OLE Nepal/Deployment guide/Logistics

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Logistics

  1. Ask OLPC to install the developer keys and install our custom image before the laptops get here.
  2. Check with OLPC if the laptop keyboards have been localized.
  3. If possible, count the number of XO's at the airport and note any physical damage
  4. Transport XO's to storage area
  5. Write the serial number with a marker at the underside of the XO. The serial number can be found after removing the battery. (e.g SHF8060099D)
  6. Assign a label to the XO (e.g OLEN.XO.1).Inventory the XO's in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet should record the XO's serial number, its Label number, whether it shows any physical damage, or won't boot.
    • You can use a marker and a tape to stick the label at the front of the XO.
    • The label is best put in the green cover on top of the screen, between the two antennas.
  7. Laptops should be kept systematically with a certain range of XO's in a certain shelf. (e.g OLEN.XO.1 - OLEN.XO.10 should be kept in the same shelf)
  8. Activate all laptops. (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys#Getting_devkey_data_via_USB_stick)
  9. Power up a laptop and hit the ESC key. At the OK prompt, type "test-all". This will test all components of the laptop.
  10. If there is a bad component write that the laptop is bad and the name of the bad component beside the label using a red marker and a piece of tape.
  11. At the OK prompt, type "change-tag LO ne_NP.UTF-8" to change the locale to Nepali.

Update firmware/ Install image

  1. To update firmware type "flash u:\XXXX" where XXXX is the filename including the extension of the firmware.
  2. This will erase all the files currently stored in your XO. To install the image, put the customized image (osXXX.img) and the crc file (osXXX.crc) at the root of the USB key.
  3. Plug in the USB key and when in forth, type "copy-nand flash u:\osXXX.img". The process will be over in a couple of minutes.

Basic customization

  • Change the Default Jabber Server value to your server by changing the value of DEFAULT_JABBER_SERVER in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/profile.py

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.

Installing/Removing activities

Installing Individual Activiities

  • Boot your XO
  • Open the Terminal Activity
  • Insert the USB Key
  • type "sugar-install-bundle <path of activity.xo>"

Activity Bundle

  • Put activities to be installed in the /bundles directory of your USB Customization Key.
  • While powering up the Laptop, press the X button

Removing Activities

  • Activities are located in /home/olpc/Activities
  • cd /home/olpc/Activities
  • rm -r <Activity-name>.activity

Transporting XO's to the deployment schools

  • We transported the XO's for our pilot schools in a truck.
  • Number of XO's was (around 150 XO's for both pilot schools).
  • No definitive plan yet for future deployments.
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