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
• Model S Das Keyboard
• picoLCD

Software

Operating System

• Release 10.1.2 (Build 852)

Sugar Activities

• Terminal 31
• Write 63
• Record 86
• Read 86
• Moon 11
• Chat 65
• Browse 108

yummies

• GCC
• Kile and TeXLive
• ImageMagick
• Fldigi
• SoX
• atari++
• Wine
• LCDproc
• 3rd Party yummies, including gtkpod, xmms, and VLC

Misc.

• qrencode
• FreeBASIC

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: Things to do, ideas to try out, and

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• Fedora 11 for XO-1: Install Notes (Just Didn't Work™; superseded by 10.1.2 pseudo-release for XO-1)
• Reconfigure XoIRC's defaults superseded by IRC 5.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