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GestahltWeeeee01:03
GestahltHi!01:03
GestahltIve got my hands on an old Skye SL01:03
GestahltNow big question01:03
GestahltHow do i get ubuntu on it?01:03
persiaI presume you don't mean http://brickwell.com/product/10-trek-skye-sl-57861-1.htm : do you have a link to specs?01:04
MartynSomehow, I expect not01:05
GestahltYepp, its a rather rare device. I found some info and also tried out his Linux01:05
Martynit would be interesting to try to install ubuntu on gears on a device01:05
MartynUbuntu, bike edition01:05
Gestahlthttp://scholbert.homelinux.org/SkeyePad.html01:05
Gestahltthere you go01:05
Gestahltmaybe its too classic01:05
Gestahltbut it would be just so cool01:05
Gestahltthat WinCE 3.0 is giving me shivers01:06
Martyn"skeye" is quite different01:06
Martynchecking01:06
Martynno, ARM on that one is too old.  You might be able to get debian on it01:06
persiaDebian will run fine.01:06
MartynIt's an SA1100 .. should run Debian fine01:07
persiaJaunty might even install, but would run vey slowly.01:07
MartynJaunty won't install .. its an arm v401:07
persiaOh, right.01:07
Martynand the memory map and driver map for that device is cwazy01:07
* persia is often confused by the various extensions in the SA1110 and needs to hardwire the brain to say "Cannot run Ubuntu"01:08
Martynhttp://scholbert.homelinux.org/SkeyePad_stuff.html01:08
MartynOOOOllld hardware01:08
Gestahltaye01:09
Gestahltbut still a very robust build01:09
persiaGestahlt: So, you should have good kernel support, but you likely have to make your own kernel.  Getting it to boot directly (rather than chain-boot out of WinCE) may be a bit tricky.01:09
Gestahlti want to pimp it up01:09
MartynI hate to say it, but it won't be very "pimp" able01:09
Martynit has very little memory01:09
MartynAnd when I say very little .. I mean a TINY amount of RAM01:09
MartynSamsung SDRAM 2x32MB (K4S561632-TC75) @ 103MHz01:10
GestahltComputers wont need ever more than 640kb of RAM01:10
persiaIsn't that 64MB?01:10
persiaShould be fine, for careful use.01:10
GestahltActually01:10
MartynWorse, it has even less -storage-01:10
MartynIntel NOR Flash 2x16MB (28F128J3A-150)01:10
Gestahlti need it for RDP / VNC Streaming and Tux Paint01:10
Martyn32MB of storage.  That's it ...01:10
Gestahltand maybe seamonkey01:10
GestahltWell01:10
Gestahltthere is a CF card01:11
Martyngetting a basic linux install squeezed in there, is going to be a bitch01:11
persiaZaurus has 64MB, and later Zauri were known to run Jaunty.01:11
persiaThat said, I wouldn't try to compile boost on it :)01:11
MartynYes, Zaurus had more storage though01:11
persiaDepends on the model.  SLC-1000 has no NOR.01:11
persiaErr, -3000.01:11
persia3000 *ONLY* had CF storage.  Mind you, two CF, one pre-installed with a microdrive, but still.01:12
MartynThat's because it had a -hard disk-01:12
Martynyeah01:12
persiaSo?01:12
persiaStick a microdrive or a bundle of flash in the CF slot, and who cares.01:12
persiaCF-ATA is all sorts of well supported.01:12
Martyntrue01:12
Martyncould be interesting01:12
persiaGestahlt: But, yeah, your first steps are figuring out how to build the right kernel, and getting it to boot that kernel.  Once you can do that, putting a Debian 5.0 filesystem on the CF card shuold be trivial.01:13
MartynZaurus は常に(今まで)非常にしっかり造られたハードウェアでした01:14
* Martyn mangles japanese with the best of 'em01:14
GestahltPersia, that scholbert guy already build an running kernel (2.4.x but still better than ce 3.0) with GPE01:14
persiaIn the beginning, this was true.  Not so much these days :)01:14
persiaGestahlt: You really want a 2.6 kernel these days :)01:14
persiaProbably at least > 2.6.13, really.01:15
GestahltI know...01:15
XorA|gonepersia: none of the zaurus had nor, all of them have nand01:27
persiaAh, right.  My mistake.01:30
persia3000 still didn't have either :)01:30
XorA|gonepersia: 3000 had 128M of NAND01:30
XorA|gonepersia: so your still wrong :-)01:30
persiaWhat?01:30
XorA|goneall zaurus had NAND01:30
persiaI thought that was precisely the difference between the 3000 and the 3100, and specifically didn't get a 3000 because of this understanding.01:31
persiaIt was reputed to boot slow because of this.01:31
XorA|goneit only had 16M01:32
persiaOK.  That I can believe.01:32
XorA|gone3100 had 128M01:32
XorA|gonebut the rom and bootloader was always in NAND01:32
persiaAh, right.  So 3000 had kernel in NAND, and full FS on CF-ATA, whereas 3100 had the base FS in NAND also.01:32
* XorA|gone has spent too many years of life hacking on openzaurus01:32
* persia was only ever a Zaurus user, and no longer (the 3100 died, and the Netwalker has left the 3200 to gather dust)01:33
XorA|gonepersia: yeah something like that, couldnt tell you the exact layout of a 3000 as I never owned one, but its flashing script is identicle to 310001:33
persiaEarlier models have just given up (no longer charge or boot)01:33
persiaMakes sense, and simplifies internals to have the 16M for booting.01:34
persia(that said, I'm still happy to have never been a 3000 owner)01:34
XorA|goneIve had 5500, 5600, 6000, c860, 320001:35
XorA|goneonly got 5500 left01:35
persiaI've had J1M1,760,860,3100,3200, and only the 3200 still works.01:36
persiaJ1M1 isn't directly comparable, of course, running an entirely different OS :)01:36
XorA|goneanyway Im off to bed its well late here :-)01:36
persiaSleep well :)01:37
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* NCommander needs Marvell :-/01:55
NCommanderogra_cmpc: BTW, have you ever caught a stray cat before?03:10
* NCommander has one that recently showed up in town, and I'd like to trap it, get it neutered, and release/put up for adaption03:10
cwillu_at_workmmmmm, segfaultilicious07:15
cwillu_at_workdebootstrap'ing lucid in qemu now results in segfaults instead of hangs :p07:16
kblinsegfaults.. C's way of reporting errors to the user :)07:28
cwillu_at_workif it's actually segfaulting instead of hanging, I'm happy :p07:33
cwillu_at_workif it's just segfaulting before it gets to the point at which it used to hang, I'm not so happy07:33
cwillu_at_worksegfaults:  C's way of saying "I love you"07:33
cwillu_at_work"spend more time with me"07:34
cwillu_at_work"why don't you ever call anymore?"07:34
kblin:)07:38
cwillu_at_workI was about to draw a bunch of parallels between c and one's psycho ex-girlfriend, but it might be hitting too close to home07:41
kblindunno, my experience is on the C side only07:49
kblinand I think I'm fine with that07:50
samuel_SayagHi, I don't understend, there is no way to compile the kernel with OHCI-1394 support? that is strange ...08:48
samuel_Sayagis it true for all the beagleboard distro ? or can I find one with this modules on the kernel ?08:49
DanaGhmm, how do you propose to get firewire on a beagle?09:07
ogralost of soldering ?09:09
ogra*lots09:09
cwillu_at_workwouldn't be all that much, no?09:09
cwillu_at_workI'm sure dlp has a nice easy to use module09:10
cwillu_at_worker, ftdi09:10
ograwell, i'd use some USB adapter09:10
ogralikely the easiest09:10
ograand probably evan already supported by the ubuntu default kernel09:10
ograif not, dkms is your friend ;)09:11
DanaGUSB to firewire?  there's not such a thing.  Or at least, not one that can do general-purpose firewire.09:22
ogra_cmpcDanaG, http://www.usbfirewire.com/Parts/rr-527950.html09:55
ogra_cmpcoh, he's gone09:55
DooitzedeJongHello all10:01
cwillu_at_workhe'll be back10:18
cwillu_at_workogra_cmpc, was that you I was talking to the other day about lucid not installing in qemu?10:32
ogra_cmpccwillu_at_work, if i talked about it then only in connection with rootstock, i guess it was rather lool, he does std. installs in qemu10:45
ogra_cmpcthough he focuses on aemu-maemo atm afaik10:46
ogra_cmpc*qemu-maemo10:46
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samuel_SayagHi, what do i need for lan connection via the usb?12:54
sveinseI'm trying to be able to login as root on my system, but after changing the root's password, I get "You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)"13:02
sveinseThen I (by mistake) changed the password for the ordinary user, and the same message appears for that user13:03
persiasamuel_Sayag: You need a USB LAN device.  Your life will be easier if it is known to be supported in Ubuntu (but this is hard to discover: you probably want to make sure it's supported in the upstream kernel)13:07
persiasveinse: You hit the clock bug.  Set the system clock to something closer to real time.13:07
sveinseIt happens when the target system clock is out-of-sync with the real clock13:08
sveinsepersia: Yes, so I figured13:08
samuel_Sayagpersia, Thanks13:09
persiaI believe it only happens when the system clock is set to some time prior to the timestamp of the shadow file, but then again, my knowledge of that bug comes from listening to a couple people talk about it in a hotel room many months ago :)13:09
persiaThat said, because of the some-systems-don't-have-battery-backed-clocks-and-can't-get-network-to-get-real-time-until-post-login issue, it's worth tracking down the bug, and investigating what other options are available to address the reason the check is present without cauing it to happen for everyone who has a failed/incorrect RTC.13:10
sveinsepersia: It is a good theory for my system. You see, I use NFS as rootfs, so the files will probably be timestamped with the host time. When the arm target is living in the 1970s you get these kind of errors13:11
persiaIf possible, prefer boards with battery-backed RTCs :)13:12
* persia believes this to be a hardware issue, but is amenable to software workarounds.13:12
loolwee plymouth SEGV13:15
loolwow adding text + nosplash actually turns on the output13:18
loolpersia: Turns out it's not the kernel turning graphics on!13:20
persialool: What does it then?13:21
persiaDoes plymouth reprobe directly?  Is that why it build-deps on libdrm?13:21
loolI didn't find out yet, but init=/bin/sh doesn't turn it on13:21
persiaCool.  That makes it easier.13:23
* NCommander waves13:25
loolexcept I'm still fighting to get any sort of console13:25
loolGah, the cloud*.conf scripts were hanging13:34
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