Re: [ARMedslack] Creating a rootfs from a x86 host: unknown machine 40

2013-11-18 Thread Davide
Does your 64 bit system have multybit capabilites ? (ie can you run 32 bit stuff along with the 64 bit stuff ?) If you did that the update may have broken some of the 32 bit stuff and it could lead you to a similar error. ATB David Il Domenica 17 Novembre 2013 3:04, openpand...@free.fr

Re: [ARMedslack] USB host on the Allwinner SOC's

2013-10-31 Thread Davide
:51, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Today I noticed that the linux-sunxi kernel has been updated in the usb host section. Hopefully this will get all those dongles that work on the stock android kernel functional on the linux-sunxi kernel too (currently only some keyboard, mice and mass

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up Slackware ARM 14.0 on the OLinuXino A10S from scratch

2013-10-30 Thread Davide
kernel with propper usb host capabilities. ATB David Il Lunedì 21 Ottobre 2013 15:54, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: The A10s should be amongs the supported devices that my image builder targets, did you haveto do it a different way because it failed ?   Regards David Da: Michael

[ARMedslack] USB host on the Allwinner SOC's

2013-10-30 Thread Davide
Today I noticed that the linux-sunxi kernel has been updated in the usb host section. Hopefully this will get all those dongles that work on the stock android kernel functional on the linux-sunxi kernel too (currently only some keyboard, mice and mass storage seem to work right). I'll compile

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up Slackware ARM 14.0 on the OLinuXino A10S from scratch

2013-10-23 Thread Davide
this on a flash device ... after all I'm beginning to appreciate more the pros and accept the cons. You might want to change the formatting in the script to best suit what you prefer. Regards David Da: Michael Balcos michael.bal...@gmail.com A: Davide louigi

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-30 Thread Davide
Ok I grabbed the boot stuff from rasbian (2013-09-10) and used the slackware arm miniroot in a freshlu formatted and partitioned SD it boots (minor issue complaining about root being already mounted rw ... probabbly need to add  ro to cmdline or edit the fstab). ATB

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Davide
contain a kernel - default kernel.img, start.elf, bootcode.bin, cmdline.txt and optionally a config.txt which is used to overide defaut settings. --Original Message-- From: stan...@stanleygarvey.com Sender: ARMedslack To: Davide To: Slackware ARM port ReplyTo: stan...@stanleygarvey.com ReplyTo

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Davide
to boot to the installer are available here http://www.dowelld.net/?p=49 the txt file explains how I use them. Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it To: stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com; dowelld dowe...@netscape.net; armedslack armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Davide
...@stanleygarvey.com stan...@stanleygarvey.com A: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it; dowe...@netscape.net dowe...@netscape.net; armedslack@lists.armedslack.org armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Giovedì 26 Settembre 2013 14:52 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI Did you dd the image

[ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-25 Thread Davide
I got a friend to lend me a PI  for a week ... I had a quick look at the community links for slackware on the PI but none really tell me what i want to know: what does the GPU  look  for in the SD ? (as fas as I know it's the GPU that loads stuff from SD into memory and then passes control to

Re: [ARMedslack] Kernel for Allwinner A1X

2013-09-24 Thread Davide
It appears that the usb driver in the linux-sunxi kernel is bust (at least on A1X based devices) and I don't think that there is any chance of them fixing it any time soon. I even downloaded the 3.0 stable version sources hoping that at least their stable version (as opposed to the 3.4

[ARMedslack] Skype on ARM linux

2013-09-20 Thread Davide
I'll begin my stating that I do not consider Android as having much to do with ARM linux. This this in mind what are the alternatives, if any, for having skype on ARM linux ? Is there some other instant messaging client (chat and video capable) that is knows to work well on ARM linux ? I read

[ARMedslack] Kernel for Allwinner A1X

2013-09-16 Thread Davide
It appears that the usb driver in the linux-sunxi kernel is bust (at least on A1X based devices) and I don't think that there is any chance of them fixing it any time soon. I even downloaded the 3.0 stable version sources hoping that at least their stable version (as opposed to the 3.4

Re: [ARMedslack] Hardware advice, plug and laptop.

2013-09-09 Thread Davide
Hi ! I would like to buy a plug-like computer (small form, not especially wall-charger type) and also an ARM laptop. It's for a very common usage, internet, video chat, etc. Can you guys recommend me some products/websites ? A lot depends on what you want out of your plug like computer ,,,

[ARMedslack] A little rc.inet1 tweek

2013-08-21 Thread Davide
I've found that after ethernet module is loaded the link status in not reliable until the interface has been brought up for at least a few seconds. I often use my laptops both in presence and absence of DHCP servers. I found the default way that the script detects the link status unreliable so

Re: [ARMedslack] Package auto? downgrade

2013-08-04 Thread Davide
I have release 13.37 according to /etc/slackware-version. I have recenly discovered that my mutt package has been downgraded, and I don't understand how/why. mutt in 13.37 was last touched in 2010. However, armedslack-13.1 has   armedslack-13.1/slackware/n/mutt-1.4.2.3-arm-1 Where is

Re: [ARMedslack] Package auto? downgrade

2013-08-04 Thread Davide
I have release 13.37 according to /etc/slackware-version. I have recenly discovered that my mutt package has been downgraded, and I don't understand how/why. mutt in 13.37 was last touched in 2010. However, armedslack-13.1 has   armedslack-13.1/slackware/n/mutt-1.4.2.3-arm-1 Where is

Re: [ARMedslack] Current status of arm ports eabihf

2013-07-29 Thread Davide
Sorry mixing html and standard indentation on yahoo means a lot of manual editing. Taking the ordinary slackware miniroot to one with compiler is really just a matter of installing some packages (in the d and l series ). I often do that on a live system just after having gotten networking and

Re: [ARMedslack] Generic Allwinner Slackware installer, was: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

2013-07-27 Thread Davide
I haven't got a a20 (or earlier) device to play with (yet), but I am forwarding this email to arm-netbook. I hope this will raise interest of having Slackware on the Allwinner. I am preparing a generic armv6 and onwards Linux 3.10 kernel (the separate 'kirkwood' and 'versatile' kernels will

Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

2013-07-26 Thread Davide
I got round to syncing my new image builder: http://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackwarearm/people/louigi600/ Touchscreen is still not working on my device ... but if your touchscreen is on the usb bus chances are that it will work. Have fun David Da: Davide

Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

2013-07-20 Thread Davide
My new image builder for the xzpad700 (as soon as I've time to sync it) will prepare images for all the hardware that the fedora currently supports (including the new A20 socs). as a matter of fact I\m using their bootloader and their kernels until I get round to building my own kernel. 

Re: [ARMedslack] Kernel 2.10 and raspberry pi

2013-07-20 Thread Davide
just been to kernel.org to see if the raspberry pi is supported. I see no support for the device in any kernel previous to 3.10.1 which includes support for the BCM2835. I find this odd. I would have thought that patches would have been submitted and merged in the the kernel tree. We

Re: [ARMedslack] armedslack on android phone?

2013-07-16 Thread Davide
Stuart: what do you think about adding it to the list along with the AC100, Pandora and Pi ? How's about the 3rd party device support page is moved on to the ARM section of docs.slackware.com, and I change the link on http://arm.slackware.com to point to it. I don't think I need to be the

Re: [ARMedslack] armedslack on android phone?

2013-07-14 Thread Davide
If the phone is an A1x based SOC there's chance that you can get started really quickly by reusing info on how I got Slackware arm on my XZPAD700 tables (that is a A13 based SOC). There's still work to do like the touchscreen and figuring out what kind of X server will work (probably a

Re: [ARMedslack] miniroot 14 and current: vi is broken

2013-07-12 Thread Davide
Well actually on my live slackware 14 (x86)  vi is a link to elvis Although both are installed, by default vi is linked to elvis (and it's not something I did manually). looking at the sizes I cannot but agree that on the miniroot vim is just eating up space (just guessing that the arm

Re: [ARMedslack] Exagerate XZPDA700

2013-07-11 Thread Davide
I got the kernel loading from uSD but then kernel panic because uboot passes wrong root device to kernel. http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:hacking_the_xzpad700_7_tablet I discovered that I cannot have the serial console if I boot feom uSD so I need some other means of

Re: [ARMedslack] Exagerate XZPDA700

2013-07-10 Thread Davide
I got the kernel loading from uSD but then kernel panic because uboot passes wrong root device to kernel. http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:hacking_the_xzpad700_7_tablet I discovered that I cannot have the serial console if I boot feom uSD so I need some other means of

Re: [ARMedslack] Exagerate XZPDA700

2013-06-25 Thread Davide
I downloaded the rescue image from http://www.hamletcom.com/docs/XZPAD700_microsd_restore_B.zip and I found some evidence that the device uses u-boot. I'm not sure if the u-boot image I found in the rescue image is part of the image that gets restored into the device or if the rescue image

Re: [ARMedslack] Exagerate XZPDA700

2013-06-22 Thread Davide
I got tempted with one of these. Integrated BGN wifi 1 usb client/host port qith support for external usb devices (is ethernet/3G ) 4Gb internal flash (but I've only found evidence of 3Gb maybe 1Gb is reserved for boot/rescure/emergency restore) 7 screen 800x480 px single core

Re: [ARMedslack] Prompts and Slackware (general not necessarily ARM related)

2013-06-18 Thread Davide
Hello! It's possible. But not unlikely. The other question is when was the Kernel site hacked? It was ages ago - in 2001! Unlikely 2001 back then we only had 2.4 stable kernels  more like 2010 Chances are that your installation has installed something dodgy, or you may even have some

Re: [ARMedslack] Prompts and Slackware (general not necessarily ARM related)

2013-06-17 Thread Davide
Hello! Earlier today I had my Slackware (on Intel) system uninstall system. Its installer removal program told me that I'd need to log out and log back in before there would be any changes seen. Well I did that. On logging back in I saw that the process had eaten the prompt. It replaced

Re: [ARMedslack] Exagerate XZPDA700

2013-06-14 Thread Davide
I got tempted with one of these. Integrated BGN wifi 1 usb client/host port qith support for external usb devices (is ethernet/3G ) 4Gb internal flash (but I've only found evidence of 3Gb maybe 1Gb is reserved for boot/rescure/emergency restore) 7 screen 800x480 px single core

[ARMedslack] Exagerate XZPDA700

2013-06-13 Thread Davide
I got tempted with one of these. Integrated BGN wifi 1 usb client/host port qith support for external usb devices (is ethernet/3G ) 4Gb internal flash (but I've only found evidence of 3Gb maybe 1Gb is reserved for boot/rescure/emergency restore) 7 screen 800x480 px single core cortex A8

Re: [ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-06-04 Thread Davide
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:slackware_on_the_toshiba_ac100_dynabook_az It was just a quick cut and paste with minor changes. I'll work on it to make it better and all comments are welcome. Would a separate ARM section be a good idea?  It'd make content easier to find although

Re: [ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-05-31 Thread Davide
I noticed that the whole http://tosh-ac100.wetpaint.com/ thing has been taken down thus braking the link for the information on how to get slackware arme on the AC100. I'm trying to get the info from the wetpaint crew (at least the text I wrote) to see if I can have it hosted somewhere

Re: [ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-05-31 Thread Davide
I noticed that the whole http://tosh-ac100.wetpaint.com/ thing has been taken down thus braking the link for the information on how to get slackware arme on the AC100. I'm trying to get the info from the wetpaint crew (at least the text I wrote) to see if I can have it hosted somewhere

[ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-05-30 Thread Davide
I noticed that the whole http://tosh-ac100.wetpaint.com/ thing has been taken down thus braking the link for the information on how to get slackware arme on the AC100. I'm trying to get the info from the wetpaint crew (at least the text I wrote) to see if I can have it hosted somewhere else.

Re: [ARMedslack] tigervnc for slackware arm

2013-05-19 Thread Davide
.   Regards David Da: Richard Lapointe richard.lapoi...@gmail.com A: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it; Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Sabato 18 Maggio 2013 14:26 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] tigervnc for slackware arm Here one that I built but never

[ARMedslack] tigervnc for slackware arm

2013-05-17 Thread Davide
Can't seem to get tightvnc client to interoperate with the x0vncserver running on my desktop. I can find tigervnc package for x86 slackware ... anyone have an idea if there's an ARM tigervnc package ? Regards David ___ ARMedslack mailing list

Re: [ARMedslack] getting SATA working on seagate goflex net

2013-04-23 Thread Davide
it on a slackware arm 14 userland (and has support for all features of the goflex net )? Regards David Da: Richard Lapointe richard.lapoi...@gmail.com A: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it; Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Martedì 23 Aprile 2013 0:42

[ARMedslack] getting SATA working on seagate goflex net

2013-04-22 Thread Davide
I decided it was time to pull out the goflexnet and hook up two 2.5 sata drives on it. I've slackware arm 14 running on it but I can't seem to see anything like a sata bus detected on my goflex net. Do I need to do something on uboot ro enable sata before the kernel is started ? I've also

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-19 Thread Davide
Ok ... just wish to thank you all for the help. I now have slackware arm 14 up and running on my dockstar and have moved my attention to compiling mediatomb on it. David Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-18 Thread Davide
a serial cable suitable for the target platform is difficult to say the least ... at some stage I plan to start using jtag too ;) Da: Richard Lapointe richard.lapoi...@gmail.com A: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it; Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-18 Thread Davide
fstype ... maybe I just need to recheck how I pass boot parameters to kernel from uboot when I detect a valid usb stick ! Regards David Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it A: Richard Lapointe richard.lapoi...@gmail.com; Slackware ARM port armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-18 Thread Davide
One thing I noticed is that u-boot-tools (fw_printenv ... ect) seems to be missing from the slackware arm 14 repo ... I forgot where I got it from on 13.37 but on my old armedslack 13.37 it's installed: u-boot-tools-2010.12rc1-arm-1 ooops ... maybe something wrong with me ... it's installed

[ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread Davide
I'ts been a while since I last fiddled with the seagate dockstar ... I puklled it back out wanting to involve it on media streaming via DLNA. I fiddled with a slackwarearm 14 miniroot image on a versatile emulated machine untill I thaught I had all the bits and pieces needed to boot from the

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread Davide
I'ts been a while since I last fiddled with the seagate dockstar ... I puklled it back out wanting to involve it on media streaming via DLNA. I fiddled with a slackwarearm 14 miniroot image on a versatile emulated machine untill I thaught I had all the bits and pieces needed to boot from

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread Davide
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. And that's it ... nothing more on the serial console and nothing on the network actually it does not even appear to mount the root filesystem as the last mount seems to be coherent with the last time I mounted it on my PC Do I need to

Re: [ARMedslack] miniroot 14 and current: vi is broken

2013-04-16 Thread Davide
Da: Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Lunedì 15 Aprile 2013 17:52 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] miniroot 14 and current: vi is broken On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Davide wrote: I noticed that in the miniroot, both current and 14

[ARMedslack] miniroot 14 and current: vi is broken

2013-04-15 Thread Davide
I noticed that in the miniroot, both current and 14, vi  is broken looking for libperl and libpython . I know most of you will like to use nano ... but I'm an old fart and I still like vi !!! It can be fixed by installing a few packages: perl-5.16.1-arm-1.tgz python-2.7.3-arm-2.tgz

[ARMedslack] Merry Christmas

2012-12-25 Thread Davide
Merry Christmas and happy new year to everybody. David___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

[ARMedslack] Updating to 14.0 with kernel 2.6.38

2012-12-07 Thread Davide
I'm thinking of updating to 14.0  on my AC100 (that unfortunately still runs on ubuntu based kernel ... that I learn is actually a fork of chromeos kernel) ... Will things like udev break un kernel 2.6.28 ? Anyone think of anything else I should watcout for ? Regards David

Re: [ARMedslack] Updating to 14.0 with kernel 2.6.38

2012-12-07 Thread Davide
things would have worked better. Sorry for making a racket ... and hope this can save trouble to other people updating. David Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Venerdì 7 Dicembre 2012 15:09 Oggetto: Re

Re: [ARMedslack] fltk

2012-11-23 Thread Davide
Forgot the important thing: thanks a million Stuart. I'd been trying to compile 1.1.6 that just did not build on my ARM netbook. Thanks David Da: Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Venerdì 23

Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-30 Thread Davide
Does anybody know which ARM processor it has and if it can potentially run Slackware ARM in a proper and easy way? Olof Johansson has just posted a way to install an alternative Linux distro on the new Chromebook:

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware 14.0 is released

2012-09-29 Thread Davide
Thanks for all the effort you've been putting into ARM slackware port over the years. David Da: Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com A: Slackware ARM mailing list armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Venerdì 28 Settembre 2012 23:53 Oggetto: [ARMedslack]

Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-08-31 Thread Davide
I still find qemu useful when I want to test something out amd that qould be emulating ARM from x86 hardware. I know arm hardware is cheap nowadays ... but qemu is cheaper and no need to wait for shipping ;) Da: Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com A: Slackware

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-16 Thread Davide
Last Saturday I did an update yo current again but I still can't get libflashplayer to load on firefox. Maybe I'm missing something else that's not showing as error when firefox loads plugins. Can you give me the output of ls /var/log/pasckages on the system where you got libflashplayer

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-15 Thread Davide
What else could it be ? Dunno but you can try with the new -current updates once I push them out this week. Last Saturday I did an update yo current again but I still can't get libflashplayer to load on firefox. Maybe I'm missing something else that's not showing as error when firefox loads

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-04 Thread Davide
It is a can of worms. It is closed source and lets hope it's finished. Adobe don't fully support it and have publicly said so. I think it's much worse then a can of worms. I really don't understand why people use flash for things that do not need flash: why the hell should one use flash for

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-04 Thread Davide
It is a can of worms. It is closed source and lets hope it's finished. Adobe don't fully support it and have publicly said so. Yes, Adobe has officially end-of-lifed Flash Player on Android:

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-02 Thread Davide
available in source code I don't see why people can assume one can just drop libflashplayer.so for Android and expect it to work and even if it did you'd open a can of worms. It does work - I tested it.  I suspect it doesn't work for Davide because the library is compiled for a CPU higher

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-02 Thread Davide
available in source code I don't see why people can assume one can just drop libflashplayer.so for Android and expect it to work and even if it did you'd open a can of worms. It does work - I tested it.  I suspect it doesn't work for Davide because the library is compiled for a CPU higher than

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-01 Thread Davide
I've dropped this into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:   http://kotelett.no/ac100/phh/Android2.2/libflashplayer.so And firefox about:plugins now says: === Shockwave Flash     File: libflashplayer.so     Version:     Shockwave Flash 10.1 r120 MIME Type      Description    Suffixes

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-06-29 Thread Davide
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libGLESv2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] root@pepa:~# ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so | fgrep not         libGLESv2.so = not found Finding/compiling that

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-06-28 Thread Davide
I tryed this: http://kotelett.no/ac100/phh/Android2.2/libflashplayer.so but I was unable to get it to work. Did you see why it broke? LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libGLESv2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

[ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-06-27 Thread Davide
Has anyone got a working version of libflashplayer.so for armedslack ? I tryed this: http://kotelett.no/ac100/phh/Android2.2/libflashplayer.so but I was unable to get it to work. I also tryed this: http://ac100.wikispaces.com/file/view/libflashplayer.so/284969210/libflashplayer.so but it's

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-25 Thread Davide
The fbdev driver probably needs rebuilding. I won't be pushing out any updates to -current for probably 2-3 weeks from now, so you'll need to see if you can fix it by recompiling the fbdev driver. Yea that thing about version 8 and 12 looked like build incompatibility of some sort but I

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-25 Thread Davide
BTW: can I bug you trough any instant messangers (like skype, facebook, gtalk, icq or anytning that is supported by IMO) ? I promis to limit myself to only be slightly more annoying thet via email :-D Ciao David___ ARMedslack mailing list

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-25 Thread Davide
Try this: http://armed.slackware.com/test/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2-arm-4.tgz Thanks X now starts but I have no mouse/keyboard response. Looking at the Xorg log it looks like there are more version mismatches on the input (evidev). I did remove and re-install the server  and input drivers too:

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-25 Thread Davide
This is the driver that's making the errors show on the log: evdev_drv.so Try this: http://armed.slackware.com/test/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0-arm-1.tgz Thanks man ... now my X is starting again. Now I can play with firefox13. This had failed a build and hadn't been updated since 2011. 

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-22 Thread Davide
Yeah I had a build faliure too And here are some other bits and pieces that might be necessary: CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_TEGRA This one won't build as a module and I can't compile it into the kernel as I build the main MMC support as a module (which I'm not changing). Yeah I had a build faliure too.

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-22 Thread Davide
And here are some other bits and pieces that might be necessary: CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_TEGRA This one won't build as a module and I can't compile it into the kernel as I build the main MMC support as a module (which I'm not changing). I've been fiddling with 3.4.3 but all the builds I'm doing

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages; In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember using a mkboot

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on unofficially supported platforms. Look at them

[ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
AC100 uses tegra chipset. I wonder how much work would it take to add the other bits and pieces to the armedslack kegra kernel to make it usable on the AC100. Regards David ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
AC100 uses tegra chipset. I wonder how much work would it take to add the other bits and pieces to the armedslack kegra kernel to make it usable on the AC100. root@pepa:~/ac/source/k/configs# grep AC100 config-tegra root@pepa:~/ac/source/k/configs# I checked in menuconfig and couldn't see

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
AC100 uses tegra chipset. I wonder how much work would it take to add the other bits and pieces to the armedslack kegra kernel to make it usable on the AC100. root@pepa:~/ac/source/k/configs# grep AC100 config-tegra root@pepa:~/ac/source/k/configs# I checked in menuconfig and couldn't see it

Re: [ARMedslack] Tegra kernel

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
Looking at teh config I think this would need to be enabled fro the AC100/dynabook AZ # CONFIG_MACH_PAZ00 is not set This looks like : http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MACH_PAZ00.html Might also be necessary to enable some grafix hardware like: CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA And here are some other bits

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Davide
I've no idea whether the installer works directly on that platform, but you can get the miniroot working as long as you have a working kernel for the hardware. Look at the bottomb section in the supported platforms ... there is a paragraph on unofficially supported platforms. Look at them to get

Re: [ARMedslack] Dreamplug: ERROR: Root partition has already been mounted read-write. Cannot check!

2012-04-08 Thread Davide
I'd bet on ro missing on cmdline. -- Il dom 8 apr 2012 10:21 CEST, Stuart Winter ha scritto: What does this output? cat /proc/cmdline If this is the case, go into u-boot and do: printenv and match the values found in /proc/cmdline and you should be able to

Re: [ARMedslack] sendmail problem

2012-02-16 Thread Davide
Looks like you've no resolver configured. Is your /etc/resolv.conf i empty ? Also google might regect mail coming directly from your host ... you might like to configure your ISP mail relay as SMART HOST in sendmail.mc ... and subsequently make clean , make all in the sendmail config directory.

Re: [ARMedslack] How to install full Slackware from mini root file system

2012-02-13 Thread Davide
to point to the repository you wish, and run slackpkg update ... from there getting the rest will be very easy and fast when you need it: slackpkg install package base name or even get prompted for a wole set of packages slackpkg install n Have fun Davide Da

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedslack hangs during boot on Dreamplug

2012-02-09 Thread Davide
. Da: Jim Hammack hamm...@gotslack.org A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Giovedì 9 Febbraio 2012 16:20 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedslack hangs during boot on Dreamplug Davide,   I'm not sure what you mean by erasing the partition.  I am using these commands taken from

Re: [ARMedslack] Cant get -current 3.1.5 to boot

2012-01-02 Thread Davide
Have not yet fiddled with new 3.x.x kernels yet but experience forced me to be carefull wneb copying .config's across releases. Using 2.6.38.1 config on 2.6.38.x  was possible but using 2.6.38.x confin on 2.6.39.x would produce unexpected results. (38 and 39 ar just examples coz I've forgotten

[ARMedslack] Compiling mame fro ARM

2011-10-20 Thread Davide
Way back in 2006 I had a working xmame for my Z that even if a little slowly it worked. Since then xmame has been dropped and original mame now builds on unix. I've built mame0143 on my x86 linux pc but I've had no luck on ARM. The old xmame sources build but produce a binary that complains

Re: [ARMedslack] Video playback on AC100

2011-10-11 Thread Davide
I'll try ... I'm already using ununtu kernel sources to get a working kernel. I'll surf around ubuntu forums and what more on this then. Nowadays video card modules are in xorg not (only) in kernel modules. Grep your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for not found. root@slackware:~# grep -i not found

Re: [ARMedslack] Video playback on AC100

2011-10-10 Thread Davide
The other day I installed mplayer on my AC100 ... but the video playback was desparately slow. I'm not sure if it's the Framebuffer X or some other issue .. Just guessing: most likely some proprietary video card binary blob that doesn't come with Slackware but comes with the default OS

Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: iOmega iConnect

2011-09-26 Thread Davide
I know I'm not the right Dave :-D I thought that google would have the answer for this bit apparently there's no correct answer: I got this as an intresting hit form Jeff Doozan's forum There is no common arcNumber: - iomega uses 1682 - OpenWRT uses 2870 - Debian asm/mach-types.h does not

Re: [ARMedslack] Flash Plugin for ARM

2011-09-14 Thread Davide
for some other reason. Da: Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Mercoledì 14 Settembre 2011 15:10 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Flash Plugin for ARM On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Davide wrote: That's not correct: AC100 has a tegra2

Re: [ARMedslack] Flash Plugin for ARM

2011-09-13 Thread Davide
2011 15:49 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Flash Plugin for ARM On 6 September 2011 11:41, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it wrote: Is anyone aware of easier ways of getting flash plugin for linux on ARM ? How about gnash or any of the opensource alternatives ? I have seen on the power developer website

Re: [ARMedslack] Flash Plugin for ARM

2011-09-13 Thread Davide
I remember that I specifically disabled old ABI support on my kernel build. Not sure if android bins are eabi or old abi. Mayby someone can try this out on an old abi enabled kernel ? Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it A: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it; Slackware ARM

Re: [ARMedslack] xlock problem

2011-09-12 Thread Davide
This happens on my AC100 running armedslack 13.37 (updated a few days ago). Any idea how to fix this ? Not yet.  Are you running it locally or via VNC ? I can't replicate this on -current running X on the console (locally - video, kb, mouse).  xlock asks for a key, locks and then

[ARMedslack] Flash Plugin for ARM

2011-09-06 Thread Davide
While looking for Flash plugin for ARM linux I found this: http://www.ti.com/tool/adobeflash-a8 Not sure if there is an easier way to get Flash plugin on ARM linux. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org

Re: [ARMedslack] R: R: Armedslack on the AC100

2011-09-05 Thread Davide
I should read messages from the top down :-D Ok I'll be installing that later. Thanks David --- Dom 4/9/11, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk ha scritto: Da: Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] R: R: Armedslack on the AC100 A: Slackware ARM port

Re: [ARMedslack] R: R: Armedslack on the AC100

2011-09-05 Thread Davide
of terminal though. So I've still an issue as to why there are no ptys in /dev. Anu ideas how to fix this ? Regards David --- Lun 5/9/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] R: R: Armedslack on the AC100 A: Slackware ARM port

Re: [ARMedslack] R: R: Armedslack on the AC100

2011-09-05 Thread Davide
wrong. To temporarely work around the problem I commented the check and blind make and mount /dev/pts in rc.udev. Regards David --- Lun 5/9/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] R: R: Armedslack on the AC100 A: Slackware ARM port

[ARMedslack] Armedslack on the AC100

2011-09-04 Thread Davide
I got round to doing some testing with an ubuntu kernel (2.6.38.1). With this kernel I was able to get the basics working chrooted. There are still some issues with kernel even with all the AC100 specific pathes applied: no sound, keyboard/touchpad often reset and sometimes crash in a way that

[ARMedslack] R: Logitech Squeezebox Touch

2011-09-04 Thread Davide
Put this in a google search bar: Logitech Squeezebox Touch hack ... did not look at the content but it looks like there are communities for this hardware. Regards David --- Gio 1/9/11, Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@gmail.com Oggetto:

[ARMedslack] R: Armedslack on the AC100

2011-09-04 Thread Davide
/mmcblk0p7 (the onboard big partition). Regards David --- Dom 4/9/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the AC100 A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Domenica 4 settembre 2011, 10:48 I got round to doing

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