Issue with activities using sounds and invite and power adapters

[David Leeming]

Clarification on the below viz activities using sounds. 

 

These effects seem to be intermittent. I can't reliably replicate them but
noticed this several times during the training on site last week.

 

-          Start Speak, make some sounds, then start TamTamMini leaving
Speak running. TamTamMini is muted

-          Sometimes I have noticed the Record screen  blank (i.e. no
picture) and it seems to be associated with running Speak and/or Measure but
I am unable to replicate.

 

I am using the G1G1 activity pack downloaded two weeks ago, plus Speak 5.

 

David Leeming

Technical Advisor, People First Network

Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w)

www.leeming-consulting.com

 

From: David Leeming [mailto:leeming at pipolfastaem.gov.sb] 
Sent: Saturday, 21 June 2008 7:26 a.m.
To: 'devel at laptop.org'
Subject: Issue with activities using sounds and invite and power adapters

 

In trials in PNG I have come across an apparent issue with build 703 /
activities as of date.

 

If you run the Measure activity and then follow with the Record, the screen
(digital camera output) is blank.

 

If you run two activities using sound (TamtamMini and Speak for instance),
you may find that one has no sound and the XO needs rebooting.

 

If you have a lot of laptops (i.e. we had 40+ in a small area, we were in a
classroom and then in small groups outside), the invite function is not
reliable - you invite someone but no icon appears on the activity bar of the
invited XO. Rebooting both XOs helps. 

 

The US adapters supplied with our batch of gifted XOs (much appreciated) is
however a disaster in PNG where they use Australian 3-pin type - they have
pins aligned so that each adapter covers the adjacent outlet in  a
powerboard, and in any case 2-pin adapters are unavailable and 3-pin types
need to be forced as they require the 3rd pin. An 8-outlet powerboard can
only take 4 precariously arranged adapters, there s a safety issue. This
will of course be solved when we get gang chargers and/or the daisy chain
charge devices. But it still affects childen charging at home. Shipments
MUST be sent with correct adapters.

 

David Leeming

Technical Advisor, People First Network

Leeming Consulting

P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific

Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w)

http://www.leeming-consulting.com

 

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