Re: [Sugar-devel] Using a new keyboard layout for XO4

2013-11-22 Thread Tom Parker
On 21/11/13 23:27, Basanta Shrestha wrote: Dear all, We are planing on using a different keyboard layout for XO4. The new layout we think is phonetically based and easier for children. I simply switched the /usr/share/X11/symbols/np file with a new one but did not work. I guess there are some oth

Re: hdmi out

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/08/13 17:05, Barry Vercoe wrote: OK, with tail -f ... messages, I do see a burst of messages and the projector shows the exact screen. But only for 15 seconds, when the projector then goes blank and reverts to _No Signal_ until I touch something on the XO like the screen, track pad or some

Re: hdmi out

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/08/13 15:01, Barry Vercoe wrote: Tom, attached is a file dmesg.output. Sending just to you since I didn't understand what mailing list you meant. olpc-devel, Jon Nettleton who was involved with the HDMI code is monitoring that list. I've copied them in and re-attached your dmesg output.

Re: XO-4 HDMI output

2013-07-19 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/07/13 21:43, Jon Nettleton wrote: Is this a B1 model? We had a positioning problem with the jack on the B1's that was fixed in subsequent revisions. I'm testing with a C2. Power Manager should be disabling fast S/R if the hdmi connection is detected this is just to keep the external di

Re: XO-4 HDMI output

2013-07-18 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/07/13 21:21, Jon Nettleton wrote: If you want to provide the output of dmesg when you connect your DVI cable I will gladly take a look and see why you aren't at least getting a VESA VGA resolution. Today it behaved much better. I don't know why I had such poor luck yesterday. Today I tri

XO-4 HDMI output

2013-07-17 Thread Tom Parker
Hi, How does the HDMI output on the XO-4 work? I've got a micro-HDMI to regular HDMI cable and also an HDMI-DVI adaptor. I tried connecting to the the HDMI input of a TV and that worked in both sugar and the firmware. Quality was kinda poor (like it was doing some scaling, which I guess it ha

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-08 Thread Tom Parker
On 07/07/13 03:05, Daniel Drake wrote: If you look a bit closer at olpc-configure you will see that you can set defaults in /etc/olpc-configure/ These can also be trivially set by olpc-os-builder if that suits your workflow (see base module docs). Thank you for the tip, I adjusted my script to

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-08 Thread Tom Parker
On 07/07/13 04:09, Chris Leonard wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Tom Parker mailto:t...@carrott.org>> wrote: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013 Moon still fails to start when the XO language is Maori. Previously reported in https://sugardextrose.org/issues/3971

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 07/07/13 01:39, Walter Bender wrote: I'm not sure at what point you guys started posted your Sugar bugs in the Dextrose tracker instead of the Sugar tracker, but I would urge you to post in the Sugar tracker going forward. It will give your bugs broader exposure to the Sugar community and grea

Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-06 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013 Who: John, Tabitha, Tom Testing XO-system 1a For XO-4 (build 46) Sugar 0.98.7 Firmware Q7B35 Found that my previously described customization script was not working right -- the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard change is overwritten during first boot! Updated the cu

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 06/07/13 05:37, Jerry Vonau wrote:> > > On 5 July 2013 07:01, Tom Parker <mailto:t...@carrott.org>> wrote: > > I now have a USB that re-flashes if you hold down the game keys, > reboots, sets the timezone, the language and the keyboard and then > prom

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 01/07/13 19:53, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb patch -p0 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-June/006510.html suitable for customizing an XO? Yes. It would apply the changes you describe reasonably

Significant Browse performance problem

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
In Build 3.2.0 for XO-4 (build 11) I have noticed a significant browse performance problem. On some pages, browse causes X to lock up for many seconds. The mouse pointer stops moving and you can see (if logged in via SSH) that X is consuming >80% of the cpu. https://access.redhat.com/site/docu

Re: GNOME on XO-1.75

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
On 01/07/13 19:55, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: Another little issue is that clicking on the scroll bar in epiphany (and also gedit and terminal) moves the page to the cursor instead of 1 page down. This is not happening in firefox. None of these is happening in the sugar side with browse termi

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 22:16, Tom Parker wrote: What is the best way to modify the laptops? Copying modified output of xkbcomp to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi and running setxkbmap mi does the trick, but setting the content of /home/olpc/.Xkbmap to mi does not make this the default after reboot. There

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-26 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 10:52, Walter Bender wrote: The widget was broken until recently. Not sure my patches have landed in any releases yet. But we should be able to make a layout that works for both English and Maori without any end-user intervention. Will try to get to it this week. Attached is a patch

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-26 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 00:22, Barry Vercoe wrote: > Tom, it's not correct to say the laptops will remain in Maori. Sorry, I should have clarified that I was referring to the keyboard only. I think the difference between the current olpc keyboard and a customized Maori one will be minor. We'll replace the æ

Re: Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 24/06/13 23:43, Walter Bender wrote: Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it to your build if it is reasonably recent. I don't know which build they are running. I've tried One Education OS 1.

Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Tom Parker
Hi, I'm looking at how you enter a macron for Māori language users. It seems that the olpc us international keyboard binds a ̄ COMBINING MACRON (unicode U+0304) to algr + hyphan. When typed after the letter a you get ā which is similar to but not the same as ā LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACR

Re: [Testing] Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 23/05/13 23:57, Manuel Quiñones wrote: 2013/5/22 Tom Parker : On 20/05/13 23:20, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Testing One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75 and XO-system 1a for XO-4 (build 32) on XO-4. Browse is really old and slow! Many websites work badly! What

Auckland Testing Summary 25 May 2013

2013-05-25 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 25 May 2013 Who: Alana, Barry, Charlotte, Fabiana, Hans, John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing olpc au build on XO-1.75 and dextrose on XO-4 One Education OS 1.2 (build au891) on XO-1.75: The laptop fails to start with a white screen after choosing the name, age and colou

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/05/13 23:20, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Testing One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75 and XO-system 1a for XO-4 (build 32) on XO-4. Browse is really old and slow! Many websites work badly! What version is that? (you can see the number in the list view in the home) This

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-20 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/05/13 10:37, James Cameron wrote: Sound doesn't work with Q4D29. This image has kernel 3.0.19_xo1.75-20120714.1244.olpc.91e4ce2 Wow. Okay. Ten months ago. This is apparently the build that One Education want to use in New Zealand this year. __

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-18 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/05/13 22:00, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 05:08:26PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: On 18/05/13 16:17, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 03:52:42PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75: Sound doesn’t work due to OLPC #12637

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 18/05/13 16:17, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 03:52:42PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75: Sound doesn’t work due to OLPC #12637 downgrading the firmware to Q4D24 fixes it. What firmware version was installed? Our XO-1.75s had Q4D27

Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

2013-05-17 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013 Who: John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75 and XO-system 1a for XO-4 (build 32) on XO-4. One Education OS 1.2 (build au889) on XO-1.75: Sound doesn’t work due to OLPC #12637 downgrading the firmware to Q4D24 fixes

Re: Aggressive screen blanking with 13.1.0 build 35

2013-04-17 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/04/13 09:20, Andrew Ruthven wrote: I've just updated an XO 1.75 to 13.1.0 build 35. But I've noticed that it blanks the screen after 12 seconds of inactivity. Then approximately 30 seconds later it flashes the screen on and blanks it again a couple of times then goes into suspend. Do you

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 13 April 2013

2013-04-16 Thread Tom Parker
On 16/04/13 01:58, Manuel Quiñones wrote: 2013/4/14 Tom Parker : Prepared this report using Browse with google docs -- everything worked well. However browse but still hangs logging in to Zimbra. Does Zimbra site work on GNOME Epiphany? Epiphany 3.6.1-2.fc18.armv7hl hangs during the login

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

Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013

2013-03-23 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 23 March 2013 Who: Fabiana, John, Hans, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing 13.2.0 Build 1 on XO-1.75 and XO-4 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. Rec

Re: video broken on 1.75?

2013-03-20 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/03/13 14:27, Sameer Verma wrote: I got the source from TED as a MP4 wrapper. http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2009/None/RennyGleeson_2009-light.mp4 Interesting, the XO-1.75 with VMETA drivers plays most .mp4 videos from the internet as-is, but it does not play this one -- the sound stu

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013

2013-03-09 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/03/13 07:04, Daniel Drake wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Tom Parker wrote: > In Physics on XO-1.75 the top couple of cm of the screen is white. The exact line where this happens moves around. This has been reported before. This doesn’t happen in the same way on the XO-4, wit

Re: VIDEO testing on XO 1.75

2013-03-08 Thread Tom Parker
On 08/03/13 17:00, tkk...@nurturingeducation.com wrote: Managed to install the two RPM on a XO 1.75 and do some testing. Thanks for the support. gstreamer-plugins-marvell-0.10-3.olpc.armv7hl.rpm libvmeta-marvell-005-1.olpc.armv7hl.rpm Now able to see videos on Youtube at 360p setting. Not smoot

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013

2013-03-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/03/13 07:28, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Write works well, but inserting an image is strange. On one laptop the > insert image window appeared behind write, giving the impression that the > clicking on the button does nothing. We opened log and during CC'd Gonzalo to

Re: Video on XO 1.75 (URGENT)

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/03/13 17:40, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: I am making the transition from XO 1 to XO 1.75. I plug in a USB with some *.ogv to play on a FEW new XO1.75 (12.1.0 customised build 10 ). When I click on it some files will play but some would not play at all - as if it is choking!. Run fin

Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013

2013-03-02 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 2 March 2013 Who: John, Hans, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing 3.1.0 build 30 on XO-1.75 and build 32 on XO-4 In Physics on XO-1.75 the top couple of cm of the screen is white. The exact line where this happens moves around. This has been reported before. This doesn’t happ

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 15 November 2012

2013-01-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/12/12 02:58, Daniel Drake wrote: Had Hoiho freeze completely after inserting a USB flash drive. Was this XO-1.75 or XO-4? To diagnose such failures we really need to reproduce them while a serial console is connected. I know thats not always trivial to have around. Not reproducible. We'

Re: 13.1.0 release candidate 3 (build 22) released

2013-01-04 Thread Tom Parker
On 05/01/13 09:29, Martin Langhoff wrote: I think there are serious bugs in Fedora infra for secondary arches. In my naive perception, most mirrors don't have 18/armfp, but the mirror redirector doesn't care. This was a big problem when the XO-1.75 was first available for testing. It's a lot b

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 15 November 2012

2012-12-16 Thread Tom Parker
On 16/12/12 17:20, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I believe the symptom has to do with the presence of multiple windows by an Activity. Sugar starts the initial window - if in time certain things do not happen in that window, the "failed to start" message eventually gets displayed. But if in the meant

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 15 November 2012

2012-12-15 Thread Tom Parker
On 16/12/12 13:34, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Thanks Tom for testing, and specially by filling tickets, is the way to have the issues solved. I generally only raise tickets if I have a reproducible problem to report. That said, we should probably raise a ticket complaining about the whole "failed

Auckland Testing Summary 1 December 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary (only 2 weeks late) Who: Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing 13.1.0 build 15 on XO-1.75 and XO-4 hoiho xo-1.75 c2 getbooks and read work Mohua: measure - tried recording - then went to frame and journal but not sure I can find file - system is slowed to a crawl

Re: flashing a XO 4

2012-12-02 Thread Tom Parker
On 02/12/12 22:59, Sameer Verma wrote: I've tried flashing a XO 4 with os15 from http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os15/xo-4/ I got the .zd file on a USB stick and ran fs-update at the openfirmware prompt. It reflashes, but after rebooting, it sits at the ok prompt of openfirmware. I had this too

Re: [OLPC-AU] Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-13 Thread Tom Parker
On 07/10/12 07:27, Walter Bender wrote: Somehow we managed to download a new webkit browse.xo and install it on one laptop. This version of browse didn’t work at all. We got this version by downloading on an x86 laptop from a page with a big list of versions (sorry, we don’t know exactly where).

Re: [OLPC-AU] Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-13 Thread Tom Parker
On 08/10/12 18:33, Deepak Muddha wrote: Edit starts with the focus somewhere invisible, you have to click on the canvas before it does anything. Can you explain in a detail for the above defect please. Start Edit. Type something. Observe that nothing appears on the screen. Click on t

Re: Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

2012-10-13 Thread Tom Parker
On 14/10/12 06:49, Chris Leonard wrote: I could not find a list of activity versions present in the build you are testing. Version number is a critical piece of information for tracking back to check on whether L10n issues are due to an incomplete PO file at the time of version release or some o

Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Parker
Auckland Testing Summary 29 September 2012 Who: John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom Testing build 44 11.3.1-au XO-1.75: Browse 192.3!! Rocking like it’s January 2010! Based on Firefox 3.6.23, 5 security releases made since! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_3.6#cite_note-41 Crashes if you visit large

Auckland Testing Summary 1 September 2012

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Parker
Only a few weeks late! Auckland Testing Summary 1 September 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Build 12.1.0 for xo-1.75 (build 21) and also on XO-1.5 Physics: Still doing that odd refresh thing at the top of the screen. Calculate When you do x-1 it shows x-1 (not as superscript - so looks l

Re: Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012

2012-08-25 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/08/12 10:24, Tom Parker wrote: Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Testing 12.1.0 Build 20 on XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Power logs attached. powerlogs.tar.bz2 Description: application/bzip ___ Devel

Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012

2012-08-25 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary Auckland 25 August 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Testing 12.1.0 Build 20 on XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Simba XO-1 Measure: starts up ok - single channel recording. Gain and time control seem ok. Waveform looks reasonable - FFT ok. Pause ok. Query: Are these scaling contro

Re: [OLPC-AU] OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012

2012-08-18 Thread Tom Parker
On 19/08/12 00:29, Walter Bender wrote: Tom: Any chance you guys could drop the latest Measure bits [1] onto an 860 machine to see if some of these issues are resolved? I tested measure 42 on build 860 on XO-1 and it seems to work well, except that if you switch to resistance or voltage sensor

OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012

2012-08-17 Thread Tom Parker
OLPC testing summary Auckland 18 August 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Today we tested XO-1s build 860 Sugar 0.84.31 with a bunch of customizations for NZ teacher training and XO-1.5s on 12.1.0 build 20. Tux, XO-1, build 860 + customisations: Touchpad drove me crazy during the following

Testing Summary, Auckland 28 July 2012

2012-07-30 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland 28 July 2012 Who: John, Tom Testing 12.1.0 build 18 and 11.3.2 on XO-1.75 12.1.0 build 18: Distance does not work at all on XO-1.75. This activity should be removed if it cannot be fixed, see https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11596 Browse still cannot create docs in goo

Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012 Who: Brenda, Fabiana, John, Nevyn, Tom We tested 12.1.0 build 18 on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 Nolan (XO-1.75): paint - seems ok. Physics: get the strange behaviour at the top of the canvas where things don’t show over a band on the top (reported before) Record: p

Testing Summary, Auckland 7 July 2012

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary: Auckland - 7 July 2012 Who: Barry, John, Tabitha, Tom Testing 12.1.0 build 17 on XO-1 and XO-1.75 Browse works, but cannot create google docs. Can edit docs on XO-1.75 that have already been created. Visiting http://blog.makezine.com on XO-1 causes the laptop to freeze. Brow

Testing Summary, Auckland - 23 June 2012

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Parker
Not quite 1 month late, I present for your eduction: Auckland Testing Summary 23/06/12 Who - John, Fabiana, Tabitha, Tom We tested Build 12.1.0 RC 2 (build 15) on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Rosella: Geeze, need new glasses just to see what is going on! Tiny! I find those kissy lips at the bottom of t

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Patch written for "Presence not updated, when client disconencts from telepathy-salut"

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Parker
(sending again reply all rather than reply-list) On 11/07/12 02:58, Martin Langhoff wrote: A multicast "I'm here" would also do it, perhaps with less noise. Either way, we need to nag Salut devs on this. I ran tcpdump (hint, it doesn't work on an XO unless you turn off promiscuous mode) a whi

Re: yum error -- cannot retrieve metalink on xo 12.1.0 build 21016o2.zd

2012-07-06 Thread Tom Parker
On 06/07/12 23:29, George Hunt wrote: Issuing URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 "yum check-update" returns lots of stuff -- most interesting seems to be "remote certificate has expired" message. Is the time on your laptop correct? We have some prototypes which forget the time occasionally and revert to a t

Re: [Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland - 16 June 2012

2012-06-22 Thread Tom Parker
On 17/06/12 12:14, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Memorize all preloaded games work but when pressed stop get “keep error: all changes will be lost”. Any change to get the log file? See attached. We were unable to reproduce this week. org.laptop.Memorize-1.log.bz2 Description: application/bz

Testing Summary, Auckland - 16 June 2012

2012-06-16 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland - 16 June 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Tested 12.1.0 build 14 on XO-1.5s and XO-1.75s. Ivy (an XO-1.5): Speak works. Why does Alice think my name is Seeker? Why can’t Alice find my laptop name? Wikipedia EN. Loads, tried a few pages, worked. Ruler works Maze w

Testing Summary, Auckland - 9 June 2012

2012-06-16 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland - 9 June 2012 Who: John, Tom Shutdown testing of au225 on XO-1.5. We shut down 3 XO-1.5s, one B2, one SKU99 and one SKU104. We shut them down probably 6 or 7 times each after a varying amount of idle time or very light use and on every occasion they shut down properly

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 06/06/12 02:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: The bottom line: have you seen this issue on XO-1.5 + 11.3.x? Even if ocassionally? Let us know, and join the bug-hunting party. We have seen this sort of problem in Auckland recently. However I can't really be sure if what we see is related. We test

Testing Summary, Auckland - 2 June 2012

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Parker
Testing Summary, Auckland - 2 June 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Tabitha, Tom Today we tested 12.1.0 os12 on XO-1.75 Installed os12 and updated to the new-old kernel. This was made more difficult by needing to find the rpm option to force installation of an old version. Found that none of the laptop

Testing Summary, Auckland - 26 May 2012

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Parker
Do not adjust your clocks! This is last weeks report more than a week late. This week's report will be less tardy (hopefully) and will have include the power logs from last week. Testing Summary, Auckland - 26 May 2012 Who: Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha, Tom We tried using the nandblaster to u

Re: Testing Summary, Auckland - 19 May 2012

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Parker
On 20/05/12 05:18, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Tom Parker wrote: >> Had an XO freeze shortly after flashing. > > In the firmware? No, in the operating system, after entering a name and choosing a colour. I've also seen Whio (XO-1.75 SHC2050025B

Re: F17-ARM devel tools

2012-05-07 Thread Tom Parker
On 08/05/12 07:51, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: So, the 3.3.4 headers are fine for the 3.0.19 kernel? Yes for building userland stuff. Not for building kernel modules. We aren't currently building kernel headers package splitoff. We sho

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] OLPC XO-3 on slashdot front page right now

2012-01-09 Thread Tom Parker
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 08:56 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: > I agree with your "pragmatic argument", but... I am almost certain > that what is being demoed on the XO-3.0 at CES is in fact Sugar > running on Fedora. It looks to be all Sugar so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1238R-QY31E http://www

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] initial report post-flash 11.3.1 build 17

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:19 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 10:09:27PM +1300, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > > XO 1.75 1B1 (a B1 with non-membrane keyboard & no SD, right?) > > XO-1.75 1B1 has eMMC instead of microSD as internal storage, but does > have an external SD slot. Carlos

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] XO 1.75 B1 build 11.3.1 testing

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:07 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:58:17PM +1300, Tom Parker wrote: > > I have noticed "sudo halt" does not halt the machine -- the screen goes > > blank and the power led stays green. Holding down the power button > &

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] XO 1.75 B1 build 11.3.1 testing

2011-12-03 Thread Tom Parker
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 19:45 +1300, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > Some results that might be of interest. Not sure which build of 11.3.1 > is installed, will confirm with Tom. It is build 16. It should be specified in the "about this xo" thing in the preferences. > - one time I shut down from gnome, th

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-27 Thread Tom Parker
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 11:52 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 01:36:01PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > > Do you want us to examine the working XO-1.75 with membrane keyboard? Is > > it worth knowing whether it has the same touch pad as the not working > > cl

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 11:07 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:12:20PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > > Is there anything you want me to record (model number? from where?). > > No, I think what you've provided is sufficient. Do you want us to examine the

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 12:12 +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > Is there anything you want me to > record (model number? from where?). One has a blue circuit board and the > other a green one, I'll post photos shortly. Updated http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11171 the new touch pad has a blue

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 09:17 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > We have some XO-1.5 prototypes with wich we could swap the touch pad > > and see if the problem follows the touchpad or stays with the 1.75. Is > > that useful? > > Yes, I think so. I swapped the bottom half of our clicky keyboard XO-1.

Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Parker
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:02 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > There will be new builds weekly or more often for large feature > additions that could do with testing. These will be announced on > de...@laptop.org list. There was OS40 released today. Next one should > be on Friday. If it is released "e

Re: Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-25 Thread Tom Parker
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:30 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:57:25PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > > I tried very carefully using one finger from directly above (no button > > pressing and no other hands nearby) and still experience the jumpy > > curso

Re: Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Parker
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:46 +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > I have noticed on the 1.5 and 1.75 mouse that if my finger is too far > forward on the button it overhangs the pad and gives a jumpy cursor. > The pad is not sure which finger to track. I tried very carefully using one finger fro

Re: [Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 07:38 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:39:38PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > > Nice! I made a simple "position the turtle based on accelerometer x and > > y" and found the sensor to be quite noisy. > > Could you quantify t

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 21:15 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > In testing the speakers we found the sound to be scratchy like there > > are buffer issues. > > That's interesting. More please? Speak is the only activity we've which produces sound and works. The sound is full of clicks. Also the tur

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Parker
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 07:08 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > Turtle Art v 114 has an accelerometer block in the sensor palette that > should appear on 1.75 machines. Maybe you could play with it? (It > pushes X, Y, Z values to the stack: you retrieve them with 3 > consecutive 'pop' blocks (found on t