What to do when you receive your XO-1.75 -

[John Watlington]

None of these included the most important wiki page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.75_B1

This is where most of this information is already posted,
along with other things you should know about your 1.75 B1.

Cheers,
wad

On Aug 15, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> Quick notes from some FAQs that have been bouncing over IRC...
> 
> (This is a lightly edited version of a great email by Simon -- thanks!)
> 
> When you receive the XO-1.75... it will NOT boot; it will only light
> up the screen. You need to "unbrick" it with a serial adapter --
> instructions at [1].
> 
> Once the machine is unbricked, download the latest build from [2] and
> flashed it using the same command (fs-update) as with the 1.5 builds.
> 
> Peter will soon post a new build there.
> 
> Some activities don't start due to missing packages (TamTam* is
> missing csound, etc). To check if the package was available in Koji,
> see the ARM page for Koji [3]. Another useful resource about ARM on
> Fedora is [4].
> 
> I than tried to update the build since Peter said that there would be
> more pending packages but even after editing my yum config I was not
> able to access the repository [5] - according to Peter's last mail
> this looks like taken care of.
> 
> To find out which bugs are already known, see [6]. File
> software/hardware related bugs into those milestones whenever you
> think they are specific to XO-1.75 .
> 
> Other important notes:
> 
> - Grab a build newer than os36 to have a working yum repo config. You
> will have to disable gpg checks.
> 
> - The camera WORKS, and pretty well -- just modprobe mmp-camera . See
> /runin/runin-camera for how to drive a gstreamer pipeline for it.
> 
> - Video driver is pretty slow at the moment, so displaying the camera
> input sucks up CPU. We have top talent working on an accelerated
> driver...
> 
> - Audio output works, but mixer and input don't. This unfortunately
> trips up many programs at the moment.
> 
> - From now on -Peter Robinson- is our buildmaster for ARM. Nag him :-)
> 
> - Ah, put your new rpms in ~/public_rpms/f14-arm/ before nagging Peter!
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m (who just edited Simon's words a bit)
> 
> [1] unbrick the machine: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.75_11089_Fix
> [2] ARM builds: http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/
> [3] Fedora koji ARM: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
> [4] Fedora page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
> [5] Fedora repos:
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/repos/dist-f14-build/latest/arm/repodata/
> [6] http://dev.laptop.org/1.75
> 
> -- 
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>  martin at laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
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