New release of F11 for the XO-1 is available for testing - OS13

[Paul Fox]

rui miguel silva seabra wrote:
 > Em 12-04-2010 15:15, Paul Fox escreveu:
 > > rui miguel silva seabra wrote:
 > >  > Em 27-03-2010 12:53, Steven M. Parrish escreveu:
 > >  > > OS13 is now available for testing.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > It is available for download at http://people.sugarlabs.org/~smparrish
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Installation instructions are here  
 > >  > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1#Installation_instructions
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to test these releases.  
 > We 
 > >  > > are getting close to an Final and Official release, and without your 
 > help 
 > >  > > would not have made it to this point.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Nice to see LXDE battery now being able to read OLPC battery :)
 > >  > 
 > >  > Sadly, CPU bound actions seems to affect wifi even worse than before.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Example: it's very hard for me to "yum install anything" since wifi just
 > >  > dies, then after a long while comes back, slowly...
 > > 
 > > are you sure the laptop isn't simply suspending?  i've not heard
 > > of cpu activity causing wifi outages before.
 > 
 > In a later email, same day, about 6h later, I understood it as a problem
 > with the sleep mode, which happened after 15 s of idle.
 > 
 > I postponed sleep to way after blank and now it's usable.

good.  the latest version of powerd contains code to monitor
network usage, and to make a guess as to whether it's okay to
suspend.  on XO-1.5 it seems to make yum work without extra
effort.  i've not been able to test this on XO-1, so if someone
could do that, i'd appreciate it.  (a yum update of olpc-powerd
may work, or, fetch olpc-powerd-18 from http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms.)
the feature depends on the presence of iptables, so if that's not
there it won't work.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org