OLE Nepal/Deployment guide/Logistics
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Logistics
- Ask OLPC to install the developer keys and install our custom image before the laptops get here.
- Check with OLPC if the laptop keyboards have been localized.
- If possible, count the number of XO's at the airport and note any physical damage
- Transport XO's to storage area
- 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)
- 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.
- 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)
- Activate all laptops. (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys#Getting_devkey_data_via_USB_stick)
- Power up a laptop and hit the ESC key. At the OK prompt, type "test-all". This will test all components of the laptop.
- 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.
- At the OK prompt, type "change-tag LO ne_NP.UTF-8" to change the locale to Nepali.
Update firmware/ Install image
- To update firmware type "flash u:\XXXX" where XXXX is the filename including the extension of the firmware.
- 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.
- 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.
