Re: RPM trees frozen for XO-1.5 software release

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:54 +, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, This probably only applies for a couple of days while we tie up development for our initial XO-1.5 software release: Sounds like it will apply for a bit longer. RPM trees are now frozen as of os56 contents - including public_rpms

Re: Swap to SD cards: performance and burnout test

2009-12-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:05, Emiliano Pastorino epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Thanks for all your replies. I'll show you the results when we're done. What's most important to the user is probably going to be the latency (pointer sluggishness, UI reaction time), though, and I don't

Re: Swap to SD cards: performance and burnout test

2009-12-11 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Haven't heard of it I'm going to check it out for sure! Thanks for the tip, Tomeu! On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:05, Emiliano Pastorino epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Thanks for all your replies. I'll show you

Re: [Sugar-devel] Technique to extract all records from xapian DB?

2009-12-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:49, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to add minimal support on 0.84 for the old 0.82 format in which JE metadata was saved on external disks. By minimal I mean read-only, fail-safe, and generally with small impact on the codebase. I sure

os57 - blocker - suspend prevents me from viewing screen

2009-12-11 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
XO-1.5 B2. This sounds like #9865. Made the mistake of NOT disabling suspend the first thing after installing os57. While I was typing on my external USB keyboard, the screen dimmed and before I could react, the power LED went off (in other words, the XO-1,5 went into suspend, with the power

New F11 for the XO-1 Build 10

2009-12-11 Thread Steven M. Parrish
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/XO-1/builds/OS10 Today I have released build 10 for the XO-1. This release will require you to flash it onto your XO-1 so you will loose everything. Please be sure to backup you home directory before installing. Release

Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2009-12-11 Thread Steven M. Parrish
If you are going to try out OS10 for the XO-1 here are a few things that need testing. Does it boot consistently into Sugar? Gnome? Any strange lockups? If so what were you doing? Can you upgrade packages using yum update from the command line? Does sound work? Can you suspend? Does it

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 53

2009-12-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Chris, On 4 Dec 2009, at 15:59, Chris Ball wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os53 Compressed image size: 659.12mb (-0.68mb since build 52) Description of changes in this build: * working camera! * kernel exposes wakeup reasons to

Network Redesign with Freifunk / 802.11N

2009-12-11 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi All, We've successfully tested here in Afghanistan using Freifunk to mesh routers between classrooms so that we can avoid the need for doing ethernet cabling in the school. Now with the 802.11n hardware out there that supports dual band MIMO 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ I'm hoping that we can achieve a

Re: Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2009-12-11 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Steven, Testing on XO-1 CL1. On 11 Dec 2009, at 18:55, Steven M. Parrish wrote: If you are going to try out OS10 for the XO-1 here are a few things that need testing. Does it boot consistently into Sugar? Gnome? Yes, but only tested over a few reboot cycles for each. Any strange

Re: Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2009-12-11 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Connect on WEP wifi.OK Yum update (updated to the newer kernel). OK In spite the alsactl complains during boot sound in/out (record, tam-tam, speak)is OK Suspends on lid but on resume the screen comes up but no keyboard or mouse. On timeouts, dims and sleeps but does not blank. Blanks

#9865: Laptop hangs on resume

2009-12-11 Thread John Watlington
Saw the IRC log from the bug triage meeting. Is anyone really testing using an OS greater OS54 ? It happens readily on a B2 (if you enable suspend/resume). The only way this one isn't a blocker is if we disable suspend/resume by default. Richard and I both see this hang our machine multiple

Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-12-11 Thread Tabitha Roder
Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ Who: Tabitha, Alastair, Grant Updated 5 XO 1.5 machines and 4 XO 1.0 machines. On XO 1.5s the open firmware help is unhelpful. The new fs-update command for reflashing the XO is not described in the help and the old flash-nand command which no

Re: [Testing] Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-12-11 Thread Mitch Bradley
Tabitha Roder wrote: Updated 5 XO 1.5 machines and 4 XO 1.0 machines. On XO 1.5s the open firmware help is unhelpful. The new fs-update command for reflashing the XO is not described in the help and the old flash-nand command which no longer works is listed. Thanks, I entered this into

Re: #9865: Laptop hangs on resume

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:19 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Saw the IRC log from the bug triage meeting. Is anyone really testing using an OS greater OS54 ? It happens readily on a B2 (if you enable suspend/resume). The only way this one isn't a blocker is if we disable

Re: Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-12-11 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 01:40:04PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote: On all XO 1.5s we updated to OS54 wifi does not work (except on 1 of 5 machines showed wireless connections for about 20 seconds then gone) although we now realise there is OS56 so maybe we need to just update again. You probably

http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os58/

2009-12-11 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Why no os58.zd ? I like to keep om hand an image I can install with 'fs-update'. Besides, 'olpc-update' gives the impression of taking longer. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os58/

2009-12-11 Thread Ed McNierney
Mikus - Chris is very good about emailing build announcements when they're ready. If there hasn't been an announcement, and you happen to discover a few files lying about in an HTML-accessible place, please don't expect them to be of any particular use. When OS 58 has been reasonably checked

Re: #9865: Laptop hangs on resume

2009-12-11 Thread Paul Fox
peter wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:19 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Saw the IRC log from the bug triage meeting. Is anyone really testing using an OS greater OS54 ? It happens readily on a B2 (if you enable suspend/resume). The only way this one isn't a

New F11 for XO-1.5 build 58

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os58 Compressed image size: 700.51mb (+4.64mb since build 57) Description of changes in this build: * Boot partition increased from 31M to 62M (#9871) * Help activity v12 added, from Seth Woodworth * Remove

Re: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os58/

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, When OS 58 has been reasonably checked out and uploaded, there will be the usual email announcement. In the meantime, feel free to keep testing OS 57! Thanks, Ed. Yes, I intentionally deleted os58.zd and os58.img.gz in order to save folks other than myself from downloading it,

Re: Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-12-11 Thread John Watlington
#9865 illustrates the danger in telling all of our testers to disable automatic suspend/resume. I would prefer that testers leave suspend/resume enabled, and give up their wireless. Suspend/resume has seen very little testing! Cheers, wad On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:11 PM, James Cameron wrote:

Re: #9865: Laptop hangs on resume

2009-12-11 Thread Tiago Marques
I have disabled suspend due to the wireless thing with B2s and haven't had time to do the ECO fix. Will leave it idling tonight and a fews days with suspend on to see what gives. Best regards, Tiago On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:19 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Saw the IRC log from

Re: #9865: Laptop hangs on resume

2009-12-11 Thread Tiago Marques
One question, leaving it idling will leave always suspended, right? Is there any kind of program that can wakeup the laptop from time to time when it's suspended? AFAIK he doesn't suspend itself when something is running on the CPU(dunno the criteria for no-suspend) but is it possible to interrupt

Re: #9865: Laptop hangs on resume

2009-12-11 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 04:26:52AM +, Tiago Marques wrote: One question, leaving it idling will leave always suspended, right? Yes. Is there any kind of program that can wakeup the laptop from time to time when it's suspended? Yes, there is. However if you use that method of resuming

Re: os57 - blocker - suspend prevents me from viewing screen [#9865]

2009-12-11 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:27:11AM -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: XO-1.5 B2. This sounds like #9865. I agree. Please convince the laptop to do it again, and if it does, see if removing the battery while leaving the power supply attached does anything for the symptom. It did for me. After

Re: [Server-devel] Public folders in 0.6 - trials in Pacific

2009-12-11 Thread David Leeming
Martin I am just tuning in again to OLPC after some months, and am preparing for some work in PNG, Tuvalu and FSM. I very quickly had 0.6 installed, and got to grips with Moodle, very cool! I can do all I wanted with setting up links to folders etc. Once again I get that wow feeling about the