User:Kevgor/Miscellaneous Technical Notes
Miscellaneous Technical Reminder Notes
November 2011
Thanks to Daniel Drake, Mikus Grinbergs and Yioryos Asprobounitis for all their help on some these
Install Developer Key
su - wget -P /security https://activation.laptop.org/devkey/xxxxxxxxx/develop.sig
Boot keys
signed install - all 4 game keys on right-hand on display
text boot - check-mark game key on right-hand side of display
boot to OFW - esc (X) keyboard key
Unsigned Build reflash commands from OFW
XO1 - jffs2 from os-builder
copy-nand osx.img
XO1
update-nand osx.onu
XO1.5 and 1.75
fs-update osx.zd4
Start cups service
/sbin/service cups start
USB ethernet auto-assign workaround
avahi-autoipd eth1
Turn on tap-to-click
Persistent for older CL1/CL1A - edit to turn on or off
/etc/modprobe/olpc.psmouse.conf
Non-Persistent for newer CL1A - to turn on
echo -n C > /sys/bus/serio/drivers/psmouse/serio*/flags
Non-Persistent for newer CL1A - to turn off
echo -n c > /sys/bus/serio/drivers/psmouse/serio*/flags
Adopt authority/permissions hint
add the NOPASSWD option in /etc/sudoers just for the scripts/commands you need
Sample yum syntax
For download only of yum updates to an External USB Volume PATRIOT with subdirectory called UpdateRpms
yum update --downloadonly --nogpgcheck --downloaddir=/media/PATRIOT/UpdateRpms
For installing rpms from a USB volume PATRIOT with subdirectory called UpdateRpms and no internet access
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=* /media/PATRIOT/UpdateRpms/*.rpm
Install bad and ugly gstreamer files to USB
For download only of rpm's to an External USB Volume PATRIOT with subdirectory called Guvcview. This will alter the repos used for subsequent Updates, so delete rpmfusion repos later if you wish
yum install --nogpgcheck \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm sleep 2 yum install --downloadonly --nogpgcheck --downloaddir=/media/PATRIOT/Guvcview \ gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg
Enable and Start Bluetooth service
To enable:
systemctl enable bluetooth.service ln -s ‘/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service’ ‘/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service’ ln -s ‘/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service’ ‘/etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service'
To start:
systemctl start bluetooth.service
Frequent Links to Laptop.org
XO diagnostics <ref>XO diagnostics</ref>
Developer Builds <ref>Developer builds</ref>
Stable builds <ref>Stable builds</ref>
Enable Cups <ref>Enable CUPS</ref>
Printing <ref>Printing</ref>
OLPC News mavrothal item 1 <ref>Mav ref page</ref>
External links