[01:54] <rsavoye> I was just trying to install Lucid on a BeagleBoard XM, but it fails in two places
[01:55] <rsavoye> if says it can't load kernel modules, so of course later it can't find the MMC card to install to...
[01:58] <rcn-ee> rsavoye, which kernel? ubuntu's?
[01:59] <rsavoye> I was trying the lucid one off the BeagleBoardUbuntu page
[01:59] <rsavoye> although maverick would be better
[01:59] <rcn-ee> if it's my kernel, it has to be atleast 2.6.34+
[02:00] <rsavoye> I'll try the prebuilt maverick image from the same page
[02:01] <rcn-ee> the maverick alpha-2 listed there will boot. ;)  i've tested it on my xm..  just testing an alpha-3 for next week..
[02:01] <rsavoye> cool, it's still downloading
[02:01] <rsavoye> will it default to the serial port ?
[02:02] <rcn-ee> yeap ttyS2...
[02:02] <rsavoye> I need to get a HDMI DVI-D adapter
[02:02] <rcn-ee> it's actually both, it's setup to load ttyS2 with login and tty0 (hdmi)
[02:02] <rsavoye> even better :-)
[02:03] <rsavoye> I just mostly need to compile a a bunch of stuff to track down some problems
[02:03] <rcn-ee> the big issue with that kernel thou, the xm will only run about 500mhz, i didn't fix that till my 2.6.35-rc stuff..  i had one user have problems running at full speed 1Ghz he had to back down to 800mhz, still figuring out TI's voltage change stuff.
[02:03] <rsavoye> ouch, I was looking forward to 1Ghz :-)
[02:04] <rsavoye> since I have piles of compiling to do
[02:05] <rcn-ee> my works.. ;) but not all.. this patch will fix the issue.. the problem not all the infrasture is in mainline, so i'm cherry picking still... http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~beagleboard-kernel/%2Bjunk/2.6.35-devel/annotate/head:/patches/arago-project/0001-OMAP3630-PM-Update-for-OPP-1GHz.patch
[02:07] <rsavoye> I'm having similar problems...
[02:07] <rsavoye> I assume it'll be fixed RSN anyway ?
[02:09] <rsavoye> my MMC shows up as /dev/mmcblk0p1, so I assume I'll need the other setup script ?
[02:09] <rcn-ee> we will see, it'll defintelly get fixed faster as the xm's start shipping..(beagle group email metioned new memory in..)
[02:10] <rsavoye> so they fixed the memory problem ?
[02:10] <rcn-ee> no.. alpha-2, does not have the issue...  That bug came out after i released the 10.04 image in "may"... it takes time to upload 70mb's on my slow cable..
[02:10] <rsavoye> ah...
[02:11] <rcn-ee> i'm not sure, as i have one of the very early 256mb models.. but it sounds like they got good 512mb memory now..
[02:12] <rsavoye> the unit I just got has 512mb
[02:12] <rcn-ee> yeap, if it's marked with an "A" on the corner it's a production unit..
[02:14] <rsavoye> mine doesn't have an A, it came from TI with zero docs
[02:15] <rcn-ee> beagle's don't come with docs.. ;)  everything is on beagleboard.org  (well the schematic's aren't up yet)
[02:18] <rsavoye> I'm used to getting hardware before docs anyway. :-)
[02:18] <rsavoye> copying to the SD...
[02:22] <rsavoye> rcn-ee: root passwd ?
[02:22] <rsavoye> it obviously booted fine
[02:23] <rcn-ee> no root... user: ubuntu pass: temppwd  (the alpha-3 image will bring up oem-config, just got to sacarfise 100Mb to swap)
[02:23] <rsavoye> wow, that was too easy :-)
[02:24] <rcn-ee> if you look at dmesg, there is atleast one oops with usart 3..
[02:25] <rsavoye> sweet, I'm in, thanks
[02:26] <rcn-ee> no problem..  it'll be interesting if your board fails at 1Ghz too..  the latest kernel: http://rcn-ee.net/deb/maverick/v2.6.35-rc6-dl12/install-me.sh if it hard locks on boot, change mpurate from 1Ghz to 900/800 etc...
[02:30] <rsavoye> yeah, might be worth trying as long as I can  hack it work at a slower speed
[02:30] <rsavoye> but 1Ghz would be nice for builds
[02:31] <rcn-ee> the script will back up the existing uImage and uInird so it's pretty easy to back and forth. ;)
[02:31] <rsavoye> hum, apt-get doesn't like ports.ubuntu.com
[02:32] <rsavoye> ok, downloading it, I'll try it
[02:33] <rsavoye> wow, this is a reasonably decent performing little machine
[02:33] <rsavoye> I'm sort of used to 200-400Mhz :-(
[02:34] <rcn-ee> yeah the xm is pretty quick..  of course i thought the original beagle 500mhz/128mb was quick too a couple years back.. it keeps geting better..
[02:35] <rsavoye> mv: cannot move `/tmp/boot/uImage' to `/tmp/boot/uImage_old': Read-only file sym
[02:35] <rsavoye> `/tmp/boot/uInitrd' -> `/tmp/boot/uInitrd_old'
[02:35] <rsavoye> guess I should have done it as root
[02:35] <rcn-ee> no it calls sudo...
[02:36] <rcn-ee> is mount showing /dev/mmcblk0p1 as "ro" sounds like the same weird thing that till's board is doing.. (why mine doesn..t0
[02:36] <rsavoye> hum then I have a problem
[02:37] <rsavoye> yeah,. read-only file system
[02:38] <rsavoye> so I guess I can
[02:38] <rcn-ee> is there a 'write protect' switch on your mini-sd card?
[02:38] <rsavoye> t run at 1Ghz ?
[02:38] <rsavoye> could be, let me pull it out and check
[02:39] <rcn-ee> i don't think there is, but it's weird both your's and till's xm (512mb) models default to write-protect on the sd, whereas mine stay rw..
[02:40] <rsavoye> I don't see one, even put my reading glasses on...
[02:41] <rcn-ee> i'd hope it would be pretty obvious..
[02:43] <rsavoye> just making sure. :-)
[02:43] <rcn-ee> rsavoye, use nano and add this line: http://pastebin.com/wUNVc9Y7  (it should remount it as rw)
[02:45] <rsavoye> ok, done. trying again
[02:48] <rsavoye> that time it was happy
[02:49] <rcn-ee> cool thanks.. i'll add a ro check and workaround for future install-me scripts. ;)
[02:51] <rsavoye> seems to hang on reboot after "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.    "
[02:51] <rsavoye> Image Name:   2.6.35-rc6-dl12
[02:51] <rsavoye>    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
[02:51] <rcn-ee> yeah that's the clock speed... :(  use the boot.cmd from the ubuntu directory and change it to mpurate=800 instead of muprate=${mpurate}
[02:52] <rsavoye> I assume I do that with the MMC mounted to a different machine ?
[02:53] <rcn-ee> yeap, with another pc, so you need the sd card reader..
[02:53] <rcn-ee> till got it too boot every 3rd/4th time..
[02:54] <rsavoye> the ubuntu directory is where ?
[02:55] <rcn-ee> in the extracted dir.. ubuntu-maverick-alpha2-minimal-armel/boot.cmd
[02:55] <rcn-ee> then it's just: sudo mkimage -A arm -O linux -T script -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n "Boot Script" -d ${DIR}/boot.cmd ${DIR}/disk/boot.scr
[02:57] <rsavoye> DIR being my MMC card ? or where ubuntu* is untarred ?
[02:59] <rcn-ee> the first DIR is your ubuntu-maverick-alpha2-minimal-armel/ directory an the 2nd one is your mmc card.. (just remember to edit boot.cmd first)
[03:03] <rsavoye> looks like 800 doesn't do it either, 600 next ?
[03:04] <rcn-ee> very weird, 800mhz should have worked no problem..  maybe go back to the *_old  i'll do some more testing on my xm tomorrow..
[03:05] <rsavoye> I'll 600, then go back to the original image
[03:05] <rsavoye> maybe I screwed up a step
[03:06] <rcn-ee> no, i don't think you did..  the install script been tested quiet a bit in weird enviroments...  You just have serial access right?
[03:07] <rsavoye> yep, I'm redoing it 800
[03:07] <rsavoye> just to be sure
[03:09] <rsavoye> and yeah, only serial access till I get the network up
[03:10] <rsavoye> yep, that time it worked. user error...
[03:11] <rsavoye> it says 2.6.34-l2 ?
[03:11] <rcn-ee> that's the original...
[03:11] <rsavoye> oops,
[03:16] <rsavoye> so let me get this right, I should run install-me.sh on the but the boot.cmd is in the original tarball ?
[03:18] <rcn-ee> the install-me can only be run on the beagle...  the original boot.scr that is created with the setup_sdcard.sh script sets mpurate=${mpurate} this passes 1000 from u-boot to kernel, which then trys to set 1Ghz on the omap.. but it's not 100% yet, so we force mpurate=800 and copy that new boot.scr to the fat partition on the sd card..
[03:19] <rsavoye> that's what I thought
[03:20] <rsavoye> so after I run the install-me script, I have to reboot. But editing boot.cmd and running setup goes back to the original
[03:20] <rsavoye> or since I edited boot.cmd, ran setup, and then install-me.sh ?
[03:20]  * cwillu_at_work blames the sd cards
[03:21] <rcn-ee> yeah... the 'setup_sdcard' will reformat the sd card and use the original kernel image again..
[03:21] <rsavoye> 2.6.35-rc6-dl12. I had the order wrong at first :-)
[03:22] <rsavoye> now it's up and set to 800
[03:26] <rsavoye> 800Mhz is better than 500Mhz :-)
[03:27]  * cwillu_at_work feels inadequate with his 720mhz
[03:28]  * rcn-ee to have 512Mb...
[03:28] <cwillu_at_work> oddly enough given that I'm running a webapp fullscreen in firefox, I'm cpu bound, not memory bound :p
[03:29] <rsavoye> yeah, the extra memory may be better than the clock speed for builds
[03:29] <rcn-ee> i wouldn't do it for any of your in the field boards, but bump the mpurate value.. ;)
[03:30] <rsavoye> above 800 ? I'm a developer anyway. :-)
[03:31] <rcn-ee> oh i was bugging cwillu_at_work he should overclock his to 820.. ;)
[03:31]  * cwillu_at_work installs a water cooler :p
[03:31] <rsavoye> ya gotta love working on mobile devices, it's like coding was 20 years ago
[03:32] <cwillu_at_work> yep
[03:32] <cwillu_at_work> I remember my 32 bit atari with 256mb of memory running at 500mhz
[03:32]  * cwillu_at_work blinks
[03:33] <cwillu_at_work> actually, I remember my 16/32 bit atari with 2mb of memory and a 20mb scsi hard drive :p
[03:33]  * cwillu_at_work reminisces about gfa basic
[03:33] <cwillu_at_work> ... where a misindented line was a syntax error enforced by the editor :)
[03:34] <rsavoye> my first machine was a time sharing system that I dialed into at 110 baud :-)
[03:34] <rsavoye> even the keypunch machines were an improvement to that
[03:34] <cwillu_at_work> I used to go to the sleep to the beep beep beep of my mom typing thesis in my bedroom
[03:35] <cwillu_at_work> years later, she bit me
[03:35]  * cwillu_at_work wonders what happened there
[03:35] <cwillu_at_work> now I deal with the psychological issues by buying overpriced sd cards
[03:35] <cwillu_at_work> it's a mad world :)
[03:35] <rsavoye> my mom hated getting rid of her IBM Selectric typewriter for a word processor...
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[07:48] <KosiNuss> hi, I'm running 10.04.1. the sound output of mpd on my system sounds awful and disorted, but e.g. ffmpeg plays the files perfectly. do you have an idea, where the problem is? i used the mpd.conf in 9.10 without any problems.
[15:43] <rsavoye> hum I just got this: /tmp/ccUKtcol.s:77154: Error: redefined symbol cannot be used on reloc, which then went away next time I typed make...
[15:44] <rsavoye> on maverick onj an Xm
[17:04] <lool> rsavoye: memory might still be unstable?
[17:05] <rsavoye> ah, could be
[17:05] <rsavoye> I also found it runs one build fine, but don't try two :-)
[17:05] <rsavoye> OpenJDK is chugging along slowly building on maverick
[17:06] <lool> rsavoye: I'd be interested if you manage to run into proven hardware failures
[17:06] <lool> It could always be a kernel mm issue, but still
[17:06] <rsavoye> I'll see if it happens again, I might have just pushed it too hard
[17:07] <rsavoye> I'm running 2.6.35-rc6-dl12, so it might be
[17:07] <rsavoye> cause of the clock speed issue
[17:07] <rsavoye> 800Mhz seems to work ok though
[18:38] <KosiNuss> hi, I'm running 10.04.1. the sound output of mpd on my system sounds awful and disorted, but e.g. ffmpeg plays the files perfectly. do you have an idea, where the problem is? i used the mpd.conf in 9.10 without any problems.
[22:18] <kblin> evening folks