debxo 0.3 release

[Erik Garrison]

This sounds right.  The OHM packages aren't in any debian repo afaik, so
we'll have to package them.  Then we'd need a debian repository for
these packages.

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:53:40AM -0500, Ian Daniher wrote:
> RE Suspend / Resume : talk to CJB(Chris Ball) about OHM. I spoke with him a
> few weeks ago and, if I recall correctly, all one needs to do is use the
> official OLPC Kernel and install the OHM packages.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:20 AM, <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:27:52PM -0800, david at lang.hm wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, James Cameron wrote:
> > >>> The TODO file in the xodist git repository has a hardware enablement
> > >>> section that I added last week, which covers some of the things this
> > >>> thread has discussed.
> > >>
> > >> link to xodist please?
> > >
> > > xodist is the git repository name for the scripts that generate debxo
> > > images.
> >
> > sorry, I missed that (and I even have that repository cloned, shame on me
> > :-)
> >
> > > git://lunge.mit.edu/git/xodist (per Andres' mail of 28th Oct)
> > > or
> > > http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/xodist.git/<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Equozl/xodist.git/>(my repo, sync'ed)
> > >
> > >> do you have the direction and rotate game keys working?
> > >
> > > I don't know.
> >
> > they do not in the 0.3 build
> >
> > >>> brightness control keys (conflicts with function key usage)
> > >>> volume control keys (conflicts with function key usage)
> > >>
> > >> these don't need system changes, just deciding which function those keys
> > >> should do, the brightness and volume functions are strictly in software
> > >> (and done via X hooks, as can be shown by the fact that these do not
> > work
> > >> in a console, and in fact crash the system if you hit them there)
> > >
> > > Seems more logical to handle these keys in the kernel.
> >
> > I don't think so. since the hardware produces the function keys, if the
> > kernel does the functions instead of userspace, you loose the flexibility
> > to use these as normal function keys.
> >
> > the tendancy is to push more of this sort of thing to userspace anyway.
> > the volume keys onthe thinkpads recently changed from being handled by the
> > hardware to be intercepted by the kernel and treated as normal keys (with
> > the default bindings being to control the volume) a few months ago this
> > worked in Gnome, but not KDE, with the ubuntu release a few days ago it
> > works in both (I don't use sound enough to have tried it outside of X)
> >
> > >>> turn off backlight on suspend or hibernate
> > >>
> > >> I don't use suspend or hibernate enough to help, but now that we have
> > the
> > >> script to control the backlight this should be fairly easy (although you
> > >> really want to turn off the entire screen, not just the backlight, at
> > >> least for hibernate, don't you?)
> > >
> > > If you're saying "the OLPC XO build also turns off the screen hardware",
> > > then the next question is "how?" ... presumably this can be found by
> > > examining it.
> >
> > the thought just hit me that we don't always want to turn off the screen
> > on suspend, unlike normal systems the XO is designed to be able to run the
> > display when the main processor is suspended (although I remember being
> > told that this isn't working due to software limitations today)
> >
> > >>> The latter method is how xodist's initchroot.sh script does some
> > >>> features ... like setting up /etc/modules, xorg.conf, and so forth.
> > >>
> > >> I'm actually not happy with how the OLPC currently handles these things,
> > >> they are too X (and sugar) specific. we need to get a layer lower if we
> > >> can.
> > >
> > > Good.  But the general purpose solutions in Debian are perhaps too
> > > general for this situation.  Things like the discover package.
> >
> > ideally I want to figure out how to get these keys into the kernel, at
> > that point any userspace can deal with them.
> >
> > David Lang
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