[00:02] Hi [00:07] Anyone here able to troubleshoot Tegra 2 non-booting problems? [00:16] Anyway, the tablet I'm trying to install Ubuntu onto is the Toshiba thrive. Biggest possible issue I see? The version of Tegra 2 it is. [00:18] Is it a Harmony Tegra 2? Nope. Ventana? Nope. It's in its own ball park: the Antares. [00:18] it's irrelevant. It's ventana based, but it doesn't really matter. THe drivers work on any tegra2 as long as it has the right kernel [00:19] Hmm... [00:20] Anyway, I'm hitting two things that are happening: Either it stays at the bootup logo, or the screen goes black, and the backlight goes off. [00:21] I do get some garbled display on HDMI, either way. [00:21] So, are there some essentials I need to have configured, besides VT and framebuffer console? [00:22] what kernel are you using? [00:25] I'm trying to build my own, as nobody has released one for the Thrive. However, what I'm starting to use is at this git: https://github.com/pio-masaki/at100-kernel === Jef91|AFK is now known as Jef91 [00:25] *released a GNU kernel, that is. [00:28] I do wonder if our ac100 kernels might Just Work on it. [00:28] Compile for Ventana instead of Harmony? [00:29] Both are Toshiba. That's good news. [00:30] I've never seen a Thrive in person to play with it, but I'd always had a sneaking suspicion that (with the exception of a few peripherals) it's identical to the ac100. But, who knows. [00:31] Heh. One of the Thrive devs would love to have an AC100. Can't afford it, though. [00:31] If I were the Toshiba engineers, the ac100 would have just been my devel version of the at100 (cause keyboards are handy for debugging). [00:31] Downloading AC100 kernel source. [00:32] You could just grab the debs and try the binaries for a quick "hey, maybe this works" smoketest. [00:32] I've prepared a rootfs on an external SD card already. [00:33] It's actually a Plasma Active rootfs, but with my touch screen dying (cracked)... At least we have LXDE. [00:34] Yeah... As nice as a VNC for Android solution is, it's extremely laggy, to the point of almost unusability. [00:34] I've been seriously considering dropping Tegra2 support from future Ubuntu versions. If people are still actively developing on them, I may need to bring this to a community vote/discussion. [00:36] Heh. The reason I chose the Thrive about a year ago was because it seemed to be a perfect candidate for Ubuntu. [00:36] Yeah. And we've had a policy of no-neon-by-default specifically because of the Tegra2 (the only SoC we support that doesn't have NEON). [00:37] It's irksome to keep patching upstream sources for this assumption, but if the target is still widely developed on/with, we may have to stick with it for a bit. [00:38] Seems that performance development is slowly shifting away from x86 and going to ARM... [00:39] About time. ARM could use more performance-oriented tweakers. [00:40] I do like ARM because of its power-performance ratio. [00:41] Yup, and that ratio can only improve as more people start hand-tuning code the same way they've done for x86, rather than falling back to generic C implementations. [00:41] (But NEON is a big part of that story... hand-tuned NEON can be blazingly fast but, sadly, leaves Tegra2 out to dry) [00:42] I'm no CPU design expert, but it seems that x86 is starting to hit a performance ceiling. [00:42] Well, not all that sad. Just annoying that ARM allowed NEON to be optional so NVIDIA could make that silly decision. [00:42] is this the right place to ask about what rooting option to choose from the google nexus 7 toolkit, to then install multrom and dualboot android and ubuntu?. if so wich rooting option should i choose, its a bit confusing. [00:43] claes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation has clear unlocking instructions. [00:44] claes: We don't support installing in a dual-boot setup, though, you're on your own for figuring that one out. [00:44] ok thanks === Jef91 is now known as Jef91|AFK [00:48] Well, porting Ubuntu Phone to a spare phone I've got should be fun... [00:58] AmEv: can it run android stock kernel? that would be first step. [00:59] It's actually a WebOS phone. [00:59] Meets bare-minimum requirements, with OC... [01:00] As for the Thrive, should I use the Google cross-compiler toolchain? [01:02] Got a Ventana Android defconfig... [01:02] And a Harmony GNU config.. [01:04] Really? No Ventana GNU config on Google? [01:05] Or is it under another name? [01:14] Hmmm.. The one guy ported CM10 to the Thrive. Said that the Thrive was almost identical to the Iconia a500.... [01:15] And it's a Harmony board.... [01:17] AmEv: the Iconia a500 is a picaso board not a harmony board [01:18] AmEv: Harmony is the name of one of the dev boards made by nvidia [01:18] AmEv: but if you were to compare the device to a dev board it would be closer to ventana [01:19] Hmmm... [01:20] the a500 and the tf101 are almost identical, and the tf201 is almost identical in hardware and config to ventana (except the display) [01:20] er [01:20] s/tf201/tf101/ [01:20] been doing too much work on the later one :p [01:21] I know people have been runing Ubuntu on their Transformers for a while... [01:21] Lemme see if I can snag the dev in here.... [01:21] Nope. [01:21] * lilstevie raises his hand [01:22] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191141 [01:22] Heh. [01:28] Yeah, I thought your name looked familiar from one of my earlier attempts. [01:35] Hmmm... http://www.nvidia.com/content/devzone/linux-for-tegra.html [01:44] Found a zImage, but no complimentary initfs... === Jef91|AFK is now known as Jef91 [09:42] hi [09:42] where can I get the default initrd for ARMHF? [09:42] I mean, the initrd you have to customize for your device === Quintasan_ is now known as Quintasan [11:22] netchip: mkinitramfs? [11:30] the question which plagues me is if it can be used on a forgein arch (e.g. x86_64) to generate an arm version [11:30] or do I need to use some changeroot and qemu? [11:32] AFAIK you can [11:32] BTW [11:32] marvin24, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch [11:39] yes, will try it out [11:40] hum [11:40] how to test if my network connection is OK? [11:40] I was just wondering if I need to emulate the whole cpu or just use a dir with an arm filesytem [11:40] netchip: ping? [11:41] marvin24, isn't installed... [11:41] ifconfig [11:41] route ... [11:42] also nopt installed [11:42] how to install without internet connexction? [11:42] dpkg has a "chroot" option [11:43] also make sure to fill /etc/resolv.conf [11:44] hmm [11:45] marvin24, do you know how I can get my WiFi on my phone work (a SGS3 running Ubuntu, BCM4334)? [11:45] just installing linux-firmware? [11:45] and then some conf files? [11:47] LMAO [11:47] best is to configure it on the phone once it is installed [11:47] yeah [11:47] it's checking if it's enabled [11:47] if not [11:47] enable it [11:47] lol [11:47] http://www.plethoracomputers.com/index.php/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,277/catid,4/func,view/id,59/ [11:47] have to bootstrap a new image [11:55] oh, rootstock is depricated ... [11:56] fetching some pre-build image and adjust it seems the way to go now [12:02] well [12:02] how do they generate the prebuilt image? ;-) === satellit_ is now known as satellit_e === satellit_e_ is now known as satellit_e [13:23] netchip: stop annoying the poor devs [13:29] beer, you are annoying === yofel_ is now known as yofel [16:25] netchip: some live-build [16:25] and qemu doesn't work with omap4 (and filesystem image) === rsalveti_ is now known as rsalveti [20:44] anyone here who can help me with multirom with kexec im not sure how i install kexec to make it work. It seemed to install correctly from recovory, but loading ubuntu rom says i havnt installed kexec. [20:45] owh its for the nexus 7 [20:47] what exactly have you flashed in the recovery? [20:47] gimme name of that ZIP file [20:47] the kexec? its the 4.2 one [20:47] kernel_kexec_42.zip [20:48] okay, go to multirom menu, try to boot ubuntu (the "you don't have kexec" message must pop out), the go to the "Misc" part and select "Copy log to /sdcard" [20:49] reboot to recovery then and "adb pull /data/media/0/multirom/error.txt" [20:50] alright will that show me the error log? [20:50] it will save it to your computer, upload it to pastebin and show it to me :) [20:50] ah alright cool [20:50] thanks [23:16] tassadar_, seemed i hadnt installed the kernel correctly. working fine now thanks. [23:17] okay, great