Re: Regarding temporary "pauses", perhaps due to using an SD card with an XO

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Marshall
If I umount the SD card then the hang/pause-s stop. Of course, I than have no extra storage space for the XO. It would seem that there may be a system or kernel call that gets blocked by something related to the SD card mount. On 10/13/12, Chris Marshall wrote: > I too have observed increasingl

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Mon, 10/15/12, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: XO-1.5's sudden death > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" > Date: Monday, October 15, 2012, 2:39 AM > Yes, I know it so well known that I > can remember the bug number, > #10314.  I've had four laptops

RE: XO 1.5 not booting in "pretty boot" mode

2012-10-15 Thread lionel
> Can you hook up a serial console to see whats going on with the pretty boot? Hi Daniel, See above the trace extracted from Serial console. It don't talk to me. Lionel. [0.604871] system 00:0a: [io 0x0500-0x050f] has been reserved [0.610824] system 00:0a: [mem 0xfed3-0x

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread James Cameron
I recommend never using that household oven for food again, because we have no clear idea what poisons might be ingested, or what effects they might have. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:32:43AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > --- On Mon, 10/15/12, James Cameron wrote: > > > From: James Cameron

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:33 PM, James Cameron wrote: > I recommend never using that household oven for food again, because we > have no clear idea what poisons might be ingested, or what effects > they might have. > James raises an important safety issue. In spite of OLPC's careful attention to

Re: My XO-1.5 Lights

2012-10-15 Thread John Watlington
The LED intensities reflect the voltage of the main power rail of the XO, saving a small amount of power. When the laptop switches from charging to discharging the resulting change in brightness is noticeable. This can either be a diagnostic tool or an annoying distraction. There should be n

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Mon, 10/15/12, Chris Leonard wrote: > From: Chris Leonard > Subject: Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected! > To: "James Cameron" , "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > , "OLPC Devel" > Date: Monday, October 15, 2012, 4:41 PM > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:33 PM, > James Cameron > wrote: > >

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:09:07PM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > Having said that, in cases like the XO boards I think that we could > and *should* know, at least the chemicals involved Means that for each assembly, down to component level, the materials would have to be determined, along

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > --- On Mon, 10/15/12, Chris Leonard wrote: > >> From: Chris Leonard >> Subject: Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected! >> To: "James Cameron" , "Yioryos Asprobounitis" >> , "OLPC Devel" >> Date: Monday, October 15, 2012, 4

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 16, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: >> Having said that, in cases like the XO boards I think that we could and >> *should* know, at least the chemicals involved > > This link is the RoHS declaration for the XO-1. I have no knowledge > of the potential changes in chemical composi

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread kgordon420
I've given multiple machines to anna to 'bake'. Alas, it is my feedback that In general, they've ressurrected but only for a short period of time. I am unaware of a long term solution for the ramp machines. KG Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message

Re: [OLPC-AU] Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

2012-10-15 Thread Deepak Muddha
Hi all All the bugs, enhancements were recorded in the system. On 13 October 2012 13:22, Tabitha Roder wrote: > Auckland Testing Summary 13 October 2012 > Who: Alana, Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha and Tom > > Rosella: XO-1.5 One Education OS 1.2 (build au248), Firmware Q3C09 > with first langu

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Tue, 10/16/12, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected! > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" , "Chris Leonard" > > Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 12:26 AM > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:09:07PM > -0700, Yioryos Aspr

Re: Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Tabitha Roder wrote: > Auckland Testing Summary 13 October 2012 > Who: Alana, Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha and Tom > Clock does not speak the time but otherwise works. Changing to English > fixes the talking clock. Note that the Days of the week were not > trans

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Tue, 10/16/12, kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: > From: kgordon...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected! > To: "John Watlington" , devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org, > "Chris Leonard" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" , "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > > Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Re: [OLPC-AU] Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Deepak Muddha wrote: > Hi all > > All the bugs, enhancements were recorded in the system. It is good to record the bugs, even better to also record the diagnoses and fixes that followed in the thread, see references inter alia. > On 13 October 2012 13:22, Tabitha

Re: XO-1.5's sudden death - oven resurrected!

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > > Sure! > If you have no intention to provide the *names* of the "chemicals involved"... No nutritional labelling requirements for electronic devices, however as described in the EPEAT certification, every plastic part is labelled w