Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-10 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 05:24:00PM +, Tiago Marques wrote: I was just looking into this and the issue with SD cards' random write performance intrigued me in this particular case. Isn't recording being performed sequentially, hence no lag problem? At the moment, assuming an application

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Cherry Withers
Excellent. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward for more. On May 9, 2010 10:54 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://vimeo.com/8709616 -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 22:45, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: daniel wrote:   The video does work absolutely great in the Jukebox activity. But...   ...it doesn't inhibit suspend, so the machine goes to sleep   during playback (should I file a bug?) if the laptop is suspending, that means jukebox is

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 8 May 2010 14:44, Kushal Das kushal...@gmail.com wrote: Released Jukebox v19 [1] , you can try this one , no suspend related code in that. Not tested too much due to unavailability of hardware. Many thanks! Is this version definitely compatible with Sugar 0.84? I ask because according to

Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Laptops have not yet been handed out here in La Rioja, but a few have been handed around to various parts of the MinEd and support staff, so we're already seeing some bug reports and user experiences rolling in. The idle-suspend experience has been causing some discomfort. Specifically 4 cases:

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Fox
daniel -- problems noted. i agree with the team that increasing the timeout to a minutes seems prudent for the time being. i have some ideas on how to make inhibiting suspend more robust, and i've been working on the dcon issue(s) (#9631, #9664) in the last day or so. daniel wrote: Laptops

[Server-devel] Mass deployment thoughts

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Just a small braindump... With my experience on deployments I'm finding that customizing and adding more functionality/content to the XS is not a one-time thing, it's something that happens more and more over time. For this reason, the kickstart-based method of XS customization does not feel so

dev.laptop.org information is not current

2010-05-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
This morning (US Central Time), when I access http://dev.laptop.org/timeline, the most recent entry it shows me is from May 7. I know there has been activity within trac at http://dev.laptop.org more recent than May 7. Is there a problem with dev.laptop.org ? mikus

[XO-1.5] yum update

2010-05-10 Thread Henning Bredel
Hey, just wanted to update my XO-1.5 machine. After dependency resolving and downloading the RPM packages, yum complains about several conflicts. I attach the error summary and the dependencies resolved by yum. Also, please find my `aboutcomputer' log from sugar-control-panel command. Thanks

Re: [XO-1.5] yum update

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, Hey, just wanted to update my XO-1.5 machine. After dependency resolving and downloading the RPM packages, yum complains about several conflicts. You're trying to install the Fedora kernel, which is not a good idea because it lacks many of the patches needed for the 1.5. If you

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-10 Thread Tiago Marques
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:37 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 05:24:00PM +, Tiago Marques wrote: I was just looking into this and the issue with SD cards' random write performance intrigued me in this particular case. Isn't recording being performed

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:37 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've no explanation for this behaviour. Do we still have some (sugar?) log files opened 'sync'? ext3/4 still 'fsync' the whole partition, which may explain the erratic performance. Linus has been railing against this (with

Re: [XO-1.5] yum update

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 13:07, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   Hey, just wanted to update my XO-1.5 machine. After dependency   resolving and downloading the RPM packages, yum complains about   several conflicts. You're trying to install the Fedora kernel, which is not a good idea

Re: Review pull request: dracut-modules-olpc

2010-05-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/dracut-modules-olpc/log/?h=clockset-pyx Tested on an XO-1.5 on top of build 121. The branch includes  - Greplease patch so that the right lease is picked form huge lease.sig

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 05/10/2010 10:38 AM, Paul Fox wrote: 2. The machine suspends frequently while it is loading a web page, and does not wake up, meaning that the web page doesn't finish loading until you realise what's happened and intervene i'm going to venture a guess that the network there

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Fox
smith wrote: On 05/10/2010 10:38 AM, Paul Fox wrote: 2. The machine suspends frequently while it is loading a web page, and does not wake up, meaning that the web page doesn't finish loading until you realise what's happened and intervene i'm going to venture a

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 May 2010 15:47, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: Is it suspending in the act of sending or while waiting for the response packet? Any suggestions on how to identify this? I'm curious why the the incoming response packets are not causing a WOL. This is certainly not working

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: On 10 May 2010 15:47, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: Is it suspending in the act of sending or while waiting for the response packet? Any suggestions on how to identify this? well, if you can reliably recreate this, it would be worth turning on powerd

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote: Excellent. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward for more. On May 9, 2010 10:54 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://vimeo.com/8709616 -- Chris Ball   c...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Kushal Das
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Many thanks! Is this version definitely compatible with Sugar 0.84? I ask because according to http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addons/versions/4045 v13: yes v14: no v18: no v19: yes (for this reason, the

Re: XO-1.5 bad ogg experience

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 7 May 2010 22:45, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: if the laptop is suspending, that means jukebox is using less than 15% of the cpu during playback, which is impressive. Another case where we saw this: playing audio. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-10 Thread Tiago Marques
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:37 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've no explanation for this behaviour. Do we still have some (sugar?) log files opened 'sync'? ext3/4 still 'fsync' the whole partition,

Problems with F11 for XO (Build os140py)

2010-05-10 Thread Abhishek Indoria
Hello, I just downloaded F11 build os140py for XO. Both Sugar and Gnome work fine, but eventually, I caught one bug (or it might be my XO, I don't know) - The sound in Sugar works, but sound in gnome doesn't. Moreover, in Totem Movie player, the volume icon appears grey, and there's no sound

Re: dev.laptop.org information is not current

2010-05-10 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:29:11AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: This morning (US Central Time), when I access http://dev.laptop.org/timeline, the most recent entry it shows me is from May 7. Odd. I see most recent activity #10154 on 05/11/10 (5th November for me), then 05/08/10 (5th August)

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-10 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 05:33:07PM +0100, Tiago Marques wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:37 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 05:24:00PM +, Tiago Marques wrote: I was just looking into this and the issue with SD cards' random write performance

Re: dev.laptop.org information is not current

2010-05-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
This morning (US Central Time), when I access http://dev.laptop.org/timeline, the most recent entry it shows me is from May 7. I see most recent activity #10154 on 05/11/10 (5th November for me), then 05/08/10 (8th May) has #10153, #10152, and #10151. That's with Ticket changes only

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-10 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:45:45PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:37 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've no explanation for this behaviour. Do we still have some (sugar?) log files opened 'sync'? ext3/4 still 'fsync' the whole partition, which may explain

OLPC at its best Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Were it not for Sameer's comment, I would have passed, and not seen this. Masterful, and, may I second, quite touching. On 05/10/2010 02:27 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Cherry Witherscwith...@ekindling.org wrote: Excellent. Thank you for sharing this.

Re: [XO-1.5] yum update

2010-05-10 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 02:16:52PM -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: Agreed, if you want to update your system use olpc-update. Agreed, we encourage olpc-update. However, a yum update generally does work fine with more recent builds; I've tried it every now and then. The build system attempts to

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:59:50AM -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: Laptops have not yet been handed out here in La Rioja, but a few have been handed around to various parts of the MinEd and support staff, so we're already seeing some bug reports and user experiences rolling in. Which build? 3.

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: No, no Sugar log files are opened O_SYNC at the moment.  I fixed that. The test also reproduces without Sugar running, and also in single user mode.  This excludes Sugar and all user-space, suggesting the problem is

[Server-devel] automatic OS updates from school server

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
In my opinion one of the bigger holes left in the school server is the fact that we can't push OS updates to the XOs. And the team here in La Rioja keep asking about it, Actually the hard work is all done (XS has updates server, XO has update client, both work well), the only missing bit is a

Re: [Server-devel] automatic OS updates from school server

2010-05-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: In my opinion one of the bigger holes left in the school server is the fact that we can't push OS updates to the XOs. And the team here in La Rioja keep asking about it, Agreed - it's a major item. Actually the hard work is

Re: [Server-devel] Mass deployment thoughts

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Moody
I've been thinking about automating larger deployments as well, though more the initial install than subsequent updates. As an experiment I put together a cobbler installation server on FC12 (https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/) and use etherboot (http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php) to boot