Re: xorg-x11-drv-geode-2.11.11-1.fc14 for testing

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Daniel, I'm still seeing a crash on my Fit PC with this update, I've added your email as a CC on the BZ bug. Peter On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Samuel, To help with https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=33004 I've just built

dracut information

2011-01-17 Thread Nic Alvaro
I am trying to build initramfs images with dracut for my XO-1. I am looking for documentation on how I can do it correctly. The wiki links to a page that is broken. The OS images built after that are based on Fedora 11 or later, and use dracut -- see dracut-olpc-modules.

Re: dracut information

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Nic Alvaro nicalv...@lavabit.com wrote: I am trying to build initramfs images with dracut for my XO-1. I am looking for documentation on how I can do it correctly. The wiki links to a page that is broken. The OS images built after that are based on Fedora 11

Re: dracut information

2011-01-17 Thread Nic Alvaro
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 17:58 +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Nic Alvaro nicalv...@lavabit.com wrote: Detected XO-1 ... subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ['/bin/mount', '-t', 'vfat', ro', '/dev/sdal', '/mnt/usb'] returned non-zero exit status 32 Kernel

Re: dracut information

2011-01-17 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Nic Alvaro nicalv...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 17:58 +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Nic Alvaro nicalv...@lavabit.com wrote: Detected XO-1 ... subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ['/bin/mount', '-t', 'vfat',

Re: dracut information

2011-01-17 Thread Nic Alvaro
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:23 -0800, Jon Nettleton wrote: Hope that helps. Jon Thanks for your help guys. I was able boot into my XO with my libre kernel. Next I'll see if I can boot off my usb with another distribution. This initrd issue has been preventing me from using the XO the way I want

Announcing XO EC-1.75

2011-01-17 Thread Richard A. Smith
EC-1.75 OLPC is happy to announce the existence of a mostly [1] public code base for the embedded controller (EC) used on the XO 1.75. For the impatient: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/rsmith/ec-1.75 Before we talk about what EC-1.75 is and what you can do with it let's first talk

OLPC XO 1.75 on Slashdot again

2011-01-17 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Coverage on Slashdot again! http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=11/01/17/2133226 Hey Wad, re: human power, there's at least one company that makes the mobile foot pedal charger already, and is marketing it to laptop and cellphone users. It looks pretty efficient compared to the yoyo-dual

advantage of full linux over android for OLPC

2011-01-17 Thread Carlos Nazareno
While browsing the new slashdot coverage on OLPC, there was a very good point made regarding Android vs. full Linux: There's no JRE/JDK running on Android, so that's a plus for not switching to Android, given that so many cool stuff is being taught/done in Java. (i.e. http://processing.org ) It

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-17 Thread Anna
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I don't know about the Apache version used on the XS, but on a desktop here the edit was in /etc/apache2/mods-available/reqtimeout.conf and changed RequestReadTimeout header=20-40,minrate=500 RequestReadTimeout

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-17 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 03:06:52PM -0600, Anna wrote: I looked into this a little more and found, per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ trunk/mod/mod_reqtimeout.html that module is for Apache 2.2.15 and later. The Apache version on XS 0.6 is a bit long in the tooth. [root@schoolserver ~]# httpd