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01:40.51SPGKiam_Peng master a65cb74 rhombus allwinner_a10/orders/jipi.mdwn * http://git.hands.com/?p=rhombus.git;a=commitdiff;h=a65cb74
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09:19.51richoHeya. I bought an arm netbook off of alibaba, it's got an a10 chipset which seems reasoanbly well supported by sunxi. Multiple sources suggest it should boot from SD, but that's not been my experience
09:20.11rmricho, interesting; I guess not many people have those
09:20.14rmaround here
09:20.32rmricho, when you insert the SD card and reboot, does it not boot at all, or just boot into Android?
09:20.37richoBasically, what should I be doing to help chase this down. I've got root inside the preinstalled android, but it can't mount he SD card
09:20.40richoit just boots into android
09:20.55rmwhich SD card images did you try?
09:21.13richowould you recognise them from the filenames? the links are in my tab swarm
09:21.17richofrom googling so many variations
09:21.23rmmaybe
09:21.30richoa10-debian-server-2gb.2013-04-11.img
09:21.35richoa10_base-1.3.img
09:21.38rmyeah that's mine
09:21.41rm1st one
09:21.48richoAh ok. Well, thanks!
09:22.07rmso you can't mount the SD card even when in Android?
09:22.25richoNope, although that seems to be because it can't read the partition table
09:22.27rmmaybe the reader slot is defective?
09:22.34richoif I read up on my mount-fu and manually give it the offset it'll work
09:22.39rmhum
09:22.48richoHrm. I'll format the card exfat and see if I can copy some stuff over.
09:23.24richoWait, will it not work with low class cards?
09:23.36richoI couldn't get anything good at short notice, so I grabbed a class 4 because it was better than nothing
09:23.47richobut I've got some class 10's at home
09:24.45rmshould be no problem
09:25.12rmtry   " dd if=/dev/sdcard bs=1M count=16 | md5sum "
09:25.22rmand compare the outputs on your desktop PC and on the netbook
09:25.30richoGood call
09:25.30rmif you even have "dd" and "md5sum" there in Android :/
09:25.33richoI wonder if it has a dd binary
09:25.46richohaha, yeah. I may have to do a hilarious exfat dance to build out a userland
09:25.54rmfrom what you say it looks like your netbook can't read the very first sectors of an SD card
09:26.12rmthe bootloader is there; also the partition table is there
09:26.48richoyeah, I tested the img in a VM (I'm doing this on a mac >.<
09:26.53richoand the image looks fine
09:27.25rmmaybe your VM doesn't write to an SDcard properly...
09:27.33richoi did the dd on the mac
09:27.41richowhich does work, I've written rasp pi images before
09:27.46richoI have dd but not md5*
09:27.54richolet's hope xxd, failing that I have vim
09:33.11richook, so without any obvious way of doing checksums
09:33.25richoI'm eyeballing the data's representation in vim for the bits that have printable characters
09:33.43richoit looks about right.. so I guess the netbook can read from the start of the card... wait
09:34.33richoI read from mmcblk0p1 on the netbook and the start of the image on the mac
09:34.42richoI'll check that p1 is actually the start of the disk
09:42.27richoyeah, by my ghetto eyeball they're the same
09:42.42richoI'll see about getting an actual md5 or shasum binary onto the machine
09:43.14rmyou should look at mmcblk0
09:43.16rmnot p1
09:43.25rmbecause p1 is already the first partition
09:43.32rmand the bootloader is placed before it
09:45.18richoIt seems that the image starts in p1
09:45.25richoI'll double check I didn't....
09:45.26richoOh god
09:45.29richoI just realised what I did
09:45.38richoUrgh. sorry dude
09:46.50richoI'll try this again without noobery and see what happens :)
09:47.10richoOut of curiosity, should I be expecting this to start X or show anything on the screen, or do I need to sort out some network gear?
09:47.32rmwith <richo> a10-debian-server-2gb.2013-04-11.img  <- it won't show anything on screen
09:47.45rmit will start a DHCP client on wired ethernet, the netbook has it, no?
09:47.52richoYup, it does.
09:48.04richoI think I saw the ssh uname/pw somewhere
09:48.07richoThanks :)
10:03.18richorm: I have a blank screen, which I presume means it's doing something. Thanks for your help!
10:03.39richoDoes the image have xinit/startx and does it try to start a tty? I'm feeling lucky enough to attempt to shift by feel
10:06.35rmno, the kernel in the a10-debian-server has no support for any graphics
10:06.58rmto use the RAM that would be otherwise reserved for it
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11:50.14richohello again
11:50.52richoHow would I determine absolutely which platform this netbook is (cubieboard, mk802II etc) from inside android? (Can I?)
11:52.18Triffid_Hunterricho: not sure you can.. might be possible to evaluate the peripherals and check against a known list
11:52.42richoI don't suppose you'd know of a good known list? (Sorry, I've been at this exactly 4 hours)
11:53.20Triffid_Hunternope, never looked
11:54.14richoThanks anyway, I'll see what I can find
12:05.32L84Supperricho:   one like this?  http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/04/16/sunlike-umpc-1021-85-usd-allwinner-a10-based-10-2-android-4-0-netbook/
12:05.43richohttp://www.rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=296
12:05.48richoIt's exactly the one in this video
12:07.18L84Supperwe got one last year, pretty awful design
12:07.32richoL84Supper: I think so. The video on that page is refusing to play :/
12:07.52L84Supperyou have to try a few times to get it to play
12:08.13richoWorks in chrome, yeah it's that one
12:08.23L84Supperit's a common enclosure that some oem's use for really cheap arm netbooks
12:08.48richoMine seems to be a little higher specced (1.5ghz)
12:09.11L84Supperif it's a10 it's 1GHz
12:09.47richoHrm, you're right
12:09.57richoMy bad
12:10.26L84Supperthe trackpad is really bad
12:10.29richoyeah it is
12:10.44richobut, it was dirt cheap and basically disposable
12:10.56richodo you know if there's open source work to get the display working on this hardware?
12:10.59L84Supperfor $5 more in materials it could be much better
12:11.05richoI was basically hoping to have something to dick with on the train
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12:11.39L84Supperdisplay working? what's not working?
12:12.13richoWell, I want to wedge linux onto it
12:13.01richoI tried rm's a10-server image, but it didn't light up the nic, so I guess there's no support for the ethernet interface
12:13.36L84Supperhttp://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page
12:14.50richoI've beenthrough most of that already. Should I be building a kernel from the sunxi sources and installing it into an existing usreland?
12:14.56richoI'm not really sure where to start with this, honestly.
12:15.37L84Supper#cubieboard is where most have gone to with know-how on the a10
12:16.01L84Supperthis has become a faith based channel  :)
12:16.10richoAha, thankyou anyway
12:16.12richoI'll try there
12:19.57buZzHALLELUJA!!
12:20.09buZzlets preach the gospel of ARM based hardware
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17:48.04slapin_nbHi, all!
17:48.06slapin_nbfinally, traced it all in Kicad: https://raw.github.com/slapin/a13board/master/png/pcb.png hope, no fatal errors
17:48.10slapin_nbwaits for suggestions
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18:11.56Marexanyone has any idea about CWM on rk3066-based device ?
18:12.02MarexI won a tablet (well ... "tablet" )
18:12.18Marexthe android that's placed on that device is really crap :(
18:24.44eebrahMarex: Is it rooted?
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18:27.26Marexeebrah: I have no idea
18:27.29Marexeebrah: how can I check
18:28.18Marexeebrah: it's stock ... sencor element 8v3 AFAICT
18:34.17slapin_nbMarex: try running su on it
18:34.44slapin_nbMarex: or check for busybox presence
18:36.27Marexnot there
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18:54.27slapin_nbMarex: then not rooted, try different flash image
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19:01.40eebrahhey Marex:
19:02.02eebrahSorry about that, was distracted....
19:02.47eebrahThere are tools for rooting Rockchip devices
19:09.19eebrahyour best bet may be searching on slatedroid for instructions
19:09.20Marexeebrah: oh ?
19:09.24Marexokay, thanks
19:09.34Marexand once I'm rooted, then what ?
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19:10.16eebrahIf you do not like the ROM you are using the rooting won't really help
19:10.55eebrahmaybe try some custom ROMS like rockcreamSandwich or CyanogenMod for rockchip?
19:11.29eebrahyou need a windows tool [ RKTools.exe ] for flashing a ROM onto the tablet/miniPC
19:11.50eebrahthe guys at slatedroid usually have links to something recent
19:15.39wumpusat least for flashing rk2918 there's also a linux tool
19:17.31eebrahdevelopment on RK3066 seems to have slowed down .... alot
19:17.53eebrahthe linux port [ picuntu ] hasn't seen progress in a while
19:18.15eebrahthe CM and Rockcreamsandwich ROMS i'm getting are months old
19:18.41eebrahI ended up going back to the manufacturer's ROM when they came out with an update
19:19.30eebrahtoo bad though .... The processor is snappy! Would have loved to run desktop Linux here
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19:23.11slapin_nblkcl: hi
19:23.16slapin_nblkcl: ^
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19:42.31Marexeebrah: the processor is crap
19:42.51Marexeebrah: I won't mind rebuilding the CM10 from chris troy for that, but where do I get kernel sources ?
19:43.05Marexeebrah: how/where do I pull all that stuff from ?
19:43.11Marexeebrah: can I pull it from the device ?
19:45.02slapin_nbMarex: some time ago they released source for that processor, no? and how you identify what crap and what is not? All hardware is crap these days...
19:45.55Marexslapin_nb: you just answered your own question ... but (!) the hardware we make is not crap ;-)
19:46.59slapin_nbMarex: you need to grow through it
19:48.30slapin_nbMarex: all is futile, all is dust
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19:59.54eebrahMarex:
20:00.15eebrahI don't think Rockchip ever officially released their kernel sources
20:00.34eebrahbut some spanish tablet manufacturer that uses the RK3066 did
20:01.06eebrahnever thoroughly followed it up
20:02.04eebrahMarex: Coming from an Allwinner A10, the Rockchip RK3066 was just .... snappy!
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20:47.29Marextinti: hi ? :)
20:47.44Marextinti: I have openGL acceleration on 4.1.1 on MX53 %^)
20:48.24Marexslapin_nb: I'm growing through it ... am in ur kernelz, eatin' ur 'lectronz :D
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21:07.31tintiMarex:seriously?
21:07.47tintiMarex: so nice. Quite impresive too!
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21:15.09Marextinti: yes, but I'll work on it some more until I release this
21:17.19tintiMarex: congrats!!!
21:17.33tintiit was needed to change many things?
21:28.18Marextinti: yes
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