Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21
by Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 08:10 +0530, Anish Mangal wrote:
> Its interesting. Uy dropped it. Py loves it. One change that does need
> to happen is replace the 'Cry [ :'( ]' icon with a 'Tired' one [ :'S ]
> . I won't say anymore than this here, there have been LONG *excited*
> discussions on the merit and design of this :-)
Changes that affect the user experience are controversial by their
nature. Ideally, one would like to decide based on objective data, but
usability studies have a tendency to be costly and inconclusive.
--
_ // Bernie Innocenti
\X/ http://codewiz.org
12 years, 4 months
Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21
by Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 20 December 2011 05:34, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org> wrote:
>>> Ctrl+Alt+Erase doesn't work on XO-1.5s.
>>
>> You are going to build your own OS image, right? We can give you a
>> quick recipe to re-enable it.
>
> Here you go. Can be used to monumentally shoot yourself in the foot,
> so pull trigger with care:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder/Edit_a_config_file
>
> { I know one day Reuben will want to kill me for having published this
> recipe in the wiki. And he'll be justified. At least we live in
> different cities. }
Cool - thanks.
>>> This feature is used by teachers in the field, and by us in testing.
>>> Its removal is a regression for us.
>>
>> Can you explain the use by teachers in the field? Use during testing
>> and debugging is fine, but we all work for our end users :-)
>
> I am still very interested in your teacher use case here...
It's a recognition that no software is bug-free, and that users
(especially children) will always find a way to make a system
difficult to use. For example, children often load activities without
closing previous ones. We can educate them to not do this, but it
still happens on occasion.
The 'solution' is to quickly restart Sugar with a Ctrl+Alt+Erase. It
solves most problems, and it's faster than rebooting.
Sridhar
Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia
12 years, 4 months
11.3.0 build 7 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Peter Robinson
The "Come as you are? Oh Nevermind" release.
We're into Activity freeze so no major changes.
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os7/
Bugz fixed:
Tap-to-click on AVC touchpads disabled
XO-1.75 RenderAccel disabled for increased graphics stability
#11275 NORM 11.3.0: Add Browse 127 to the build
#11078 NORM 11.3.0: minicom, lockdev and screen don't work after
reboot due to rwtab tmpfs mounts
#11097 Bump firefox and xulrunner to .20 versions (or the latest
security update) (3.6.22)
#11275 Add Browse 127 to the build
#11214: migrate /boot/olpc.fth out of bootfw and into olpc-os-builder
Changes and notes from os6:
kernel:
- AVC hack to disable tap to click
Activity changes:
-Browse-126
+Browse-127
12 years, 4 months
Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21
by James Cameron
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:40:55AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Once they learn that a particular key combination "finishes" runin
> earlier, accidents can happen with surprising frequency.
How is the power button being prevented?
If the problem is that an early termination is indistinguishable from a
test success, why not change runin accordingly? I'm happy to do that if
needed.
--
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
12 years, 4 months
12.1.0 devel build 2 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Peter Robinson
The "two heads are better than one" release.
This is the first build on our way to what will ultimately become the
12.1.0 release. Its based on rawhide and the testing I did on my
XO-1.5 provides all basic working functionality including Sugar,
GNOME, networking, camera etc. gnome-shell with associated bits to
test running it using SW rendering isn't included in this release but
I'll work to get this in place for the next build.
Some of the details of this release are:
- Fedora rawhide (it will become Fedora 17)
- Sugar 0.95.2
- gnome 3.3.2
- NetworkManager 0.9.2
- evince 3.3.2 with upstreamed go-i bindings for Read
- kernel 3.1.1
- OFW q3b23 for XO 1.5
- OFW q2f05 for XO 1
- Xorg Xserver 1.12 RC1
Known issues:
- no pretty boot (hold down the Check key to see output)
- Browse doesn't work
- Read doesn't work
- Help doesn't work
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/12.1.0/os2/
12 years, 4 months
