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[teapot]

Should be more than 10 years since I last used Lynx, but when I tried to open it in Intrepid it gave me the following message
Can't Access `file://localhost/usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

and quited.
Any ideas before I go through  the painfully long lynx.cfg file?

look for STARTFILE line in /etc/lynx.cfg , comment the original one and uncomment the alternative one few lines after it.

Or just edit the URL on that line to point somewhere else.

[teapot]

Also, when I try to enlarge the arrow icon of the mouse cursor, via the Settings Manager, the arrow does not enlarge.

It does, but only in some applications. It will change everywhere once you log out and log in again.

[rustensa]

It's because it's called mke2fs, you should run su -s before doing anything, and mke2fs supposed to be called before doing anything with a tarball.

Earlier while doing the sfdisk I noticed that the pipe was unrecognized and gave me an error. I left it out and it ran. Mistake?

Yes. Don't ever do that. You can't replace a program with some misspelling or creative interpretation of it, and expect it to work.

If nothing else, you can run a browser and cut/paste those lines.

I wanted to extend my thanks for the help of Teapot and everyone else that contributes their findings and projects to help the masses. The XO has definately become more useful for me. Thanks

[orinoco]

Hello Teapot and all:

First of all, thanks for these instructions. They are very clear and well laid out.

In going through the steps, I ran into a problem after the "reboot" instruction.

When I reboot the machine to continue with the setup process, I run into a problem that apparently has to do with the SD card I am using (SanDisk 4 GB SDHC). I run into an error that reads as follows:

SDHC1: Card didn't power up after 1 second
<buffer@ffb691c0>:12:
Can't open boot device

I didn't see anything like this in the problems section compiled for this install.

Any clues that can be of help here?

I will probably try with another SD card tomorrow.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

[mavrothal]

When I reboot the machine to continue with the setup process, I run into a problem that apparently has to do with the SD card I am using (SanDisk 4 GB SDHC). I run into an error that reads as follows:

SDHC1: Card didn't power up after 1 second
<buffer@ffb691c0>:12:
Can't open boot device

This might help http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053.msg28084#msg28084 but in the PNY case it did not http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053.msg28161#msg28161
If you try it and it does can be included as a solution...Let us know

A trick to see if it worth trying is to press Esc when the XO starts to get at the 'ok' prompt, wait 3-5 sec and then type 'boot' . If is starts the card you may want to install q2e24

[orinoco]

Hello Mavrothat: thank you for your response.

I can't seem to find build 790 anywhere (only found up to 767), but I did seem to find joyride 2599 and later (up to 2610). There are many versions of 2610; I'll try one or two to see how it goes.

Do you know where I can find 790 (link)?

I'll try your trick as well to see if it works.

I'll report back here with my findings.

Thanks again.

[mavrothal]

I can't seem to find build 790 anywhere (only found up to 767), but I did seem to find joyride 2599 and later (up to 2610). There are many versions of 2610; I'll try one or two to see how it goes.

joyride 2610 ext3 image download link http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/build2610/devel_ext3/xo-1-olpc-stream-joyride-devel_ext3.img.bz2

[gruuk]

I have installed Intrepid by following the instructions posted in here; sadly, I have no interesting issues to report as everything went swimmingly, the new system being a joy to use. I'll be doing the same on my brother-in-law's XO later on this week.

Thanks, teapot!

[rascalbvi]

I found that for video in Skype 2.0 I had to load the video4lininux package.. or else video is very green.

[mavrothal]

I found that for video in Skype 2.0 I had to load the video4lininux package.. or else video is very green.

Can you be a bit more specific. v4l (libv4l-0 and xserver-xorg-video-v4l) is part of the standard installation. Which package did you install and from where?

[mavrothal]

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Also for basic photo-editing what should I install for her?
GQview (viewer) and Gimp (editor).

What about video recording from the XO camera? Cheese is fine for pictures but poor for video

wxcam should work once I'll fix the way how it estimates frame rate.

I installed the recently released wxcam version 1.0.3 from the deb package and it looks like it has some AI... :-D
Fist run after installation crashes the Xserver, second freezes the XO, third gives me half the screen and the rest grey... Setting YUYV frame format and v4l2 driver in the preferences gives an acceptable ~5FPS recording in 640X480 (other sizes do not work). However, the resulting movie is not playable in MPlayer while in VLC the first run stops halfway and is choppy while the second (without quiting vlc just pless "play") is almost OK!!!???
It is actually the first application that produced some video under Intrepid, but looks like it needs some work...

UPDATE It would appear that there are a lot of conflicts with the video/audio devices/applications and many freezes after the wxcam and/or the libmjpegtools0c2a, libquicktime1, libwxbase2.8-0 and libwxgtk2.8-0 dependencies. Looks like it needs a lot of work to run properly on the XO....

[orinoco]

Reporting back, as promised.

I installed joyride and it did the trick, getting rid of the "power issue" when booting from the SD card. Thanks!

Now that this is working well and Ubuntu is up and running, is there any way to boot into Sugar without having to pull out the SD card?

Thanks again for your help.

[mavrothal]

Now that this is working well and Ubuntu is up and running, is there any way to boot into Sugar without having to pull out the SD card?

4th paragraph here
http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053.msg27491#msg27491

Please look at the "solutions" thread first http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4057.msg27470#msg27470 for this and other "answers" beforehand (this is a general and not personal remark)

[orinoco]

Hello, thanks.

I must have missed that post int he solutions section (my bad).

Thanks again for all your help.

[guidojack]

Things have been going very well with my installation, I'm learning a lot, and I've been trying a variety of applications without problems. That is until I tried to install Freemind: now I seem to have a hangup with openjdk-6-jre-headless & openjdk-6-jre. Any attempt in the terminal at update, or clean gets a note that the openjdk programs are "not fully installed or removed". Also, I cannot remove Freemind using Synaptic Package Manager. I've loaded gtkOrphan, but it finds no orphaned programs. Any suggestions as to how to get rid of Freemind, and/or properly configure or remove the openjdk files?

Thanks