[OLPC-AU] XO hardware diagnostics

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:50:36PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Getting to the OpenFirmware prompt is easy: hold down the Esc key
> while turning on the XO. You should be taken to an ok prompt.

Further details on the procedure are at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ok
(some people have trouble with the means to access the prompt)

> Try these commands:
>   * help - shows a list of options
>   * test-all - runs all non-interactive hardware diagnostics
>   * menu - gives a graphical menu of available tests
>   * memtest - tests RAM with Memtest86

And there's a couple of games:

    * pong - two player video table tennis,
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

    * life-demo - a cellular automaton often used in teaching of
      computer programming, see
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

> Full info is available at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Self_Test

This hasn't been updated for XO-1.5, by the way.  There are newer tests
not mentioned.

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