[Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012

[Gary Martin]

Hi Tom,

On 15 Jul 2012, at 12:27, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:

> Testing Summary, Auckland 14 July 2012
> Who: Brenda, Fabiana, John, Nevyn, Tom
> 
> We tested 12.1.0 build 18 on XO-1.5 and XO-1.75
> 
> Nolan (XO-1.75):
> paint - seems ok.
> Physics: get the strange behaviour at the top of the canvas where things don’t show over a band on the top (reported before)

Yes we have been investigating this fir some weeks now, unfortunately seems to be a regression in the hardware graphics driver that is not going to be fixed in this cycle. My best guess is that pygame double buffering is no longer supported by the driver and your observing a vsync related frame redraw that should be happening in the hidden buffer. The blank band will grow as the scene gets more complicated :( Other pygame activities will also be affected (I've seen one mention of someone seeing something similar in Maze).

I've looked to see if there's anything I can do to improve Physics at the activity level, but haven't found any options yet.

Regards,
--Gary

> Record: patchy movie recording on high quality from the onset, whereas my feeling is that previously it would record ok for a while before this happened.
> Turtle art: Something odd - seems like I am building the blocks and the programme starts running without me asking for it.
> Chart Activity: Opened a very big file from measure - it kept on going forever. I cannot find a way to tell it to stop reading the file. I tried to stop the activity but it looks like it will not stop until it finishes reading. After a bit the menus at the top of the screen were no longer visible (as if it was trying to stop) but I can see the data field and the chart field, which is still bringing in and displaying/plotting the data
> 
> Moa:
> Managed to successfully open google doc, still can’t create a google doc.
> 
> Open as a new tab does not work on a google search
> 
> vmeta works in whaawmp, videos can be obtained with youtube-dl -f 18.
> 
> fototoon is awesome and works great
> 
> Distance still doesn’t work at all on XO-1.75, this activity should be removed if it can’t be fixed.
> 
> Jacob:
> Measure with resistance sensor, we find that the trace drops off the bottom of the screen at 6kΩ. It seems that the gain slider is a position control, not a gain control as in audio mode, this doesn’t seem to be explained in the documentation on wiki.sl.o. The position control can be used to position zero on the screen.
> 
> Shorting the input yields -10Ω which is a little surprising as negative resistors are rare beasties.
> 
> Saving data with measure seems strange. We always get some negative resistances even when we ensure that we did not measure any negative resistance.
> 
> Write works with pictures, colors, writing, sizes.
> 
> Rosella:
> All the text is still tiny as reported previously. Sorry, we haven’t taken it apart as recommended a while ago. Is it possible to do an fs-update with an external drive as the target or otherwise copy the operating system to an external drive?
> 
> We had a strange crash on shutdown. The laptop ended up sleeping, and when you press the power button the power light comes on for about 3 seconds and then goes back to sleeping. Keyboard or mouse entry does the same thing with the power light.
> 
> Could Record display the preview as a mirror image like most webcams? This makes it more intuitive when moving your head.
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