User:NeoAmsterdam

Chronology

• G1G1 donor 2007
• Introduced to OLPC via Lilug (sp. by J5's demo at LILUG)
• XO received on 2008/Mar/21 and it survived graduate school
  (a bit dirty and the battery life's reduced a bit, but otherwise intact)
• 2010/Mar/01: Overhauled this page.
• 2010/Jun/09: Added "Notes" section.
• 2010/Sep/04: Added bootable SD how-to for release 10.1.2

My Setup

Hardware

• XO-1
• 16GB Transcend SDHC card, model number TS16GSDHC6.
  • Confirmed as a working and bootable device (as an SD card in the SD slot or via an SD-to-USB adapter).
  • Geometry: 137 heads, 39 sectors/track, 5873 cylinders
  • Performance: ≈48MB/s read, ≈1MB/s write (Class 6)
• Model S Das Keyboard
• picoLCD

Software

• Release 10.1.2 (Build 852)
  See below for release-specific activities
• GCC
• Kile and TeXLive
• gqview
• ImageMagick
• Fldigi
• SoX
• Wine
• LCDproc
• 3rd Party yummies, including gtkpod, xmms, and VLC

Misc.

• qrencode
• FreeBASIC
• atari800

Tricks and Techniques

• Notes to Self: Things to do, ideas to try out, and stuff I doubt I'd ever get off the ground.

Releases

8.0.2 (Build 821)

• Make a bootable SD card
• Activities that play nicely with 8.0.2
• Booting into IceWM on 8.0.2

10.1.2 (Build 852)

• Make a bootable SD card
• Activities that play nicely with 10.1.2
• Screenshot gallery

10.1.3 (Build 860)

The installation method described for a bootable 10.1.2 SD card applies for 10.1.3. Just substitute /versions/pristine/860 for /versions/pristine/852.

Firmware

• Overclocking

Activites

• Customize Mini vMac's disk image

Deprecated

• Fedora 11 for XO-1: Install Notes
• Reconfigure XoIRC's defaults

Troubleshooting

• 2009-09-03
  Battery stopped working, but the XO still functions on AC adapter.
• 2010-01-07
  Battery springs back to life of its own accord. I have no idea why.
• 2010-03-25
  Battery again stops working. Since the XO has been unplugged and unused for the last three weeks, it's possible that the battery has discharged to the point that the XO cannot recognize its presence. Leaving the XO on and plugged in seems to have cured the battery detection problem, but the underlying cause remains unconfirmed.

Cool Stuff

• XoPhoto
• Drawing on the sidewalk in Artigas, Uruguay; Martin Goncalves
• Proud girls on their way home from school in Ramallah
• Kofi Annan and Jeff Sachs at a Millennium Village in Bonsaaso, Ghana. Children in the village are taking pictures with their XOs and showing them off.
• Statue of Learning
• Proposed icon for an OLPC repair center (not the best, but kinda cute)