| 03:03 | cbxbiker61 | interesting, amd plans pin compatible x86/arm socs in 2015 |
| 03:05 | cbxbiker61 | should be an cool development for companies that want to do both x86 and arm designs |
| 03:20 | Talendel | Can anyone help me figure out if either I'm doing something wrong, or if I should be returning this CuBox-i4PRO for a replacement/refund? |
| 03:31 | Talendel | I guess that's a no. |
| 03:42 | cbxbiker61 | just describe your problem |
| 03:46 | Talendel | It doesn't work. |
| 03:47 | Talendel | As in, I've tested all the hardware I'm using with it (keyboard, mouse, SD Cards, HDMI cable, Ethernet cable), and the hardware works with whatever other computer or laptop I plug them into. |
| 03:48 | Talendel | I put an SD card with the image I wrote to it from my CentOS box, I plug in all the additional items, and then I plug in power. |
| 03:49 | Talendel | And then, nothing. I get light from the optical audio port, and that's it. The unit never powers up. No light on the keyboard. No light from the mouse. No light on the unit, at all, other than the optical audio port. |
| 03:50 | cbxbiker61 | the first most likely problem is getting the boot code written to the right locations on the sd |
| 03:50 | Talendel | ... |
| 03:51 | Talendel | So, even a scripted installer, such as the one for Yocto, doesn't do that correctly? |
| 03:51 | Talendel | And the instructions on the wiki are all wrong? |
| 03:51 | Talendel | And the five distros I've tried, on four separate (identical) SD Cards are all broken? |
| 03:51 | cbxbiker61 | don't know, i don't have yocto |
| 03:52 | cbxbiker61 | look at the script and see if it installs the boot code |
| 03:52 | Talendel | It does. |
| 03:52 | cbxbiker61 | is that a two part boot? writes two files at two offsets? |
| 03:53 | Talendel | It installs everything from u-boot to the fully updated distro, to the SD card. |
| 03:53 | Talendel | You tell me: http://stende.no-ip.info/imx6/solidrun-hb/scripts/mk_xbmc_hb.sh |
| 03:56 | Talendel | Either way, that's just one of the five I've tried on this machine, following the instructions explicitly. Additionally, I can load these SD cards into any one of my other rigs, and see the separate partitions, and all data contained therein. |
| 03:57 | Talendel | I can't even get output to the serial console, though my device detects it and installs the drivers without there even being power to the cubox-i. |
| 03:57 | cbxbiker61 | do you ever see a solid-run logo on the screen? |
| 03:58 | Talendel | No. |
| 03:58 | cbxbiker61 | k, well you need to focus on the u-boot part of the install |
| 03:58 | cbxbiker61 | what sd cards? |
| 03:58 | Talendel | The only time I ever got anything on any screen was when I was attempting to connect via the serial console, and I got a momentary garbage character. |
| 03:59 | cbxbiker61 | that could have been just sporadic junk |
| 03:59 | cbxbiker61 | what sd cards? |
| 04:00 | Talendel | Samsung 16GB microSD |
| 04:01 | cbxbiker61 | because of the way the system boots, they can be quite sensitive to specific cards, i can say that all of my sandisk work perfectly |
| 04:01 | cbxbiker61 | in the howto...there is a section on the SPL boot... |
| 04:02 | cbxbiker61 | write SPL to one offset, and u-boot.img to another |
| 04:02 | cbxbiker61 | have you done that? |
| 04:02 | cbxbiker61 | that boot code seems to work well for me, it came from geexbox |
| 04:03 | Talendel | I will have to try another thing to make this box work, then. |
| 04:04 | Talendel | I've already wasted a couple weeks on this. |
| 04:04 | Talendel | GeexBox was the first distro I tried, and I did that by downloading and writing the img to the card. |
| 04:05 | Talendel | Was there another step I should have taken, other than just following the instructions on the wiki for the geexbox distro? Is that what you're saying? |
| 04:05 | cbxbiker61 | well manually write SPL and u-boot.img, if the card works well you should see the solid-run logo |
| 04:06 | Talendel | And if the box never gets that far? |
| 04:06 | cbxbiker61 | if you get that far you're well on your way |
| 04:06 | Talendel | I asked if it does *not*. |
| 04:06 | cbxbiker61 | and the front led will light up |
| 04:06 | cbxbiker61 | use sandisk if it doesn't |
| 04:06 | Talendel | If it does not, then am I sitting here, having waited two months for a broken computer, from the sound of it. |
| 04:07 | cbxbiker61 | don't focus on step 5 when you haven't done 1 and 2 |
| 04:08 | Talendel | I've already done steps one and two, by the instructions, from five different sources. |
| 04:08 | Talendel | How about a link to the instructions you're referencing, regarding the changing of offsets. |
| 04:08 | cbxbiker61 | ok, well i'm done with you then |
| 04:08 | Talendel | So that I can do that right now, and report the results. |
| 04:09 | cbxbiker61 | it's in the howto/faq section |
| 04:09 | cbxbiker61 | has the two offsets listed, should be obvious |
| 04:09 | Talendel | On the forum, or the wiki? |
| 04:15 | cbxbiker61 | wiki u-boot |
| 04:34 | Talendel | You say this worked on your GeexBox install? What did you format your SD card with? |
| 04:34 | Talendel | The primary partition is fat and the root is ext4, or something else? |
| 04:40 | cbxbiker61 | actually, you should be able to see the solid run u-boot logo even with no filesystems installed |
| 04:41 | cbxbiker61 | in any case I initially used the GeeXBox install script, but i have my own distro now and don't have to use that any longer |
| 04:41 | Talendel | The install script? The make-sdcard script? |
| 04:41 | Talendel | Or another one? I thought you said, before, that you wrote the files to the offsets yourself, to get GeexBox to work. |
| 04:41 | cbxbiker61 | there |
| 04:42 | cbxbiker61 | there's a script in the same directory as geexbox latest |
| 04:42 | Talendel | make-sdcard |
| 04:42 | cbxbiker61 | it installs from a tar, yep |
| 04:43 | Talendel | So I point that script at the un xz'd tar file for GeexBox and point that at the SD card, and it should do the same thing as what I did when I issued the dd command to write the un xz'd .img file to the same SD card? |
| 04:43 | Talendel | I want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. |
| 04:44 | Talendel | As for what you said above, regarding the seeing of the logo, is it that I should see that as long as I have a card with u-boot on it, or I should see it even without a card installed in the cubox-i? |
| 04:48 | cbxbiker61 | yes, if SPL and u-boot.img are written to correct offsets you should see u-boot messages even on a raw card |
| 04:48 | cbxbiker61 | that part of the boot is ignorant of filesystems |
| 04:57 | Talendel | Well, I'll find out in a few minutes. The GeeXBox script is running right now. |
| 05:16 | Talendel | Fail. |
| 05:17 | Talendel | The script worked as written, the data is on the SD card. The cubox-i gets power and the only light is to the optical audio port. |
| 05:18 | Talendel | I'm just going to have to RMA this and get a replacement. Thanks for the info and all that. |
| 07:20 | arch1mede | has anyone tried the netboot method outlined http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1638&sid=453162a8dfea3ceeea4b1e84358a638f? |
| 07:20 | arch1mede | my cubox-i4p doesnt accept the set bootargs command |
| 07:31 | jnettlet | arch1mede, I exclusively use netboot for development. |
| 07:32 | jnettlet | arch1mede, that forum you are looking at is for the original Cubox not the Cubox-i |
| 07:32 | arch1mede | ahh |
| 07:32 | jnettlet | the Cubox-i just takes some parameters in the uEnv.txt |
| 07:32 | arch1mede | well that explains it |
| 07:34 | arch1mede | i dont suppose you have a link all that I need? |
| 07:36 | jnettlet | I am not sure if it has been documented at all. |
| 07:37 | arch1mede | ok |
| 07:37 | jnettlet | arch1mede, are you trying to install a local distro, or do you actually want to run in a netboot configuration? |
| 07:37 | arch1mede | install a local |
| 07:37 | jnettlet | then you actually just pop out the SDHC card and image it with another machine, either dd for linux or winimage for windows |
| 07:37 | jnettlet | there is a wiki for that. |
| 07:38 | arch1mede | yeah I looked at those already but they seem to be running older versions of debian |
| 07:38 | jnettlet | http://cubox-i.com/install-os-on-micro-sd-flash-card/ |
| 07:39 | eshep | anybody running frodo on their cubox? |
| 07:41 | jnettlet | cubox or cubox-i? |
| 07:44 | eshep | jnettlet, cubox-i |
| 07:45 | jnettlet | eshep, frodo doesn't have support for hardware decoding on the CBi. you need to use XBMC 13.xxx |
| 07:45 | jnettlet | if you just want to run a mediacenter, then you can use geexbox or openelect |
| 07:45 | eshep | ah, good to know. thanks |
| 07:46 | eshep | i tried both openelec and geexbox. they both run fantastic but are xbmc v13. |
| 07:47 | eshep | not a big deal, just have to tweak mods to work right. |
| 08:30 | larth | cubox-i newbie here. Have flashed debian jessie image on my cubox-i4 followed by an apt-get upgrade. network/disk etc works great. vlc / mplayer don't work; mplayer segfaults after mentioning "bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM". VLC segfaults after "no available XVideo adaptor". Any ideas how I can fix this? |
| 08:59 | larth | ok, so I am missing vivante drivers somehow... xorg.log shows "(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri/vivante_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri/vivante_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)" |
| 08:59 | larth | where do I get this file? |
| 10:55 | cbxbiker61 | someone was asking about cec working...i did notice some new cec changes in linux4kix, maybe someone can test those out, if they work we could pull them into solidrun repo |
| 10:55 | jnettlet | cbxbiker61, those patches need to be changed. mk01 just sent me a new set. |
| 10:56 | jnettlet | They will be merged into the rebase repo as soon as I finish it |
| 10:56 | cbxbiker61 | ok, great |
| 10:57 | jnettlet | I also need to evaluate what needs to happen with those patches in relation to the upstream CEC driver. |
| 10:58 | tomlohave | guys, CEC works |
| 11:04 | cbxbiker61 | i forgot, tomlohave are you GeeXBox guy? |
| 11:06 | cbxbiker61 | i just wanted to let GeeXBox know that 501-LIRC-avoid-keypress-duplication.patch totally ruins responses from my generic mce remote |
| 16:19 | joelbaby | how do i get a chatlog ? |
| 18:13 | rabeeh | joelbaby: http://server.vijge.net/static/cubox/irclog/ |