Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:06:48AM +, Gary C Martin wrote: On 8 Dec 2008, at 19:29, Erik Garrison wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:04:23AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Hi all, We are trying to figure out a way to

RE: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Gary, This is very exciting and I would love to help test it when it is ready for that. This idea came to mind when I noticed Mexico's OLPC activity information for TamTamMini showed the relationship of the XO keys to those of an actual music keyboard. Why not let the children experience

mock.laptop.org repos repo

2008-12-09 Thread Ties Stuij
Hey, I'm making a local pilgrim and I'd like to have the repo at mock.laptop.org, which contains all rpms for the different xo builds. Git doesn't work however because I get out of memory errors, so I want to rsync it or find some other way or repository. Is it perhaps mirrored on dev.laptop.org

Trac tickets for 8.2.1 release mislabeled

2008-12-09 Thread Ed McNierney
I see that the tickets for 8.2.1 seem to be all labeled for the 9.1 milestone, ³per edmcnierney¹s request² and that wasn¹t my request. Tickets 8976, 8745, 9044, 9045, 8982, 8155, 8767, and 8451 should all be tagged as for the 8.2.1 release, and those are the ONLY tickets that should be so

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread S Page
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: There's a MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH which looks promising, but somehow it's not working for me. Strace should be able provide clues. I don't know if Browse uses MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH, but the Firefox activity definitely does, see

[PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
This patch enables interrupts for DMA and command completion events, and uses them to determine when commands and transfers have completed. This avoids a busy-wait loop which was a waste of CPU time. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Where do we go with this? Who's adventurous

[Server-devel] Bonding regression on 2.6.27

2008-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Jesper, about a month ago you reported in lkml and netdev a (perhaps timing) bug with bonding. The msg is http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/11/16/4161864 Did you manage to resolve it or workaround it? Some users of the OLPC School Server seem to be having a similar problem,

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
Nice! One quick test, for starters, is to do some file accesses to large files (dd or tar or whatever) and use the time command to look at the system and user times. With the patch, the system time should drop to a fraction of the real time. Daniel Drake wrote: This patch enables interrupts

Start python script into terminal

2008-12-09 Thread Rodolfo Pilas
Hello: I wish to start a python script into terminal. I would like to create a program with its own sugar-icon and terminal+script, something like: exec = sugar-activity terminal.TerminalActivity -x SysOX.py where -x is the way to explain terminal that I need to run a scipt. It is possible to

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice! One quick test, for starters, is to do some file accesses to large files (dd or tar or whatever) and use the time command to look at the system and user times. With the patch, the system time should drop to a

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice! One quick test, for starters, is to do some file accesses to large files (dd or tar or whatever) and use the time command to look at the system and user times. With the patch, the system

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Gettys
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 07:05 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: Where do we go with this? Who's adventurous enough to test it? Dare we put it in joyride? Any suggestions for how to measure performance difference? If Deepak likes it and it passes some tests, that would be the logical thing to

Re: Start python script into terminal

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Rodolfo, Hello: I wish to start a python script into terminal. I would like to create a program with its own sugar-icon and terminal+script, something like: One way to do this, I think, would be to make a Pippy program that runs your Python script (either with import or with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-09 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I tried the new installation instructions on the wiki, first installing the Colors activity, then running the new shell script as per the wiki: wget http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/setupwacom.sh sudo sh setupwacom.sh It seemed to run ok without errors. I restarted the XO. Colors installed ok and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-09 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi Stan, Try a 'depmod' and then 'modprobe wacom' from the Terminal, and see if that helps. Feel free to grab me on IRC (as wadeb), I can help troubleshoot it. -Wade On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Stanley Sokolow [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I tried the new installation instructions on the

Re: One instance activity

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Stone
I believe that Browse already works this way. (There are many ways to implement the feature, given the shared data directory available to all instances of an activity.) Michael ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Ed McNierney
And then Mitch tosses the next ball to Daniel to catch. On 12/9/08 12:22 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 07:05 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: Where do we go with this? Who's adventurous enough to test it? Dare we put it in joyride? Any suggestions for how to

Re: Clone a whole dir from dev.laptop.org/git ?

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Stone
How about: scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities . ? (Or were you saying that you need a real shell on dev?) Michael ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-09 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Wade, I tried: sudo depmod sudo modprobe wacom but all I got was an error from the modprobe: FATAL:nbsp; Module wacom not found. I then tried: sudo modprobe linuxwacom and got the same error. Stan - Wade Brainerd-2 (via Nabble) wrote: Hi

Re: Trac tickets for 8.2.1 release mislabeled

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Stone
My fault; overeager scripting to the rescue. Apologies, Michael P.S. - People interested in improving or reusing said overeager scripting should examine and improve http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Trac_scripting ___ Devel mailing list

8.2.1 test plan finalized (next: test cases need finalization)

2008-12-09 Thread Mel Chua
(The intent of this email is to make what's going on with 8.2.1 testing as transparent as possible.) I checked after the 8am work estimate cutoff, and made sure that the test plan matched up with the trac tickets listed at [[Eco/8.2.1]] - as of right now, it does. (Sweet!) I believe that

Re: Clone a whole dir from dev.laptop.org/git ?

2008-12-09 Thread Bastien
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about: scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities . ? (Or were you saying that you need a real shell on dev?) Actually, I don't (think I) have a shell on dev. Is a shell really required for this? If so, I'll ask one to Henry. Thanks! --

Re: Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 18:49, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-99.xo seems to be working for me. Please test. Attached is the patch which did the trick. Ugh. Why is it necessary to copy the plugin to $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/ data ? That would only make sense if it is

Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Learning from the last release, I want to start activity selection early for 9.1.0. I created a section on the 9.1.0 planning page for activities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0_requirements#Activities I want to get all potential activities listed there. An activity will need to be

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09.12.2008, at 18:49, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-99.xo seems to be working for me. Please test. Attached is the patch which did the trick. Ugh. Why is it necessary to copy

Re: [Sugar-devel] One instance activity

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 18:55, Eben Eliason wrote: Are you sure? Browse makes use of shared code, but still presents the user with the appearance of multiple instances. Right. The way to do it would be to create a unique D-Bus service in your activity. When the second instance tries to create

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Dec 09 2008, at 16:05, Daniel Drake was caught saying: This patch enables interrupts for DMA and command completion events, and uses them to determine when commands and transfers have completed. This avoids a busy-wait loop which was a waste of CPU time. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake

Re: [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Greg, Hi All, Learning from the last release, I want to start activity selection early for 9.1.0. Our software releases don't ship with activities, so I don't understand what's being selected here. We didn't choose a set of activities to ship with 8.2.0; we chose a set of activities

Re: [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Chris, When this release is done we will update the default image used in manufacturing. All of our deployments except one currently take the default image. Many change it (usually adding more than subtracting) after they get the XOs in country but they start with our factory image. We

Wine activity

2008-12-09 Thread Vincent Povirk
The Wine activity has advanced to the point where I think it's ready for testing by actual users. The current package, development history, and my todo list are at http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine The intent of this project is to provide a shell that can be used to run Windows programs using

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice! One quick test, for starters, is to do some file accesses to large files (dd or tar or whatever) and use the time command to look at the system and user times. With the patch, the system time should drop to a

Re: 8.2.1 test plan finalized (next: test cases need finalization)

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 19:23, Mel Chua wrote: I believe that means that we can consider the list of test cases here as final (Joe/Kim, please holler if I'm incorrect): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.1 The Etoys ticket number is 8982 not 9045 as listed on that page. And please use the

Re: 8.2.1 test plan finalized (next: test cases need finalization)

2008-12-09 Thread Mel Chua
Ah, so it is! Thanks for the catch, Bert - fixed. Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 09.12.2008, at 19:23, Mel Chua wrote: I believe that means that we can consider the list of test cases here as final (Joe/Kim, please holler if I'm incorrect): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.1 The

Re: Way to tell if it is an XO

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Marcel, Hello, I need to know what is a good way to find out if the local machine running a python script is a XO. One way might be to cat /ofw/model. If the file doesn't exist, or doesn't return a letter and number, you probably aren't running on an XO. The goal is to check it

Re: Way to tell if it is an XO

2008-12-09 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, On 09.12.2008 22:37, Chris Ball wrote: Hello, I need to know what is a good way to find out if the local machine running a python script is a XO. One way might be to cat /ofw/model. If the file doesn't exist, or doesn't return a letter and number, you probably aren't running on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

2008-12-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.12.2008, at 22:29, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09.12.2008, at 18:49, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-99.xo seems to be working for me. Please test. Attached is the

Joyride Build 2582

2008-12-09 Thread Simon Schampijer
The logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html say: joyride-2582 (pkgs) ! Build incomplete Error Downloading Packages: Any idea someone? Thanks, Simon ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Joyride Build 2582

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, The logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html say: joyride-2582 (pkgs) ! Build incomplete Error Downloading Packages: Any idea someone? xs-dev was out of disk space, and isn't anymore; let's see what happens with the next build. - Chris. -- Chris Ball [EMAIL

Re: [Server-devel] Bonding regression on 2.6.27

2008-12-09 Thread Anna
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Jesper Krogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reverted the systems to the latest 2.6.26.8 kernel and it havent been on my priority list since.. unfortunately. I reinstalled fresh and, after the usual setup stuff, compiled and installed 2.6.26.8 according to these

New joyride build 2583

2008-12-09 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2583 Changes in build 2583 from build: 2581 Size delta: 0.00M -rainbow 0.7.26-1.olpc4 +rainbow 0.7.27-1.olpc4 -crontabs 1.10-23.fc10 +crontabs 1.10-25.fc10 -cups 1:1.3.9-2.fc10 +cups 1:1.3.9-4.fc10 -cups-libs 1:1.3.9-2.fc10 +cups-libs

Re: [Sugar-devel] One instance activity

2008-12-09 Thread david
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 09.12.2008, at 18:55, Eben Eliason wrote: Are you sure? Browse makes use of shared code, but still presents the user with the appearance of multiple instances. Right. The way to do it would be to create a unique D-Bus service in your

2583 - Journal unusable

2008-12-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The Journal entries do not show the object icon - so they cannot be launched from. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2.1 test plan finalized (next: test cases need finalization)

2008-12-09 Thread Kimberley Quirk
Mel, We need to include all the smoke tests, which should be run on any build to ensure that the basic functionality of the build has been retained. Also, we should review other test cases that might help reveal a regression... for instance, if we mess with wireless drivers, we need to do

Re: [Server-devel] Bonding regression on 2.6.27

2008-12-09 Thread Jesper Krogh
Martin Langhoff wrote: Hi Jesper, about a month ago you reported in lkml and netdev a (perhaps timing) bug with bonding. The msg is http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/11/16/4161864 Did you manage to resolve it or workaround it? Some users of the OLPC School Server seem

[Server-devel] Amateurish Workaround to Get Bonding to Work With eth1

2008-12-09 Thread Anna
This is probably far from ideal, but it works for me and I'm putting it out there in case you're messing with XS 0.5 and need to have eth1 working now so you can test other stuff. I'm sure there's a more elegant solution. Put this in /etc/rc.local ifenslave lanbond0 eth1 Reboot. And there we