X won't come up on C2

[Mitch Bradley]

So far the new keyboard descriptions in the manufacturing data are a 
paper spec only.

By that I mean that, as far as I know, the new tags are not present in 
the pre-build machines, and the OS doesn't look for them.

(That is not quite true for OFW; it will use the new KA tag if it exists).

One way to save the mfg data to a file is to boot linux to a shell 
prompt and tar up /ofw/mfg-data

There is a way to do it from OFW too, but I don't have the recipe handy 
and I have to get on the plane in a couple of minutes.

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> On 10/24/07 10:56, John Watlington wrote:
>
>   
>>> I've never seen a C2 machine yet.  What are the relevant
>>> hardware changes?
>>>       
>> None.  Testers in Cambridge should be seeing the same problems!
>> The only difference should be that these machines didn't go through
>> the full "write manufacturing data" process.
>>     
>
> AH!  That's it!
>
> Perhaps /etc/init.d/olpc-configure is screwing up
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf because it cannot make sense of the
> manufactoring data.
>
> Moreover, we made some substantial changes to the keyboard
> descriptions, lately and I don't think anyone updated
> olpc-configure.
>
> I asked cjb on IRC to read what's in /ofw/mfg-data/ and
> report it back, so I can hack together some quick patch
> for olpc-configure.
>
> It seems a fix is needed in a hurry, so I'll try to make
> it blindly, without an actual C2.  But I could use a
> procedure to save your mfg-data to a file and restore it
> on a C1 laptop here in 1CC.  I'll ask Mitch if that is
> possible somehow.
>
> The definitive fix for olpc-configure would be setting
> the X keyboard from within the xinitrc script, without
> editing the config files at all.  But that's planned
> for FDS, not Trial3.
>
>
>   
>> If this is due to new security "features", I once again plead for
>> those features to be removed from the builds...
>>     
>
> They should be disabled by default... I asked cjb
> and he confirmed it.
>
>
>   
>> We are about to build 10K laptops that won't boot X!
>>     
>
> Heh, so why is it necessarily a bad thing?  Our children will
> learn in first grade how to fix their X server on Linux!
> That's what I would call a steep learning curve :-)
>
>