| 10:29 | bewees | Hello |
| 10:29 | bewees | How do I restore a 16 GB Backup to an 8 GB SD? Do I just have to create two partitions manually, rsync from 16GB to 8GB and finally use dd to put uboot on the first bootsectors of the SD? |
| 10:32 | bewees | Oh |
| 10:32 | bewees | Or maybe I just go through the arch arm cubox-i instruction, install arch+bootloader on the 8GB and then just rsync from the 16GB to the 8GB |
| 10:34 | jnettlet | bewees, is the main partition ext4? |
| 10:39 | esin | jnettlet The last thing I read was: "is the main partition ext4?". Yes, the root+home partition is ext4. The bootloader partition (first partition) is FAT |
| 10:40 | jnettlet | bewees, I assume this is a dd image you are trying to restore? |
| 10:40 | bewees | jnettlet Ye, it's a 16 GB dd image |
| 10:44 | jnettlet | bewees, probably the easiest is to use kpartx to mount the image on another linux machine, manually partition and create new filesystems on your new sdcard |
| 10:44 | jnettlet | and then use tar to move the data from one to the other. |
| 10:46 | jnettlet | optionally after you use kpartx to to create new devices in /dev/mapper you could shrink the ext4 fileystem on the main partition to less than 8GB's |
| 10:46 | jnettlet | then you can use fdisk on the image file to shrink the second partition size |
| 10:47 | jnettlet | that will not shrink the sd image, but will create valid partitions that will fall on blocks that exist when you dd the image over to the smaller card |
| 10:47 | jnettlet | I don't know if there is a "smart" imaging utility that already does all this automatically |
| 11:10 | bewees | jnettlet Is in the first method you mentioned, not uboot missing? |
| 11:11 | jnettlet | bewees, yes you would need to add u-boot by hand |
| 11:14 | bewees | jnettlet To add uboot by hand I would just have to run these few commands? http://dpaste.com/3C3K9R9 |
| 11:16 | jnettlet | bewees, yep should do it |
| 11:19 | bewees | Good to know, thank you |
| 14:11 | Sashimi | hi |
| 14:23 | rabeeh | Sashimi: hi |
| 14:23 | rabeeh | nice nickname |
| 14:58 | Sashimi | rabeeh : hi :) get that all the time ^^ |
| 14:59 | Sashimi | rabeeh : i was looking into buying a cubox-i4pro, but read here and there about the big lack of support from solidrun, and perf lags, compared to raspPi :( |
| 15:02 | Sashimi | i'm looking for a Rpi like device to use as a media center, which could act as DLNA client (movies stored on a NAS) and as a hi-fi audio player, outputting to a dragonfly 1.2 usb DAC.there seems to be a problem with the USB on the cubox, and so the DAC get clicking noises every couple of seconds or so. what a pity :( |
| 15:03 | jnettlet | Sashimi, original cubox or cubox-i? |
| 15:03 | Sashimi | cubox-i |
| 15:03 | Sashimi | the top end one |
| 15:03 | Sashimi | (4 pro i think) |
| 15:03 | rabeeh | what performance issues? |
| 15:03 | rabeeh | the clicking issues is on 44.1khz and being debugged on the forums; no resolution yet |
| 15:04 | Sashimi | well, being looking at the community forum and various review, xbmc / openelec seem to be lagging more than on an old raspberry |
| 15:05 | jnettlet | how so? |
| 15:08 | Sashimi | jnettlet : trying to find the said reviews, and of course, i can't -_- |
| 15:08 | Sashimi | anyway |
| 15:09 | Sashimi | i was wondering |
| 15:09 | Sashimi | for a "living room" setup, should i stick with a cubox-i or rather go hummingboard ? |
| 15:10 | Sashimi | appart from having extra pins for DIY programming like the raspPi has, how would they compare ? |
| 15:10 | jnettlet | if you aren't doing any hardware hacking get the Cubox-i |
| 15:10 | Sashimi | okay :) |
| 15:11 | Sashimi | and also, is it worth installing archlinux on the cubox-i ? does it enable extra perf ? (i remember the days of gentoo geeking) |
| 15:12 | jnettlet | you just want to run xbmc? |
| 15:16 | Sashimi | no |
| 15:16 | Sashimi | i don't know yet what this kind of device is capable of |
| 15:16 | Sashimi | primarily be able to play on my TV high def videos |
| 15:17 | Sashimi | but also play hidef music |
| 15:17 | Sashimi | outputting through the DAC (the sound should always output to the usb dac, not to the HDMI output) |
| 15:17 | jnettlet | well you can use the optical out for hidef muci |
| 15:17 | jnettlet | music |
| 15:18 | Sashimi | yeah but i don't have any spdif devices |
| 15:18 | Sashimi | i have active monitoring speakers |
| 15:18 | Sashimi | oh yeah |
| 15:19 | Sashimi | any idea how I could actually INPUT digital audio through the SPDIF port ? |
| 15:19 | Sashimi | (if it is in anyway possible) |
| 15:25 | jnettlet | Sashimi, in theory it should be possible but I have not tested it. |
| 15:25 | Sashimi | oh the spdif port could act as input ?? |
| 15:26 | jnettlet | yep, it is supposed to. We just haven't wired it up or tested it |
| 15:27 | Sashimi | i ask this weird question because my TV's sound speakers are awful, so i'd like to output the TV sound (using its spdif output) to the cubox-i, which would then send it pass it to the USB dac |
| 15:28 | Sashimi | and use the cubox-i as the central point to controlling the sound volume and source switching |
| 15:28 | rabeeh | there isn't any SPDIF input |
| 15:28 | rabeeh | on CuBox-i it's output via optical port |
| 15:28 | rabeeh | on HummingBoard it's coax SPDIF out |
| 15:28 | Sashimi | oh, well that's a dead end then :/ |
| 15:32 | kgp | Can I connect the Raspberry cam on the HummingBoard in fact? |
| 15:33 | kgp | MIPI CSI 2.0 Camera 2 Lane CSI-2 |
| 15:33 | kgp | Probably |
| 15:34 | kgp | It's the same interface right? |
| 15:34 | jnettlet | kgp, I am working on the integration, almost finished |
| 15:35 | jnettlet | had it plugged in for testing earlier |
| 15:38 | kgp | So no adapter needed :) it's just plug and play (from a hardware aspect.) |
| 15:38 | kgp | You can just have one cam right? |
| 15:38 | jnettlet | well there is some software config but mostly yes |
| 15:38 | jnettlet | only one camera |
| 15:40 | kgp | :( It would be cool to have 2 cams to do some 3D stuff or IR / NoIR image mixing. But we can still use 2 devices... |
| 15:41 | kgp | Thank you |
| 16:00 | jnettlet | Sashimi, I will play around and double check with rabeeh, but the HB has the spdif pin exposed on the 24-pin header. In theory you could connect a coax or optical connector to that and reconfigure to the pin to do SPDIF input. |
| 16:01 | jnettlet | I will need to play around with it to verify it works |
| 16:07 | rabeeh | jnettlet: brilliant point |
| 16:07 | rabeeh | EIM_D21 can be picked from the LVDS connector ! |
| 16:07 | rabeeh | or the camera interface |
| 16:07 | rabeeh | EIM_D21 is now defined as I2C1_SCL; but can be muxed to be SPDIF in |
| 16:09 | rabeeh | jnettlet: do you think a model where dts defines all functions as working; and a package like wiringPi define what goes where MUX wise? |
| 16:09 | rabeeh | for instance if you using HB base then LVDS connector is not soldered; and potentially the user can pickup EIM_D21 signal and change the mux to become SPDIF in |
| 16:29 | Sashimi | jnettlet : oh that would be absolutely wonderful if ou could check that out. i don't have enough technical knowledge to try all of this myself. if it turns out the spdif can be used in input, and if the usb clicking sound with DACs gets resolved, i'm into getting a i4pro :D |
| 16:33 | Sashimi | have you guys managed to use console emulators on the cubox-i ? and use a remote pad such as the xbox360 pad with the usb wireless receiver ? |
| 16:33 | kgp | what do you mean? |
| 16:33 | kgp | ok |
| 16:33 | kgp | :) game console. |
| 17:04 | Sashimi | kgp : yes. snes, genesis, gba, neogeo... even psx maybe ? |
| 19:21 | GAZ082 | hello there |
| 19:47 | rabeeh | GAZ082: hi |
| 19:48 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: hey man |
| 19:48 | malte | hey |
| 19:48 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: im here cursing everything related to the wifi, hehe |
| 19:49 | rabeeh | yeah; i'v seen your messages on the channel |
| 19:49 | rabeeh | go ahead; spit it out :) |
| 19:49 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: 1. is it somehow speed-capped? cant get it over 800 kB/s even on straight line with the router, 2 meters away |
| 19:50 | rabeeh | which chipset are you using? |
| 19:50 | rabeeh | basically there are two - bcm4329 and bcm4330 based |
| 19:50 | rabeeh | cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0\:0001/mmc0\:0001\:1/device |
| 19:50 | rabeeh | would tell you |
| 19:51 | GAZ082 | 0x4329 |
| 19:51 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: there are batchs with one or another? |
| 19:51 | rabeeh | yes. |
| 19:52 | rabeeh | which OS are you trying? |
| 19:52 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: arch |
| 19:52 | rabeeh | the newer devices supports BT 4.0 |
| 19:52 | rabeeh | that's the main difference |
| 19:52 | rabeeh | i haven't played with arch + wifi |
| 19:53 | rabeeh | but done lots of testing on Android; have you tried it? |
| 19:53 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: oh, i see. but in what distro did you test the wifi speed? |
| 19:53 | rabeeh | 800kB as in Byte? |
| 19:53 | rabeeh | or bit? |
| 19:53 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: byte |
| 19:53 | rabeeh | mainly Android |
| 19:53 | rabeeh | so - 6Mbps |
| 19:53 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: yes, pure crap |
| 19:53 | rabeeh | on Android depending on the setup i can get 20-30Mbps |
| 19:54 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: well, at least i know the hardware can deliver |
| 19:54 | rabeeh | that's mainly on brcm4330 |
| 19:54 | rabeeh | we have got for sure > 6Mbps on brcm4329; i don't have the exact numbers here |
| 19:55 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: there are several users that complain about WIFI on linux, some even had to purchase a separate wifi antenna or just go LAN. Cant you troubleshoot a little on linux? |
| 19:55 | rabeeh | there were also reports that if the AP is too close to CuBox-i then the performance isn't that good |
| 19:55 | rabeeh | GAZ082: i can |
| 19:55 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: i tested 10 meters away, same result |
| 19:56 | rabeeh | the main problem is that all other distros use newer kernel; with all sort of firmwares |
| 19:56 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: im using 3.10.30. thats the only one i got working wifi out of the box (until now, which is the next question, lol) |
| 19:57 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: but installing the drivers should be enough, isnt it? |
| 19:58 | rabeeh | in the background we have sent few machines to Broadcom (Arend - the brcm80211 driver maintainer) |
| 19:58 | rabeeh | he found few issues in the nvram files; but he mostly worked on 4330 |
| 19:58 | rabeeh | i don't he touched 4329 yet. |
| 20:00 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: i see. at this state, wifi is useless. No workable speed, unstable (drops out of the blue). A mess. |
| 20:01 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: the onlu weak link i found, at least on linux. |
| 20:01 | rabeeh | btw - i just tried brcm4329 with debian jessie on LK 3.0.35 |
| 20:02 | rabeeh | iperf on tcp/ip provides 15Mbps |
| 20:02 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: that's nice! but 3.0? that's like 100 yeas ago, hehe! |
| 20:03 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: i may try it out, just to check. What's odd, i do not know why if in an older kernel version things work ok, new versions break things. |
| 20:04 | rabeeh | want a link? |
| 20:05 | rabeeh | i have the same jessie version on the forums; but with a kernel that supports CBi+HB + latest u-boot |
| 20:05 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: ill check the forums them |
| 20:05 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: then |
| 20:05 | rabeeh | the link on the forums is only for CBi4pro |
| 20:06 | rabeeh | http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72661517/tbr/debian-jessi.img.xz |
| 20:06 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: yes! i got the good stuff! |
| 20:06 | rabeeh | just try that image; |
| 20:07 | rabeeh | easiest way to get wireless working is booting; then installing wicd |
| 20:07 | rabeeh | sudo apt-get install wicd |
| 20:07 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: im using a headless setup |
| 20:07 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: all on cli |
| 20:08 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: so i replace zImage on /boot with that one? |
| 20:23 | GAZ082 | ok, anyway, now i have NO wifi, even with 3.10.30, something i should check? ip link does not show wlan0, iw shows nothing |
| 20:42 | GAZ082 | cbxbiker61: hey man. i installed 3.10.46 but after that got no wifi, did you have any report of that |
| 20:43 | cbxbiker61 | no |
| 20:44 | cbxbiker61 | is brcmfmac module loaded? |
| 20:49 | GAZ082 | cbxbiker61: mm, i do lsmod and got nothing |
| 20:49 | GAZ082 | cbxbiker61: no modules of any sort |
| 20:50 | cbxbiker61 | do find /lib/modules/3.10.46 |
| 20:52 | GAZ082 | cbxbiker61: yep, found |
| 20:52 | GAZ082 | cbxbiker61: what should i look |
| 20:52 | cbxbiker61 | do a depmod -a as root |
| 20:56 | cbxbiker61 | then modprobe brcmfmac and make sure it's loaded, then a reboot should theoretically get the modules loaded automatically |
| 21:56 | rabeeh | GAZ082: looks like the USB DAC saga is over - http://www.solid-run.com/community/topic1143-30.html#p9799 |
| 21:58 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: ok... now lets close the slow wifi thingie on linux saga... LOL |
| 21:58 | rabeeh | oh; by GAZ082 i mean Sashimi :) |
| 21:59 | GAZ082 | rabeeh: ;) |
| 21:59 | rabeeh | my memory is severly injured |
| 21:59 | rabeeh | it's way too overclocked :) |