Re: [support-gang] Questions Re: Skype on XO

2011-03-02 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Skype was probably the second most requested feature, after flash, among G1G1 owners. I'm happy to report that both work _very well_ on the XO-1.5 running os11 thanks to the new Chrome video driver. Installation is a breeze even for the non-technical if you use Fedoraplus (

Wiki documentation updated

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I've been working on the wiki content: Lots of obsolete content deleted, replaced with redirects or textual links to current information. Where the obsolete content describes strategy or non-obvious technical processes, I've left it in place (or put on Historical pages) as it might be useful

Re: [Testing] Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Luke Faraone
On 03/02/2011 08:34 AM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: The Control Panel/Software Updates worked and updated 3 activities. So the activities weren't as shipped, right? Note: I tested all of the activities listed in sequence in the F3 list view. This almost borked the XO-1.5. the memory became

os-builder: could we roll a 1.3.1?

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Daniel, I normally use v1.3 with a bunch of patches on top, and they are so useful I find myself telling deployments to use the same ones, and thinking I should roll an rpm to avoid them having issues cherry-picking patches and stuff. Should we just prep a 1.3.1? Together with my bios-crypto

Re: [Testing] Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Luke Faraone wrote: On 03/02/2011 08:34 AM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: The Control Panel/Software Updates worked and updated 3 activities. So the activities weren't as shipped, right? This was the original set of activities. There is a separate column on the spreadsheet for the

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Thomas, depending on various logistics, the laptop you received may havebeen manufactured a while ago (and have an old OS image on it). So I just received it is a good picture of the emotional state, but not of the software state... you gotta tell us what OS build is in it :-) cheers, m

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Gary Martin
On 2 Mar 2011, at 13:34, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Attached is an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet of my initial testing of activities on a new XO-1.5 All activities started and functioned well. The Only exception being Maze where I could not get the ball to move.

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: One other possibility is a ram leak in Sugar, We believe there is one in current Sugar (0.84~0.92), likely related to neighbourhood view. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10386 Very slow leak -- but there. If you boot

xkeyboard-config map for olpcm -- upstream discussion

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi folks, you're in the To list if you've been hacking on keyboard maps, variants and whatnot. Don't hide. I know it was you. Sergey (upstream xkeyboard-config maintainer) is helping get things sorted and upstream. This has been good as he's spotted quite a few inconsistencies and stuff, _and_

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Rafael Ortiz
H Tom. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Attached is an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet of my initial testing of activities on a new XO-1.5 All activities started and functioned well. The Only exception being Maze where I could not get the

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Rafael Ortiz
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Rafael Ortiz raf...@activitycentral.comwrote: H Tom. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Attached is an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet of my initial testing of activities on a new XO-1.5 All activities

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Martin Langhoff wrote: Hi Thomas, depending on various logistics, the laptop you received may havebeen manufactured a while ago (and have an old OS image on it). So I just received it is a good picture of the emotional state, but not of the software state... you gotta tell us what OS build

Re: RE: [OLPC-AU] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Hello all. I have just gotten around to working with this. I had success starting in Gnome, then connecting to the hidden network. And this kept when I switched back to Sugar. But, when I restarted, the hidden network was still hidden, and I had to do this again. Is there anyway to make this

Graphics guinea pigs

2011-03-02 Thread Jon Nettleton
Hey all, I think I have finally nailed down all the last issues with the chrome driver and am hoping some volunteers may help me to test before I include it in the next build. If you are brave and willing to bug me with bug reports grab

Re: [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Hello again, I am just getting back to this. I have tried the instructions on the wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#SSID_Network_Name But these instructions do not seem to work. After making the changes, nothing shows up in the Neighborhood view. I had success starting in

Re: [support-gang] [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 08:54:37PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: I have tried the instructions on the wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#SSID_Network_Name But these instructions do not seem to work. After making the changes, nothing shows up in the Neighborhood view.

Re: [support-gang] [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:05:59PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: Have you yet tried Jon's suggestion of nmcli? He pointed you at http://blog.nixpanic.net/2011/01/connect-automatically-and-immediately.html I withdraw that, nmcli is not present on 10.1.3. -- James Cameron

Re: [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 20:54 -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: Hello again, I am just getting back to this. I have tried the instructions on the wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#SSID_Network_Name But these instructions do not seem to work. After making the changes,

Re: [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Jerry and James, Thanks. Both methods work within a session. In GNOME, I can connect to the hidden network. And, if I change back to Sugar, the connection is intact. When I reboot, however, while the Wireless Connections UI (iin either GNOME or Sugar using nm) shows the connection properly, it

Re: [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:38:07PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: Both methods work within a session. In GNOME, I can connect to the hidden network. And, if I change back to Sugar, the connection is intact. Yes. NetworkManager still has knowledge of the hidden network connection request in

Re: Graphics guinea pigs

2011-03-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
http://dev.laptop.org/~jnettlet/f14/xorg-x11-drv-chrome-5.74.33-4.fc14.i686.rpm then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xo1.5.conf and comment out the Option MigrationHeuristic greedy line. Then restart X runs finemikus ___ Devel mailing list

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 08:54:37PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: I have tried the instructions on the wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#SSID_Network_Name But these instructions do not seem to work. After making the changes, nothing shows up in the Neighborhood view.

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:05:59PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: Have you yet tried Jon's suggestion of nmcli? He pointed you at http://blog.nixpanic.net/2011/01/connect-automatically-and-immediately.html I withdraw that, nmcli is not present on 10.1.3. -- James Cameron

Re: [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Jerry and James, Thanks. Both methods work within a session. In GNOME, I can connect to the hidden network. And, if I change back to Sugar, the connection is intact. When I reboot, however, while the Wireless Connections UI (iin either GNOME or Sugar using nm) shows the connection properly, it

Re: [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:38:07PM -0500, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: Both methods work within a session. In GNOME, I can connect to the hidden network. And, if I change back to Sugar, the connection is intact. Yes. NetworkManager still has knowledge of the hidden network connection request in