Comments on 8.2.759/E17

[Alan Claver]

Left my kudos on this release in the support list. Very nice. Had a couple
of issues, questions..

First, seems that external USB mice will not wake up the system. Only the
touchpad or keyboard will wake up a sleeping XO.

Does 759 REQUIRE  Q2E17 firmware? I tried to install 759 while I still had
E11 firmware running and the system wouldn't boot. I had to recover with a
signed version installation. Once I updated to E17, 759 installed fine.

If so, you might want to note that on the Wiki.

Stopped for some time as I couldn't install activities using the control
panel. Can't remember but I believe I saw a note on the wiki that security
had to be enabled to install activities? Most likely it would be off since I
was installing an unsigned release. In any case, this needs a better
documentation or the sugar control panel should report this error.

Seems that the XO now broadcasts an open wireless connection named
olpc-mesh. This should be something that can be disabled in the control
panel. 

Oh, nice font on the OpenFirmware display. Much easier to read than the
older releases.

Is there any way to manually load an older release as the alternate OS?

Lastly, can I get the XO dude boot display running on this release? I
assumed that I just needed to enable security but of course that locks up
the XO (duh!). 

Thanks. (I don't subscribe to devel so you can either use
support at lists.laptop.org or a personal response.