<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hi Walter and All... M-stock sort of stands for "mangled machine"!  This includes XOs with keys ripped off, cracked screens, screens that are half-black and that sort of thing.  Some of us "tinkerers" on the support-gang got some of these to see what we could do with them. I expect to get 8 working XO-1s from the 10 I received.  These will be used as a traveling lending library to go with my "Roadshow In A Box." Six are currently lent out, one in CA and 5 in MT. Caryl Remember the 3-Rs!  Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle! > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:33:02 -0400 > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Alternate Characters > From: walter.bender@gmail.com > To: cbigenho@hotmail.com > CC: support-gang@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho<cbigenho@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am working on getting the M-stock machines I received working so that I > > can check them out to folks when I do my "Roadshows."  I checked out one to > > my Chinese teacher in CA. I wanted her 9-yr-old daughter to try it, but her > > 3-yr-old son is monopolizing it and probably destroying it too :-(.  Five > > more went to folks who came to my presentation at the Bozeman MT LUG  last > > week.  I could have checked out more, but so far that is all I have working > > at this time. > > One I still have to fix has a strange problem.  It seems simple, but I don't > > know what to try.  I have already reflashed the machine and updated the > > software to 802. It will only write in the alternate characters shown on > > some of the keys (like the ñ).  Could it be that the : "alt gr" key is > > stuck?  Is there an easy fix for this one?  I have 2 XOs with screens that > > are gone (like 1/2 black)  that I could use for parts if I need to, but I > > was wondering if anyone knew of an easier way than swapping the keyboard. > > Thanks, > > Caryl > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > I am not sure what an M-stock machine is, but it does sound to me like > a physical keyboard problem. Changing the keyboard is not the easiest > repair on an OLPC XO, but it is doable. Likely if you just ease back a > bit on the pressure of the plastic shell on the keyboard, the problem > will resolve. There are instructions somewhere on the OLPC wiki. > > Good luck. > > -walter > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org </body> </html>