<Froolap>
I'm asking you to tell me how to make it work. show me where there's a step by step and I'll gladly do it, I'll even research terms I don't know.
<libv>
or use the cubieboard wiki
<libv>
Froolap: MANUAL BUILD HOWTO.
<libv>
for the 4th time.
<libv>
Froolap: are you doing this on purpose?
<Froolap>
Manual build how2 first thing it does is go off about toolchain. Ok, which distro should I install so I can get the toolchain to work?
<libv>
why don't you read the toolchain page then?
<mrnuke>
Froolap: any self-respecting distro provides arm cross-compilers nowadays.
<libv>
Froolap: do you think that there should be a single complete page with all the individual steps, just for you?
<libv>
no choice, no options?
<Froolap>
This isn't about just for me.....
<mrnuke>
Froolap: how old are you?
<Froolap>
53
<Froolap>
I've been running linux since 98.
<libv>
read.
<libv>
read.
<libv>
read.
<mrnuke>
so you know hot to build a kernel?
<Froolap>
I built a kernel once about 20 years ago, it was too large to boot.
<libv>
mrnuke: but he does not want to
<libv>
haha
<libv>
Froolap: in 94?
<mrnuke>
libv: LOL
<libv>
so you waited 4 years, and then it magically booted?
<libv>
Froolap: read, and pick a toolchain that works for you
<libv>
and i really do suggest that if you keep on complaining, that you should go get other hardware, and try to build your own for that
<libv>
and then you can come crawling back.
<mrnuke>
Froolap: the only two steps the assciinema I sent you doesn't have is the "git clone" and "make sunxi_defconfig". Everything else, including the cross-compiler flavor is shown
<Froolap>
It appears that there are no answers here even to straight forward questions.
<mrnuke>
Froolap: ^^
<libv>
Froolap: choice is a two-edged sword.
<libv>
deal with it
<Froolap>
I can get fedora21 for arm to install and boot, it will even connect to my router..... what I don't know is how to get video on it from there.
* mrnuke
wants to see this
<libv>
you are actually using the cubieboard2, right?
<Froolap>
didn't use any fex, I just downloaded the image file that it in the fedora-arm wiki and downloaded the script that copies the image over to the sd. works like magic....
<Froolap>
but without any video it doesn't do much good.
<libv>
which image file from where exactly?
<Froolap>
I can ping the box so I know it booted, I can see the ip on my router, I just can't ssh into it.
<libv>
you of course did not get a serial adapter.
<libv>
you thought you'd save some money on that too
<libv>
just log in over serial then and use like yum or whatnot to install an sshd
<Froolap>
That doesn't mean that it's impossible to ever get video working, just that it won't work out of the box.
<libv>
you can fix all that over serial.
<libv>
or ssh, once you have that installed.
<Froolap>
sshd is on by default, but.... no idea what the default root password might be.
<Froolap>
and using the --norootpassword well. what do ya do from there to log in?
<Froolap>
But hey, that's not your project, so I won't ask you for help with that.... I'll just ask for help with your project.
<libv>
so how is installing the mali binaries going to help you with your lack of a root password?
<Froolap>
I reformatted that card and was trying to install from your wiki. so far I haven't been able to figure out how to make that work....
<Froolap>
I also don't actually KNOW that I'll have video working when done.
<Froolap>
I have asked, but not gotten any real answer....
<libv>
define video
<Froolap>
plug the hdmi cable into the bananapi and into my tv.
<libv>
you just haven't gotten an answer that solves all your problems with a magic single line cut-n-paste
<libv>
because you will never get that
<Froolap>
No, I haven't gotten a Yes it works or a no it doesn't.
<Froolap>
But I have gotten a lot of read the wiki.... which leaves me wondering the question I was asked earlier.... which corner of the wiki has that answer?
<libv>
Froolap: yes, it can be made to work
<Froolap>
Good.
<libv>
whether you can ever manage to work is a completely different question
<libv>
+make it
<libv>
Froolap: edit the fex file and modprobe the right modules
<libv>
Froolap: that's the magic phrase
<libv>
now go on a quest to execute that magic phrase.
<libv>
good luck.
<Froolap>
Ok..... Where do the modules come from? where's the source code or functional binaries?
<libv>
Froolap: wherever you got it from
<Froolap>
got what from?
<libv>
i don't know, you were talking about fedora rootfses and hwpacks and whatnot
<libv>
you don't even seem to know what a fex file is or where yours was supposed to come from
<libv>
and when told to work through the manual build howto, you just throw up your arms and state that it is too much work for a 53y old who has been using linux for 16ys but never built a kernel
<Froolap>
I got the cubbieboard_hwpack.tar from links on your wiki..... But I don't know if those will be compatable with the fedora21 since the image that you guys seem to have is fedora20 based....
<Froolap>
It appears from installing fedora21 that the uboot for the cubbieboard is compatable with the banana.
<libv>
only by pure luck, or by nasty marketing from the leeches that made bananapi
<Froolap>
They both seem to be A20...... other than that I don't know.
<libv>
oh, yes, both are the same SoC, everything else should compatable
<libv>
first time on arm, is it?
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<Froolap>
Yes, this is my first time..... and from what I understand the uboot just points to where to find the kernel.
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<libv>
Froolap: have you figured out how this "fex" thing people keen on mentioning fits into things?
<libv>
s/keen/keep/
<Froolap>
no, I have not, I did read the wiki and it's talking about registers...... but where it goes, what it does when and how I don't know. I have seen nothing that installs it
<Froolap>
I have no idea as to at what point of the build process that it needs to be installed. I have asked
<libv>
Froolap: how often do you need to be slapped around with "manual build howto" before you actually give in and work through it?
<Froolap>
I have tried. I ask questions when I get stuck and you turn it around like I'm the bad guy for not reading what I just got done asking about.
<libv>
Froolap: you refused to traverse the first link
<libv>
and read
<libv>
and make an informed decision
<libv>
and install
<libv>
and then move on to the next bit.
<Froolap>
I was told 4 hours ago to use one of the prebuilt images, I came here and asked when I got stuck......
<libv>
you know... problem solving with the help of a wiki or howto
<Froolap>
You know, people have the wonderful ability to be able to rephrase things what a wiki lacks.
<libv>
Froolap: ok, so you just want any solution where you do not have to put thought into things?
<libv>
Froolap: /join #bananapi
<Froolap>
I did. There's nothing there.
<libv>
Froolap: but there's this big bananapi community out there
<Froolap>
For a month there were 3 clients that never spoke.
<libv>
Froolap: did you read the topic in there?
<Froolap>
Did you read the question I posted in here, or do you just like to ask what others read and feel that entitles you to never answer?
<libv>
which question, the one you asked almost an hour ago?
<Froolap>
That one will do as well.
<Froolap>
I'm not picky
<libv>
you will get a uImage in arch/arm/boot once you build a kernel
<hramrach_>
not sure what if anything I should be able to do from here
<hramrach_>
just copied the cb2 config to cb1 so it fails equally
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<mrnuke>
hramrach_: isn't that because hardwqare randomizer is not supported yet, so MLC won't work?
<hramrach_>
Froolap: I have a cubieboard so I could give you images that I tested as working if you are not picky. But I don't have a bananapi so you will need to do some integration yourself. Seems bananapi somehow generates more problems than other boards and fewer people around here have one
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<hramrach_>
mrnuke: it's presumably supported by one of the previous patches