Test results on Joyride 2230?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Oh, and one more thing which I just saw:

I'm surprised that on the power-options page in the Sugar Control Panel
"automatic power management" is turned off by default. Wouldn't it make more
sense, for both G1G1 and the other deployments, to have this turned on by
default?

Christoph

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> here are the findings from tonight's testing:
>
> a) XO works fine with my Netgear WGR614v6 with WPA, added it to the list at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_Access_Point_Compatibility
> b) unlike described on the wiki (
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes#Build_joyride-2230)
> browse updates just fine
> c) eToys, which is available in v86 by now (and also has v86 linked to at
> [[Activities/Joyride]] is only updated to v80
> d) Terminal is available at v14, updates only pulled v10, might this be
> connected to [[Activities/Joyride]] only mentioning v10? (where does the
> updater actually pull the information about the latest versions from?)
> e) in Record v56 I'm seeing the same issues that I ran into last week when
> in Boston, dsd seems to think it might be hardware-related, so at one point
> I will downgrade to a stable build to see whether it works there or not.
> however NoiseEHC's comment seems to indicate that I'm not the only one
> having this issue.
> f) also had a hard-freeze when trying to play back the sounds in Pippy
> g) the oddest issue I ran into is that none of the TamTam activities
> worked, they all crashed when starting and took Sugar with it, a
> hardware-reset was needed
> h) Overall this build feels quite slow, especially in terms of activity
> startup I've seen much better performance in the past.
>
> I can also confirm measure not working and rotating the screen resulting in
> freezing the machine.
>
> On the up side this is the first time that I saw the News Reader (v24)
> activity working which made me very happy! Any way that News Reader could be
> hooked into Browse so site's RSS feeds could easily be accessed?
>
> Please let me know if any of these observations are worth filling a bug
> for, then I'll gather all the details tomorrow and do that.
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
>
> 2008/8/5 Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
>
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:38:49AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Can we get a "show of hands" on who downloaded joyride 2230?
>> [...]
>> > If you did install it, can you send a quick reply. Any comments on what
>> > you tried and your impression of its stability is also welcome.
>>
>> Used it, moved on to joyride-2251 to help with #5705. I didn't get any
>> bad impressions but didn't use it very much. I don't have anything
>> beyond that to add, unfortunately.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Greg S
>>
>> Martin
>>
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