new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing
by Daniel Drake
Hi,
I just built 2 images of F11-for-XO1 on OLPC infrastructure according
to my own instructions.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
The first one is based on the backport that I built and tested before
(a few weeks ago), so it will probably work:
http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/f11-xo1/os1
and the second one is updated with all of the recent changes that have
been happening in XO-1.5 software development, bringing the 2 trees in
sync at the present time
http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/f11-xo1/os2
Neither have been tested since the internet connection here in Nepal
is very slow - I will download them over the weekend.
It would be great if anyone is interested in testing during that time
though. I would suggest starting with os2 and falling back on os1 if
it doesn't work.
I'm still looking for people to take on the role of making these
builds on a regular basis - for me, these builds are just a one-off
for now.
The usual cautions apply: this is development code, there will be
bugs. Installation instructions: use copy-nand to install osX.img with
osX.crc.
Daniel
14 years, 5 months
soas04xo behavior on XO-1
by Mikus Grinbergs
I'm booting soas04xo from nand on an XO-1. For me, alt-tab does not
work to switch between activity sessions - I have to use the icons
in Frame top right to switch between Activities. But I've
customized my system, so I don't know if this is a sugar problem, or
my problem.
Please, would someone try soas04xo and see if alt-tab works for him?
Thanks, mikus
14 years, 6 months
New F11 for XO-1.5 build 34
by Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5
http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os34
Compressed image size: 405.48mb (+9.83mb since build 33)
Description of changes in this build:
* First shot at Chinese language keyboard support from Sayamindu (#9541)
Package changes since build 33:
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-xkeyboard-config-1.5-5.fc11.noarch
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14 years, 6 months
Re: os33 - video regression ?
by Jon Nettleton
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 10:23 +0000, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
> Is true what is suggested in this ticket? That Adobe Flash stopped
> using Xv in a minor release in the v9 series?
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5408
>
To the best of my knowledge Flash has never supported the XVideo
extension. The reason for this is that Xv scales YUV data and Flash
uses RGB data. Now could this be converted and scaled absolutely, but
Adobe has decided they are not going down that road.
My guess as to the minor release performance slow down, is that the
linux flash player gained Mpeg-4 video support in that release. H.264
is much more processor intensive and would explain the performance
problems seen after the upgrade.
This same release was also the first release that supported the Xembed
protocol. Some inefficiency there could also have created the video
performance problem.
Hope that helps to clear up the playing field.
Jon
14 years, 6 months
Re: os33 - video regression ?
by Mikus Grinbergs
James wrote:
> I'm curious to know if it was the change in #9538 that caused the
> regression. Could you temporarily change the display depth back to
> what it was and see if that restores the original behaviour?
I'd love to. But I don't know how to do that.
Changing the 'Depth' in "Screen" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf did not cause
the "playing movies locks the system" problem to go away.
> General comment on the typical "have you logged this?" response we tend
> to get ... I've no trouble with hearing from people who have taken the
> time to write about their experiences with an XO ... if they don't have
> the time to log a ticket and engage in the formal process, that's their
> decision. If other readers here don't attempt to reproduce and create a
> ticket, then they mustn't think it is important enough to fix. ;-)
From my point of view, the hang has already been logged as #9407.
I think poor "moving pictures" is __the__ problem with the XO-1.5.
Therefore I'm willing to put effort into documenting that which is
happening (and into testing fixes, if someone were kind enough to
give me something I can try).
But this is a hang - which leaves the XO-1.5 completely unresponsive
to operator input (except for the power button). So I do not have
my normal opportunity to capture file contents, etc. They are wiped
out by the reboot I perform to access the system again.
I think Martin mentioned he was able to get in to the hung system
with SSH. I have basically never used SSH -- so I would have to do
a lot of learning before I could use that to obtain better
information than I have now (I wrote all I knew in my post).
mikus
14 years, 6 months
Re: os33 - video regression ?
by Mikus Grinbergs
> YouTube video can be encapsulated H.264, On2 VP6, or the older
> Sorenson Spark. So it's important to try to test the same file.
Where you are coming from appears to differ from where I am coming
from. I am looking at the XO from the point of view of "How usable
is this?" That question does not necessarily involve precise
measurement -- evaluation ought to suffice.
In my mind I did not volunteer to be a formal "tester". If you want
me to be, please publish a formal *specification* consisting of
'shalls' -- i.e., the XO __shall__ properly render H.264 videos, the
XO __shall__ without visual aberrations play back videos using an
on-screen picture size of at least 14.67 cm by 11 cm, etc., etc.
*Then* I will develop a "test suite", which I will run against every
new beta that comes along (to "check off" which 'shalls' are being met).
mikus
14 years, 6 months
os33 - video regression ?
by Mikus Grinbergs
When I try to run mplayer on os33 with the parameters that I use on
the XO-1, the XO-1.5 shows a bright green screen and locks up
completely (all that I can do is power off). I have to explicitly
tell mplayer to use the 'x11' driver (i.e., *no* implied
acceleration) in order to see a "moving picture" in os33 with
mplayer. [IIRC, previously on os32 my mplayer with the XO-1
parameters had worked, but jerkily.]
Also, though it may be a function of network congestion / source
quality, but my impression is that with os33 YouTube is "jerkier"
than I remember from os32.
mikus
14 years, 6 months
New F11 for XO-1.5 build 33
by Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5
http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os33
Compressed image size: 395.64mb (-0.54mb since build 32)
Description of changes in this build:
* switch to 16-bit color mode for consistency with the kernel and OFW
* kernel now keeps the display working after a suspend/resume (with >Q3A14)
* attempt to change root fs from ext4 to ext3, to avoid corruption (#9513)
Package changes since build 32:
-DeviceKit-disks-004-4.fc11.i586
+DeviceKit-disks-004-5.fc11.i586
-NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.i586
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14 years, 6 months
PolicyKit dependency chain for headless machines
by Martin Langhoff
Working on the OLPC XS rebase to F11 -- I end up with random bits of
gnome and kde, brought in by PolicyKit, which wants a
PolicyKit-authentication-agent.
Yum only seems to know of KDE and Gnome authentication-agents.
How does PK handle users logging in in a VT? What is the
authentication agent there?
cheers,
m
--
martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com
martin(a)laptop.org -- School Server Architect
- ask interesting questions
- don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
14 years, 6 months
F11 wired vs. jabber
by Mikus Grinbergs
I don't have wireless (i.e., no AP), but use a local ethernet LAN.
When I boot a F11 system, usually Neighborhood View shows me the
(running) XOs connected to my ethernet. But sometimes what I see is
the XOs connected to the Jabber server I have defined. To reach
that Jabber server, the connection has to go over the ethernet,
through a proxy (I had to tell telepathy that the proxy exists), and
then over the internet. [I am leaving the Jabber server name in 'My
Settings' -- I am not adding/removing it dynamically.]
Which set of XOs I get to see seems to be random. [Still happens
that way both on XO-1 and on XO-1.5.] Any ideas on how, with my
setup, I could "favor" seeing jabber over seeing wired ?
Thanks, mikus
14 years, 6 months
