[olpc-help] 1) adding swap 2) external midi for TamTam* Activities

[Andrew]

Hello, all

(Apologies for the previous empty message)

1) Swap files on the XO (w/Sugar):

I experimentally added a 512MB swap file to my XO (recently upgraded to 8.2.0) - the process is rather trivial. The swap file is on a Class 6 SDHC card. Could such swap files improve performance? I imagine that the transfer and read/write rates should be a big factor here. Is the read/write speed too slow to improve the system performance?  Any particular applications/activities that would benefit from swap?

2) Using the following directions I was able to make my XO generate csound (polyphonic) tones by sending MIDI signals from an external keyboard to the XO (via a USB Midi adapter):

http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg16147.html

Is there any way to configure any or all of the three TamTam activities to use an external keyboard for input? 

TIA

Andrew