XO: Random Findings

[Adam D. Ligas]

Hey folks,

My original XO was electrically challenged, so I had to wait for my
replacement XO.  The new one has arrived, and armed with my 4GB SD card,
I've got Fedora up and running.  I did need to use the 384/256 setting
with Snap3 to avoid any low space errors when running the creation
script.

Lots of folks seem to be working/commenting on the performance things,
so I thought I would take a stroll through some of the other test plans
in the wiki and give some random things a try.

On the display side of things, most of the fonts seem to be chopped in
half and some buttons appear blacked out.  I can't seem to predict when
either will occur, but both occur often.  Looked for settings to change
the DPI as suggested, but I couldn't find any.

Gave "Cheese" a try with the built in camera.  Appears to function
normally, though it is pretty slow to initialize the camera and get it
displayed on screen.  Effects work, but cause a significant delay in the
refresh rate.  Maybe being CPU limited here?

Setup the 802.11g wireless via NetworkManager, and had no trouble.
Connecting to my WPA2-PSK/AES network without any difficulty was quite a
joy!

Firefox worked and didn't seem to be completely miserable.  Maybe I'm
luckier then most.  I didn't browse around too much though.

I was going to play with some audio but my initial testing ended here
with Power Management.  Basically, the XO just died :).  Fedora didn't
detect it was running on a battery, and so I received no alert that the
battery was low, and it just ran out of juice.

Interesting little machine - I'm looking forward to more testing once I
get back home to the charger.

- Adam