Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > From: Mikus Grinbergs > Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released > To: "Bernie Innocenti" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" , "Fedora OLPC List" > > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 6:08 PM > Was unable to boot XO-1 with > build140py install

Re: Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:10 PM, John Watlington wrote: > I believe that if you examine the connector and the part that came off > carefully, you can reattach them.   Again, it could also have been ripped > off in a manner that broke it. I had similar connectors on other XOs come off (but intact)

Re: using XO for Internet Math Tutoring

2010-04-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Stanley Sokolow wrote: > A bug report on the camera problem with FlashPlayer 10 on the XO-1 was > submitted 19 months ago to the OLPC Trac and nothing's been done with it Didn't know that there was an existing bug report. Great! We see a lot of problems mentione

SOLVED Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Disabling the security system fixed it (?) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys#Disable_the_security_system All Korrect now I'll go file bugs (ohboyohboyohboy, where else do you get to be encouraged to /find fault! :-))/ copy-nand u:\os140py.img Does your machine have a

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Yep, devkeys OK. I tried on two different XOs because one of them had given me a bit of grief before when testing the Nepal image a few days back, which then worked just fine on a third machine that I have sent to another developer to work with. I even tried renaming os140py.img.fs.zip to just f

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
OK, so I downloaded the files, and tried to get them into two devkeyed machinen. copy-nand u:\os140py.img boot failed Then I tried reflashing direct from the USB stick, 4-button press, etc Filesystem image found - no signature for our key (in red) help please, what am I doing wrong? On 04/1

Re: Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 14 April 2010 20:06, John Watlington wrote: >> >> Teach the repair centers to not disconnect that cable. > > I might be wrong but isn't it necessary to unplug it in order to > replace the keyboard? > It certainly makes replacing the keyboar

Re: Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 20:06, John Watlington wrote: > > Teach the repair centers to not disconnect that cable. I might be wrong but isn't it necessary to unplug it in order to replace the keyboard? It certainly makes replacing the keyboard controller impossible, but that isn't something I've seen nec

Re: Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread John Watlington
Teach the repair centers to not disconnect that cable. The connector is designed for a single insertion, and no removal. This wasn't clear to us/Quanta until recently. We've discussed replacing it. The idea behind that connector is that it will never become disconnected accidentally. It'll p

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I usually bring the system up with messages being displayed (NOT in pretty-boot). Several times now, the system has "paused/hung" at about the time it should be running through /etc/rc.d/rc0.d (or suchlike). [Note: the camera LED is on.] After SEVERAL MINUTES nothing more has happened - so I jus

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 13:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >  * Remove olpc-update and disable the /versions kludge (me, smparrish) Great work Bernie! This is the only bit that seems a bit surprising to me. Granted, the /versions system is a little perplexing (but it works, and is being shipped on XO-1.5,

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Was unable to boot XO-1 with build140py installed on jffs2, unless develop.sig was present. If not present, OFW (q2e42e) gave the message "No signature for our key list" mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listi

Re: Flash Lite Community for XO, Gnash, Free RIA Tools

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
On 14 April 2010 13:15, Carlos Nazareno wrote: >  I see one thing I should point out on this page, Gnash 0.8.3 is > ridiculously ancient, and should be avoided. Much of the problems of > Gnash on the XO are because the packages on the XO are *years* out of > date. :-( Unfortunately all of the pac

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > OK, so I downloaded the files, and tried to get them into two devkeyed > machinen. > > copy-nand u:\os140py.img > boot failed > > Then I tried reflashing direct from the USB stick, 4-button press, etc > Filesystem image found - no signatu

Re: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > From: Bernie Innocenti > Subject: ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released > To: "OLPC Devel" > Cc: "IAEP" , "Fedora OLPC List" > > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12:22 PM > This is a custom OS image for the > XO-1 released by the Para

Troubles reconnecting new ALPS controller

2010-04-14 Thread Daniel Drake
After the switch to the ALPS touchpad + controller, it's nice to see the departure of the 2 ribbon cables that don't have clips (the extra bit of plastic came off too easily, making it hard to disconnect the cables), but we now have a new difficulty: The small ribbon cable that connects the mouse

ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

2010-04-14 Thread Bernie Innocenti
This is a custom OS image for the XO-1 released by the Paraguay Educa technology team: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.crc http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os140py.img.fs.zip This relea

Flash Lite Community for XO, Gnash, Free RIA Tools

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi guys! Just made an invite to the Flash Lite community to work on Flash for OLPC and am starting to get a trickle of volunteers. I take it back about AS2 as a dead-end technology that should be abandoned. It's much easier to learn for newbie-coders & AJAX/DHTML devs since it's Javascript (AS3 s