If you are still having trouble, make a copy of the Live CD for your wife. <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Live_Cd">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Live_Cd</a> It boots and runs TamTam fine on my Linux Laptop, on Windows PCs, and even on x86 Macs. I find TamTam and eToys to be the best programs to demo at conferences and user group meetings.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">imm</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@imm.uklinux.net">ian@imm.uklinux.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All,<br><br>Sorry for the noise - the following questions are probably all<br>embarrassingly obvious to every one but me. And this is probably the<br>wrong list to ask on anyway...<br><br>But here goes: First, my state so far.
<br><br>My wife's a music educator, working with younger kids, and I am<br>trying to get TamTam running for her to try out. My initial idea was<br>to make it as much like the XO environment as I could manage, so I<br>
installed FC7 on an old ITX PC I had, then used sugar-jhbuild update/<br>build/run to get a working "XO" running in Xephyr. This seems to have<br>been largely successful.<br>However, the default sugar-jhbuild checkout does not include TamTam,
<br>so I then git cloned TamTam from the repo and manually copied that<br>into a TamTam.activity folder in my built tree.<br>When I run my "XO" I see the TamTam icon, but launching it (usually)<br>the icon appears and pulses, with a tooltip that says "Starting..."
<br>pretty much indefinitely. No activity appears, and there is no sound.<br>Sometimes, the icon stops pulsing then disappears, and the speakers<br>start buzzing. No activity appears.<br><br>Clearly, then, I am doing something wrong. Now, some questions.
<br><br>- I had a trawl around the wiki before I started this. I didn't find<br>any instructions to get this working - is it (as I suspect) there and<br>I just missed it? If so, where, please?<br><br>- If I start TamTam from the developer console using sugar-activity,
<br>I get roughly the same behaviour, but I also see that TamTam is<br>complaining it can't load the sounds. Which is fair enough, as I<br>don't seem to have them. I don't see the sound files in the git tree<br>
either - where do I get them? (Actually, I think I saw something<br>about this in my wiki/mailinglist reading earlier, but can not now<br>find the reference...)<br><br>- I'm using the csound that's on my machine - should I be getting an
<br>olpc specific csound from the repo and using that? If so, how do I<br>install it in my build tree?<br><br>- Would I be better off just trying to run TamTam "natively" on the<br>linux box? If so, pointers as to how to do that would be very welcome
<br>(although I'd prefer the sugar setup if possible.)<br><br>(drifting OT now)<br><br>- When I run sugar-jhbuild build, I get errors flagged at build (and<br>install) of libabiword-plugins, and errors flagged installing chat-
<br>activity - is this normal? I assume it is because the master tree is<br>in constant flux and I just caught it at a bad time?<br><br>- Is it possible to (e.g.) set git checkout stable and get sugar-<br>jhbuild to checkout and use the last stable tree rather than the
<br>changeable master tree? (I know nothing about jhbuild, or how it does<br>what it does - seems quite impressive though!) Would that be a better<br>way to go, or is the master tree the preferred set to be working with?<br>
<br>Right - well that was longer than I intended. Please be gentle when<br>telling me I'm an idiot and have missed some really obvious reference...<br><br>TIA<br>--<br>Ian<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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