Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.03.2010, at 07:31, Paul Fox wrote: credit where credit is due -- i followed the instructions (i feel like i should be writing destructions) at instructables.com: http://www.instructables.com/id/Installing-a-USB-Keyboard-into-an-OLPC-XO-Laptop-/ Is it worrying if I get a kick out

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
james wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:39:23AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: resize drags performance way down. but nice -19 resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2 only adds about 25% to the runtime (~50sec vs. ~40sec), Consider ionice for reducing the I/O priority of the task. e.g. ionice -c3

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: On 05.03.2010, at 07:31, Paul Fox wrote: credit where credit is due -- i followed the instructions (i feel like i should be writing destructions) at instructables.com: http://www.instructables.com/id/Installing-a-USB-Keyboard-into-an-OLPC-XO-Laptop -/ Is it

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Is it worrying if I get a kick out of reading that? And an urge to reach for my dremel? I've used Paul's XO. It's fantastic. I am very awkward with a dremel, otherwise I'd have upgraded all my XOs. Instead, I use

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.03.2010, at 14:40, Paul Fox wrote: bert wrote: On 05.03.2010, at 07:31, Paul Fox wrote: credit where credit is due -- i followed the instructions (i feel like i should be writing destructions) at instructables.com:

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i.e., if power fails, will the ext3 journal fix things as well as it ever does? That would be my question... time to... yank that powercord! m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i.e., if power fails, will the ext3 journal fix things as well as it ever does? That would be my question... time to... yank that powercord! i've only tried it once. when the machine rebooted, i was left

VMware virtual machine for 802

2010-03-05 Thread Kristofer Plunkett
Hello XO pros, I'm trying to make a virtual machine running 802 for VMware, similar to what Bert Freudenberg did for 767: http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2008/12/emulating-latest-stable-olpc-xo.html . The problem is that there is only the jffs2 version of the software available for 802. These

NOW! Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting, 2:50PM Boston Time, Friday)

2010-03-05 Thread Holt
Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * XO-1.5 early production machines now available:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-03-05 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Just to point out that with pgf's help, a tinycore extension (tx-xo-pm.tzc) that provides power-management for the XO-1 as well as dimming/volume keyboard control is available here http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/TinyCore_for_XO1/TC-XO_sources/ Is using the latest powerd and kbdshim and

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-05 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:55:26AM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: i.e., if power fails, will the ext3 journal fix things as well as it ever does? That would be my question... time to... yank that powercord! I've got a desktop

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread John Gilmore
:-) you're right -- it _is_ awesome. wad seems to have mastered the art of getting the laptop to really go together right after the conversion. One of the things I asked wad to improve when he was looking for things to fix for the XO-1.5 was the incredible flakey keyboard. Everyone knows

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
john wrote: :-) you're right -- it _is_ awesome. wad seems to have mastered the art of getting the laptop to really go together right after the conversion. One of the things I asked wad to improve when he was looking for things to fix for the XO-1.5 was the incredible flakey

New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 111

2010-03-05 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0/os111 Compressed image size: 678.73mb (+1.72mb since build 110) Description of changes in this build: * Shrink image sizes some more, for smaller SD cards. * Preparation for switching from ohmd to powerd (#10036) * Increase

Please test this firmware XO 1.5 firmware

2010-03-05 Thread Richard A. Smith
I have some XO-1.5 firmware located at http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q3a33o.rom It implements some new EC code that fixes a keyboard lock up. There are also some changes to the touchpad datastream handler when dealing with suspend/resume. I'd like as much testing as I can get between now and

Re: Please test this firmware XO 1.5 firmware

2010-03-05 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
os111.zd failed 'fs-update' for me on q3a33l - but installed with q3a33o mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

surprisingly early suspend

2010-03-05 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I am reporting my experiences. XO-1.5. Was installing a new build. I got distracted, then noticed that the boot-up process had gotten as far as asking for the name to be typed in. Plugged in the external keyboard - was surprised that me pressing keys did

Re: [Server-devel] regarding Moodle

2010-03-05 Thread Luuk Terbeek
Dear Martin, Thanks for your quick response. I'll try your advice. Regards Luuk 2010/3/3 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Luuk Terbeek terbeek.l...@gmail.com wrote: In fact at this moment I'm a little bit confused. As far as I know Moodle will

Re: [Server-devel] regarding Moodle

2010-03-05 Thread Luuk Terbeek
Dear Tim, Thanks for your response, this is exactly where I was asking for. For now I will check this at first by the people of OleNepal and I will ask them how I can help the team regarding the wish of the use of Moodle by keeping your and Martin's response in mind. Regards Luuk 2010/3/4 Tim