Re: New keyboard layouts

2010-04-28 Thread Richard A. Smith
on the screen. So if it didn't work it wasn't the fault of the ALPS controller or the EC. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Q3a36c.rom

2010-04-29 Thread Richard A. Smith
, complicating use of antitheft magic and staining the carpet. It does/will. My 36c has that fix in it. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-04 Thread Richard A. Smith
. = -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Idle-suspend a little too intrusive to user experience?

2010-05-10 Thread Richard A. Smith
response packets are not causing a WOL. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: #10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

2010-05-15 Thread Richard A. Smith
MJPEG (roughly /10) is still pushing it. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
again and verify that the values changed. If they did and its still broke then w will have to look at other things. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: battery: XO1 vs CL1

2010-05-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
where as we like to call it XO. The newer Li shipping regulations required the battery to have specific markings on it for Wh capacity. I suspect the change happened in response to them. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
hurt except that your SOC will be out of whack for a while. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Proposed communication protocol between Host and EC for 1.75

2010-05-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
-- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed communication protocol between Host and EC for 1.75

2010-05-25 Thread Richard A. Smith
too. If you become un-synced how do you resync? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC/Marvell Press Release

2010-05-28 Thread Richard A. Smith
understanding of these options would be useful in defining our future roadmaps. If you port to Qt then for just a a little more effort you get android as well as there's a Qt-on-android in progress. http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/ -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per

Re: schematic for olpc

2010-06-08 Thread Richard A. Smith
Perhaps what I'm thinking about was in email... I'll have to dig. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 06/14/2010 02:46 PM, Paul Fox wrote: a lot of work was done for ubuntu on XO-1. much of that work might be applicable as well. i don't have a link handy, i'm afraid. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_Lucid_on_OLPC_XO? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: SD / Filesystem write lags -- test?

2010-06-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
(for 1 G memory) / 4 GB (for 512 M memory). The .zd file is roughly half the size of the populated portion of the OS image, so we would be able to NANDblast up to about 16 G of OS image. I recommend that we set the filesystem block size to 16 KiB. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One

Re: [Testing] F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate 4- Hardware issue?

2010-07-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 07/01/2010 09:26 PM, James Cameron wrote: On hard reboot (with power button for 5sec) ... I hope you didn't do this during a firmware reflashing. That would be bad. Power button is disabled during a reflash. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Suspend: RTC wakeup, sleep

2010-07-28 Thread Richard A. Smith
if the system really wakes up and then if not then re-issue the wakeup. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Suspend: RTC wakeup, sleep

2010-07-29 Thread Richard A. Smith
, use the new POSIX calls. gettimeofday() and friends will be subject to the 1 second RTC accuracy sync problem. [1] we have some test code that stops the EC timers too. (only watchdog still runs) There are still some subtle issues to be sorted out though. -- Richard A. Smith rich

Re: Suspend: RTC wakeup, sleep

2010-08-02 Thread Richard A. Smith
have one. Until we get one or until someone in the community works on it this will just be ideas. We have also veered off thread...The original questions/responses were on what happens _now_, not what we should be doing. I'd like to understand the existing issues first. -- Richard A. Smith

Re: MicroSD Card performance variance on XO-1.5

2010-08-06 Thread Richard A. Smith
raw RGB video? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
into RF density issues even when using APs. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 08/24/2010 11:39 AM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote: On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: On 08/24/2010 10:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: Consider the benefits of using open source software versus our closed source firmware and partnering with communities like Freifunk whose

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
. Its a very important feature of mesh but its just not the feature we need on the ground ATM. However, if the same mesh smartness also gets density without using AP's then that's a big win. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 08/24/2010 11:45 AM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote: On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: On 08/24/2010 10:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: Consider the benefits of using open source software versus our closed source firmware and partnering with communities like Freifunk whose

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
have to produce a SDIO module for it first. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
to see definitive numbers not just speculation. Like you said. There are AP's that will do all the fancy Tx power management without any mesh-routing. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
without an attenuator. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Mesh Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 08/24/2010 01:43 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: They are only able to achieve this with 30dB attenuators on the signal. We would want to see what one can do with stock cards without an attenuator. Can we adaptively get the signal down

Re: WiFi vs Suspend

2010-08-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
pin 36. Its an edge trigger signal and the WLAN should pulse it over and over if it doesn't see communication from the host. Make sure that you check your kernel logs and see if the EC wakeup mask is not set to mask the WLAN wakeup. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 3

2010-08-25 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 08/25/2010 11:59 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: There are other directory we can hide /home/olpc/power-logs. If you want this hidden then you have to hide it yourself. Its where it is and visible intentionally. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: #10363 NORM 10.1.3: Auto-Suspend gets in the way when sharing over Salut

2010-09-16 Thread Richard A. Smith
. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing the OLPC OS 10.1.2 final release!

2010-09-21 Thread Richard A. Smith
/usr/sbin/powerd and change the LOGFILE= to somewhere disk based. Note: that the path to the logfile must exist. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: Announcing OFW Q3A58

2010-09-21 Thread Richard A. Smith
with the 1.5. I've seen this happen on other firmware upgrades. I believe its related to bug #10073. If you happen to find a way to reproduce it on demand then we would like to hear about it but otherwise its known. Thanks for the report though. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One

Re: Synaptics driver on XO-1.5 hw?

2010-11-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
to watch the clock line on the touchpad interface and see how long its held low. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1.5 audio input DC mode

2010-11-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
questions with good detailed descriptions on how to duplicate the problems you are having I'll see that it makes it to conexant for testing and feedback and make sure they have the proper hardware to test it on. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: SD card unpartitioned space -- used for swap?

2010-11-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
hard power offs little as possible. Suspend/resume also should be disabled. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: SD card unpartitioned space -- used for swap?

2010-11-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 11/24/2010 09:53 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: or so from the last write. I recommend you do hard power offs little as possible. Suspend/resume also should be disabled. My statement is not 100% accurate. The external SD card can remain powered in suspend so you don't have to disable sus/res

Re: [PATCH 1/3] olpc-battery: add support for CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN

2010-12-10 Thread Richard A. Smith
think it makes sense to hardcode them until such time as I have calibration in the EC code and then the kernel can ask the EC (or OFW via DT for them) [1] I have no idea where those values came from. I'm changing them in 1.75 to be more sane. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop

Announcing XO EC-1.75

2011-01-17 Thread Richard A. Smith
(Keil) to build a mostly free (except for PS/2) EC for 1.75, but we're near to replacing the non-free compiler and the non-free PS/2 code at the same time. As always, we welcome your help! -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Voltage from the rtc battery

2011-02-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 02/23/2011 09:27 AM, Ismael Schinca wrote: Hi everyone. I would like to know if there's any way to check from the openfirmware or os prompt the voltage from the rtc battery. Thank you! Nope. You have to use a voltmeter. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Initial tests of Activities, as shipped, on a New XO-1.5

2011-03-03 Thread Richard A. Smith
on battery and have power management enabled then I'm also interested in your power-logs. Both XO-1 and XO 1.5 Thanks. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Discovering the XOs local timezone in a bash script

2011-03-12 Thread Richard A. Smith
somewhere else. Can someone give me a quick rundown of how we are managing timezones so I know what to look at to determine this? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Discovering the XOs local timezone in a bash script

2011-03-12 Thread Richard A. Smith
found 61 of them that had that value set to something other than GMT or UTC. Granted that most of those files where generated by me and I didn't know about that control but I also have a lot of logs from users. Thanks for the info. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: 'menu' in OFW on an XO-1

2011-03-13 Thread Richard A. Smith
along for the ride when we started building newer XO-1 firmwares. We should disable that command for XO-1. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Discovering the XOs local timezone in a bash script

2011-03-13 Thread Richard A. Smith
sugar's time zone is isolated from the rest of the system as described here. Thanks for clearing that up. I've checked on build 860 and `date` reports the timezone selected via the control panel. So that gives me what I need. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: 'menu' in OFW on an XO-1

2011-03-13 Thread Richard A. Smith
its not even a regression. :) Few people knew it existed so it never got tried. Now that menu is a regular part of a tech users vocab we should fix it or disable it on the next XO-1 firmware release. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Discovering the XOs local timezone in a bash script

2011-03-13 Thread Richard A. Smith
terminal anyway but I'll have to make sure I tell them that. Thanks. Its unfortunate for the powerd logs but not a showstopper. The panel-pwr script doesn't use powerd because we fight over the rtc for wakeups. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-13 Thread Richard A. Smith
to make a reasonable estimate of data write lifetime we would be happy to start using them. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-14 Thread Richard A. Smith
. Is there any sledgehammer process available to users without a super secret tool ? Wasn't just secret to users. They would not give us the info on how to do it either. It was vendor specific so not really worth the effort of trying to reverse engineer. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org

Re: XO power management

2011-03-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
the critical level sooner. Whats the serial number of your battery? You may also want to run a olpc-pwr-log run with that battery so you can determine what the actual capacity of the battery is. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: XO power management

2011-03-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 03/24/2011 09:15 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: Whats the serial number of your battery? You may also want to run a olpc-pwr-log run with that battery so you can determine what the actual capacity of the battery is. Even better you are in a position to help me figure out how best to deal

Re: XO power management

2011-03-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
. Please do a charge/discharge cycle while running olpc-pwr-log. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO power management

2011-03-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
? If so then you can use it to quickly read the battery serial number. I find them very useful when dealing with a large number of batteries. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: XO power management

2011-03-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
and you can also see by looking at the file. It's a bash script. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO power management

2011-03-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO power management

2011-03-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 03/24/2011 10:31 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: If you run _exactly_ the same test under the same conditions. Same temperature, same test duration, same XO, then it might be possible to compare the current voltage, Battery temperature will also be a concern. If you test the discharge

Re: XO power management

2011-04-04 Thread Richard A. Smith
the EEPROM. However, I don't have any idea how accurate it is. Its legacy code that I've never had a reason to examine closely. I'll examine the code that does that in detail and then add decoding of the values to my processing script next so I can take a look at the numbers. -- Richard

Re: New XO 1.5 firmware with MPPT. Please test!

2011-04-04 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 04/04/2011 06:05 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: Attached to this email is q3a62a.rom. This is a pre-release of new XO 1.5 firmware with MPPT code enabled. It is also available at: Sorry about the attachment. I was sending copies of this to all the deployments to test and didn't think about

Re: XO power management

2011-04-05 Thread Richard A. Smith
. Even if you plan to recycle the 008 batteries please continue to include them in the your tests. That way I can build up a profile of what the _actual_ capacity loss over time vs my estimates. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: New XO 1.5 firmware with MPPT. Please test!

2011-04-05 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 04/04/2011 06:22 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: There is one known problem. On your very first flash you might lose the keyboard/mouse. You can prevent this by doing a full power cycle of the EC. ie no ext power and no battery. New version: http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q3a62b.rom This one

Re: New XO 1.5 firmware with MPPT. Please test!

2011-04-07 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 04/05/2011 12:47 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: Latest version. http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q3a62e.rom This one really fixes the keyboard problem. This is what I hope to be the final test release. In addition to the normal does this work for you. I need one specific test. Please flash

Re: New XO 1.5 firmware with MPPT. Please test!

2011-04-07 Thread Richard A. Smith
panel-pwr log? That would be useful info for me. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New XO 1.5 firmware with MPPT. Please test!

2011-04-08 Thread Richard A. Smith
that some of them trip the PV check and so it starts charging slowly. This quick check feature is a new addition and I'm still fine tuning the values. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: XO power management

2011-04-20 Thread Richard A. Smith
. They don't make sense. After you send the rest of the .csv files I'll summarize the results. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO won`t suspend sometimes

2011-04-27 Thread Richard A. Smith
important to use pm-suspend because I use the pm-utils hooks to run some scripts after resume. What sort of power source do you have? The XO battery won't last that long in suspend. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Testers wanted, fast fs-update of os860 (10.1.3)

2011-04-28 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 04/28/2011 04:18 AM, James Cameron wrote: 2 Machines both: Q3B02 1.5 C4 prototype #1 Mfg ID: 0x03 OEM ID: SD Name: SU04G Rev: 8.0 Date 2009-9 regular: 00:11:00 sparse: 00:06:19 #2 Mfg ID: 0x1d OEM ID: AD Name SD Rev 1.0 Date 2010-4 regular: 00:09:37 sparse: 00:06:00 -- Richard

Re: Installing powerd on earlier F11 builds

2011-05-25 Thread Richard A. Smith
with those racks, i suspect the effects won't be as severe as with vertical stacking. Its the other way around. The original problem was reported by people using the racks. We just theorized that people who stack them would also have a similar problem. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One

Re: Installing powerd on earlier F11 builds

2011-05-25 Thread Richard A. Smith
the laptops in the middle were very hot. So hot I almost could not handle them. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: xo-1.75 support in olpc-utils

2011-06-27 Thread Richard A. Smith
if a 1.75 is detected. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: *.laptop.org issues

2011-07-07 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 07/07/2011 03:30 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Doesn't fix the download.laptop.org problem though: bert$ traceroute download.laptop.org traceroute to pedal.laptop.org (18.85.2.148), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets Things have not settled yet .148 is still the problem IP. -- Richard A. Smith

Re: Removing linux-firmware from the build

2011-07-31 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 07/29/2011 01:49 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: I don't have mine handy but I have a OLPC serial adapater What leads you to believe that the OLPC serial adapter needs firmware downloaded? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Light sensor on XO-1.75

2011-08-30 Thread Richard A. Smith
solution. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: risk factor - ext4 and disk corruption

2011-09-08 Thread Richard A. Smith
/ticket/11220/fstorture.sh which uses sysrq to tell the kernel to do a hard reboot. Happy to replace that with a direct EC command issued via debugfs if we have one. I think you missed my response on IRC. echo 4b:0 /sys/kernel/debug/olpc-ec/generic Will tell the EC to power cycle. -- Richard

Re: How to disabled xo security without developers key

2011-09-17 Thread Richard A. Smith
or use a signed firmware build. And if you don't like it.. You can use the Serial Port on the XO... No? No you can't. The firmware lockout happens before you get an ok prompt on the serial port. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

New q2f series XO-1 firmware needs testing

2011-10-20 Thread Richard A. Smith
it gets put in an official release. http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q2f04rc.rom Thanks. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: EC corruption by q2f04rc firmware

2011-10-25 Thread Richard A. Smith
at this when I get back. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: EC corruption by q2f04rc firmware

2011-10-25 Thread Richard A. Smith
are getting corruption then its a not a matter of 'if' but 'when' until you hit the bits that will break your battery. You can dump the battery EEPROM with 'bat-dump-banks' and take a look. You should not see a long series of 0xff or 0x00 in the data. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One

Re: [BULK] Re: harvesting energy

2011-10-27 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 10/27/2011 11:45 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: Is the XO running or powered off? Is it for a XO-1.5 or XO-1.5? Oops. XO-1 or XO-1.5 -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: EC corruption by q2f04rc firmware

2011-10-31 Thread Richard A. Smith
. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC-AU] XO-1.75 relative performance

2011-11-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
in different batteries. The 1.75 can consistently survive battery removal under moderate solar conditions when connected to the OLPC 10W solar panel. [1] Excluding connecting an external USB device drawing full power which would be an extra 5W. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One

New XO-1 testing firmware q2f04rd

2011-11-03 Thread Richard A. Smith
Thanks to some great work by Paul Fox the previous problems with q2f04rc should now be fixed. Give this new version a try and see if it holds up: http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q2f04rd.rom Thanks. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: New XO-1 testing firmware q2f04rd [Devel Digest, Vol 69, Issue 7]

2011-11-06 Thread Richard A. Smith
on this pre-release I think its time to spin a new XO-1 release and then hand it off to .uy for them to put it through the ringer before they roll it out. Thanks to all the intrepid beta-testers. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Battery - small irritation

2011-11-27 Thread Richard A. Smith
. Its in uAh. The range I use for good is 280-320 uAh. If your olpc-pwr-log is old enough that it doesn't have a net ACR column then you can compute the value by subtracting the Full ACR value in 6th column on the 1st line by the value in the last line in the log file. -- Richard

Re: XO 1.75 battery life?

2011-12-02 Thread Richard A. Smith
provide up to 5W to an external device. If you were to also draw 5W from USB then the draw would be 10W and your battery life will be much less. In between 1 and 1.5h. (The harder you draw a battery the less capacity it can provide so its not a straight /2) -- Richard A. Smith rich

Re: XO-1.75 power testing

2011-12-05 Thread Richard A. Smith
in the battery, something I found curious. Was this on purpose or a glitch? On purpose. Default powerd config will wake up and turn off the machine if its been in-suspend for 4 hours. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: [Sugar-devel] Happy Holidays fruitful break

2011-12-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 12/24/2011 03:30 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: Sugar leads to Rum, leads to power, leads to use of Sugar. Richard needs to get to work on this one! *gulp* I'm working on it right now. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-08 Thread Richard A. Smith
bittorrent server that you could work with via ssh and then get it working. I'm only a casual bittorrent user. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: XO-3 Announcement?

2012-01-10 Thread Richard A. Smith
. Here's a video Chris Ball and I shot Jan 9, 2012 showing a 1.75 completely powered by our 10W thin-film PV panel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITHNbOrPQyM Hope this info helps, -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature

2012-01-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
damage. Unless you are trying hardware modifications I doubt you will do anything worse than these guys. http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2389.0 What exact are you going to try and push? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
.temp-rise That should run the thermal test and print a pass fail message. It also returns back a true or false on the stack for if the test passes or fails. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/23/2012 12:23 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: Thanks, looking into that part of OFW code. .temp-rise returns a ? from the OK prompt. Ah... I see its part of the /switches node . Try this: ok select /switches ok .temp-rise -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
test not measuring the difference in temperature between the 2 modes of operation? No. The heat spreader test runs the cpu in a tight loop and watches the rate of change in cpu temp. If it rises to quickly then the heat spreader isn't making good contact. -- Richard A. Smith rich

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/23/2012 12:41 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: On 01/23/2012 12:23 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: Thanks, looking into that part of OFW code. .temp-rise returns a ? from the OK prompt. Ah... I see its part of the /switches node . Try this: oops.. forgot to get back out of that device node

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
number of the failed motherboards or is that not lost? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
shutdown will be a hang since the clock to the CPU is stopped. The thermal shutdown is not configurable and you can't bypass it. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
on a desktop machine, edit the file and then re-compress it. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
in the classroom and send them to me and we can take a look at what sort of profile you have. What build are you basing your images off of? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-01 Thread Richard A. Smith
short term fix to be enabled on a per-deployment basis but if this becomes the default then I worry all our work on making aggressive suspend/resume work will begin to fade away because its never active. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-04 Thread Richard A. Smith
run a base line test then we can estimate what your life would be if for say you added 20% of idle suspend on top of that. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

2012-02-04 Thread Richard A. Smith
time to wait for a 'perfect' solution. I wasn't suggesting that we don't come up with a workaround for your current problem. I was commenting that adding a hook into sugars API that globally disables suspend while collaboration is active is headed in the wrong direction. -- Richard A. Smith

Re: XO-1.75 - Kernel news

2012-03-12 Thread Richard A. Smith
. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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