SHLUG meets the XO

2009-04-18 Thread Scott Douglass
Hi, Last Friday (17/04/2009) evening I presented the XO laptop to the Shanghai Linux Users Group (SHLUG) in Shanghai, China. Despite the laptop being manufactured in China, none of those in attendance had ever had a chance to get their hands on one. Most everybody knew about it however

Re: Building an OLPC kernel

2009-03-17 Thread Scott Douglass
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:54 +, Rekik Hanen wrote: Hi, I found this link http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building and I tried to follow it. But when I run tar zcvf kern.tar.gz arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map /lib/modules/$VERS, I got this error tar: error exit delayed from previous

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread Scott Douglass
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 00:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: scott wrote: 3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great!

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread Scott Douglass
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 09:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: mikus wrote: - Rawhide. AFAIK there currently is no dimming support at all. I either have to power off such an XO overnight, or have to close the lid while the backlight is still lit. It would be useful if rawhide

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread Scott Douglass
3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great! did you try the grab keys and rotation? (those are just olpc-kbdshim.) olpc-rotate should

kernel: olpc-wakeup.S

2009-03-12 Thread Scott Douglass
When I try to compile olpc-wakeup.S, I get the following: cc -march=i686 -c -I/lib/modules/2.6.29-0.197.rc7.fc11.i586/build/arch/x86/include -o olpc-wakeup.o olpc-wakeup.S olpc-wakeup.S: Assembler messages: olpc-wakeup.S:13: Error: no such instruction: `align' olpc-wakeup.S:104: Error: invalid

custom kernel problems

2008-07-01 Thread Scott Douglass
Hi, In regards to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel I gave up on the git head kernel as there seems to be a lot of bugs there, and tried to build the origin/stable kernel. I'm running a Fedora 9 (i386) system for doing the build. I get this set of messages and the kernel fails

Re: custom kernel problems

2008-07-01 Thread Scott Douglass
/show_bug.cgi?id=32044#c28 On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 20:56 -0400, Scott Douglass wrote: Hi, In regards to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel I gave up on the git head kernel as there seems to be a lot of bugs there, and tried to build the origin/stable kernel. I'm running a Fedora 9

custom kernel problem

2008-06-24 Thread Scott Douglass
Hi, I built and installed a customized kernel RPM following these guides: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel Unfortunately, after I boot up the custom kernel, the X server fails to start because /home is mounted read-only. My work around is to