[04:49] <AaronMick> I'm in the process of getting one of those Sylvania 7" netbooks that CVS sold on black friday. It has a 300mhz ARM processor, 128mb ram, 2gb HD. Has anyone had any luck with ubuntu on it?
[04:51] <prpplague> AaronMick: its a via arm processor, or atleast the ones i got were
[04:52] <prpplague> AaronMick: its pretty easy getting generic linux up an running, no clue about ubuntu
[04:54] <AaronMick> prpplague: I'm not sure what processor it really is, since I'm seeing a 1.2ghz arm processor, a 400mhz, and a 300mhz. I'll have to wait to find out.
[04:54] <rsalveti> prpplague: what type of arm?
[04:54] <rsalveti> prpplague: armv5?
[04:54] <AaronMick> prpplague: It's running Windows CE, and its said to be HORRIBLY slow. I'm hoping a juice-up with linux will help with the speed.
[04:55] <AaronMick> heres what I know about it:
[04:55] <AaronMick> * Processor Clock Speed: 300M MHz
[04:55] <AaronMick> * Processor/Manufacturer: WM
[04:55] <AaronMick> * Processor Model: VIA-ARM VT8500
[04:55] <prpplague> rsalveti: via VT8500
[04:56] <prpplague> rsalveti: ARM926EJ-S
[04:57] <prpplague> i have about dozen variations of the sylvania unit
[04:57] <rsalveti> yeah, maybe debian
[04:57] <prpplague> AaronMick: you probably can run a nice variation of angstrom
[04:57] <rsalveti> yeah, angstrom would fit fine
[04:58] <prpplague> AaronMick: i mainly purchased them to remove the MB and replace with either a beagle or panda
[04:58] <AaronMick> I read on the ubuntu forums that there is no BIOS so installing a OS is difficult, if not impossible.
[05:00] <prpplague> AaronMick: hehehehe
[05:00] <prpplague> AaronMick: no not impossible, not even difficuly
[05:00] <AaronMick> How would you go about doing it? I'm more familiar with PC's with BIOS's that you can boot and install from
[05:00] <prpplague> AaronMick: i had linux booting on the sylvania in about 10 minutes
[05:01] <prpplague> http://gitorious.org/linux-on-via-vt8500
[05:01] <prpplague> AaronMick: but if you aren't familiar with embedded linux, there is a learning curve
[05:04] <AaronMick> I'm up for a challenge.
[05:05] <prpplague> AaronMick: but an augen instead if you can get one, and join the #didj channel, more support and co-development, via is pretty much dead to open source
[05:06] <prpplague> AaronMick: techincally so is magic eyes, but there is more of a community
[05:06] <prpplague> AaronMick: http://www.elinux.org/Augen_eGo:_OE-A730_to_OE-A733
[05:07] <prpplague> AaronMick: http://computerpartsdirect.us/augen-ego-oea736-akarm-arm926ak7802-248mhz-64mb-2gb-7-netboo-p-18868.html?zenid=00b848a5384a821ec4848e2ab993b8a3
[05:54] <GrueMaster> Damn.  Something is not right with the omap4 images.  http://members.dsl-only.net/~tdavis/panda-20110328.jpg is what it looks like on first boot.  No oem-config, mega-interlacing.
[05:57] <GrueMaster> Reset seems to clear it up.  At first I thought it may be my sd card or image.  This is being too consistant.  3 different SD cards, two pandas, very weird.
[06:32] <GrueMaster> Yea, we have banshee on panda.
[13:03] <rsalveti> morning
[13:05] <ogra_> hey hey
[13:05] <ogra_> good catch on the meta stuff
[13:05] <ogra_> (still no upload though)
[13:20] <rsalveti> argh, why still not updated?
[13:21] <rsalveti> probably waiting rtg
[13:21] <ogra_> no idea, when i asked cooloney he had nothing ready yet and was waiting for tim
[13:21] <rsalveti> on a different topic, Amaranth got compiz running on panda with gles :-)
[13:22] <rsalveti> still a lot to fix it seems, but good to see it worked
[13:22] <ogra_> geez !
[13:22] <ogra_> awesome news
[13:22] <rsalveti> http://www.realistanew.com/random/compiz/compizpanda2.png
[13:23] <ogra_> great, lets switch the default UI :P
[13:24] <Amaranth> hehe
[13:24] <Amaranth> That's running unity-2d
[13:24] <Amaranth> Other than the Workspaces button it all seems to do the right thing
[13:24] <ogra_> bah, cheater !
[13:24] <ogra_> :)
[13:25] <Amaranth> Better than unity itself actually, we actually get shadows on the top panel
[13:25] <rsalveti> ;-)
[13:25] <ogra_> metacity with its own composite manager works pretty well here on non GL hardware
[13:26] <Amaranth> with compiz it can get laggy sometimes
[13:26] <ogra_> i get a little banding in the dropped shadows but you dont feel any performance difference
[13:26] <Amaranth> It'll be pretty smooth then suddenly pause for a moment
[13:26] <ogra_> for plain xfbdev thats pretty good imho
[13:27] <Amaranth> Oh, you're running the metacity compositor with no XRender acceleration?
[13:27] <ogra_> yes
[13:27] <Amaranth> I guess you needed something to use that second core ;)
[13:27] <ogra_> heh
[13:28] <ogra_> well, its not that the cpu usage goes through the roof or so
[13:28] <ogra_> i really cant see a difference apart from added bling
[13:28] <Amaranth> And you're running at 1920x1080?
[13:29] <ogra_> heh, no, the ac100 only has a 1024x600 LCD
[13:29] <Amaranth> ah, now that's a different story
[13:30] <Amaranth> Although with tegra 2 you're missing the pixman neon optimizations so I would still expect some noticeable cpu usage
[13:38] <ogra_> rsalveti, oh, btw, i dropped the dvi bits from the default cmdline on the weekend
[13:38] <rsalveti> ogra_: cool, was just going to ask you about that
[13:39] <ogra_> yeah, i saw it in the backlog
[14:06] <lilstevie> does anyone here know where upower reads the battery capacity from in the sysfs entry?
[14:11] <hrw> lilstevie: cd /sys/class/battery/ and take a look?
[14:11] <lilstevie> hrw: it is more that it doesnt read the capacity from there
[14:12] <lilstevie> er well I mean, I am trying to get it to correctly read the battery capacity
[14:12] <hrw> lilstevie: check /sys/class/power_supply/*/uevent
[14:12] <hrw> POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL_DESIGN=84000000
[14:12] <hrw> POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL=79110000
[14:12] <hrw> POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW=77565000
[14:13] <lilstevie> POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=battery
[14:13] <lilstevie> POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery
[14:13] <lilstevie> POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Full
[14:13] <lilstevie> POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH=Good
[14:13] <lilstevie> POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1
[14:13] <lilstevie> POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion
[14:13] <lilstevie> POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=100
[14:13] <lilstevie> oops
[14:13] <hrw> capacity = POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW / POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW for my x86 laptop
[14:14] <lilstevie> should have pastied that
[14:14] <lilstevie> that is everything in uevent
[14:14] <hrw> so check upower source
[14:16] <lilstevie> using upower -d
[14:16] <lilstevie> or what
[14:17] <hrw> apt-get source upower?
[14:17] <lilstevie> oh right
[17:15] <ppisati> from which git tree did you generate this one: https://launchpad.net/~tiomap-dev/+archive/trunk/+buildjob/2114099?
[17:15] <ppisati> linux-ti-omap4 2.6.35-980.1release9
[17:19] <ndec> ppisati: kernel-ubuntu on dev.omapzoom.org
[17:23] <ppisati> ndec: k
[20:04] <prpplague> ndec: ping
[20:04] <prpplague> anyone know what git repo is being used for the kernel for the 11.04 release?
[21:45] <rsalveti> prpplague: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-natty.git;a=summary
[21:45] <rsalveti> prpplague: ti-omap4 branch
[21:45] <rsalveti> and work the same way as the maverick one
[21:46] <prpplague> rsalveti: thanks
[21:57] <GrueMaster> yea.  Banshee works on panda (no audio, but...)
[22:00] <rsalveti> cool
[23:05] <rsalveti> time to get some food, brb