| 07:11 | purch | Coburn: your kernel-3.5.7 thread in the forums. Does it have EFI/GPT support? |
| 07:11 | Coburn | purch: obsolete. do not use. |
| 07:11 | Coburn | has bugs, I abandoned kernel builds. |
| 07:11 | purch | ok |
| 07:12 | Coburn | I can roll my own on request, but most of the time I just use presupplied ones |
| 07:12 | purch | I got problem with ubuntu 12.10 armhf it breaks my 3TB ext4 partition |
| 07:12 | Coburn | Split it |
| 07:12 | purch | It works, but always after reboot disk is useless |
| 07:13 | Coburn | I think anything above 1TB is pushing it |
| 07:13 | purch | I have to try it, so it is not GPT prob? |
| 07:13 | Coburn | split it into 2 or 3 partitions |
| 07:13 | purch | then lvm? |
| 07:13 | Coburn | Use GPT |
| 07:13 | Coburn | but make 3 1TB partitions |
| 07:13 | Coburn | see how you go |
| 07:13 | purch | ok I try |
| 07:14 | Coburn | It could be that the kernel needs a patch |
| 07:14 | Coburn | to address things over 1TB/2TB_ |
| 07:14 | purch | 2TB is the MBR limit |
| 07:15 | Coburn | I think so GPT requires an EFI system |
| 07:15 | purch | u-boot can handle it? |
| 07:16 | purch | well I try 2x1,5TB with GPT |
| 07:30 | purch | lets test booting without mounting those |
| 07:45 | purch | something fishy going on, gdisk shows everything is fine, but kernel shows only sda1 and cannot mount it |
| 08:21 | Coburn | purch: most likely gonna need to roll your own kernel |
| 08:21 | Coburn | sorry pal |
| 08:21 | Coburn | I do know that GPT uses MBR as a fallback solution |
| 08:21 | Coburn | As in, if you boot from GPT disk, it provides a "dummy" MBR |
| 08:21 | Coburn | to prevent OSes freaking out |
| 08:26 | purch | yes that would be it |
| 08:26 | purch | I wonder why EFI/GPT support is dropped from kernel |
| 08:27 | purch | Coburn: I have never built my own kernel (10 years with linux servers) :) |
| 08:28 | purch | Coburn: how can I add GPT support to this kernel I have now? |
| 08:28 | Coburn | It's not dropped. |
| 08:28 | Coburn | Lazy people forgot to enable it. Or oversight |
| 08:28 | purch | left out |
| 08:28 | purch | yes |
| 08:29 | Coburn | yep, cbxbiker61 and rabeeh possibly where like "meh, GPT. No one is using it so *drops on cutting room floor*" |
| 08:29 | purch | system is from cubox installers ubuntu 12.10 minimal |
| 08:29 | Coburn | purch: find the latest kernel sources. untar or check out the git. |
| 08:29 | Coburn | then, make sure you have build-essential and libncurses-dev installed |
| 08:29 | Coburn | then do "make menuconfig" |
| 08:30 | purch | well it was 130€ for 2TB and 150€ for 3TB, how stupid of me to spend extra 20€ |
| 08:30 | Coburn | purch: fyi MBR might work on 3TB |
| 08:30 | Coburn | it'll only see 2TB |
| 08:30 | Coburn | Try using GParted |
| 08:30 | purch | I tried fdisk goes mad |
| 08:30 | Coburn | what's the error? |
| 08:31 | purch | it does not see geometry correct, only 750MB or so |
| 08:33 | Coburn | hmmm.... |
| 08:33 | Coburn | purch. |
| 08:33 | Coburn | Tell you what. If you can wait |
| 08:33 | Coburn | like half a day (since I'm about to leave my workstation), I'll roll my own kernel with gpt |
| 08:33 | Coburn | how's that sound |
| 08:34 | Coburn | special build for ya |
| 08:34 | purch | sounds nice! |
| 08:35 | purch | I have to start working and be back after 2 days |
| 09:22 | ralix | morning |
| 16:27 | sanzante | is the Cubox able to play streaming video from YouTube and similar sites? Flash uses processor instead graphic card, I guess, so I'm not sure if I can watch streaming video (Youtube, Vimeo and others film providers) |
| 16:33 | rabeeh | sanzante: you can use xbmc on CuBox to do that |
| 16:36 | sanzante | rabeeh: yeah, I plan to use xmbc, but I'm wondering if Cubox hardware is able to play streaming videos |
| 16:37 | sanzante | Adobe flash needs high resources, usually |
| 16:38 | bencoh | sanzante: its just h264 or vp6 in a container (flv for instance) |
| 16:40 | sanzante | yes, but Flash doesn't use, I guess, hardware acceleration, so all decoding must be done by processor |
| 16:40 | bencoh | why would you want to play those using flash ? |
| 16:41 | sanzante | so I just I'm asking hear because the real test is to ask someone that have Cubox and can actually play Flash videos |
| 16:41 | sanzante | uh... I think all the straming sites uses mainly Flash, although some hf them use HTML 5 |
| 16:42 | sanzante | for example Netflix uses Flash, I think |
| 16:42 | diget | I've just installed geexbox on my cubox. installation works great but audio playback (via hdmi) only produces noise. Pass-throu works fine only pcm seems to have a problem |
| 17:17 | rabeeh | diget: which distro did you install? |
| 17:26 | diget | rabeeh: geexbox hardfp. yesterdays build |
| 17:27 | diget | rabeeh: I've tested directly with xbmc before |
| 17:31 | rabeeh | diget: which TV do you use? did u test previous builds? |
| 17:33 | diget | rabeeh: for audio I'm using a yamaha r473 hdmi receiver |
| 17:34 | diget | rabeeh: didn't test the previous builds. that would be my next step or trying softfp |
| 17:34 | rabeeh | previous builds of the devel hardfp |
| 17:34 | rabeeh | diget: what happens if you plug the HDMI directly to your TV? does the PCM audio noise go away? |
| 17:35 | rabeeh | you are the first to point this issue; we have few issues on DTS-HD and other HD audio stuff |
| 17:37 | diget | rabeeh: will try connecting directly. |
| 17:38 | diget | rabeeh: is there any audio "setting" that might influence that behaviour? - For me it feels like the encoded stream is already broken |
| 17:39 | rabeeh | the only setting is what's available on the xbmc settings |
| 17:39 | rabeeh | you need to choose analog, spdif or hdmi |
| 17:39 | rabeeh | try choosing spdif 5.1 without the audio boost |
| 20:16 | rabeeh | Coburn: i was able to reproduce the issue with the corrupted screen. |
| 21:17 | dung | flash is a ressource killer |
| 21:21 | dung | i'm glad to have a less powerfull machine that indicates cpu usage with fan noise |
| 21:23 | dung | i'm also impressed how a java script flash game can use 10 GB RAM |
| 21:25 | dung | *can fill :p |
| 21:25 | dbsx | dung: understatements |
| 21:29 | dbsx | how do we get the kernel towards 3.7.* |
| 21:29 | dbsx | ? |
| 21:30 | dung | how do we get a kernel without compiling ?:) |
| 21:31 | dung | port.. port.. port.. |
| 21:32 | dung | rosy |
| 21:39 | dung | FDT? |
| 21:42 | dung | for myself i'm happy with my config. i want to add a bit more features (iptables) - you inspired me to keep a stable one |
| 21:42 | dung | tiny, static kernel config |
| 21:43 | dung | vs others |
| 21:45 | dung | GFX is important to test, maybe we get attention and better driver support |
| 21:46 | dung | as i told, openarena/quake3 is in the debian software repositories |
| 21:47 | dung | do it - i want to emulate x64 over network |
| 21:48 | dung | it just needs an xclient, which has to be a server |
| 21:49 | dung | what's minimal software for xclient? it's a server already |
| 21:49 | dung | wayland? |
| 21:50 | dung | the 'client' does all the dri |
| 21:50 | dung | which _may_ be very on CuBox :) |
| 21:51 | dung | a thin client |
| 21:56 | dung | very!? |
| 21:57 | dung | oh my |
| 22:01 | dbsx | sounds good dung |
| 22:04 | dbsx | I figure that: |
| 22:04 | dbsx | mtd_debug write /dev/mtd0 0 $(stat -c '%s' u-boot-cubox_hynix_cubox_spi.bin) u-boot-cubox_hynix_cubox_spi.bin |
| 22:04 | dbsx | should flash a new U-Boot from linux. |
| 22:04 | dbsx | Now I just need the courage to try it |
| 22:04 | cbxbiker61 | sanzante, as far as flash goes with xbmc... flash could be considered just a different container format, so hardware decode is used for the video |
| 22:07 | cbxbiker61 | their is more overhead with flash due to it's streaming protocol, my version of xbmc/cubox uses the cubox's hardware decryption capability to lower that overhead |
| 22:13 | gori | ohai guys. I want to do nfs from my cubox, using a multi HD esata docking station. The specs of the device mention that the sata controler must be 'Port Multiplier capable |
| 22:13 | gori | can cubox do that ? |
| 22:13 | dung | quake3 is ported to debian armhf |
| 22:14 | dung | that isn't really special, isn't it? |
| 22:17 | dung | gori: as far as i know cubox supports esata port multiplier, cubox exports any mounted hard disk |
| 22:18 | dung | nfs is the way |
| 22:19 | dung | other network file systems can mount automatically, if you need |
| 22:19 | gori | dung: great, thanks. I was looking at the cubieboard, and it does not suport it, so I assumed that cubox wont either, having an older chip. But this is very good news! |
| 22:39 | dung | there's also a big performance loss when unnecassary crypting local network traffic |
| 22:44 | dung | --sum |