irclog2html for #elinux on 20041115

00:10.55prpplaguesarahemm^SA^: hehe, a bunch
00:11.12prpplagueask and wait for someone to reply
00:11.45sarahemm^SA^okies :)
00:12.27sarahemm^SA^is there anything more recent prebuilt and known working than the 0.6 jffs image on tuxscreen.net? i've tried the buildroot but get a ton of flash errors whenever accessing the JFFS2 partition... with the image, it partially works but the kernel faults whenever i access the PCMCIA slots
00:13.10jacquesI'm prtty sure the answer to that question is "no"
00:13.23sarahemm^SA^okies.
00:13.25jacquesbuilroot rotted
00:13.41sarahemm^SA^is nobody working on the tuxscreen anymore then, and it's died?
00:14.53jacquesI'm going to work on them again some day. I just have other toys taking my attention right now.
00:15.24sarahemm^SA^okie. but nobody's really doing much active devel these days on it?
00:15.38sarahemm^SA^just want to make sure there's not something off the shelf before i start hacking on it myself
00:16.39sarahemm^SA^and is it a known issue that PCMCIA doesn't work with the 0.6 jffs?
00:17.17jacquesI don't remember those errors
00:17.23jacquesyou only have one?
00:17.48sarahemm^SA^one unit you mean?
00:17.53jacqueswould be useful to see if it behaves the same on two different units
00:18.13sarahemm^SA^nope, just have one.
00:18.16jacqueswhat are you putting in the pcmcia slots?
00:18.41sarahemm^SA^well, at boot nothing at all and it segfaults
00:18.49sarahemm^SA^it keeps booting after that tho
00:18.58jacquesit oopses?
00:19.06sarahemm^SA^err, yeah, sorry.
00:19.17jacquesinteresting
00:19.22jacquesi should dig mine out
00:19.28sarahemm^SA^in the buildroot i built it at least detects when i insert a 3.3v wifi card, but the flash errors keeep coming up and it crashes eventually
00:19.35sarahemm^SA^with the 0.6 one, it won't even detect the card
00:19.58sarahemm^SA^we're rolling out VoIP here so we figured it'd fit in if we could get it up and running and ShanIP it
00:20.20jacquesyeah that would be a nice use for it
00:20.50sarahemm^SA^but i need some kind of network connectivity for that, running VoIP over PPP doesn't sound fun ;)
00:21.41sarahemm^SA^one other thing, how is the kernel stored in the jffs image itself?
00:22.04jacqueshow?
00:22.10jacquesyou mean how can it boot ?
00:22.26jacqueshow does the bootloader find the kernel when it's in the jffs2 image?
00:23.45sarahemm^SA^nd where is it stored, in the filesystem itself or some header on the image?
00:24.36jacquesIIRC it's just in / or /boot in the jffs2 image, and blob understands jffs2 so it can find it
00:24.42sarahemm^SA^hmm. cardmgr starting up gives 'card services release does not match' too. prolly not a good sign.
00:24.54sarahemm^SA^ahh, duh. /boot/linux is probably a vmlinux image?
00:25.05jacqueshow big is it?  :-)
00:25.36sarahemm^SA^just over 500k.. looks a little small, but oculd be.
00:25.46jacquesyeah I'm pretty sure that's it
00:25.55jacquesthe card services mismatch is usually not a problem
00:25.56sarahemm^SA^okies.
00:28.41sarahemm^SA^hmm.
00:28.55sarahemm^SA^maybe it's not PCMCIA oopsing at all. i just removed the module load lines from linuxrc, and it still oopses at boot
00:30.45sarahemm^SA^well, i'm certainly stupid. *giggle*
00:30.57sarahemm^SA^it seems to help if you push the card the ENTIRE way in, not just halfway. ;)
00:31.06sarahemm^SA^i must have been doing that under one kernel, but not this one, somehow.
00:31.35sarahemm^SA^it still segfaults as soon as i push the card in, but it detects there's a card there now.
00:33.18jacquesit's not a 5V card is it?
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00:35.40sarahemm^SA^Socket 1: 3.3V 16-bit PC Card function 0: [ready]
00:35.46sarahemm^SA^i wasn't sure, but it seems not :)
00:36.22jacquesthat's good
00:36.29sarahemm^SA^*nods*
00:36.34sarahemm^SA^i haven't modded mine for 5V PCMCIA
00:37.24jacqueshave you tried more than one card?
00:37.33jacquesI mean other cards?
00:37.53sarahemm^SA^well, it oopses at bootup without inserting *any* cards, so i assume it's not the cards themself
00:38.01sarahemm^SA^but no, i haven't.
00:38.14sarahemm^SA^i think we have another WLAN card in the stack.. lemme tr.y
00:38.58sarahemm^SA^another one also segfaults, but shows up in cardctl ident the same as the other one
00:39.34sarahemm^SA^oopses, not segfaults.
00:39.40sarahemm^SA^i'm usually not this scatterbrained....
00:40.44jacquesit shows as a memory card?
00:41.04jacquesthat usually means something is not right with pcmcia
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00:41.23jcrouseevening
00:41.26sarahemm^SA^nope
00:41.29sarahemm^SA^function: 6 (network)
00:41.42sarahemm^SA^and has the product info and manfid
00:42.36jacquesok I thought you said it showed up same as the other one
00:42.57sarahemm^SA^it did.. they're both NICs tho
00:43.35jacqueswhat you pasted above says <sarahemm^SA^> Socket 1: 3.3V 16-bit PC Card function 0: [ready]
00:44.28sarahemm^SA^*nods* does that indicate it sees it as a memory card?
00:45.17jacquesyeah function 0 is memory - but it's also the default and what it says when it's screwed up
00:46.24sarahemm^SA^woot!
00:46.28sarahemm^SA^it's working, tho! :))
00:46.37sarahemm^SA^64 bytes from 192.168.0.1
00:46.55sarahemm^SA^cardctl ident shows function 6 (network)
00:47.00sarahemm^SA^for some reason cardctl status shows function 0
00:47.04sarahemm^SA^but it works.. sortamostly
00:47.33jacquesweird
00:47.43sarahemm^SA^*shrug*
00:47.55sarahemm^SA^my screen is full of 'undecryptable frame' errors, which is odd, but i can sort that out.
00:48.01sarahemm^SA^the kernel oopses are more annoying..
00:48.05sarahemm^SA^but seem to function anyway
00:48.18jacqueswhat kernel version is it?
00:48.43sarahemm^SA^ahh. it's generated for any WLAN traffic at all, it seems.
00:48.51sarahemm^SA^2.4.18-rmk2-tux1
00:49.49sarahemm^SA^is it a safe bet to assume that 2.6.x would break horribly on the Shannon? it does have an arch/arm/x/shannon directory, but...
00:50.54jacquessomeone was working on it. I'm not sure how far they got
00:51.05jacqueswhen I dig mine out again, that's what I want to run
00:51.15sarahemm^SA^okay.
00:51.23sarahemm^SA^now that i know how to make this work, i may mess with 2.6.
00:51.41jacquescool
00:52.37sarahemm^SA^i'm used to working with embedded gear based on x86 (mostly PC/104ish stuff), with full hardware specs and such.. this is quite different :)
00:53.20jacquesheh
00:53.22jcrouseWow, noisy tonight... :)
00:53.27jcrouseHeh - BusyBox on dslmodem login:
00:54.15sarahemm^SA^dslmodem?
01:44.50jcrousesorphin: you around?
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01:54.07MonMothasarahemm^SA^: when does it oops?
01:54.41MonMothaon bootup that is
01:55.49MonMothathere was a bug in the wheaties init code a while back that I don't know if the patch ever got merged into the distributed tux patch
01:56.49MonMothahttp://www.rose-hulman.edu/~martinbv/tuxscreen-spi-irq.patch  <-- Patch if it hasn't been applied to the tree already
01:57.55MonMothaif you're using the prebuilt image, it will need the kernel recompiled with that patch applied
01:58.11jacquesMonMotha, did you ever do any 2.6 work on the tux ?
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02:00.25jacquesmaybe it was TimRiker who did it
02:00.52sarahemm^SA^MonMotha: a bug that would affect pcmcia tho?
02:01.03sarahemm^SA^ahh okay :)
02:01.06sarahemm^SA^thanks MonMotha
02:01.15sarahemm^SA^there's also a PCMCIA issue because it oopses whenever i insert or remove a card
02:01.19sarahemm^SA^but then continues okay :)
02:01.23sarahemm^SA^i'm going to mess with 2.6 for a bit i think
02:02.31MonMothajacques: no, I didn't do any 2.6 stuff
02:03.04MonMothasarahemm^SA^: ah, this is a fatal oops that will only happen on bootup
02:03.04MonMothaand it won't even do it every time
02:03.33jacqueshi TimRiker :-)   did you ever try 2.6 kernel on the tux ?
02:03.35TimRikersarahemm^SA^: tux?
02:03.37MonMothaTimRiker: sarahemm^SA^'s Tux is oopsing
02:03.42TimRikerjacques: nope.
02:04.02TimRikersarahemm^SA^: that last released image has the bb insmod/modprobe issue.
02:04.13jacquessarahemm^SA^ is using 0.6 image I think - not related to the 2.6 question
02:04.38TimRikerI should get a new image up with the current stuf, but I haven't. TinyX is broken so new images would currently not have X included.
02:04.54TimRikeryeah, 0.6 has the issue.
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02:05.49sarahemm^SA^TimRiker: ahhh. wait a sec. so pcmcia support is trying to load a module when i insert/remove the card, using modprobe, and crashing it?
02:06.29TimRikersarahemm^SA^: yeah, modprobe is crashing. if you insmod the module(s) and then insert the card it'll work.
02:06.54sarahemm^SA^yeah, that's the thing, it *does* work fine :)
02:06.55MonMothaTimRiker: what's currently wrong with TinyX?
02:06.57sarahemm^SA^heh.
02:07.10TimRikeryou'll still likely see the crash msg when modprobe runs but the modules will already be loaded so the card will work.
02:07.10sarahemm^SA^alrightie, thanks much.
02:07.23jacquesI spent a few hours on trying to get tinyx working again a while back and it was just bizarre.
02:07.25TimRikernp
02:07.29sarahemm^SA^TimRiker: exactly. that's what i did, and it *does* work fine. it's just annoying :)
02:07.36TimRikerjacques: as have I. a few times now.
02:08.13TimRikersarahemm^SA^: nod. it's just been more annoying to not have X, so I have not uploaded images with modprobe fixed.
02:08.38sarahemm^SA^okay.
02:08.50TimRikerfeel free to fix X. ;-)
02:08.58sarahemm^SA^hey, i'll hack at it for a bit.
02:09.03sarahemm^SA^i'm going to look at 2.6 now, actually.
02:09.05sarahemm^SA^we'll see how that goes.
02:10.39MonMothaTimRiker: what's currently wrong with X?  Is it related to TinyX only (which I thought was now obsolete, but that was something like 10th hand information), or is whatever X we're using (I assume still XFree86) just not liking the Shannon right now?
02:11.28sarahemm^SA^0.6 uses full X with rxvt, iirc
02:11.29jcrousekergoth: do we have an OE target for the shannon?
02:11.33sarahemm^SA^at least, it has it
02:12.15jacquesMonMotha, that strange thing it, the X source has not changed - tux buildroot was still downloading the exact same source file
02:12.24jacquesand the timy.mk had not changed
02:12.28jacquestinyx.mk
02:12.37jacquesX just stopped compiling in a very strange way
02:12.48MonMothajacques: so on the surface, nothing relevant changed, but X broke?
02:12.49MonMothaweird
02:13.11jacqueswell uclibc changed, but it wasn;t anything nearly obvious
02:13.12kergothjcrouse: no hardware, never bothered adding a kernel or anything.  doubt itd take much to get it going.
02:13.14MonMothatoo bad I'm *really* not an X person :)
02:14.57prpplagueyea wouldn;t take much to add the shannon to OE
02:15.24prpplagueneed to fix that
02:15.30MonMothadamn, 9:15, I should go get dinner
02:16.09sarahemm^SA^OE?
02:16.23sarahemm^SA^prpplague: life support board = JTAG adapter?
02:16.23jacquesibot, oe
02:16.24ibotwell, oe is OpenEmbedded (see http://www.openembedded.org ), or "Opportunistic Encryption" (see http://www.wavesec.org ), or an email client which is not to be spoken of.
02:16.54sarahemm^SA^heh coolies
02:17.22prpplaguesarahemm^SA^: hehe, a board that provides i/o for the core tuxboard
02:17.29prpplaguesarahemm^SA^: jsut what i call it
02:17.43jacquesI call it the daughterboard
02:17.55sarahemm^SA^ahh, okay.
02:17.59prpplaguejacques: yea, but thats no fun
02:18.25prpplaguesarahemm^SA^: something similiar to this http://www.cyberiansoftware.com/TuxScreen/StrongARM-perf.html
02:18.40prpplaguesarahemm^SA^: but i built mine before T0mW did his
02:21.42jacquescool someone added a usb port to the tux (slave)
02:22.08MonMothajacques: yeah, shouldn't be too tough
02:22.20sarahemm^SA^hh.
02:22.20MonMothathe pins are brought to that unpopulated IO header
02:23.18MonMothaI'd thought about doing it until I got my ethernet card then decided not to bother
02:23.51jacquesyeah with two pcmcia slots
02:24.11MonMothayeah, you can have both a CF in a PCMCIA adapter for extra storage AND a network card of some kind
02:24.12jacquesi have pcmcia network cards for mine too - they work great
02:24.23MonMothayup, I use one of the Netgear FA311s
02:24.24sarahemm^SA^115200 gets feeling slow pretty quickly....
02:24.34sarahemm^SA^most seem to be 3.3v, so it's easier
02:24.43sarahemm^SA^at least, all the PRISM2s we have around are 3.3v
02:25.05MonMothaof course, I left my FA311 at home it seems
02:25.29jacquesoh yeah? well I have FA411's!
02:25.57MonMothataht may be what it is, I don't remember
02:26.23MonMothait's a Netgear dual voltage (well, it says 5V but runs on 3.3V at least) 10/100 NE2000 based card with a built in RJ-45
02:26.24prpplaguejcrouse: hey, just found digikey has dip versions of the 74AHC541
02:26.39prpplaguejcrouse: hehe, means i can builds some holly-gates dongles
02:27.17jacquesMonMotha, must be the 411's because the 311's are pci cards
02:27.50MonMothaguess so then
02:28.22jacques(I just looked on the netgear site - I didn't remember)
02:28.25MonMothawell, I'll see if I can find some time over or after break to resurrect my tuxscreen
02:28.34MonMothait's been dormant for a while
02:28.38MonMothaI think it still boots though
02:28.48MonMothaI've only had to JTAG it once :)
02:28.50jacquesso have mine but I would like to play with them again
02:29.09MonMothaI've also got these webpals I need to do something with
02:29.11prpplagueMonMotha: ohhh, you don't have the pleasure of working with jtag?
02:29.13jcrouseprpplague: excellent
02:29.27jacquesyeah I don;t even wanna say how many webpals I have (they were soo cheap!)
02:29.41MonMothajacques: I had 4, gave one to a friend
02:29.50MonMothaprpplague: not on a daily basis, no
02:29.56prpplaguejacques: hehe, yea, i bought like 120 and used about 100 for a client
02:29.57MonMothaI've used it once on my Tux, that's it
02:30.06prpplaguejacques: hehe leaving me with a ton left over
02:30.10MonMothaprpplague: what did you use them for, dare I ask?
02:30.16prpplagueMonMotha: POS
02:30.20MonMothaah, good idea
02:30.30prpplagueMonMotha: thin client
02:30.42prpplagueMonMotha: made a killing on them
02:30.43jacquesprpplague, WOW I don;t have nearly that many - more like 8-10
02:30.46MonMothathey're fast enough to be acceptable even as a thin client?
02:30.57MonMothaI'll have to tinker around with that then...could be fun
02:31.04prpplagueMonMotha: packaged them with a cash drawer, lcd, cash slip printer, and a barcode scanner
02:31.21MonMothado we have the TV out working?  Looks like it should be pretty simple: just give the TV encoder a compatible signal and turn it on
02:31.26prpplagueMonMotha: my cost was about $400 for everything, sold them for right at $1800
02:31.31MonMothaprpplague: nice
02:32.22jacquesjeez :-)
02:32.28MonMothawhat kind of POS software did they run? or were they just clients to a fancier server?
02:32.39jacquesbiab
02:32.40prpplagueMonMotha: just clients
02:32.49prpplagueMonMotha: connecting via ssh to a server
02:32.54MonMothaprpplague: X with pretty pictures or xterm ssh?
02:32.54MonMothaah
02:32.56prpplagueMonMotha: running a ncurses app
02:33.05prpplagueMonMotha: naw just console
02:33.17MonMothaoh, I didn't know they could do a console :)
02:33.44MonMothawell, I'll have to play around with these things
02:33.50MonMothaa pity you don't have a working BLOB for them
02:34.41prpplagueMonMotha: yea, when i get time, gonna try and ressurect it
02:34.52MonMothaprpplague: well, that would be very cool
02:34.56MonMothalet me know if you'd like some help
02:35.10prpplagueMonMotha: will do
02:35.24MonMothado you have an email address for me?
02:35.33MonMotha(though hell, I'm in here 99% of the time)
02:35.40prpplaguedave123_aml@yahoo.com
02:35.46MonMothak
02:35.51MonMothaI'm monmotha@indy.rr.com
02:35.58prpplagueMonMotha: haven't gotten around to setting up my email at aml yet
02:36.12MonMothak
02:36.34MonMothawell, I think I'm going to go grab some dinner
02:36.42MonMothaat this point I'll be going to Waffle House...
02:36.53prpplagueMonMotha: hehe
02:37.14MonMothawell, IHOP in this town I guess
02:37.16MonMothaanwyay, later
02:37.49prpplagueMonMotha: later
02:37.59TimRikerjacques: the compiler got updated. that's what broken tinyx
02:41.13prpplagueTimRiker: evening tim
02:41.19TimRikermoin
02:41.33prpplagueTimRiker: whats cookin?
02:41.47TimRikerrmk was bugging me about 2.6 shannon. he wanted to rip out the code that's in there now.
02:41.56prpplaguehehe
02:42.06TimRikerunder 2.6 we should be able to submit all the patches and run without a shannon patch.
02:42.13prpplagueyea, i know rmk is big on keep only supported items
02:42.27TimRikerthe 2.4 stuff had some kernel input layer mods for the keyboard that rmk wanted to wait on.
02:43.04TimRikerso it's all about having time.
02:43.17prpplagueTimRiker: you still tinkering with the OSK?
02:43.21TimRikerworking on a new bzflag release at the moment.
02:43.25prpplagueahh
02:43.38TimRikerlast work has been with XIP on the 1510 innovator.
02:43.39prpplaguemaking slow progress
02:43.52TimRikerhow much was the lh?
02:48.51jacquesTimRiker, aah really? very interesting
02:50.18jacquesdid someone say new bzflag??
02:50.29jacquesmust... resist...
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02:58.54prpplaguejacques: resistance is futile
03:00.46jacquesheh :-(
03:01.24kergothugh, i'm likely going to end up rewriting the file deletion / whitelist handling in unionfs.
03:01.36kergother
03:01.38kergoths/whitelist/whiteout/
03:02.46prpplaguekergoth: yikes
03:02.59jacquesI can't watch "bring it on" without rolling on the floor laughing
03:03.00prpplaguekergoth: due to that bug you found?
03:03.18kergothwell, i found a few bugs with regard to it
03:03.24kergothi dont like the way it was implemented
03:03.29chouimathttp://softgun.sourceforge.net/
03:03.34kergothplus there's the serious bug in it
03:03.37prpplaguejacques: hehe, yea, cheerleading around texas is big
03:04.26jacquesprpplague, anything remotely related to football is big there
03:04.29prpplaguechouimat: yea well, i'd avoid netsilicon crap
03:04.47kergothyes, avoid netsilicon crap indeed
03:11.54prpplaguewhat the heck is the RD_nWR line on sa1110?
03:17.36sarahemm^SA^Read-not-write, likely
03:18.02prpplaguesarahemm^SA^: odd i've not seen that line before
03:18.24sarahemm^SA^*shrug* i know little about the SA on that level
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03:59.34chouimatjcrouse: quit what?
03:59.55jcrousethat
03:59.59jcrouseright there... :)
04:00.03chouimatjcrouse: wireless problem tonight
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04:33.12sarahemm^SA^heh
04:33.19sarahemm^SA^2.6.9 doesn't even compile for shannon out of the box
04:33.43kergothheh
04:37.23MonMothaoh, don't make me get my tux out...
04:38.02sarahemm^SA^hehe
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05:05.24sarahemm^SA^woot. compiling....
05:35.57jcrouseOk, if anyone is awake
05:36.39jcrouseMachine 192.168.0.10 is sending web traffic to 1.2.3.4, which is translating that to 192.168.0.1 on the internal network
05:37.02jcrouseSo why is the response from 192.168.0.1 not being recieved by 192.168.0.10?  Is it because its waiting for something from 1.2.3.4?
05:37.17sarahemm^SA^very likely.
05:37.29sarahemm^SA^is it not translating both ways?
05:37.32jcrouseWell, that just plain sucks rocks
05:37.46sarahemm^SA^well, it should translate both ways.. what device is NATTing?
05:37.52jcrouseIts not translating back because 192.168.0.1 and .10 are on the same netowkr
05:37.57sarahemm^SA^ahh.
05:38.01sarahemm^SA^well, it needs to :) what device?
05:38.15jcrouseThe bottom line is that I need to set up an internal DNS server, apparently
05:38.16jcrousesuck
05:38.35sarahemm^SA^oh... okay.
05:38.37sarahemm^SA^*confuzzled*
05:46.20sarahemm^SA^nyone here familiar with working with jffs2 images?
05:47.33jacqueswhat about them?
05:52.31sarahemm^SA^how do i write one back out to an image file after mounting it using the RAM device with /dev/mtdblock/0 ?
05:52.42sarahemm^SA^if i dd it back out it ends up exactly 4Mb
05:52.45sarahemm^SA^MB rather
05:53.31jacquesyou are trying to generate a jffs2 image?
05:55.52MonMothajeesh, this XviD had better look good when it's done...it's going at <10fps, then it's a 3 pass encode
05:56.27jacquesthree pass? what you using?
05:57.03sarahemm^SA^jacques: well, i'm trying to modify an existing one
05:57.20sarahemm^SA^i mounted it, changed it, now i want to write that back to an image.
05:57.33MonMothajacques: transcode
05:57.45jacquessarahemm^SA^, use mkfs.jffs2 to create it
05:58.09sarahemm^SA^hh, ok.
05:58.10jacquesMonMotha, any front end? I use dvd::rip, but it only does up to two pass
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05:58.24MonMothajacques: this is nuvexport; I'm grabbing a movie I recorded off TV
05:59.05sarahemm^SA^woo, mythtv :)
05:59.06MonMothaexporting it from 2.4Mbit CBR DivX to 1Mbit VBR XviD
05:59.14MonMothaI'm curious how well it will turn out
05:59.32MonMothayes, I have a reasonably sized mythtv stup
05:59.33MonMothasetup
05:59.40MonMothagunna add a PCHDTV 3000 to it I think
05:59.51MonMothamay need another HDD then too
06:00.31jacquescoool
06:01.01sarahemm^SA^we've got one backend (1.7ghz celeron, 12gb drive) nd 3 frontends...
06:01.03MonMothaI really should be reviewing my DISCO material for the final on Tuesday
06:02.01MonMothaI currently have 4 people each running their own frontend talking to my backend which is a 1GHz PIII with two hard drives totaling 130GB (in an LVM)
06:02.10MonMothaer 112GB total
06:22.02sarahemm^SA^yeppers, mkfs.jffs2 seems to be working much better.
06:22.08sarahemm^SA^just seems a weird way to do it. oh well :o)
06:28.47sarahemm^SA^woohoo!
06:28.57sarahemm^SA^what kind of dance does a tiny engineer do anyway?
06:29.09kergoth:)
06:32.17sarahemm^SA^alrightie.. sleepies time.
06:32.18sarahemm^SA^nini all
06:32.27sarahemm^SA^i'm sure i'll be back as a regular channel now :)
06:32.32sarahemm^SA^nifty channel!
06:34.37jcrousekergoth: the engineers dance is from Dilbert - imagine the worst possible dance from the whitest possible person
06:34.40jcrousethats an engineers dance
06:35.46kergothaha
06:36.02MonMothagah, mythbusters has gone to hell
06:36.09MonMothathey just totally thew the scientific method to the wind
06:36.15jacquesno more good myths to bust?
06:36.21jacquesoh :-\
06:36.25MonMothano, they just did a good one
06:36.31jacquesprobably trying to reach a wider audience
06:36.32MonMothabut they screwed up the procedure
06:36.38MonMothachanged a variable they shouldn't have
06:37.36MonMothasince I'm more inclined to trust the professor I had for fluid sciences than these guys...
06:37.51jcrouseWhich one are you watching?
06:38.40MonMothaboom lift catapult and a/c vs. windows down fuel economy
06:39.15jcrouseAnd which one are you angry aboug?  The fuel economy?
06:39.15jacquesi would think the ac thing would depend on many factors
06:39.23jacquesmany many
06:39.28jacquesmany
06:39.41jacquesi can think of like ten without even trying
06:40.04MonMothajacques: yes, and they did two tests, but at different speeds
06:40.18MonMothaand got conflicting results...but they changed speeds
06:40.23MonMothaand drag depends on speed
06:40.33jcrouseTo be fair though, they wanted to go at the faster speed
06:41.02jcrouseAnd I thought, since they were running both experiments at the same conditions, that it was fine
06:41.17jacquesvehicle design (aerodynamics), speed, ambient temp, ac design, engine power
06:41.38MonMothajcrouse: true
06:41.50MonMothayeah, they also used SUVs
06:41.51jacqueswhich windows were open, where the temp readings where taken in the vehicle
06:42.00MonMothawhich at such low speeds, tend to average the same milage no matter what you do
06:42.12MonMothajacques: they didn't control the temp inside the car at all
06:42.34jcrouseI think they left the AC on
06:42.43jcrouseSo the temprature inside the car wouldn't matter
06:42.49jacquesany result would be highly vehicle and condition specific
06:42.50MonMothathe AC on car was very cold
06:43.16MonMothajacques: I've been told that at high speeds (say 70MPH) in still air, it's usually better to run the AC
06:43.46MonMothadepends on the vehicle of course
06:43.55jcrouseBut the experiment showed that at lower speeds, it was better to run with the windows open
06:43.55jacquesMonMotha, depends how much drag your particular ac exerts on the engine, how efficient your engine is under those conditions
06:44.25jacquesI solve that problem by not having AC and running with the top down whenever possible
06:44.46MonMothajacques: yes, the idea is that for most vehicles at high speeds, it's better to run the AC.  Not always true of course
06:45.14jacqueswith modern vehicles, if I was forced to make a generalization, I would agree
06:45.22MonMothaand yes, the whole concept goes completely out the window for convertables
06:46.24MonMothathis encode is going to take over 20 hours
06:46.41MonMothait had better look nice
06:46.50jacquesyou need a faster box :-)
06:46.58jacquesmaybe something in amd64
06:47.23MonMothaMy next system will be a dual AMD64
06:47.31MonMothapossibly quad, but not likely
06:47.38jacquesmy next (when/if I get income) will probably be a socket 939 90nm amd64
06:47.49MonMothacurrent system is a 2400+ XP
06:47.54MonMotha1GB PC2100
06:48.04jacquesright now I'm on a dual xp1800+
06:48.13jacquessame amount / type ram
06:49.41MonMothaI had 1.5GB in it but it didn't quite like that
06:49.52MonMothacaused some very random errors that affected only MythTV
06:52.04jacquesthat's kinda intersting
06:52.10jacquesi wonder what that could be
06:53.21MonMothaI never figured it out
06:53.32MonMothamemtest86 showed random problems on test 6 only
06:53.39MonMothamostly single bit errors
06:53.48jacqueswhat chipset ?
06:53.53MonMothaKT266A
06:54.30jacquesI know some didn't like more than 2 slots filled
06:55.15MonMothayeah, that's the problem I was having, filling all three slots made it unhappy
06:55.25MonMothaany two slots populated with any 2 DIMMs (I have 4 identical ones) was fine
06:55.44MonMothathat would seem to be more of a board issue unless it was common to all boards using that chipset though..
06:56.40jacquesi remember there were some chipset problems in that era with > 2 dimms when they were run at > some speed
06:57.19MonMothathe KT266A is physically identical to the KT333 I remember, they just found that it would run reliably a the higher speed
06:57.31MonMothathough they may have hand-picked those
06:57.43MonMothawhere "hand picked" means QA tested with lots of automated stuff :)
06:57.47jacquesi think I have a kt333 board
06:57.55jacquesnot in use right now tho
07:00.12sorphinevening jacques and monmotha
07:00.22jacqueshowdy sorphin
07:01.14kergothhey sorphin
07:01.51sorphinkergoth: lo chris
07:02.03sorphinman, lotta talk today from that sarahemm person
07:02.06kergothhow goes it?
07:02.13sorphinkergoth: goes
07:02.15sorphinyou?
07:02.49kergothheh, same.  not bad.  sucks that monday is here once again
07:02.59sorphinkergoth: yup
07:05.30sorphinclear
07:05.49kergothyeh
07:05.53kergother, heh
07:08.21MonMothaEh, this Monday isn't too bad...it's the Tuesday
07:08.29MonMothaI have an 6:00-10:00PM final
07:09.14sorphinMonMotha: DCT :P
07:10.17jacques5000?
07:10.20MonMothasorphin: I'll take it back home with me and see if I can find some time
07:10.29jacques:-)
07:10.33MonMothaI also have this EZ-USB daughterboard to design
07:10.38sorphinjacques: i was prodding him to actually work on it :P
07:10.44sorphinMonMotha: uh huh
07:10.45jacquesooh I'll help
07:10.59MonMothaheh
07:11.03sorphin:)
07:11.08MonMothabig thing at this point is to get a kernel booting on it
07:11.08sorphinjacques: hows the miata?
07:11.14sorphinMonMotha: right
07:11.17MonMothaI'm really not experienced with that stuff
07:11.24MonMothaI don't mind writing drivers though
07:11.37MonMothaunfortunatley we don't have much in the way of specs
07:11.42jacquesmiata is rather bored these days - it's cold here an until recently rather rainy
07:12.40sorphinMonMotha: and can't get them.. the guy i contacted via tim's recommendation can't help.. they disassembled the rom themselves, and anything else is NDA
07:12.47sorphinjacques: nod
07:13.19MonMothasorphin: fun fun fun
07:13.58sorphinMonMotha: i know someone that could help, but he's hard to find since i don't do tivo stuff anymore :P
07:14.11sorphinactually 2 people
07:14.14fishheadmon
07:14.18fishheaddo you have a webpal ?
07:16.27MonMothasorphin: well, some of the devices are pretty standard and we can probably get specd
07:16.35MonMothaethernet controller, the southbridge thingie
07:16.41sorphinnod
07:16.54MonMothaIEEE1394 I'm not sure of...haven't looked to see if it's supported already or not
07:17.16sorphinwell, we'll worry about devices once we even get a vanilla kernel to run
07:17.18MonMothathe overview sheet says it supports all sorts of DRM stuff, so it may not be supported
07:17.20MonMothaexactly
07:17.44sorphini don't have the means to mess w/ that rom tho
07:17.44MonMothaas I said, I'm not big on getting the vanilla kernel to run, but I'll give it a shot
07:18.02MonMothasorphin: I believe there was a way to get it to chainload stuff from flash, and we can JTAG that
07:18.11sorphinMonMotha: yeah
07:18.20MonMothaor there's a flash equivilent to the mask rom that's in there already, which I can probably find a device around here to program
07:18.26sorphinthe question is how
07:23.50MonMothagah, TBS is taking a perfectly good show and ruining it.  Gilligan's Island is NOT a reality show...
07:27.48fishheadmon
07:27.49fishheadnot true
07:28.00fishheadthere were other changes in > KT266
07:28.12fishheadI have plenty of tech friends who noticed the stability changes even at same speeds
07:28.22fishheadmon yeah that's beyond gay
07:28.32fishheadabout as gay as the partridge family remake
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09:41.34MonMothadammit
09:41.52MonMothathe encode worked great (I could probably drop the bitrate a bit even), but I didn't realize I hadn't caught all the commercials
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