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vanhoofanyone around who can help an arm n00b? :)00:08
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vanhoofa friend gave me a babbageboard to play w/ (unknown state), not sure on exact model, but looks identical to this: http://ossguy.com/?p=31700:10
vanhoofusing these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/BabbageKarmicInstall00:11
vanhoofproblem is, I plug it in, it's getting power, but nothing is displayed through VGA/DVI00:11
vanhoofmonitor never detects a signal, nic port on switch never lights up ... I'm assuming its off, and needs to be powered on, but theres nothing i'm seeing labeled as a power button, unless i've had one too many beers.  The push button (in the bottom of the pic) yields nothing (labeled sw9)00:13
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rsalvetivanhoof: you could try newer versions00:37
rsalvetilike lucid or maverick (still on development)00:37
vanhoofrsalveti: just tried the lucid build00:38
rsalvetiI'd recommend you lucid first00:38
vanhoofsame result00:38
rsalvetivanhoof: do you get at least an yellow screen during boot?00:38
rsalvetithis is the boot loader writing some output so you can see that it works with your monitor00:38
vanhoofrsalveti: i get nothing at all, as if its not powered on00:38
vanhoofblack screen, power saving mode, no activity on the nic on the switch00:39
rsalvetioh, it's a babbage, not beagle :-)00:39
rsalvetiDVI port output does not work / is unstable: Display output on Babbage 2.x boards is underpowered and relatively unstable. The board might not be able to display any image with some DVI screens. This issue is particularly visible on Babbage 2.0 boards. Freescale recommends various hardware modifications to workaround the issue. This hardware issue is not tracked in Launchpad.00:40
rsalvetifrom the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/KarmicReleaseNotes00:40
* vanhoof will give vga a go again00:41
rsalvetiit'd try to follow basically what is described at the wiki page first00:42
rsalvetihttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/BabbageImageFromScratch00:43
rsalvetican also help debugging00:43
rsalvetibut I know nothing about this board :-(00:43
vanhoofthanks for the help00:44
vanhoofsame result w/ vga00:44
vanhoofit really looks like its getting power properly00:44
vanhoofbut needs to be 'turned on'00:44
vanhooftheres just nothing obvious labeled as a power button, and the one button that is, does nothing00:44
vanhoofand of course i cannot find this model on freescale's site :D00:44
rsalvetivanhoof: there are people here that have and test this board, like NCommander, GrueMaster and dyfet, but they are probably not on-line now01:00
vanhoofrsalveti: cool01:00
* vanhoof just figured it'd be something fun to play around w/ this weekend01:01
vanhoofim sure im likely doing something dumb :D01:01
rsalveti:-)01:01
rsalvetivanhoof: maybe updating the bootloader and kernel could help01:01
vanhoofrsalveti: you'd still expect to see some activity once powered in, right? eg nic lights on switch, screen should come out of power saving mode?01:03
vanhoofor is the entire bootstrap process controlled within the image i put on the sd card?01:04
rsalvetivanhoof: dpm01:07
rsalvetiargh01:07
rsalvetidon't know if this board has nand or any other memory to boot from at the first stage01:08
rsalvetiif it loads the bootloader from the sd card, then you'll probably need a sd card with the correct image on it01:08
rsalvetithen it'd be important if you could track the uart output01:08
rsalvetito see what's happening01:09
vanhoofyah, got nothing to see whats going on :D01:11
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artzhi all19:19
artzI am not using ubuntu arm but I guess it would be fine to ask a question about arm-linux in general, right?19:19
kblindepends? ask?19:24
artzok19:26
artzI am trying gprof on arm19:26
artzand I am getting all nan's as time19:26
artzeven though the call tree seems fine19:27
artzand time granularity is reported to be 'nan' too19:27
ogra_cmpcmoo19:40
ogra_cmpcasac, 2.5h isnt bad i'd say :D19:41
kblinartz: never tried that19:51
asac_ogra_cmpc: yep. very good ;)20:10
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kblinrcn-ee: say, do you have a BB kernel that supports the ceph cluster fs?20:19
rcn-eekblin, probally.. is it not enabled?20:23
kblinhaven't checked yet, actually20:23
kblinso far I was planning on using a hawkboard for my demo20:23
rcn-eejust about everything is enabled.. it might be an external module thou20:24
kblinbut I'm still waiting for the hardware20:24
kblinI'll check that20:24
rcn-eenope.. CONFIG_CEPH_FS is not set (2.6-stable)20:24
rcn-eenot in 2.6.35-devel either..20:25
kblinok, I guess it's about time I figure out how to build my own kernels then :)20:25
kblinI still hope "embedded private cloud storage" is less stupid than it sounds20:26
kblinbut imagine you had a bunch of nas drives you could connect to your network, and automatically your virtual central storage server would have more disk space20:27
kblinwhile all you need is a bunch of hdd enclosures spread around the house wherever there's a free power socket..20:28
rcn-eesomething like http://pastebin.com/rwg9zvJ5 on top of my 2.6.35-devel script should do the job..20:28
kblinoh, btw, you don't really want to build smbfs anymore20:30
kblincifs is better in every aspect, smbfs has been deprecated years ago20:31
kblinrcn-ee: thanks for the pointers20:32
kblinSIGBED20:32
rcn-eei can drop that.. ;)  it may have occured when i sync'd with ubuntu's config..20:32
rcn-eei just use ext/btrfs/nfs so anything else doesn't get tested. ;)20:33
* NCommander waves to ogra and rcn-ee 20:33
* rcn-ee NCommander your beer's empty.. ;)20:33
NCommanderrcn-ee: I haven't had any beer yet20:33
NCommanderLanguage barrier :-/20:33
rcn-eewhat's up NCommander20:34
NCommanderrcn-ee: just saying hi, since I'm not usually awake at this hour20:34
rcn-eegotcha, what time is it there, i keep forgeting your time zone..20:35
NCommanderrcn-ee: +820:35
NCommanderor +1220:35
* NCommander checks20:35
NCommanderno, I was right the first time20:36

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