Re: Sugar in a chroot?

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Ball
hics system gets in the way -- you can't run X on top of Android, yet Gtk depends on X, and Sugar depends on Gtk. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: planet down?

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Thu, Mar 21 2013, Sameer Verma wrote: > Looks like planet.l.o and planet.sl.o are down. They're both hosted on the main SL machine, sunjammer.sl.o. There'll probably be a mail to iaep@ explaining the downtime once it's back up. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://pr

Re: Fedora-18 ARM release: support for OLPC hardware?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Ball
't, and just because two systems each have a number in the same type it doesn't mean they're from the same silicon family. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora-18 ARM release: support for OLPC hardware?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Ball
supporting the ARM XO platforms through that or some other > way. As I understand it, mvebu is a set of Marvell systems (Kirkwood, Dove, Armada XP) that are unrelated to MMP -- mach-mvebu vs. mach-mmp. The mvebu code doesn't help us. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://

Re: Fedora-18 ARM release: support for OLPC hardware?

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Ball
hat we've forked or added. * The systems supported by Fedora all have upstream kernel support, but OLPC's ARM systems do not yet have upstream kernel support. (There's no particular barrier; we just haven't had time to push it ou

Re: Sandisk extreme 32GB and 16GB dont initialize in XO-1.75

2012-10-18 Thread Chris Ball
u test? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Problems starting the XO

2012-09-01 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Sat, Sep 01 2012, Ajay Garg wrote: > Therafter, I upgraded the "sugar" package, via > "sudo rpm --force --nodeps --upgrade sugar-0.94.1-31.dx3.rpm" > > After that, when I reboot, the sugar-session does not start :-\ Why did you need to use --force and --

Re: usb a/b connector query

2012-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
t an A to B cable: http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-6-Feet-USB-Certified-Cable/dp/B67SPP/ (We could ship one over if that's faster than Amazon.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list

Re: fixing the path on a mesh

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Jun 20 2012, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 20 2012, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Is it possible to force the path of layer 2 traffic in a mesh? In >> other words, if we have laptops A, B and C in a room, all within radio >> range, can we force A to talk

Re: fixing the path on a mesh

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Ball
- Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Ball
erface, Sugar, on non-OLPC laptops? Here's a recent guide written by Simon Schampijer: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Activity_Development_Fedora17 There isn't much (if anything) of the user interface that's dependent on the hardware; you can see it all by running S

Re: Developer XO laptop loan or buy - Speakeasy project

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Ball
fficult type of software to write, yet also one of the most needed types in the world right now. I think your effort will be most likely to succeed if you seek help from experts, and spend your time researching and experimenting; there's no need for an XO to do any of those things. - Chris.

Re: Kernel development setup for XO-1.75 [Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 15]

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Ball
lerepo=updates-testing install gcc-arm-linux-gnu - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Kernel development setup for XO-1.75 [Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 15]

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Ball
_not_ being x86_64? Yes, that's it; you need an x86_64 distribution to run x86_64 binaries. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fwd: XO-1.5 image has more size than XO-1.0 with the same software

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Ball
d method of dealing with a detected filesystem inconsistency was to BUG() and hang the system, rather than go read-only or fix the problem.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.la

Re: Fwd: XO-1.5 image has more size than XO-1.0 with the same software

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Fri, Jun 01 2012, Esteban Arias wrote: > I have the same activities. > And this difference packages: Ah. Well, one difference will be that jffs2 uses compression and ext3 doesn't, but I wasn't expecting that to account for such a large change. - Chris. -- Chris

Re: Fwd: XO-1.5 image has more size than XO-1.0 with the same software

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Ball
. I think that, for example, the XO-1 images don't have the Wikipedia slices included anymore; check for differences in /home/olpc/Activities. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing l

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Fri, May 04 2012, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 04 2012, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Until F17 we haven't had a good way of communicating this via the boot >> animation. Now we can do that easily but it lacks implementation. >> >> Thirdly, fsck

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Ball
dangerous: so if powering down half way through fsck leaves the filesystem in a worse state than it was before fsck ran, we probably shouldn't do it at all. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Deve

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Ball
if they have been created -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Kernel for 12.1.0

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Ball
got a decent amount of testing > with 3.3. Plus it lines us up nicely with F17. Okay! Sounds good, thanks. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Kernel for 12.1.0

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Ball
evice tree support and the CMA patchset, neither of which made the merge window for 3.4. But the option is there if we want it. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Ball
es a more complicated API involving setting limits of high and low light to change the backlight. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: SDcard support on XO-1 3.3 kernel

2012-03-31 Thread Chris Ball
de a http://dev.laptop.org/newticket.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-27 Thread Chris Ball
erenced by > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/ -- which is the "activity > group" URL listed by My Settings -> Software update -> Modify > activity groups. > > WHERE in laptop.org is the "official" URL for Activities contained in > 11.3.1 ?? Ther

Re: Announcing Q4D06 for XO-1.75

2012-03-27 Thread Chris Ball
-off-by: Andres Salomon That's very interesting. Does reverting this commit result in a kernel that boots every time, then? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing Q4D06 for XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Ball
the next time. That sounds bad, what are the failure modes? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Ball
lly running the newly-installed kernel, with uname -r.) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
uspend (probably due to the libertas bugs) leading to an apparant symptom of no keyboard/trackpad. I stopped powerd straight away to avoid that. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.l

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
1.75 1C2 8GB. Constant libertas timeouts, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 11.3.1 development build 31 for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Ball
I've fixed this for XO-1/XO-1.5 now. In 11.3.1 the build download path changed from e.g.: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os8/xo-1.5/ to: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.1/os31/xo1.5/ so I've updated the pattern used by the update server to no longer use the "-" for 11.3.1 bu

Re: Video chat activity

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Ball
ttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/video-chat-activity It requires a jabber server and working routing between public IP addresses. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child __

Re: 12.1.0 trac milestone organisation (Devel Digest, Vol 73, Issue 25)

2012-03-17 Thread Chris Ball
rk well. For the x86 builds, you might as well just install the same version of Fedora that the build is based on, and yum install sugar. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Ball
; GoGoNews-Delivers-Universal-News-Content-Laptop-Child) it sounds like > Anthony is part of that effort. > > Where do I collect my prize? ;-) Somebody get that man a job doing some kind of investigative writing about technology. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/>

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Ball
lrunner. It would be better to bundle the newer version of xulrunner inside your program, if you need it, although that would waste some disk space. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Ball
working out whether that's a wise idea. (I don't think I know you -- do you want to tell us about which deployment you're involved with?) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing li

Re: short read of zdata file

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Ball
nk there were very early (months ago) bugs where sometimes you had to run fs-update twice in a row; the first time would fail immediately and then the second time would work. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child __

Re: PulseAudio vs XO hardware & drivers

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
ust took the shortcut of removing it. I think we also had AV sync problems with Record on 1.5 with pulseaudio. (We had sync problems with ALSA too, but I expect the fixes we used for ALSA are different to ones we would have used for pulse.) - Chris. --

Re: Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75

2011-11-26 Thread Chris Ball
ing our builds. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: automatic backlight control

2011-11-21 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Mon, Nov 21 2011, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi folks -- I was one of the early commenters on this. And Paul gave > me a, ahem, strong recommendation. All caps. Neon lights, blinking: > > TRY IT OUT ON AN XO-1.75 And when *pgf* types in all caps, you *know* it's se

MMC patchset for 1.75 to arm-3.0-wip

2011-11-16 Thread Chris Ball
Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Interesting aspect of signed build

2011-11-07 Thread Chris Ball
esired /boot/olpc.fth change). This is expected -- the develop.sig file is necessary to run your own olpc.fth, because that file can execute any Forth commands (such as the one to turn off security..) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> On

Firefox nightly builds for 1.75

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Ball
e likely to see improvements as our graphics driver grows more acceleration capabilities. (If these builds don't have enough debugging symbols for that, I've still got the full build trees available.) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://print

Re: 11.3.0 build 8 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-10-02 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Sun, Oct 02 2011, Chris Ball wrote: > Yum doesn't work here on os8 for xo-1.75, it gives: > > Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora. > > I discovered that "sed -ei 's/https/http/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo" > fixes the problem;

Re: 11.3.0 build 8 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

2011-10-02 Thread Chris Ball
's/https/http/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo" fixes the problem; maybe we're not shipping the https cert or something. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: MMP2 Interrupt Controller forcing IRQ

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Ball
T_CONF_MASK -- the priority bits, and * ICU_INT_CONF_{{AP,CP}_INT,IRQ} -- the routing bits (Make sure to ignore the Linux code for pxa168/pxa910 -- we're pxa688.) Hopefully that's enough to get you going, feel free to ask more specific questions

Re: Enable DEVTMPFS for Fedora 15

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Ball
ot set Thanks, pushed to olpc-kernel/arm-3.0-wip; this will be in our next build. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

OLPC/pgf on LWN

2011-08-24 Thread Chris Ball
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/456217/25261a3982aee26d/ Sympathetic coverage, I think. :-) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Ball
/olpc-os-builder/commit/?h=f14-arm&id=d8d4cd017fde62ffbb7f83d0407722fed7ad5882 Which removed the [sugarlabs_activities] config definitions from examples/f14-arm.ini, even though it left the module itself enabled. (Without those definitions, the sugarlabs_activities code isn't going to d

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Ball
ki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 No. That string's just providing the base URL to use -- when o-o-b is looking for activities, it will append the major/minor/release version numbers to it. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os40 - Almost in sync with x86!

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Ball
y version. > > Thank you Reuben, that is what I was after. Are people happy for me to > update those versions to later releases? You should modify the subpage for the release you're working on -- see e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.2 Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Touchscreen driver

2011-08-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I've pushed touchscreen support to the olpc-kernel tree, and also fixes for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11077 -- could we build a new kernel RPM and spin a new ARM build for testing, please? Thanks, -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Lapto

Re: XO 1.5 Solder Reflow in Toaster Oven

2011-08-21 Thread Chris Ball
erimentation, right? +1 from me. Nice job! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sugar and GTK updates

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Ball
7;s not what we're here for. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Sugar and GTK updates

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Ball
D card, and the cost of 2G of bare NAND was significantly more expensive than 1G of bare NAND. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os1 - Fedora mirror plus more!

2011-08-14 Thread Chris Ball
org/F14-arm/, maybe you could continue using Martin's numbering scheme? It's better to minimize the number of places we're hosting builds, I think, and not to have shared build numbers in the same stream that point to different builds. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <

Re: New F14-arm build os36 - Sugar in sync, device-tree!

2011-08-07 Thread Chris Ball
r problem at: http://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-kernel/commit/?h=arm-3.0&id=b8923ed0809f29e53bd246153ca3a9e9367b4c56 Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Kernel git reorganisation

2011-08-04 Thread Chris Ball
#x27;ve pushed olpc-3.0:arm-3.0 to olpc-kernel:arm-3.0 now, so Martin can start using olpc-kernel:arm-3.0 as the branch to include in ARM builds. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel

Re: Kernel git reorganisation

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Dan, On Wed, Aug 03 2011, Daniel Drake wrote: > We've recently talked about reorganising our kernel git repo, and > avoiding having multiple repos like we have ended up with now. > I propose the following (and I volunteer to do it): +1. Go ahead! - Chris. -- Chris B

Re: storage on XO 1.75

2011-08-01 Thread Chris Ball
n with the best price/reliability tradeoff, but right now the main storage is on soldered-down eMMC. (With SD for expansion.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: *.laptop.org issues [Devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 8]

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
the old IP, which works for you but not Bert. There are a lot of problem reprots in this thread that are just DNS caching issues -- could I suggest that we wait ~12 hours and see how things look then? I'm confident that everything now seems to be working once the DNS changes show up. Thanks,

Re: *.laptop.org issues

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
know if not. > > Doesn't fix the download.laptop.org problem though: Thanks, should be fixed now, providing your DNS says: % host download.laptop.org download.laptop.org is an alias for owl.laptop.org. owl.laptop.org has address 18.85.2.163 - Chris. -- Chris Ball &

Re: *.laptop.org issues

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Ball
he old IP; looks like DNS is being slow to update. Eventually it should resolve to 18.85.2.166 for you, and start working. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: *.laptop.org issues

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Ball
isted by Yahoo and some other internet routers. We've moved lists.laptop.org to a different machine (swan.laptop.org) now, and Adam reports that Yahoo is accepting mail from us again. The problems of the last ten days or so should be all gone now; let us know if not. Thanks, - Chr

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F13-arm build os15

2011-06-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Fri, Jun 24 2011, Martin Langhoff wrote: > The "olpc-utils and usable" build. > > http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os15/ Looks like the upload of this build didn't complete; there's no .zd. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://p

Re: [IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Ball
//www.dailymotion.com/user/sugarlabs/ Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Booting on xo-1.75 - load and go?

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Ball
- Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Booting on xo-1.75 - load and go?

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Ball
I've been using "boot int:\vmlinuz" for all of my 1.75 kernel work, and it's been working fine. What do you see on serial? last:\ maps to whichever device the olpc.fth was loaded from, so that you can write an olpc.fth that doesn't need to know ahead of time whet

Re: Get serial number or XO name from command line or python

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Ball
: > print(line.decode().strip()) There's no need to spawn a shell, and then spawn cat inside a shell. Python knows how to open files: print open("/ofw/serial-number").readline().strip() -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child _

Videos from EduJam

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I've uploaded video of 17 EduJam talks now. More to come! http://blog.printf.net/articles/2011/05/14/edujam-2011 http://www.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs Enjoy, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ De

Re: rpm installation via customization stick

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Ball
ch means we should use the same care when deciding whether to merge the patch. Martin and dsd would be better at speaking to how big a worry this is for deployments in real-world terms. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child __

Re: rpm installation via customization stick

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Ball
hostile RPM can perform on a system is a research project, as far as I know. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

New F13-arm build os6

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Ball
, abiword/pyabiword, inkscape, csound, espeak. If someone could work on successfully building these in F13 koji, would be great. * Defaults to English language because we don't have an F13 olpc-utils yet. To install: ok fs-update ext:\os6.zd -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One

[PATCH] Implement reboot/shutdown for XO-1.75.

2011-04-25 Thread Chris Ball
Note that the reboot code depends on an EC implementation for power_cycle. --- arch/arm/mach-mmp/olpc-xo-1-75.c | 19 +++ include/linux/olpc-ec-1-75.h |3 +++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mmp/olpc-xo-1-75.c b/arch/arm/mach-

Re: Power Mangement XO 1.0

2011-04-03 Thread Chris Ball
nd right-hand side of the screen are turned on. Otherwise, they don't use any power. The program "powerd" on recent builds attempts to do what you are describing, by powering down devices when they are idle. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Chil

Re: switching to GNOME

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Ball
active-desktop and restart. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Ball
s in future) I expect it'll cause people to report it to us or OLPCA as an error, yeah. Am I right in thinking that a .zd is actually just a signed forth script? Could we patch the misleading behavior inside the generated .zd, and would that be a good idea? - Chris. -- Chris Ball <

Re: Determining developer lock status

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Mar 09 2011, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > What's the simplest way for a novice to tell if their XO is developer locked? Push escape while the startup sound is playing. If you get an ok prompt, your XO is not developer locked. If you don't, it is. -- Chris Ba

Re: cpia driver for microscope: any success?

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Ball
hem. Cheese definitely talks to V4L2 (via gstreamer), and not to UVC, so I expect that you just need to build gspca_cpia1.ko too. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http:

Re: cpia driver for microscope: any success?

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Ball
e our kernels already have CONFIG_USB_GSPCA=m, you can build this module without having to recompile your current kernel. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Ball
860/os860-8g.zd ok fs-update os860-8g.zd (OFW does the formatting for you.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: about about my xo

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Ball
from the filesystem, and it looks like an activity could read the same ones. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Text-to-speech on the XO 1.5 with 10.1.3

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Ball
uot;espeak", "-w", wavpath, "-p", str(status.pitch), "-s", str(rate), "-v", status.voice.name, text], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Deve

Re: GNOME-only installs

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Ball
networking in Sugar, and the NetworkManager applet lets you configure networking in GNOME. The Control Panel lets you disable idle-suspend in Sugar, but there's no functional analog in GNOME, so we're fixing that. Nothing further is implied. (To give a more straightforward answer: "

Re: Developer locking an unlocked XO

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Is that the developer key mentioned at > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware_security#Deployment_Key_Manufacturing_Data_Tags > ? Yes, it's that set of keys. I'd suggest discussing the rest off-list with Martin/OLPCA. - Chris. -- Chris Ball O

Re: Developer locking an unlocked XO

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Ball
ght want to use your own keys, which would involve a different procedure. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Developer locking an unlocked XO

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Is it possible to lock an XO that came from the factory unlocked? > > All of our XOs are currently unlocked and we are comfortable with > that for the moment. However, we may want to change this in the > future. Yes, entirely possible; Martin can help. - C

Re: NANDblaster failing

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > SDHCI is that not the mmc controller? Don't think data is > directly using it, power management kicking in maybe? The wifi card, which is serving the image to the other machines, is an SDIO card. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Lapto

Re: NANDblaster failing

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Ball
CRC, Command Timeout, Try using a different XO for the sender. It looks like something's up with the wifi module, or the SD pins, on that unit. (It could also be a bug in OFW, but I expect that it's simply reporting a CRC error being raised by the SD controller hardware.) - Chris. -

Re: Sugar on arm

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Ball
apian-bindings-python-1.0.16-1.fc12.armv5tel.rpm - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Integrity checking of OS images

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Are OS images checked for integrity by the XO before they are > written to the flash storage? I suspect not. Yes. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapt

Re: accessing Wikibrowse from GNOME

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Is it possible to access Wikibrowse from the GNOME side? Yeah, you can: cd /home/olpc/Activities/Wikipedia.activity python server.py es_PE/es_PE.xml.bz2 8000 & launch Firefox, browse to http://localhost:8000/ (That's from memory, might need tweaking.) - Chris. -- Chris

Re: OLPC XO 1.75 GPU question

2011-01-10 Thread Chris Ball
> that seems to conflict with the highly proprietary nature of most > vendors in the ARM SOC space. Tell us about it. :/ - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Dextrose] Problems compiling bluetooth module

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Ball
27;t -- see include/linux/vermagic.h's VERMAGIC_STRING. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Create a new directory in /var/log/

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
place. Do you >> have any idea? Oops, now I see that (a) this message is old, and (b) maybe you wanted to have the files removed each boot, just not the directory. Sorry for the noise. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel

Re: Create a new directory in /var/log/

2010-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
somewhere else. You can look at /etc/rwtab to see where is available. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: SD card unpartitioned space -- used for swap?

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Ball
because it happens internally to the flash device. We've found instances of flash devices where you need to continue providing power for two seconds after (1) has finished, such that (2) can finish before power is lost, else corruption happens. (Requiring this is in violation of the relevant s

Re: Problem building 2.6.35 kernels

2010-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
PC) Linux kernels are usable on the XO. This has historically been the largest roadblock against running other distros. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 ebook switch driver - upstream submission

2010-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Dan, > - driver renamed to "xo1p5-ebook" Not sure where the 'p' comes from -- how about "xo1_5-ebook"? We could do the same on 1.75, e.g. olpc-ec-1_75.c. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___

Re: Patches for a faster wikibrowse

2010-11-29 Thread Chris Ball
ps with your > help? Sounds great, let me know if there's anything I need to do. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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