[olpc-help] What To Do When You Get Your XO

[Doug Jones]

Thanks, Steve!  Just added that to the page.


You've been particularly busy on the list lately, so you've probably 
been reading even more of the traffic than I have.  If you notice any 
other especially common questions among the users, ones that I haven't 
mentioned on that page, send me a note and I'll update.

My goal is to try to cover as many common problems and questions as 
possible, and still keep the page short enough so that a user can read 
through the whole thing in one go without getting too bored.

(So if you see any more questions about powering the XO in other 
countries, for example, you can refer them to that one page and 
hopefully that will take care of the issue.  :-)




Steve Holton wrote:
> Hi Doug-
> 
> I loved your write-up. Taught me a bunch of stuff I didn't even know I
> didn't know.
> 
> Something to add, perhaps:
> Under "Checking out the hardware", there are actually two, independent
> volume controls.
> 
> The volume keys (dedicated keys on the top row of the keyboard)
> control the master system volume, and the application volume keys (the
> pointer controlled slider, also controlled by the + and - keys)
> control the volume of sound from this application.
> 
> The key point is that if either of these is set to completely off,
> cranking the other all the way up won't help a bit.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Doug Jones <djsdl at frombob.to> wrote:
>> I have been gathering helpful hints from the community, and have put a
>>  lot of them on one page that is optimized for reading on the XO.  Some
>>  people may prefer getting it all in one lump, rather than having to
>>  scour the lists and the wiki and trying to make sense of the bewildering
>>  thicket of knowledge&rumor&myth&everythingelse.
>>
>>  http://frombob.to/XO/
>>
>>
>>  If you find any glaring errors or omissions, please let me know.
>>
>>
>>  Thanks to all the community members who have shared.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  --------------------------------
>>
>>  So Happy Valentines Day already.
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  community-support mailing list
>>  community-support at lists.laptop.org
>>  http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/community-support
>>
> 
> 
>