[Dextrose] Dextrose and Firmware q2e42

[Daniel Castelo]

Thanks for all your answers.


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:25 -0200, Daniel Castelo wrote:
> > We have delivered dextrose 1.0 for our XO 1.5 machines, we want to
> > release this version to XO 1.0 one's, but based on some bad
> > experiences that we had in the past we aren't allowed to update the
> > firmware (problems with some machines that remained broken after the
> > process).
>
> Indeed, I have observed one such case in Paraguay (out of 4500 upgraded
> machines).
>
>
> > The question is, if we have the firmware q2e42 installed, will
> > dextrose (version 1) run properly in this machines?
>
> I can't check right now what the minimum OFW version number is, but we
> need a recent version which enables the DMI BIOS tables in order to
> configure the keyboard correctly.
>
> This is because olpc-utils changed to use HAL to configure the keyboard.
> See /etc/hal/fdi/information/30-keymap-olpc.fdi . You could easily patch
> olpc-utils to setup the keyboard from /etc/init.d/olpc-configure.
>
> You may also want at least q2e45 to fix a bug which causes laptops to
> hang occasionally during boot:
>
>  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9100
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>
>


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