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radiochickenwax	2013-04-15 , 05:29
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Originally Posted by Skry

I'm busy and currently have very little time to put into this, if at all.

Get people involved, I can't handle this currently by myself.

Just some quick thoughts: How can we help? Say we could recompile and package some things like Xserver 1.13... or even less useful packages. How can we get them into a repo? I saw you'd started this git page, but I didn't see many files there.

I'm just running your rootfs from the original on my spare n900 with a broken usb port, trying to test it out. Currently the X crashes/freezes are my biggest problem.

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Skry	2013-04-15 , 14:36
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Originally Posted by radiochickenwax

Just some quick thoughts: How can we help? Say we could recompile and package some things like Xserver 1.13... or even less useful packages. How can we get them into a repo? I saw you'd started this git page, but I didn't see many files there.

You can:
a) make a PKGBUILD and send it to me.
b) once I've setup the github page properly and placed more content in there, do a pull request.
c) request membership to our github organization, if you feel like maintaining something.
d) send me prebuilt packages with an explanation, what and why.

Originally Posted by radiochickenwax

I'm just running your rootfs from the original on my spare n900 with a broken usb port, trying to test it out. Currently the X crashes/freezes are my biggest problem.

I'll try to fix this asap, I need to try out new TI Graphics SDK first, if the driver in there is OK I'll be offering you Xorg 1.12 (driver is compiled for that one). If not, you'll get the 1.13 with the current half working driver.

This might not be the solution most would want, but if TI driver works fine enough I'll go with it. I don't have the skills to fix the current Nokia derived one and no one capable is interested, and at least TI updates theirs four times in a year, already supporting kernels up to 3.8. I'm also pretty f*ing tired dealing with this issue, constantly.

Last edited by Skry; 2013-04-15 at 14:42.

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radiochickenwax	2013-04-15 , 19:10
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Originally Posted by Skry

I need to try out new TI Graphics SDK first, if the driver in there is OK I'll be offering you Xorg 1.12 ... This might not be the solution most would want...

Thanks again! That sounds awesome, any solution is better than nothing. At a glance, the newest stuff doesn't seem to support the 34xx OMAPs. Hopefully I'm wrong about this, since the sgx GPUs are the same?

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index...._Started_Guide

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index....and_user_guide

Originally Posted by Skry

You can: a) b) c) d)

Okay, I'll try. I'm also short on skills, time, etc but I'd really like this project to work. I can donate some time to build and test -run packages, but not much more at the moment unfortunately. Wish I (or somebody else) could do more to help balance your work load.

I've been trying to test out Android, Debian, and Ubuntu for various reasons too. I'm not sure what would need to be done in order to boot their kernels with Arch yet, or if that would solve anything. Hopefully sometime this week I can try this.

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Skry	2013-04-15 , 22:34
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Just a quick update, SGX up and running with TI drm driver.

Code:

(II) pvr(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
(II) pvr(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: pvr
(II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
(II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
(II)         Solid
(II)         Copy
(II)         Composite (RENDER acceleration)
(II)         UploadToScreen
(==) pvr(0): Backing store disabled
(==) pvr(0): Silken mouse enabled
(==) pvr(0): DPMS enabled
(==) pvr(0): Direct rendering enabled

and the obligatory:

Code:

[skry@n900 ~]$ export COGL_DRIVER=gles2
[skry@n900 ~]$ DISPLAY=:0 /usr/share/cogl/examples/cogl-gles2-gears
vertex shader info: Success.
fragment shader info: Success.
info: 
1183 frames in 5.0 seconds = 236.557 FPS
1186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 237.076 FPS
1186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 237.009 FPS

Got a few crashes with chromium when pages got complex enough. Otherwise, based on a very quick testing: looks promising.

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Skry	2013-04-16 , 20:32
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Possible fix for Xorg 1.14 has just been applied to Arch Linux ARM packaging. Now, let's wait it to hit the repos to see if we have a fix. Meanwhile, I'll continue playing around with the TI stuff.

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Android_808	2013-04-16 , 22:14
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re: libhybis
my understanding was it let you use android drivers which usually require bionic to run on glibc systems instead. the demo has it running on mer.

as you have it working now it doesn't matter anyway.

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goodgod261	2013-04-17 , 15:09
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Tested last update with

Code:

while true; do dmesg; done

in LXTerminal. With previous version it crashed X within 5 seconds. Now it works like a charm!

Actually, just in case I gave it more vram, but I think it would work without it.

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Skry	2013-04-17 , 15:10
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I just briefly tested too, works fine with xf86-video-fbdev.

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caveman	2013-04-17 , 16:41
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there also comes a weston upgrade with fbdev support :-)

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PWN900	2013-04-20 , 14:03
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Hello all. I am currently trying to compile kali linux to the n900. unfortunately their is no documentation on this matter. I am looking for pointers, advice, and would take a facepalm at this point. I would like to use the Arch install template here only applying the kali armel/hf. Any help or direction on the matter would be great!