Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Davide
use to pass boot options like the ones needed in installer method of #3 above.  The rescue system get installed  on the on-board flash and will boot if there are no bootable usb. Hope you find this helpful Rich On 03/13/2011 01:13 AM, Davide wrote: Hi, my name is David and I'm

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Davide
4) You mentioned just renaming kernel and initrd: is that part of what needs to be done to boot from usb ? 4 depends on the boot loader you are using and if you use the pre-configured boot commands. I'm using this:

[ARMedslack] dockstar SOC unused features pin praceout

2011-03-15 Thread Davide
After some research I foud a listing of the trace out of some unused features of the dockstar's SOC. It's in German but Google translate makes it readable :-) http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/Dockstar#PIN-Forschung Pity that my software RAID1 vision on the 2 sata ports went into fumes !

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Davide
4) You mentioned just renaming kernel and initrd: is that part of what needs to be done to boot from usb ? 4 depends on the boot loader you are using and if you use the pre-configured boot commands. I'm using this:

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Davide
I look like it replaces the original uboot on mtd0, is that correct ? I'm not sure anymore. I would have to investigate the script again first. While openwrt is using original uboot to start another version so that if you screw up you still have the original one to get things

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Davide
Some hints: Create first partition as fat on usb stick, second partition as ext4. The first will be the boot partition and contain your uImage. usb start ext2load usb 0:1 0x640 /uImage setenv bootargs root=/dev/sda2 rootfstype=ext4 run bootcmd Something like this... Cool this

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-17 Thread Davide
@lists.armedslack.org Data: Mercoledì 16 marzo 2011, 14:29 Am Wednesday 16 March 2011 13:45:53 schrieb Davide: Yes, that's possible. AFAIK you just have to place the second u-boot to the NAND address where originally the kernel can be found. If it fails to load the second u-boot the first

[ARMedslack] usb wifi dongle that supports master mode

2011-03-18 Thread Davide
On now that I've the basics going I'm now moving to the wireless part. My armedslack dockstar wants to become access point but none of the usb wifi dongles I have seem to work currently in master mode. Today I brought a new one d-link g122 that should have been rt73 ... but the one I got was

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Davide
. If I notice any other odd stuff I'll update on this. Regards David --- Mar 19/4/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Martedì 19 Aprile 2011, 14:14

[ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-20 Thread Davide
Now that I've a developement environment I'll be replicating what I did with miniroot to get ap/3G/nas/router on a minimal busybox based environment. As usual I'll leave a slackwareish feeling environment to the system. Once I get it working this could be an alternative emergency rescue for those

[ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-20 Thread Davide
Now that I've a developement environment I'll be replicating what I did with miniroot to get ap/3G/nas/router on a minimal busybox based environment. So you have a Slackware system with busybox instead of the GNU tools? How much space saves this? I'd stripp all that is not needed.

[ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-04-21 Thread Davide
If you considet that you can get a dockstar for 50 Euro in Italy or possibbly less it you look world wide ... this little wimpy nas had better cost no more then 25 Euro or I'd just buy a dockstar instead. I know that it's infuriating that the prices went up from 36 euro to 52 euro but for what

[ARMedslack] micro root rescue system

2011-04-22 Thread Davide
Sorry for starting a new thread on something that was started elsewhere but maybe the shoot-off needs better attention with a new thread. This is a mix of a few I built myself and some gotten from current. This is what I'll be working with and should fit in a compressed jffs2 image 64Mb

[ARMedslack] kernel setup linux-2.6.38.3

2011-04-22 Thread Davide
While going about recompiling kernel for micro root I noticed a few things that one can do without at least for kirkwood: Fusion MPT device support (this is a hardware RAID SCSI controller ... I doubt anyone will ever have one connected to an ARM based embedde system even if a working

[ARMedslack] qemu-network-tun.sh modified script

2011-04-29 Thread Davide
If anyone else finds this handy this works with dhcp client on both host and guest and also gets rid of all rc.local requirements. On the guest os you will need to config interface once system is up (static or via dhcp) Needs fixing for static ip reconfiguration/rerouting on host system after

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-04-30 Thread Davide
quite interested in it because I'm still thinking about building armedslack for armv5te (it's armv4 at the moment). We need some valid test cases. On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Davide wrote: I'm interested in the recompiling glibc thing to regain speed on specific hardware: has this been discussed

Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-05-06 Thread Davide
This is probably not the cause of your problems but it's something you want to keep in mind anyway: Running non flash oriented journaled file-systems on flash based devices can ware them out very quickly especially if you are using MLB flash based device with a typical 1 cycle rewrite

[ARMedslack] qemu raw image partition offset calculation

2011-05-06 Thread Davide
It's often handy to know the physical offset of the first partition of a qemu raw disk image. If you do not use raw images you can convert it to raw ... do what you need and convert it back. I've not yet found a reliable way of mounting non raw images from ordinary linux OS. You can use this

[ARMedslack] Trouble with udev on busybox based system

2011-05-09 Thread Davide
Ok this is a little off topic but since I'm trying to make it look as close as possible to a slackware system I thaught it could fit here anyway. Although I did my best to adapt all the scripts around /etc/rc.d and /lib/udev to work correctly with busybox (sh and slightly different PATH): udev

[ARMedslack] R: Trouble with udev on busybox based system

2011-05-09 Thread Davide
in the source or is it in some script ? Regards David --- Lun 9/5/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Trouble with udev on busybox based system A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Lunedì 9 maggio 2011, 07:41 Ok this is a little off

[ARMedslack] R: R: Trouble with udev on busybox based system

2011-05-09 Thread Davide
Could not grep modprobe in the udev scripts nor in the binary (with the aid of strings) ... so I looked in the rules.d and there it was. But busybox modprobe does not support blacklists ... hope it won't hurt. Regards David --- Lun 9/5/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide

[ARMedslack] R: R: R: Trouble with udev on busybox based system

2011-05-09 Thread Davide
--- Lun 9/5/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: [ARMedslack] R: R: Trouble with udev on busybox based system A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Lunedì 9 maggio 2011, 08:42 Could not grep modprobe in the udev scripts nor

[ARMedslack] R: R: R: R: Trouble with udev on busybox based system

2011-05-09 Thread Davide
what this should load because there is no module named just usb and I can't find any alias with that either. --- Lun 9/5/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: [ARMedslack] R: R: R: Trouble with udev on busybox based system A: Slackware ARM port

[ARMedslack] alternative uboot environment

2011-05-16 Thread Davide
I did a little fiddling with jeff's uboot environment setup and changed it so that it looks for a bootable partition in the firs 7 usb drives. This allows you to have your linux install on different partitions. Just 3 conditions must be met: 1) the linux install partition must have everything

[ARMedslack] R: R: R: R: R: micro root rescue system

2011-05-23 Thread Davide
evident that a lot of work on this arm clashNG comes right out of armedslack. If anybody feels about this just tell me the correct level of evidence and I'll show it up. Regards David --- Ven 6/5/11, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Oggetto: [ARMedslack] R: R

[ARMedslack] Build 2.6.38.7 for kirkwood

2011-05-26 Thread Davide
If anyone likes to try it tarball containing /boot /lib/{firmware/modules} is available on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bclash/files/clashNG/ARM/kernel-kirkwood-2.6.38.7-arm.tgz/download Be warned that I removed some stuff that I regard as not being necessary for clashNG. I

[ARMedslack] R: Open Pandora

2011-07-01 Thread Davide
Nice but the price ... for crying out loud you can but 2 Toshiba a100 netbooks for that price ! --- Mar 28/6/11, Geoff Walton ge...@ohdoughnut.com ha scritto: Da: Geoff Walton ge...@ohdoughnut.com Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Open Pandora A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data:

[ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-14 Thread Davide
My last day at the old work the work mate gave me a Toshiba AC100 as a present (one of those nvidia tegra dual core arm based netbooks with android): how do I put armedslack in this thing ? Regards David ___ ARMedslack mailing list

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-14 Thread Davide
Hum well I can do with the ordinary fluxbox as long as the touchpad works. I could even accept to run on it a framebuffer kdrive as xserver as long as I can have an ordinary linux distribution on it (possibly slackware or slackware based). The real questions are: do I haveto stick with the

Re: [ARMedslack] Got a toshiba AC100

2011-07-15 Thread Davide
(BST) schrieb Davide louigi...@yahoo.it: I'm worried about binary compatibility as armedslack binaries will run on almost any arm platform but that does not mean they will run on every arm platform. They are built for armv4 and the Tegra should be at least armv6 so they should run

[ARMedslack] R: Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)

2011-08-23 Thread Davide
Like the Toschiba AC100 it's a arm7 instruction set machine so it should run instruction set ARM4 with consequent performance loss. So armedslack userland should run on that hardware: all you need is means to boot custom kernel and last but not least a custom kernel that can run armedslack

[ARMedslack] Hope nobody gets upset for this

2011-08-30 Thread Davide
I know it's not the correct place for this but since it's ARM hardware maybe I've a little audience here. I'd sell off a Zaurus C760 and C860. Anyone intrested can email me privately about this. Sorry for disturbing. David Rao ___ ARMedslack mailing

Re: [ARMedslack] N00b alert: Kernel image must be specified (Qemu - Windows host)

2011-08-30 Thread Davide
Non so se ti hanno rispost a soddisfazione comunque lo scopo e' universalmente: inizializzare l'hardware affinche si possa caricare in ram un kernel dalle periferiche a disposizione per poi passare il controllo al kernel. Avevo scritto una cosa interessante a riguardo dello zaurus e il

Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)

2011-09-01 Thread Davide
Regarding the keyboard: have you checked whether all the necessary modules were loadad by /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ? some modules may not get autoloaded automatically. Regards David Da: lee jones slothp...@gmail.com Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz) A:

Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)

2011-09-01 Thread Davide
] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz) A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Giovedì 1 settembre 2011, 13:51 On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it wrote: Regarding the keyboard: have you checked whether all the necessary modules were loadad

Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on the Efika i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz)

2011-09-01 Thread Davide
I thaught the guy was using efika specifik cernel from some other source ... so that the just could be loaded manually. Mut maybe I undestuud wrong. If you are compiling your own kernel for that hardware make sure you apply all the necessary patches that are not in the vanilla kernel upstream

[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

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

2011-09-04 Thread Davide
...@lin2go.com ha scritto: Da: Manfred Müller manfred.muel...@lin2go.com Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] R: R: Armedslack on the AC100 A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Domenica 4 settembre 2011, 19:36 Hi Davide, (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) ...I can't seem

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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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. 

[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] 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

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

2012-07-01 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

2012-07-02 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

2012-07-04 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

2012-07-15 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

2012-07-16 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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

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

[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] 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] 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] 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

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