| 06:15 | cbxbiker61 | anyone know how to identify the board revision for the hummingboard, it seems like it was posted in the forum, but I cant seem to find it |
| 06:30 | cbxbiker61 | that was easy...the revision is printed on the carrier under the microsom |
| 07:05 | m_anish | Hi. I imagined that the USB ports on i4pro are powered |
| 07:05 | m_anish | but they don't seem to work. Can't spin up a usb hard disk |
| 07:05 | m_anish | (or could it be a s/w issue)? |
| 07:05 | R0nd | they're powered but there might be not enough current |
| 07:06 | cbxbiker61 | do you have a 2A power supply? |
| 07:06 | m_anish | yes |
| 07:06 | m_anish | (atleast I think) |
| 07:07 | m_anish | could it be a s/w issue at all? (before I get a new supply) |
| 07:07 | R0nd | could be, why not |
| 07:07 | cbxbiker61 | put a usb flash on it, see if that works |
| 07:07 | cbxbiker61 | us usb-storage loaded? |
| 07:07 | cbxbiker61 | us/is |
| 07:08 | R0nd | I'm running a cubox-i2 with a notebook 2.5" hdd and I have to use external power for it |
| 07:09 | cbxbiker61 | yes most of the external disks are going to need more than the usb2 spec |
| 07:10 | m_anish | hmm, interesting .. http://fpaste.org/172296/42182064/ |
| 07:10 | R0nd | m_anish: you could look up your hdd specs and see how much current it needs |
| 07:11 | m_anish | R0nd, ^^ was a usb flash drive. that doesn't work too! |
| 07:11 | R0nd | oh |
| 07:11 | m_anish | oh wait |
| 07:11 | m_anish | spoke too soon. one moment |
| 07:12 | m_anish | it gets detected and powerd |
| 07:12 | m_anish | which is farther than the hdd went |
| 07:13 | m_anish | i tried 2-3 different disks .. one USB-2 and two USB-3 |
| 07:13 | m_anish | all don't work |
| 07:13 | m_anish | so probably is a power supply issue? |
| 07:13 | R0nd | could be that cubox can't put up enough current on a single usb port |
| 07:14 | m_anish | R0nd, are both ports supposed to be powered? |
| 07:14 | R0nd | I think so |
| 07:14 | cbxbiker61 | .5A is the spec |
| 07:14 | m_anish | cbxbiker61, for a 'powered' port? |
| 07:14 | cbxbiker61 | yes |
| 07:14 | m_anish | cbxbiker61, that's probably not enough. |
| 07:14 | m_anish | time to get the powered hub out :) |
| 07:15 | Humpelstilzchen | m_anish: same problem, y-cable works |
| 07:15 | m_anish | but i had imagined that the powered spec would be greater than 0.5A. But thanks. |
| 07:16 | m_anish | Humpelstilzchen, thx. I'll probably use the hub, need more than two ports. |
| 07:17 | m_anish | has anybody tried mSATA <-> SATA converter to mount internal hdds? does that work? |
| 07:17 | m_anish | (without extra power, that is) |
| 07:18 | Humpelstilzchen | the sata port on cubox does not provide power |
| 07:18 | m_anish | ah ok |
| 07:18 | m_anish | Humpelstilzchen, so how would somebody mount an mSATA SSD? |
| 07:19 | R0nd | m_anish: isn't is esata? |
| 07:20 | Humpelstilzchen | m_anish: use a disk case |
| 07:21 | cbxbiker61 | mSATA??? that would be on the mSATA on the bottom of the board, and has power |
| 07:21 | R0nd | I use a esata -> sata+usb cable |
| 07:21 | m_anish | cbxbiker61, yea, that's the one |
| 07:21 | R0nd | uh, the other way around |
| 07:21 | R0nd | esata+usb -> sata |
| 07:22 | R0nd | it might look like a disaster but works perfectly fine |
| 07:23 | cbxbiker61 | i forgot, m_anish this is cubox, the mSATA is on the hummingboard |
| 07:23 | m_anish | cbxbiker61, sorry. i was talking about the hb only .. mixed my product names. sorry! |
| 07:23 | m_anish | cbxbiker61, whatever is the highest end hb |
| 07:24 | cbxbiker61 | yes, just put an mSATA card in the slot |
| 07:24 | m_anish | ok |
| 07:24 | m_anish | cbxbiker61, there are msata -> sata converters. I was wondering those would supply enough power to spin up hdds. |
| 07:24 | m_anish | (through the port, or whether it'd need external power) |
| 07:24 | cbxbiker61 | almost for sure not |
| 07:25 | cbxbiker61 | you'd have to look at the mSATA spec, i'm sure rabeeh is suplying that amount |
| 07:25 | m_anish | ok |
| 07:27 | m_anish | i'll make sure my duct taped rig supplies power then. |
| 13:22 | tvideovi | is malte on line? |
| 14:24 | tvideovi | hi jnettlet - are you the person working with Catwich on video acceleration? |
| 14:26 | jnettlet | tvideovi, haha...you confused me for a second there because Catwich is normally Artox on IRC. |
| 14:26 | tvideovi | yes, I am not always sure myself |
| 14:26 | jnettlet | yes, he is packaging up the drivers. I was going to message you last time but you were offline before I got a chance. |
| 14:26 | jnettlet | I also saw your pm on the forums. Sorry I don't check that much. |
| 14:27 | tvideovi | I understand as this is a labour of time and love |
| 14:27 | tvideovi | can you advise the status of this element as I understand new drivers coming |
| 14:29 | curlymo | You can also use XBian, it has GPU accelerated xserver in it's staging repository. Quake has already been played on it :) |
| 14:30 | curlymo | and just disable XBMC start-on-boot if you just want X |
| 14:30 | tvideovi | my problem is that I need VA on a browser for a |
| 14:31 | tvideovi | BoundaryDevices claim they have it and I am trying to use their image on cubox to test as well as homebuilt yocto |
| 14:32 | curlymo | http://pastebin.com/sgKQzq3E |
| 14:32 | curlymo | here is the glxinfo for the xbian compiled xserver |
| 14:37 | curlymo | so just try XBian, upgrade to the latest version by apt and install |
| 14:37 | curlymo | xserver-xorg-core xserver-common xserver-xorg-video-imx-viv xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics libdrm2 |
| 14:38 | tvideovi | thx - have you tried to load a browser and see if VA works? |
| 14:38 | curlymo | nope |
| 14:39 | tvideovi | ok thx for the advice, I will try today |
| 14:39 | curlymo | do make sure you have upgraded first before installing those xserver packages. Then the XBian xserver packages will be forces over the default debian ones. |
| 14:39 | curlymo | please let me know how it went |
| 14:40 | curlymo | and when a nice forum post about it when it does ;) |
| 14:42 | tvideovi | will do - no experience with XBain, how do I install - tried apt-get and no joy |
| 14:42 | R0nd | jnettlet: hi, I've looked some more into that kodi issue, and it's definitely the imx codec |
| 14:43 | curlymo | @tvideovi |
| 14:43 | curlymo | http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbian/files/ |
| 14:44 | tvideovi | thx - downloading now |
| 14:44 | curlymo | i advice you to download the latest imx6 testing image |
| 14:44 | curlymo | saves you some updating time afterwards |
| 14:46 | tvideovi | have used Igor, BD and SR images but not sure which one you mean or where it is |
| 14:47 | curlymo | http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbian/files/testing/xbian-image-imx6-20150113.img.gz/download |
| 14:47 | tvideovi | thx again |
| 14:48 | R0nd | jnettlet: I've tested a bunch of videos, here are log fragments if you wanna look at them http://pastebin.com/qviikRtA |
| 14:49 | kgp | Question: what is the best image to use firefox, go on internet now using cubox-i? |
| 14:51 | curlymo | as i said to tvideovi, if you want HW Video, test the latest XBian fully updated with the latest xserver packages i just listed. |
| 14:51 | tvideovi | will do today and test with chromium browser I appreciate the lead, never tried this approach |
| 14:52 | curlymo | xbiain just offers a minimal debian OS (but with a lot of fixes) for XBMC and allows users to customize it by installing packages. |
| 14:52 | R0nd | curlymo: I'll try that out, thanks |
| 14:53 | curlymo | we are eager to get it tested :) |
| 14:53 | R0nd | what's the kernel version on that build btw? |
| 14:53 | curlymo | I think by default 3.14.27+ but 3.14.28+ is available through apt |
| 14:53 | curlymo | i'm running the latter |
| 14:54 | R0nd | sounds good |
| 14:54 | tvideovi | jnettlet, I am trying to use webRTC and it defaults to V8 encoding but I believe can be forced to H.264 - have you ever tried a V8 video |
| 14:56 | curlymo | XBian is just an debian jessie OS but then done well |
| 15:00 | tvideovi | great - burning sd now - I assume once started, I first update the xorg and other files as you advised |
| 15:00 | curlymo | no, first upgrade everything and then install xorg. The order of commands matters. |
| 15:01 | R0nd | what's the best way to backup a running cubox? |
| 15:01 | curlymo | XBian has a built-in backup function that only backs-up used sectors. |
| 15:02 | tvideovi | no sure this is what you mean but I do daily and often more img copies of sd card |
| 15:03 | R0nd | should I just dd my sd card? |
| 15:03 | curlymo | you probably make full images. So if you have a 4GB SD card, it will make a 4GB image. The difference with XBian is that if you run on a 4GB SD card, but you have 3GB of free space, your image will only be 1GB. |
| 15:04 | curlymo | by image i mean backup |
| 15:19 | jnettle | 15:19 * jnettlet is back and reading the backlog |
| 15:21 | tvideovi | jnettlet - sent email, thx |
| 15:22 | jnettlet | tvideovi, the VPU supports hardware decoding of vp8, but only supports h264, mp4, and mjpeg encoding. |
| 15:24 | tvideovi | that is fine for my application as the decode is the choke point |
| 15:25 | jnettlet | tvideovi, you will either need chromium built with mx6 optimizations, or firefox but with the gstreamer media backend enabled |
| 15:26 | jnettlet | I have looked at WebRTC quite a bit and because none of the browsers agree 100% of what video codecs they want to support it is a real mess |
| 15:27 | curlymo | @jnettlet, have you already tested mk01's xserver build? |
| 15:27 | jnettlet | I think h264 has officially been allowed now, but google is dragging their feet supporting it because they want everything to be vp8/vp9 |
| 15:28 | tvideovi | so I assume I need to do this build which I don't mind doing and then sharing but have no experience in building chromium also not sure how to enable gstream media backend |
| 15:28 | tvideovi | agree about google drag and can move to Iceweasel but found it did not work as well as chromium up to know - freezing |
| 15:29 | tvideovi | now |
| 15:40 | jnettlet | tvideovi, we have a wheezy image that has accelerated chromium already built. |
| 15:40 | jnettlet | we are working on a jessie image. |
| 15:40 | tvideovi | wow did not know that, where can I get it pls |
| 15:42 | curlymo | jnettlet, mk01 already got that jessie image working, so maybe check into his work |
| 15:42 | jnettlet | curlymo, yeah I am not interested in hacking and mainting the xserver. I had that working a year ago but it is unmaintainable. |
| 15:43 | jnettlet | I will be rolling out the v5 drivers this week which will work with jessie 1.15 |
| 15:44 | curlymo | did you by chance already checked into the gpio mapping question i had? |
| 15:45 | tvideovi | is there any problem with the wheezy version - could I experiment with it now to test my webRTC application |
| 15:45 | curlymo | didn't XBian work? |
| 15:46 | jnettlet | tvideovi, nothing wrong with it |
| 15:47 | jnettlet | sorry one sec |
| 15:49 | tvideovi | curlymo - just about to try as I had the BD img in test as we spoke - so many images so little skill...:) |
| 15:54 | tvideovi | cirlymo - I plan on downloading the BD chromium 36 browser to test on XBain unless you advise against this |
| 16:05 | jnettlet | tvideovi, we still don't have images being built, just tarballs is that okay? |
| 16:10 | tvideovi | I will try anything - don't mind the work just lack some skill (some???) |
| 16:12 | tvideovi | curlymo - what is root login for xbain |
| 16:16 | curlymo | you need to login as xbian user and then do a "sudo su" |
| 16:17 | tvideovi | i did an exit on xbain main window and now have a login screen "xbain login" |
| 16:18 | curlymo | as i said |
| 16:18 | curlymo | login as xbian |
| 16:18 | curlymo | password raspberry |
| 16:21 | tvideovi | thx - I tried xbain/raspberry on prompt "xbain login:" and it returned "Login incorrect" "xbain.private login:" which also failed with xbain/raspberry |
| 16:22 | curlymo | first enter xbian as the username |
| 16:22 | curlymo | when it prompts the password enter raspberry |
| 16:52 | tvideovi | curlymo - when xbain starts it seems to have Master user, there is no login screen so I exit to get the terminal login which is what I want but it does not accept xbain/rasperry |
| 16:53 | tvideovi | I will keep playing with it but right now cannot get to terminal to load browser and test - appreciate your help and will experiment today and let you know how I do with it |
| 16:59 | curlymo | why connect with ssh |
| 16:59 | curlymo | the default login is just a plain simple "xbian" with the password "raspberry" |
| 18:04 | Artox | this gpu is a bithc! |
| 18:05 | Artox | greetings Exaga, tvideovi |
| 18:05 | Artox | I am jsut back to where I was before |
| 18:05 | Artox | glxgears running at top-speed |
| 18:05 | Artox | but chromium errors on eglCreateContext |
| 18:06 | Artox | jnettlet: the step thats required on what I sent you is: install libgl1-mesa-dri, and symlink /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri -> /usr/lib/dri |
| 18:07 | jnettlet | Artox, I will sort that out with the v5 drivers. I think we need to focus on that and not waste too much more time on the rest. |
| 18:07 | jnettlet | I am feeling better and am slowly ramping back to full speed |
| 18:08 | Artox | good |
| 18:08 | Artox | I am working on a small update to teh package that isntalls dri stuff in the right place meanwhile |
| 18:09 | Artox | and add a dependency on the mesa dri modules |
| 18:09 | Artox | (swrast seems to be a hard dependency for glx) |
| 18:19 | jnettlet | Artox, yeah it is the fallback |
| 19:38 | tvideovi | Hi Artox, I was away testing the BD img |
| 20:35 | R0nd | curlymo: about that xbian image |
| 20:36 | R0nd | am I supposed to just dd it to sdcard? it doesn't mount anymore |
| 20:37 | curlymo | or use the xbian installer |
| 20:38 | curlymo | i'm currently testing the xserver myself |
| 20:38 | curlymo | let me see how it works :) |
| 20:38 | curlymo | first need to get it installed |
| 20:39 | curlymo | @R0nd, was the goal xserver or something else? |
| 20:39 | R0nd | what I really want is hw decoding in kodi |
| 20:41 | curlymo | i believe that's already available for a longer period of time |
| 20:42 | R0nd | it sometimes works in my debian install |
| 20:42 | R0nd | but only for some files |
| 20:43 | curlymo | you could check how XBian is doing |
| 20:43 | curlymo | not sure on that one |
| 20:44 | R0nd | yeah, I've got it running |
| 20:44 | R0nd | remote works out of the box, nice |
| 20:45 | curlymo | was that different on other distro's? |
| 20:46 | R0nd | yes, I remember having to set that up on igor's debian |
| 20:52 | R0nd | is there a way to enable ssh from gui? |
| 20:52 | curlymo | already is by default |
| 20:53 | R0nd | oh yeah, it just didn't accept network settings for some reason |
| 21:01 | tvideovi | curlymo - I played with XBain and will do more but maybe confused with my message - I want to get into cli terminal for the updates and to download browser and could not sign in once I received the terminal login promt |
| 21:02 | curlymo | i can't be anymore clear than that |
| 21:02 | curlymo | loginname: xbian, password: raspberry |
| 21:08 | R0nd | alright |
| 21:08 | R0nd | this is great, kodi really works now |
| 21:09 | curlymo | on xbian? |
| 21:09 | R0nd | yep |
| 21:09 | curlymo | did you install it manually? |
| 21:09 | R0nd | no, everything's out of the box |
| 21:09 | curlymo | ok |
| 21:19 | R0nd | oh wow, it even has CEC working |
| 21:21 | R0nd | it's like the ultimate cubox distro |
| 21:23 | earthy | xbian can haz ghci? |
| 21:44 | tvideovi | curlymo - thanks, I agree you are being clear so let me ask which login you are referring to as I do not get a login screen in xbain until I "exit" and that login does not accept "xbain/raspberry" sorry for any confusion as I really wouold like to get this working as a distro base |
| 22:08 | curlymo | did you try ssh already? |
| 22:08 | curlymo | @R0nd, if you mind posting that on the forum :) |
| 22:18 | R0nd | yeah, ssh works, I was just connecting to the wrong ip |
| 22:19 | R0nd | the gui network settings didn't work for me for some reason |
| 22:19 | R0nd | couldn't set static ip |
| 22:21 | curlymo | did you install all updates? |
| 22:21 | curlymo | most issues you encounter are already fixed upstream |
| 22:22 | R0nd | uh, not sure |
| 22:22 | R0nd | thanks, I'll look into it tomorrow |
| 23:20 | Artox | okay, the broadcom driver just jumped on top of me |
| 23:20 | Artox | it did manage to function 48 hours though |
| 23:50 | tvideovi | Artox are you here |
| 23:52 | Artox | yes |
| 23:52 | Artox | I am |
| 23:52 | Artox | rvi |
| 23:52 | Artox | tvideovi: |
| 23:52 | tvideovi | do you know or can you send me the username and pw for mxchrome |
| 23:53 | Artox | xD |
| 23:53 | Artox | I think its |
| 23:53 | Artox | imx:linux |
| 23:53 | Artox | nope |
| 23:53 | Artox | imx6:linux |
| 23:53 | Artox | and, as mentioned, chromium actually doesnt use the gpu/vpu idk why |
| 23:54 | Artox | I am currently updating the gpu-viv-bin package with a necessary change |
| 23:54 | tvideovi | i have the system up to login screen but forgot to ask for the username/pw |
| 23:56 | tvideovi | imx/linux gets me past login screen bu then black screen with active cursor |