[OLPC-AU] Fwd: Cheap rugged keyboards

[James Cameron]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 06:11:58PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On 8 November 2010 17:55, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:35:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> >> One weakness I see is that there's no key binding for the Frame in
> >> Sugar.
> >
> > Yes there is. ?F6. ?Tested on OLPC OS 10.1.2, Sugar 0.84 on XO-1.5.
> > Worked fine for me just then when I plugged in a USB keyboard.
> 
> Is that a new development? I tested with 10.1.1 and a USB keyboard,
> and I did not have this experience.

Correct, 10.1.1 did not support XO-1.5 HS laptop.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.2#New_features

Please upgrade.  10.1.1 was released early July.
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-July/029254.html

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 06:38:57PM +1100, forster at ozonline.com.au wrote:
> Tried XO1 and USB keyboard on Sugar 0.88 OS373pyg
> and Sugar 0.90 OS17
> F1 F2 F3 F4 and qwerty work on both but F6 only works on OS17

That is expected.

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10213 has some of the development history
on the XO-1.5 HS Frame key support, but there's also a Sugar change that
is mentioned in passing.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/