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00:17.54CosmicPenguinbrb - gotta test my ieee1394 crap
00:18.00mastermndis anyone else having problems with the pcnet_cs driver in the current tuxscreen buildroot?
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00:30.43CosmicPenguinWhy can't I find the damn major minor of the ieee1934 driver anywhere?
00:32.21mastermndlast resort: build a kernel with devfs support, turn it on, then run file on the device.
00:34.16CosmicPenguinbah - devfs is for the devil
00:34.27CosmicPenguinlast resort: read the damn source code luke
00:34.45mastermndwell, at least it'll tell you what your device numbers are, then you can rmmod it. :)
00:34.54mastermndYeah, that works too..
00:39.42MonMotha6CosmicPenguin: checked /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt?
00:40.23MonMotha6but yes, you could always just UTFS
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01:39.57CosmicPenguinAnyone here know much about audio?
01:40.49anderseeCosmicPenguin: I know what sorts of audio I like to listen to
01:41.31CosmicPenguinandersee: I'm more interested in knowing how to apply the right filters to boost the audio on a home movie
01:42.58anderseeI took a class in signal processing in grad school.
01:43.07anderseeSo I know the theory....
01:43.31CosmicPenguincan you give me a hint?
01:43.49anderseefirst define "boost"
01:44.27CosmicPenguinLets say Jordan recommended that we use a microphone for some interviews, and that everyone didn't agree with him
01:44.47CosmicPenguinSo we have audio, but its of very low volume
01:45.21CosmicPenguinI've got a band pass, band reject, high pass, low pass and notch filter available
01:45.30CosmicPenguinAnd pretending I have no idea what any of those do...
01:45.40anderseelow pass == only low frequencies get though
01:45.47anderseehigh pass == only high frequencies get though
01:46.14anderseeUsing a pure low or pure high pass will produce artifacts and frequency "ringing"
01:46.58anderseeBest is like a butterworth filter, where you can tune the low and high cutoffs and the cutoffs are somewhat gradual to prevent ringing
01:48.12theDevil-CosmicPenguin: I used to work in sound studio... Can you extract the sound only from the video?
01:48.32theDevil-dump it to regular old .wav format or whatever
01:49.00CosmicPenguintheDevil-: I guess
01:49.14CosmicPenguinTime to bring in the big guns
01:49.19theDevil-ok so the problem is what? high background noise and the speech doesnt come through?
01:49.30CosmicPenguinNo background noise, just low levels on the audio
01:49.56theDevil-okie dokie.. If you can live with it not being hi-fi then use a normalizer
02:00.21CosmicPenguinHmm...  It seems that my video capture brings in some sort of funky AVI that mplayer can't figure out
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02:27.20Sammydoes anyone have some experience on tux IR Keybord porting on FIR/SIR platform ?
02:27.48Sammycan give me some hint or point way ?
02:48.24CosmicPenguinOk, so I think I've got this figured out
02:48.51CosmicPenguinThe video comes in through kino - I extract the wave, process it with cinelerra and combine them with main actor.  Easy as pie
02:48.55fileCosmicPenguin: this motherboard is interesting...
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04:17.36CosmicPenguinandersee: I got this all figured out
04:19.16anderseeCosmicPenguin: the volume thing?
04:20.24CosmicPenguinandersee: yeah - Kino is the key... :)
04:21.14anderseeahhh
04:25.14sorphinheh
04:45.26CosmicPenguinKino is pretty cool actually - it can do alot of stuff
04:45.59sorphinCosmicPenguin: i can't even get ifoedit to work w/ wine ;p
04:46.45CosmicPenguinsorphin: damn
04:47.08sorphinseen a couple mentioned of it being done, but no specifics
05:05.11CosmicPenguinsorphin: right now, I'm having trouble getting my audio and video to sync
05:06.26sorphinCosmicPenguin: that's why i wanna use my series 2 tivo for encoding
05:06.30sorphinthen there's no probs ;)
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05:34.08sorphinMonMotha6: why be monmotha6 when you're not even on via ipv6 ;p
05:37.56MonMotha6sorphin: because my damn tunnel died
05:38.52sorphinno, your tunnel sucks ;)
05:38.59sorphini'd rather stay ipv4 and be fast ;p
05:39.03sorphinwhich reminds me
05:39.03MonMothaIPv4Suckthe other end sucks
05:39.07MonMothaIPv4Suckit's usually pretty fast
05:39.10sorphinneed to email the sucker at vbns
05:39.12MonMothaIPv4Suckbut it doesn't work sometimes
05:39.23MonMothaIPv4Suckyep, the endpoint died
05:39.29sorphinthe chick there never did mail me about getting my ipv6 crap set up
05:40.08sorphinMonMothaIPv4Suck: the group i support took over vbns (wcom's high(er) speed backbone), which is also their ipv6 presence and free ;)
05:40.45MonMothaIPv4SuckI see
05:40.48MonMothaIPv4Suckthink I could get a tunnel? :)
05:40.59sorphinheh
05:41.02sorphingotta get mine 1st ;p
05:41.17MonMothaIPv4Suckdo you know ATDN very well?
05:41.17sorphinprolly won't be too much faster than me to say he.net
05:41.22MonMothaIPv4Suckwhere is "vie" at?
05:41.31sorphinbecause i won't have a facility directly into their cloud
05:41.36MonMothaIPv4Suckit's one of their major POPs
05:41.47sorphinprolly vienna, va
05:41.51MonMothaIPv4Suckwow, I can route throw chicago now
05:41.54MonMothaIPv4Suckthrough
05:41.59MonMothaIPv4SuckI used to ALWAYS route through vie
05:42.06MonMothaIPv4Suckvienna, va is a big deal?
05:42.09MonMothaIPv4SuckI've never heard of the place
05:42.12sorphinheh
05:42.20sorphinthat's where UUNet's main shite is
05:42.32sorphinor was
05:42.38sorphinsays fairfax now
05:42.45sorphinbut i know there's still some core in vienna
05:42.52MonMothaIPv4SuckI see
05:43.11MonMothaIPv4Suckgod my uplink sucks
05:43.18sorphinhehe
05:43.21MonMothaIPv4Suck50ms from my ISP to it's ATDN uplink in columbus, OH
05:43.28MonMothaIPv4Suck50ms from indianapolis to columbus!
05:43.43sorphinyou're the one on cable ;p
05:43.46MonMothaIPv4Suckyes
05:43.49MonMothaIPv4Suckduh, whois me
05:44.05MonMothaIPv4SuckI"m on RoadRUnner, which is AOL/TW, so they use ATDN
05:44.09sorphini know
05:44.30sorphin10ms 1st hop :P
05:44.45sorphinwell, 9-10
05:45.31sorphinand unless i'm hopping on sprintlink (which uses the oldest network gear in existance :P)
05:45.40sorphini'm usually under 100ms anywhere
05:45.55sorphinMonMothaIPv4Suck: wanna hear something funny?
05:46.26sorphinMonMothaIPv4Suck: guess where sprintlink got their equipment :P wcom's decommisioned equipment ;p
05:48.20MonMothaIPv4Sucknow that's pathetic
05:48.28sorphinyup
05:48.29MonMothaIPv4Suckespecially seeing as how sprintlink is the big game in indianapolis
05:48.40sorphinthey used to be big game everywhere
05:49.09MonMothaIPv4Suckthey still are in indianapolis
05:49.19MonMothaIPv4Suckpretty much the best you can get around here without running a line all the way to chicago
05:49.34sorphinhere's something pathetic
05:49.37sorphinat work
05:49.38MonMothaIPv4Suck(which is expensive as hell due to SBC
05:49.40sorphinto get to the net
05:49.49sorphini'm in st louis, ok
05:49.57sorphinwhere do you think we peer w/ uunet? ;p
05:50.18sorphinyou'd think the uunet core downtown st louis
05:50.20sorphinbut nooooooooooooooooo
05:50.22sorphinchicago
05:50.39MonMothaIPv4Suckheh
05:51.46sorphinMonMothaIPv4Suck: btw. if you do a whois on uu.net
05:51.53sorphinthat ashburn, va contact
05:52.15sorphinthat's a big datacenter, actually where the backup server for the app i support is in there in an unmanaged rack
05:52.31sorphinit's a bitch just to get in there
05:52.34MonMothaIPv4Suckheh
05:52.39sorphindon't even think about getting into the webhosting data center ;)
05:52.44MonMothaIPv4SuckI like datacenters in the middle of nowhere :)
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05:57.03CosmicPenguinhmm... looks like Century is back with a vengance
05:57.14sorphinCosmicPenguin: oh?
05:58.51CosmicPenguinsorphin: signal11 is on a box at Century - it has been down all day
05:59.38sorphinhow come it never says century :P
05:59.47sorphintis always just leased.aros.net
06:00.09CosmicPenguinsorphin: aros.net is the upstream provider
06:01.07sorphincentury too cheap to dns/revdns their ip space?
06:01.27sorphinwhat am i saying
06:01.31sorphinthey were too cheap to keep you
06:01.58sorphinand others that actually worked i'm sure
06:04.43CosmicPenguinmost of the boxes are dnsed - its just that penguin (the box that signal11 is on), is on the new ip allocation
06:04.52CosmicPenguinand mark is hesitant to switch over
06:05.21sorphinhow come?
06:06.00MonMothaIPv4Suckhello tim
06:06.27sorphinTimRiker: modded that damn xbox yet? ;)
06:06.50MonMothaIPv4Suckcan we even consider the xbox embedded? it has a freakin hard drive
06:06.59sorphinMonMothaIPv4Suck: umm
06:07.08sorphinMonMothaIPv4Suck: no idea, not why i was asking him ;p
06:07.11MonMothaIPv4Suckah
06:07.28sorphinMonMothaIPv4Suck: he bought the same chip i have, was waiting on him to do something w/ the damn thing ;p
06:07.33sorphincuz he was gonna port bzflag
06:12.18signal11CosmicPenguin: heh
06:12.34signal11what has been down all day?  just my box or www
06:12.54signal11i just got back from vegas and this was my valentine's day present
06:16.12CosmicPenguinwww has been down, and I couldn't find cosmic
06:16.26CosmicPenguinand signal11 hasn't been around all day either
06:17.28CosmicPenguinhow was phish?
06:17.48signal11not too bad
06:18.00signal112nd set was too short
06:23.04CosmicPenguinMan, I'm going to bed, I just can't get this audio to sync correctly
06:29.15TimRikersorphin: no, and it's bugging me.
06:29.57TimRikersorphin: no GLX on the xbox yet. so bzflag will run slow.
06:30.12TimRikerwell, I should say no hw support for glx
06:47.06sorphinnod
06:47.39Sammyanyone have some experience on tux IR Keyboard connect on FIR/SIR receive ?
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14:29.20sjhillsorphin: wake up slacker
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14:31.41TomWmorning all!
14:34.27sjhillhi TomW
14:34.35TomWhey
14:35.20TomWI got the WebPal SIMM adaptor working on my device programmer!  I was just going to look for a linux binary to try out in it.
14:35.40sjhillneat
14:36.23TomWyeah!  I just pulled the image from the simm and ran strings across it.
14:37.25TomWHP DeskJet 550C
14:37.25TomWHP DeskJet 560C
14:37.25TomWHP LaserJet IIP
14:37.25TomW:1230
14:37.25TomWArts
14:37.26TomWhttp://www.wwar.com/
14:37.28TomWWorld Wide Arts Resources
14:37.40TomWI'd say that I got the wiring correct?
14:39.01sjhillk
14:39.14sjhillsorry, i briefly switched hubs
14:39.17TomWI brought the RDY/*BSY line out to the programmer, not sure if I needed to do that, but that is an important line when doing Flash programming.
14:39.56TomW... Always fun working under the microscope to wire to fine lead devices.  
14:40.07sjhill*shudder*
14:40.57TomWWell, at least I have one.  A friend "loaned" me a binocular 10X/20X unit, he says it is on "permanent loan".
14:41.11TomWwhatever that means, heh.
14:41.43TomWI guess if he needs some money then he can sell it out from under me?
14:42.17TomWWell, let me see if I can erase the SIMM and put the WebPal binary image back into it.
14:43.17TomWerases okay.
14:46.14TomWprogram went well, now to find an image and try this out!
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14:50.43sorphinTomW: hmm
14:51.54lilphilade|desk, you around?
14:53.19TomWsorphin: eh?
14:53.28sorphinTomW: breaking more stuff eh?
14:54.14sorphin:)
14:55.10TomWyeah, found a kernel image on the bigbrd site.  Just cleaning up the work area so I can setup my webpal pcb to give it a whirl.
14:55.45sorphinnod
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14:58.59sorphinGPSFan: morning ken
15:01.36TomWGPSFan: my adaptor the the webpal simm is working on the Needham EMP30
15:01.49TomWs/the the/on the/
15:03.02CosmicPenguinMorning!
15:03.33sorphinCosmicPenguin: liar
15:03.56CosmicPenguinsorphin: at least I think it is...  there is light out side coming from the east
15:04.03sorphinCosmicPenguin: it's actually 9pm, the sun's confused
15:04.05sjhill*sigh* this is going to be a LONG day for toolchain work
15:04.13sorphinibot: cluebat sjhill
15:04.15ACTION pulls out a ClueBat (tm) and thwaps sjhill.
15:04.28sorphinsjhill: morning whore
15:04.52sjhillsorphin: howdy whipping boy
15:05.03sorphinsjhill: that's lackey
15:05.11sjhillooohhhh....sorry!
15:05.12sorphinif you're gonna insult, get it right ;)
15:05.18sjhillheh
15:05.29sorphinsjhill: mips toolchain eh?
15:05.45sorphinas if you work on non mips ;)
15:05.45sjhillyeah, for the next Timesys MIPS release
15:06.06sorphin;) that'd be why i call you the mipswhore ;)
15:06.12sjhillheh
15:10.12TomWhmmm.  nothing on the monitor when I just run the linux zImage, maybe I should hook up the serial port?  I can program the webpal original image in and it runs fine.
15:10.30sorphinTomW: heh
15:10.48sorphinTomW: i never don't have the serial hooked up
15:10.50GPSFansorphin: morinig dan how goes it today?
15:10.51sorphinplus check your params file
15:11.05TomWat least the programming adaptor is working, I had my doubts about that for a while!
15:11.09sorphinGPSFan: goes, just watching Tom(gramps)W try and get that working ;)
15:11.50ade|desklilphil: yup ?
15:12.23TomWother thing, when I took the zImage off bigbrd's site, Mozilla wanted to save it as a text file.  Wonder if it got munged?
15:12.34sorphinTomW: umm
15:12.35GPSFanhehe, he will get it going, if I can get X running on it then it couldn't bee too hard for an expert.
15:12.46TomWheh
15:12.52sorphinTomW: "which" zimage? :P
15:12.57sorphinonly one of them gives output ;p
15:13.06TomWGPSFan: go right ahead, encourage me.
15:14.12GPSFanTomW: all I can say is I RTFM'd and got it going with out any major hassle. First via NFS, then off a HDD.
15:14.20TomWk
15:14.55GPSFanmucking around with the TuxScreen for a year helped too.
15:15.25ade|desklilphil: ping
15:15.52TomWyeah, nothing like a little confidence building.  That is what the Tux was for me too, a confidence builder.
15:16.17sorphinTomW: the webpal shattered any confidence i had in the hardware itself ;p
15:16.35lilphilade|desk, sorry back again
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15:17.09sorphinade|desk: make up your mind ;p
15:17.15sorphinerm
15:17.41lilphilade, you work for ITS? im about to graduate at exeter, wondering if there are any jobs going
15:18.40ade|desklilphil: sorry i dont work for ITS. i'm only a lowly UG. for jobs at ITS try the ex.ac.uk/its jobs section
15:18.53lilphilwise you are ;)
15:19.13lilphilta
15:19.42ade|desksorphin: yeah well i'm about to reboot this one into a naff linux for ibm hdd reconstruction .. hence the lappy is coming in to play :)
15:19.51ade|desklilphil: no problem
15:19.54sorphinah
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15:21.09ade|deskoh well
15:21.26sorphinade|lite: no, he just either saw the ex.ac.uk :P
15:21.30sorphinor someone told him
15:23.31ade|litemaybe
15:23.54ade|litegrr hate ibm drives now
15:24.17sorphinheh
15:27.13ade|liteanyone got a good tux root/zimage for tinyX ?
15:35.41TomWoh that sucks!
15:35.42fontenotade|lite: whatsa matter? you dont wanna dl all that source code?
15:36.16TomWThe linux doesn't output via the SVGA connector, it only emits video out the monitor output.  :P
15:36.54sjhillfontenot: Tim?
15:36.58nelsonfontenot: no, he doesn't.  Neither do I.
15:39.04TomWNever mind.
15:39.21TomWYou have to make sure it turns itself on.
15:39.36TomWCool!  I have linux running on the webpal!
15:39.39fontenotnelson: yeah I understand
15:39.51TomWSeems like such an anti-climax though.  :(
15:40.32TomWguess it is now time to add that hard drive.
15:40.34nelsonTomW: well done!
15:40.35fontenotTomW: how so?
15:40.53TomWfontenot: ?
15:41.02fontenotTomW: how is it anticlimactic?
15:41.36TomWdunno, guess it is just all that time I spent building the SIMM programming adaptor.
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15:42.42TomWmaybe after I get my own kernel built and running it will feel differently.
15:42.43fontenotTomW: you have 64MB on your webpal yet?
15:43.40TomWno, just 4 meg.  That is what I should do next, start checking those 16Meg FPDRAM I have to see if they will work in it.
15:48.07sorphinTomW: i'd already done that
15:48.40sorphinwhen my 2nd one bricked i was actually trying to change kernels again
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15:55.49fontenotsounds like webpals are easier to brick than tuxes
15:56.32prpplaguefontenot: well nothing is totally brick'd, there always a way to recover
15:56.37sorphinfontenot: they are
15:56.49sorphinfontenot: atleast w/ a tux you have jtag tho :P
15:57.05fontenot:-)
15:57.50sorphinprpplague: morning dave
15:58.12prpplaguesorphin: morning lackey
15:58.27sorphinoh, it's that way huh?
15:58.33prpplaguesorphin: jk
15:58.38sorphinprpplague: in that case, morning you POS bitch :P
15:58.39sorphin;)
15:58.51prpplaguesorphin: i say that as i spread my butt checks for another day at work
15:58.56sorphinhehe
15:59.03sorphinwelcome to abcsinc
15:59.11sorphinwhere you bring your own vasoline
16:00.52fontenotpoint of sale bitch?
16:00.58sorphinfontenot: yup
16:04.54prpplagueargh, the freakin bank scam has spread to china
16:05.03sorphin?
16:05.07fontenot?
16:05.33prpplagueyou know, "hi i'm a top level official and i need your help to laundre some money" spam
16:05.42sorphinheh
16:05.57sorphinnever seen those ;p
16:06.00sorphini don't see most of my spam
16:06.12fontenotoh yeah that
16:06.34fontenoti was just reading wlan-ng archives and there are like 5 of those in feb alone
16:06.58GPSFanTomW: congrat's, WebPals don't have jtag, but now you have a programmer, and can help some of the poor folks who have bricked their webpals.
16:07.10sorphinlike me ;)
16:07.16TomWyeah, like sorphin
16:07.37sorphinTomW: if you could turn on protection on where the bootloader is ;p
16:07.41fontenotheh. webpals plural
16:07.51TomWsorphin: well, email the binary, then send the SIMMs with return postage.
16:08.36sorphini think i might need my cap :P i omitted it and that's too coincidental w/ my Checksum Errors
16:10.03GPSFansorphin: did you cut jp1? it conflicts with the serial port adapter, depending on the relative strength of the buffers sometimes you will never see it, sometimes it will.
16:10.16sorphinno, i didn't
16:10.31sorphinguess i better now ;p
16:10.49prpplagueTomW: hey, how goes it?
16:11.44GPSFansorphin: I watched the pin with a scope and could see the ir keyboard trying to pull the serial port signal down. Cut JP1 and no interference.
16:12.17sorphinwell, i wasn't even touching an ir keyboard tho
16:13.26GPSFansorphin: ok, but the IR driver is still connected, and when the MAX225/232 tries to pull the signal low, the IR is trying to keep it high.
16:13.42sorphinah
16:14.09GPSFansorphin: 2 ttl outputs in paralles ain't good. ;>)
16:14.26GPSFans/paralles/parallel
16:16.20sorphinnod
16:16.21sorphinyeah
16:16.33sorphinprp :yo
16:16.37sorphingrr
16:16.39sorphinprpplague: yo
16:19.13pattiejamorning
16:24.02prpplaguesorphin: what?
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16:26.00CosmicPenguinyou guys should like that commercial with Yow Ming
16:26.27MornCosmicPenguin: I haven't asked in a bit how is the fate of Pixil on the tuxscreen?
16:27.45prpplagueMorn: he;s suppose to be finilizing that for his last 30 days as a contractor to censoft
16:28.44CosmicPenguinMorn: prpplague is right
16:28.57MornI'm looking forward to it
16:29.46CosmicPenguinMorn: right now my former employers and myself have different ideas of "ready"
16:29.54prpplagueMorn: as i am for the hackkit
16:29.57CosmicPenguinbut if they want to give me 30 days of consulting to fix it, who am I to complain?
16:30.15MornCosmicPenguin: I often get into arugmenets over that sort of thing
16:30.53prpplague"its got a login, sell it!"
16:31.17fontenotship it now we can always patch it later
16:31.33CosmicPenguinAh, but here we're just releasing it with a GPL license
16:31.48CosmicPenguinGreg says that he's embarresed to release the code under his name...
16:31.58CosmicPenguinWhich is funny, since I wrote a big chunk of it, and I'm not embarrased
16:32.07fontenot:-)
16:33.46sorphinprpplague: how cheap you think is cheap for a magstripe writer? (and did you get to wander around inventory? :) )
16:34.08prpplaguesorphin: about 1.5k
16:34.47sorphinheh, then i guess $75 isn't too bad then ;p
16:34.53sorphinCosmicPenguin: i hate that commercial
16:35.31prpplaguesorphin: you said writer
16:35.48prpplaguesorphin: you found a write for $75?
16:36.10sorphinebay
16:36.27sorphinLoCo writing, but good enough for me
16:36.41prpplaguesorphin: i'd be weary
16:36.59sorphini see quite a few going for that
16:37.09sorphinthey're parallel port
16:37.11prpplaguewriters?
16:37.19sorphinyes
16:38.13sorphinprpplague: for example
16:38.14sorphinhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=170&item=3401817935&rd=1
16:39.54prpplaguesorphin: ahh, never seen one like that before, we always got card printer/writer units
16:40.05sorphinah
16:41.26sorphinprpplague: no encoder/decoder, it's all done sw side
16:51.22kergothyo
16:51.33sorphinlo mr digiopenZ
16:51.41kergothhow goes it
16:51.51sorphintiredly, you?
16:52.21kergothsame
16:54.52sorphinnod
16:55.13sorphinheh
16:55.18sorphinpersonal issues eh? :P
16:57.05kergothheh, lots of shit goin on in all aspects of life, work, personal, projects. hectic, busy as hell
16:57.12sorphinah
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17:12.44kergothTimRiker: hey tim
17:14.35sorphinbad joke coming (cuz i'm tired :P )
17:14.46sorphinit's Cmdr. Tim Riker of the starship BZFlag :P
19:07.10TomWWell, it sees the 4 gig drive.  Now to get something ON that drive so it can boot rather than just panic.  :P
19:08.18sorphinCosmicPenguin: oh?
19:11.01CosmicPenguinsorphin: yeah
19:11.46CosmicPenguinsorphin: I had nothing to do with pixil-DT
19:11.53sorphinnod
19:11.53CosmicPenguinsorphin: but they want me to fix it
19:11.57sorphinwhat's that?
19:12.39TomWsorphin: http://www.openhardware.net/pics/Needham-perf.jpg
19:13.10CosmicPenguinsorphin: its the desktop version of Pixil - so you can sync between your PDA and desktop, for example
19:13.21TomWsorphin: you need my address to ship those SIMMs to?
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19:18.29sorphinTomW: ya, i do
19:18.51sorphinTomW: you think it's possible to kick on the protection on the amd via your programmer or if you have to do it another way?
19:19.21TomWUhhh, don't think that I can set protected blocks with the programmer...
19:19.50TomWah! yes I can!
19:20.02sorphin;)
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19:21.59sorphinbtw, neat lil 'hack' there
19:22.24TomW? dunno, seems to be something with the chat.  prpplague chatted with me this morning.
19:24.05sorphinjust /m it :P
19:24.16sorphinanways, the hack was your simm adapter
19:26.42sorphink, got it
19:27.10sorphinso can you limit what you can protect like on the tux's flash?
19:28.27TomWya, the device appears to have 18 sectors on it and I can lock them selectively.  
19:29.20TomWyou have to keep in mind that locking a sector only protects the sector, it doesn't make it possible to run program from within that sector while erasing / programming other sectors.
19:30.06TomWblob loads into RAM from Flash, then erase / programs the Flash, but you already knew that.
19:31.51sorphinTomW: basically all i'm shooting for here
19:32.16sorphinis to prevent brickage again by the bootloader being toasted while flashing something that ISN'T the bootloader (i.e. in other sectors)
19:32.18TomWI guess that all you have to do to build linux for the webpal target is to patch it, then "make dep ; make clean ; make zImage"?
19:32.56TomWsorphin: awww, but then where would the excitement be?  The thrill of danger?
19:35.22TomWback in the dark ages, I had a CP/M  (Z80) computer, and when I went to test any C program that I wrote, I would first open the door on the floppy drive.  It seems that the floppy drive registers were memory mapped into RAM space and when the program would explode it would ivariably start writing crap on the floppy.
19:39.17sorphinTomW: i'd be sending it to you once a week
19:40.45TomWmmm, I am looking over the bootp sources.  I have a zImage and need to figure out how to combine the bootp & zImage so I can put it into Flash.
19:42.00sorphinTomW: here's what i did :P
19:42.17sorphinTomW: i got the linux kernel image (that has bootp + zimage + small cramfs)
19:42.25sorphinflashed that, then just replace kernel at will
19:43.07TomWno docs on that bootp
19:43.15sorphinwhat' you're saying sounds like combining lilo and the kernel :P
19:43.20sorphinin other words
19:43.24sorphinwrong idea
19:43.52sorphinheh, not much to it, read the code
19:46.46TomWyeah.  The linux zImage appears to be at $1000:8000, so the bootp is prolly at $1000:0000, that would give the bootp 32K to reside in.
19:51.57TomWaha!  it goes: bootloader at $0000:0000, then romfs at $0000:8000, followed by the linux zImage..
19:52.45TomWsorphin: yeah, reading the code is one thing, buildiing / cat'ing the image(s) is another.
20:04.54sorphinTomW: it's on bigbrd's page
20:05.52TomWI've been staring at his page...
20:06.27sorphinat the top
20:07.26TomWya, saw that, also it is in the bootp.h file.  I need a romfs before I smack together an image to try.
20:07.38sorphinumm
20:07.40sorphinyou have one ;p
20:07.48sorphinif you get that linux kernel image
20:07.55TomWThinking of dd'ing the romfs he has inside the 1meg kernel image on his site.
20:07.59sorphinit has bootp+zimage+cramfs/romfs
20:08.09sorphinyeah
20:08.12sorphinwarning tho
20:08.17sorphinthe busybox in it didn't work for me
20:09.00TomWdid you get that linux.flash.image to boot to a prompt?  All I get from it is a panic.
20:10.16TomWok, I'm gonna do this: change the kernel version in my sources, then tack the zImage I produced onto the bootp + romfs of his linux.flash.image
20:10.20TomWscrew it for now.
20:10.24sorphinhehe
20:10.36TomWI'll get clever later with OBJCOPY
20:20.22CosmicPenguinTomW is getting juggy with OBJCOPY
20:20.30CosmicPenguinoops.. jiggy
20:25.16TomWcool, I have my own kernel running now.  Sheesh!  This stuff is in so many peices!  bootp over there, kernel over there, God only knows where the romfs source is at?  Nothing like a top-level makefile (as in Tux) to pull all the shit together with a simple 'make'.
20:26.40TomWok, I have no clue why they have a romfs inside the flash image and the kernel won't boot into it... dumb!
20:26.48sorphinumm
20:26.50sorphinyes it will
20:26.55TomW? how
20:26.58sorphinyou have to set the param correctly :P
20:27.03TomW:P
20:27.06sorphinroot=/dev/mtdblock
20:27.07sorphin:P
20:27.19TomWok, dd'ing shit again...
20:27.25sorphini searched for a few hours to find htat one out ;p
20:27.33TomW:-/
20:27.46sorphinand the romfs don't even work for me ;p
20:27.51sorphinsame busybox prob i used to have
20:27.55sorphinonce you're in ash
20:27.59sorphinno commands work
20:28.10sorphinas far as the romfs source
20:28.17sorphinit's just a cramfs
20:28.20sorphinand busybox
20:28.22sorphinand a couple scripts
20:28.44sorphinoh, btw, you'll also have to do an init=/linuxrc
20:28.46sorphinprolly
20:29.54TomWsorphin: maybe the best thing to do it to take the Tux tree, tack on the bootp sources (into the objcopy of Makefile), then replace the Tux kernel sources with the WebPal sources and use Erik's stuff to build webpal binaries + busybox???
20:30.48TomWseems like the best approach, Erik's stuff runs (well, most of the time ;)
20:30.51sorphindunno,  i just used a pain in the butt to find arm gcc, etc compiled already
20:31.12sorphinand standard kernel source + RK's path
20:31.16sorphinpatch even
20:31.47sorphinTomW: btw, if you read, bootstrap is 24k
20:32.09TomWthe 2.4.18 stock sources + rmk patch + bigbrd patch creates a bootable kernel (humph, just panics saying it cannot mount root is all).
20:32.50TomWyeah! nothing like 8K for boot parameters, eh?
20:33.50sorphinright
20:33.56sorphinbecause you have to tell it where root is ;p
20:33.58sorphinas i told you
20:41.07TomWya, I got it to a command prompt, but it doesn't know anything except to run the busybox built-ins.
20:41.49TomWapparently, they distro'ed the binary image but it was broken. "why worry, we have the stuff on the IDE".
20:42.05sorphinTomW: i've had this kinda busybox prob before :P
20:42.14TomWAm I being critical? You bet your ass I am!
20:42.34TomWI hate it when people do a half-job.
20:42.36anderseesorphin: busybox problem?
20:42.44TomWandersee: webpal
20:42.53anderseeahh
20:43.12TomWthier binary boots into busybox, but apparently their romfs is crap.
20:43.12sorphinandersee: prolly an old version, like when i was having the same prob
20:43.15filemy only stick of SDRAM is no good
20:43.22filea beautiful 256MB PC133, a free stick... no good
20:43.54anderseefile: ram is only as good as how much you paid for it
20:44.04TomWsorphin: ok, screw it, I am going to patch shit into a good buildroot-tux tree.
20:44.07anderseefile: the cheaper it is, the more broken it is
20:44.20sorphinTomW: nod
20:44.27sorphinTomW: how much does an EMP-30 run?
20:44.32TomWandersee: murphy's Law: you get what you pay for.
20:44.42TomWsorphin: abt $1K
20:44.49sorphinugh
20:45.13anderseefile: try this http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
20:45.31anderseefile: Lets you map out the bad spots
20:46.01anderseefile: patch is also included as part of wolk
20:46.05TomWsorphin: when I sold "mytoys.com" I bought the EMP30.  Had tons of cash at that time.
20:46.37fileandersee: sweet
20:47.13TomWsorphin: also bought a used scopy, some software (Eagle), some computers, then paid myself for a year to learn embedding uClinux
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20:49.52fileandersee: to get Linux onto the machine I'd have to have good RAM... mmm
20:51.10anderseefile: sorry, I'm fresh out of magic wands...  A new shipment is expected next week.
20:51.19fileandersee: shipment of what?
20:51.22fileoh right
20:51.25andersee:)
20:51.38fileI spent most of lastnight trying to install Win2k Pro and Linux
20:51.44fileuntil I finally realized... maybe it's the RAM!
20:52.03anderseefile: I think you are gonna need some extra magic wands for that one
20:52.17fileandersee: I'm swiping a stick from a friend's extra computer :)
20:52.26fileandersee: so I'll install Linux, then patch my kernel for badram support
20:57.28TomWandersee: is there a problem between ARM binaries that I should be aware of?  Sort of link making a 80386 binary and attempting to run it on the 80286 / 8086?
20:57.45TomWandersee: s/link/like/
20:58.40anderseeTomW: if you don't specify -march=<foo> then you should be fine to run on any arm cpu
20:59.06CosmicPenguinandersee: I love those foo processors... :)
20:59.10anderseeTomW: -march=xscale won't run on arm7tdmi
20:59.15anderseeetc etc
20:59.35TomWk, thanks
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21:26.45CosmicPenguinMonMotha6: looks like IPv6 is back up and running for ya?
21:32.21TimRikerhttp://www.cafeshops.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=bzflag.2713552&zoom=yes <- you know you want one.
21:34.17sorphinTimRiker: before i go there
21:34.18sorphindon't tell me
21:34.23sorphinan #elinux shirt? :P
21:34.31fileLOL
21:34.45TimRikernope, BZFlag ;-)
21:35.23sorphinoh brother ;p
21:35.49CosmicPenguinHeh....
21:35.50kergothyou can get pingizauru shirts on cafepress too you know
21:35.58CosmicPenguinDoes cafepress cost anything?
21:36.00kergoth(OpenZaurus/Opie logo, godzilla penguin)
21:36.16sorphinCosmicPenguin: i think they take a percentage
21:36.24CosmicPenguinsorphin: but nothing up front?  Just artwork and a smile?
21:36.29sorphinCosmicPenguin: i KNEW you were gonna say that ;p
21:36.33sorphinpixil shirts
21:37.20TimRikerthe bz prices are at cost. I/we get nothing.
21:37.33CosmicPenguinTimRiker: so you can select how much money you get back?
21:37.42TimRikerbut it does not cost us anything either.
21:38.03TimRikerCosmicPenguin: yes, you are told the cost, and you can add whatever you like.
21:38.09CosmicPenguinSweet....
21:38.40TimRikerit's cool. the prices are not great, but they are reasonable.
21:38.45CosmicPenguinan #elinux shirt would be fun
21:39.10CosmicPenguinI'm thinking a sort of "Last Supper" look, with andersee in the middle
21:39.27sorphinheh
21:39.29kergothTimRiker: fyi, schurig went into some detail with some further ideas on the OE/elinux buildsystem we discussed the other week. check the wiki on openembedded.org
21:39.29TimRikerhehe
21:39.42TimRikerkergoth: will do.
21:40.11TimRikerfun with mrtg: http://list.bzflag.org/
21:51.54MonMotha6CosmicPenguin: yes it is
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