Introduction

[Philippe Clérié]

Hello,

I've been asked to help some people who are involved with the OLPC 
project in Haiti. I've been following the OLPC since Nicolas Negroponte 
announced it way back when plus I've been working with Linux for 
several years now. So it seems I know a little bit more and I may be 
useful.

I downloaded one the latest images (build 2180 I think) to run on 
QEMU/KVM. On QEMU it stops with the following message:

This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
3dnow

KVM does not seem to work at all. I have not been able to find much on 
these problems. I was hoping someone could shed some light.

My computer is running Kubuntu Hardy by the way. :-)

I suppose I'll have to switch to Fedora, but I don't have the bandwidth 
to download a DVD.

Regards
Philippe

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The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
<Anonymous>

[Rahul Sundaram]

Philippe Clérié wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been asked to help some people who are involved with the OLPC 
> project in Haiti. I've been following the OLPC since Nicolas Negroponte 
> announced it way back when plus I've been working with Linux for 
> several years now. So it seems I know a little bit more and I may be 
> useful.

Welcome.
> I suppose I'll have to switch to Fedora, but I don't have the bandwidth 
> to download a DVD.

Fedora has installable live cd's too FYI.

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

Along with free media

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia

Rahul

[Martin Dengler]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:41:53AM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been asked to help some people who are involved with the OLPC 
> project in Haiti.

[...]
> My computer is running Kubuntu Hardy by the way. :-)
>
> I suppose I'll have to switch to Fedora, but I don't have the bandwidth 
> to download a DVD.

I like Fedora but I believe there are a number of people using
Ubuntu's Sugar packages:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu

I'm no expert on how compatible the Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) distribution's
packages mentioned on that page are likely to be with what you've got
already, unfortunately.  But I bet you might get some better advice on
irc.freenode.net #sugar .
> Regards
> Philippe

Martin

[Bryan Kearney]

Philippe Clérié wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been asked to help some people who are involved with the OLPC 
> project in Haiti. I've been following the OLPC since Nicolas Negroponte 
> announced it way back when plus I've been working with Linux for 
> several years now. So it seems I know a little bit more and I may be 
> useful.
>
> I downloaded one the latest images (build 2180 I think) to run on 
> QEMU/KVM. On QEMU it stops with the following message:
>
> This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
> 3dnow
>
> KVM does not seem to work at all. I have not been able to find much on 
> these problems. I was hoping someone could shed some light.
>
> My computer is running Kubuntu Hardy by the way. :-)
>
> I suppose I'll have to switch to Fedora, but I don't have the bandwidth 
> to download a DVD.
>
> Regards
> Philippe

Look like other folks have hit this [1]. If you are willing to try 
another download, can you see if [2] works for you?

-- bk

[1] 
http://n2.nabble.com/qemu-on-Kubuntu---error-regarding-3dnow-support.-td4315...
[2] http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugarAppliance.tar.gz

[Philippe Clérié]

Thanks for the replies. I'll schedule some overnight downloads.

Philippe

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The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
<Anonymous>

On Wednesday 30 July 2008 06:02:30 Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Philippe Clérié wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been asked to help some people who are involved with the OLPC
> > project in Haiti. I've been following the OLPC since Nicolas
> > Negroponte announced it way back when plus I've been working with
> > Linux for several years now. So it seems I know a little bit more
> > and I may be useful.
> >
> > I downloaded one the latest images (build 2180 I think) to run on
> > QEMU/KVM. On QEMU it stops with the following message:
> >
> > This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
> > 3dnow
> >
> > KVM does not seem to work at all. I have not been able to find much
> > on these problems. I was hoping someone could shed some light.
> >
> > My computer is running Kubuntu Hardy by the way. :-)
> >
> > I suppose I'll have to switch to Fedora, but I don't have the
> > bandwidth to download a DVD.
> >
> > Regards
> > Philippe
>
> Look like other folks have hit this [1]. If you are willing to try
> another download, can you see if [2] works for you?
>
> -- bk
>
> [1]
> http://n2.nabble.com/qemu-on-Kubuntu---error-regarding-3dnow-support.
> -td431541.html [2] http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugarAppliance.tar.gz