04:04 <discopig> yeah no SATA is a dealbreaker

07:21 <esters> Hi, running 1st gen cubieboard with a 2.5" Western Digital 1Tb Red drive with Cubian. So far I am struggling to get hdd working properly, upon writing the disk shuts off and I get error messages in dmesg. Could this be a power issue ? I am using a original samsung 5V 2A power supply. the drive by specification consumes 0.55A. I do not have any other devices connected to the cubieboard. Would it be possible that the barrel plug cord

07:51 <iggy> esters: I don't know about your specific problem, but your question got cut off (fwiw)

07:56 <esters> iggy: the probke

07:56 <esters> problem*

07:57 <esters> is that the connected hdd

07:57 <iggy> I got the gist of it, just the tail end of whatever you were saying was cutoff

07:57 <esters> upon writing either powers off (not visible by fdisk -l) and dmesg spits out multitude I/O error messages

07:57 <iggy> barrel plug cord <--- the end

07:58 <esters> iggy: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=rdf8ZpWK

07:59 <iggy> honestly, from what I've seen mentioned in here, I wouldn't be surprised if any part of that whole setup was defective

07:59 <esters> the hdd is fine

07:59 <esters> it was pulled from a working box yesterday

07:59 <esters> the SMART was ok

08:00 <esters> so hdd is out of equation

08:00 <iggy> you missed my point I think

08:00 <iggy> I wasn't pointing fingers at anything in particular

08:00 <esters> sure, but the problem is very annoying

08:01 <esters> and i do not know where to start

08:02 <jelly-home> provide separate power for the disk and see how that pans out

08:04 <esters> how can i do that ?

08:10 <iggy> easy way? pull a sata power plug out of the side of your desktop

08:13 <esters> ok, but i wont be able to connect the drive to cubieboard

08:21 <iggy> so move them next to each other

08:22 <iggy> there are plenty of ways to get standalone sata power... best I can say is look it up and see which one works best for you

08:30 <esters> thanks

08:30 <esters> im more concerned what causes it

08:30 <esters> a bad power supply ?

08:31 <esters> or the barrel plug

08:40 <iggy> we're giving you ways of narrowing it down

12:14 <vineetk> how does one run gtk applications on cubian?

12:14 <tat> my cubietruck turns off hdmi port after some time, the screen just blacks can't get it back to turn off, is that a known issue ?

12:15 <tat> can't find anything about that

12:23 <buZz> tat: have a keyboard hooked to it?

12:23 <buZz> or a mouse?

12:24 <buZz> you might want to look at xset or setterm (depending if you are on X or console)

12:27 <tat> buZz: i have a keyboard and mouse

12:29 <buZz> tat: and screen doesnt go back on when you move the mouse?

12:29 <tat> yep

12:29 <tat> for me it looks as if the hdmi port is sleeping

12:29 <buZz> checked dmesg?

12:30 <tat> well doesn't look like anything out of the ordenary

12:31 <tat> i am using https://github.com/igorpecovnik/Cubietruck-Debian

12:31 <buZz> well i havent seen anything like that

12:32 <buZz> my hdmi on cubie2 switches off on idle, but when i type a key it pops back up

12:32 <tat> it is a cubietruck,

12:32 <buZz> nearly same hardware

12:33 <tat> there is a short comment on igor pecovnik's blog where someone ask's for that, but he just points out that he knows that problem but hasn't got to use the desktop so far

12:33 <tat> that's it

12:33 <buZz> i just run normal native debian btw

12:33 <buZz> no weird custom builds

12:38 <tat> do you run cubian ?

12:39 <buZz> 14:33:30 < buZz> i just run normal native debian btw

12:39 <buZz> 14:33:35 < buZz> no weird custom builds

12:39 <buZz> so, no

12:40 <tat> buZz: where do you get your kernel from ?

12:40 <tat> as i understood, A20 isn't supported by the mainline kernel

12:43 <buZz> i run https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi as kernel