13.1.0 release candidate 2 (build 21) released

[Jerry Vonau]

On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 14:56 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> jerry wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 12:42 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > We're pleased to announce the next release candidate of our new 13.1.0
>  > > software release.
>  > < snip >
>  > > This build now enables XO-4 idle suspend by default. This is still a
>  > > work in progress, there are still various instabilities which may make
>  > > this build feel more unstable than previous ones. You can disable
>  > > automatic power management in sugar's Settings panel to restore
>  > > previous behaviour.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Once my XO-4s (B1 & C2) enters idle suspend they can not be awakened
>  > with any external method I've tried. No response to touch-screen,
>  > touch-pad, keyboard, or power-button to trigger a event in powerd. I've
> 
> [semi-]reliable suspend/resume on C1/C2 requires new as-yet-unreleased
> EC code.  i've not yet had a B1 work well.
> 

Is that cl4-7_0_3_06.img? Would it be helpful to test this code?


> also, as you've found, rtcalarm-based resume should be okay, but i
> don't think anything else will wake the system reliably.
> 

Yea that looks to be working well.

>  > set the dim/blank to be 60/120 to speed up testing whether rtcalarm
>  > works. What I found interesting is once suspended then using the
>  > keyboard to awaken if you wait for rtcalarm to wake the XO the event
>  > will be shown as 'keypress' while tracing powerd.
> 
> yes, a kernel issue was causing most wakeups to be ascribed to
> "keypress".  should be fixed in the next build.
> 

Good to know, thanks.

Jerry