debxo 0.3 release

Sun Nov 9 18:11:26 EST 2008

Hey all,
tidbits:

http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2240.msg26267;topicseen#msg26267
* working power management(tested)
modprobe olpc_battery
* enables battery level detection - grab "battery-status" script from an XO
running 8.2
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
* makes the eth0 interface show up if it's otherwise hidden or 'down'

Can someone please wikify this stuff?
Enjoy!
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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/>
> <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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> >
> >
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