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

2010-08-02 Thread James Cameron
Announcing a build of Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 based on OLPC development build os303 (leading up to release 10.1.2). I've found this useful for testing and diagnosis without touching the internal NAND or SD storage. Features: - based on Tiny Core Linux 3.0 microcore variant, configur

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

2010-04-26 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:14:25AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > What about this then > http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/TinyCore_for_XO1/Announce%20tc-xo_02%20for%20the%20XO-1.html Much better. Some suggestions attached. I've not fully tested these suggestions, but I think they should

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

2010-04-26 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Mon, 4/26/10, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" , fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com > Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 1:44 AM > On S

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

2010-04-25 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:08:09PM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > --- On Sun, 4/25/10, James Cameron wrote: > > Cool.? Looks like quite a bit of invested time > > required if anyone wants > > to use this ... > > ??? > could you clarify on the time investment? Your documentation was not

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

2010-04-25 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sun, 4/25/10, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" , fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com > Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 8:54 PM > On F

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

2010-04-25 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:18:01AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > but I just build version 02 of tinycore linux for the XO-1 (see > announcement here > http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/TinyCore_for_XO1/Announce%20tc-xo_02%20for%20the%20XO-1.txt > ) using the latest olpc kernel _unmodified_

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

2010-04-23 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
I do not mean to pollute the thread... :-) but I just build version 02 of tinycore linux for the XO-1 (see announcement here http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/TinyCore_for_XO1/Announce%20tc-xo_02%20for%20the%20XO-1.txt ) using the latest olpc kernel _unmodified_. So I was wondering if there

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

2010-03-17 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
After a week-long scary crash of the hosting server of TinyCore for the XO-1, is up and running again. Just in time for a new version, tc-xo_01 __What's new__ - Based on TinyCore 2.9 - The builds are utilizing new and modified tcz extensions (marked "_xo"). There are no new/modified binary blob

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

2010-03-05 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Just to point out that with pgf's help, a tinycore extension (tx-xo-pm.tzc) that provides power-management for the XO-1 as well as dimming/volume keyboard control is available here http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/TinyCore_for_XO1/TC-XO_sources/ Is using the latest powerd and kbdshim and works

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

2010-02-24 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Paul Fox wrote: > From: Paul Fox > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" > Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:22 PM > yioryos wrote: > > I have also upl

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

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos wrote: > With help from JC (quozl) and on his "request" I have uploaded 3 scripts > that > will build Tiny Core on an XO-1 that is running a squashfs-enabled olpc > kernel. > > I have also uploaded kernel rpms and srpms as well as the 3 different fs > modules (squashfs, aufs and

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

2010-02-20 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
> mainly because the olpc distributed systems haven't needed it -- there > are lots of other filesystems we don't include either. can you tell us > how much more space it takes? can it be made modular? It _is_ a module size 663kb Many distributions, including SoaS I believe, is using it. > i do

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

2010-02-20 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos -- thank you for keeping us all aware of your progress. yioryos wrote: > With help from JC (quozl) and on his "request" I have uploaded > 3 scripts that will build Tiny Core on an XO-1 that is running > a squashfs-enabled olpc kernel. > > I have also uploaded kernel rpms and srpms as

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

2010-02-20 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
With help from JC (quozl) and on his "request" I have uploaded 3 scripts that will build Tiny Core on an XO-1 that is running a squashfs-enabled olpc kernel. I have also uploaded kernel rpms and srpms as well as the 3 different fs modules (squashfs, aufs and hfsplus - for my iPod ;) by themselve

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

2010-02-17 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:53:37AM -0800, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > So thanks to helpful comments from pgf and JC (quozl), I made a new > tinycore-XO1 version (tc_xo_X.tar.bz2) with a functional Xorg and > game keys. The build and changelog are here > http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/TinyC

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

2010-02-17 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Despite better advice :-) I still believe that a highly (and very easily customized) modular system is very appropriate for the multitude of permutations that global (or even a single school) education requires. So thanks to helpful comments from pgf and JC (quozl), I made a new tinycore-XO1 v

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

2010-02-14 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:33:49AM -0800, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > Besides Aufs2 the differences from the standard xo_1_defconfig are > [...] I've applied those differences manually. Could you confirm the attached patch against xo_1_defconfig is what you intended? It was generated by doing

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

2010-02-13 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 2/13/10, DancesWithCars wrote: > From: DancesWithCars > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "James Cameron" , "OLPC Devel" > Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 6:52 AM > S

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

2010-02-13 Thread DancesWithCars
, but Fedora, Ubuntu, and all distros... On 2/5/10, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 2/5/10, James Cameron wrote: > > > From: James Cameron > > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" &

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

2010-02-12 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Paul Fox wrote: > From: Paul Fox > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" > Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:46 PM > yioryos wrote: > > > >

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

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Fox
yioryos wrote: > > Network, display, qwerty keyboard, touchpad (more jumpy than usual), USB > devices, SDcard, sound, are OK. > Camera I couldn't check (broken) > > Gamekeys, sound/dimming keys, battery monitor, suspend/power > management, screen rotation, not. well, sounds like you've t

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

2010-02-12 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
> 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 Network, display, qwerty ke

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 =- paul fox, p...@

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

2010-02-12 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
t working and a proper geode display driver is missing (is running with Xfbdev) Help is appreciated :) --- On Fri, 2/5/10, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: &q

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

2010-02-05 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Fri, 2/5/10, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" > Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 5:52 PM > Apologies for the delay ... I&#x

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

2010-02-05 Thread James Cameron
Apologies for the delay ... I'd decided to wait for my next Saturday before spending more time on Tiny Core, because it is a side project for me. The root shell was all I needed at work. I tried compiling the kernel using tar-pkg, but the size of the kernel and modules was huge compared to the pr

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

2010-01-30 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
Correction. The Xfbdev link is http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#framebuffer (just below the original:) ___ 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

2010-01-30 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
--- On Sat, 1/30/10, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" > Cc: "OLPC Devel" > Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8:05 PM > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:30:52A

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

2010-01-30 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:30:52AM -0800, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > I made a GUI version for XO-1 with a 2.6.31-oplc-derived kernel and > Xfbdev to run X in frame buffer. > http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4730.msg31395#msg31395 I've reviewed that thread, but I didn't find out ho

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

2010-01-30 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
I made a GUI version for XO-1 with a 2.6.31-oplc-derived kernel and Xfbdev to run X in frame buffer. http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4730.msg31395#msg31395 I pretty fragile but is faaast :-) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.la

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

2010-01-29 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:41:53PM -0500, Sandy Culver wrote: > Worked like 'greased lightning' for fast boot on my test XO-1.5 Yes, eighteen seconds from OpenFirmware until a shell prompt, is kinda fast. Could be quicker I guess. > then I was able to connect to wireless as test. It seems only

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

2010-01-29 Thread Sandy Culver
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:00 AM, James Cameron wrote: > Announcing a build of Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 based on > OLPC build 802 and os108. > > I've found this useful for testing and diagnosis without touching the > internal NAND or SD storage. > > > Features: > > - based on Tiny Core L

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

2010-01-27 Thread James Cameron
Announcing a build of Tiny Core Linux for XO-1 and XO-1.5 based on OLPC build 802 and os108. I've found this useful for testing and diagnosis without touching the internal NAND or SD storage. Features: - based on Tiny Core Linux 2.8 microcore variant, configured for a single root shell in tex