Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fox
james wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:39:23AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > > resize drags performance way down. but "nice -19 resize2fs > > /dev/mmcblk0p2" only adds about 25% to the runtime (~50sec vs. > > ~40sec), > > Consider ionice for reducing

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Fox
> splash screen for resizes that we think won't take too > long? > > - we could make the resizing a manual step, from the control > panel or elsewhere. we sort of need a simple disk > management screen anyway. > > (btw, regardle

Re: XO-1.5 keyboard

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Fox
tly support waking up on a USB event, and I > don't know if the keyboard controller we are using supports > generating a wakeup event either.) > > Cheers, > wad =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > yes, that would probably work. there's no X11 requirement in kbdshim > > or powerd. but to be clear: is the requirement for blanking after > > an idle period? or do you just want a c

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Fox
> > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Fox
> modules (squashfs, aufs and hfsplus - for my iPod ;) by themselves. > BTW Would make my life easier if squashfs support was enabled in the > official > olpc kernel. Any major reason the is not? added (as a module). should be in the next RPMs build for both XO-1 and XO-1.5.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-02-20 Thread Paul Fox
e work in mind. i'll try and make time to look at what's going on with your power management sometime soon. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Fox
> Battery-wise cat > /sys/devices/platform/olpc-battery.0/power_supply/olpc-battery/capacity > reports > the correct battery level but from there to a battery monitor, specially > when > the 4 I tried come as binary files, is a long way... > > > PS

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Fox
hi yioryos -- > Power management and OLPC keys are not working and a proper geode display > driver is missing (is running with Xfbdev) > > Help is appreciated :) can you be more specific? what's working, what's not working, what have you tried? paul =--------

Re: os201 ?

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Fox
nt on 767, etc. the 200 series is signed, and the contents are fully controlled from release to release. the 100 series is not signed, and it may pick up changes made in fedora that we haven't fully tested. os200 was identical (for all intents and purposes) to os108. paul =----------

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Fox
defs in the driver for running the pen tablet as a true tablet, with absolute positioning, but that mode isn't well thought out, and isn't suitable for general use of the laptop. =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Fox
e infrastructure so that later calls to: psmouse_queue_work(psmouse, &priv->recalib_wq, ... ) can work. you can see from dmesg that we already don't force a recalibration at init time. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: quick Forth question

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Fox
l code. > > Also experimented with find-tag but couldn't figure it out. > > cheers, > Daniel > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-21 Thread Paul Fox
yte mode, but i may be misremembering. richard may remember better. > and if/why we do/dont use auto calib without > the firmware module recalibs? i don't understand your question. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-21 Thread Paul Fox
s close to the touchpad at once, or, or, or... the list goes on. i'm all for having a deployment that's having touchpad troubles try simply turning off jumpyness recalibration -- i'd love to be proven wrong -- but i don't think it will work well. > > Tomorrow I'll ta

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > Ok. How does t165/100 test? So far we have suggested tests: > > > > > > - spirals test > > > - using etoys / scratch > > So we are now testing with xset m 7/4 0 vs x

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > okay, i've now done so, and i now think i see what you mean about > >xset m 7/4 0 > > vs. > >xset m 7/4 1 > > ok - glad that I'm not so crazy ;-) > >

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > According to the man page the 2nd parameter is the threshold at which > > > the acceleration value is applied so I'm not surprised that you don't > > > see any difference betwe

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Fox
t. the problem in the past with the pad mode has been at least partially with the switching back and forth. if we simply switched to pad mode and left it there, it might be preferable to what we have now. paul =----- paul fox,

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > According to the man page the 2nd parameter is the threshold at which > > > the acceleration value is applied so I'm not surprised that you don't > > > see any difference betwe

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Fox
smith wrote: > On 01/18/2010 12:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > > You are suggesting xset m 7/4 4? My tests where with 7/4 1... > > > > oh! sorry -- i was mis-remembering. you're correct that i > > previously recommended that the last element shou

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > in my testing, setting > > the final argument to 0 resulted in extremely jerky performance. > > Was that with the new or old psmouse code? > > Have you got a test procedure I can try, maybe d

Re: Touchpad accel, spirals and xset

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Fox
r people running build 8.2 on XO-1 please try various xset commands, before martin makes this final? in my testing, setting the final argument to 0 resulted in extremely jerky performance. if setting the last arg to 4 is too slow, i think using 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Fox
the "wrong" thing. what version of olpc-kdbshim package is installed on this release? from the logs, version 8-1 should have the fix. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Modifying olpc-kbdshim for simplicity

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Fox
peter wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > james wrote: > > > With the 20100107 kernel power management seems to work just > > > fine in f11 xo-1 os10. I am working on a project called > > > Deborah which is a debian system with

Re: Modifying olpc-kbdshim for simplicity

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Fox
than those features, i think the rest (i.e., grab keys, etc) is all-or-nothing (without modifying the source, of course). paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Fox
tep up from that, have it figure out which hardware it can > reliably suspend on, and only have it enable suspend by default on > that hardware. > > John > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://

Re: Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Fox
ng about that. > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Fox
how to > test it further. Is there a place where os10 development > issues are tracked or is it just this mailing list? this mailing list is the place, as well as trac for specific bugs. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: #9927 LOW Future : filesystem has trouble with large yum installs

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Fox
> > race of sorts between rtcwake and the apparent removal of > > the block device for the SD card. But I'm no expert there. huh? i thought it was happening with idle-suspend disabled. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Fox
wad wrote: > > Emacs forever ! (although it has gotten huge) hmm. how's its Flash player? :-) =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Fox
ability of kids to explore and learn about programming that we're talking about. never having used eclipse, i can't say its suitable. but it has to be more discoverable than vi, id-utils, and gdb. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: Testing OS64 on XO1.5

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Fox
en you go back to the previous view. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Fox
=?iso-8859-1?q?c=e9sar?= d. rodas wrote: > Hello Paul, > > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 02:43 -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > > smparrish will correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the release > > you're testing runs powerd, not ohmd. the presence of the control > >

Re: Some testing notes for OS10 for the XO-1

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Fox
range lockups? If so what were you doing? > > > > Can you upgrade packages using "yum update" from the command line? > > > > Does sound work? > > > > Can you suspend? Does it wake up? > > > > > > Please report any issues you h

Re: #9865: Laptop hangs on resume

2009-12-11 Thread Paul Fox
ease, it's very important while we're still trying to qualify what's going on to add your full experiences (what are you runnning, what are you doing, what did you try, what worked, what didn't) to the trac ticket. thanks! paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.o

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Fox
what others see. when you say "right part of the pad", i assume your finger is still in the middle section, and not all the way into the right section. the right and left sections will definitely not respond. if your finger is just at the

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 52

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Fox
___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: GSM/CDMA Modems support

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Fox
m, etc.). i have done this, this morning, for the XO-1.5 builds. what branch are the F11-XO-1 builds being built from? (i believe the right answer will be either olpc-2.6.30 or olpc-2.6.31.) paul =--------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 49

2009-12-01 Thread Paul Fox
process. Now that I've > connected the AC adapter the power LED is indeed orange but the tray icon > still acts as though I'm running on batteries. this sounds like #9765 paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 48

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Fox
right now.) i also find the fade-up to be more distracting than the fade-down. and i think it makes the resume appear to take longer than it really does. (i tried the fade-up in powerd, and switched to instant-on pretty quickly.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > > daniel recently > > > > pointed out to me that we could build in the synaptics protocol, > > > > but explicitly not choose it (i.e., override auto-detection) by > >

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Fox
hi martin -- sorry for the delay. the Weekend of Big Meals got in the way. :-) martin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > = CL1 Alps users > > > - better kmod? > > > - pgf proposed an xset command to tweak responsivenes

Re: [Sugar-devel] F11 for the XO - Build 9 issues

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Fox
, your new os10 will probably still have that problem (unless you've applied the patch from #9687). it's causing several of the symptoms i've seen reported. i'll commit the fix shortly. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Fox
eedback at all. so maybe the new driver isn't an improvement at all. or you're all using external mice. :-) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 8.2.x, touchpads and papercuts

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Fox
necessary -- it's always possible to build and install a full kernel RPM. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

SysRq on XO (was Re: OFW access from linux)

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Fox
command to sysrq (on XO-1.5). when invoking from the keyboard, the kernel never gets the "key up" event from the command, so the keyboard's input state is messed up after you "resume" from OFW. i was able to clear this state by invoking another sysrq command, i.e. "alt-F8-h". paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New gamepad!

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Fox
bert wrote: > On 18.11.2009, at 06:52, John Watlington wrote: > > > > > > We have a new gamepad design for XO-1.5, to fix the difficulty in pressing > > a single gamepad keys at once. Thanks to Paul Fox and Richard Smith > > for pursuing this. (The actua

Re: GSM/CDMA Modems support

2009-11-17 Thread Paul Fox
ht also be that on XO-1.5 we have the luxury of shipping a lot more modules. haven't really looked into that much.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] XO 1.5 with USB webcam

2009-11-16 Thread Paul Fox
> > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______

Re: OS40 feedback

2009-11-14 Thread Paul Fox
e of data in such a case is whether or not the game keys work, since these follow a different codepath through the EC. on the sugar home screen, you should be able to toggle between the icons for home or list view (in the upper right corner) by using the u/d/r/l D-pad keys, and with the s

Re: NANDblaster design notes for XO-1.5

2009-11-14 Thread Paul Fox
the partition-related comments had been in a separate section.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Information on XO-1 power efficiency

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Fox
eds to get flushed. If the XO had dirty pages in memory, you are in > trouble. Open files should probably get errors. There is probably a mount > count/time that could be checked to catch this case. > > > -- > These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's

Re: Information on XO-1 power efficiency

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Fox
cond) suspend timeouts when the laptop is configured in ebook format.) paul > > As I said it's only a short talk (10min max.) but there's anything else > significant when it comes to the power consumption and underlying design > that I've left out above then p

Re: XO-1.5 and SD device node names

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Fox
nitrd) were proposed for this, but someone followed up the existing trac ticket (#9457) with a driver patch used on the maemo. (haven't looked at it.) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Reopening a ticket on dev.laptop.org

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fox
error. forgot to relay what i learned. paul =--------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Diagnosing hard lockup on tab-completion on VT

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fox
i suspect these are related (but perhaps not, of course). i currently can't recall if we've seen lockups purely from VT usage, before. paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Reopening a ticket on dev.laptop.org

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Fox
ieved from trac ? > > What can I do in a future situation to ensure that reopening a > ticket does not over-write the problem's original description ? this shouldn't normally happen. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: OS38 don't boot

2009-11-07 Thread Paul Fox
__ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: crond disabled?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul Fox
-day scheduling. as dsd pointed out to me on IRC, anacron is driven by cron -- at least these days it seems to be. so without cron, anacron probably won't work either. (i was under the impression they were separate, but perhaps that's ancient history, or i was just wrong.) paul =----

Re: Terminal.xo patch: do not die if the cwd is gone

2009-11-03 Thread paul fox
disk >  - try to open Terminal.xo => fails to start > > cheers, > > > > m -- =- paul fox, pgf at laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: B3 GPIO changes: new EC -> Host IRQ

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Fox
em, although the EC > may preceed it with an SCI interrupt to wake the system. > > This allows this second interrupt to now use one of the available > inputs. > One slight hitch is that the host control of the WLAN LED will be > bumped. > This will now

Re: Test firmware

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Fox
gt; > > > I'm seeing the "keyboard stops working" problem on my XO1.5B2, and > since the keyboard doesn't work, I can hit x to get to ofw prompt to > flash the new rom. Any suggestions? have you removed the battery and AC power? that should bring

Re: tap-to-click feedback

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Fox
p-to-click, someone needs to build a new kernel with the synaptics driver enabled (maybe just the module can be built), then they need to figure out how to make it all work well. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Fox
#x27;s important to also > > have it in /boot because then you can read it from OFW if the / > > partition is in a FS format that OFW doesn't know about. > > > > cheers, > > > > > > > > m > > > ___

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Fox
t on os32. You > didn't mention which build you were using. > > Frame giving flickers is #9333. > > > many keys only work intermittently on some of these XOs. particularly > > - frame key and the key next to it, search key, function key, hand > > keys, di

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Fox
FW and /boot can agree on a single filesystem type, and we can have more freedom to change the type of / more flexibly (e.g., ext4, ext5, ext6,... ext3). in pre-os32, the system was seeing the extra available partition and mounting it, just as it would an external SD or USB. paul =

Re: XO-1.5 unexpected behavior

2009-10-17 Thread Paul Fox
the built-in keyboard > and the built-in touchpad work correctly. Serial SHC93700111D. > > mikus > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/l

Re: XO-1 Build 802 doesn't turn off speaker amplifier

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Fox
Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Fox
john wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > john wrote: > >> > >> I'm proposing a new GPIO map for XO-1.5 B3 and beyond. > >> > >> The changes are: > >> - Moved the control signals for the internal an

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Fox
rtunately, I can't find another interrupt input > not owned by ACPI that is powered in S3. if the DCONIRQ move proves successful, then that will free up SMBALRT (powered in S3) to be used for the EC. paul > > - The HDD_LED# signal (yet to be support

Re: My view of OS7 on XO-1

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Fox
n/powerd. from a terminal window, you may be able to run "powerd-config", but you may need to "yum install dialog" first. (or, just use a text editor to modify /etc/powerd/powerd.conf) paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 0.84 for XO-1 (was Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94)

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Fox
ted (as if it could be any _less_ complicated :-). there's support in the design for a separate /boot, but i can't help but think there might be some surprises there. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 0.84 for XO-1 (was Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94)

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Fox
ommonly this feature was used, before. paul > > I spoke with Chris and I think we'll be able to have a section on > OLPC trac to keep track of these things sometime now. > > Daniel > ___ > Devel mailing list &g

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Fox
deepak wrote: > On Sep 15 2009, at 17:31, Paul Fox was caught saying: > > john wrote: > > > > there's no SysRq key on the XO keyboard, so you'll need to use a > > > > break on the serial console to invoke it... > > > > > > Ple

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Fox
#x27;d say, the more the merrier -- i'd love to use kgdb regularly, but it requires a second machine, and it ties up scarce serial ports. so OFW is a win, for my current uses. mitch -- i think i saw something that implied OFW could do symbolic kernel debug -- true? is there a howto, or other doc

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
op row, and then pressing the > M-for-Mitch key? i would applaud, encourage, and otherwise buy beer for anyone that could help out in making something like this happen. (i might get to it someday, myself, but that will no doubt be _after_ i need it.) paul =- paul fox

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:42:46AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > on the XO, openfirmware stays resident when linux runs, and is > > accessible via an API specified in arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c. i've > > just pushed a commit to our 2.6.30 kernel branch t

OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
lly easier: "echo y > /proc/sysrq-trigger". use "resume" from OFW to let linux run again. OFW itself prevents invocation on secure machines, so this only works when unlocked. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: Request for help - can variable values be passed to an Activity ?

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Fox
there a way to ensure that that a particular global > variable __does__ get passed to an Activity ? > > Thanks, mikus > > _______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--

Re: Count bad blocks on NAND -

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Fox
Looking at strace output over several XOs, it is always the last 4 > blocks on the MTD device that are marked as 'bad'. > > Maybe my patch is overshooting the mark somehow. Clearly those 4 "bad" > blocks are bogus. i believe the bad block table is stored i

Re: Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-30 Thread Paul Fox
d upstream but > only if it is needed... patches are always easier to read, and are the preferred way of getting someone to take a look at your code. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Problems compiling bluetooth module

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Fox
paul > run "insmod btusb.ko" it gives an error about the above symbols > being undefined. > > Any tips? Am I missing something like defining a path? > > Thanks! > Emiliano > part 2 text/plain 129 > ___

Re: [Testing] New F11 for the XO-1 Build 6

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fox
t;> > >> Should I be filling tickets with (if not present)? I mean is F11-XO1 > >> going > to be the way to Sugar0.84? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______

Re: initrd build from lenny -

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Fox
mp; leases from wireless > > So I will now finish updating the "Building initramfsen" page. > > The patches I pushed are at > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/olpcrd-rootskel.git/ > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/olpcrd/ > =---

Re: [Sugar-devel] New SoaS-on-XO-1 build done: soasxo57

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Fox
s absent, the system won't resume. i'll poke at it a little more, but i've spent too much time on this today, so i'm really hoping someone else will understand what's going on. (i've verified on my own laptop that disabling the getty causes the same re

Re: Any success with the synaptics driver?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Fox
nel driver, then in order to control it properly, and make the mouse behavior manageable, we needed the X11 driver, which we didn't have. we can try this again, however, now that all the cards are up in the air. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org __

Re: touchpad redux

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Fox
script put together by James Cameron. See the > final section ("Large Jump Logging Technique") of > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Three_known_touchpad_issues the data was gathered by students and teachers and the team in rwanda many thanks!! paul =--

touchpad redux

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Fox
he field was made much easier with the help of a script put together by James Cameron. See the final section ("Large Jump Logging Technique") of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Three_known_touchpad_issues =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 8/13/09, Paul Fox wrote: > > > From: Paul Fox > > Subject: Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5 > > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > > Cc: "OLPC Development" , "OLPC Testing" > , &quo

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Fox
akeup_events/all the lid, the power button, and the RTC alarm should still be capable of waking the system at this point. now run: # rtcwake --utc -m mem -s 10 paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > if nothing else, a next release _must_ be built > > with a modular mouse driver... > > Hmmm. The 5th reply makes a beeline to "must rebuild the kernel". Not > quite a record, but pre

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: > 2009/8/11 Paul Fox : > > one thing we've recently realized that would be very low risk > > would be to change the "xset" command in /usr/bin/olpc-session > > from "xset 7/4 0" to either "xset 7/6 0" or "xset 7/4

Re: [Sugar-devel] Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Fox
o settle on some mouse driver changes, hoping to improve the jumpiness/recalibration issues we've been seeing forever. if nothing else, a next release _must_ be built with a modular mouse driver, to make deploying incremental changes to that driver more feasible. paul =---

Re: MPPT

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Fox
end the battery life > slightly as well. how much remaining runtime are we talking about, when we talk about "very low"? and again, how much can we affect the end result? paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Another F11 build for the XO-1 has been released

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Fox
nts". could someone with SoaS3 insider info please verify that the XO-1 kernel is being built from the olpc-2.6.30 branch of olpc-2.6 repository? i've seen that message before, but only on misconfigured kernels. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Another F11 build for the XO-1 has been released

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Fox
> Thanks > > > > thanks for your efforts! > > > > Daniel > > > > ___ > > Fedora-olpc-list mailing list > > fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedor

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Fox
sascha wrote: thank you. i was aware of LVM, but didn't realize it would accomplish quite what i was proposing. paul =----- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/lis

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Fox
utilize the total disk space. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Fox
______ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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