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Comment on Also selling my TC1100… by DaVi

DaVi — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:33:43 +0000

hp tc1100 how much?

Comment on New HP 2710p and Notes by francisco athens

francisco athens — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:55:48 +0000

Added more information on the 2710p Ubuntu Laptop Testing Wiki
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP2710p_Hardy

Comment on Ubuntu on OLPC XO by P3t3r

P3t3r — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:14:45 +0000

Never mind, solved already.

In case someone has the same problem later: I had to use /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1.

By the way, ubuntu loads well, but is it normal that I don’t have a GUI? XFCE fails to start, it says no screens found… :-/

Comment on Ubuntu on OLPC XO by P3t3r

P3t3r — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:12:51 +0000

Hi, I tried your great guide and I managed to get a working image. However, somehow I fail at moving the image to the USB.

When I type
sudo dd if=/home/peter/Desktop/tetten of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
then the USB starts writing for about half an hour. After half an hour, it seems done. Then I type sudo sync, as instructed, and then remove the USB disk.

However, when plugging it in, ubuntu fails to mount it. Looking in Windows I get the error that the disk is not even formatted. And the OLPC doesn’t want to mount it either.

Any idea what I could have done wrong? Or what I should try? As far as I can see, I followed the guide litterally…

Thanks!

Comment on Holger’s Backported AMD Video Drivers Accelerate Ubuntu on OLPC by sanity

sanity — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:55:54 +0000

I tried this, but it wanted to remove a bunch of things including xfce!:

root@OLPC:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg x11-xkb-utils
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
fortunes-min fortune-mod libgnome-menu2 libgnomekbd-common librecode0 hal xfdesktop4 hal-info xfce4-session xfdesktop4-data
xscreensaver-data
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpixman-1-0 x11-common xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
Suggested packages:
xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable
Recommended packages:
libgl1-mesa-dri
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gksu gnome-screensaver libgksu2-0 libgnomekbd1 libgnomekbdui1 libxklavier11 xbase-clients xfce4 xfce4-mcs-plugins xkbutils
xserver-xorg-input-elographics xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-vesa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpixman-1-0 x11-xkb-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
x11-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-video-amd
8 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 13 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 5147kB of archives.
After unpacking 8139kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Comment on Blog of the Oppressed by j1mc

j1mc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:24:44 +0000

thanks for the heads-up! i’ve added his blog’s rss feed to my feed reader.

Comment on Awake too late doing too little by francisco athens

francisco athens — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:48:56 +0000

Just found a flash based game using the Box3D engine called
Hikkoshi!
http://www.skt-products.com/contents/hikkoshi.html

Comment on Ubuntu on OLPC XO by nealmcb

nealmcb — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:25:20 +0000

I would think this simpler debootstrap-based method would work with Ubuntu – anyone tried it? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_Debian_as_an_upgrade

Comment on zsnes on OLPC XO by hermermferm

hermermferm — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:35:45 +0000

Thanks guys. Running swell.

Comment on zsnes on OLPC XO by francisco athens

francisco athens — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:08:20 +0000

once znes starts up you can load a rom with the gui menu…