From slothpuck at gmail.com Mon Oct 3 20:19:14 2011 From: slothpuck at gmail.com (lee jones) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:19:14 +0000 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? Message-ID: Hello all :) Was just wondering which packages I'd need to install in armedslack (still working on the efika mx!) in order to do a complete install of gcc and all its various bits 'n' pieces? Would try something like slapt-get, but it dosen't seem to be avaliable for armedslack, though it is for salixos (though I don't think their packages would work being a different distro). Does armedslack use something different? ljones From slothpuck at gmail.com Mon Oct 3 20:25:57 2011 From: slothpuck at gmail.com (lee jones) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:25:57 +0000 Subject: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on Sheevaplug Message-ID: Managed to get armedslack (finally!) to boot and start up on my sheevaplug (bought one of these a while back, though it never got used as a server due to internet (dis)conenction problems). But it seems to be working ok, and trying to get u-boot to work right was a nightmare! I used the mini root filesystem ( http://www.armedslack.org/installation ) to do this :) ! Link to my (slow) server is here - http://andy29uk.no-ip.org/www/sheevaplug-armedslack-13.1/ ljones From pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com Mon Oct 3 21:14:04 2011 From: pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com (Ottavio) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:14:04 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 3 October 2011 21:19, lee jones wrote: > Hello all :) > > Was just wondering which packages I'd need to install in armedslack > (still working on the efika mx!) in order to do a complete install of > gcc and all its various bits 'n' pieces? > > Would try something like slapt-get, but it dosen't seem to be > avaliable for armedslack, though it is for salixos (though I don't > think their packages would work being a different distro). > > Does armedslack use something different? If you have slackpkg installed just: slackpkg update && slackpkg install d/ -- Ottavio qemu-users ? The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From richard.lapointe at gmail.com Mon Oct 3 22:39:10 2011 From: richard.lapointe at gmail.com (Richard Lapointe) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:39:10 -0400 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> On 10/03/2011 04:19 PM, lee jones wrote: > Hello all :) > > Was just wondering which packages I'd need to install in armedslack > (still working on the efika mx!) in order to do a complete install of > gcc and all its various bits 'n' pieces? > > Would try something like slapt-get, but it dosen't seem to be > avaliable for armedslack, though it is for salixos (though I don't > think their packages would work being a different distro). > > Does armedslack use something different? > > ljones > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack I used slapt-get on my ARMedSlack powered Dockstar. See Thorsten post to the mail list back in March http://lists.armedslack.org/2011-March/000821.html Rich Lapointe From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Tue Oct 4 06:05:43 2011 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:05:43 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on Sheevaplug In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > Managed to get armedslack (finally!) to boot and start up on my > sheevaplug (bought one of these a while back, though it never got used > as a server due to internet (dis)conenction problems). But it seems to > be working ok, and trying to get u-boot to work right was a nightmare! > > I used the mini root filesystem ( > http://www.armedslack.org/installation ) to do this :) ! Is there something wrong with the instructions provided to install onto the SheevaPlug? why use the mini root when the installer is available? -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org From louigi600 at yahoo.it Tue Oct 4 06:59:31 2011 From: louigi600 at yahoo.it (Davide) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:59:31 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on Sheevaplug In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1317711571.86557.YahooMailNeo@web29709.mail.ird.yahoo.com> >> Managed to get armedslack (finally!) to boot and start up on my >> sheevaplug (bought one of these a while back, though it never got used >> as a server due to internet (dis)conenction problems). But it seems to >> be working ok, and trying to get u-boot to work right was a nightmare! >> >> I used the mini root filesystem ( >> http://www.armedslack.org/installation ) to do this :) ! > >Is there something wrong with the instructions provided to install onto >the SheevaPlug?? why use the mini root when the installer is available? Not sure what their reasons might be but? mine depend on what the target is: sometimes miniroot takes you where you want to go faster then installing. Generally, right after the miniroot is up, the very first thing I do is manually install, configure and update slackpkg. Once slackpkg is working you can, pretty much quickly, add the other stuff you need. -- Rgards David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slothpuck at gmail.com Tue Oct 4 16:08:56 2011 From: slothpuck at gmail.com (lee jones) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:08:56 +0000 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks for that :) . But drat! Slapt-get dosen't resolve dependencies! Here's the thought -- if I can somehow find out what armedslack installs, then I should somehow be able to install those. Don't really want to try to guess which packages to install complex stuff (e.g. gcc) as I'll more than likely get something wrong or miss something! I'm guessing that like slackware armedslack uses tagfiles which are in turn used by the main setup program at install. That would be ideal as the dependencies would be largely resolved just going by the default armedslack tagfiles. Only snag is that the install/setup program in slackware can't be run after install as it isn't installed. There is pkgtool but it only allows for installing individual packages, one by one. Only other option seems to be to go through the tag files, look for the tagfiles marked "ADD" and "REC" and manually install them (which would take ages!). Just trying to work out how to do this -- one idea might be to extract the install setup from armedslack but I have no idea where it is. I tried looking in one of armedslacks' initrd files, but could only find; total 24K drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 . drwxrwxrwt 28 root root 20K Oct 4 12:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 4 12:09 accessibility drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 block drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 bus drwxr-xr-x 62 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 class drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 dev drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 devices drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 firmware drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 fs drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 kernel drwxr-xr-x 235 root root 0 Oct 4 12:02 module lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 4 12:11 o2cb -> fs/o2cb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 4 12:03 power No sign of the setup/install script! ljones -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: On 4 October 2011 17:08, lee jones wrote: > > Just trying to work out how to do this -- one idea might be to extract the > install setup from armedslack but I have no idea where it is. I tried > looking in one of armedslacks' initrd files, but could only find; A friendly "RTFM": http://ftp.slackware.org.uk/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/minirootfs/scripts/ Packages installed: PKGLIST="a/aaa_base \ a/aaa_elflibs \ a/aaa_terminfo \ a/acl \ a/attr \ a/bash \ a/bin \ a/bzip2 \ a/coreutils \ a/cxxlibs \ a/dbus \ a/dcron \ a/devs \ a/dialog \ a/e2fsprogs \ a/ed \ a/etc \ a/file \ a/lvm2 \ a/findutils \ a/gawk \ a/gettext \ a/getty-ps \ a/glibc-solibs \ a/glibc-zoneinfo \ a/grep \ a/gzip \ a/kbd \ a/kernel-modules* \ a/kernel_[a-z]* \ a/jfsutils \ a/inotify-tools \ a/module-init-tools \ a/mtd-utils \ a/openssl-solibs \ a/pkgtools \ a/procps \ a/reiserfsprogs \ a/shadow \ a/sed \ a/sysklogd \ a/sysvinit \ a/sysvinit-scripts \ a/tar \ a/u-boot-tools \ a/udev \ a/usbutils \ a/util-linux \ a/which \ a/xfsprogs \ a/xz ap/vim \ ap/nano \ n/dhcpcd \ n/lftp \ n/links \ n/network-scripts \ n/nfs-utils \ n/ntp \ n/iputils* \ n/net-tools \ n/iproute2 \ n/openssh \ n/portmap \ n/rsync \ n/telnet \ n/traceroute \ n/wget \ l/lzo" -- Ottavio qemu-users ? The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From slothpuck at gmail.com Tue Oct 4 17:28:10 2011 From: slothpuck at gmail.com (lee jones) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:28:10 +0000 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: sorry, my bad what I was meaning was the script the installer runs, not the actual files needed to get a boot system running. Mind you I decided to try - and see - what happens if I pinch the x86 slackware setup/install script (where you get to choose the packages to install, the keymap, partition, etc) and try that. I have it partially working, the script used is easy to copy off the x86 install :); Here's a sort of really quick 'n' dirty howto; * use qemu and boot a slackware x86 dvd (and also to use a normal usb stick as a 'pretend' hard drive). * copy /usr/lib/setup to the usb stick * copy /sbin/probe to the usb stick (its just a script :) ) * transter that to armedslack on the efika mx (yes, still working on it!) into directory /usr/lib/setup * replace /sbin/pkginstall in armedslack with the one from the x86 installer (it's just a script, but the armedslack one lacks the -root option) * copy probe into armedslack's /sbin * mount the usb stick on the efika mx somewhere, e.g. /tmp/0 * install choosing /dev/mmcblk0p2 as the place to install and a pre-mounted directory to install from. ljones -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tylernt at gmail.com Tue Oct 4 18:02:16 2011 From: tylernt at gmail.com (Tyler T) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 12:02:16 -0600 Subject: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on Sheevaplug In-Reply-To: References: <1317711571.86557.YahooMailNeo@web29709.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > Unless there's some way of > installing via an alternative route, e.g. usb or sd? See below. I used an SD card to assist with the process, but I believe uBoot is reliable enough now you could just put /boot directly on the USB hard drive and skip the SD card entirely. Reprinted from http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=1918.0 with permission by the original author (me!): Here is my recipe for getting armedslack-current (about 13.1) working on a SheevaPlug. My procedure differs a little from the official instructions, because I think my way was much easier. ;) I didn't have to set up a PXE/TFTP/NFS environment, which is a pain if you don't already have them. First hurdle was my Sheeva did not come with a CD, so I had to download the difficult-to-find Windows support tools from http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=startdown&id=44. I was then able to use the USB/serial connection to verify the Sheeva booted OK with the stock Linux install. For Slackware, I used an SD card for my boot device and a USB hard drive for the root fs. I originally tried an old 64MB MMC (not SD, but actual MMC) but u-Boot's 'mmcinit' did not recognize it so I had to switch to a 1GB SD card. My reason for using an MMC/SD was because of many reported problems with a USB boot device not being ready. Rather than deal with this with u-Boot workarounds and sleep/waiting in the bootup scripts, I simply used Windows to format my SD card with FAT and then dropped the kernel and the two Slackware initial ramdisks on it -- one initrd for the installer, one for normal booting. One thing to mention is I renamed the installer initrd file, because the default name is easily confused with the standard initrd. I also prepped the USB drive using an existing x86 Linux box (actually, VM, but whatever). I partitioned it (no need to set a bootable partition) and formatted the first partition as ext2 (though since u-Boot doesn't need to read this FS, it could really be any FS you want that the default armedslack kernel supports). I then mounted my new fs, cd'd to it, and rsync'd the armedslack-current tree to it with rsync --exclude '*/source/*' --delete -Pavv ftp.armedslack.org::armedslack/armedslack-current . Don't forget that last . at the end! I plugged in my SD and my USB drive to the Sheeva, fired up my serial terminal, and powered on. I pressed any key to break into the u-Boot bootloader and ran the following commands. Please note that absolutely NO permanent changes are made to u-Boot at this point, so if anything goes wrong, you just powercycle and end up back at the stock Debian Linux install from the internal flash. setenv arcNumber 2097 setenv mainlineLinux yes setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 nodhcp kbd=us root=/dev/ram rw mmcinit fatload mmc 0:1 0x01100000 /uinitrd-kirkwood-installer fatload mmc 0:1 0x8000000 uImage-kirkwood bootm 0x8000000 0x01100000 Once booted into the Slack installer, I simply ran 'setup', selected my target partition as /dev/sda1, then when prompted for a source I selected "pre-mounted" (note: I did NOT pre-mount it! The installer mounts it for you) and entered /mnt/armedslack-current/slackware. The install proceeded normally from this point and I typed 'reboot' when it was complete. Again, I broke into u-Boot and this time I ran the following, slightly different, commands. Again, NO permanent changes are being made, so the Sheeva will still failsafe to the factory state if you powercycle. setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 kbd=us root=/dev/sda1 rw setenv arcNumber 2097 setenv mainlineLinux yes mmcinit fatload mmc 0:1 0x01100000 /uinitrd-kirkwood fatload mmc 0:1 0x8000000 uImage-kirkwood bootm 0x8000000 0x01100000 Unbelievably, it worked on the first try (well, after an fsck and reboot). Linux boots from the SD, and by the time it gets around to mounting the rootfs off the USB drive, the USB drive is ready to go. Once I confirmed that everything was working and I was happy with it, I rebooted again, broke into u-Boot again, and this time ran setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 kbd=us root=/dev/sda1 rw setenv arcNumber 2097 setenv mainlineLinux yes setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit; fatload mmc 0:1 0x01100000 /uinitrd-kirkwood; fatload mmc 0:1 0x8000000 uImage-kirkwood; bootm 0x8000000 0x01100000' saveenv The 'saveenv' makes these changes permanent, so only do it if you're ready to commit to Slackware. This done, issue a 'reset' or powercycle again and Slackware will get booted from now on. From richard.lapointe at gmail.com Tue Oct 4 23:34:21 2011 From: richard.lapointe at gmail.com (Rich) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:34:21 -0400 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4E8B97FD.8080902@laprjns.com> On 10/04/2011 12:08 PM, lee jones wrote: > > > Thanks for that :) . But drat! Slapt-get dosen't resolve dependencies! Ah... yes it does if you use the Salix repo, which is a mirror of the ARMedSlack repository with dependency checking. The Salix ARM slapt-get package available already has the repo setup in the slapt-getrc config file. http://salix.enialis.net/arm/ Rich Lapointe From pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com Tue Oct 4 23:40:58 2011 From: pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com (Ottavio) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:40:58 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: <4E8B97FD.8080902@laprjns.com> References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> <4E8B97FD.8080902@laprjns.com> Message-ID: On 5 October 2011 00:34, Rich wrote: > Ah... yes it does if you use the Salix repo, which is a mirror of the > ARMedSlack repository with dependency checking. The Salix ARM slapt-get > package available already has the repo setup in the slapt-getrc config file. Dependency checking! Horror! Sacrilege! -- Ottavio qemu-users ? The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From thenktor at gmail.com Wed Oct 5 06:03:13 2011 From: thenktor at gmail.com (Thorsten =?ISO-8859-1?B?TfxobGZlbGRlcg==?=) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:03:13 +0200 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> <4E8B97FD.8080902@laprjns.com> Message-ID: <20111005080313.592f39ec@pinkfloyd.tm-net> Am Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:40:58 +0100 schrieb Ottavio : > On 5 October 2011 00:34, Rich wrote: > > Ah... yes it does if you use the Salix repo, which is a mirror of > > the ARMedSlack repository with dependency checking. The Salix ARM > > slapt-get package available already has the repo setup in the > > slapt-getrc config file. > > Dependency checking! Horror! Sacrilege! > Geek :-P -- Thorsten M?hlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org From richard.lapointe at gmail.com Wed Oct 5 22:45:54 2011 From: richard.lapointe at gmail.com (Richard Lapointe) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:45:54 -0400 Subject: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on Sheevaplug In-Reply-To: References: <1317711571.86557.YahooMailNeo@web29709.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4E8CDE22.1050901@gmail.com> On 10/04/2011 01:03 PM, lee jones wrote: > My problem was that normal armedslack needs an nfs install/boot, and I > did try the instructions but I've *never* even used any sort of nfs > install or boot so I found using the miniroot easier. Unless there's > some way of installing via an alternative route, e.g. usb or sd? > Well I was able to get the installer running on my Dockstars. I wrote this up here in this mail list thread: http://lists.armedslack.org/2011-January/000703.html Maybe you could do something similar on your sheevaplug. The key is being able to pass these boot arguments to uboot: nic=auto:eth0:dhcp kbd=uk I did install both Jeff Doozan's uboot and rescue system, but you may be able to do it without them. Be sure to read the entire thread. Rich Lapointe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Thu Oct 6 06:28:06 2011 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 07:28:06 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: > * replace /sbin/pkginstall in armedslack with the one from the x86 installer > (it's just a script, but the armedslack one lacks the -root option) You mean installpkg ? It does have the -root option - this is how the miniroots are made, and the installer's installpkg is copied from the pkgtools package. It's *supposed* to be like this anyway, unless something's gone wrong some place -- where are you seeing the missing -root option? From slothpuck at gmail.com Sat Oct 8 13:10:39 2011 From: slothpuck at gmail.com (lee jones) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:10:39 +0000 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > * replace /sbin/pkginstall in armedslack with the one from the x86 > installer > > (it's just a script, but the armedslack one lacks the -root option) > > You mean installpkg ? > It does have the -root option - this is how the miniroots are made, and > the installer's installpkg is copied from the pkgtools package. > > It's *supposed* to be like this anyway, unless something's gone wrong some > place -- where are you seeing the missing -root option? > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > yep, sorry ment installpkg :) All I remember is that when I tried it, I got errors with armeslack's installpkg, but I found that the installer has its own version. I've compared the two now, and found that there must be some slight difference somewhere, the armedslack one is 19K as opposed to the installers' 21K. ljones -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Sat Oct 8 14:06:49 2011 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:06:49 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: > All I remember is that when I tried it, I got errors with armeslack's > installpkg, but I found that the installer has its own version. I've > compared the two now, and found that there must be some slight difference > somewhere, the armedslack one is 19K as opposed to the installers' 21K. The installer's version in ARMedslack's installer is identical to the version you get in the fully installed OS. ARMedslack's installpkg differs from x86's because ARMedslack's is patched for several speed improvements on ARM. Both versions support -root. I unpacked the installer for -current and it supports -root. It has to anyway as this is how the installer installs the packages! I've got no idea what you're looking at :-) -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org From thenktor at gmail.com Sun Oct 9 11:02:50 2011 From: thenktor at gmail.com (Thorsten =?ISO-8859-1?B?TfxobGZlbGRlcg==?=) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 13:02:50 +0200 Subject: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ? In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20111009130250.15777d2c@pinkfloyd.tm-net> Am Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:06:49 +0100 (BST) schrieb Stuart Winter : > ARMedslack's installpkg differs from x86's because ARMedslack's is > patched for several speed improvements on ARM. Take a look at spkg. It's so much faster than the original package tools ;) -- Thorsten M?hlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org From louigi600 at yahoo.it Mon Oct 10 12:43:18 2011 From: louigi600 at yahoo.it (Davide) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:43:18 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Video playback on AC100 In-Reply-To: <20111009130250.15777d2c@pinkfloyd.tm-net> References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> <20111009130250.15777d2c@pinkfloyd.tm-net> Message-ID: <1318250598.66490.YahooMailNeo@web29720.mail.ird.yahoo.com> The other day I installed mplayer on my AC100 ... but the video playback was desparately slow. I'm not sure if it's the Framebuffer X or some other issue ... but I was getting less the 1 frame per second. Anyone have any idea how to speed things up? ? Will Xine work any better ? Regards David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From louigi600 at yahoo.it Mon Oct 10 14:55:56 2011 From: louigi600 at yahoo.it (Davide) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:55:56 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Video playback on AC100 In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> <20111009130250.15777d2c@pinkfloyd.tm-net> <1318250598.66490.YahooMailNeo@web29720.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1318258556.5849.YahooMailNeo@web29718.mail.ird.yahoo.com> >> The other day I installed mplayer on my AC100 ... but the video playback was >> desparately slow. >> >> I'm not sure if it's the Framebuffer X or some other issue .. >Just guessing: most likely some proprietary video card binary blob >that doesn't come with Slackware but comes with the default OS >(Android I think). See if you can get it from Ubuntu. Because >they are part of Linaro they usually can licence blobs that other >distros can't (it's sad though...). I'll try ... I'm already using ununtu kernel sources to get a working kernel. I'll surf around ubuntu forums and what more on this then. Another thing I just compiled latest ubuntu 2.6.38-100.1 that states working audio in the headphones but I can't see to get any oudio out of the damn thing anyway !!!! Ciao Davide -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From unixjohn1969 at gmail.com Mon Oct 10 15:02:56 2011 From: unixjohn1969 at gmail.com (John O'Donnell) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:02:56 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] Video playback on AC100 In-Reply-To: <1318258556.5849.YahooMailNeo@web29718.mail.ird.yahoo.com> References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> <20111009130250.15777d2c@pinkfloyd.tm-net> <1318250598.66490.YahooMailNeo@web29720.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <1318258556.5849.YahooMailNeo@web29718.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: USB headphones? usbaudio driver? ** sent from an android On Oct 10, 2011 10:59 AM, "Davide" wrote: > >> The other day I installed mplayer on my AC100 ... but the video playback > was > >> desparately slow. > >> > >> I'm not sure if it's the Framebuffer X or some other issue .. > > >Just guessing: most likely some proprietary video card binary blob > >that doesn't come with Slackware but comes with the default OS > >(Android I think). See if you can get it from Ubuntu. Because > >they are part of Linaro they usually can licence blobs that other > >distros can't (it's sad though...). > > I'll try ... I'm already using ununtu kernel sources to get a working > kernel. I'll surf around ubuntu forums and what more on this then. > > Another thing I just compiled latest ubuntu 2.6.38-100.1 that states > working audio in the headphones but I can't see to get any oudio out of the > damn thing anyway !!!! > > Ciao > Davide > > > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com Mon Oct 10 17:16:49 2011 From: pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com (Ottavio) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:16:49 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] Video playback on AC100 In-Reply-To: <1318258556.5849.YahooMailNeo@web29718.mail.ird.yahoo.com> References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> <20111009130250.15777d2c@pinkfloyd.tm-net> <1318250598.66490.YahooMailNeo@web29720.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <1318258556.5849.YahooMailNeo@web29718.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On 10 October 2011 15:55, Davide wrote: > I'll try ... I'm already using ununtu kernel sources to get a working > kernel. I'll surf around ubuntu forums and what more on this then. Nowadays video card modules are in xorg not (only) in kernel modules. "Grep" your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for "not found". -- Ottavio qemu-users ? The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From louigi600 at yahoo.it Tue Oct 11 08:01:59 2011 From: louigi600 at yahoo.it (Davide) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:01:59 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Video playback on AC100 In-Reply-To: References: <4E8A398E.4010009@gmail.com> <20111009130250.15777d2c@pinkfloyd.tm-net> <1318250598.66490.YahooMailNeo@web29720.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <1318258556.5849.YahooMailNeo@web29718.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1318320119.73434.YahooMailNeo@web29708.mail.ird.yahoo.com> >> I'll try ... I'm already using ununtu kernel sources to get a working >> kernel. I'll surf around ubuntu forums and what more on this then. > Nowadays video card modules are in xorg not (only) in kernel modules. > "Grep" your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for "not found". root at slackware:~# grep -i "not found" /var/log/Xorg.0.log root at slackware:~# If I start attempting to show a video nothing shows up on the X0msgs but I get about 1 frame every 2 seconds. I also haveto use -ao null or I get complains about: [AO OSS] Can't set auduo device /dev/dsp ro s16le output OK I have it now ... not sure why it defaults to OSS while my kernel has alsa so this got just the audio part working on the headphones: mplayer -ao alsa -vo null Aha another thing got much better framerate: mplayer -ao alsa -vo fbdev this produces no window around the video output, a horrible info box on the bottom and leaves s mess after video is finished but has acceptable framerate ! Maybe I can set some better defaults in ~/.mplayer/config and not haveto remember this stuff every time :-) This is even better as framerate is ok but it leaves no mess and no info box: mplayer -ao alsa -vo x11 Xine does no better on video playback as it crashes shortly after starting: root at slackware:~# xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5. (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team. X Error of failed request:? BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) ? Major opcode of failed request:? 62 (X_CopyArea) ? Serial number of failed request:? 4558 ? Current serial number in output stream:? 4563 root at slackware:~# Not sure if this is because I'm missing some requisite .... but the output is not much help in debugging. I'll stick to mplayer -ao alsa -vo x11 for the moment :-D -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dowelld at netscape.net Thu Oct 13 17:10:07 2011 From: dowelld at netscape.net (Dave Dowell) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:10:07 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: iOmega iConnect In-Reply-To: References: <4E26F74F.7060000@netscape.net> Message-ID: <4E971B6F.6060904@netscape.net> Hi Greg, I finally got the time to sit down and play with this, and you're right. I can't get it to install over a network at all. No matter what I do. Even my original instructions don't seem to work. In the end (and after spending several hours trying) I've given up, and started from scratch. See here. http://www.dowelld.net I know those files work I've now installed done NFS installs with them several times. I'll do another post with the patch file and instructions for recompiling on the installed system to get the network working, as soon as I've had a chance to test my original patch files out and actually created a working kernel and initrd image. Thanks Dave On 25/09/2011 21:27, Greg Lim wrote: > Dave, > > I finally got around to unboxing my iConnect. I can boot into the > ArmedSlack installer, but I have no ethernet. I'm guessing that I have > the wrong arcNumber. > > Can you tell us what the correct arcNumber is for the iConnect running > on the ArmedSlack 13.37 kernel so that ethernet works? > > Here's what I've tried: > 2870 - doesn't boot. added by someone Matrin Michlmayr on May 2010. > 1682 - boots. no ethernet once booted into the install system, but > ifconfig appears to show the correct ethernet addresses of both the > wireless and 1GB-wired interfaces. > 2097 - sheevaplug - interface missing. can't bring up > 2678 - sheevaplug - esata - interface missing. can't bring up > > -Greg Lim > > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Dave Dowell > wrote: > > Hello again, > > OK I've started putting some information about this up now. > > http://www.dowelld.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3 > > > Thanks > Dave > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] iOmega iConnect > Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:49:04 +0100 > From: Dave Dowell > > To: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org > > > > > I was right about the kernel code for making the leds work, I have > managed to get it working. It creates an object for each led in > /sys/class/leds and each led contains a brightness object which > can be manipulated to change turn the leds on and off... now I > just have to work out how to automate that with udev. The same > code also includes the objects for the onboard button, but I'll be > buggered if I know where to start with that one yet. I can see it > has been found and that the interrupts are being detected when > it's pressed though :-) > > I'll knock up a page with some information / downloadable files > and put up for this, once I've moved this all forward a bit. > > Thanks > Dave > > On 01/07/2011 20:19, Greg Lim wrote: >> Dave, this is great work. You've inspired me to purchase one of >> these. >> >> -Greg Lim >> >> Sent from my VT102 >> >> On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Dave Dowell > > wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I've installed ARMedslack onto one of these now. >>> http://go.iomega.com/en/products/network-storage-desktop/wireless-data-station/network-hard-drive-iconnect/ >>> >>> *Specification* >>> >>> * Desktop, compact form factor >>> * Marvell 6281 CPU at 1.0GHz with 256MB RAM >>> * 1 x RJ45 10/100/1000Mbps (GbE) Ethernet port >>> LAN standards: IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u >>> * Wireless (802.11b/g/n) >>> * 4 x USB 2.0 ports (to connect external HDD, printers) >>> * AC Voltage 100-240 VAC >>> * Power consumption -- 5 Watts >>> * Documentation localized for 18 languages, including; >>> English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian >>> Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, and Russian >>> >>> It doesn't mention the onboard flash memory there, but it also >>> has 512MB of flash built in. >>> >>> It's a Marvell Orion board inside, complete with the header for >>> a TTL to USB serial console. >>> The console can be rigged like this http://doip.org/iconnect_console >>> >>> I've recompiled the kernel to include the following options: >>> (Could these be added into the standard ARMedslack kernel config >>> please ?) >>> > CONFIG_RT2800PCI=m >>> > CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT33XX=y >>> > CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT35XX=y >>> >>> However it probably only requires the first of them. This has >>> made the onboard Ralink wireless adapter available. >>> >>> I'm trying to hack the mapower architecture code changes into >>> the kernel code to get the pretty LEDs working, but have had >>> varying degrees of success with that so far, I think I've got >>> the code in and working, however I've yet to figure out how to >>> control the LEDs. So I'm hacking away at the default (flash) >>> image (debian 5) to try and figure out how they've done it. It >>> looks like they're controlling it with a closed source binary atm. >>> >>> The Sheeva Plug install instructions work for the install. >>> >>> Anyway, other than that it works well, and it's a cheap device :-) >>> >>> Thanks >>> Dave >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ARMedslack mailing list >>> ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org >>> >>> http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ARMedslack mailing list >> ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org >> http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org > > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slothpuck at gmail.com Sun Oct 16 21:32:20 2011 From: slothpuck at gmail.com (lee jones) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:32:20 +0000 Subject: [ARMedslack] ARMed slack on the Efika MX smartbook update Message-ID: Hello again! After doing a *lot* of research and I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not but I've now managed to get X to work just a little faster on the efika mx smartbook. After posting on another forum, the key was to stop using the older version of pixman armedslack uses and use the latest version, 0.23.6 (I think armedslack 13.1's is 0.16.x). This works fairly well -- mozilla is usable (though it does "pause" while it is doing something) I could even play a video and use it! Only snag is that this comes at a lot higher CPU usage. http://andy29uk.no-ip.org/www/ is where I've put the files. Though I've not updated the files there with the newer pixman yet. 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This works fairly well -- mozilla is > usable (though it does "pause" while it is doing something) I could even > play a video and use it! Only snag is that this comes at a lot higher CPU > usage. > > http://andy29uk.no-ip.org/www/ is where I've put the files. Though I've not > updated the files there with the newer pixman yet. > > One thing which would really be useful is trying to get KDE 3.5 to run on > armedslack but there dosen't seem to be any packages yet x.x ! But you don't say how you have updated pixman. Have you used a slackbuild (which by the way I couldn't find) or have you installed a binary and where did you get it from (--current is on pixman-0.20.2)? -- Ottavio qemu-users ? The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From atelszewski at gmail.com Mon Oct 17 11:39:51 2011 From: atelszewski at gmail.com (Andrzej Telszewski) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:39:51 +0200 Subject: [ARMedslack] ARMed slack on the Efika MX smartbook update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E9C1407.3060204@gmail.com> On 10/17/2011 12:17 AM, Ottavio wrote: > Have you used a > slackbuild (which by the way I couldn't find) There is only one SlackBuild for the whole X series packages (just like it is probably going to be for KDE in the next Slackware release). It is x11.SlackBuild under source/x/x11. Calling the SlackBuild directly will build the whole X, and to build single package, you need to specify its location and name, e.g.: * ./x11.SlackBuild driver xf86-video-intel * ./x11.SlackBuild lib pixman -- Pozdrawiam, Best regards, Andrzej Telszewski From pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com Mon Oct 17 12:54:08 2011 From: pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com (Ottavio) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:54:08 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] ARMed slack on the Efika MX smartbook update In-Reply-To: <4E9C1407.3060204@gmail.com> References: <4E9C1407.3060204@gmail.com> Message-ID: On 17 October 2011 12:39, Andrzej Telszewski wrote: > There is only one SlackBuild for the whole X series packages (just like > it is probably going to be for KDE in the next Slackware release). It is > x11.SlackBuild under source/x/x11. Calling the SlackBuild directly will > build the whole X, and to build single package, you need to specify its > location and name, e.g.: > * ./x11.SlackBuild driver xf86-video-intel > * ./x11.SlackBuild lib pixman cool... -- Ottavio qemu-users ? The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From slothpuck at gmail.com Mon Oct 17 18:08:09 2011 From: slothpuck at gmail.com (lee jones) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:08:09 +0000 Subject: [ARMedslack] ARMed slack on the Efika MX smartbook update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: But you don't say how you have updated pixman. Have you used a > slackbuild (which by the way I couldn't find) or have you installed a > binary and where did you get it from (--current is on pixman-0.20.2)? > > I removed the pixman package from armedslack, downloaded the source and installed it. Got the source from here; http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman/ The compiling process seemed to work fine with no errors :) . ljones -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com Thu Oct 20 11:22:05 2011 From: pr0f3ss0r1492 at yahoo.com (Ottavio) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:22:05 +0100 Subject: [ARMedslack] ARM-powered (Freescale iMX515) 'Webbook" Launches in South Africa Message-ID: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/webbook-vodafone-netbook-ubuntu-ARM,13763.html ARM-powered Ubuntu 'Webbook" Launches in South Africa Tom's Hardware Guide "In order to cut costs and power consumption, Vodafone went with an 800 MHz Freescale iMX515 (based on the ARM Cortex-A8), making this netbook the first to ship with a mainstream Linux distribution compiled for the ARM architecture, rather than x86." ... Maybe the first from Vodafone, Genesi and Hercules have a similar one. -- Ottavio qemu-users ? The unofficial mailing list for qemu users: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ From louigi600 at yahoo.it Thu Oct 20 14:04:09 2011 From: louigi600 at yahoo.it (Davide) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:04:09 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Compiling mame fro ARM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1319119449.76951.YahooMailNeo@web29707.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Way back in 2006 I had a working xmame for my Z that even if a little slowly it worked. Since then xmame has been dropped and original mame now builds on unix. I've built mame0143 on my x86 linux pc but I've had no luck on ARM. The old xmame sources build but produce a binary that complains about endianness while I was unable to compile normal mame on ARM. I tryed fiddling with CFLAGS to force little endian but it did no better. I've totally forgotten whatever I did way back in 2006. Anyone have any idea ? Regards David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From louigi600 at yahoo.it Fri Oct 21 13:12:41 2011 From: louigi600 at yahoo.it (Davide) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:12:41 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ARMedslack] Compiling mame fro ARM In-Reply-To: <1319119449.76951.YahooMailNeo@web29707.mail.ird.yahoo.com> References: <1319119449.76951.YahooMailNeo@web29707.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1319202761.49343.YahooMailNeo@web29709.mail.ird.yahoo.com> This got my build working on AC100: diff -ur xmame-0.106/makefile.unix xmame-0.106-arm/makefile.unix --- xmame-0.106/makefile.unix?? 2011-10-14 16:15:49.091527532 +0200 +++ xmame-0.106-arm/makefile.unix?????? 2011-10-21 18:20:32.000000000 +0200 @@ -126,8 +126,9 @@ ?# this section. ?########################################################################### ? -# GCC on x86 -CFLAGS = -O2 +# GCC on ARM LSB +CFLAGS = -O2 -mlittle-endian -mwords-little-endian + ? ?# GCC on x86 with some optimizations ?# CFLAGS = -O2 -mtune=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrength-reduce -ffast-math @@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ ?? ######################################################################### ?? ?? # Check for C89 + GNU extensions compliance. -? CFLAGS += -std=gnu89 +#? CFLAGS += -std=gnu89 ? ?? # Show all warnings. ?? CFLAGS += -Wall @@ -224,7 +225,7 @@ ?? # debugging. ?? # CFLAGS += -O2 ?? # CFLAGS += -O1 -? # CFLAGS += -O3 +? CFLAGS += -O2 ?? # CFLAGS += -Os ?? # CFLAGS += -O0 ? @@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ ?ifeq ($(CC),icc) ? ?? # Optimizations for the Intel compiler. -? CFLAGS??? = -O3 -rcd -Xa -ipo -ipo_obj +#? CFLAGS??? = -O3 -rcd -Xa -ipo -ipo_obj ? ?else ?ifeq ($(CC),sun-forte) @@ -576,7 +577,7 @@ ?########################################################################### ? ?# i386, GNU asm -MY_CPU = i386 +MY_CPU = arm ? ?# i386, no asm -- needed for the Intel C++ compiler, which does not fully ?# understand GCC's inline assembly syntax, though you may still enable diff -ur xmame-0.106/src/unix/unix.mak xmame-0.106-arm/src/unix/unix.mak --- xmame-0.106/src/unix/unix.mak?????? 2006-05-26 06:52:07.000000000 +0200 +++ xmame-0.106-arm/src/unix/unix.mak?? 2011-10-21 18:19:57.000000000 +0200 @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ ?CFLAGS.risc_lsb?? = -DALIGN_INTS -DALIGN_SHORTS -DLSB_FIRST ?CFLAGS.mips?????? = -DALIGN_INTS -DALIGN_SHORTS -DSGI_FIX_MWA_NOP ?CFLAGS.bfin?????? = -DLSB_FIRST -DALIGN_INTS -DALIGN_SHORTS +CFLAGS.arm??????? = -DALIGN_INTS -DALIGN_SHORTS -DLSB_FIRST ? ?############################################################################## ?# Architecture-dependent settings ________________________________ Da: Davide A: Slackware ARM port Inviato: Gioved? 20 Ottobre 2011 16:04 Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Compiling mame fro ARM Way back in 2006 I had a working xmame for my Z that even if a little slowly it worked. Since then xmame has been dropped and original mame now builds on unix. I've built mame0143 on my x86 linux pc but I've had no luck on ARM. The old xmame sources build but produce a binary that complains about endianness while I was unable to compile normal mame on ARM. I tryed fiddling with CFLAGS to force little endian but it did no better. I've totally forgotten whatever I did way back in 2006. Anyone have any idea ? Regards David _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack at lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: