IRC log of #cubox of Fri 19 Dec 2014. All times are in CET < Back to index

11:47 MarcusVinter Good morning :D
16:05 hgaiser Hi! I have an old Cubox (Marvell Armada 510 SoC) and ethernet port doesn't appear to work .. is this possibly U-Boot related?
16:06 hgaiser And if so, is there a "factory" u-boot script for this oldy cubox?
16:08 MarcusVinter hgaiser, try here: http://www.solid-run.com/archive/mw/index.php/CuBox_Installer
16:08 MarcusVinter Heres a link to the actual installer script http://download.solid-run.com/pub/solidrun/cubox/installer/
16:09 hgaiser MarcusVinter, I tried that but it fails to obtain an ip address
16:10 MarcusVinter and you sure its on a subnet with DHCP and the ethernet cable works?
16:10 hgaiser Yes I am using it for other devices as well
16:12 MarcusVinter Thats weird. I'll see if I can find a spare SD card about, I've got an original cubox here too. As well as hummingboard and some i2s :D
16:12 hgaiser Haha quite a collection :)
16:13 MarcusVinter I've got all sorts of boards here haha. hackberry, beaglebone, rpis, wandboard, cubieboard and some custom boards too hehe
16:15 MarcusVinter Ive got the image here, ill just test it now.
16:16 MarcusVinter Damn i forgot it needs serial connection
16:16 MarcusVinter one sec.
16:16 MarcusVinter Do you use a serial connection to connect to the installer?
16:17 hgaiser For flashing the bootloader? Yeah and I don't have a serial cable here :)
16:17 hgaiser No I use HDMI
16:17 hgaiser I read somewhere that that was possible too
16:18 MarcusVinter Maybe my cube is fudged, im getting no hdmi
16:19 hgaiser Are you running the installer script now or some image you had ?
16:19 MarcusVinter Installer script.
16:19 MarcusVinter Just to see if that's the problem.
16:20 MarcusVinter Found a serial cable, ill just see if I can get a serial connection
16:20 MarcusVinter Are you using v4 of the script?
16:21 hgaiser Yeah
16:22 hgaiser I don't know if it means anything but the red light in front is always on (I got this board from my brother, I never played with it)
16:22 MarcusVinter Yeah, the red light is a good sign :P
16:25 MarcusVinter Hm...
16:25 hgaiser All I get from udhcpc is "Sending discover" a few times and then the message "udhcpc (DHCP client) seem to have failed"
16:26 hgaiser What about you, does it obtain an ip address?
16:27 MarcusVinter Cant even boot the installer.
16:28 MarcusVinter i think I see the problem, one sec.
16:30 MarcusVinter If you go onther another machine on the network and wireshark, do you see the cubox broadcast?
16:31 hgaiser hmm lets see
16:33 hgaiser No I don't believe so
16:34 MarcusVinter I'll see if I've got an image somewhere
16:34 MarcusVinter one sexc
16:35 hgaiser_ Didn't get the installer to run ?
16:36 hgaiser_ Damn I got to go, I'll leave IRC on and read any messages when I get back later tonight .. thanks for your time anyway :)
16:39 MarcusVinter Oh I just noticed the model Number, mines a cubox pro, thats probably why the installer didnt work. model cbp-300-p
16:39 hgaiser_ Ah I see, there is no model number on my cubox, I guess its the first one
16:40 hgaiser_ nothing written on it whatsoever
16:40 MarcusVinter Not on the bottom, on the label?
16:42 hgaiser_ No label at all :)
16:43 hgaiser_ Maybe it was removed by my brother, not sure
16:43 NeonGreen Anyone on here from dev team for ASOP?
16:47 MarcusVinter hgaiser_, Gotta run, I'll try help out when I get back. I've got no Image for one of those original Cuboxes though :/
16:50 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: I got the ASOP image downloaded from the forums but I have no idea how to make any edits to it as it seems to be locked in
16:50 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: I can mess with phone and tablet Android versions but this one is stumping me as it is emulated and seemingly protected for some strange reason
16:52 MarcusVinter How did you flash the image on?
16:52 MarcusVinter NeonGreen,^
16:55 NeonGreen I used Fedora 21
16:55 NeonGreen dd
16:56 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: I used Fedora 21 distro and dd method
16:57 MarcusVinter What changes are you trying to make? at what level?
16:58 MarcusVinter Have you got root?
16:59 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: I want to change the boot image, the background image, have another preinstalled app and I want to get that app to autostart on boot
16:59 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: this is what I got: AOSPBox-i R1.2 - Android 4.4.4 KitKat
17:00 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: not sure if it is rooted I haven't tried yet. I just tried with the boot image thinking it would be the easiest and that gave me problems
17:03 MarcusVinter I'm not sure personally. I've never needed or wanted to run Android on a cubox. You cound try asking UDK in the forum thread and see what he thinks. I don't work for solid run but you can see if someone can help if you idle here for a while.
17:04 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: I asked in the forum about the boot image and my thread got ignored, really disappointed in the support I got on there
17:04 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: Raspeberry PI has better support for the terrible device that it is
17:05 NeonGreen that's just shameful
17:05 MarcusVinter Yeah the community is bigger unfortunatly from all the media coverage it got. Have you tried in the actual thread: http://www.solid-run.com/community/topic1767.html you are more likely to get a response there.
17:06 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: yup, got ignored. I will repost again in a few minutes but I doubt my results will be different
17:07 MarcusVinter I'd idle here for a while and keep asking, I'd like to help but I have no idea about Android.
17:07 MarcusVinter What will be the main purpose of the device?
17:09 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: It is for Digital Signage that's why it has to be Android since that is the only thing that has hardware accelerated graphics support
17:09 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: I have not found a Linux distro with that support, Ubuntu was my first idea until I saw it has no support for that and may not even support a GUI for its ARM version
17:10 MarcusVinter accelerated graphics support is coming soon for the Ubuntu/Debian distros, I think jnettlet is working on it now.
17:11 MarcusVinter I think its about 3 months away though.
17:13 MarcusVinter Oh wait, digital signage as in like shop signage?
17:13 MarcusVinter is it video playback you require? Which ubox do you have?
17:13 MarcusVinter cubox*
17:14 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: Not enough time for me plus I am already using Android tablets to do have of the digital signage, yes it is like a player the CMS is one that controls it from the central point
17:15 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: I got Hummingboard i2eX
17:15 MarcusVinter Ahh.. I see, so you're pretty much commited.
17:17 NeonGreen MarcusVinter: yeah I really wish ASOP wasn't locked down neither, makes no sense for a open source community
17:18 NeonGreen No docs nothing
17:18 NeonGreen Its an image with more images inside of it which you can't open at all
17:30 jmontleon ping TrojanHorse
17:30 jmontleon you're Artox?
17:33 NeonGreen what?
17:33 NeonGreen I am not a Trojan
17:33 NeonGreen or Artox
17:33 NeonGreen I am just a pissed angry person
17:34 jmontleon and Im not talking to you.
21:44 andrewalker hey... I have recently purchased a cuboxtv from solidrun via airmail, to be delivered in the USA... is there a way to track the shipping?
21:44 andrewalker I haven't found any way in the website
22:16 NeonGreen andrewalker: Put the code into USPS tracking
22:19 NeonGreen anyone on here with knowledge about ASOP?