**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Mar 30 02:59:57 2011 Mar 30 03:53:42 I'm in the process of getting one of those Sylvania 7" netbooks that CVS sold on black friday. It has a 300mhz ARM processor, 128mb ram, 2gb HD. Has anyone had any luck with ubuntu on it? Mar 30 03:55:52 AaronMick: its a via arm processor, or atleast the ones i got were Mar 30 03:56:51 AaronMick: its pretty easy getting generic linux up an running, no clue about ubuntu Mar 30 03:58:17 prpplague: I'm not sure what processor it really is, since I'm seeing a 1.2ghz arm processor, a 400mhz, and a 300mhz. I'll have to wait to find out. Mar 30 03:58:29 prpplague: what type of arm? Mar 30 03:58:36 prpplague: armv5? Mar 30 03:58:45 prpplague: It's running Windows CE, and its said to be HORRIBLY slow. I'm hoping a juice-up with linux will help with the speed. Mar 30 03:59:13 heres what I know about it: Mar 30 03:59:15 * Processor Clock Speed: 300M MHz Mar 30 03:59:15 * Processor/Manufacturer: WM Mar 30 03:59:15 * Processor Model: VIA-ARM VT8500 Mar 30 03:59:32 rsalveti: via VT8500 Mar 30 04:00:39 rsalveti: ARM926EJ-S Mar 30 04:01:09 i have about dozen variations of the sylvania unit Mar 30 04:01:14 yeah, maybe debian Mar 30 04:01:47 AaronMick: you probably can run a nice variation of angstrom Mar 30 04:02:03 yeah, angstrom would fit fine Mar 30 04:02:17 AaronMick: i mainly purchased them to remove the MB and replace with either a beagle or panda Mar 30 04:02:56 I read on the ubuntu forums that there is no BIOS so installing a OS is difficult, if not impossible. Mar 30 04:04:24 AaronMick: hehehehe Mar 30 04:04:34 AaronMick: no not impossible, not even difficuly Mar 30 04:04:57 How would you go about doing it? I'm more familiar with PC's with BIOS's that you can boot and install from Mar 30 04:05:04 AaronMick: i had linux booting on the sylvania in about 10 minutes Mar 30 04:05:23 http://gitorious.org/linux-on-via-vt8500 Mar 30 04:05:53 AaronMick: but if you aren't familiar with embedded linux, there is a learning curve Mar 30 04:08:54 I'm up for a challenge. Mar 30 04:09:59 AaronMick: but an augen instead if you can get one, and join the #didj channel, more support and co-development, via is pretty much dead to open source Mar 30 04:10:22 AaronMick: techincally so is magic eyes, but there is more of a community Mar 30 04:10:44 AaronMick: http://www.elinux.org/Augen_eGo:_OE-A730_to_OE-A733 Mar 30 04:11:57 AaronMick: http://computerpartsdirect.us/augen-ego-oea736-akarm-arm926ak7802-248mhz-64mb-2gb-7-netboo-p-18868.html?zenid=00b848a5384a821ec4848e2ab993b8a3 Mar 30 04:58:23 Damn. Something is not right with the omap4 images. http://members.dsl-only.net/~tdavis/panda-20110328.jpg is what it looks like on first boot. No oem-config, mega-interlacing. Mar 30 05:01:38 Reset seems to clear it up. At first I thought it may be my sd card or image. This is being too consistant. 3 different SD cards, two pandas, very weird. Mar 30 05:36:36 Yea, we have banshee on panda. Mar 30 12:07:26 morning Mar 30 12:09:17 hey hey Mar 30 12:09:27 good catch on the meta stuff Mar 30 12:09:38 (still no upload though) Mar 30 12:25:02 argh, why still not updated? Mar 30 12:25:19 probably waiting rtg Mar 30 12:25:31 no idea, when i asked cooloney he had nothing ready yet and was waiting for tim Mar 30 12:26:04 on a different topic, Amaranth got compiz running on panda with gles :-) Mar 30 12:26:13 still a lot to fix it seems, but good to see it worked Mar 30 12:26:16 geez ! Mar 30 12:26:25 awesome news Mar 30 12:26:51 http://www.realistanew.com/random/compiz/compizpanda2.png Mar 30 12:28:06 great, lets switch the default UI :P Mar 30 12:28:22 hehe Mar 30 12:28:27 That's running unity-2d Mar 30 12:28:47 Other than the Workspaces button it all seems to do the right thing Mar 30 12:28:49 bah, cheater ! Mar 30 12:28:57 :) Mar 30 12:29:16 Better than unity itself actually, we actually get shadows on the top panel Mar 30 12:29:16 ;-) Mar 30 12:30:07 metacity with its own composite manager works pretty well here on non GL hardware Mar 30 12:30:36 with compiz it can get laggy sometimes Mar 30 12:30:41 i get a little banding in the dropped shadows but you dont feel any performance difference Mar 30 12:30:53 It'll be pretty smooth then suddenly pause for a moment Mar 30 12:31:02 for plain xfbdev thats pretty good imho Mar 30 12:31:21 Oh, you're running the metacity compositor with no XRender acceleration? Mar 30 12:31:33 yes Mar 30 12:31:33 I guess you needed something to use that second core ;) Mar 30 12:31:47 heh Mar 30 12:32:16 well, its not that the cpu usage goes through the roof or so Mar 30 12:32:31 i really cant see a difference apart from added bling Mar 30 12:32:58 And you're running at 1920x1080? Mar 30 12:33:50 heh, no, the ac100 only has a 1024x600 LCD Mar 30 12:34:04 ah, now that's a different story Mar 30 12:34:42 Although with tegra 2 you're missing the pixman neon optimizations so I would still expect some noticeable cpu usage Mar 30 12:42:39 rsalveti, oh, btw, i dropped the dvi bits from the default cmdline on the weekend Mar 30 12:43:05 ogra_: cool, was just going to ask you about that Mar 30 12:43:15 yeah, i saw it in the backlog Mar 30 13:10:27 does anyone here know where upower reads the battery capacity from in the sysfs entry? Mar 30 13:15:17 lilstevie: cd /sys/class/battery/ and take a look? Mar 30 13:15:47 hrw: it is more that it doesnt read the capacity from there Mar 30 13:16:34 er well I mean, I am trying to get it to correctly read the battery capacity Mar 30 13:16:43 lilstevie: check /sys/class/power_supply/*/uevent Mar 30 13:16:50 POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL_DESIGN=84000000 Mar 30 13:16:50 POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL=79110000 Mar 30 13:16:50 POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW=77565000 Mar 30 13:17:56 POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=battery Mar 30 13:17:56 POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery Mar 30 13:17:57 POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Full Mar 30 13:17:57 POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH=Good Mar 30 13:17:57 POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1 Mar 30 13:17:57 POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion Mar 30 13:17:57 POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=100 Mar 30 13:18:06 oops Mar 30 13:18:09 capacity = POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW / POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW for my x86 laptop Mar 30 13:18:12 should have pastied that Mar 30 13:18:31 that is everything in uevent Mar 30 13:18:48 so check upower source Mar 30 13:20:59 using upower -d Mar 30 13:21:11 or what Mar 30 13:21:32 apt-get source upower? Mar 30 13:22:03 oh right Mar 30 16:19:23 from which git tree did you generate this one: https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/trunk/+buildjob/2114099? Mar 30 16:19:31 linux-ti-omap4 2.6.35-980.1release9 Mar 30 16:24:05 ppisati: kernel-ubuntu on dev.omapzoom.org Mar 30 16:27:21 ndec: k Mar 30 19:08:27 ndec: ping Mar 30 19:09:02 anyone know what git repo is being used for the kernel for the 11.04 release? Mar 30 20:49:35 prpplague: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-natty.git;a=summary Mar 30 20:49:39 prpplague: ti-omap4 branch Mar 30 20:49:51 and work the same way as the maverick one Mar 30 20:50:24 rsalveti: thanks Mar 30 21:02:09 yea. Banshee works on panda (no audio, but...) Mar 30 21:05:11 cool Mar 30 22:09:55 time to get some food, brb Mar 31 00:20:58 Hi, I've loaded Maverick on a Beagle board Mar 31 00:21:14 GrueMaster: fifo underflow again? Mar 31 00:21:35 but none of the mice I try move the pointer once Ubuntu has finished booting Mar 31 00:21:39 all optical mice Mar 31 00:21:47 they are getting power Mar 31 00:22:11 rsalveti: Which? Mar 31 00:22:21 bug 746133 Mar 31 00:22:21 Launchpad bug 746133 in linux-ti-omap4 "Video loses sync on omap4" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/746133 Mar 31 00:22:36 I never saw that, but didn't use extensively without the pvr x11 driver Mar 31 00:22:40 easwar: Are you using a powered hub? Highly recommended. Mar 31 00:22:43 following these directions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAPMaverickInstall Mar 31 00:22:56 don't know if it could affect the behavior you're seeing Mar 31 00:23:46 GrueMaster, no, I'm not, but this occurs even if the mouse is the only device connected to the USB hub Mar 31 00:23:54 and Beagleboard xM BTW Mar 31 00:24:24 easwar: it should work if you connect the mouse directly without any other usb hub Mar 31 00:24:37 100mA but it should be enough Mar 31 00:24:55 rsalveti, yeah, but no joy Mar 31 00:24:59 don't know if your power supply could interfere, but with mine I'm able to use with a normal keyboard and mouse Mar 31 00:25:05 I've tried all 4 USB ports too Mar 31 00:25:24 easwar: any message at your dmesg? Mar 31 00:25:41 rsalveti, power supply is DC 5V, 2.5A Mar 31 00:25:42 easwar: also, which xM revision is yours? Mar 31 00:25:48 more than enough Mar 31 00:25:51 rsalveti, revision B Mar 31 00:26:12 easwar: any message at your kernel? Mar 31 00:26:12 4G microSD Mar 31 00:26:23 at least to see if it saw that a new usb device was plugged int Mar 31 00:26:24 *in Mar 31 00:27:12 rsalveti, dunno, I don't see any boot text, it directly boots to the Ubuntu splash screen Mar 31 00:27:33 easwar: yeah, you need to hack the boot.scr file to be able to see the console messages Mar 31 00:27:59 easwar: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/BeagleEditBootscr Mar 31 00:29:27 rsalveti, ok Mar 31 00:29:42 I'll try that and check if dmesg or the kernel recognizes the mice Mar 31 00:29:46 *recognize Mar 31 00:31:09 thanks! :) **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Mar 31 02:59:58 2011