Sugar on a Stick/Hardware

2009-05-05T09:18:13Z

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== A SoaS Hardware Effort ==

=== What's this about ===

This attempt has been started shortly after the SoaS beta release on April 22nd and is focussed on tracking hardware compatibility with newer SoaS versions. The overall goal of this effort is to gather information about issues with various hardware configurations using [[Sugar_on_a_Stick|SoaS]]. So if you just came across an issue or want to help us by providing your hardware specs, please follow these instructions.

=== What we're doing ===

We're using the [http://www.smolts.org Smolt] project to keep information about the various systems. Smolt is a hardware profiler and has been introduced with [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Smolt Fedora 7]. Since then, also openSUSE has joined the project. We're working on creating an identifier for SoaS in the Smolt database.

Smolt basically helps you to submit your hardware information to a place, where people like us developers can check them out. Smolt development is hosted [https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/ here] and if you're worried about your privacy, you can have a look at Smolt's [https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/wiki/PrivacyPolicy privacy policy] here. Note that you can remove your hardware information at any time - instructions for this are also listed below!

== Next Steps ==

So. What's next? Here're the instructions:

# First of all, you'll need to download SoaS, which already includes Smolt. Please use the latest snapshot and ''not'' the beta for this! Here's the direct link: {{SoaS-2 path}}
# Boot into SoaS and start the Terminal Activity.
# Now you're ready to submit your hardware specs. For this, just call (as root): ''smoltSendProfile''
# It will ask you again if you're sure and will also give you a link to your profile and an admin password then. Please keep those!

Now that you've received the link to your hardware profile, please add it to the table below, as this will help us a lot to get an overview on which hardware SoaS is used on where issues occur. Note that with your admin password, you'll be also able to rate your experience with SoaS regarding the hardware support on your profile page. You can also provide it if you're filing a bug report on [http://dev.sugarlabs.org dev.sl.o].

What if you want to remove your information?
:Just type in the terminal (again as root): ''smoltDeleteProfile''

* Consider also reporting observations of your testing here, [[Sugar on a Stick/Getting Involved/Testing]].

== Program Members ==

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
| '''name''' || '''smolt''' || '''notes'''
|-
| Sebastian Dziallas || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_cf5334e9-3337-49cd-a7af-747b77bbdda1 ||
|-
| satellit || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_cf76bc48-7208-438b-a17a-6a6e94b8b230 ||
|-
| James Simmons || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_9bd8878e-aefa-4304-ac55-c87738969fdd || used boot diskette, Browse wouldn't start.
|-
| Mathieu Bridon || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_27aeaf15-0c96-45bf-b9db-01fe5772492c ||
|-
| satellit || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_ec31848d-9ef1-4d51-a7ce-17b7998113f2 ||no wireless
|-
| Luya Tshimbalanga || http://smolts.org/client/show/pub_922b7f43-db28-4c56-8107-c95516dc2c59 || Freeze when multiple activities are open, audio and video not working on Record and TamTam
|-
|satellit||http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_34858d7b-dda5-4fc0-bcca-57ade97d6048 ||Fedora 11 beta with Sugar Desktop wired
|-
| James Simmons || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_3aab3f17-ab4f-4883-a152-de25125d86bc || used boot diskette, everything works, word highlighting on Read Etexts lags behind spoken words.
|-
| Eduardo NH Silva || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_fe227e13-5847-494c-b96b-cfe2484aab90 || ok
|-
| Frederick Grose || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_ae2467bf-9802-4dfe-9849-69922fd9082b || VirtualBox2.2.0 on Jackalope64 host
|-
| Frederick Grose || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_7618393d-bf0c-4227-901a-0bb3f5cfc982 || USB stick prepared with livecd-iso-to-disk.sh on SoaS running in VirtualBox2.2.0
|-
| Caroline Meeks Dell || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_fa888e3a-3c29-44dc-b1cb-e28be354f9c5 ||
|-
| Walter Bender || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_270553cf-91ed-495c-834c-521da796d345 || Magalâes Classmate: no sound
|-
| Frederick Grose || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_ee2f82d0-f863-454f-9d72-b1ee60fb3c65 || USB stick prepared with LiveUSB-creator3.6.5 on Vista32
|-
| Elena Grandi || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a3bddcf4-644e-43dd-b0a1-b84b5c3b7201 || Soas2-200905031329.iso prepared with livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
|-
| <your name here> || <your smolt link here> || <your comments here>
|- 
|} 

== Upcoming Improvements ==

We're working on getting Smolt integrated in a Sugar Activity to ease the process of submitting the information.

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