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.

To Do

• Get just-released 10.1.2 a spin and try to put it onto SD card (and I just finished tinkering with my 8.2.1 SD - Timing!)

Tricks and Techniques

Firmware

• Overclocking

Activites

• Customize Mini vMac's disk image

Releases

8.0.2 (Build 821)

• Install build 8.0.2 to a bootable SD card
• Activities that work with build 8.0.2
• Booting into IceWM on 8.0.2

10.1.2 (Build 852)

• Installing build 10.1.2 to a bootable SD card

Notes

• Notes to Self

Off-Site

• A temping recipe for booting Plan 9 (and the evidence to prove it's possible)

Deprecated Notes

• Fedora 11 for XO-1: Install Notes (Just Didn't Work™; superseded by 10.1.2 pseudo-release for XO-1)
• Reconfigure XoIRC's defaults superseded by IRC 5.

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.