[OLPC-devel] I tested the new graphical interface in buildrom

[Ronald G Minnich]

looks nice. It did not boot. When I hit a key on the keyboard, the 
display went away. My serial port dongle is back at work (!@#$!#$!@#$#@! 
-- how could I forget to pack it?) so I can't see what's on serial :-) I 
have a USB mouse connected but it appears to have no control of anything.

But I can confirm that under linuxbios, the new buildrom will put up a 
nice picture ... I can't see if anything else is going on. At this point 
I can not really use it for anything.

Now I wonder ... is it too terrible an idea to display boot messages 
under the pretty pictures? Just so people have some confidence that 
actions are occuring?

Also, the pictures were black and white, and no changes (highlighting or 
whatever) occured. IIRC on the web page each picture had some sort of 
highlight that occured in sequence -- is this intended to happen on OLPC?

For the icon in top left, inside the cable-like thing, in the top 
connector, there is a little grey box with a stipple patter. I can send 
a movie of all this if you want to see it -- might be fun to put on the 
wiki.

It takes precisely 10 seconds for the pictures to appear. We can speed 
this up when we make linuxbios less verbose. I'd like to get to 5.

nice work. This is absolutely the best looking thing I've ever been 
associated with. It's really great looking IMHO.

thanks

ron