2010-04-29 03:24 Xiangfu Liu: cleanup CFLAGS http://qi-hw.com/p/xburst-tools/086c985 2010-04-29 04:10 Xiangfu Liu: refresh-uboot-patches.patch http://qi-hw.com/p/openwrt-xburst/a945822 2010-04-29 05:20 yay! tuxbrain's arduino howto! 2010-04-29 05:21 is, coincidentally, in his first MIPS assembly class workshop 2010-04-29 05:56 Xiangfu Liu: correct BOOT_FROM_SDCARD check http://qi-hw.com/p/openwrt-xburst/0f1cbcc 2010-04-29 06:23 wolfspraul: I was thinking....A video recorded with ephel camera about BNN||SACK||Milky post-produced with Kino(or any other FreeSoft) in a (that's what I lack of information about) an open workstation should be the first movie made with Free Open/hardware tool from beginning to end 2010-04-29 06:23 forget about open, I mean free 2010-04-29 06:24 Free Hardware/Software tools 2010-04-29 06:51 tuxbrain: call at oen ? 2010-04-29 09:05 rolls his thumbs and waits for his nanonote to arrive 2010-04-29 09:36 gnufs: it's on Berlin since 07:47, so I guess it will arrive at any time today 2010-04-29 09:41 tuxbrain_away: about the first movie made with free hardware/software : Great idea man :D 2010-04-29 09:43 rafa: any suggestion of free hardware workstation to do the postproduction? 2010-04-29 09:43 \o/ the courrier is here! 2010-04-29 09:43 please let oit bethe nano!~ 2010-04-29 09:43 :) 2010-04-29 09:44 hehehe firt time I follow a delivery live :) 2010-04-29 09:44 s/firt/first 2010-04-29 09:44 omg omg omg! 2010-04-29 09:45 tuxbrain_away: I do not know if the laptot of RMS is easy to get :).. Another idea would be to use just text video editors from  command  line, and to use a Ben ;) 2010-04-29 09:46 tuxbrain: I mean, video editors from console.. no for text :P 2010-04-29 09:46 (without GUI) 2010-04-29 09:46 tuxbrain: you have packed the thing very well 2010-04-29 09:46 maybe even too well in fact :) 2010-04-29 09:47 uff, we will have enough ben playing videos , editing I guess will be too much for the 32Mb to encode fast enough 2010-04-29 09:47 finally reaches to the black box under the onion layers 2010-04-29 09:47 heheh gnufs, noting a good knife can handle (jack the ripper dixit) 2010-04-29 09:48 nothing a good knife can't handle (jack the ripper dixit) 2010-04-29 09:48 holds the nano in his hands first time 2010-04-29 09:48 i think 2010-04-29 09:48 i think i've fallen in love 2010-04-29 09:48 tuxbrain: I know how to cut/paste from command line.. and also how to add subtitles.. perhaps 32MB is okey if we have patient ;) 2010-04-29 09:48 XD XD XD I understand you man 2010-04-29 09:49 wow, my biggest worry was the keyboard, but this is pretty good 2010-04-29 09:49 gnufs: cheers ! 2010-04-29 09:49 indeed 2010-04-29 09:49 rafa:I think I will preffer milkymist to do that job instead of ben 2010-04-29 09:49 also screen but seems okay after a while 2010-04-29 09:50 much better than i'd expect from any sub-300euro device of any producer, in fact 2010-04-29 09:50 hola rafa 2010-04-29 09:50 yes, hardware quality of the device is notable 2010-04-29 09:51 wishes he had gone with his instinct and ordered two of these babies at once 2010-04-29 09:51 tuxbrain: ah.. you are right. I did not know about milkymist 2010-04-29 09:51 too :P 2010-04-29 09:51 :) 2010-04-29 09:52 milkymist ! 2010-04-29 09:53 loves seeing the GPLv3 and CC-BY-SA 3.0 license text at the end of the manual 2010-04-29 09:53 rafa: now we enter the geeky jugling  game, we should ssh milky with the nano and do the editing trough command line using ben as keyboard/screen 2010-04-29 09:53 and it boots! \o/ 2010-04-29 09:53 of course 2010-04-29 09:54 gnufs: remember to charge the battery for a while first time :P (it's an urband legend?) 2010-04-29 09:54 lol 2010-04-29 09:55 tuxbrain: i think it's an urban legend with the new lithium batteries 2010-04-29 09:56 is mesmerized by seeing such a recent kernel version in an embedded device 2010-04-29 09:56 tuxbrain: ;-)) 2010-04-29 09:56 gnufs: :) one of the qi-hardware principles, dude :) 2010-04-29 09:57 gnufs: recent? 2.6.32 is outdated, i have 2.6.34-rc5 on my nanonote ;) 2010-04-29 09:58 larsc: wow, any notable improvement ? 2010-04-29 09:58 no 2010-04-29 09:59 just keeping things uptodate 2010-04-29 09:59 larsc: hehehe man I love your categorical negative replies 2010-04-29 10:00 well, most of the kernel stuff is done. 2010-04-29 10:01 and i fear we won't see any notable improvements there. 2010-04-29 10:01 larsc: how about the NAND timings? 2010-04-29 10:01 good news, then :). time to focuse in user software :) 2010-04-29 10:01 hmm, it doesn't seem to have a /proc/acpi/battery/... 2010-04-29 10:01 wolfspraul: i tried faster timings and it changed nothing 2010-04-29 10:02 hmm. I see. 2010-04-29 10:02 gnufs: /sys/class/power/battery 2010-04-29 10:02 ah 2010-04-29 10:02 thanks 2010-04-29 10:02 screen brightness? 2010-04-29 10:02 wolfspraul: already done 2010-04-29 10:02 larsc: is openinkpot using the openwrt kernel as well now? 2010-04-29 10:02 larsc: oh wow! :-) [screen brightness] 2010-04-29 10:03 wolfspraul: theirs is based on the openwrt/qi kernel 2010-04-29 10:03 larsc:wow+1 2010-04-29 10:03 and it comes with screen! smart.. 2010-04-29 10:04 wolfspraul: actually now that i think of it it might haven been an improvement of 10% due to better nand timings. mounting time went down from 10 to 9 seconds. 2010-04-29 10:06 tuxbrain: and the more i think about notable improvements: There is one thing that needs to be done and thats using DMA for mmc transfers 2010-04-29 10:07 umm, and which file gives the current capacity left on the battery? 2010-04-29 10:07 guesses he should do a thorough RTFM session before flooding the channel any more questions 2010-04-29 10:08 okay, one last basic question: does it charge over USB? 2010-04-29 10:09 yes 2010-04-29 10:09 larsc:yes this will be a great 2010-04-29 10:09 gnufs:that was easy, yes 2010-04-29 10:09 larsc: there is also this screen flickering that I still see 2010-04-29 10:10 see flickering too 2010-04-29 10:10 is driver issue 2010-04-29 10:10 if you compare with the proprietary software, it's a _huge_ difference 2010-04-29 10:10 not hardware 2010-04-29 10:10 wolfspraul: awake? :O 2010-04-29 10:11 in fact when the factory workers saw the openwrt splash screen booting, the quality people immediately said devices with that much flickering would not pass their OQC (outgoing quality control) standards :-) 2010-04-29 10:11 but of course the test is done with the proprietary software so we know it could be better 2010-04-29 10:11 wolfspraul: i had a look at it during the past days and i couldn't find anything to fix it 2010-04-29 10:11 can you see the flickering? 2010-04-29 10:11 yes 2010-04-29 10:12 ah good, that's a start 2010-04-29 10:12 lol? 2010-04-29 10:12 it's most visible with contrast=min and brightness=max 2010-04-29 10:13 larsc: how do you changee contrast and bright? 2010-04-29 10:13 I have some very basic testing sources somewhere, I try to find them. Maybe there is a clue in how they enable/drive the LCM. 2010-04-29 10:13 kristianpaul: /sys/class/lcd/gpm*/{brightness,contrast} 2010-04-29 10:13 larsc: there is a way of do it with gmu? 2010-04-29 10:13 wolfspraul: i could reduce the flicking though. but it's still there 2010-04-29 10:14 kristianpaul: i guess not 2010-04-29 10:14 ok 2010-04-29 10:15 i just want reduce bright to save energy 2010-04-29 10:15 ogg seems to require energy 2010-04-29 10:15 kristianpaul: won't save you much energy. cause it's the color brightness not the backlight brightness 2010-04-29 10:17 larsc:ok when you talk about brightness I think you where talking about backlight, so wow +0,5 only :P 2010-04-29 10:18 there is way to reduce backlight then? 2010-04-29 10:19 according to the specs it should be possible. but it does not work 2010-04-29 10:19 larsc: and simply on/off 2010-04-29 10:19 ? 2010-04-29 10:19 ? 2010-04-29 10:20 but this is not a qi display i think.. 2010-04-29 10:20 how readeable will be after off :/ 2010-04-29 10:20 tuxbrain: black colored themes ;) 2010-04-29 10:20 gmu turns black when idle, but backlight still on I guess, so turning totally off will save some batt 2010-04-29 10:21 tuxbrain: hum. that should be possible(according to the specs). haven't tried yet, cause i don't know how usefull it will be 2010-04-29 10:21 my idea is have a read mode 2010-04-29 10:22 tuxbrain: when gmu turns the screen black it also turns down the display. 2010-04-29 10:22 at least here 2010-04-29 10:22 it does 2010-04-29 10:22 yes 2010-04-29 10:22 is screen at all 2010-04-29 10:23 wonders if there are plans to change display technology in Ya 2010-04-29 10:23 ok so I have not said nothing  , 2010-04-29 10:23 larsc: I digged up some codes I got once to 'help' us with the flickering, they are totally horrible codes but maybe there is a clue in there... maybe not... 2010-04-29 10:23 http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/wolfgang/foxconn_pt035tn01.oldlcd.c 2010-04-29 10:24 http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/wolfgang/foxconn_pt035tn01.newlcd.c 2010-04-29 10:24 not sure what the point of 'old' and 'new' was, I got this already months ago 2010-04-29 10:24 prototype and production display? 2010-04-29 10:25 yeah maybe, AUO & Giantplus. not sure. 2010-04-29 10:27 but yes they do look good. if you have a nanonote at your hands you could even try if it makes a difference 2010-04-29 10:28 that was my plan, but in my never ending todo list I wish I could even get to the wiki pages I promised David months ago 2010-04-29 10:28 but yes, I will try asap 2010-04-29 10:28 don't worry i'll try them later today... 2010-04-29 10:33 hm. they do write to registers which are not documented 2010-04-29 10:34 larsc: great that would be fantastic [try them later] 2010-04-29 10:34 registers on the Giantplus or Ingenic side? 2010-04-29 10:35 giantplus 2010-04-29 10:35 ok, just shoot your questions and we'll forward to Giantplus who knows maybe we even get an answer... 2010-04-29 10:35 :-) 2010-04-29 10:36 I'm out for the day, will catch up with the irclogs tomorrow. good thing now I don't miss stuff anymore. 2010-04-29 10:36 now let's see how this baby handles heat 2010-04-29 10:36 runs yes > /dev/null 2010-04-29 10:42 hmm, it takes it very well 2010-04-29 10:43 well, it's mips, not x86 2010-04-29 10:43 just a very faint heat on the keyboard's surface 2010-04-29 10:43 zear: ya 2010-04-29 10:43 won't work as a heater :/ 2010-04-29 10:43 erk, how did a gnufs get in here, I thought you were safely locked up in #gnewsense 2010-04-29 10:44 mstevens: i got banned again, so found myself a new project to work on :) 2010-04-29 10:44 okay, now let's test the nokia battries 2010-04-29 10:45 oh, the nokia BL-4C fits very well 2010-04-29 10:47 hmm, infact maybe a little too well 2010-04-29 10:47 and if you shake the nanonote, the battery disconnects? :D 2010-04-29 10:47 it's just a wee bit too small horizontally, and would need a tiny object like a piece of paper to make sure the contacts are touching 2010-04-29 10:47 i had that problem with the sagem battery 2010-04-29 10:49 gnufs, if you have any ideas for the new columns in the compatible batteries wiki article, feel free to expand it ;) 2010-04-29 10:50 i basically added what i thought might be useful, but i'm not a technican, so maybe there's something important i overlooked 2010-04-29 10:51 zear: hah, was creating a new column just as you wrote that 2010-04-29 10:51 :D 2010-04-29 10:55 oh and nokia BL-5C (the 1020mAh battery) also fits okay, and even the lid closes when you push it down with a little force :) 2010-04-29 10:56 but with the same shortness problem like the BL-4C 2010-04-29 10:58 i also have the freerunner battery but it's already tested :) 2010-04-29 10:58 yeah, easy to fall out 2010-04-29 10:59 updates http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Compatible_batteries with his findings 2010-04-29 11:07 gnufs, can you check if your nokia batteries charge with ben? 2010-04-29 11:08 the red led should turn on if it charges the battery 2010-04-29 11:11 good idea 2010-04-29 11:13 oh, the red light lights up! 2010-04-29 11:16 and battery status file confirms 2010-04-29 11:18 yay 2010-04-29 11:19 then it should be a good replacement battery available on the market 2010-04-29 11:19 :) 2010-04-29 11:19 needs two for longs trips 2010-04-29 11:21 hmm.. the led turn on when i put my sagem battery as well 2010-04-29 11:21 i think i must have not been touching the pins when i first tested it 2010-04-29 11:25 confirms charging and status on BL-5C too 2010-04-29 11:27 gives a try to the fr battery 2010-04-29 11:28 it does charge it 2010-04-29 11:28 just tested 2010-04-29 11:28 :) 2010-04-29 11:30 's desk is full of batteries and opened devices 2010-04-29 11:30 now let's try to find which belongs to which :) 2010-04-29 11:30 :D 2010-04-29 11:30 has a lot of batteries that have pins located on the opposide side 2010-04-29 11:31 can smell the burnt lithium from zear's soldering iron 2010-04-29 11:32 don't worry about it, i can't solder :D 2010-04-29 11:33 zear: in that "battery bag" you have, there is one for long charge? 2010-04-29 11:33 everybody can solder. soldering actually what you want you want to what you want is the skill that needs practice :) 2010-04-29 11:33 maybe twice that nano actual charge 2010-04-29 11:33 kristianpaul, what you mean by long charge? 2010-04-29 11:33 long life* 2010-04-29 11:33 ah, the freerunner battery, probably 2010-04-29 11:34 you think it could charge it just half the way in the nano? 2010-04-29 11:34 kristianpaul: compare the mAh's on http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Compatible_batteries 2010-04-29 11:34 gnufs: what are you goint to do with your nano? 2010-04-29 11:34 or overcharge it, if it has a smaller capacity? 2010-04-29 11:34 kristianpaul: i have a few secret projects 2010-04-29 11:34 ah ok 2010-04-29 11:35 disclosure :/ 2010-04-29 11:35 gnufs: GSM networks related btw? .. 2010-04-29 11:35 :D 2010-04-29 11:36 no 2010-04-29 11:36 ahh 2010-04-29 11:36 well at least not till you suggested it :) 2010-04-29 11:36 :) 2010-04-29 11:37 oh the fun we could have if nano had a usb host 2010-04-29 11:38 if a usb host could fit in a CPLD i'll could give  a try 2010-04-29 11:42 what are the mAh of Sagem my500x  battery? 2010-04-29 11:43 need 2000 mAh 2010-04-29 11:43 zaps kristianpaulwith 2000 mAh 2010-04-29 11:43 buzzing 2010-04-29 11:44 You're all charged up now, huh? 2010-04-29 11:46 nobody 2010-04-29 11:46 ops 2010-04-29 11:46 i'm 2010-04-29 11:50 may have an fsfe representative from their berlin office to inspect the nano in a few hours 2010-04-29 11:52 Cool. 2010-04-29 11:53 wants to buy a Nano 2010-04-29 11:54 you can't buy nano 2010-04-29 11:54 nano chooses you 2010-04-29 11:54 :) 2010-04-29 11:55 I like the idea that djbclark had to create a fork of OpenWRT so that the FSF could endorse the Nano. 2010-04-29 11:55 that reminds me 2010-04-29 11:55 About? 2010-04-29 11:55 so, is the OpenWRT the popular distro of the nano development community? 2010-04-29 11:56 yes 2010-04-29 11:56 so far 2010-04-29 11:56 who bets to port minix3 in the nano? ;) 2010-04-29 11:57 djbclark's plan was to use the linux-libre kernel & make other changes so as to meet the FSF's guidelines for a free distro but I think that the project may have stalled. :( 2010-04-29 11:58 jxself: no 2010-04-29 11:58 No? 2010-04-29 11:58 Good! 2010-04-29 11:58 jxself: theere is a kernel out there 2010-04-29 11:58 an image* 2010-04-29 11:58 Yeah: I remember Robert put something together but I thought it was just a normal build of OpenWRT? 2010-04-29 11:59 If someone's made the linux-libre kernels work, then I'm excited. 2010-04-29 12:07 http://aligunduz.org/img/nano-ssh.png 2010-04-29 12:07 awesome! \o/ 2010-04-29 12:25 Carlos Camargo: Adding  blink driver demo http://qi-hw.com/p/nn-usb-fpga/6caf52e 2010-04-29 12:46 we have the pulse! \o/ 2010-04-29 12:46 http://aligunduz.org/img/nano-ping.jpg 2010-04-29 12:47 hmm.. what's with the "CECT C3100 Analysis" page on the qi-hardware wiki? Are you guys planning to port linux to that device? 2010-04-29 12:47 because if so - that would be really interesting. I always wanted a linux phone that looks like a phone and works like a phone. Unlike the freerunner ;D 2010-04-29 12:59 Regarding batteries, (end) next week I will reciebe a bunch of Nanonote batteries 2010-04-29 13:00 hm. the screen flicker seems to be gone with the new values 2010-04-29 13:01 yay!!!! lars 2010-04-29 13:02 gmenu2x ruins it though 2010-04-29 13:03 ?, time to recode it?or replace it 2010-04-29 13:22 and the fsfe guy is playing quake! ---> http://aligunduz.org/img/nano-quake.jpg 2010-04-29 13:26 :) 2010-04-29 13:49 Carlos Camargo: Adding simulation files to blink example http://qi-hw.com/p/nn-usb-fpga/0348078 2010-04-29 15:23 i run "opkg update" and then "opkg list-upgradable" shows a bunch of things that can upgraded 2010-04-29 15:23 but when i run "opkg upgrade" it acts as if i just ran "opkg" and lists the documentation 2010-04-29 15:23 any suggestions? 2010-04-29 15:24 oh and it spits "* pkg_get_installed_files: Failed to open //usr/lib/opkg/info/DirectFB.list: No such file or directory." warnings 2010-04-29 15:25 oh saw a temporary fix at http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/ben-nanonote/issues/56/ 2010-04-29 15:27 hmm, the warning has gone but my upgrade problem continues 2010-04-29 15:41 tuxbrain: btw i'm recruiting other people to buy nano from tuxbrain.net. where's my commission, dude? ;) 2010-04-29 15:45 :D 2010-04-29 15:46 okay, i give up, how do i upgrade packages on this? 2010-04-29 15:54 hmm 2010-04-29 15:55 gnufs: do you already upgrade the uboot and openqrt image? 2010-04-29 15:55 with xburs tools atc.. 2010-04-29 16:10 kristianpaul: no 2010-04-29 16:10 gnufs: you should 2010-04-29 16:11 thre is a script for that 2010-04-29 16:11 is there a special reason? 2010-04-29 16:13 upgrade ! 2010-04-29 16:13 :) 2010-04-29 16:13 http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/How_to_reflash 2010-04-29 16:24 gnufs:Actually we are not ready yet to update the nano firmware trough opkg , you should do a clean install on each release, we will arrive there but we are not yet 2010-04-29 16:24 oh 2010-04-29 16:29 btw, does anyone know of a framebuffer or directFB programming manual? 2010-04-29 16:29 there is plenty of docs on directfb's wiki but the ones i've looked at are mostly about porting already written GUI stuff onto directfb 2010-04-29 16:31 gnufs: SDL,GTK and QT libraries on ben use directly framebuffer so you can do a gui using qt tools and then "just" crosscompile them using openwrt tools 2010-04-29 16:33 gnufs: I just read about the commision ..... make me sale 1000 and we will talk again 2010-04-29 16:33 _P 2010-04-29 16:33 :P 2010-04-29 16:35 tuxbrain: i don't want porting GUI framework apps to fb. i want to work with fb itself 2010-04-29 16:35 ok 2010-04-29 16:40 tuxbrain, oh yeah, how are the nanonote sales? 2010-04-29 16:40 and when do i need to return your wiz? as i had barely any time to play with it yet 2010-04-29 16:42 zear: don't hurry, do your tests and whatever you had planned, I was mentalized to don't see my wiz for a month :P if you need more time just tell me 2010-04-29 16:44 gnufx: have already read this? https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/03/EmbeddedGraphics.pdf 2010-04-29 16:45 i certainly did not! 2010-04-29 16:45 is very light, barely an abstract but points to some framebuffer sources 2010-04-29 16:46 gracias 2010-04-29 16:47 is just a shopkeeper so my judjement on tech stuff is as valid as a fisherman about F1 motor setup 2010-04-29 16:48 btw tuxbrain, i remember you mentioning jornada 6xx in one of your posts on the mailing list 2010-04-29 16:48 zear: yes 2010-04-29 16:48 Do you use jlime with it? 2010-04-29 16:48 my first beloved embedded linux device, yes with jlime 2010-04-29 16:48 as my whole adventure with non-x86 linux devices started with jornada 720 :) 2010-04-29 16:49 never seen you on #jlime though 2010-04-29 16:50 I have abandoned chat stuff for a long time until #qi-hardware 2010-04-29 16:50 ah, right 2010-04-29 16:50 well, in any case, if you're still interested in your jornada, we have a jlime meeting this year in poland 2010-04-29 16:50 around september 2010-04-29 16:50 and of course everyone is welcome 2010-04-29 16:50 (i think everyone is :D) 2010-04-29 16:51 I'm more interested in see jlime ported to Nano :) 2010-04-29 16:51 me and two other members of jlime have their nanos 2010-04-29 16:51 so jlime port for the nanonote should progress faster than before now 2010-04-29 16:52 Now my jornada has gained a higlighted position in my selft, 2010-04-29 16:53 :D 2010-04-29 16:53 I have done OS practice of university with it in train, basically compiling C stuff under GNU linux 2010-04-29 16:53 i used to take down notes from the lectures with it 2010-04-29 16:53 so I code an compile on the go :) 2010-04-29 16:53 but this year i'm skipping most of the classes, so don't use jornada anymore :D 2010-04-29 16:54 bad guy 2010-04-29 16:54 i wish ben's keybord was like jornada's 2010-04-29 16:54 yes jornada has te better keyboard I have seen on a small device ever 2010-04-29 16:54 i agree 2010-04-29 16:55 small enough to be portable, and big enough to write with two hands 2010-04-29 16:55 unfortunately, the screen reaction time is low 2010-04-29 16:56 and processor was sloooooow (remember I have a 680) 2010-04-29 16:56 in 720 (200MHz arm) it's better, but still slow 2010-04-29 16:56 but enough to handle sdl games like doom or duke3d 2010-04-29 16:57 yep, and X and PDF reader, and kismet, and... a lot of stuff I want to see on Nano! 2010-04-29 16:57 X11 was still slow :P 2010-04-29 16:58 but usable, an now we have half the screen and twice the processor :P 2010-04-29 16:59 :D 2010-04-29 17:00 and no pcmcia slot for wifi :P 2010-04-29 17:00 touché 2010-04-29 17:00 so, how are the sales of ben going? 2010-04-29 17:01 i still don't understand why the designers decided to have a usb host 2010-04-29 17:01 to have or not to have? 2010-04-29 17:01 to not have, I guess 2010-04-29 17:01 D*not to have 2010-04-29 17:02 cause they didn't need it, probably. 2010-04-29 17:02 :/ 2010-04-29 17:02 gnufs: Ben was an already existed platform originaly to be a Chinese translator 2010-04-29 17:02 ah, right 2010-04-29 17:02 tuxbrain: oh, didn't know that 2010-04-29 17:03 avt2 has usbhost 2010-04-29 17:03 avt2? 2010-04-29 17:03 so what's the deal with that: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/CECT_C3100_Analysis 2010-04-29 17:03 yeah some day we had to write down the full history of how all started :) 2010-04-29 17:03 are you guys planning to have a linux phone? :D 2010-04-29 17:03 gnufs: http://sharism.cc/shop/product_info.php?products_id=11 2010-04-29 17:05 larsc: is it possible to replace it with the board inside the nano? 2010-04-29 17:06 if you modify your case a bit, yes 2010-04-29 17:06 :o 2010-04-29 17:06 gnufs: you have to do some plastic drilling but yes, I have see one on Fosdeem 2010-04-29 17:06 fossdem 2010-04-29 17:06 larsc, so what's the deal with that cect_c3100 thing? :) 2010-04-29 17:07 zear: i have no idea 2010-04-29 17:07 must ask wolf 2010-04-29 17:07 only saw it today in the wiki changes 2010-04-29 17:07 but it sure looks delicious 2010-04-29 17:07 zear: so they're planning to reverse the phone? 2010-04-29 17:07 zear: sharims are near to shenshen or watever is called that is a real big source of gadgets of all kind 2010-04-29 17:07 *reverse engineer 2010-04-29 17:07 always wanted a linux phone that does look like a phone and works like a phone 2010-04-29 17:07 unlike a freerunner :D 2010-04-29 17:08 they are allwais evaluating products to achive what they achieve with ben 2010-04-29 17:09 If they find a good cuality product and manufactures agree to open it, or let them open it providing thech info it can be a candidate to be a next sharism product 2010-04-29 17:10 i don't think they allowed them to open it :D 2010-04-29 17:10 at least they would give them the schemes if they agreed for it :D 2010-04-29 17:11 maybe they found something intesresting in that phone than worth the try 2010-04-29 17:11 maybe they don't have them ;) 2010-04-29 17:11 yep this is also posible :) blind copy things is one of the wonderfull chinese habilities 2010-04-29 17:12 chinese manufactures 2010-04-29 17:13 zear:they achived to do it on Ben, why not on the phone? 2010-04-29 17:13 but the fact there are companies in china that do reverse engineering for a living shows chinese are super fine with copying everything :P 2010-04-29 17:14 tuxbrain, that would be awesome. Think about it - a phone that looks like a phone and runs linux 2010-04-29 17:14 it's almost like that green phone you can't buy anymore 2010-04-29 17:14 put in a free gsm firmware a la OsmocomBB and you've got a deal! 2010-04-29 17:15 ;) 2010-04-29 17:15 and asterisk 2010-04-29 17:16 if they'll manage to keep them at the same low cost as they bought that sample units (18USD), they should be cheap enough to buy for your whole family and use with SSL phone calls :D 2010-04-29 17:17 lol, the top shows an httpd process running on the nano 2010-04-29 17:18 what's it for if i may ask? 2010-04-29 17:18 no idea, but http://192.168.254.101 2010-04-29 17:18 it's just a useless httpd deamon for a http server on a nanonote 2010-04-29 17:19 an http daemon on such a machine... hah. 2010-04-29 17:20 well, it *could* have a use as some kind of interface where you can set some settings, like on many routers 2010-04-29 17:21 I thing is an heritance from openwrt 2010-04-29 17:21 yea 2010-04-29 17:22 you have network over usb, so you can enable webservices and manage some thing with your browser 2010-04-29 17:22 but yes I also thing now is totally useless :P 2010-04-29 17:23 btw tuxbrain, was the touchscreen in your wiz always that inaccurate? I wonder because when i bought my gp2x, the touchscreen was already faulty 2010-04-29 17:23 and i wonder if it's the same for the wizes 2010-04-29 17:23 it happens some times with some programs 2010-04-29 17:24 no, there are the whole areas that don't detect the touch 2010-04-29 17:24 usually a recalibraition solve this 2010-04-29 17:24 upper right corner of the screen, especially 2010-04-29 17:24 nope 2010-04-29 17:24 it does not 2010-04-29 17:24 well maybe it has been broken 2010-04-29 17:25 hardware quality on wiz is very very crappy 2010-04-29 17:25 yea 2010-04-29 17:25 the only thing i can't do with my gp2x and can on the wiz is tinygl quake/hexen2 2010-04-29 17:26 the rest is exactly the same speed as on gp2x 2010-04-29 17:26 this along the lack of true oppenes has make loss a lot of interest on it 2010-04-29 17:26 yep 2010-04-29 17:26 and i don't know why such a design solution to not include minisd charging 2010-04-29 17:27 and you have to use the special cable 2010-04-29 17:27 if you lost it - you lose a way to charge your wiz 2010-04-29 17:27 has lost the cable 2010-04-29 17:27 *miniusd 2010-04-29 17:27 *miniusb 2010-04-29 17:27 really? how come i got it with your wiz? 2010-04-29 17:27 unless that's a new one 2010-04-29 17:27 new one yep 2010-04-29 17:28 it fits gp2x's expansion slot as well 2010-04-29 17:28 but i won't try to plug it to the gp2x and pc 2010-04-29 17:28 don't want to toast it :D 2010-04-29 17:28 now I use it as video player in the car for my doughter in long travels 2010-04-29 17:29 how long do the batteries last with the video playback? 2010-04-29 17:29 I hope I can use a ben to this soon 2010-04-29 17:29 well it last 2-3 hours well 2010-04-29 17:29 ben will never be as good for video playback as the wiz 2010-04-29 17:30 mplayer with ingenics patches and ipu on the dingoo can barely play anything bigger than 320x240 2010-04-29 17:30 so you'd have to convert the video first 2010-04-29 17:30 yeah I know but my three year doughter is not very strict   :) 2010-04-29 17:30 :D 2010-04-29 17:31 buy her a dingoo and mount an analog tv to the back of your seat, so she can watch it on the tv-out :D 2010-04-29 17:32 compare the price/size of a ben  with the solution you have proposed and you will have my answer :P 2010-04-29 17:32 :D 2010-04-29 17:33 there's a new dingoo comming out, btw 2010-04-29 17:33 the same cpu, 64RAM, and a wireless radio controlled gamepad 2010-04-29 17:33 yea I have hear about it, what do you think 2010-04-29 17:33 I have just found the one thing that irritated my eye about nano! 2010-04-29 17:33 the lack of terminus console font! 2010-04-29 17:33 well, i was told i'm gonna get a dev sample 2010-04-29 17:33 i wouldn't buy it normally as i already have two dingoos :D 2010-04-29 17:33 Has anyone changed the console font on nano? 2010-04-29 17:33 but if it's a free sample - i'd be more than happy to test it :D 2010-04-29 17:34 gnufs, no, but that should be simple 2010-04-29 17:34 gnufs:I think this was discused on list some time ago 2010-04-29 17:34 tuxbrain, i hope the wireless radio chip supports both receiving and broadcasting 2010-04-29 17:34 so you could pair two dingoos together for multiplayer gaming 2010-04-29 17:35 It can be done but I remember you have to recompile the system 2010-04-29 17:35 for the font? nah, it should be just a matter of running one command 2010-04-29 17:35 though forgot the name of it 2010-04-29 17:35 wejp should know 2010-04-29 17:35 as he did that before, i think 2010-04-29 17:35 I think this sould be a feature to be added in next relases on the image 2010-04-29 17:36 is a fisherman with a fish memory 2010-04-29 17:36 "ntpdate[700]: step time server 80.190.97.205 offset -7159.645343 sec" 2010-04-29 17:36 hah 2010-04-29 17:36 tuxbrain, :D 2010-04-29 17:36 oh wait 2010-04-29 17:36 not what i think 2010-04-29 17:36 anyway 2010-04-29 17:36 good night all! o/ 2010-04-29 17:36 cya 2010-04-29 17:36 it was a very good first day on nanonote 2010-04-29 17:37 :D 2010-04-29 17:37 yep very intesive gnufs, :) se ya 2010-04-29 17:37 and tomorrow don't forget to try the gmu out 2010-04-29 17:37 i use it for ogg playback all the time 2010-04-29 17:37 yep put reflash on your todo list :) 2010-04-29 17:37 it has a clamshell design, so it's safer to keep in the pocket than a dingoo 2010-04-29 17:38 don't need to worry that i scratch the screen 2010-04-29 17:38 btw tuxbrain, have you tried dosbox out yet? 2010-04-29 17:39 or press it to much with a streched jeans and keys and... well 2010-04-29 17:39 the lack of dosbox interest here makes me wonder 2010-04-29 17:39 tuxbrain, oh that should break the case of the nanonote 2010-04-29 17:39 especially that i have a dev model, that perhabs has a thinner plastic? 2010-04-29 17:40 nanonote case is stronger than any lcd screen out there for sure 2010-04-29 17:40 *perhaps 2010-04-29 17:40 screens broken that way 2 nanonotes 0 2010-04-29 17:41 :D 2010-04-29 17:41 this is what happened to one of my dingoos when i dropped it on the floor http://wstaw.org/images/free/2009/12/18/772b938e97cce6aedb344def613ac1.jpeg 2010-04-29 17:44 hey it looks like my beloved Sony vaio t2xp, (I felt sleep while using it, I wake up with screen that way... I don't want to know what I have done with it while sleeping) 2010-04-29 17:44 uh oh 2010-04-29 17:45 Was a great machine... sniff 2010-04-29 17:45 It's beside my jornada on the self 2010-04-29 17:46 i hope your jornada is in one piece :) 2010-04-29 17:47 yep is though like a rock 2010-04-29 17:47 the only anoying thing it has is the backup battery 2010-04-29 17:48 it drains as hell if you have the main battery discharged 2010-04-29 17:48 well, it shouldn't matter on jlime 2010-04-29 17:48 ah, yes 2010-04-29 17:48 that's because jlime doesn't detect what battery do you use 2010-04-29 17:48 :) 2010-04-29 17:49 and once the main battery is drained, it will run till the backup one is dead 2010-04-29 17:49 but any way, did jlime achieve to make the ir work as lirc? 2010-04-29 17:49 well, i managed to send and receive data via irda on j720 2010-04-29 17:49 on jlime 2010-04-29 17:49 dunno about 6xx 2010-04-29 17:49 mmm interesting 2010-04-29 17:52 maybe I will recover it to try, I was monitoring a conversation with one Japaness guy with lars and they achieved to make a led work with one free gpio, so I was wondering if this led is an irled it can be used as irport on ben, and I have in touch with some guys that are doing cool stuff with IR, irtag.org 2010-04-29 17:53 I also need another free gpio to act as receiver 2010-04-29 17:53 can such a led also receive the data? 2010-04-29 17:53 or only send it? 2010-04-29 17:53 well I need one led an one irsensor 2010-04-29 17:54 ah, just as i thought. So that would take more place on the ben 2010-04-29 17:54 2 free gpios 2010-04-29 17:54 what could be achieved with such a led? 2010-04-29 17:54 except of controlling ben with a remote 2010-04-29 17:54 or using it as a remote 2010-04-29 17:54 visit irtag.org :) 2010-04-29 17:54 data transfer between two nanos would be slow and easy to lose 2010-04-29 17:55 the page is inspanish 2010-04-29 17:55 they are making a game 2010-04-29 17:55 oh, you can choose the language 2010-04-29 17:55 the also have an english version I though 2010-04-29 17:56 using arduino and IR 2010-04-29 17:56 a shoting game 2010-04-29 17:56 sounds cool 2010-04-29 17:58 I want to make ben act as judge/master/monitoring tool for the game 2010-04-29 17:58 :D 2010-04-29 17:59 or do a version of the game for use ben as gun :) 2010-04-29 17:59 doesn't sound very handy :D 2010-04-29 18:00 I was master of "Killer" when I was young (once upon a time...) 2010-04-29 18:00 :D 2010-04-29 18:00 you can't imagine what we have used (Killer=RPG on real live) 2010-04-29 18:00 rocks? :D 2010-04-29 18:01 and i think real life RPG are called larps 2010-04-29 18:01 first rule: the weapon has to be totally harmless 2010-04-29 18:03 water guns where the star on summer :) 2010-04-29 18:03 ha 2010-04-29 18:05 yeah you see guys of 15-to 21 years old planing ambush to the enemiy, and start skirting in the middle of the street, and then searching for the master to otorgate puctuation ... 2010-04-29 18:06 haha 2010-04-29 18:06 and now imagine a more elegant version of the game using IR :) and all data stored to just be reade by nanonote 2010-04-29 18:06 i with i could play like that :D 2010-04-29 18:06 to just be readed by 2010-04-29 18:07 yeah, that sounds very cool 2010-04-29 18:07 I enjoy a lot being a player and master 2010-04-29 18:08 the level of paranoia you reached when is game you don't know all players is impresive 2010-04-29 18:08 :D 2010-04-29 18:09 well man, time to some sleep 2010-04-29 18:09 same here 2010-04-29 18:09 cya man 2010-04-29 21:38 larsc: still up? can you tell me which Giantplus registers are undocumented? then I can ask Giantplus... 2010-04-29 21:54 "usbboot: error while loading shared libraries: libconfuse.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" 2010-04-29 21:54 ;/ 2010-04-29 21:54 *:/ 2010-04-29 22:00 hmm, it seems there _is_ a package called libconfuse on debian/ubuntu 2010-04-29 22:00 but don't see such a pack on arch.. 2010-04-29 22:01 what are yuo installing? 2010-04-29 22:01 xburst-tools 2010-04-29 22:02 usbboot specifically 2010-04-29 22:02 by deb ? 2010-04-29 22:02 compiling? 2010-04-29 22:02 no, bin tar.gz 2010-04-29 22:02 hmm 2010-04-29 22:02 i never did that way 2010-04-29 22:02 iused deb 2010-04-29 22:02 since i'm not on an apt-based distro 2010-04-29 22:02 ahh 2010-04-29 22:02 true 2010-04-29 22:02 well 2010-04-29 22:02 compile 2010-04-29 22:03 neva! 2010-04-29 22:03 gnufs: about the battery connector, I need to say the one we have in the NanoNote is not very good 2010-04-29 22:04 okay, i have it installed on an ubuntu setup 2010-04-29 22:05 check out the picture at the bottom of this page: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote_Hardware_Quality 2010-04-29 22:05 on the left side is our battery connector (it's a damaged one). on the right side is a better battery connector, that would probably also work with batteries that are slightly shorter. 2010-04-29 22:06 unfortunately switching to the better battery connector requires a PCB change, so we couldn't get it in for the Ben. It's definitely something we will try to improve for Ya NanoNote. 2010-04-29 22:06 hah, full of FAILs :) 2010-04-29 22:06 just fyi since I saw you experimented with some batteries... 2010-04-29 22:09 thanks for the notice 2010-04-29 22:10 what is a "carbonized rubber"?? 2010-04-29 22:12 there are plans to include devel packages from openwrt to xburst repository? 2010-04-29 22:12 is it supposed to conduct current or not? 2010-04-29 22:13 as python and lua runs, will nice have gcc too 2010-04-29 22:13 if is carbonized.. 2010-04-29 22:13 gnufs: yes I think it's rubber with metal powder mixed into the rubber 2010-04-29 22:13 ah 2010-04-29 22:13 you should have a little button in your nano box somewhere 2010-04-29 22:14 it has a small black dot inside 2010-04-29 22:14 oooh 2010-04-29 22:14 that black dot is carbonized rubber 2010-04-29 22:14 so that's what that thing is for! 2010-04-29 22:14 yes 2010-04-29 22:14 to short the USB boot pins under the battery 2010-04-29 22:14 in case you brick u-boot in NAND 2010-04-29 22:15 "Bus 002 Device 005: ID 601a:4740" 2010-04-29 22:15 \o/ 2010-04-29 22:15 wolfspraul: thanks! 2010-04-29 22:16 that carbonized mistery would take me literally weeks to solve otherwise :D 2010-04-29 22:27 rolls his fingers while waiting openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-root.ubi to finish downloading 2010-04-29 22:30 :) 2010-04-29 22:44 mkaaaay 2010-04-29 22:44 let's see if i bricked the nano 2010-04-29 22:45 and it boots! 2010-04-29 22:45 with a graphical environment! 2010-04-29 22:45 holy moly 2010-04-29 22:48 and it has TTYs! \o/ 2010-04-29 22:48 (which is even more useful for me than a graphical environment) 2010-04-29 22:48 :) 2010-04-29 22:51 gnufs: gmu ! 2010-04-29 22:51 listen ogg all the time 2010-04-29 22:51 yeah, playing with it right now 2010-04-29 22:53 should disable the gmenu from starting at boot 2010-04-29 22:53 gnufs: /etc/init.d/start 2010-04-29 22:53 i actully modified it to get mount the second partition to listen music easilly 2010-04-29 22:54 wich you should notice now there is a boot partition and other free space for user (default unformated) 2010-04-29 22:54 already has a 16GB microSD full with music and video 2010-04-29 22:55 oh 2010-04-29 22:55 i wish have atleast 2gb microsd :( 2010-04-29 23:00 hm, trying to play a file from the sd card cause the OS to shut down 2010-04-29 23:00 o wait 2010-04-29 23:00 not 2010-04-29 23:00 or 2010-04-29 23:00 is confused 2010-04-29 23:01 yeah, i think it crashed 2010-04-29 23:06 hm 2010-04-29 23:07 i'm not sure if openwrt will handle 16Gb of sd 2010-04-29 23:07 ny defaukt... 2010-04-29 23:07 but i can browser through it fine 2010-04-29 23:07 by* 2010-04-29 23:07 hmm 2010-04-29 23:07 try copy one song to nand and then play 2010-04-29 23:15 false alarm 2010-04-29 23:15 i repeat, false alarm 2010-04-29 23:15 everything works okay :) 2010-04-29 23:17 btw, this baby would also make a fine alarm clock 2010-04-29 23:18 that little speaker can become quite loud 2010-04-29 23:32 http://aligunduz.org/img/nanonote/time-travel.jpg 2010-04-29 23:32 Xiangfu Liu: [uboot-xburst] fix some compile warning http://qi-hw.com/p/openwrt-xburst/b8b3ece 2010-04-29 23:42 who knew quake could be fun... 2010-04-29 23:51 okay, seems like i've achieved enough familiarity with the nano for the first day. 2010-04-29 23:52 tomorrow, i'll start with experimenting on porting and programming side of things