Re: upgrade to sugar-0.83

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Carlos Nazareno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're mid-way through the upgrade to sugar-0.83. And even when that's done, there will be mucho breakage (see Tomeu's earlier post). Any chance latest Gnash can be integrated? Well, Gnash in this case is at the same

Re: [Server-devel] XS - XO archiving and backup (was Re: [OLPC India] Issues on the ground )

2008-11-10 Thread Reuben K. Caron
XS 0.4 does include a backup and restore functionality. The restore is through a web interface that can be accessed at http://schoolserver/ds-restore. The one caveat to this functionality is that it requires the XO to be running 8.2 (in order for the backup to run). Bryan Berry wrote: On Mon,

Re: updating telepathy in OLPC's F9-based images

2008-11-10 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:29, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm having some trouble updating the telepathy packages in joyride, which is a prerequisite for updating sugar. My plan was to update the telepathy* packages in F9 to the sources of those packages in F10, but I'm

Re: [sugar] updating telepathy in OLPC's F9-based images

2008-11-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 10 November 2008 04:29:31 am Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi all, I'm having some trouble updating the telepathy packages in joyride, which is a prerequisite for updating sugar. My plan was to update the telepathy* packages in F9 to the sources of those packages in F10, but I'm having some

keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Tony Anderson
I am writing some python code which needs to interrogate the system to determine which keyboard layout is currently selected. The goal is to show an image of the keyboard for Nepali students with a US keyboard. I checked /home/olpc/.i18n but this does not change with the % x key. Anyone

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi Tony, Take a look at /etc/sysconfig/keyboard Thanks, Sayamindu On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some python code which needs to interrogate the system to determine which keyboard layout is currently selected. The goal is to show an

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:10 AM, genesee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Drake-5 wrote: We're mid-way through the upgrade to sugar-0.83. And even when that's done, there will be mucho breakage (see Tomeu's earlier post). I think joyride will break often over the course of the next few

RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On backup and restore, aside from the comments already mentioned, I suggest you pay careful attention to the available space on your XS. You should have about 2GB free space on your XS for each XO. If you don't have enough

Re: [Server-devel] RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Right now, the jffs2 fs can outstore the backup storage on highly compressible content. Not a good look, and leading to all sorts of bad scenarios. I would get a real journal and check for real which is the

Re: [sugar] Major differences between releases

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've started http://wiki.laptop.org/go/API_changes to track Sugar and system API changes between releases. It's not very comprehensive so far - contributions welcome. Little nag: how about qualifiying that it's about the

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Thanks for the help. However, I don't think I expressed myself clearly. I have my XO set up to switch between us and np keyboard layouts. What I need is a way in Python to find out which of these layouts is currently selected. The file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is also unchanged when the '% x'

Re: [Server-devel] RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. My uninformed guess is that most of the content is already compressed: png, zip, pdf (some/most), odt, ogg,

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. My uninformed guess is that most of

[Server-devel] XS 0.4 to 0.5 upgrade (vs. reinstall) path

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Bogstad
Is there a supported 0.4 to 0.5 upgrade path for the XS software which doesn't involve a disk reformat? I tried using one of the 0.5 dev ISOs on a test install of 0.4 and couldn't figure out an install which didn't involve a disk format? I'm hoping that I'm just missing something... Thanks,

Greg Smith's Weekly Report

2008-11-10 Thread Greg Smith
Overview: We are collecting all well formed ideas for future development at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap Add your suggestions to that page. In the near future we will start prioritizing them and choosing the target set for inclusion in the next release, 9.1.0. Product

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.4 to 0.5 upgrade (vs. reinstall) path

2008-11-10 Thread Jerry Vonau
Bill Bogstad wrote: Is there a supported 0.4 to 0.5 upgrade path for the XS software which doesn't involve a disk reformat? I tried using one of the 0.5 dev ISOs on a test install of 0.4 and couldn't figure out an install which didn't involve a disk format? I'm hoping that I'm just missing

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.4 to 0.5 upgrade (vs. reinstall) path

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jerry Vonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think you need change the default selection to one of the top two options at the boot prompt(install/upgrade gui/text), you may also need to pass 'upgradeany' at the boot prompt if your not offered upgrade as an option once

Re: [sugar] Major differences between releases

2008-11-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 10.11.2008, at 16:45, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've started http://wiki.laptop.org/go/API_changes to track Sugar and system API changes between releases. It's not very comprehensive so far - contributions welcome.

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Ties Stuij
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some python code which needs to interrogate the system to determine which keyboard layout is currently selected. The goal is to show an image of the keyboard for Nepali students with a US keyboard. I

Re: updating telepathy in OLPC's F9-based images

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:29, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm having some trouble updating the telepathy packages in joyride, which is a prerequisite for updating sugar. My plan was to update the

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Nov 10 2008, at 11:08, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On backup and restore, aside from the comments already mentioned, I suggest you pay careful attention to the available space on your XS. You should have about

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. On a test machine with a good cross-section of activity documents, I gzipped all the files in the datastore

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread pgf
martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. On a test machine with a good cross-section of activity documents, I gzipped all the

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 23:50 +0545, Ties Stuij wrote: Hmm, I must confess I don't know what the % x key is. It's the ×/÷ key just above the right arrow. On certain keyboard layouts it's a ISO Level shift. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed

Sugar installer for Windows

2008-11-10 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi all, I wrote a simple Sugar installer for Windows: http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Setup.exe It installs/uninstalls a working Sugar environment (based on Ton van Overbeek's QEMU) with just a few clicks. The installer was built using the open source installer creator NSIS

Project hosting request: qa-scripts

2008-11-10 Thread Mel Chua
1. Project name : qa-scripts 2. Existing website, if any : none 3. One-line description : Testing setup/data-collection scripts. 4. Longer description : A collection of scripts used by the internal OLPC QA team to ease repetitive test setup/data collection.

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Thanks. That may do it. Sugar is set up so the XO key with % and x (divide/multiply I suppose) is used to switch the keyboard layout. Oops. No joy. The output of setxkbmap doesn't change when I switch layouts. Tony Ties Stuij wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Tony Anderson [EMAIL

Re: keyboard

2008-11-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help. However, I don't think I expressed myself clearly. I have my XO set up to switch between us and np keyboard layouts. What I need is a way in Python to find out which of these layouts is currently

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there. On a test machine with a

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread pgf
bill wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a real journal and check for real which is the compressibility of the data that is actually there.

Re: [Server-devel] /etc/xs-sigchecks-enabled

2008-11-10 Thread Douglas Bagnall
Reuben K. Caron wrote: Douglas, my testing show it works too. At least the usbmount script and processing the magic file on the USB key (and commenting out the encryption stuff shows the generated password file works). I could use some more documentation on generating the required keys. I've

add xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds

2008-11-10 Thread Erik Garrison
Attached is a patch to pilgrim which adds xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds. This is a prerequisite for testing. Size delta is negligible: I believe the binary is 26K. Could we enable this? Bernie and I are in agreement that we need to start testing of composite. Erik diff --git

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-10 Thread genesee
Aw, you're no fun! Since first upgrading from 656 to Update 2, there is no turning back. Warnings are so droll. So far nothing in joyride has been fatal. Not getting rid of me so easy! Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Genesee: If your XO is your only computer, then please don't use joyride at all.

Re: add xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds

2008-11-10 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Erik Garrison wrote: Attached is a patch to pilgrim which adds xcompmgr to the olpc-development stream builds. This is a prerequisite for testing. Size delta is negligible: I believe the binary is 26K. Could we enable this? Bernie and I are in agreement that we need to start testing of

Re: sugar 0.83 in joyride

2008-11-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:46 AM, genesee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aw, you're no fun! Since first upgrading from 656 to Update 2, there is no turning back. Warnings are so droll. So far nothing in joyride has been fatal. Not getting rid of me so easy! Oh, in that case, keep trying explosive