Re: 12.1.0 devel build 2 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-11-29 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Mon, 11/28/11, Peter Robinson wrote: > From: Peter Robinson > Subject: 12.1.0 devel build 2 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1 > To: techt...@lists.laptop.org, o...@lists.fedoraproject.org, > devel@lists.laptop.org > Date: Monday, November 28, 2011, 3:30 AM > The "two heads are better than

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 2 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> Known issues: >> - Browse doesn't work >> - Read doesn't work Unfortunately its not quite that simple. > The reason Browse doesn't work is that the OLPC-customized? hulahop package > is not included in the build.  [Neither is xulrunner.]

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 2 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Robinson
> --- On Mon, 11/28/11, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> From: Peter Robinson >> Subject: 12.1.0 devel build 2 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1 >> To: techt...@lists.laptop.org, o...@lists.fedoraproject.org, >> devel@lists.laptop.org >> Date: Monday, November 28, 2011, 3:30 AM >> The "two heads are bette

Re: [OLPC-AU] csound sources for XO-1.75

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Sridhar, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Are there any sources for csound for the XO-1.75? > > While we can find the source for csound in i386i-F14 at: > http://mock.laptop.org/cgit/koji.dist-f14-i686/tree/SRPMS > > There appears to be no source for ARM available i

Article: Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship

2011-11-29 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Interesting article from someone who's tried it with the best of people as a reactionary piece to Reddit's plans to put up a Darknet due to SOPA. Not being my area at all, what do you guys think? Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship Or “why the reddit ‘Darknet Plan’ is a fun b

XO 1.75 battery life?

2011-11-29 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi guys. Been away long, really busy. How's the battery life on the 1.75 going for Read, web browsing & suspend? (3 of the most important functions) Anyone doing tests on these yet? Read with wireless off? How about compatibility with FOSS dev tools since it's ARM & a number of those are X86-ba

Re: XO 1.75 battery life?

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Hi guys. > > Been away long, really busy. > > How's the battery life on the 1.75 going for Read, web browsing & > suspend? (3 of the most important functions) Anyone doing tests on > these yet? There's still work being done on Suspend & Re

report: OS 11.3.0 XO-1 + Gnome + Auckland game jam?

2011-11-29 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi guys! Just reporting in. Just getting back into XO dev. Recently upgraded to 11.3.0 on the XO-1. Spent the entire weekend reformatting, reflashing, trying out configuration & installing/uninstalling stuff. Am looking at this more as a potential dev machine teaching tool in upper grade levels &

Re: Article: Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Interesting article from someone who's tried it with the best of > people as a reactionary piece to Reddit's plans to put up a Darknet > due to SOPA. > > Not being my area at all, what do you guys think? Nice summary of many of the problem

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 2 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-11-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Object Chooser sugar 0.95-2 (on XO-1.5 screen) Selecting 'OLPC root' icon appears to give the same view as selecting 'Journal' icon. Also a human factors difficulty - when there are more entries in Object Chooser than will fit on one screen, the scroll bar at the right edge is much too nar

Manual pages?

2011-11-29 Thread Ian Piumarta
Dear Developers, Fedora/XO newbie here. Sorry if this is a FAQ -- I couldn't find a working solution in the wiki. 'yum install man man-pages' installs 6.5 MB of man-db and man-pages packages, but after the install there are no man pages. /usr[/local]/share/man/* are all empty directories. B

Re: Manual pages?

2011-11-29 Thread James Cameron
G'day Ian, You didn't mention which OLPC OS version you were using. It works for me on 11.3.1, here is what I did: 1. delete the %_excludedocs line in /etc/rpm/macros.imgcreate 2. yum install man 3. yum reinstall coreutils bash 4. man ls The manual page is correctly displayed. Many files

Announcing Q4C06

2011-11-29 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4c06 This is a test candidate for the C2 build, with a device-tree tag change, progress display during automatic firmware reflash, and support for automatic power and constant power manufacturing tags. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q4C06

2011-11-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18 AM, James Cameron wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4c06 > > This is a test candidate for the C2 build, with a device-tree tag > change, progress display during automatic firmware reflash, and support > for automatic power and constant power manufactur

11.3.1 build 14 released for XO-1.75

2011-11-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
The "Hurricane's on its way" build, with S/R, audio, hwclock and OLS improvements. Download from:   http://build.laptop.org/11.3.1/os14/ { It may take approx 2 hs after this email is sent for the whole build to appear. } Fixes (please help us confirm they are fixed!): #11416 C1 XO 1.75s may no