Speaking of android, has anyone heard anything about google's other OS, chrome OS?

kind regards,
David

Thanks,

the rpm solution works on at least builds 767, 802, and 1.5 FC11 backported to XO1.0.

I'l go with that .

George

We plugged in an XO-1.0 with an unknown state LiFePO4 battery (may have been fully discharged a week before, or may have been shut down properly) and the battery LED flashed instead of coming on solid like charging normally does. The battery information in /sys indicated low battery voltage (5.something) but otherwise good health and charging state. We tried the battery in a different XO-1.0 and the same behaviour resulted. We left it plugged in overnight and it appears to have charged normally and the battery now runs the laptop (when it was doing the flashing charge, the laptop would switch off immediately when you unplug the charger).

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Power_management#Battery_LED indicates flashing on charge means trickle charging. Sadly we didn't find this page when it was happening so cannot fully confirm it was flashing orange and with the 4 blinks, pause pattern. This page also doesn't give any clues as to why a battery might be trickle charging.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification#Battery suggests that the battery has a Maxim DS2756 chip in it, but this chip only monitors one cell, so I guess there are two such chips? The /sys interface only gives information about the whole battery, it doesn't tell you about the state of each cell. The specification pdf on the Hardware_specification page describes the Embedded Controller interface to the operating system in terms of "Battery", not "Cell" so I guess it doesn't expose each cell either?

Is it possible to see each cell's voltage separately from within the operating system or the open firmware? I guess if there is no other way, it wouldn't be terribly hard to program a microcontroller to talk to the cell monitors over the 1 wire bus.


Kind regards
Tabitha Roder

I've spent all morning googling to find the documentation of how to determine which sugar build I'm running under -- without success.

If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.

George

Hi Seth, gang,

I just cloned the git version of help at sugarlabs.org (activity.info version 9). 

A couple of months ago I downloaded the then current version of help, because I wanted to include a browser based help system in a debugger I am writing.  I discovered, much to my annoyance, that the webview widget, when asked to hide itself, actually gets the pointer to the mainwindow, and hides it.  That didn't work for my needs.  But I discovered that the helpfr (the french version of help) worked on fc11 and also corrected the widget hide problem.

Just for grins, I put the helpfr (Aide) up on build 767 (I think that's sugar 8.2.1), and it worked.  So it would appear to be a simple substitution to swap the helpfr browser iengine nto the current v9.

I was wondering if someone had already worked up such a branch on  git so that  help will be ready for FC11 and XO1.5.   If not, I would be willing to work on one.   

George