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Puppylinux for the OLPC laptops: XOpup
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eph.zero

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Location: Portland, Oregon
PostPosted: Wed 13 Mar 2013, 21:27    Post subject:  
I researched the problem to death some time ago, and never found a solution that worked. I recall finding something out there that suggested it was an OFW bug, but don't quote me on that. It was a couple of years ago, so I have no idea where I might have seen that.

I've tried changing fonts in the boot script, including SUN12x22, but it seems that it has no effect.

mavrothal wrote:
eph.zero wrote:
I wouldn't mind going all-CLI on it, but it's been impossible to increase that font size without the GUI. A bug in open firmware, I think.

Why would you say that is an OFW bug?

Are your fonts particularly small? SUN12x22 is one of the bigger fonts and pretty comfortable usually.
I'm not sure if any bigger font is compile into the kernel but I could check.

In this page you can find a lot of things related to console fonts.
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mavrothal


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PostPosted: Thu 14 Mar 2013, 02:08    Post subject: Racy-, Precise-, Slacko-5.5 for the XO-1 and XO-1.5  
Three brand new puppies version 5.5 came out in March! Racy, Precise and Slacko.
So here they are all 3 adapted for the XO-1 and XO-1.5

Racy-5.5_XO.tar.gz (114.11MB - md5:27d4adec48b19c3c3ea891072eb6c974)
Precise-5.5_XO.tar.gz (167.67MB - md5:c5882f4bc48f4694fd99398abafc9c49)
Slacko-5.5_XO.tar.gz (171.81MB - md5:4660d8d7d2645b9c51c1917c5719333a)

Racy is indeed the faster on the XOs but does not have the compatibility with the huge ubuntu package collection that Precise has. Their functionality OOB is comparable though and will both update successfully previous Racy-5.3.x and Precise-5.4.x, XO builds.
Slacko is the most updated, feature rich and nice looking Cool of the 3 and is compatible with the extended slackware package collection. Is bigger and has some issues with audio/video recording. Also since is Slackware14-based, will NOT update Slacko-5.3.x builds.

NON of the 3 will update XOpup-2.x (which I still find the fastest Smile )

To install, expand (one Laughing of) the downloaded tarball at the root of a USB stick or SDcard and boot your unlocked XO.

Known issues: 5.5 builds have the new frisbee-1.0 instead of the original Frisbee-beta2. If it fails on anything for no "apparent reason" just hit "Restart Networks" button Wink

Note:The files are in Sendspace so they will be taken down after some time of inactivity. Let me know if you can not find them.
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mavrothal


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PostPosted: Thu 14 Mar 2013, 02:33    Post subject:  
eph.zero wrote:
I researched the problem to death some time ago, and never found a solution that worked.

Try to ask at the olpc devel mailing list. Will be hard to justify since on OLPC releases you never get to console, but you can say something related to debugging or using it as a server (music server Very Happy ) etc.
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simargl


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PostPosted: Thu 14 Mar 2013, 06:23    Post subject:  
Congrats for this 3-in-1 release, they look nice although it's kinda funny to see same icons on different OS versions. I guess that's why wallpapers have logos on them and maybe change browse icon name to www or net (now browseemal are joined), but who I am...
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mavrothal


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PostPosted: Thu 14 Mar 2013, 06:55    Post subject:  
simargl wrote:
Congrats for this 3-in-1 release, they look nice although it's kinda funny to see same icons on different OS versions.

Thanks.
Regarding visual similarities, all I can say is that GNOME/KDE/XFCE/LXDE etc, do look similar across distros. That is actually the idea! Consistency, familiarity and functionality.
They are of course easy to customize through one or more GUI apps, exactly as the above ROX-JWM puppies are.
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mavrothal


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PostPosted: Sat 20 Apr 2013, 02:35    Post subject: batalarm_xo  
With the aging XO batteries I though a battery alarm might be handy.
So I heavily modified Xbatalarm to suit the XOs.
The alarm is set at 15% battery level (at <10% the XO will auto shutdown)
If you want to change that limit, edit line 19 of the /usr/bin/xbatalarm_xo script

Will work with any puppy build for the XO-1 and the XO-1.5
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