Am 12.09.2008 um 04:38 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck:

> Bert: I have done exactly what you said in other mail:
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> $ svn co http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/olpc squeak-vm
> $ cd squeak-vm/platforms/unix
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
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> ... which installs in /usr/local
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> And works perfect!!!
>
> However, I have a question. In the link I see this VM is under  
> "olpc". Is this correct?

Yes. The OLPC "XO" laptop is a regular Linux machine so that VM works  
fine on any Linux. There is only one OLPC-specific change in there,  
the rest is bug fixes and improvements. All of this will be merged  
back to the main VM when time permits.

- Bert -


>
> many thanks,
>
> mariano
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>  
> wrote:
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Am 11.09.2008 um 15:39 schrieb Juan Vuletich:
>
> Usually the VM / OS ignores the alpha channel of the display. But  
> with composite window managers on Linux, it is honored, and the bug  
> is exposed.
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> This is a VM problem and has a fix, as already discussed previously:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-August/130935.html
>
> - Bert -
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> Thanks Bert. I wonder what would need to happen for this fix to be  
> included in the compiled VM's most people use.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
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