olpc3.2 -- This mail was automatically generated See

Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-02 Thread unimauro
Anybody know this project ? http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSimkin Seen the videos. Is a robot. 2008/9/2, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Photos of a group Learn 2 teach, teach 2 learn that seems to have worked with a robot and XO:

Re: Frimware Q2E15 and Joyride-2368, good and bad

2008-09-02 Thread Ton van Overbeek
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bad: - Bounce (aka 3Dpong) has become completely unplayable. The screen update is very jerky. In earlier builds it was smooth. Something to do with the X-server changes for Etoys?

Re: Hardware Errors -- any hope?

2008-09-02 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:50 This sounds more like a problem with the USB key, not the motherboard. If the controller were having trouble transferring data, it wouldn't be so consistent about making it to 29 MB with no error. I will take your suggestion and try another usb key. I tried two

Re: [Server-devel] new package: xs-activation

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Douglas Bagnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XS Activation Server Fantastic. Great to see this, thanks! One thing to note is that this is a very limited activation server - it only works for the initial activation that happens when machines are first turned on.

Re: [Server-devel] usb drive based installs.

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grab: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall Wow, that's a good start! I'll play with it! Now that the

Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff
On 01 Sep 2008, at 9:47 AM, David Van Assche wrote: Nice, except took me almost a minute to figure out that the central part of the X was an S... maybe I'm just slow I don't know That was kinda the intention. My graphic skills don't quite match my imagination, but I did say it was a

Re: [Server-devel] [Techteam] signing leases.sig [Fwd: new package: xs-activation]

2008-09-02 Thread Douglas Bagnall
Scott wrote: The bitfrost.leases.crypto module contains routines to verify a given activation lease or developer key; the intention was that the school server never replace a valid key with an invalid or shorter key. The trouble is the server doesn't necessarily know the laptop's UUID, so it

Re: [Server-devel] Network route for activation time and netblocks for WLAN - 172.18.16.x reaching the XS

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: - there seems to be no routing between 172.18.16.x and 172.18.0.1 GATEWAY1=172.18.1.2 ADDRESS1=172.18.16.0 NETMASK1=255.255.248.0 Is routed out eth1 though 1.2, based on the .2, that