Talk:F11 for XO-1

Interesting How To...

Not sure I'm up to doing it/ taking it on. but nice to know it's available for keeping those with older hardware in the loop...

I've been calling the XO 1.5 a Fat XO in the Mac tradition, same form factor / box, but different... Maybe Prodigy XO? It's same kid size, but smarter ;-/

danceswithcars 16:53, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

git checkout xo-1 FAILS, no joy ;-( ...

danceswithcars 17:42, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

more specifically, fails in the following way:

git checkout xo-1
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

danceswithcars 23:19, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Still Didn't Work ...

I've not figured out Git. The commands listed on main page didn't work for me... same error. Tried Perl6. Rakudo, proto and november (wiki in P6) with git and no success either. Long learning curve...

danceswithcars 10:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

My XO-1 Bites the Dust

Ok, so I've been having touchpad problems since I got it, but a mouse workaround fixes that.

Then the camera not working, ok, I don't show record, the crowd pleaser, use Speak and the microphone app measure? instead...

But then the screen stops working (weird behavior, was blank restarting fixed, now dark line/bars and looks like shorting out, maybe a smell too?), then it's toast...

And the G1G1 program is not running, I'm probably a little light on the tech for doing an alpha (though would want it, run school server software, and show to LUG members, across users groups like Perl Mongers, mini demos, etc... and beta boards of Fat XO-1.5 are a ways away...

SO IT SEVERELY LIMITS WHAT ONE CAN DO WHEN YOU CAN'T GET THE HARDWARE, LIKE ANY OTHER MACHINE... And wastes my years of experience with the project (albeit mostly user, and OLPCLearningClub user group)...

Not sure if I'm going to be able to get them from lending / pool...

Ebay sounds risky... Netbook Bakeoff (OLPCLearningClub comparing netbooks) makes me wonder which one, though not a good comparison...

danceswithcars 10:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

XO-1.5 software will not fit on XO-1.0???

How much will fit on a smaller Footprint?

If the XO-1.5 is 2x the machine that the XO-1 is (memory, processing power, etc), then what software will one have to leave out in order to get it to fit and work on a more limited initial machine??

danceswithcars 10:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

S'not working?

After some discussion on support-gang@ a working solution is:

 git checkout --track -b xo-1 origin/xo-1

Cheerfully proving everything I already believe about git.

Build fails early:

kernel-2.6.30-20090621.1.olpc.db92a09.i586 from olpc-kernel has   depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: dracut is needed by package kernel-2.6.30-20090621.1.olpc.db92a09.i586 (olpc-kernel)
kernel-2.6.30-20090621.1.olpc.db92a09.i586 from olpc-kernel has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: dracut is needed by package kernel-2.6.30-20090621.1.olpc.db92a09.i586 (olpc-kernel)
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/errors.py:45: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6
  return unicode(self.message)
Error creating Live CD : Failed to build transaction : Missing Dependency: dracut is needed by package kernel-2.6.30-20090621.1.olpc.db92a09.i586 (olpc-kernel)
make: *** [os1.iso] Error 1

--Adricnet 00:12, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Fixed now - git pull and try again

git reset --hard HEAD
git pull
make ...

PS - you don't need the --track option any more unless you've changed the defaults.

MartinDengler 03:02, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, thanks, the build nearly completes now. Apparently this new Fedora install doesn't have squashfs, so I'm working on that now.

Adricnet 03:50, 17 July 2009 (UTC)