On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > Hello, > > a coworker got an old XO-1 and asked me to refurbish it for his kids. So > I asked him to test OLPC-OS 12.1.0 build 11 and report any problems he > ran into. New users can offer a fresh perspective on things that we give > for granted. > > Some of the items below could be turned into trac tickets or wishlist > items (provide a way to kill activities, provide a way to wipe the user > profile, make more activities work in tablet mode...). If you need more > information from the reporter, feel free to contact him directly at > diegol...@google.com.
Ouch. Well, we knew that 12.1 was not going to be recommended for deployments :) You may want to help Diego load something more stable now that this experiment has been conducted. regards. -walter > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Diego Puppin <diegol...@google.com> > To: Bernie Innocenti <code...@google.com> > Subject: primo bug report > Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:24:02 -0400 > > My older kid (7yr) and I had a lot of fun last with the OLPC. We > played maze, we took pictures and more. > The younger kid (15mo) seemed confused by the lack of a touch screen :-) > > - I can't find a way to connect to a network with hidden SSID. I tried > to add my network using Gnome, but I couldn't find a "Connect" button > there. Back to Sugar, the hidden network is still hidden. > > - The audio/video system seems unreliable. "Record" takes a long time > to start. When I try to record (audio or video) the success rate is > around 30% - the activity gets stuck. I can leave the activity but it > keeps running in the background (green leds for camera and mike still > on). How can I kill the activity entirely? > > - I found a recording in the Journal, but the Play activity failed > with something as "resource busy". > > - While playing maze, with some gesture I changed the borders from the > activity-specific border/menus to a different view. The only way out > was the "square" button on top right. What's the gesture in and out of > the activity-specific border/menus? > > - Only maze and collapse seem to work in game mode (rotated screen, > use of the joypad). The other activities all requires a mouse. That's > too bad. > > - Is there a way to upload an Epub and use the computer as an > e-reader? Is there a mode where the backlight is off (I heard rumors > like that)? > > - Reliability seems an issue. For a reason or another, I ended up > rebooting every few minutes when I was switching among apps. When I > stuck to play maze, everything was smooth and my kid did a million > runs through the labyrinth. Just out of curiosity, did you install a > beta build, or is it supposed to be stable? I don't mind "dogfooding", > but I would be worried if this is the build going out to the public. > > - Is there a way to wipe it and restore to factory? You mentioned > something like that. > > Diego > > -- > _ // Bernie Innocenti > \X/ http://codewiz.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel