Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

[Jerry Vonau]

On 5 July 2013 07:01, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:

> On 01/07/13 19:53, James Cameron wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote:
>>
>>> xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb
>>> patch -p0 <maori.patch
>>> sudo cp orig.xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi
>>> sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Is Jerry's xs.custom
>>> http://lists.laptop.org/**pipermail/server-devel/2013-**June/006510.html<http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-June/006510.html>
>>> suitable for customizing an XO?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  It would apply the changes you describe reasonably easily.
>>
>
> Indeed it does work, although I had to add support for the XO-4 HS Touch
> and XO-4 Touch, I've sent you a patch.
>
>
Thanks,


> I now have a USB that re-flashes if you hold down the game keys, reboots,
> sets the timezone, the language and the keyboard and then prompts the user
> to press enter to shut down. If you don't hold down the game keys it just
> does the customization which can be done more than once without damage.
>
>
Care to share the forth scripting? Remember to have the AC plugged in for
the first boot, there maybe a firmware update in the image. I've taken a
slightly path using a menu for different operations and install new
firmware if present before installing the image.


> The only wrinkle is that most of the time I have to press enter twice to
> get it to quit at the end which is hardly worth complaining about but had
> me stumped for a minute or two the first time.
>
>
There is a "press enter to shutdown" routine build into xo-custom are you
scripting the reboot question also?


> Also I had trouble finding the xo-custom thing, so for the record, it's an
> optional configuration of Tiny Core Linux described at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/**Tiny_Core_Linux<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tiny_Core_Linux>You will have to clone the git repo and build it from scratch to get the
> xo-custom behavior.
>
>
I'm going to place the Tiny Core files to be available for download so all
you have to add is your own scripting. Do you mind sharing your scripts? I
plan on using some examples in creating some better documentation for a
how-to.

Thanks for testing,

Jerry

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