Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread NoiseEHC
Hi! I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff: Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that new software is going to require a computer more powerful than they currently have? I thought that that was something that was going to be specifically avoided.

Re: Bxl testing report - April 16th

2009-04-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Machines tested  - Dell Vostro 1500 And here's the lspci of the Dell Vostro -- thanks Bert: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:01.0 PCI bridge:

SHLUG meets the XO

2009-04-18 Thread Scott Douglass
Hi, Last Friday (17/04/2009) evening I presented the XO laptop to the Shanghai Linux Users Group (SHLUG) in Shanghai, China. Despite the laptop being manufactured in China, none of those in attendance had ever had a chance to get their hands on one. Most everybody knew about it however

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: Hi! I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff: Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that new software is going to require a computer more powerful than they currently have? I thought that

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Apr 2009, at 14:23, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: Hi! I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff: Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that new software is going to require a computer more

XO Camera

2009-04-18 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I've been playing with rawhide on the XO this morning now that I've finally got it booting of the SD easily and regularly. It seems the camera doesn't work either in the record app or in cheese. Looking at the dmesg output it looks like the sensor isn't supported in the rawhide kernel. Is

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Mark Bauer
This sounds great, the description makes it sound as if the plastic will be the same. Does this imply that a new mother board will fit into the existing plastic? Mark On Apr 17, 2009 Friday, at 2:24:21:0, John Watlington wrote: OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1

Re: XO Camera

2009-04-18 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Peter, I've been playing with rawhide on the XO this morning now that I've finally got it booting of the SD easily and regularly. It seems the camera doesn't work either in the record app or in cheese. Looking at the dmesg output it looks like the sensor isn't supported in

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Tiago Marques
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in progress. In our continued effort to maintain a low price point, OLPC is refreshing the hardware to take advantage of the latest component

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Peter Robinson
The processor will be a VIA C7-M [1], with plans on using one whose clock ranges from 400 MHz (1.5 W) to 1GHz (5 W).  The clock may be throttled back automatically if necessary to meet thermal constraints. I'm hoping for a lot closer to 1GHz than 400MHz or it won't be much different than the

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 19:27, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in progress.  In our continued effort to maintain a low price point, OLPC is

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 19:27, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Bobby Powers
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 19:27, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org

Re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Bobby Powers bobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: the announcement said they were upping the RAM to 1GB DDR2. Exactly -- lots of questions. And between the added RAM, removing jffs2 (the external controller has something ftl-ish) and the streamlining of the storage

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bxl testing report - April 16th

2009-04-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
Sean, how are you doing in terms of connecting to the jabber server via jabber.sugarlabs.org? If you want to do a big collaboration session and exercise sharing some let us know when you are going to do it and we'll monitor the server and we'll see if we can catch it eating CPU and/or memory and

was not able to escape from Object Chooser

2009-04-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help. I am describing something I encountered which in my opinion is overly restrictive. I'm running the latest rawhide-xo .img on my XO. I had manually installed Browse-108. Happened to access a webpage which showed me an 'entry field', into which I

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with EjabberD setup and how to test if it's working

2009-04-18 Thread Yifan
Hi Daniel, Thanks for your response! The wiki page I'm referring to is http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd. I am using XS. What command should I use to display the current version? (I'm not too familiar with linux hacking, and I have

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with EjabberD setup and how to test if it's working

2009-04-18 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Martin, et. al: In my experience one of the most fruitful additions to any system that is going to be deployed in the field and used by persons unfamiliar with the underlying technology is a prepackaged way for the user to submit a trouble report that has all the needed info (logs, config files,

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with EjabberD setup and how to test if it's working

2009-04-18 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/18 Yifan yifan@students.olin.edu: I am using XS. What command should I use to display the current version? (I'm not too familiar with linux hacking, and I have several stored images, so I'm not entirely sure which one I used.) I don't know, but if you are using anything older than

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with EjabberD setup and how to test if it's working

2009-04-18 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/18 Yifan yifan@students.olin.edu: Thanks for your response! The wiki page I'm referring to is http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd. Also don't use these pages. I haven't seen them before. They seem to be aimed at non-XS

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with EjabberD setup and how to test if it's working

2009-04-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/4/18 Yifan yifan@students.olin.edu: Thanks for your response! The wiki page I'm referring to is http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd. Also don't use

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration Bugs in today's Olin Play Session

2009-04-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I saw two problems while we were working. 1. We had two computers next to each A and B.  A could see B but B could not see A.  Seemed to stay that way the whole afternoon. You are posting here so I assume