OLE Nepal/Deployment guide/Customizing
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Customizing the XO
See Logistics first. Basic customization is covered there.
Customizing Build
- Install os image 703 from Forth prompt copy-nand u:\os703.img --> you must have os703.img and os703.crc on your USB key
- Power off
- Insert USB key that has Customization Key v2 installed on it
- Hold down X game key then turn on the XO
- Release the game key when prompted to do so
- The Activity pack should install itself and then power off
- Boot up and make your changes, such as installing rpms
- When done, delete the user-specific changes you have made
- rm -r /home/olpc.sugar/default
- rm /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
- There may be other machine-specific settings that I am not aware of but should be deleted
- Reboot
- Go to the Forth prompt and type save-nand u:\os703-b1.img, this will also generate a u:\os703-b1.crc file
- Clone other XO's using these two files
We need a list of activities we are going to use.
Testing of the activities with the build we are going to use.
Use Traditional Nepali unicode in your XO
To change the keyboard setting so that you can type in both English and Nepali. Here's what I did: --Pradosh 10:44, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
- change
XKB_MODEL="olpc" XKB_LAYOUT="us" XKB_VARIANT="olpc" KEYTABLE="us"
to
XKB_MODEL="olpc" XKB_LAYOUT="us,np" XKB_VARIANT="olpc2,olpc" KEYTABLE="us"
- You can now change the the language in which you type with the multiplication/divide button
- To change the keyboard layout to Nepali Traditional type "sudo vi /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/np"
- I took the part of the file from Here and modified "key <AC12>" to "key <BKSL>"
- Change the file "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/np" to the following:
// $XKeyboardConfig: xkeyboard-config/symbols/np,v 1.3 2007-11-21 22:53:38 svu Exp $
// based on a keyboard map from an 'xkb/symbols/dev' file
// $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/pc/dev,v 1.2 2002/11/22 04:03:28 dawes Exp $
partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
name[Group1]= "Nepal";
// `,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,-,=
key <TLDE> { [ 0x100093D,0x100093C ] };
key <AE01> { [ 0x1000967 ] };
key <AE02> { [ 0x1000968 ] };
key <AE03> { [ 0x1000969 ] };
key <AE04> { [ 0x100096A ] };
key <AE05> { [ 0x100096B ] };
key <AE06> { [ 0x100096C ] };
key <AE07> { [ 0x100096D ] };
key <AE08> { [ 0x100096e ] };
key <AE09> { [ 0x100096F ] };
key <AE10> { [ 0x1000966,0x1000970 ] };
key <AE11> { [ minus, 0x1000952 ] };
key <AE12> { [ equal, 0x100200C ] };
// q,w,e,r,t,y,u,i,o,p,[,]
key <AD01> { [ 0x100091F, 0x1000920 ] };
key <AD02> { [ 0x100094C, 0x1000914 ] };
key <AD03> { [ 0x1000947, 0x1000948 ] };
key <AD04> { [ 0x1000930, 0x1000943 ] };
key <AD05> { [ 0x1000924, 0x1000925 ] };
key <AD06> { [ 0x100092F, 0x100091E ] };
key <AD07> { [ 0x1000941, 0x1000942 ] };
key <AD08> { [ 0x100093F, 0x1000940 ] };
key <AD09> { [ 0x100094B, 0x1000913 ] };
key <AD10> { [ 0x100092A, 0x100092B ] };
key <AD11> { [ 0x1000907, 0x1000908 ] };
key <AD12> { [ 0x100090F, 0x1000910 ] };
// a,s,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,;,',Backslash
key <AC01> { [ 0x100093E, 0x1000906 ] };
key <AC02> { [ 0x1000938, 0x1000936 ] };
key <AC03> { [ 0x1000926, 0x1000927 ] };
key <AC04> { [ 0x1000909, 0x100090A ] };
key <AC05> { [ 0x1000917, 0x1000918 ] };
key <AC06> { [ 0x1000939, 0x1000905 ] };
key <AC07> { [ 0x100091C, 0x100091D ] };
key <AC08> { [ 0x1000915, 0x1000916 ] };
key <AC09> { [ 0x1000932, 0x1000933 ] };
key <AC10> { [ semicolon, colon ] };
key <AC11> { [ quoteright, quotedbl ] };
key <BKSL> { [ 0x1000950, 0x1000903 ] };
// z,x,c,v,b,n,m,,,.,/
key <AB01> { [ 0x1000937, 0x100090B ] };
key <AB02> { [ 0x1000921, 0x1000922 ] };
key <AB03> { [ 0x100091B, 0x100091A ] };
key <AB04> { [ 0x1000935, 0x1000901 ] };
key <AB05> { [ 0x100092C, 0x100092D ] };
key <AB06> { [ 0x1000928, 0x1000923 ] };
key <AB07> { [ 0x100092E, 0x1000902 ] };
key <AB08> { [ comma, 0x1000919 ] };
key <AB09> { [ 0x1000964, 0x1000965 ] };
key <AB10> { [ 0x100094D, question ] };
};
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "olpc" {
// Contact: Walter Bender <walter@laptop.org>
include "np"
key <TLDE> { [ 0x100091E, 0x1000965 ] }; // NYA; double danda
key <AE01> { [ 0x1000967, JA_VIRAMA_NYA ] }; // Nepali digit one; U091C+U094D+U091E
key <AE02> { [ 0x1000968, 0x1000908 ] }; // Nepali digit two;
key <AE03> { [ 0x1000969, 0x1000918 ] }; // Nepali digit three;
key <AE04> { [ 0x100096A, DA_VIRAMA_DHA ] }; // Nepali digit four; U0926+U094D+U0927
key <AE05> { [ 0x100096B, 0x100091B ] }; // Nepali digit five
key <AE06> { [ 0x100096C, 0x100091F ] }; // Nepali digit six
key <AE07> { [ 0x100096D, 0x1000920 ] }; // Nepali digit seven
key <AE08> { [ 0x100096e, 0x1000921 ] }; // Nepali digit eight
key <AE09> { [ 0x100096F, 0x1000922 ] }; // Nepali digit nine
key <AE10> { [ 0x1000966, 0x1000923 ] }; // Nepali digit zero
key <AE11> { [ 0x1000913, 0x1000914 ] }; // O, AU
key <AE12> { [ 0x100200C, 0x1000902 ] }; // ZERO-WIDTH-NON-JOINER (ZWNJ); SIGN ANUSVARA
key <BKSL> { [ 0x100094D, 0x100200D ] }; // SIGN VIRAMA; ZERO-WIDTH-JOINER (ZWJ)
key <AD01> { [ TA_VIRAMA_RA, TA_VIRAMA_TA ] }; // U0924+U094D+U0930; U0924+U094D+U0924
key <AD02> { [ 0x1000927, DDA_VIRAMA_DDHA ] }; // DHA; U0921+U094D+U0922
key <AD03> { [ 0x100092D, 0x1000910 ] }; // BHA, AI
key <AD04> { [ 0x100091A, DA_VIRAMA_VA ] }; // CA; U0926+U094D+U0935
key <AD05> { [ 0x1000924, E_VIRAMA_E ] }; // TA; U091F+U094D+U091F
key <AD06> { [ 0x1000925, TTHA_VIRAMA_TTHA ] }; // THA; U0920+U094D+U0920
key <AD07> { [ 0x1000917, 0x100090A ] }; // GA, UU
key <AD08> { [ 0x1000937, KA_VIRAMA_SSA ] }; // SSA; U0915+U094D+U0937
key <AD09> { [ 0x100092F, 0x1000907 ] }; // YA, I
key <AD10> { [ 0x1000909, 0x100090F ] }; // U, E
key <AD11> { [ RA_VIRAMA_ZWJ, 0x1000943 ] }; // U0928+U094D+ZWJ; VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R
key <AD12> { [ 0x1000947, 0x1000948 ] }; // SIGN E; SIGN AI
key <AC01> { [ 0x100092C, 0x1000906 ] }; // BA, AA
key <AC02> { [ 0x1000915, NGA_VIRAMA_KA ] }; // KA; U0919+U094D+U0915
key <AC03> { [ 0x100092E, NGA_VIRAMA_GA ] }; // MA; U0919+U094D+U0917
key <AC04> { [ 0x1000901, 0x100093E ] }; // CANDRABINDU, VOWEL SIGN AA
key <AC05> { [ 0x1000928, DA_VIRAMA_DA ] }; // NA; U0926+U094D+U0926
key <AC06> { [ 0x100091C, 0x100091D ] }; // JA, JHA
key <AC07> { [ 0x1000935, 0x100094B ] }; // VA, VOWEL SIGN O
key <AC08> { [ 0x100092A, 0x100092B ] }; // PA, PHA
key <AC09> { [ 0x100093F, 0x1000940 ] }; // VOWEL SIGN I, VOWEL SIGN II
key <AC10> { [ 0x1000938, TTA_VIRAMA_TTHA ] }; // SA; U091F+U094D+U0920
key <AC11> { [ 0x1000941, 0x1000942 ] }; // VOWEL SIGN U, VOWEL SIGN UU
key <AB01> { [ 0x1000936, KA_VIRAMA_KA ] }; // SHA; U0915+U094D+U0915
key <AB02> { [ 0x1000939, HA_VIRAMA_YA ] }; // HA; U0939+U094D+U092F
key <AB03> { [ 0x1000905, U_R ] }; // A; U0909+U090B
key <AB04> { [ 0x1000916, 0x1000950 ] }; // KHA, OM
key <AB05> { [ 0x1000926, 0x100094C ] }; // DA, VOWEL SIGN AU
key <AB06> { [ 0x1000932, DA_VIRAMA_YA ] }; // LA; U0926+U094D+U092F
key <AB07> { [ 0x1000903, DDA_VIRAMA_DDA ] }; // SIGN VISARGA; U0921+U094D+U0921
key <AB08> { [ 0x100093D, 0x1000919 ] }; // SIGN AVAGRHA; NGA
key <AB09> { [ 0x1000964, SHA_VIRAMA_RA ] }; // DANDA; U0936+U094D+U0930
key <AB10> { [ 0x1000930, RA_U ] }; // RA; U0930+U0941
include "group(olpc)"
};
- Reboot your XO and use the Multiplication/Division key to change input language
- For some reason, switching language doesn't work for the Write activity. This can be solved using the preeti font. The language switching works fine in other activities like chat.
Adding Nepali to Speak Activity
- Install the latest espeak in your desktop
- Copy the folder "espeak-data" to /usr/share/ directory in the XO
- Add the line "translator hi" at the end of this file "/usr/share/espeak-data/voices/ne"
Additional Customization
- Install the Language Pack
- Install the script.
Essential RPM's
RPM's to display man pages
- Install groff-1.18.***.i386
- Install man-1.6f-***.i386
- copy /etc/man.config from linux machine to xo under same location
- Copy Man folder /usr/share/man into into xo
Flash 9
- rpm -ivh <flash-plugin-rpm-name>.rpm
Gnuchess
- rm /usr/games/gnuchess -- for some reason there appears to be a symbolic link here by default that causes problems
- cp /usr/bin/gnuchess /usr/games/ note: for whatever reason, ln -s /usr/bin/gnuchess /usr/games doesn't work