[OLPC-AU] Test request: Scratch and XO freezing

Tim McNamara mcnamara.tim at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 21:48:00 EDT 2010


Sridhar, do you know if that's an issue with the smalltalk VM or is it
Scratch specific?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au>wrote:

> Scratch for the XO had a bug that would make it freeze after a few
> minutes of use. The workaround was to turn off Automatic Power
> Management, in My Settings.
>
> The lead developer, John Maloney, reckons that this is fixed in
> Scratch 16, but I'd appreciate if some testing could be done.
>
> Quoting John:
>
> <quote>
>
> Give Scratch v16 a try with power management enabled, and let me know
> if it works. A good test is to start Scratch, play a sound, then wait
> five or ten minutes. If everything still works okay after ten minutes,
> the problem is solved.
>
> Note: Some people have reported that Scratch keeps the computer from
> going into power saving mode. It's probably a good idea to quit the
> Scratch Activity when it is not being used.
>
> </quote>
>
> Thanks,
> Sridhar
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Technical Manager
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