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[mavrothal]

[01micko]

[rrolsbe]

[mavrothal]

Ron, Mick
do you by any chance installed a package after you installed the powerapplet pet, and then the sound disappeared on next reboot??? Did you see 2 battery monitors at any point???

I think that the problem is that the pinstall.sh script re-runs every time you install a package. Since the the commands now spit errors (no files to remove no processes to kill) it hangs and on reboot the hanged processes corrupt the file system!!!

Is a wild guess but is this the case? Did you install another package after the powerapplet and before the sound issue?

BTW how do you remove (automatically) the pinstall.sh after installation

[01micko]

I didn't install the pet at all, I had it installed manually.

Also what rrslobe describes is similar behaviour to what I have seen with installing/uninstalling pets, even before powerapplet_xo existed, and yes, pinstalls seem to be the culprit.

Cheers

[mavrothal]

[Lerc]

I seem to have broken the shutdown.

It doesn't turn off. I get

olpc-switchd segfault at 0 ip b7767714 bfba807c error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so

Which I'm guessing is the powering-off failing horribly.

Other issues I've noticed. Using an external mouse doesn't trigger as a unblank worthy event. Which means you can be doing stuff and the screen goes dim. Not a showstopper, a tap on the touchpad and you're all ok.

Automatic network connection doesn't work. I'm not 100% sure it is supposed to, but I get the impression from the dialogs that it should restore connection on reboot.

And on the other front, I have been looking at where to plug in some bits.

In UDE I try to keep the users home directory relatively empty with the main things being Apps,Library,Downloads, and Stash
Apps for applications.
Library for unchanging media (pdfs,videos,music etc)
Stash for user created content
Downloads for acquired content.

For UDE on puppy I have elected to make a ~/Home(distinct from $HOME). I'll probably set up $UDE_HOME so that if people think it's a really bad idea it can be changed.

I'm going through the puppy apps and making ROX Wrappers as well as the ones I've customised for UDE.

mplayer -fs tv://
works (has a bug which causes a delay, but that has always been the case for me)

I have a tiny script for taking photos using mplayer that stores them in Stash/Photos/`date "+%d %B %Y"`/ It's a workable camera program.

I've also attached a font that may be useful. I built this because bitmap font rendering on the XO is so much faster, but all of the bitmap fonts I had encountered were way too small for the XO screen. This one is 21 pixels. Makes for a much nicer terminal.

more to come.

[Fox7777]

We have tried to boot XOPup on the OLPC several times with no success. The last attempt was with XOpup-1.0_RC3 using variations of boot /usb/disk:\boot\olpx.fth , etc. Puppy Linux 5.0 is also on the same usb. Is that a problem? A clearly spelled out howto for this would really help. Thanks.

[mavrothal]

[mavrothal]

[Fox7777]

Darn, still not clear. A howto with an example of what should be on the usb and what command to use in order to boot the usb would help.

[mavrothal]

[01micko]

mavrothal

there is a 'woops' with the announcement html file, a space in the filename, the browser won't open it , should be :

Announce_XOpup-1.0_RC3.html

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More on petget issues later, but I have a gut feeling it is to do with aufs, no proof though.

Cheers

[mavrothal]

[01micko]