IRC log of #cubox of Fri 20 Feb 2015. All times are in CET < Back to index

13:14 xtrover anyone here?
13:15 xtrover Anyone around who is familiar with CSI communication on the hummingboard pro?
13:49 Halofreak1990 Not me. I'm trying to wrap my head around the basic workings of my HummingBoard i2eX as documentation is nearly non-existant
13:50 Halofreak1990 It surprises me there aren't more hobbyist OS developers targeting this device, especially compared to the Raspberry Pi
13:53 Zaitzev word of mouth, etc
13:55 vpeter Halofreak1990: You already mentioned documentation. This is one reason. And the community is much, much bigger.
14:12 Halofreak1990 yeah. Too bad for the HummingBoard that most people are content just running a Linux or Android flavor on it and not hacking something custom onto it, which would've spawned some usable documentation
14:17 dz0ny http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/02/19/canonical-achieves-broad-industry-buy-in-for-snappy-ubuntu/
14:22 Halofreak1990 Currently, I'd like to be able to manipulate the Activity LED, so I can toggle it as my code runs through various stages
14:23 Halofreak1990 but from the wiring diagram and the Freescale SoC docs I can only make out that the Activity LED is connected to the SATA controller and not some GPIO pin or somthing similar
14:23 Halofreak1990 but there's nothing conclusive on that
14:25 vpeter Halofreak1990: which led is that exactly?
14:33 thom_ Hello, i installed Debian Jessie from Igor Pe?ovnik
14:33 thom_ but how can i install vivante video driver ?
14:34 thom_ i installed XFCE4
14:34 thom_ But impossible to read a film
14:34 thom_ and i don't have sound card
14:35 thom_ i didn't find help on wiki
14:38 Halofreak1990 vpeter: the one next to the power LED
15:01 thom_ nobody know
15:01 thom_ ?
15:34 thom_ finally i arrived to played HDvideo with mplayer but 1080p is slow
15:34 thom_ if you have any experience ...
15:40 Marmotte thom_: fran?ais ?
15:43 thom_ Marmotte: oui
15:43 thom_ Miracle !
15:43 thom_ Un fran?ais !
15:44 thom_ Tu as une seconde pour qu'on papote ?
15:44 Marmotte je ne connais pas ton mat?riel, je n'ai qu'un vieux cubox pro (m?me pas -i)
15:44 Marmotte mais ton anglai est tr?s reconnaissable :)
15:44 Marmotte anglais*
15:44 thom_ C'est un anglais de Fran?ais
15:44 thom_ ;-)
15:44 Marmotte (stop french now, this is an english-speaking channel ^^)
15:45 thom_ ?
15:52 thom_ Marmotte: tu plaisantes ?
16:15 LangeOortjes Zut alors, je comprends rien!
16:16 LangeOortjes ;)
16:16 MarcusVinter fran�ais est source de confusion.
16:17 earthy oui, c'est vraiment ind?chiffrable. :P
16:17 MarcusVinter heh :P
17:25 MarcusVinter jnettlet, you still working on u-boot t oday?
17:25 jnettlet MarcusVinter, I started but didn't get very far....distractions. I will take a look again in a bit
17:26 jnettlet I take it you are still stuck in the same place?
17:26 MarcusVinter okay haha. I'm still stuck trying to remove the version line.
17:26 MarcusVinter Yeah haha
17:26 jnettlet :)
17:26 MarcusVinter I need an expert :)
17:27 jnettlet well if you find one send him my way. I could use one also
17:30 MarcusVinter hahaha
17:49 jnettlet sorry MarcusVinter, more of those distractions we have talked about. Looking now
17:49 MarcusVinter no worries :P
18:58 MarcusVinter Any luck amtey?
18:58 MarcusVinter matey*
19:15 dz0ny vpeter: http://2015.webcamp.si/#cfp
19:27 MarcusVinter jnettlet :)?
19:31 vpeter dz0ny: Are you going to send something?
19:31 dz0ny vpeter: naah just attending :)
19:33 vpeter dz0ny: Nice. You can tell me if something interesting will be there.
23:29 frewtbag Hey guys,
23:29 frewtbag finally just got my cubox (a month and a half after ordering) and I've got some questions
23:29 frewtbag if anyone's around
23:30 frewtbag I had it shipped with openelec but at 1080p the UI is a bit laggy
23:30 frewtbag is there a way to clock up the CPU?
23:37 frewtbag ..anyone?
23:37 fritsch frewtbag: it's currently completely reworked
23:37 fritsch frewtbag: the complete hw acceleration
23:37 fritsch but if menu speed is your only issue - keep what you have
23:37 frewtbag Even at 720p 60Hz, my framerate doesn't go past 51. the last time I was in the chatroom someone told me that their UI was a perfect 60fps
23:37 frewtbag if I bump it up to 1920x1080, it drops to 27 fps
23:38 fritsch how do you measure those fps?
23:38 fritsch you look in the system info?
23:38 fritsch that won't render in full speed cause dirty region will optimize that
23:38 frewtbag Well, at first I wasn't, but I noticed that the transitions are much choppier than on my Zotac (ION graphics)
23:38 frewtbag ah
23:38 frewtbag that's where I started to look
23:38 fritsch yeah - don't expect too much
23:39 fritsch was your zotac ion-2 based?
23:39 frewtbag first gen ION
23:39 fritsch yeah, that it can beat
23:39 fritsch :p
23:39 fritsch https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55728161/OpenELEC-imx6.arm-devel-20150219105821-r20292-gd7ca9a0.tar
23:39 fritsch here ^^
23:39 fritsch if you have issues with 1080p50 movies
23:39 fritsch or cannot watch live tv 1080i50
23:40 frewtbag I guess I'm a little bummed out because it took me about 58 days to get it, when it arrived the outer cage was kind of badly scuffed up (wasn't even plastic wrapped), and now I'm finding that it's not nearly as smooth as I was told it would be.
23:40 fritsch and one final hint: the codecs screen (o) is no benchmark
23:40 fritsch who told that?
23:40 frewtbag a few people in here, like way back in the start of January
23:41 frewtbag I specifically asked about the framerate of the UI and I was told it was super smooth, even at 1080
23:41 frewtbag Even the scrolling RSS ticker at the bottom on 720 is stuttering a bit.
23:42 frewtbag I don't know. I'm just getting the impression that I really shouldn't have spent money on this :/
23:42 frewtbag It seems to be a step down from my Zotac except for size
23:43 fritsch test the build I gave you
23:43 fritsch (i am not in any way related to the marketing / selling team), but found it nice to hack on that box
23:43 frewtbag Do you think it might be smoother?
23:43 fritsch i exactly know what it can't do - but want to ease your pain
23:43 fritsch yes
23:44 fritsch especially video playback is heavily improved
23:45 frewtbag ahYe
23:45 frewtbag Yeah
23:45 frewtbag I'll give it a shot.
23:45 frewtbag Thank you.
23:46 frewtbag What's the install process for these? For my Zotac I just used the OpenELEC tool to make a bootable USB drive
23:47 fritsch just put the .tar
23:47 fritsch into the update folder
23:47 fritsch via samba share
23:47 fritsch or scp it to /storage/.update/
23:47 frewtbag Ah
23:48 frewtbag Seems pretty straight forward