Cornucopia

This dude looks in so much pain from being a geek.

http://www.geek.com/feature-hacking-the-xo-laptop

Redeeming Features

Okay, managed (plug-n-play) to get a regular USB keyboard connected - looks like my USB/PS2 adapter might have a problem. I wouldn't expect the XO to mess that up. Keyboard is the Mi Internet Elite keyboard from WM for $20. Will look online for a cheaper one.

Then, managed to do an "xterm &" and get a new xterm with microscopic font. So, atleast I did manage to launch an application from the command line. Not sure if it's possible to get full-fledged windowing - resize windows, etc. That's not so important. Next order of business is to hack in and increase the processor speed at the expense of more power of course. If someone tells me how to do that, I'll pay!

Aus der meister :

Can you get access to this directory: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
If you do, cat these files - scaling_available_frequencies, scaling_available_governors, etc. - to see what's available.
If the application cpufreq is available, you can alter these settings.

Unfortunately, cpu0 only contains a file called crash_notes and a directory called cache. Looks like I'll have to import cpufreq from somewhere else.

But, I can confess that the beast feels an order or magnitude faster just from being able to use a regular keyboard.

XO Recalibrating Touchpad

Hope this helps someone:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Recalibrating_Touchpad

Evidence

of people actually having success with a USB mouse on the XO. Unfortunately, they don't post linx to instructions.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/review-olpc-xo.html