Comments on: Run the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) OS on Your Computer

By: Scot Frank

Scot Frank — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:14:24 +0000

Martin:

Did you manage to get the sound working on your macbook pro? If not, try this:

1. Bring up a console: press ctrl+alt+space+F1
2. login as “root” with no password, unless you changed it.
3. type “alsamixer” at the command prompt.
4. Increase “Master” to about 75% (or until you are well into the green bar zone) by pressing the up-arrow on your keyboard
5. Now press “m” to unmute the master output.
6. Press “esc” on your keyboard to exit and return to the console.
7. Return to the activities screen: press ctrl+alt+space+F3
8. Give it a try on one of the activities

Let me know if this does not work for you now.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:39 +0000

Is there a way to adjust the screen resolution in the Sugar UI to better display under Parallels?

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:32:47 +0000

Hey!

You don’t know how thankful I am, I finally got this thing to work!, I’ve been trying to do it for 2 days, and it didn’t run at all until I got to use VMware

By: Step Schwarz

Step Schwarz — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:21:07 +0000

Got this working in Parallels (Build 3214) and seems to work great.. except the system font is amazingly tiny. Not at all like the screenshots I’ve seen. Anyone encounter this or have a workaround? But regardless, thank you. I’ve been wanting to play around with this…

By: Martin Cohen

Martin Cohen — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:19:08 +0000

How do you get the sound working (macbook pro)?

By: Martin Cohen

Martin Cohen — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:25:39 +0000

I got it working now, but I can’t connect to the network (macbook pro). How do I do it?

Interestingly, Ubuntu has a place where I click to connect, Solaris has to run network.sh from vmtools, and I don’t have a clue about OLPC.

By: Ian Hay

Ian Hay — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:24:57 +0000

I’m getting same problem as Gilbert, boots but no windows, process respawning etc

be nice to get it fixed, any ideas anyone

By: Radmacdaddy

Radmacdaddy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:47:40 +0000

OLPC is trying to boot from , HDD, floppy, CD/DVD and failing. I am using Parallels… followed instructions to the T.

By: ricardoJacquez

ricardoJacquez — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:07:18 +0000

Gilbert:

By: Gilbert Gosselin

Gilbert Gosselin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:55:58 +0000

I’m getting prompted for a username and password when I boot in Parallels. Do you have any suggestions?

i did’nt figured it out. What is the procedure?