[IMAGE] A13(-WIFI) Debian (now Ubuntu) + xfce flashable (Updated: 08 Mar: R18)

[jwischka]

R15; assaultcube now renders and doesnt crash! not playable but a good test, so something changed for the better.

Youtube?

[drspastic]

nah, it plays music if the video is static ie photo of album cover, and then only if i dont use the mouse!

anyone else reading this get youtube to stream ok?

[jwischka]

nah, it plays music if the video is static ie photo of album cover, and then only if i dont use the mouse!

anyone else reading this get youtube to stream ok?

Can you run top while you're trying to play to see if it's a memory or CPU issue (or likely both).

[mike1968]

youtube is unwatchable, and i know that with my bottom of the pile 500mhz android phone plays it smooth and my now rather dated samsung omnia 1 can pump decent video into the telly with a Marvell PXA312.

is it the linux overhead thats dragging the a13 performance down? i know nothing about gpu's so what part of the chain is NOT getting the apparently rather swift mali400 to do its stuff? is it the module that drives it? or does it need propriety drivers to function above basic usage like the nvidia stuff one has to stick onto an i86 system to make the graphics card do any fun stuff.

Ok... I haven't hooked this up to a monitor yet (don't have a VGA one handy), but can you try manually loading the Mali driver (which, being compiled as a module, isn't automatically loaded - something I can fix, probably)?

from a command prompt:

sudo modprobe mali

Does that seem to make any difference?

EDIT:

Also CEDAR?

sudo modprobe sun5i_cedar

olinuxino@debian:~$ sudo modprobe mali
olinuxino@debian:~$ sudo modprobe CEDAR
FATAL: Module CEDAR not found.
olinuxino@debian:~$

Won't have to do that (and can't do that) now that they are built in. The modules don't exist anymore.

Hello,

Iam using r11 and it works well for me.

But i could not load "usbserial" modul

Please help

Best regards michael

Does USB-serial not work? In other words, it may be compiled into the kernel itself, and you may not need to load it.

Also, do you see the same behavior on R15?

R15 same probleme
I use a pl2303 usb to serial adapter.
With lsusb it is detected as bus 002 device 005, but there is no /dev/ttyUSBx

[jwischka]

R15 same probleme
I use a pl2303 usb to serial adapter.
With lsusb it is detected as bus 002 device 005, but there is no /dev/ttyUSBx

Going to require a new kernel. Building now and will upload in a bit. I'm trying to get by with generic drivers, rather than having to build about 400 modules, but if it doesn't work, we can go the other way too.

[jwischka]

R15 same probleme
I use a pl2303 usb to serial adapter.
With lsusb it is detected as bus 002 device 005, but there is no /dev/ttyUSBx

Going to require a new kernel. Building now and will upload in a bit. I'm trying to get by with generic drivers, rather than having to build about 400 modules, but if it doesn't work, we can go the other way too.

R16 kernels are up. Try them and see if they work for your USB->serial issues.

R16 Headless
R16 Video

[drspastic]

nah, it plays music if the video is static ie photo of album cover, and then only if i dont use the mouse!

anyone else reading this get youtube to stream ok?

Can you run top while you're trying to play to see if it's a memory or CPU issue (or likely both).

cpu is about 95% eaten by gtk-gnash with the remainder taken by xorg mostly. i think she just runs out of steam. maybe i shouls try xvesa?

[jwischka]

nah, it plays music if the video is static ie photo of album cover, and then only if i dont use the mouse!

anyone else reading this get youtube to stream ok?

Can you run top while you're trying to play to see if it's a memory or CPU issue (or likely both).

cpu is about 95% eaten by gtk-gnash with the remainder taken by xorg mostly. i think she just runs out of steam. maybe i shouls try xvesa?

Couldn't hurt. Might try using a lighter weight browser and see if that helps too...

[drspastic]

im going away for a few days, when im back i will try compile your R16 for myself then start again with a basic filesystem like the old debian No-x and build it back up.

would there be any problems you can see with using the first partition as-is R16 and very minimal filesystem in #2 with a script to switch root to filesystem on an external 60Gb usb drive?

that would give me more space to compile stuff in and no problems with wear but im not sure on the data throughput of 480M/s usb2 against that of the micro sd HC card.
even if its slower i can still leave it to compile stuff overnight.

all the best and thanks for all the hard work

[jwischka]

im going away for a few days, when im back i will try compile your R16 for myself then start again with a basic filesystem like the old debian No-x and build it back up.

would there be any problems you can see with using the first partition as-is R16 and very minimal filesystem in #2 with a script to switch root to filesystem on an external 60Gb usb drive?

that would give me more space to compile stuff in and no problems with wear but im not sure on the data throughput of 480M/s usb2 against that of the micro sd HC card.
even if its slower i can still leave it to compile stuff overnight.

all the best and thanks for all the hard work

Shouldn't be any problem. The throughput over the USB bus would actually be roughly equivalent to my UHS-I card, I think - I see about 30MB/s on reads, about 10-20MB/s on writes (sequential, of course).

You might need to make sure there's support in the kernel for external usb HDs ,but I think there is - just haven't tested it.

[drspastic]

i just plugged it in and it automounts ok...my dodgy edit worked but not unmounting very well. should add sync i think i set it up async 

it currently has a tweaked version of puppy lucid live on it for i86 but thats in a squash filesystem so dumping a rootfs for a13 wont clash at all.

[mike1968]

R15 same probleme
I use a pl2303 usb to serial adapter.
With lsusb it is detected as bus 002 device 005, but there is no /dev/ttyUSBx

Going to require a new kernel. Building now and will upload in a bit. I'm trying to get by with generic drivers, rather than having to build about 400 modules, but if it doesn't work, we can go the other way too.

R16 kernels are up. Try them and see if they work for your USB->serial issues.

R16 Headless
R16 Video

Jwischka thank you for the kernel.... but sorry...didn`t work

Still no   /dev/ttyUSBx
What did i wrong???

Best regards
Michael

[jwischka]

Not sure. Can you send me a (product) link to what you're trying to use?

R15 same probleme
I use a pl2303 usb to serial adapter.
With lsusb it is detected as bus 002 device 005, but there is no /dev/ttyUSBx

Going to require a new kernel. Building now and will upload in a bit. I'm trying to get by with generic drivers, rather than having to build about 400 modules, but if it doesn't work, we can go the other way too.

R16 kernels are up. Try them and see if they work for your USB->serial issues.

R16 Headless
R16 Video

Jwischka thank you for the kernel.... but sorry...didn`t work

Still no   /dev/ttyUSBx
What did i wrong???

Best regards
Michael

[mike1968]

Not sure. Can you send me a (product) link to what you're trying to use?

R15 same probleme
I use a pl2303 usb to serial adapter.
With lsusb it is detected as bus 002 device 005, but there is no /dev/ttyUSBx

Going to require a new kernel. Building now and will upload in a bit. I'm trying to get by with generic drivers, rather than having to build about 400 modules, but if it doesn't work, we can go the other way too.

R16 kernels are up. Try them and see if they work for your USB->serial issues.

R16 Headless
R16 Video

Jwischka thank you for the kernel.... but sorry...didn`t work

Still no   /dev/ttyUSBx
What did i wrong???

Best regards
Michael

It is a usb->seial adapterlike this:
http://www.exp-tech.de/Zubehoer/USB-SERIAL-CABLE-F.html
It works perfect with my raspberrypi
Best regards

[jwischka]

What are you trying to connect to?

Not sure. Can you send me a (product) link to what you're trying to use?

R15 same probleme
I use a pl2303 usb to serial adapter.
With lsusb it is detected as bus 002 device 005, but there is no /dev/ttyUSBx

Going to require a new kernel. Building now and will upload in a bit. I'm trying to get by with generic drivers, rather than having to build about 400 modules, but if it doesn't work, we can go the other way too.

R16 kernels are up. Try them and see if they work for your USB->serial issues.

R16 Headless
R16 Video

Jwischka thank you for the kernel.... but sorry...didn`t work

Still no   /dev/ttyUSBx
What did i wrong???

Best regards
Michael

It is a usb->seial adapterlike this:
http://www.exp-tech.de/Zubehoer/USB-SERIAL-CABLE-F.html
It works perfect with my raspberrypi
Best regards