Another F11 build for the XO-1 has been released

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Fox<pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> peter wrote:
>  > Speaking of olpc-powerd. I've been playing with various the various
>  > builds that have been around and it works terribly in VM environments,
>  > or non XO physical machines. It should check for XO hardware and if it
>  > doesn't find any it should just exit. Also it logs massive amounts of
>
> yes, i agree.  i'll fix that.  getting it to work properly on the
> correct h/w seemed more important at the time than getting it to
> not work correctly on the wrong hardware.
>
>  > stuff to the console which is lost because its not logged to the
>  > messages file. It just took 30 odd mins for a VM to boot up because of
>  > all the olpc-powerd spew and when I could finally ssh into it there
>  > was not a single bit of the spew in either dmesg or /var/log/messages.
>
> this part surprises me...  oh.  no it doesn't.  i normally run
> with tracing turned on, and all previous releases have had it on
> by default.  and when tracing is enabled, stderr is redirected to
> a file.  with tracing off, it's not.  oops.  will fix.

Excellent. Thanks! Let me know if you want to test anything.

Cheers,
Peter