re: [support-gang] spectacular new XO-1.5 disassembly guides

i've taken a lot of XO laptops apart, and i've almost _never_ found it necessary to remove the screen completely. the two ribbon connectors that connect the screen and the backlight have a limited lifetime and should not be opened and closed needlessly. unless you're planning on removing the moth

Re: Suspend: RTC wakeup, sleep

oops. typo correction, below: i wrote: > hal wrote: > > > > Can somebody give me a pointer to some sample code that will wake up a > > suspended system in 5 minutes? I'm assuming there is some way to do this > > using the alarm interrupt from the RTC. > > use: > rtcwake -s 60

Re: Dead Production WLAN card

it seems i was mistaken. the card was disabled using gnome's nm-applet. paul i wrote: > nate wrote: > > Looks like the ESD bug strikes again... > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO1.5_WLAN_ESD_protection > > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: resizing rootfs to fit the disk

i'm moving a discussion-in-progress to the devel list. as background: because XO-1.5 uses an internal micro-SD for mass storage, we don't know the exact size filesystem to create at image build time. not only do we ship laptops with (currently) 2G and 4G cards, but cards of a quoted size from di

Re: overhead in a G1G1 environment

martin wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:03 PM, wrote: > > so the answer is no, it's not necessary. > > I'm hacking on olpc-update-query this week. I thought of offering a > hook to disable it, but it's growing some useful features (even for > unlocked machines). can you expand on that?

slow wiki?

anyone know why the olpc wiki is responding so slowly? every new page i load is taking a really long time. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: overhead in a G1G1 environment

mikus wrote: > > The default that comes with the OS causes the probabilities to come > > true about once per day. This can be changed by the theft deterrence > > server for future requests in the "update" part of the response. > > > > olpc-update-query is also called by cron every 15 minutes.

Re: How to get sugar config values without a console?

martin wrote: > I'm working on olpc-update-query, a script that runs without a tty > (from NM hooks and cron) and needs to query Sugar configuration stuff. > To make things more complicated, it runs as root :-/ > > It's a good thing that we have sugar-control-panel, but at least on > 0.82 it

Re: VGA questions

guylhem wrote: > Hello > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 20:54, Bobby Powers wrote: > > on a B4 (which just needed the VGA connector, no other components), > > Same here. I have a spare B4 board for these tests (I would like to > reproduce the identical picture of the XO on a projector for a >

Re: ffreep support on Geode LX (XO-1)

daniel wrote: > 2009/5/7 NoiseEHC : > > > >> please file a ticket at dev.laptop.org, with details on how to > >> reproduce the ffreep issue using build 802.  (if it's only > >> reproducible with debxo (unclear from what's been written so > >> far), then the priority (and the fix) will likely

Re: ffreep support on Geode LX (XO-1)

noiseehc wrote: > I have just tested it on my XO and the Geode DOES NOT support the ffreep > instruction. It could explain the halting shutdown when it stalls with a > signal 15 (which happens to be SIGILL) and only continuing it when I > switch to the other console (as I reported in [1]). S

Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

john wrote: > > By the way, has anyone really thought about this feature ? I grok > the intent, but you have to make > sure that kids who happen to be in brightly lit rooms (glaring > fluourescents aren't uncommon) > don't loose their backlight, and wonder why ? The keyboard lighting

Re: [Server-devel] Fixing bash script bogosity - help?

andrew wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 23:25 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > > > Perhaps: > > > > = > > #!/bin/bash -x > > > > [ -n "$DEBUG" ] && set -o xtrace > > > > declare -a inparms > > > > declare -i i=0 > > while true

Re: Fixing bash script bogosity - help?

martin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: > >> $ su root -c '/bin/echo "$@"' /bin/echo one two three > > > > Interesting - seems to work as > > > >    runuser root -c '/bin/touch "$@"' /bin/to

Re: Fixing bash script bogosity - help?

bert wrote: > > On 28.04.2009, at 15:09, p...@laptop.org wrote: > > > bert wrote: > >> > >> On 28.04.2009, at 14:27, p...@laptop.org wrote: > >> > >>> bert wrote: > > > Maybe you should use su directly instead of runuser? > >>> > >>> won't that have the same prob

Re: Fixing bash script bogosity - help?

bert wrote: > > On 28.04.2009, at 14:27, p...@laptop.org wrote: > > > bert wrote: > >> > >> On 28.04.2009, at 13:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams > >>> wrote: > Ah, I see now. > > Try this: > > ba

Re: Fixing bash script bogosity - help?

bert wrote: > > On 28.04.2009, at 13:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams > > wrote: > >> Ah, I see now. > >> > >> Try this: > >> > >> bash -c 'touch "$@"' "${c...@]}" > > > > Riiight, that works better... but > > > >> Or in the c

Re: Fixing bash script bogosity - help?

hi martin -- > I have a simple shell scripting problem :-) you'll find attached a > shell script that ships with ejabberd. It is a fairly straightforward > bit of code, and allows us to control bits of the ejabberd internals > with a nice cli interface. (Feel free to skip the start / stop bits

Re: CL1B power distribution

chris wrote: > Hi, > >> the most likely case i can think of involves being able to allow >> USB input devices to remain alive during suspend (for wakeup >> purposes), while powering down other devices (disks?) for power >> savings. > > Hm, I think the USB controller probab

Re: CL1B power distribution

john wrote: > Quick straw poll on how many people think it is useful enough > have individual control over the power supplied to each > connector to raise the cost of the laptop by $0.15 ? the most likely case i can think of involves being able to allow USB input devices to remain alive during

Re: CL1B power distribution

wad wrote: > > This is the current power distribution diagram for A-phase CL1B, > identifying what we can power, when, and how. wad -- a few questions -- for some i can guess at the answer, but better to ask and be sure: - if there are no USB devices inserted, is there an advantage

Re: CL1B power distribution

smith wrote: > >>> Additional changes from Gen 1 include the ability to both measure > >>> DC input current and VIN voltage, as well as EC control over the > >>> current drawn from the DC input. The intent was to better support > >>> charging directly from solar panels. > >> I hope that this w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

martin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:05 AM, wrote: > > > also note that this will require that you run some sort of > > DNS cache on the > > The standard dns resolver libs on linux (part of glibc?) caches > alright. All platforms I know cache things alright, and it's fairly > serio

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

jonas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:45:28AM -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: > >benjamin m. schwartz wrote: > > > Martin Langhoff wrote: > > > > The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, > > > > underutilised network

Re: [Sugar-devel] Notes on service discovery XS/XO

martin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > DNS-SD using unicast DNS seems reasonable to me too. > > If we can do without the avahi gunk, and use it in a way that is not > optimised for user driven browsing but for automated selection of > services, then it

Re: Notes on service discovery XS/XO

benjamin m. schwartz wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: > > The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small, > > underutilised network of peers. They assume that the network is a > > cheap resource, that broadcast messages are cheap, and that there is > > no coordinating server. > >

Re: #9307 NORM Not Tri: 100% reliable way to test a DCON creates the wrong colors bug

noiseehc wrote: > I am not sure if anybody reads the OLPC trac anymore but this demo can > show us a DCON bug which probably should be fixed in the gen 1.5 > version. Since the program reproduces the bug in 100% of the time, I > wish you good debugging. (If it turns out to be just an X bug t

powerd on XS?

martin and i just had a short exchange off-list that we realized should probably be moved on-list. here's an edited transcript: > To: Martin Langhoff > From:p...@laptop.org > Subject: Re: Bxl testing report - April 16th > > hi martin -- > > i've been watching your XS developme

Re: new releases of powerd and olpc-kbdshim (alt. power mgmnt)

i wrote: > olpc-kbdshim should work on the > latest rawhide releases. (i hope -- feedback please, i haven't > had a chance to try rawhide myself.) i've gotten my feedback: in a word, don't bother. :-) the grab keys might work, but rotation is broken, not only because the location of k

new releases of powerd and olpc-kbdshim (alt. power mgmnt)

on about features, etc, here, but since i'd be quoting or paraphrasing info that comes with the packages, i'll just refer directly there. olpc-kbdshim is described in its README: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim/tree/README powerd is described by commentary in th

Re: move to rawhide update

john wrote: > It looks like perhaps the kernel changes have slipped right through > the F11 schedule. Is it seriously likely that the F11 kernel for the record, this was a conscious decision. everyone knew there wouldn't be time to get XO-specific changes upstream, and back to fedora, before F

Re: move to rawhide update

peter, and greg -- greg wrote: > Whichever way you go, strong leadership, patience, and many hands are > required to fight through the problems. If the community cares enough and > develops the necessary leadership, the project moves forward. But it's > never easy. > > It is my hope th

Re: move to rawhide update

peter wrote: > >  II. - What for me is an inhibitor is the bugzilla section "tell us how to > > reproduce the problem".  I have no desire whatsoever to try to describe how > > to obtain the Fluendo mp3 codec for an XO, nor how to follow its > > instructions for seeing if it works.  I have even

Re: [BULK] Re: GPS on XO

hal wrote: > > > i confess i'm not sure who mounts the drive. i suspect most people > > will say "Not a bug". i should be able to make that work in the > > RoadMap activity. i'll take a look. > > It really is a bug. All sorts of command line code gets in trouble if there > are spaces

Re: GPS on XO

hal wrote: > > in particular, the part about getting maps should be more specific: > > maps are big, so you'll want to put them on SD or USB. roadmap will > > look for maps in a top-level directory called RoadMap.maps, plus in > > any subdirectories of RoadMap.maps. as long as the full path i

Re: GPS on XO

hal wrote: > > >From the Testing summary > > > Roadmap-3 > > Map of California came up, could move around easily. > > Interesting timing. Thanks. > > I'm about to go on a long drive and it would be fun to be able > to watch where I'm going on my XO. I've got a USB GPS device > that

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

peter wrote: > >  > It is as far as I'm aware plain rawhide which means it will be sugar > >  > 0.84 with default Fedora power stuff using the new devicekit [1]. All > >  > the hardware should work as expected and if it doesn't please report > >  > it, either here or in the Fedora Bugzilla. >

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

peter wrote: > It is as far as I'm aware plain rawhide which means it will be sugar > 0.84 with default Fedora power stuff using the new devicekit [1]. All > the hardware should work as expected and if it doesn't please report > it, either here or in the Fedora Bugzilla. i don't understand. w

Re: announce: alternate power management

; > >  - no special support for the wireless mesh, whatsoever.  i > >    couldn't remember how it was supposed to work, and i recall > >    cjb saying it's hard to figure out whether the mesh is active > >    or not. > > > >  - there's some support for

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

mitch wrote: > > > > My XO Boots but gets stuck loading the initrd. > > > > OFW Q2E34 > > > > Here is what I see on the screen > > > > Boot device: /nandflash:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments: > > Boot device: /nandflash:\boot\vmlinuz0 Arguments: root=mtd0 > > rootfstype=jffs2 > > liveimg conso

Re: announce: alternate power management

albert wrote: > pgf writes: > > > so: i've packaged a new version of powerd. the big change > > is that it now allows for the two modes of operation i mentioned > > last week on the list: > > dim > > sleep, screen

Re: announce: alternate power management

think i've fixed. but there may well be more, since i think i've seen at least one i still can't really explain. (but it was after a couple of glasses of wine, so who knows.) code: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/powerd/ rpms: http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms/ pau

Re: improving XO connectivity rates

daniel wrote: > 2009/3/16 : > > > > i cringe every time i see a sleep in code like this -- network > > setup takes long enough as it is. > > The sleep is not in the network setup path. It happens after the DHCP > client has established connectivity and notified networkmanager of > that fa

Re: improving XO connectivity rates

martin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Actually, the connection succeeds, the problem is that the > > Good debugging! > > > you can find the > > .c source on the ticket and compile it yourself > > the thread on the dbus list is quite scary. OTOH, your

Re: announce: alternate power management

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

im 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 spin the display, even

Re: announce: alternate power management

i wrote: > b) i've seen out-of-sync ebook switch behavior -- i.e., the event > being reported (ebook open/close) exactly mismatches the > physical condition of ebook mode. since this behavior was > described for the lid switch in #5703 (and fixed), i'm > guessing the ebo

Re: announce: alternate power management

mikus wrote: > > configurable timeouts for screen dim and sleep. the dim > > level is configurable. > > My XO systems are plugged in to the AC, so I normally leave them > running 24/7. But in the middle of the night if I happen to walk > by, I notice if they are acting as "light sources"

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

er how it was supposed to work, and i recall > >    cjb saying it's hard to figure out whether the mesh is active > >    or not. > > > >  - there's some support for wake-on-wlan, but it's not well tested. > > > >  finally

announce: alternate power management

regardless. (in my case, most of the time i want to auto-suspend is when i'm running on battery, and not using external devices, so i sort of forgot about this case.) anyway, code is available here: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/powerd/ and rpms are here: http://dev.la

Re: extend the memory flash space with an SD card to build open80211s

rekik wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to build the kernel open80211s on a group of machines which use > ubuntu 8.10 and it's work. Now I had to build it on an XO. The problem > is that I don't have enough space on my flash memory ( 1Go ). So, I had > to extend it with an SD card ( to have a space >

fixing broken wiki-to-git links

with the recent switchover from, uh, whatever we were using before, to cgit on dev.laptop.org, there are now many stale links on wiki.laptop.org (and possibly some at sugarlabs as well, i suppose). if you do a google search on wiki.laptop.org for "url:dev.laptop.org/git" you'll get almost 200 hits

Re: [Sugar-devel] testers needed: grab keys and touchpad rotation

wade wrote: > Cool! I'm looking forward to trying this when I get back to my XO > I wonder though, is there a reason this has to be a separate daemon, and > can't just being part of the HPGK driver with a /sys/... interface for > control? it's a daemon very largely because much of the cod

Re: [Sugar-devel] testers wanted: grab keys, and touchpad rotation

bert wrote: > > Just tried it on my XO at build 800 - works like a charm, both the > scrolling and rotation. Yay! great! > > The only nit I have to pick is the inverted direction of scrolling. > With both a scroll-wheel and my MacBook's "two-finger" scroll, moving > down does scrol

Re: testers needed: grab keys and touchpad rotation

"olpc-kbdshim". > > source: > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim > > rpm: > http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms/olpc-kbdshim-1-1.i386.rpm > > after installing the rpm you need to fully reboot your laptop to > get the plumbing set up pr

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daemon was already looking at every input event, it seemed a natural place to implement the rotation feature. and after doing that, the name seemed like it should change. so, announcing "olpc-kbdshim". source: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim rpm: http://dev.

Re: Screen rotation -- My two cents

james wrote: > I have experienced the frustration of trying to use the mouse pad when > in ebook mode (actually not quite ebook mode, since you have to open the > XO a bit to get your finger on the mousepad). The reason I need to do > it is that when I'm using View Slides the enormous mouse

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

noiseehc wrote: > The question remains whether we make it rotate to match the closed ebook > mode or match the rotated opened-like-a-book mode. there's no good answer to this, because there's no way to make it "do the right thing" automatically. the lid switch can't be used, because by definit

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left?

noiseehc wrote: > Sorry, I wanted to post it toplevel. > > p...@laptop.org wrote: > > > > but like david, i think > > > that currently neither olpc nor sugarlabs is going to foster or > > > champion their use: olpc has no resources for s/w development, > > > and as far as i can tell, s

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

eben wrote: > > Start with the most basic, and build up. There's a limited set of > buttons there; that's something to be dealt with. Video game consoles > have done a pretty good job with similar limitations. At least in the > 90s they did. These days they've caved in to many more button

Re: rotate button sucks on the XO

while i can understand the frustration when something that seems simple and obvious doesn't work, starting wout with " sucks" probably isn't the best way to get people to listen to your issues. how do other people feel about this problem? are there any good reasons to _not_ make the touchpad

Re: [Sugar-devel] OS/X11 support for XO-1 hardware?

benjamin m. schwartz wrote: > > There are lots of good reasons to play with screen resolution. My > favorite reason is that reducing the resolution to 800x600 would make all > graphical operations runs twice as fast, and use half as much memory, > while introducing a negligible drop in displ

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

bert wrote: > On 24.02.2009, at 19:09, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: ... > > Asking for better documentation doesn't imply that the facility is > > new. It recognizes that development has reached a local minimum in > > an important component that is not well understood by many. My post >

Re: Opportunity for speedup

mitch wrote: > Bobby Powers wrote: > > - its designed to be as light as possible, using syscalls instead of > > libc functions as much as possible (the only thing we use libc for is > > string comparison, which could be replaced with a local function). > > while its written like this, I haven'

Re: price point + sales to individuals

bert wrote: > On 18.02.2009, at 18:01, John Watlington wrote: > > > We already have a developer program where we give away laptops > > to interested people. > > > This is for people already committed, already part of the community. > It's a great program, I got my XOs from it. it's al

Re: new mailing list for other distros?

da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, qu...@laptop.org wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:14:05PM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > >>> I will have my two XO's there, I will try to have them running different > >>> flavors of DebXO (from USB sticks if nothing else, but quite possibly

Re: power consumption after shutdown

frederick wrote: > In a discussion thread like this, it would good to have a source code link > for all to reference, now and in the future. > Thanks for all the contributions! unfortunately, the code in question (i.e., the EC firmware) is one of the few small bodies of code on the XO which isn

Re: power consumption after shutdown

edward wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > by default the wireless card remains alive to participate in a > > > potential mesh network, disabling wireless should give you a lot > > > more time. > > > > You're thinking of sleep mode, not the f

Re: power consumption after shutdown

benjamin m. schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > I take this to mean that *something* was draining some > > power for the two days the XO was sitting in its "shut down" state. > > All rechargeable batteries lose stored energy ov

Re: OLPC upgrades

wad wrote: > > Testing of UBIFS at 1CC ran into a bug which was patched and > has now been running for months without problems. > > See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/UBIFS_on_XO is there an executive summary of your test results on the wiki? reading through the above, plus: http://wiki.la

Re: Treatise on Formatting FLASH Storage Devices

da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote: > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device > > > > Read it and weep. > > this completely ignores wear leveling, which is very nessasary for just > about any filesystem, but especially for FAT (which

Re: keyboard handling (was Re: OLPC where to go development advice.)

s wrote: > Summary: I updated > > > and several other pages, but mysteries remain. > > p...@laptop.org usefully responded: > > >> I have zero clue where to find the keyma

Re: Touchpad problem

daniel wrote: > 2009/2/1 : > > i asked dan the same thing. the only true fix i know of in 8.2.1 > > keeps the touchpad from locking up entirely on occasion. this > > happens only rarely in earlier releases (and can be corrected by > > suspending/resuming the laptop). > > That's what I'm

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

i wrote: > > i just booted ubuntu to see how they do it -- turns out it's easy. > they use a program called "xbindkeys" to bind all of the "special" XO to be clear, "they" isn't ubuntu. "they" is the person (who goes by the moniker "teapot") who put together binary release you downloaded. a

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

paul wrote: > > >this will be different under ubuntu-on-XO, > > I want to write some code that runs in "Tablet" mode and I need one more key. > So I want to disable the screen rotation. > Currently even under ubuntu it rotates the screen. > I'm a linux newbee so I have zero clue where to f

Re: Touchpad problem

bernie wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > 2009/1/31 Tiago Marques : > >> Almost already as I started using it, I noticed that sometimes the > >> touchpad > >> would be irresponsive. > >> > >> I may use it for hours without having a problem but, when it happens, it > >> usually doesn't start

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

paul wrote: > Thanks for all the advice, I've gotten ubuntu installed. > > One OLPC question and one GTK question > > OLPC: where exactly is the keyboard mapping file that would let me > change the behavior of the screen orientation button? this will be different under ubuntu-on-XO, i beli

Re: OLPC upgrades

samuel wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > Mitch Bradley writes: > > > >> [...] It's also worth pointing out that the new low-power x86 > >> processors, Atom being the poster child, are still stuck with > >> power-hungry support chips - memory and display

Re: Backlight control

marco pesenti gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, wrote: > > right -- there's only a python dependency in that when someone asks > > "how do i change the brightness", they're pointed to python code. :-) > > Well... Wad needed it for a python activity. And even if you need to

Re: Backlight control

michael wrote: > David -- why quibble over ohm when you've got NM and HAL to worry about? > > Paul -- why are the /sys nodes only writable by root? discounting, possible denial-of-brightness attacks by malicious screen hackers, no particularly good reason that i know of. well, other than ensu

Re: Backlight control

marco pesenti gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, wrote: > > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/jarabe/m > odel/screen.py > > it looks like there's a missing assignment to _ohm_service (i.e., to > > save the connection so it doesn't ne

Re: Backlight control

tomeu wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 15:50, Marco Pesenti Gritti > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, wrote: > >> but if ohmd is going to be in the middle, then the published > >> api for requesting those changes should be more transparent than > >> requiring every application b

Re: Backlight control

marco pesenti gritti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:23 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > > > What can I call from an activity (in python) to indicate that the > > backlight > > should be turned off ? > > > > I'm playing with a photoframe app, and want to have the ability to > > deliberate

Re: Lighttpd problem

rodrigo padula de oliveira wrote: > p...@laptop.org escreveu: > > rodrigo padula de oliveira wrote: > > > Hello Guys, > > > > > > I've installed lighttpd in my XO, but when i restarted them, i cant > > > start the lighttpd service again. > > > > > > The problem is with the log files

Re: Lighttpd problem

rodrigo padula de oliveira wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I've installed lighttpd in my XO, but when i restarted them, i cant > start the lighttpd service again. > > The problem is with the log files on /var/log/lighttod. > > The system clean this folder when restarting ? yes. /var/log is in

Re: OLPC trac not allowing login?

gary c martin wrote: > Any one else getting "Invalid username or password" errors trying to > log in to trac? > > https://dev.laptop.org/login yes. me too. =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@list

Re: Nand blaster with 30 XOs

ricardo wrote: > Mitch, > > Nandblaster is a blast! We updated 29 XOs in less than 30 minutes > (most in less than 20 minutes). neat. > Just one XO froze (two times), but this unit seems problematic anyway. > I am attaching the stats for the other 28. > > There is a minor caveat (that i

Re: touchpad tunables

gary c martin wrote: > Hi Paul > > On 10 Jan 2009, at 17:29, p...@laptop.org wrote: > > > (i'd appreciate it someone running an 8.2.1 > > staging candidate could verify these parameters really are present -- > > i'm running a development kernel.) > > Not sure if this helps, but just loo

Re: touchpad tunables

sigh. when am i going to learn not to tweak shell scripts in my mailer buffer i wrote: > > if [ $(whoami) = root ] please change that to if [ $(whoami) != root ] paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@

touchpad tunables

current staging releases (9 and higher, i believe) contain some new parameters which were added to the mouse driver. these settings allow tweaking various timeouts related to touchpad recalibration. (i'd appreciate it someone running an 8.2.1 staging candidate could verify these parameters reall

Re: see ya'

oops jameson wrote: > > > > > > my "home" address is p...@laptop.org, but pgf (or paul) @laptop will > > continue to work for some time, i believe. > > > I believe your fingers didn't type what your brain was thinking. yes, i

see ya'

f anything should come up where richard's not around, or whatever. hope i can help out somehow. my "home" address is p...@laptop.org, but pgf (or paul) @laptop will continue to work for some time, i believe. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Leaving

tomeu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:07, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian > > wrote: > >> Like many others, Friday will be my last day employed by OLPC. I've > >> enjoyed working on the project a lot, and hope to find some way to > >> continu

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

chris wrote: > Hi, > >> what happens when you push the power button? > >> i assume the laptop will suspend due to ohmd, but i think g-p-m is >> doing the same dbus listen, no? > > We can just set "When power button is pressed: Do nothing" in the g-p-m > prefs. Yeah, ohmd i

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

chris wrote: > Hi Peter, > >> How did you go with this? Did you have any luck? I also realised >> that if you drop gnome-user-share you'll drop all the httpd >> requirements. > > Yep, it worked! I had RPM conflicts in GConf2 (against GConf2-dbus, > both ship the same .mo file

Re: Fwd: Flash plugin not recognised by Firefox on the OLPC

shivaprasad wrote: > Ok. I tried installing from the link given in the Firefox page of the OLPC > wiki ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firefox ) . It works fine if I install it > from a .tar.gz file but doesn't if it is installed from a .rpm file? Any > ideas? i think i already said something abou

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 34, Issue 86

mitch wrote: > d...@laptop.org wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, wrote: > > > >> ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. > >> > >> with partitioning support, it should be possible to have a r.o. root > >> overlaid by a unionfs writeable mount, so machine-sp

Re: Deployment image customization

daniel wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, wrote: > > ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. > > > > with partitioning support, it should be possible to have a r.o. root > > overlaid by a unionfs writeable mount, so machine-specific changes > > don't modify the re

Re: Deployment image customization

morgan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:29, Daniel Drake wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith > > wrote: ... > >> The biggest challenge I see is to find those things which you do not want > >> to > >> "clone" from the source XO. The only things that come to mind are

Re: [Activities] Colors!-v13 released

hi wade -- how does colors deal with the lack of wacom support in the kernel? do you bundle a driver module? paul wade wrote: > Hey all, > > I have released Colors! version 13 with improved Wacom tablet support. > Painting has been optimized, refresh bugs have been fixed, a color pickup >

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