| 00:01 | hybridvs | changed net cable and port in the swich , rebooted the cubox , still taking no ip from the offered range (now 192.168.0.20 - 192.168.0.199) the router web interface informs me that the port is detecting 1000/fullduplex connectivity , seems like the cubox dhcp client is not active in the default factory configuration |
| 00:03 | hybridvs | surprise! it worked now : cubox 192.168.0.20 00:50:43:54:1A:0D DHCP-IP Ethernet |
| 00:09 | dv_ | interestingly, h264dec eats 100% CPU, vmetadec 65%, for a 1920x1080 h264 video |
| 00:09 | diget | anyone an idea how long a cubox order usually takes? |
| 00:11 | hybridvs | I suppose it varies from the country you are from. I'm from spain and took about 5 weeks |
| 00:18 | hybridvs | Linux cubox 2.6.32.9-dove-5.4.2 #46 PREEMPT Sat Jan 7 12:23:38 IST 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux |
| 00:18 | hybridvs | Ubuntu 10.04 LTS |
| 00:18 | hybridvs | well , it wasn't that hard ;) |
| 00:24 | diget | hybridvs: thanks. Really looking forward to get it ;) - Ordered it today |
| 00:25 | hybridvs | in the meantime , check taht you have a micro-usb cable , may get in handy...and an hdmi cable , of course. |
| 00:57 | hybridvs | not able to access to the desktop via VNC .. vino server running , but vinagre doesn't connect to cubox server..pity |
| 01:03 | Punk-ley | double check to make sure it is running ok |
| 01:03 | Punk-ley | no reason as far as I know it shouldn't work |
| 01:07 | hybridvs | now i'm having fun as i haven't in a long long time... since i compiled my last kernels on a pentium machine |
| 01:09 | hybridvs | 46 packages are going to be removed. 700 new packages are going to be |
| 01:09 | hybridvs | installed. 993 packages are going to be upgraded. |
| 01:09 | hybridvs | maybe it's not a good idea to upgrade the ubuntu distribution .... |
| 01:10 | Punk-ley | hehehhe |
| 01:10 | Punk-ley | 10.04 is kinda old now |
| 01:10 | Punk-ley | we are working on a 12.10 one, but have one or 2 roadblocks to get through first |
| 01:11 | Punk-ley | actually pretty much one roadblock atm :) |
| 01:12 | hybridvs | well , i'll be monitoring this channel to get a crank at the first release ;) |
| 01:12 | hybridvs | will there be a cheater way to install it like dumping a image on the micro-sd , plug and pray ? |
| 01:15 | hybridvs | ok , i'll choose the cowards way and cancel the system update |
| 10:50 | hybridvs | Good morning. I've tinkered a little with the box , and seems like a fine piece of engeenering. I can hardly wait to get my hands on a micro-usb cable to install the CuBox installer. Now , to make it a home entertaiment system , i'm undecided , GeeXboX ? |
| 11:04 | Kiranos | hybridvs: yes that is the best choise I've found |
| 11:04 | Kiranos | it was updated just the other day to make xvid play better aswell |
| 11:05 | Kiranos | http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1000 |
| 11:05 | Kiranos | follow my success story :) |
| 11:08 | hybridvs | Thank you! ;) |
| 11:08 | hybridvs | till monday i'll have no access to a micro usb cable , till then i'll collect all the software pieces. |
| 11:10 | hybridvs | Other project i may be interested is seeing if i could run ruby on the cubox. Saw some tips in the net about some success in compiling it for arm support. Anyone has tryed that in cubox ? |
| 11:12 | dotarray_ | let me know if you find anything, hybridvs :) |
| 11:12 | hybridvs | nice explication on the forum , Kiranos , I'll have to try it with my remote , a Techisat one that has config file in the lirc site |
| 12:33 | Coolgeek | hybridvs: ruby is available on arm using archlinuxarm |
| 12:33 | Coolgeek | Version : 1.9.3_p327-1 |
| 12:34 | Coolgeek | so, I think it's available on other distro |
| 12:47 | hybridvs | thank you for the info , coolgeek , didn't see it in the repo. |
| 12:58 | hybridvs | one question , could i use a usb as the booting of a geexbox on cubox, or is the sd card / serial console the only way to go ? |
| 14:07 | dv505 | dv_ I don't think you need a USB cable to install GeeXboX. As long as you can put the SD card in another computer, you should be good to go |
| 14:08 | dv505 | one different, once the installer installs the new bootloader, it supports one large ext4 partition. untill then, make a small ext2 boot partition (with everything from /boot), the rest can be on a large ext4 partition |
| 14:36 | hybridvs | ok , i've got hold of an old 4Gb microSD card , going to follow the "Installation on u-boot without ext4 features (original u-boot):" section of the wiki page |
| 15:00 | hybridvs | moving the files to the boot and root partitions.. should i take the lirc config file for my TTS35AI remote control that hangs on the lirc page and dump it on the lirc config dir , or should i wait to boot the sd first ? |
| 15:00 | hybridvs | I'm using the geexbox-devel-20121206-r15609.cubox.tar.bz2 pack |
| 15:00 | dv505 | geexbox does not work it lirc, so you need a different file for that |
| 15:01 | dv505 | see the wiki for the procedure for setting up the remote with geexbox |
| 15:01 | dv505 | it -> with |
| 15:02 | hybridvs | systemctl start eventlircd.service <-- i saw that and believed it was plain old lirc |
| 15:03 | hybridvs | (it's been years since i toyed with linux, i'm a little rusty) |
| 15:07 | dv505 | nope, it refers to this software: http://code.google.com/p/eventlircd/ |
| 15:10 | hybridvs | thx... here goes nothing , time to power up the thing |
| 15:14 | hybridvs | same thing as yesterday , it does not get ip at first boot. will wait a few minutes |
| 15:33 | _rmk_ | no, ubuntu 10 is broken in that regard; it never managed to get an IP for me on the cubox without manual intervention |
| 15:34 | _rmk_ | and ubuntu 10 wouldn't allow me to configure a static ip either |
| 15:34 | hybridvs | It worked for me yesterday without intervention , the second time i powered the cubox |
| 15:35 | _rmk_ | its basically this new wonderful parallel boot stuff causing races between various parts of the system |
| 15:35 | hybridvs | no , i think i misinterpreted the instructions. I dumped the boot directory contents on the boot ext2 partition, while i should have moved the boot directory |
| 15:36 | _rmk_ | they seem to have fixed it in ubuntu 12 :) |
| 15:36 | hybridvs | (i'm trying to boot the sd card with the geexbox distribution now ) |
| 15:37 | dv505 | hybridvs, you did the correct thing with the boot partition. files should be directly in that partition, not in a folder /boot |
| 15:38 | hybridvs | then , something is wrong in my conectivity , since i cannont reach by ip to the cubox with the new sd card |
| 15:40 | hybridvs | easy way to find out if this worked , i'll plug it to the tv via the hdmi cable.. |
| 15:45 | hybridvs | didn't work, back to square one... |
| 15:48 | hybridvs | replaced the sd , put the one shipped with the cubox from factory and connects again to the net with the ubuntu 10 right away |
| 15:49 | rabeeh | hybridvs : "Voted. 21 votes so far" |
| 15:49 | rabeeh | :) |
| 15:49 | rabeeh | all: http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1045 |
| 15:50 | rabeeh | lets kick that rating high for CuBox |
| 15:50 | hybridvs | glad to help anyway i can ;) |
| 15:50 | rabeeh | :) |
| 15:50 | rabeeh | thanks. |
| 15:50 | rabeeh | the poll is not fair anyway |
| 15:50 | rabeeh | it's an Ad for RPi and then comes a list of other vendors. |
| 15:52 | hybridvs | curiusly enougth , i got two fellows really interested in the box after my posts on facebook. One of then asked "What has Cubox that is better than Apple TV?". I just responded "Don't what it's that , but not being apple makes it a better choice , hands down" |
| 15:52 | rabeeh | :) |
| 15:53 | rabeeh | hynridvs: how's bringing geexbox coming along? |
| 15:53 | hybridvs | badly |
| 15:53 | rabeeh | lirc? |
| 15:53 | hybridvs | no booting |
| 15:53 | rabeeh | oh |
| 15:53 | rabeeh | you mean not installing? |
| 15:54 | hybridvs | i did the old boot way , with the ext2/ext4 partitions , and the cubox is unable to connect to the net nor bring up the hdmi output |
| 15:54 | hybridvs | so , for all i know , it's not even booting. The led is fixed red , so no error condition signaling |
| 15:54 | rabeeh | do you have a serial console dump? |
| 15:55 | hybridvs | i have no micro-usb to check , i will have it on monday |
| 15:55 | rabeeh | oh |
| 15:56 | rabeeh | don't you have some cell phone charger? |
| 15:56 | rabeeh | they are typically micro-usb cables |
| 15:56 | hybridvs | is there a way to force an static ip on boot , editing the files on boot ? |
| 15:56 | hybridvs | my phone is old nokia , mini-usb for charge-comm , no micro |
| 16:02 | dv505 | there is the file /etc/network, here you can set a static ip for geexbox |
| 16:03 | hybridvs | ok , can live with that |
| 16:04 | rmull | Can anyone help with my xorg segfault? http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1047&sid=34acb00430bd4757aacdc942caf4a7ff |
| 16:28 | neofob | 35 votes for cubox now :D |
| 16:29 | hybridvs | second round with geex , no network connection , after setting static ip in etc/network for eth0 interface. Anyway , i inspected the /var/log directory of the root partition and it was empty , so i think it didn't even got a chance to fully boot. |
| 16:30 | hybridvs | it's worth a try with the stable geex 3.0 version? |
| 16:31 | Kiranos | I would wait for the cable |
| 16:31 | Kiranos | no point in going in blind |
| 16:31 | Kiranos | also you can upgrade to new u-boot |
| 16:31 | hybridvs | right you are with the blind part |
| 16:32 | hybridvs | yes , that would make the box faster , with only ext4 partition, i reckon |
| 20:46 | dv_ | does the GPU inside the marvell SoC have a name? |
| 21:41 | dv_ | yay, opengl es works. but I guess there is no support for windowless EGL surfaces? |