[Sugar-devel] Fw: [ANNOUNCE] [REMINDER] Testing day --- 13 February

Art Hunkins abhunkin at uncg.edu
Sun Feb 14 17:58:22 EST 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
To: <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] [REMINDER] Testing day --- 13 February


> This could well be case. I was using a 1GB (952MB available) stick; I've 
> gotten somewhat better results with 4GB.
>
> Though the boot is now usually complete, often available wireless network 
> nodes do not appear in neighborhood view (as in "none except me"). So 
> there's no connecting to the internet. This behavior may well be 
> computer-dependent.
>
> What concerns me the most (other than csound-python being absent, though 
> it can easily be downloaded), is the fact that font sizes have changed 
> once again :(. Here there is a reversion to a size *slightly larger* than 
> (the tiny) "Strawberry size". I would have expected that default font size 
> would be standard by now. I would really like my default font displays to 
> look relatively the same for all versions of SoaS (from Blueberry on). Is 
> this not possible? (Minor changes are no real issue.)
>
> Otherwise, I'll have two options:
> 1) rescale the display for each new version of SoaS;
> 2) forget about trying to have a default display that looks approximately 
> the same on all screens (as I do now).
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] [REMINDER] Testing day --- 13 
> February
>
>
>>I found I needed 1024 memory to get boot. Try the instructions on the wiki 
>>for live-usb from .iso script..It works. also I could use VMWorkstation 
>>and VB to run .iso
>> Tom Gilliard
>> (using Blueberry 16GB SD on EeePc900 wirelessly in motel)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
>> Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010 8:31 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] [REMINDER] Testing day --- 13 
>> February
>>
>>> Early report on the Soas testing day build:
>>>
>>> I tested this build (created with Fedora Live USB Creator) on four
>>> systems.
>>> The build only completely booted on one system, an XO-1.
>>> Excrutiatingly
>>> slow. System crash (eventually back to main screen) whenever scroll
>>> attempted either with click on scrollbar or a mouse-wheel scroll.
>>>
>>> On other three systems, boot got through hot dog - then blank
>>> screen with no
>>> tiny arrow display. (XO-1 got the arrow display and further on.)
>>>
>>> My desktop just stalled at that point with a blank screen, but my
>>> eeePC900
>>> and Intel Classmate both displayed an identical set of messages:
>>> render error detected
>>> EIR
>>> page table error (# all zeros, ending with 100)
>>> EIR stuck
>>>
>>> I was also able to determine (on the XO-1) that csound-python was
>>> still not
>>> included in the distro. Unfortunately, I was not able to attempt
>>> installing
>>> it, as I didn't have ready access to the Terminal activity due to
>>> the scroll
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> I hope others have better luck.
>>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Simon Schampijer" <simon at schampijer.de>
>>> To: "Sugar-dev" <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 6:20 AM
>>> Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] [REMINDER] Testing day --- 13
>>> February
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > the testing day page [1] has been updated. A soas build is now
>>> available> [2]!
>>> >
>>> > First instructions for testing [3] are available, too. If you
>>> fixed a
>>> > bug in 0.87.x please add testing instructions to this page, too -
>>> so it
>>> > can be tested.
>>> >
>>> > The first kick off meeting is at: 14:00 (UTC).
>>> >
>>> > Join in and help to make this a good start into a Sugar-QA future!
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >    Simon
>>> >
>>> > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Testing
>>> > [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Testing#Testing_image
>>> > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Testing#Testing_plans
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