Computer power; was Re (3): Logjam vulnerability and epiphany.

2020-09-01 Thread peter
My biggest Internet usage is still email. For the majority of my Web interests, Dillo is preferable to Epiphany. Opens almost any Wikipedia page in a few ms (blink). JavaScript is the biggest block to Dillo doing electronic banking. Is execution of code from a remote server on your machine, w

Re (2): Logjam vulnerability and epiphany.

2020-08-31 Thread peter
From: Samuel Greenfeld Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:48:12 -0400 > While it is possible to partially fix the LogJam vulnerability, ... I would have expected a fix to come from upstream; GNOME or Fedora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_browser > A few years ago, we talked about ending supp

Re: Logjam vulnerability and epiphany.

2020-08-31 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the question. We have no plans to declare end-of-life or end-of-support for the older XO's. As far as I can tell, in making such a declaration there would be no net benefit, and some additional cost. There are very few of the older XO's in use. On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:48:12PM -040

Re: Logjam vulnerability and epiphany.

2020-08-31 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
While it is possible to partially fix the LogJam vulnerability, are there plans to declare end-of-life or end-of-support for the older XO's? A few years ago, we talked about ending support in 2020 when other Linux distributions would stop distributing x86 processor builds. And OLPC is not like th

Dillo; was Re: Logjam vulnerability and epiphany.

2020-08-31 Thread peter
From: pe...@easthope.ca Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 06:57:09 -0700 > Wikipedia & etc. will become inaccessible with this [epiphany] > browser. Incidentally, Dillo can retrieve and render pages from Wikimedia projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo Dillo doesn't support JavaScript. Nevert

Re: Logjam vulnerability and epiphany.

2020-08-30 Thread James Cameron
Yes, wikimedia servers will be unreachable. That is their decision. Many other servers already do not permit connection, and this varies by geography of IP address, based on local laws or a server owner's assessment of market value. We have no plans to upgrade for XO-1.5. Is not a problem on

Re: Hardware test in 1.5 reports temperature rise of 9 or 10 C.

2020-08-10 Thread peter
From: James Cameron Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:21:17 +1000 > January 2011, about 9.5 years ago. I would have expected it to fail > much sooner. It has lasted well. Years ago, changed the internal SDHC to 8 GB. About a year ago, replaced the battery pack with a new one sent from Australia b

Re: Hardware test in 1.5 reports temperature rise of 9 or 10 C.

2020-08-10 Thread James Cameron
Thanks, that's interesting. This serial number was produced in late January 2011, about 9.5 years ago. I would have expected it to fail much sooner. It has lasted well. The temperature rise test was only characterised for manufacturing and some accelerated aging tests. The test has no statisti

Re: XO1.75

2020-06-08 Thread James Cameron
Based on memory, 00 means fault in RAM. Replace RAM. Could also be electrostatic damage to CPU or RAM. Could also be age degradation of silicon chips. To find the real meaning of 00 takes reading the C code of the CForth startup payload, which is loaded from SPI Flash. There is no involveme

Re: XO1.75 - Devel Digest, Vol 155, Issue 1

2020-06-07 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
up with anything relevant. If someone can point me to the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 05:37:38 -0700 From: pe...@easthope.ca To: devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: XO1.75 Message-ID: From:    Yioryos Asprobounitis Dat

Re (2): XO1.75 - Devel Digest, Vol 155, Issue 1

2020-06-06 Thread peter
From: Yioryos Asprobounitis Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 04:19:22 + (UTC) > Looks like there is no firmware in this machine! I don't know the 00 display but this and the following sections should help. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock#If_the_screen_does_not_turn_on > Looks like there is no f

Re: XO1.75

2020-06-06 Thread peter
From: Yioryos Asprobounitis Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:41:33 + (UTC) > The screen comes up and nothing further. ESC doesn't give the prompt of the Forth PROM? > Firmware check just show a double zero [00] Hardware diagnostics? Rocker left cheat code. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cheat_codes

Re: Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.11

2020-01-31 Thread Carrol Riddle
The release of 13.2.11 is particularly apropos at this time, as Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) content has just become accessible to XO laptops here. Thanks James. The OER2GO (RACHEL) content packages on IIAB become available to the XO laptop by slightly modifying a "copy" of the index.html(f) of e

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-12 Thread Carrol Riddle
Final choices: chromium-browser or surf. For c-b: Wirelessly connect to Internet-in-a-Box AP, then ssh -X pi@box.local chromium-browser http://box.local/admin Thanks to Devel for nurturing this effort. Now, on to end-user forum. Carrol Riddle > On December 10, 2019 at 5:41 PM Carrol Riddle wr

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread James Cameron
Best ask Internet-in-a-Box project about minimum browser requirements; as far as I know they don't participate here on devel@ or maintain IIAB for use with XOs. On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 05:41:57PM -0500, Carrol Riddle wrote: > sudo apt install dillo works. (did first removed files from download o

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread Carrol Riddle
sudo apt install dillo works. (did first removed files from download of tarball method) Website http://wiki.laptop.org rendering is usable. Internet-in-a-Box home page is largely not usable. Presumably, this is due to use of Javascript pages. Will try other lite browsers which claim to handle

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread James Cameron
Have you tried "sudo apt install dillo"? On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:19:12PM -0500, Carrol Riddle wrote: > James, > Thanks for intro to field of "lite" browsers -- different from tried links2. > Not successful with Dillo yet. Make for fltk, a prerequisite, fails with > errors (configure errors ?).

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-10 Thread Carrol Riddle
James, Thanks for intro to field of "lite" browsers -- different from tried links2. Not successful with Dillo yet. Make for fltk, a prerequisite, fails with errors (configure errors ?). Will also look at others. Carrol Riddle > On December 9, 2019 at 1:07 AM James Cameron wrote: > > > Most web

Re: XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a-box on Raspberry Pi Zero W

2019-12-08 Thread James Cameron
Most web content demands large browser like Chromium or Firefox. But where the web content is your own, or under your control, then a simplified web browser like Dillo may be helpful. On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 12:13:36AM -0500, Carrol Riddle wrote: > XO as wireless remote terminal for Internet-in-a

Re: XO's cannot use mirror repo's in YUM update or install

2019-11-10 Thread Carrol Riddle
Correction: baseurl must begin with "download" instead of "dl" for this case. Rpmfusion must be installed before exfat. > On November 10, 2019 at 3:15 PM Carrol Riddle wrote: > > > Have been able to Yum install exfat files on my XO-1, but everywhere had to > block mirrorline and use baseurl.

Re: XO's cannot use mirror repo's in YUM update or install

2019-11-10 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the problem report and workaround. The cause is an SSLv3 Handshake Failure, apparently a result of tightened security configuration at fedoraproject.org which is no longer compatible with Fedora 18. Unfortunately yum does not report the actual problem. Here's how to catch proof; 1.

Re: XO's cannot use mirror repo's in YUM update or install

2019-11-10 Thread Carrol Riddle
Have been able to Yum install exfat files on my XO-1, but everywhere had to block mirrorline and use baseurl. Still do not know why mirrors do not work. The baseurl for fedora.repo is http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ The baseurl for rpm

Re: XO's cannot use mirror repo's in YUM update or install

2019-11-10 Thread Chris Marshall
I had the same problem last week. I did determine that the Fedora packages had been archived but I could not figure out how to get yum to work. Maybe it is a different type of repository? At any rate, I was unable to get yum to work. --Chris On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 9:57 AM Peter Robinson wrot

Re: XO's cannot use mirror repo's in YUM update or install

2019-11-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 5:29 AM Carrol Riddle wrote: > > XO's attempting to run YUM update or install are unable to use fedora mirror > sites (https://) but able to use primary fedora site (http://). > > Is this a matter of https vs http / ca-certificates or changes in mirror > structures ? Ca-

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-23 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 06:10 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 12:02:56PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 18:08 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:58:15AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 20:00 +1100, Jame

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-21 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 12:02:56PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 18:08 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:58:15AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 20:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:06:56PM +010

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-21 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 18:08 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:58:15AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 20:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:06:56PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, Jame

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-20 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:58:15AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 20:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:06:56PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:14:00PM +010

Re: XO 1.75 mainlining status

2019-04-19 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 04:23:28PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > I'm wondering how the clocks are determined for the GC860. > That should be the APMU + 0xcc register (0xd42828cc) Got it. > Sources [1] and [2] suggest that there is a multiplexer that chooses > between PLL1, PLL2 and USB PLL along

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-04-19 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 20:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:06:56PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:14:00PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > > Also, which config? Mine is basically t

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-25 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:06:56PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:14:00PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > > Also, which config? Mine is basically this: > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackerspace/olpc-xo

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-24 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: [snip] > > > > - booted it a few times trying to fix the missing root filesystem; > > > more work needed, the device name may have changed and i've not > > > found a way to find what it is, or it isn't being detected; serial > > > conso

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-23 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 10:52 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:14:00PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 17:23 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > > Thanks, very good progress. Here's what I've done; > > > > > > - reviewed the aggregate change from master br

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-22 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:14:00PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 17:23 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > Thanks, very good progress. Here's what I've done; > > > > - reviewed the aggregate change from master branch, and each commit, > > Does it look, eh, reasonable? Got any

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-22 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 17:23 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > Thanks, very good progress. Here's what I've done; > > - reviewed the aggregate change from master branch, and each commit, Does it look, eh, reasonable? Got any comments/suggestions? > - built the firmware on my xo-4 build server, flash

Re: OpenFirmware and Linux v5.0 on XO-1.75

2019-02-21 Thread James Cameron
Thanks, very good progress. Here's what I've done; - reviewed the aggregate change from master branch, and each commit, - built the firmware on my xo-4 build server, flashed an xo-1.75 c2 sku200x2; it boots fine the old kernel from arm-3.0-wip branch, with some unimportant problems like keym

Re: [UKids] [Announcement] Sugarizer v1.1 is available for your device

2019-01-23 Thread Lionel Laské
Hi Simon, Thanks for your interest on Sugarizer. If you're running Sugarizer Server into Docker, the file to update is env/docker.ini (not env/sugarizer.ini). You could see (and eventually change) this settings here: https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server/blob/master/docker/Dockerfile-server.t

Re: Into 2019: XOs Laptops & software upgrades

2019-01-03 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 10:26:30PM -0500, tkkang wrote: > Happy New Year. > > Good to see the release of 13.2.10 OS for XO1 to XO4. Great work from James > and > new developers who just keep making it better. With that I hope 2019 can be > more productive for deployments still using XOs. > > I h

Re: Linux next-20181204 on a XO-1.75

2018-12-18 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 11:39:19AM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Sat, 2018-12-08 at 17:26 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > Thanks. On my test unit, this change was needed; > > > > --- dt.fth.orig 2018-12-04 18:23:57.0 +1100 > > +++ dt.fth 2018-12-08 17:18:42.143073750 +1100 > > @@

Re: Linux next-20181204 on a XO-1.75

2018-12-18 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Sat, 2018-12-08 at 17:26 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > Thanks. On my test unit, this change was needed; > > --- dt.fth.orig 2018-12-04 18:23:57.0 +1100 > +++ dt.fth 2018-12-08 17:18:42.143073750 +1100 > @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ > " /clocks" encode-phandle MMP2_CLK_TWSI5 encode-in

Re: Linux next-20181204 on a XO-1.75

2018-12-07 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. On my test unit, this change was needed; --- dt.fth.orig 2018-12-04 18:23:57.0 +1100 +++ dt.fth 2018-12-08 17:18:42.143073750 +1100 @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ " /clocks" encode-phandle MMP2_CLK_TWSI5 encode-int encode+ " resets" property device-end -" dev /i2c@d4034000/ac

Re: XO Spare Parts

2018-08-06 Thread T Gillett
To answer James Cameron's question, approximate quantities are 300 keyboards 200 screen 100 batteries. On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:43 AM, T Gillett wrote: > Hi All > > I have a large quantity of XO spare parts that are surplus from the > Australian XO-4 deployment, including screens, batteries, ke

Re: XO Spare Parts

2018-08-06 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Terry. When you say large, how large is large? Rough order of magnitude? I'll let my team know. On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 06:17:55PM +1000, T Gillett wrote: > Just to clarify, the idea is to make available suitable quantities > of the parts to various groups supporting deployments, rather

Re: XO Spare Parts

2018-08-06 Thread T Gillett
Just to clarify, the idea is to make available suitable quantities of the parts to various groups supporting deployments, rather than try to ship the whole lot to one destination. On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:43 AM, T Gillett wrote: > Hi All > > I have a large quantity of XO spare parts that are su

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-28 Thread Carrol Riddle
All, The solution is trivial and deceptively so. With the Pi Zero DISCONNECTED, use Gnome Desktop to edit / add connection to create a connection method with type Ethernet. Leave the mac address fields blank. Pull down tab IPv4 and select "share with other computers " and save / power off. Con

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-28 Thread James Cameron
That's great. I've a Raspberry Pi Zero and XO-1 that I can put together. Might even be room inside or etch some of the back plastic. On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 08:22:43PM -0400, Carrol Riddle wrote: > All: > With the possibilities narrowed by James Cameron, found something that works > repeatedly

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-27 Thread Carrol Riddle
All: With the possibilities narrowed by James Cameron, found something that works repeatedly on my test XO-1. Must test again on a fresh system to find minimum configuration. Changes made to correct board id's, udev rules, connection method prepared from scratch, and unmanaged mac entry in /e

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-26 Thread Carrol Riddle
James, Thank you for answering request for identifying resources and beyond for the specific testing. I had been using udevadm, but not monitor. Your point about possible racing is supported by observations noted in previous post. The pattern of lengthening "no-auto-default" line in NetworkManage

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-25 Thread James Cameron
In my tests just now on OLPC OS 13.2.9 and an XO-4, my USB ethernet adapters always come back after reconnection or reboot with the same MAC address. With or without Network Manager running. So that suggests that for adapters with a physical address ROM or preprogrammed flash, they will appear pr

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-20 Thread Carrol Riddle
The difficulty is that a new connection is started on each boot and starts as "automatic" IPv4 instead of the desired "share with other computers" This results from a randomized MAC address, which appears to be controlled by Network Manager. If the MAC address persists on next boot, then the con

Re: Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

2018-07-13 Thread James Cameron
Interesting. But why do you need to give a MAC address on cmdline.txt on the RPi and in the XO udev script? g_ether should assign an address, and cdc_ether should receive it from USB descriptors. On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:50:44AM -0400, Carrol Riddle wrote: > Soliciting info or pointers to reso

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

2018-04-19 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:26:27PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:17 PM, James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > without deleting the identity > key the activity collaboration feature will fail in strange ways. > > What's the identity key, and how is it deleted

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

2018-04-19 Thread Adam Holt
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:17 PM, James Cameron wrote: > without deleting the identity > key the activity collaboration feature will fail in strange ways. > What's the identity key, and how is it deleted? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org ht

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

2018-04-19 Thread James Cameron
Which things are truly important depend on the circumstances, and only the teacher will know. For instance, without deleting the identity key the activity collaboration feature will fail in strange ways. On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 07:07:09PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:58 PM,

Re: [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

2018-04-19 Thread James Cameron
OLPC OS on the XO is configured for ownership style "one laptop per child". If you always want to delete the child's Sugar name, you might either change login scripts to delete it before starting, or assume a default. It simplifies getting started into a class. e.g. in the OLPC OS 16.04 live bui

Re: sugar-install-bundle fails to behave like Browse when installing .xol bundle

2018-04-19 Thread James Cameron
Your bundle does not meet the requirements. I've downloaded it, and sugar-install-bundle says what is wrong; sugar3.bundle.bundle.MalformedBundleException: All files in the bundle must be inside a single directory whose name ends with '.activity' Sure enough, "unzip -l" shows the directory name

Re: how to change Sugar's timezone+language after XO deployment

2018-04-19 Thread James Cameron
Supported method for configuring timezone is the "timezone" option in the "[base]" section of the OS Builder configuration file. Traceback you show is not fatal, is irrelevant, but is a bug that should be fixed. https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/793 You should not use sudo for this comma

Re: [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

2018-04-15 Thread Adam Holt
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Tony Anderson > wrote: > >> A teacher should never 'rm -rf /home/olpc/.sugar'. If the intent is to >> remove the Journal because of space considerations, 'rm -rf >> /home/olpc/sugar/datastore' is sufficient. Aft

Re: [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

2018-04-15 Thread Adam Holt
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > A teacher should never 'rm -rf /home/olpc/.sugar'. If the intent is to > remove the Journal because of space considerations, 'rm -rf > /home/olpc/sugar/datastore' is sufficient. After this command the XO needs > to be rebooted to create a ne

Re: [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

2018-04-09 Thread Adam Holt
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > As Bryan Berry once said: Don't use .xol. It is not implemented and will > never be supported. > > The XO has very limited storage capacity. Last year, I implemented a > 'roomserver'. Essentially this is a usb stick mounted on one XO in rang

Re: can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

2018-02-19 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:13:51PM -0800, Hal Murray wrote: > > Better would be to use SD cards. > > The original goal was to copy microSD cards. Yes, but original goal unwise; it will damage the microSD card connector and display cable. At this stage of life there is contact oxidation, spring t

Re: can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

2018-02-19 Thread Hal Murray
> Better would be to use SD cards. The original goal was to copy microSD cards. Would it be reasonable to copy microSD to SD, move the SD card to the target XO, and then copy SD to microSD? I expect an OpenFirmware wizard could do it with no effort but I'm not that level of wizard. -- These

Re: can one "dd" XO-1.5 internal microSD cards, to another XO-1.5?

2018-02-19 Thread James Cameron
500, Adam Holt wrote: > James & All, > > Will it work if one extricates an XO-1.5's internal microSD card and then > places it inside another XO-1.5? > > e.g. allowing an Ace Teacher to make her own customized images offline in > Haiti, with the power of a screw

Re: "Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

2018-02-18 Thread James Cameron
As it ages, the microSD card takes longer and longer to erase and write blocks. Eventually the time it takes to erase and write may exceed the few seconds between end of reflashing and the reboot power cycle. In those situations, use fs-update instead of the four button method, and leave the syst

Re: "Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

2018-02-18 Thread Adam Holt
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:17 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Either there is an SD card in the external slot with unsupported partition > table, or there is a fault with the internal microSD card or slot. > I reflashed it a 2nd time and it came back to life (boots properly, for now!) I've seen this

Re: "Can't open boot device" XO laptop firmware/OFW issue?

2018-02-18 Thread James Cameron
Either there is an SD card in the external slot with unsupported partition table, or there is a fault with the internal microSD card or slot. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: The needed patches to run new systemd on 3.3 kernel

2017-12-28 Thread James Cameron
Thanks; indeed useful where kernel is not ported. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:30:22PM -0600, Ethan wrote: > Just thought it would be useful for the XO-1/1.5 -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://l

Re: "Show sample projects" button in Physics activity v32.1 on OLPC OS 13.2.9

2017-12-26 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 07:51:47AM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > Just FYI the Physics activity has a button in the top-right ("Show > sample projects") that momentarily flashes a large black rectangle > onto the screen, but does not proceed. > > This was tested in Physics activity version 32.1 on OLPC

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

2017-09-18 Thread Peter Robinson
devel@lists.laptop.org >>>> >>>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>>> devel-re

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

2017-09-18 Thread Tony Anderson
the person managing the list at devel-ow...@lists.laptop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels (Samuel Greenfeld) 2. Re: Porting XO lapto

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

2017-09-18 Thread Peter Robinson
rson managing the list at >> devel-ow...@lists.laptop.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Porting

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2

2017-09-18 Thread Tony Anderson
devel-ow...@lists.laptop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels (Samuel Greenfeld) 2. Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels (Peter Robinson) 3.

Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels

2017-09-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Samuel Greenfeld writes: > Are there any low-level kernel developers out there interested in porting > XO laptops (both x86 & ARM) to a Linux 4.x kernel or a later 3.x kernel so > they can be used with newer Linux distributions? Or should we presume that > all public XO laptop development (apar

Re: Porting XO laptops to newer Linux kernels

2017-09-17 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > It has been a few years (Fedora 18) since the original XO Laptop series has > had any sort of major Operating System update. > > In order to support newer versions of Systemd, features found in newer > versions of the Linux kernel are requ

Re: Using a official kernel

2017-07-25 Thread James Cameron
Please don't break threads; open the message you want to reply to, and then press reply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:32:22AM -0400, Jhon Diaz wrote: > I used a official kernel 3.10 That doesn't tell me much. We had several 3.10 kernel RPMs, an

Re: How do i test my jffs2 images?

2017-07-25 Thread James Cameron
When you use mkfs.jffs2 you will have an .img file. Firmware uses a CRC file to check the IMG file. Generate a CRC file using the sumtool and crcimg commands, see how we do it in our builder; http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/jffs2_image/image.50.makeimg.sh

Re: Working script to produce a debian chroot for usb

2017-07-23 Thread James Cameron
There's a Debian 8 (Jessie) guide on the Wiki. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Debian_Jessie_on_XO Agreed, Debian 9 (Stretch) is minimal version now, so I cannot recommend Jhon's Debian 6 (Squeeze) method as it is unsupported and has security vulnerabilities. It should be updated to Stretch.

Re: Working script to produce a debian chroot for usb

2017-07-23 Thread Sebastian Silva
Squeeze? :-/ That's Debian 6, which was supported until Feb 2016. That doesn't help much. Also you don't say what model XO this is for. I'd be very interested in a Debian 9 builder that one could install with the game buttons on XO1 and 1.5. There are still many of those in Peru. Regards, Sebas

Re: fyi wiki.laptop.org is currently down

2017-05-26 Thread Adam Holt
Fixed! On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > http://isup.me/wiki.laptop.org says: > > "It's not just you! http://wiki.laptop.org looks down from here." > > PS long wkd coming here in the USA, but it is pingable so hopefully James > Cameron might be able to do something about it lat

Re: My xo-1 isn't multicolor

2017-03-28 Thread Chris Leonard
Here is the list of sku numbers manufactured. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_keeping_unit It is a common term used when identifying inventory and unique manufacturing batches. cjl On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:49

Re: My xo-1 isn't multicolor

2017-03-28 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Jhon Diaz wrote: > The x on the faceplate is orange and so is the o is this normal? its says > sku1 It is not abnormal. I think that this is the collection of possible x and o plastic colors. http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/59/Xo_colors.pdf You just happened t

Re: Help finding xo upgrade kit

2017-03-20 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for your interest. We make upgrade kits in large quantities as special orders for schools and other organisations. We would not normally keep any stock ourselves, because of the warehousing costs and the low demand. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ __

Re: [IAEP] do OLPC browsers support WebRTC microphone audio, input? (Adam Holt)

2017-03-13 Thread Tony Anderson
, send a message with subject or body 'help' to devel-requ...@lists.laptop.org You can reach the person managing the list at devel-ow...@lists.laptop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..." To

Re: [IAEP] do OLPC browsers support WebRTC microphone audio input?

2017-03-12 Thread James Cameron
G'day Jim, I can recommend our OLPC NL3 with OLPC OS 16.04.2 and Firefox-52 or Chrome-56 for WebRTC microphone input. Several other combinations do not work. Here are details with footnotes. - OLPC OS 16.04.2 on NL3 has Sugar Browse-200.1 [A] and Firefox-52 [W], and can install Chrome-56 [W].

Re: [IAEP] do OLPC browsers support WebRTC microphone audio input?

2017-03-12 Thread Adam Holt
Hi Jim, On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Jim Salsman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Sam P. wrote: > > OLPC OS ships with an ancient (2011?) version of WebKitGtk+. I don't > even > > think that the current version supports WebRTC. > > > > Maybe you could run a version of Firefox or

Re: anyone want XOrduino or XO Stick bare boards

2017-03-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I have a bunch of these as well, and even a few sets of components. Like Paul, I put together another one every so often when I need a microcontroller for a project, but I'm happy to share my stash with other good homes. --scott On Mar 10, 2017 7:13 PM, "Paul Fox" wrote: > paul wrote: > > doi

Re: anyone want XOrduino or XO Stick bare boards

2017-03-10 Thread Paul Fox
paul wrote: > doing some cleanup today, i found that i have 10 XO Stick and 14 > XOrduino bare boards that i'm happy to mail to anyone that can make > use of them -- either all at once, or as few as one to a "customer". i should have been more clear, since someone has already asked -- i'm not

Re: [support-gang] support-gang Digest, Vol 109, Issue 15

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
support-gang-requ...@lists.laptop.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > support-gang-ow...@lists.laptop.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of support-gang digest..." > > > Tod

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
I will try all rec's I can, Tuesday after I get home, thanks James for laying out these risks+options. Removing swap is not something I've tried yet, nor do I want to if this slows down kids' XO-1 experiences. Of course if pushed to the wall, and there's no other clean recipe, I suppose it's poss

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread James Cameron
What was wrong with my offer? You're not doing anything wrong; it's just the way it is. The way yum works; both the downloaded .rpm files and the unpacked files have to exist at the same time briefly. yum calculates this and tells you it won't work. Removing the swap file will save you no more

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
ry from 50m to 200m per George Hunt's suggestion, then rebooting ("df -h" confirms 200MB available on /tmp) then I re-ran Terminal -> su -> "yum install gcompris". The error about 30min later is: At least 53MB more space needed on the / filesystem. So I tr

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks James & Nathan. This "model" XO-1 has 256MB of disk available on fresh install of 13.2.8, which never falls below 240MB when trying many different ways to install the "7+ MB" TuxMath. So I'm surely doing something wrong, and will keep working on it this week, until I rediscover something l

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread James Cameron
Yes, the XO-1 JFFS2 NAND filesystem may report less space after the laptop has been used for a bit. Fresh install gets the best space. (Because JFFS2 compresses data when writing, it cannot know how much free space is available, as because it depends on how compressible the data is. So JFFS2 pro

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
On Feb 12, 2017 5:01 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: On Feb 12, 2017 4:08 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: FYI those who want TuxMath on XO-1: run Nathan's wrapper (TuxMath-3.1.xo, 126KB) after installing the following on XO-1... http://download.unleashkids.org/HaitiOS/bundles/tuxmath-3.xo (7.0 MB) (Without N

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
On Feb 12, 2017 4:08 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: FYI those who want TuxMath on XO-1: run Nathan's wrapper (TuxMath-3.1.xo, 126KB) after installing the following on XO-1... http://download.unleashkids.org/HaitiOS/bundles/tuxmath-3.xo (7.0 MB) (Without Nathan's wrapper, error "TuxMath failed to star

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-11 Thread Adam Holt
but Ok. So I tried changing /etc/fstab 's /tmp entry from 50m to 200m per George Hunt's suggestion, then rebooting ("df -h" confirms 200MB available on /tmp) then I re-ran Terminal -> su -> "yum install gcompris". The error about 30min later is: At least 53MB mo

Re: Firefox on XO

2017-01-08 Thread James Cameron
Firefox-26 from Fedora 18 using yum was built by the Fedora project, but Firefox-50 downloaded from Mozilla was built by the Mozilla project. Firefox-26 from Fedora 18 has different build configuration settings to Firefox-50 from Fedora latest. You might compare those settings by looking at the R

Re: Firefox on XO

2017-01-08 Thread T Gillett
A followup on the RE site. Disabling the Shockwave Flash plugin on FF Ubuntu does not affect the operation of the RE web site. So clearly this plugin is not essential to the operation of the site. But disabling it on the FF XO causes the site not to load the interactive picture. On Mon, Jan 9

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.8 is available for your device

2017-01-07 Thread Lionel Laské
Hi Samson, Strange. Did you give authorization to install APK from unknown source in your Android settings [1] ? Because the Sugarizer OS APK is not deployed on Play Store yet - because still in beta -, you need to allow unknown source to install it. Best regards. Lionel. [1] https://ww

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.8 is available for your device

2017-01-07 Thread Lionel Laské
- > *From:* IAEP on behalf of Samson Goddy > > *Sent:* Saturday, January 7, 2017 10:24:33 AM > *To:* Steve Thomas > *Cc:* iaep; OLPC Devel; Sugar-dev Devel; unleashk...@googlegroups.com; > Lionel Laské > *Subject:* Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announcem

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