Re: opportunistic suspend article on LWN

martin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > i'm not too worried that we can't do better with what's coming along. > > Is it worth making noise about olpc-powerd, lessons learned, desirable > features? > > We are ahead of the curve in using mostly-vanilla Linux wi

Re: opportunistic suspend article on LWN

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > i'm not too worried that we can't do better with what's coming along. Is it worth making noise about olpc-powerd, lessons learned, desirable features? We are ahead of the curve in using mostly-vanilla Linux with aggressive suspend strategies, so

Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing

On 20 October 2011 11:21, Christoph Derndorfer < christoph.derndor...@gmail.com> wrote: > not sure what the exact time difference is between San Francisco and NZ but > maybe we could set up a Skype call between Rachel, you, and us in SF to > coordinate our documentation efforts? > > Cheers, > Chri

Re: opportunistic suspend article on LWN

peter wrote: > I know we do this (or similar) on the XOs, it seems there's a > discussion on it upstream. Not sure if its worth reviewing to ensure > our requirements are met as part of that. I know it won't affect us > now but we know its something that will likely come and bite us later, > m

Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard > wrote: >> Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever >> tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an XO 1.75 >> >> Open Video Chat 1 >> http://act

opportunistic suspend article on LWN

I know we do this (or similar) on the XOs, it seems there's a discussion on it upstream. Not sure if its worth reviewing to ensure our requirements are met as part of that. I know it won't affect us now but we know its something that will likely come and bite us later, might be worthwhile if that w

Re: skype on XO-1.75

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Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard > wrote: >> Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever >> tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an XO 1.75 >> >> Open Video Chat 1 >> http://act

Re: [Gnash-dev] rpms for OLPC XO 1.75

On 10/20/11 03:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: > That's really good news! Rob, we can ship you a few more B1 units, if > that helps make bricking less of an issue :-) It was mostly a matter of finding the right combination of firmware, OS, etc... I think some of the web pages are out of date... but

Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever > tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an XO 1.75 > > Open Video Chat 1 > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4305 It seems like it's e

Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > One good piece of news is that Skype isn't the only game in town. > > Google-talk-plugin has been my friend lately, and competes with Skype > > plenty in my personal usage (it's the plugin behind gmail/gchat voice > > + video, g+ hangout

Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Agreed, I think a Video Chat Activity might be out best bet. We're >> already got it on the gnome side. > > You mean ekiga? It's been fairly disappointing to me in the past... Or >

Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > Agreed, I think a Video Chat Activity might be out best bet. We're > already got it on the gnome side. You mean ekiga? It's been fairly disappointing to me in the past... Or something else? > meego has both softfp and hardfp Not sure what

Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM,   wrote: >> Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at >> wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. > > As others have pointed out, Skype (the company) does not publish a > "skype-for-linux, A

New q2f series XO-1 firmware needs testing

Over the past 2 years XO-1 EC firmware has been held at pq2e34 which was released in March of 2009. During that time the EC XO-1 code evolved into the trees for XO-1.5 and then into EC-1.75. Many, many, many fixes and improvements to the codebase have happened since pq2e34. The new RTC anti

Re: [Gnash-dev] rpms for OLPC XO 1.75

That's really good news! Rob, we can ship you a few more B1 units, if that helps make bricking less of an issue :-) We are looking into a (partial?) rebuild of the rpmfusion repo to see how it works with ffmpeg in. Might take some time... cheers, m On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Chris Leona

Re: skype on XO-1.75

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM, wrote: > Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at > wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. As others have pointed out, Skype (the company) does not publish a "skype-for-linux, ARM version". AIUI, they will never do so, and probably they'll stop