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11:01.25florianhello!
11:05.33cmarquHi florian
11:06.00cmarquflorian: Did you find out about that touchscreen problem you had? I seem to get it too.
11:06.18cmarqugpe-login comes up sideways, ts doesn't react.
11:09.06floriancmarqu: which kernel do you run? i installed -hh9 from 2.4.19 feed, this seems to fix the ts problems.
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11:10.26florianmallum: hi mallum!
11:10.32cmarquflorian: This is hh9 as well. I got pre8 and upgraded to unstable. Reboot -> problem.
11:10.51mallumflorian: hello sir
11:11.11cmarquMaybe I should reflash again and pull in new stuff one by one.
11:11.13cmarquHi mallum
11:11.46mallumhey cmarqu
11:11.56floriancmarqu: very strange... maybe a hardware specific issue, which model do you have?
11:12.01cmarquAh, hmm, the new ipkg now pulls even more packages.
11:12.07cmarquflorian: 3635
11:12.09florianmallum: sir?!?! ;-)
11:12.32cmarquAh, it's getting a new kernel: hh9-2
11:14.42floriancmarqu: i could try what happens on other 36xx, there are two 36xx at kc i could reflash :-)
11:15.18cmarqudepmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk6-pxa1-hh9/pcmcia/prism2_cs.o
11:15.20cmarqudepmod: register_pccard_driver
11:15.23cmarquArgh.
11:15.26cmarqudepmod: unregister_pccard_driver
11:15.28cmarqudepmod: CardServices
11:15.57cmarquflorian: Well, let me reboot first and see if the new kernel is okay.
11:16.17floriancmarqu: yep
11:17.37cmarquflorian: Ah, it's fixed now woth the new kernel. Good.
11:19.15florianah, great!
11:19.19PaxAnimamorning
11:19.29florianPaxAnima: helloo
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11:20.03PaxAnimahelloo, florian
11:21.04cmarquCool, I have an ogg player in iPAQ format again.
11:21.11cmarquHi PaxAnima
11:21.19PaxAnimahi, cmarqu.. what ogg player?
11:21.27cmarquPaxAnima: gpe-nmf :)
11:21.49PaxAnimaah ;)
11:21.58cianDo you know how easy/hard it ease to use gstreamer modules with gpe-nmf?
11:24.29cmarqucian: I would hope that if you install another gstreamer module, it registers correctly with  gstreamer, and then gpe-nmf would just be using it.
11:25.10cmarquIt might be a problem to input a URL, if you are thinking about audio streaming or some such.
11:31.32cianYeah that was my hope
11:31.44cianWanted to start messing around with various forms of streaming
11:32.28cianwhy the URL trickyness though?
11:36.41cmarquWell, it just has a file selector dialog for now.
11:36.56cmarquIt could well be extended.
11:38.33floriani just created a new gpe-conf ipk, but i can't test it :-(
11:39.03cmarquWhy?
11:39.09cmarquWant me to try it?
11:40.58florianmy package management is completely broken... i think i'll reflash my ipaq now
11:41.40drknessflorian: kinda face the same problems wondering if ipkg has some issues
11:42.35floriandrkness: it has, i think some are fixed now, but i did many tests with ipkg here...
11:43.27floriancmarqu: http://handhelds.org/~florian/gpe-conf2_0.0.9-4_arm.ipk
11:48.08cmarquflorian: Seems to work. I'm  just looking at the new card config.
11:48.15cianyeah ipkg just started seg faulting on me :(
11:48.57cianproblems go away when I remove the base file from /usr/lib/ipkg/lists
11:48.59floriancmarqu: yep, this is the most intresting part - especially that i could have missed to add some necessary icons
11:49.15cmarquflorian: No, they seem to be there.
11:51.05floriancmarqu: very good... btw. time setup should now only allow "get time from network" if there is a network up at all :-)
11:51.57cmarquflorian: Hmm, that crashed on me. Might have been the OOM killer though.
11:52.43cmarquflorian: BTW, do you have that "pick driver" feature in that package?
11:53.13floriancmarqu: eh.. this is not good :-/
11:53.20floriancmarqu: yep :-)
11:54.58cmarquIt probably was OOM, gotta reboot.
11:57.16cmarquflorian: Does it write a /etc/pcmcia/foo.conf file?
12:03.20floriancmarqu: no, imaybe in future, but at the moment i change config
12:04.52cmarquflorian: The picking works, but the icon doesn't update.
12:06.16floriancmarqu: with what kind of card did you try? maybe there is no icon for that type...
12:07.44florianhow is the bootloader reflash tool used?
12:21.08cmarquflorian: http://handhelds.org/scap/port.20665.png
12:21.40cmarquDid you figure out the reflashing?
12:22.50florianno, not really... i don't know what it needs on the cf card and not how flashing is triggered
12:24.09florianthis really seems to be a bug
12:24.32cmarquflorian: http://handhelds.org/~pb/install-cf.html
12:24.49cmarquhttp://handhelds.org/~pb/README.reflash
12:26.12florianahhh, thanks
12:30.56florianwee... this is cool!
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12:41.27dan_thello
12:43.12floriandan_t: hello
12:46.49cmarquflorian: BTW: http://handhelds.org/scap/port.18191.png
12:47.38BBroxAm I the only one to find the keyboard the most ugly UI part of the screenshot ?
12:47.53spungquite
12:48.08cmarquBBrox: Yeah, it somehow changed fonts a while ago..
12:48.13cmarquGotta ask mallum
12:48.50spungflorian: we need a gpe-conf app to select xkbd color, font, button shape, etc.. :)
12:49.11cmarquflorian: I would also swap the dialog widgets. Card Id on top, driver selection below
12:49.58florianspung: afaik is this part of the keyboard definition files, or not?
12:50.25floriancmarqu: i'l look at it... just a few minutes
12:50.27florianbrb
12:50.44spungflorian: it is, you should try to convince mallum and split layout and preferences in the config file :)
12:50.49cmarquflorian: mallum could probably read it from a config file. He wants to work on xkbd soon AFAIK.
12:50.51spungflorian: i tried
13:13.38drknessbeaking news: J2ME ported to iPAQ
13:14.10drknessworks pretty much the same as desktopn...
13:14.23drknesshave to test the AWT features yet
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13:14.52PaxAnimaugh.. java?
13:15.02drknessPaxAnima: yup
13:15.12drknessJ2ME = jave for mobile devices
13:15.45drknesswell PaxAnima don't worry it still needs c++ coders ;)
13:15.48PaxAnimaI know.. have it on my mobile phone... slow as hell (but it's java, so I'm not shocked)
13:16.19drknessPaxAnima: from what I'm seeing on my 3900 its cool
13:16.25drknessneed to run the other tests
13:16.35cmarqunils said that there is quite some commercial interest to have it with Linux on mobile devices
13:16.41drknessPaxAnima: whats your mobile phone?
13:16.47PaxAnimadrkness: Siemens S55
13:17.00drknessPaxAnima: slow processor...
13:17.11PaxAnimawith "slow" I mean response time...
13:17.21PaxAnimatakes ages to load
13:17.39drknessreally thats very strange
13:18.10drknessthe responsiveness I have on iPAQ is very comparable to desktop maybe the GUI functions are slow will check
13:18.18PaxAnimaok
13:19.27cmarqudrkness: do you (personally) do embedded stuff at Sun?
13:20.03PaxAnimaI'm not a big fan of java... think I got fed up several years ago when I found it to be _very_ slow... but I guess (hope) it has changed since then...
13:20.08drknesscmarqu: no actually far from it but well I've always liked embedded stuff
13:20.25cmarqudrkness: Ah, okay.
13:20.57drknessPaxAnima: you should want to check out the new JDKs pretty fast... but yes you're right
13:22.14PaxAnimamaybe..
13:23.53PaxAnimathe good thing about java, though, is that it's very easy... and mostly due to its extremly good documentation.... unlike, say, gtk+ ;)
13:24.42drknessfor an OO language well my personal opinion somtimes c++ looks like a hack
13:24.54BBroxWell, I never had much problem doing stuff with GTK+....
13:25.26BBroxThe reference docs are maybe a bit obscure but they are good. It's the tutorials that are lacking :-)
13:26.03PaxAnimaBBrox: haven't had too much problem either, but the docs isn't much helpfull (most of the time) when I wonder about something
13:26.06drknessI've always relied on glade to do the stuff for me... I donno what I would've done without it
13:27.18PaxAnimanever tried glade
13:27.28cmarquUntil I discovered devhelp, I could never find the right function. I knew parts of the function name, but not the right order, or missed parts of it.
13:27.40PaxAnimadevhelp?
13:27.46drknessdevhelp??
13:27.51cmarquYes. Google for it.
13:28.15cmarquHallski|away would know much about it :)
13:28.22florianre
13:29.01PaxAnimacmarqu: found it... looks very usefull
13:29.14drknesshmmmn....
13:29.18drknesssounds good
13:29.49drknessthe screenshots are too good to be true
13:30.11cmarquUnfortunately, Debian is still stuck with the GTK1 version.
13:30.13florianAnjuta is an IDE using devhelp... works quite good too :-)
13:30.20PaxAnimaremind me of msdn
13:31.05floriandrkness: do you have me a link to this jme port?! this sound interesting.
13:31.46drknessflorian: need to get the graphics working yet some libraries aren't getting loaded... however simple 'hello world!' and net connection programs works
13:31.57cmarqudevhelp also has emacs support which is all that counts :)
13:32.15drknessand it takes up ~5Mb of space libraries et al
13:33.03drknesswill let you know when its done.. but I need permission to publish it (the legal matters need to be sorted)
13:40.25floriandrkness: yep, would be really cool - this is something may people asked about.
13:40.44PaxAnimacmarqu: devhelp even had vim support ;)
13:40.51drknessflorian: yup
13:41.57PaxAnima_has_ vim support, that is
14:01.11cmarquflorian: ~ # gpe-conf time
14:01.11cmarquSegmentation fault
14:03.49floriancmarqu: oops...
14:03.52cmarquflorian: strace tells me that there is a call like that before it crashes:
14:03.54cmarqutime(NULL)                              = 1049557580
14:07.43florianand i found a bug in current familiar image
14:13.30florianthe presence of wlan-ng.conf breaks support foe some wlan cards
14:15.05cmarquBBL
14:16.31floriancmarqu: i think i found the problem with gpe-conf time, is a misuse of the time call;
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14:29.51florian/mnt/ramfs/tmp # ipkg install gpe-conf2_0.0.9-4_arm.ipk
14:29.51florianERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for gpe-conf2:
14:29.51florian<PROTECTED>
14:29.57florian:-(
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14:33.54florianpaul_: hi!
14:34.01paul_hi florian
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14:34.55florianpb__: hello..
14:35.08pb__florian: afternoon
14:36.06florianpb__: one bug in the new image: remove /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf
14:37.57floriansomething is very strange... gpe-conf behaves like having two different versions installed!
14:42.13floriannew card config, but old starage info...
14:45.53florianough no! ipkg installed the wrong kernel binary package! :-(
14:57.17pb__florian: argh!
14:58.37florianpb__: just did following: flash current image, added unstable+2.4.19 feed, ipkg update, ipkg upgrade
14:59.09florianthen i saw it didn't update the kernel package, ipkg install kernel...
15:04.07florianis there a single package containing all relevant modules for a specific kernel?
15:05.10pb__no, the modules are all split up in numerous packages.
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15:11.55ciananyone here split their root filesystem across ipaq memory and microdrive, or even all on the microdrive?
15:14.44florianyou should be able to boot from a microdrive... maybe look at these dualboot howtos
15:15.51ciansorry, a bit new to this, are they on handhelds.org?
15:17.37florianyes, i think at least one, i think there is a wiki too. but i'm not shure where exaxtly
15:20.29pb__ibot, dual boot?
15:20.30extra, extra, read all about it, dual boot is two operating systems on one computer, each contained on their own partition, see http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/BootingLinuxFromCF or http://linux.blacknet.de/ipaq/
15:21.23floriani like this guy ;-)
15:25.51florianwhere is that asic module in?
15:26.56cianibot, weather
15:27.08cianoh well :)
15:27.31florianmaybe so:
15:27.36florianibot, weather?
15:27.37extra, extra, read all about it, weather is pretty
15:28.05florianwell... more or less
15:28.09PaxAnimaibot: not it's not! it's snowing...
15:28.09PaxAnima: bugger all, i dunno
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15:44.35pb__:-/
15:49.16floriancu
17:00.30pb__ibot, seen asuffield?
17:00.30i haven't seen 'asuffield', pb__
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17:43.57dneuerhi all
17:44.58PaxAnimahi, dneuer
17:53.27pb__hi dave
17:56.01dneuerhey pb__
17:56.12dneuerhow goes the HDC?
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18:10.59PaxAnimahey, mallum
18:11.20mallumhey PaxAnima
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19:16.48dneuerhey all
19:23.37pb__hi dneuer
19:24.11dneuerpb__: hey
19:25.57dneuerhow's the conference going?
19:26.17pb__going good.  Bdale is just talking about his amateur satallite stuff.
19:28.20dneuercool
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22:36.35mallumpaul: ping
22:36.44paulhi mallum
22:36.48paulmallum: pong
22:37.48mallumhey paul
22:37.59paulhow are things?
22:38.15mallumpaul: did you mention the other day you'd been experimenting nice-ing the X server ?
22:38.20paulyes
22:38.27mallumpaul: yeah good good, just has a fantastic meal
22:38.48paulhave to carry out a test on a colleague really to have any hope of convincing jim.
22:38.57mallumpaul: nice -10 definetly seems to make a difference for me, and I noticed that debian -10's the X server by defualt aswell
22:39.11paulyeah, i notice a definite difference.
22:39.31paulall we need to do really is root jg's machine, renice his X server and ask him if he noticed a difference later.
22:39.45mallumpaul: and this would explain why I've always thought the schuedular in tinyX was different to my laptops
22:40.31paulmallum: i've been doing that on my desktops for quite a while. plus 2.5 recently got a hack to give apps with certain kinds of behaviour (ie X) a  scheduling bonus.
22:40.40paulmallum: :)
22:40.48paulmallum: its just the linux scheduler really.
22:40.56mallumpaul: yeah I was reading about that a while back on kerneltrap
22:41.57mallumpaul: one sec I can run a quick basic benchmark on my c700
22:42.13paulmallum: X cant do much if linux wont run it really.. :(
22:42.33paulmallum: benchmarks mightnt show it - its more a latency really.
22:42.44mallumyeah
22:43.06paulmallum: basically i think it might be an idea to do the same thing in familiar in /etc/X11/Xserver.
22:43.12paulmallum: just need to convince jg
22:44.47mallumpaul: roughly I get a 5-10% speed increase in xengine
22:44.54paulaha
22:45.08mallumand thats non interactive
22:45.25mallumit just paints an animation of an engine and gives you the fps
22:45.35paulmallum: try running an app in the background somewhere (non X) that takes up cycles. that should really show it.
22:46.37mallumpaul: did jg give any reasons for not doing it ?
22:47.24paulmallum: no. but he isnt against it per se. he just wants the proof first, the 'due diligence' neccessary to show it is a valid change.
22:47.49paulhis suggestion was a double blind test (or some test along those lines).
22:49.32paulmallum: however, if benchmarks can show empirically that, at least, throughput is improved. then perhaps he'd be amienable to the change even without the other test.
23:05.11mallumpaul: btw does familiar have nice or just renice ?
23:05.22mallum( sorry no ipaq working close to me at the moment )
23:07.18pauli'm presuming that script is part of familiar?? (or is familiar just a 'virtual' dist and the reality is that gpe and opie are the 'real' dists? i note the familiar cvs module doesnt have much in it and that the Xservers script sits in the gpe cvs module :) )
23:08.34mallumwell busybox comes with just renice and not nice, so I guess fam would prolly only have renice
23:08.47paulah.
23:08.51__moraypaul: while there's been the intention to force source upgrades for familiar packages, it's never happend
23:08.59pauleek. no nice.
23:09.05__moraypaul: you mostly have to email the package maintainer etc.
23:09.41paulyeah..
23:10.12paulmoray: familiar isnt a dist in its own right really, is it? its the sum of opie/gpe packages that are not gpe/opie specific?
23:10.23paulmallum: we'll need nice.
23:10.30paulmallum: can busybox provide it?
23:11.44mallumpaul: well you can do it ok with renice - renice -10 $(pidof X)
23:12.17paulguess so.
23:12.35paulso just add that to the bottom of /etc/X11/Xserver
23:12.59mallumyeah

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