Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 22:19 -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: > On 03/25/2013 02:03 PM, Richard Smith wrote: > >>> Battery life on XO-4 C2 seems significantly improved over previous builds. > >>> We would be interested in a confirmation or otherwise of this in the power > >>> log analysis. > >> > >> I

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 03/25/2013 02:03 PM, Richard Smith wrote: Battery life on XO-4 C2 seems significantly improved over previous builds. We would be interested in a confirmation or otherwise of this in the power log analysis. I guess you are comparing to 13.1.0 build 36? The big difference here is that 13.1.0 b

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread John Watlington
I thought you should set the dk manufacturing tag, but I just noticed that is only supported on XO-1 and 1.5! wp and ww are different tags, you can't just change the tag value with change-tag. wad On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:07 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50:00PM -0400, Ric

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Smith
> special command to reboot without the lock. No way around it as you > can only unlock with a reboot. I suppose you could do the security > disable first and then when you see that its 'ww' rather than 'wp' > continue on with the re-flash and then the LO change as the last step. I had a vague r

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Smith
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:07 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50:00PM -0400, Richard Smith wrote: >> > But maybe you don't need to do that, if you are only changing one tag? >> > How many tags are you changing? If one, then finish the script with >> > the tag change. >> >> I

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50:00PM -0400, Richard Smith wrote: > > But maybe you don't need to do that, if you are only changing one tag? > > How many tags are you changing? If one, then finish the script with > > the tag change. > > I mentioned that he could also disable security. So he would b

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:23:39PM +0100, lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: > Hmmm. Change-tag without reboot ? Is there any way to do that ? Yes, it is possible. For XO-4 it is easy. For XO-1 it disables keyboard during the actions. If you have a bug in the code at this time, you have to remove ma

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Smith
> But maybe you don't need to do that, if you are only changing one tag? > How many tags are you changing? If one, then finish the script with > the tag change. I mentioned that he could also disable security. So he would be deleting the 'wp' tag too. -- Richard A. Smith One Laptop per Child _

RE: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread lionel
> Well for one you have to have those keys present for your installed os to run either on that stick or by copying the developer key to the XO. > But then you have to make sure that the developer key is re-installed anytime you reflash the XO. Also if for some other reason the dev keys are remove

RE: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread lionel
> Yes, add a comment line to the start of file, so that the file is recognised. I also suggest encoding the work as a program definition. So the file might be: YEES It works ! You're my new Forth Hero ! Lionel. ___ Devel mailing

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Smith
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:20 PM, wrote: > Hi Richard, > >> You appear to be using a developer key. If you are going to be installing > a custom build on all the laptops I would encourage you to disable the > security >> system altogether as the last step in your olpc.fth step with > 'disable-se

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread James Cameron
Yes, add a comment line to the start of file, so that the file is recognised. I also suggest encoding the work as a program definition. So the file might be: \ automatic installer by lio...@olpc-france.org : installer " copy-nand u:\21007xx0.img" eval " change-tag LO fr_FR.UTF-8" eval ; in

RE: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread lionel
Hi Richard, > You appear to be using a developer key. If you are going to be installing a custom build on all the laptops I would encourage you to disable the security > system altogether as the last step in your olpc.fth step with 'disable-security'. Then some of the gotchas that occur with s

RE: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread lionel
Hi all, Thanks for your answer. > Let us know if you have any further questions ... I expect some from every new Forth user. ;-) You're right, it's hard to enter in Forth language :-{ I've added a olpc.fth file in the boot directory of my key with following commands: " copy-nand u:\21

Re: minimizing footprint

2013-03-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > i think the point john (gilmore) was making is that it's a bad > precedent that simply because a) systemd offers a second-rate API for > scheduling events, and b) we only have a couple of uses for an event > scheduler, that we should therefore swi

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 24/03/13 17:56, Gary Martin wrote: Physics still has the top of screen problem on XO-1.75 but is working very well on XO-4. How critical do you think this one is? It's quite annoying if you happen to build something in physics that extends to the top of the screen and certainly doesn't l

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/03/13 05:00, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Tom Parker wrote: On Karearea, the UI did not respond to mouse clicks or keyboard input, but the neighbourhood/friends/activity list keys worked. After 3 reboots this started working and we discovered the wifi doesn’t work

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Smith
>> Battery life on XO-4 C2 seems significantly improved over previous builds. >> We would be interested in a confirmation or otherwise of this in the power >> log analysis. > > I guess you are comparing to 13.1.0 build 36? > The big difference here is that 13.1.0 build 36 has automatic power > mana

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Smith
> > Here is a screen capture from the XO-1 I'm using to test the procedure: > http://laske.fr/tmp/SHF8080270B.jpg You appear to be using a developer key. If you are going to be installing a custom build on all the laptops I would encourage you to disable the security system altogether as the last

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Thanks for testing. On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Tom Parker wrote: > No sound in TamTam or Speak on 3 out 5 XO-1.75s. Speak hung when saying a > sentence, scratch failed to start with an error in it’s log about missing > sound driver. Record hangs when you take a photo on those laptops that h

Re: Customize default language with OS Builder

2013-03-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:16 AM, wrote: > Great ! I did'nt know that default language could be change directly in the > firmware. > I guess it depends of the SKU value. Could I set French with an English > keyboard ? Yes. LO is for system language, KL is for keyboard language. Daniel __

Re: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread James Cameron
Let us know if you have any further questions ... I expect some from every new Forth user. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

RE: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread lionel
> Just place the Open Firmware commands that you want to run in a file olpc.fth in the folder boot on the USB drive. Wa, very great! I've just seen the Wiki Page dedicated to it. Combined with other answers that other guys give me here, "olpc.fth" give me great opportunities: lang update, c

RE: Customize default language with OS Builder

2013-03-25 Thread lionel
Hi Jerry, Hi John, Thanks for your help. > If you change the LO tag for a laptop before the first boot of an image, its value will get picked up and used. Great ! I did'nt know that default language could be change directly in the firmware. I guess it depends of the SKU value. Could I set Fren

RE: OS Builder output img ?

2013-03-25 Thread lionel
Hi Martin, Thanks for your answer. > Can you tell us the output of .mfg-data for the laptops you are targetting? Are they all the same SKU? Here is a screen capture from the XO-1 I'm using to test the procedure: http://laske.fr/tmp/SHF8080270B.jpg Targeted XOs to our Nosy Komba deployment come