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
Re: 11.3.0 build 7 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Paul Fox
kevin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> Folks:
>
> Should I assume from the fix list that the tap-to-click which is running on
> all 150 of our XO 1.5's using stable build 11-2 is an unintended
> manufacturing/assembiy 'feature' of the newer trackpad production; i.e., a
> bug, and not a desired feature?
when we introduced the synaptics touchpad (to replace the extremely
troublesome, and decreasingly available ALPS pad on XO-1), we
discovered that it did tap-to-click by default. reaction was somewhat
split -- as you say, some users like it, but feedback from deployments
said that children tended to find it extremely confusing: actions
that they intended to simply cause motion would cause something
altogether different to happen, and it was difficult for them to
understand why. so we went to some effort to disable tap-to-click on
synaptics.
then the AVC touchpads were introduced, as an optional second-source
for the manufacturer to use. OLPC of course approves such changes,
but the user-interface impact slipped past us at the time. the AVC
pads also enable tap-to-click by default, and for uniformity we should
have disabled it by default. but it require a different command
sequence for disabling, and for various reasons the change didn't
happen until today's os7.
so the answer to your question is yes, the presence of tap-to-click on
your laptops is unintended.
> Some of our users were now liking the similarity to their other devices, and
> yes of course others hated it. The general hope among this group was that
> it would become a user selectable behaviour setting through a
> keyobard/trackpad applet in My Settings. Alas, should I be informing the
> deployed users not to get used to it, because it will be gone again in the
> final 11-3? Or, does the AVC adjective limit this fix to a specific
> architecture build?
it's not out of the question that this could be made user-selectable, but
there are no current plans to do so.
paul
>
> Thanks
>
> KG
>
>
>
> > 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
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12 years, 7 months
Re: 11.3.0 build 7 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Daniel Drake
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Should I assume from the fix list that the tap-to-click which is running on
> all 150 of our XO 1.5's using stable build 11-2 is an unintended
> manufacturing/assembiy 'feature' of the newer trackpad production; i.e., a
> bug, and not a desired feature?
Thats right.
Our previous touchpads had tap-to-click on for a long time and it was
the cause of a lot of disruption and confusion in the field. Search
the archives for more info.
> Some of our users were now liking the similarity to their other devices, and
> yes of course others hated it. The general hope among this group was that
> it would become a user selectable behaviour setting through a
> keyobard/trackpad applet in My Settings. Alas, should I be informing the
> deployed users not to get used to it, because it will be gone again in the
> final 11-3? Or, does the AVC adjective limit this fix to a specific
> architecture build?
In this build you can enable tap to click by modifying
/etc/modprobe.d/olpc-psmouse.conf.
This is the same for older laptops which have synaptics touchpads.
In future builds the methodology needed to make this customisation may
change, but we'll do our best to leave the option in some accessible
place, and potentially in the UI later on.
Daniel
12 years, 7 months
Re: [Techteam] 11.3.0 build 6 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Sameer Verma
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma(a)sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> Reflashed a 1.75B1 with os6 It boots up with text messages scrolling, but
>> when it gets to X with the mouse pointer, it doesn't show me the name
>> screen. Mouse isn't frozen, but the blank white screen just sits there.
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> Everyone it seems. Workaround at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11257
Workaround works, but the machine freezes shortly there after in Browse.
Sameer
>
> It does make me nervous about our build machinery... the last 2 OS
> builds had some form of corruption.
>
>
>
> m
> --
> martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
> - ask interesting questions
> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>
>
>
12 years, 7 months
11.3.0 build 6 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Peter Robinson
The "cows with water pistols, chickens in choppers" release.
We're into Activity freeze so no major changes there
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os6/
Bugz fixed:
#11136 XO-1.75 os36 USB device removal may cause hangs and stops USB working
#11255 os5, ARM: telepathy-salut package is out of sync
#10868 Memorize activity has old toolbar
#11113 Synchronize 1.75 kernel module list with other XO models
#11144 XO-1.75 ipv6 missing
#11167 XO-1.75 os36 USB modem does not appear in frame
#11177 XO-1.75 powerd does not see touchscreen as activity
#11191 iptables missing from kernel
#11209 XO-1.75 does not host serial adapter, no data flow
#11211 XO-1.75 B1 - synaptics touchpad not detected / does not disable
tap-to-click
#11234 use mtd mounts instead of /dev/mtdblock* on XO-1
#11242 xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.fc14 fork needed
#11248 Add Portfolio activity to 11.3.0
#11253 runin-camera: switch to Xv
#11263 Add device-tree support to olpc-netutils
#10362 Create Game: Palette of "equal pairs" option does not always go away
Changes and notes from os5:
kernel:
- audio input (audio still a WIP)
- usb fix
- tap-to-click fix on synaptics
- sync driver support w x86, this adds many USB-Ether, USB2VGA,
USB-WLAN, USB-CDROM drivers...
- 1.75 can now drive our serial adapter
Activity changes:
-Memorize-36
+Memorize-38
+Portfolio-11
12 years, 7 months
Re: ARM f14 secondary mirror... down?
by Peter Robinson
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org> wrote:
> On my test XO-1.75 machines, running OS 5, yum bails out complaining
> about not finding repomd.xml for the fedora and update repos.
>
> I've disabled mirrorlist, and tried with only baseurl, no difference.
> yum's --debug 10 doesn't give you much info on what mirrors URLs it's
> hitting so it's a bit hard to trac WTH is actually happening.
>
> The OLPC repos work fine OTOH :-)
fedora secondary mirroring is experiencing a few issues due to the
kernel.org outages, baseurl should be fine but I've seen issues with
that when there was a compose happening and the repo is in flux.
Peter
12 years, 7 months
Re: 11.3.0 build 5 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 06:08 -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd(a)laptop.org> wrote:
> > http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os5/
>
>
> Thanks Peter.
>
> It would be neat if someone can test the olpc-update from
> build 4
> (*not* any previous one) to this one, with
>
> sudo olpc-update 11.3.0_xo1.75-5
>
> as documented:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.3.0
>
>
> Created USB stick with os4.zd4
> Booted 1.75 to OFW
> Performed fs-update u:\os4.zd4
> Performed reboot
> Firmware was updated to Q4B09 on boot
> Performed shutdown
> Removed USB stick
> Powered on and started to sugar (still not pretty boot) :-)
> Noted that there is no power savings applet in the control panel
> settings
> joined WPA2 network
> started Terminal
> logged in as root (su -)
> Performed sudo olpc-update 11.3.0_xo1.75-5 (start time 05:36)
> Message appears: "Downloading contents of build 11.3.0_xo1.75-5."
> Message appears:"Updating to version hash
> 85d9a6a379a1cc73a2519bdfd9605347"
> Message appears:"Trying irsync_pristine update from
> rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-11.3.0_xo1.75-5
> Message appears:"- Fetching contents."
> Message appears"- Performing incremental rsync." (noted that screen
> dims a bit after about every 2 mins in this process, but that touching
> the touchpad brought it back to full brightness)
> Message appears:"- Cleaning up (trac #5051)"
> Message appears:"Verifying update."
> Message appears:"Installing update
> in /versions/{pristine,run}/85d9a6a379a1cc73a2519bdfd9605347
> Message appears::Cleaning up..."
> Message appears:"Deleting old pristine version 4"
> Message appears: "Deleting old contents for version 4"
> Message appears:""Update succeeded!"
> Message appears:"Restart your system to apply the update"
> (FYI The end time is now 05:49)
> Performed reboot
> seemed to start pretty boot but went quickly to text, message appeared
> about purging previous versions with slight delay - went by too fast
> for me to catch :-)
> About my computer shows Build 5 customized, Sugar 0.93.4 - reconnected
> auto to the WPA2 network
That is as far as I got this morning, looks good. sleep now.
Jerry
12 years, 7 months
11.3.0 build 5 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1
by Peter Robinson
The "Sorry, i can't hear you can you turn it up to 11?" release.
We're into Activity freeze so not minor changes. I'll add the OS4
release notes to this as well as clearly I've missed that ball.....
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os5/
Bugz fixed:
#11190 Enable Sugar debugging by default on 1.75 builds
#11146 automatic firmware update triggered by installed operating system build
#10994 rpmbuild erroneously attempts to build with "nommu"
#11180 View keys and the Journal and Frame key stops working
#11131 XO-1.75 os36 cannot automount a USB HDD with NTFS
#11172 "Package is not signed" <-- Still not signed, errors should be gone
#11185 boot stalls with SD card inserted
Changes and notes from os4:
XO 1.75:
OS5
- Improvements in the audio driver (see below)
- xulrunner/firefox 3.6.20
OS4
- Pretty boot.... and oh its soooo perty :)
- Versioned file systems
- Accelerated X driver
- OFW auto firmware upgrades
- likely numerous other mainline
Activity changes:
-Browse-125
+Browse-126
OS 4 changes to OS42:
-Distance-27
+Distance-28
-Ruler-11
+Ruler-12
+Scratch-19
-Wikipedia-27
-WikipediaEN-27
+Wikipedia-28
+WikipediaEN-28
+Words-11
12 years, 7 months
New F14-arm build os42 - So long and Thanks for all the Fish
by Peter Robinson
The So long and Thanks for all the Fish release
This release should be fairly complete for Activity developers and
testers. All the remaining core libraries are now in place, in most
case now there's only minor revisions between ARM and x86 and that gap
is closing fairly fast. With most of the remaining bits now in place
the next release will be based on a merged 11.3 in alignment with x86.
Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os42/
Changes and notes from OS41:
- pywebkitgtk
- audacity-1.3.13-0.4.beta.fc14
- bootfw-q4b09
- olpc-utils-1.3.1-1.fc14
In kernel land:
No changes
Activity version changes:
-Browse-123
+Browse-125
-Chat-70
+Chat-71
+Chat-%(activity_version)s
-Distance-25
+Distance-27
-FotoToon-8
+FotoToon-9
-HelloWorld-2
+HelloWorld-3
-Maze-11
+Maze-12
-Speak-30
+Speak-31
+Speak-%(activity_version)s
-Terminal-33
+Terminal-34
-Wikipedia-26
-WikipediaEN-26
+Wikipedia-27
+WikipediaEN-27
-Write-75
+Write-76
12 years, 7 months
