/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/05/02/#ubuntu-arm.txt

=== gildean_ is now known as gildean
=== ahs3` is now known as ahs3
=== ynezz_ is now known as ynezz
micahgwhat's the arm porting tag?07:27
scientesmicahg, ?07:29
scientesoh to launchpad, idk07:29
bornetHi ubuntu-arm gurus08:24
borneti'm trying to run 12.04 on my beagle xm and followed wiki install instructions... so far so good, everything installs correctly and I can boot into my fresh installed pangolin08:25
bornetbut the performance/reactivity is not so good.. is it an expected behavior ? I have no point of comparison so it's difficult to make an idea08:26
=== hrww is now known as hrw
brendandbornet, it won't run well on the beagle xm i imagine08:30
bornetthanks for feedback brendand. Did you personally try it ?08:33
brendandbornet, no - i've only tried on the pandaboard, which has 1GB of RAM08:34
ogra_it should run fine but dont forget what you are running from ;)08:35
brendandbornet, it can also be slow because it is running off of the SD card08:35
ogra_even the panda feels slow due to running from SD08:35
bornetOK it's what I feared...08:35
borneti will first try with a better SD card08:35
ogra_there are netinstall images that allow you to install to USB HDD08:36
brendandbornet, it doesn't really depend on the quality of the card. flash is just slow08:36
bornetnot top class SD card at the moment... what I had under hand...08:36
ogra_while USB isnt great either (limited to 24MB/s) its still a big improvement over SD card08:36
brendandbornet, if you have a usb media it will work better08:36
bornetyes i'll try with USB08:37
twbOf course if you add enough RAM it won't matter because the SD card will only be read from / written to at boot / halt time, right? ;-)08:38
brendandtwb, no - the os frequently needs to access the filesystem08:39
twbbrendand: depends how high you crank the settings in /proc08:39
brendandtwb - and adding ram to a beagleboard is going to be an interesting trick08:39
twbAnd on the filesystem design of course08:39
twbBut I was being flippant08:39
ogra_you still need certain directories writable08:39
twbSure sure08:40
ogra_and indeed you need to read a lot08:40
twbBut you can just say "hey ext4 please buffer writes for up to 24 hours"08:40
twbAnd hope you don't crash :-)08:40
bornet>> the os frequently needs to access the filesystem08:40
bornetnot the OS (Linux) directly but the userspace08:40
ogra_(look at the source of casper to see which dirs btw, it actually runs / completely from ram (on top of an overlayfs)08:40
twbIt works especially well if you have more RAM than SD card capcity08:40
twbogra_: well, aufs of ro rootfs + tmpfs08:41
bornetand Ubuntu is perhaps not the best in this case (frequent FS access)08:41
ogra_twb, right08:41
twbHave they switched away from aufs?  Or did you mean overlayfs as a generic term08:41
ogra_bornet, i doubt its any worse or better than any other modern linux distro08:42
twbbornet: yeah, it's not Ubuntu it's gnome doing that08:42
ogra_if you have the same SW^ selection you should have roughly the same amount of IO08:42
bornetyes for sure, we'll try some other "lightweight" WM and distro08:43
twbX is for wimps08:43
bornetany experience with XFCE ? does it perform better on panda/beagle ?08:43
ogra_lubuntu-desktop is pretty nice and seems to run in under 80M when idling08:43
bornetthanks, i'll try this one08:44
ogra_(teh default unity-2d desktop uses about 120M btw)08:44
ogra_xubuntu should be somewhere between these two08:44
bornetnever been fan of unity even for my Core i7 desktop...08:44
bornetOK I'll first try with lubuntu08:45
* ogra_ likes it in 12.04 ... all former releases were still pretty buggy)08:45
bornetand will give you feedback here when done :-)08:45
twbhttp://paste.debian.net/166959/08:46
twbI should probably replace rsyslogd with busybox-syslogd08:46
lilstevieI have to say I like unity for touchscreen environments09:01
lilstevieand yeah, unity is much more stable in 12.04 like ogra said09:02
twbI struggle to achieve anything with touchscreens.  At least, anything that requires more input than "follow link" and "scroll down"09:02
twbMy fingers must simply be too fat09:02
=== lool- is now known as lool
* ppisati -> brb09:49
=== doko_ is now known as doko
=== chuck_ is now known as zul
* ppisati -> out for lunch11:20
ogra_hmpf11:27
* ogra_ just tries out the tegra armhf driver ... 11:28
ogra_not particulary stable :(11:28
lilstevieogra_: really? I am finding that it is stable11:46
ogra_lilstevie, what kernel version do you use ?11:49
ogra_might be that the ac100 precise kernel is to old or misses patches11:50
lilstevie3.1.1011:51
ogra_yeah, we are at 3.011:51
lilsteviehm11:55
lilsteviemaybe you are missing something11:55
=== eebrah is now known as Guest35687
narcoticIh everyone ! I'm wondering if ubuntu ARM would work on a Acer tab a510 (tegra 3 tablet)12:56
ogra_if someone ported kernel and bootloader ...12:57
ogra_userspace (rootfs) should just run12:57
ppisatiif they would release their kernel bits...12:57
lilstevienarcotic: well yeah, as long as you can replace the kernel12:59
lilstevienarcotic: I am running ubuntu on my transformer prime (tegra 3)12:59
narcoticand does it work well with touch ?12:59
lilsteviewell is a subjective term12:59
lilstevieit works as bout as well as you could hope13:00
lilsteviethe transformer prime has a lot of "noise" when it comes to the touchscreen13:00
narcoticok, sounds nice ! I don't have my tablet yet but when I will have it, I will try installing it.13:02
lilstevieit will require some work13:02
narcoticthat's what I'm a bit scared of... I'm quite new to all the ubuntu stuff, I don't even know what kernel means so...13:03
narcotic(sorry if my english is not good :p )13:06
ogra_good enough to understand you :)13:06
ogra_(at least for this german here :) )13:06
narcoticok :)13:08
ogra_i assume its you who just mailed me about the same device ?13:08
narcoticyes13:09
ogra_k13:09
narcoticThen i tought about the IRC channel...13:11
lilsteviegetting everything working takes a bit of work, but just getting it to the point of booting isnt too difficult13:11
ogra_yup. thats usually the quicker way of getting answers13:11
narcoticand apparently, the bootloader of the acer tab a510 isn't locked like the prime (I think)13:19
narcoticlilstevie : do you still have android on the prime (dual boot) or not ?13:20
lilstevieno13:21
narcoticdo you think it would be possible ?13:21
=== txwikinger2 is now known as txwikinger
=== cmagina_ is now known as cmagina
tannehi@all15:02
tannei have a problem on pandaboard es running ubuntu 12.04 arm omap4. if audio output device is set to hdmi-audio the video and audio player like slow motion. Is there someone here who has the same problems? thx15:04
tanneubuntu 11.10 shows the same problem. if audio output device is set to pandaES audio everything is fine15:08
=== XorA is now known as CoolCoder9999
=== CoolCoder9999 is now known as XorA
=== eebrah is now known as Guest16197
djszapiogra_: ping17:50
djszapithe second run of "rtcwake -s 5 -m mem" does not work on my pandaboard with the ubuntu (linaro) image for some reasons. :(17:51
=== Guest16197 is now known as eebrah
=== slangase` is now known as slangasek
timholumhello, I installed ubuntu on a beaglebone using http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu tutorial, I now need to compile a kernel driver, and I can not find the kernel source package, I did 'apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)' and that comes up blank, any Ideas as to where to find the kernel source package for my system?21:01
timholumthis is the output of uname -a, Linux omap 3.2.0-psp6 #1 Thu Mar 22 04:30:37 UTC 2012 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux21:01
rcn-eetimholum, it's external..21:09
rcn-eeit's hosted as a script here: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev/tree/am33x-v3.221:09
rcn-eefingers crossed, it'll be mainline 3.5/3.621:10
mythoshmm... does someone know, where i could get a flashbinary for the arm-architecture?22:17
mythosandroid-one does not work, because of too many android-specific libraries22:18
XorAyou stuck with gnash or lightspark22:19
rcn-eeif your on omap, ti has one you can register/download.. haven't tried it but i know it's there..22:21
mythoshow do i check if it is an omap?22:22
rcn-eewhat processor are you running on?22:22
* XorA sees 12.04 LTS spash on beagleXM22:22
rcn-eeor even what board?22:23
mythosrcn-ee, http://paste.ubuntu.com/963425/22:23
mythosit is an ti evalboard22:24
rcn-eewell, you can't tel from that paste..22:24
mythosi thought so too =)22:24
rcn-eeif it's an ti eval board, it would fall under the omap family/subfmaily22:24
mythoswhat does omap mean?22:25
infinityOMAP is TI's family of ARM SoCs.22:25
XorAomap and whatever catalogue call theres this week :-D22:25
rcn-eefor us, run under the "mach-omap2" kernel. ;)22:25
mythosok, it is an omap-board22:25
infinityOMAP3 is what one finds on the Beagleboard, and in many phones and tablets out there, OMAP4 is on the Panda, and some other shiny hardware (like the Kindle Fire), OMAP5 is their new Cortex-A15 SoC...22:25
mythosmy board is a ti8148evm22:26
rcn-eemythos, found it.. http://www.ti.com/tool/adobeflash-a8  good luck, there's an x11 bin, haven't ever tried it..22:26
mythosim going to look in the specs22:26
rcn-eeah, with the reorg, that is now in the 'omap buisiness unit'. ;)22:27
mythosomg, thank you rcn-ee =D22:27
XorArcn-ee: I love that TI has been re-orging for at least 5 years now :-D22:29
rcn-eeXorA, when i was at the ti summit last week, for the sitara group, it's like the 3rd time this year already. ;)22:29
XorAkinda like put all their staff in a giant tombola and see where they fall out22:29
* XorA feels lucky MIS is pretty stable22:29
rcn-eeside note, the reason for the mess of the am335x upstream status makes perfect sense.. there's no dev in that team yet. ;)22:30
* XorA has a login screen woo woo22:32
davecheneyhas anyone used perf on 12.04/omap4 ?23:17

Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!