Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
I am still planning on completing the port of XS to ARM for the Sheevaplug / OpenRD Client. I recently placed an order for a Guruplug Server Plus to add to my collection of Kirkwood SOC based devices. The main delay I have had is waiting for an up to date kernel to become available for boa

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:12:41PM -0800, rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: > This is documented at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON_Linux_Driver No, only the DCON specifics are documented. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Server-devel mailing li

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
This is documented at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON_Linux_Driver rihowa...@gmail.com On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:42 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:00:50PM -0600, Anna wrote: >> I'd appreciate a command to blank the screen. > > Your subject line mentions the backlight, and

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:00:50PM -0600, Anna wrote: > I'd appreciate a command to blank the screen. Your subject line mentions the backlight, and blanking the screen is potentially a different task. I've tested an XO-1 with build 802b1. If you mean the backlight, you can manually control this

Re: [Server-devel] Manual for install XS over Debian

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > What we can do here is help you understand how to do things in Fedora. > It's not particularly hard ;-) Eveything starts at wiki.laptop.org -- follow the link that says "School Server". m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.or

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, John Watlington wrote: > For some reason I find it humorous that we actually have > to rebuild erlang, not ejabberd-xs...   But erlang has already > been rebuilt, as it is standard with Fedora. Good point. Erlang is in the arm repos. The ejabberd-xs rpm (derived

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread John Watlington
On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:40 PM, John Watlington > wrote: >> It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are. > > Not many. There are good bootable images for F11/F12 on ARM. Current > XS is on F9, for which I haven't found one

Re: [Server-devel] Manual for install XS over Debian

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hola Jose! I am the main developer of the XS. I am also a Debianista, but for the XS we use Fedora. 100% Fedora. What we can do here is help you understand how to do things in Fedora. It's not particularly hard ;-) cheers, martin On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:44 PM, José David Calderón Serrano wr

[Server-devel] Manual for install XS over Debian

2010-03-02 Thread José David Calderón Serrano
Somebody tell me that the developers of XS use Debian. I'm interested in a manual of how to do for use a Debian server for do a implementation in this way. In El Salvador want to use for the security, and we want to know if a manual exists for do that in a Debian server. -- Atentamente: José Dav

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Anna
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > martin wrote: > > Good question. Could we run Paul's power daemon configured to dim > > screen completely if there is no VT user actvity? > > yes, that would probably work. there's no X11 requirement in kbdshim > or powerd. but to be clear:

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread John Watlington
It would be interesting to hear what the remaining hurdles are. The Kirkwood ARM processor in the guruplug should be well supported by the current Fedora release --- this may be mostly a matter of moving to an F12 base. My main concern with the guruplug would be the external USB disks (overheati

Re: [Server-devel] Schools Wikipedia

2010-03-02 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > The current Wikipedia activities already work as web servers on > the XS, and require much less space due to the content being > compressed -- for Spanish, 25,000 articles and 3,000 images in > 100MB. David pointed out that this isn't actually documented anywhere. :) Here's th

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > yes, that would probably work. there's no X11 requirement in kbdshim > > or powerd. but to be clear: is the requirement for blanking after > > an idle period? or do you just want a command to blank the screen? > > becaus

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > I was talking to Timothy Falconer who is planning deployments in Haiti > and Patrick Giagnocavo founder of Zill.net our sysadmin and hosting company > about this. > Patrick suggests:  http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4-guruplugs.aspx

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:19 AM, David Leeming wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked before. The Mac Mini was tested by someone here > with a watt meter and ran between 16 and 30 watts max. Very useful for solar > powered locations. Agreed with Peter -- it'll just work, but other boxes may be chea

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Good question. Could we run Paul's power daemon configured to dim screen completely if there is no VT user actvity? cc' ing Paul and devel - m On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Is there any way to turn off the backlight on a XS-on-XO1? Keyboard > control doesn't do it. >

Re: [Server-devel] XS on Mac Mini

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, David Leeming wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked before. The Mac Mini was tested by someone > here with a watt meter and ran between 16 and 30 watts max. Very useful for > solar powered locations. > > > > Are there any issues with installing XS on one? > I don't