Issues from my 6-yr-old beta tester.

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Mon Mar 4 13:13:45 EST 2013


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:06 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
> The build I installed on my beta-tester's XO4 is about a month old.
> I'm hoping the following are known issues, and all I have to do is
> update the build.  (Can I use olpc-update to do that?)

It's a bit hard to think back a month. You can update using olpc-update.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.1.0

> * The sound in Scratch and Memorize is scrambled; sound appears to be
> piped from /dev/random and "hurts my ears".
> * Tam Tam Edit had different sound issues -- the playback cursor
> wandered all over the screen when play was pressed, sometimes moving
> backwards.  The sound wasn't scrambled, but I'm not convinced that the
> sequencing was correct (I forget exactly what the demo is supposed to
> sound like, but it didn't sound "right" to me.)
> * When you capture a new costume in Scratch using the camera,
> everything appears to have a strong yellow cast.

None of these sound familiar to me. Worth re-testing on the latest
software and filing tickets.

Daniel



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