Re: [Sugar-devel] acti-plications: write once, run anywhere?

2011-01-20 Thread Erik Blankinship
Am I correct that sugar and gnome can co-exist in two different ways right now? 1. On a dual boot machine, probably an xo, where activities are installed into /home/user/Activities/ where useris probably *always *olpc 2. Sugar as an application in gnome (within a Xephyr window) where activities c

Re: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-01-20 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: We've been able to get the Veho USB 400x 1.3Mp/2.0Mp interpolated to work on the XO 1 and XO 1.5 under 10.1.3 with 'Cheese'. However, with this high resolution webcam, you just need to make sure it attaches itself to the USB 2.0 bus. If for some reason it comes up and attaches to the 1.1

The old xs-livecd is the new olpc-xs-builder

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
The XS build tools have not used the livecd toolchain for a long time -- so the name is not appropriate. Time for a rename (and repo reorg). While not as modular and elegant as olpc-os-builder, we do have a collection of tools and configs that, operated correctly, build XS isos for installation. T

Re: hwclock accuracy

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > We've actually disabled the /sbin/hwclock --systohc in our latest > build (probably to be released tomorrow). If you are spinning your own build, ensure ntpdate is installed. That should help significantly. cheers, m --  martin.lan

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 11.2.0

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 January 2011 17:50, Daniel Drake wrote: > Your feedback is appreciated: we are looking to draw in testing, bug > reports and development efforts from the community, starting now :) One thing to add - we'd previously asked that people don't file bug reports for Sugar and activities, since we

Announcing the development of OLPC OS 11.2.0

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, The project previously known as "F14 for XO" will now be developed into an official OLPC OS release with version number 11.2.0. More information is available here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.2.0 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.2.0/Release_plan We are currently in milestone 2, which is where

Re: foot pedal power

2011-01-20 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Talking about human power.. potenco version2. http://www.potenco.com/products/pcg2/ Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:44 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:38:59AM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > > I can add it to the wiki, but where should I add it? > > It's a Wiki

Re: hwclock accuracy

2011-01-20 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 02:15 -0800, Hal Murray wrote: > > What is the accuracy of the hwclock on XOs? Can we assume that it will keep > > good time over an XO's five-year lifespan? > > The ballpark for the hardware is 1 second per day. > > > We have some XO-1.5s that have their hwclocks off by 10-

Re: hwclock accuracy

2011-01-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 20 January 2011 21:15, Hal Murray wrote: > >> What is the accuracy of the hwclock on XOs? Can we assume that it will keep >> good time over an XO's five-year lifespan? > > The ballpark for the hardware is 1 second per day. > >> We have some XO-1.5s that have their hwclocks off by 10-20 minutes.

Re: OLPC XO 1.75 replace one of the 3 usb port with a mini hdmi

2011-01-20 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Andrew Puch wrote: > Is the cost and form factor viable to replace one of the external usb > ports with a mini hdmi Type C or D port ? > > When students or teacher give talks it would be nice for them to show to > the class on the tv what they are doing. > > The ty

Re: OLPC XO 1.75 replace one of the 3 usb port with a mini hdmi

2011-01-20 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Frantisek Dufka wrote: >> On 19.1.2011 12:48, Andrew Puch wrote: >>> Also I hope there is a give1get1 one for this machine along with a nice >>> touch screen :) >> >> Even selling just motherboard upgrades to

Re: hwclock accuracy

2011-01-20 Thread Hal Murray
> What is the accuracy of the hwclock on XOs? Can we assume that it will keep > good time over an XO's five-year lifespan? The ballpark for the hardware is 1 second per day. > We have some XO-1.5s that have their hwclocks off by 10-20 minutes. Would > this likely be due to a fault at the factory

Re: OLPC XO 1.75 replace one of the 3 usb port with a mini hdmi

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > On 19.1.2011 12:48, Andrew Puch wrote: >> Also I hope there is a give1get1 one for this machine along with a nice >> touch screen :) > > Even selling just motherboard upgrades to XO-1 G1G1 would be great. BTW, > does 1.75 board still fit in

Re: hwclock accuracy

2011-01-20 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 06:36:14PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > What is the accuracy of the hwclock on XOs? By accuracy I presume you mean stability over time, or the amount of error between the clock and actual time. If you mean something else, ignore the following explanation. The XO-1.5