[Testing] [OLPC New Zealand] Testing Summary: 3 December 2011 - Auckland, New Zealand

Tom Parker tom at carrott.org
Mon Dec 5 05:13:41 EST 2011


On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 03:45 -0500, John Watlington wrote:

> So, yes, the "grid" keyboard is slightly harder to touch type on, but
> will hopefully help keep the kids from peeling the keys off the
> membrane.

We have some tame primary school children -- we may be able to obtain a
review of extended use of the grid keyboard? Is grid keyboard the
official name?

> >> Changed timezone to Auckland. Our new probably C1 laptops were
> >> delivered with the time set to Jan 2000 but seem to be holding the
> >> correct time after setting it with date. Our B1s are also behaving
> >> better than they did with last week's build.
> > 
> > Good, that means the date and time problems were most likely the
> > software problems.
> 
> Please keep an eye on this.   All C1 laptops were shipped with the
> date set correctly (not to 2000).    If a date is reset to 2000 (not 1970),
> then it implies that the external RTC chip is somehow getting reset.

We will watch this. 

Tabitha initially wrote the report saying essentially that all the
clocks were broken. Then I modified the report after resetting the
clocks. We're absolutely sure the clocks were wrong on Saturday but I
don't know if they were wrong when they arrived on Friday. I reflashed
them on Friday and we did the firmware update on Saturday. We'll try to
reproduce the time loss.

The 3 here (including both C1s) are still correct, Carlos has Bonnie the
B1 that was misbehaving.

> >> On all our XO-1.75s we loose the first keypress after coming out of
> >> power saving.
> > 
> > This won't be fixed in B1 or C1, but is expected to be fixed in C2.
> 
> I should have fixed that on your laptops before sending them down.
> Have anybody handy with a soldering iron ?   You just need to short
> four sets of pads to fix it on a B1/C1....

I can probably do this -- I have +4 glasses, a fine tipped iron and
experience with surface mount. How small are the pads?



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