Re: Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[adding sugar-devel to cc] 2009/1/23 James Simmons : > Jigish, > > OK, I uninstalled both sugar and sugar-activities, then installed just > sugar. It did not complain of missing dependencies, and seemed to install > just fine. Then I tried running sugar from the command line as you > instructed:

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-24 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> I meant it should have been optional, but if we switch to using the >> "Closes: header in the body, where we have no size constraints, then >> we could has well use the prefix consistently. > > One important note

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-24 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > FWIW, I have noticed mmap errors while trying to deal with large files > (~70MB) on the standard OLPC builds. localedef does not work in the XO > for this (strace shows that it chokes when trying to mmap > /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive) I don't think it's related to th

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-24 Thread Bernie Innocenti
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > It's probably worth reading through the pilgrim > 'streams.d/olpc-development.stream' file to see if there are other > fixes you are missing. Indeed. Starting with a white-room F10 build is going to cause many such regressions, and re-discovering all the associated worka

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:23 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > What can I call from an activity (in python) to indicate that the > backlight > should be turned off ? > > I'm playing with a photoframe app, and want to have the ability to > deliberately > control the backlight level from the UI. See

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Well, it's customary to introduce an additional state where the bug is > fixed in the developer's intentions, but not yet QA'd: > > NEW -> ASSIGNED -> FIXED -> CLOSED Bernie, 99% of my commits are "working on it, mate" ;-) It's not ab

Re: SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >> D'oh, I think OLPC asked Warren to push that X driver update, and it >> sounds like we didn't test it properly. Is there a good way to select >> which version of an RPM to use in

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread pgf
marco pesenti gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:23 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > > > What can I call from an activity (in python) to indicate that the > > backlight > > should be turned off ? > > > > I'm playing with a photoframe app, and want to have the ability to > > deliberate

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, wrote: > but if ohmd is going to be in the middle, then the published > api for requesting those changes should be more transparent than > requiring every application be in python and have knowledge of > dbus. There is no python dependency and I personally have n

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 15:50, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, wrote: >> but if ohmd is going to be in the middle, then the published >> api for requesting those changes should be more transparent than >> requiring every application be in python and have knowledge

Re: SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >> D'oh, I think OLPC asked Warren to push that X driver update, and it >> sounds like we didn't test it properly. Is there a good way to select >> which version of an RPM to use in

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread pgf
tomeu wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 15:50, Marco Pesenti Gritti > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, wrote: > >> but if ohmd is going to be in the middle, then the published > >> api for requesting those changes should be more transparent than > >> requiring every application b

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, wrote: > right -- there's only a python dependency in that when someone asks > "how do i change the brightness", they're pointed to python code. :-) Well... Wad needed it for a python activity. And even if you need to write it in another language, the example is

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread pgf
marco pesenti gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, wrote: > > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/jarabe/m > odel/screen.py > > it looks like there's a missing assignment to _ohm_service (i.e., to > > save the connection so it doesn't ne

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread david
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, wrote: >> but if ohmd is going to be in the middle, then the published >> api for requesting those changes should be more transparent than >> requiring every application be in python and have knowledge of >> dbus

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Stone
David -- why quibble over ohm when you've got NM and HAL to worry about? Paul -- why are the /sys nodes only writable by root? Michael On 1/24/09, da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, wrote: >>> but if ohmd is going to b

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread david
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Michael Stone wrote: > David -- why quibble over ohm when you've got NM and HAL to worry about? NM (network manager) I can (and frequently do) disable. HAL is starting to become more of a problem. very recently it was very easy to ignore it, the lasest X.org releases make i

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread pgf
michael wrote: > David -- why quibble over ohm when you've got NM and HAL to worry about? > > Paul -- why are the /sys nodes only writable by root? discounting, possible denial-of-brightness attacks by malicious screen hackers, no particularly good reason that i know of. well, other than ensu

Re: [Olpc-sysadmin] Downtime for teach.laptop.org

2009-01-24 Thread Stefan Unterhauser
hi all, teach is back :) good work ffm cu dogi On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: > Hi All, > > We'll be running some upgrades on teach.l.o tomorrow around 9AM. It's > unlikely that there will be any downtime, but we've backed up all user data > to crank.l.o and created a VM

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-24 Thread pgf
marco pesenti gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, wrote: > > right -- there's only a python dependency in that when someone asks > > "how do i change the brightness", they're pointed to python code. :-) > > Well... Wad needed it for a python activity. And even if you need to

Re: SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >>> D'oh, I think OLPC asked Warren to push that X driver update, and it >>> sounds like we didn't test it properly. Is there a good way to select >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-24 Thread David Farning
James, Can you try running ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck ? david On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > [adding sugar-devel to cc] > > 2009/1/23 James Simmons : >> Jigish, >> >> OK, I uninstalled both sugar and sugar-activities, then installed just >> sugar. It did not complain of