Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Neil Graham
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:33 -0800, John Gilmore wrote: > > I would take it all with a large dose of salt. > > Also, as usual, the left hand at OLPC doesn't know what the right hand > is doing. Actually I think the hands are all doing a very good job. It's the head that needs attention. One thin

Brief testing of OS10 (F11 for XO-1)

2009-12-23 Thread milan zimmermann
Hi, A few observations running OS10 on XO1.0 with latest XO1 firmware: 1) After about 10 minutes (did not measure time exactly) , all input from keyboard and keypad stops. Interestingly, mouse plugged into USB still works. I assume this is because of the Power saving (first of the 2 options) is

Re: Testing OS64 on XO1.5

2009-12-23 Thread milan zimmermann
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:41 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:20:37PM -0500, milan zimmermann wrote: >> 1) After reboot, or after a brief period of inactivity, the system >> sometimes does not connect to network, [...] > > Deficiency of the B2 hardware, won't be fixed in B2, b

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread John Watlington
On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:33 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >> I would take it all with a large dose of salt. > > Also, as usual, the left hand at OLPC doesn't know what the right hand > is doing. The press release isn't on www.laptop.org, nor is there > anything in www.laptop.org or wiki.laptop.org about

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread John Gilmore
> I would take it all with a large dose of salt. Also, as usual, the left hand at OLPC doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The press release isn't on www.laptop.org, nor is there anything in www.laptop.org or wiki.laptop.org about the XO-3 (or even the XO-1.75). The press release (which i

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:09 +, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:28 -0300, César D. Rodas wrote: > > Hello Everybody, > > > > After hard debugging with Raul, we've realized that the problem was in > > the Geode driver. > > > > I've changed a line within the memory buffer, and it

Re: XO-3 super-o-fficial

2009-12-23 Thread Seth Woodworth
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > > > The OS is proprietary (android), it would probably fail it you dropped > it in a puddle and it has too many radios... What makes you think that this will be a proprietary version of Android? Android is licensed Apache 2.0 with kernel pa

Re: XO-3 super-o-fficial

2009-12-23 Thread John Gilmore
> "We don't necessarily need to build it," Negroponte told Forbes. "We just > need to threaten to build it." Looks like Notion Ink has already done so, sort of: http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-tegra-android-smartpad-uses-pixel-qi-display-1866308/ The OS is proprietary (android), it would

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-23 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:33, Cecilia Abalde wrote: > I have a question about the patch in ticket 8104. > to which version of networkmanager was done? If you mean the C implementatiaon of nm-dhcp-client.action, this was a patch relative to NetworkManager 0.6.5 ... and the src.rpm is in Martin's

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html > > "It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, > half the thickness of an iPhone and use less than a watt of powe

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread david
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Stanley Sokolow wrote: My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of vaporware come into being.The limiting factor in bringing computing to the poor masses on this planet is the high co

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Stanley Sokolow wrote: > My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of > vaporware come into being.The limiting factor in bringing computing to > the poor masses on this planet is the high cost of connecting them to the > Internet

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
About near-zero connectivity cost, i came across the caua project http://www.projectcaua.org/ OLPC, and/or others could begin to support these kind of ideas. Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Stanley Sokolow wrote: > My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to hav

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:28 -0300, César D. Rodas wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > After hard debugging with Raul, we've realized that the problem was in > the Geode driver. > > I've changed a line within the memory buffer, and it seems to work now. > > Looking forward to get feedback (please don

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Stanley Sokolow
My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of vaporware come into being.The limiting factor in bringing computing to the poor masses on this planet is the high cost of connecting them to the Internet. Even wireless service is beyond the reach of rural villages wi

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread D. Rodas
Hello Everybody, After hard debugging with Raul, we've realized that the problem was in the Geode driver. I've changed a line within the memory buffer, and it seems to work now. Looking forward to get feedback (please don't be evil, it's my first patch :-) http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~cr

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz < bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > > http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html > > "It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, > half the thickness of an iPhone an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-23 Thread Cecilia Abalde
OK! Thank you very much !!! 2009/12/23 Tomeu Vizoso > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:33, Cecilia Abalde > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a question about the patch in ticket 8104. > > to which version of networkmanager was done? > > Hi Cecilia, > > I'm forwarding our email to the devel mailing list at O

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Tiago Marques
Perhaps a 2GHz quad-core? ARM Cortex-A9 is already dual core and up to 2GHz. Best regards On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: > Hi All. > > 8-ghz processor ?. > > > Rafael Ortiz > > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > wrote: >> http://ww

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ticket 8104

2009-12-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 17:33, Cecilia Abalde wrote: > Hi, > I have a question about the patch in ticket 8104. > to which version of networkmanager was done? Hi Cecilia, I'm forwarding our email to the devel mailing list at OLPC because NetworkManager is a component that belongs to the distro, n

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 14:57, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: > Hi All. > > 8-ghz processor ?. I guess it's better to rely on the info here, if you need to: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091222005779&newsLang=en Regards, Tomeu > > R

Re: XO-3 official

2009-12-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi All. 8-ghz processor ?. Rafael Ortiz On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html > > "It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, > half the thickness

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:42, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:42:54PM -0300, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: >> Is it cheating to change the screen depth? I change it to 24 bpp and now >> cheese and totem work. Changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > That's odd.  We changed the screen