[ARMedslack] Slackware ARM/old ARMedslack mailing list is now retired

2013-11-21 Thread Stuart Winter
Hello I have made the decision (and I think it's the right one) to retire this list. I will prevent new posts from being sent to it tomorrow (Fri 22nd Nov 2013), which gives you a number of hours to air your discontentment with the decision and have it stored forever more in the mailing list arc

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking of decomissioning this mailing list in favour of a sub forum on LinuxQuestions.org

2013-11-21 Thread Stuart Winter
> I can't agree with your personal opinion on forums, Stuart, sorry. :P I'm still not a fan of forums but the great thing about them in this instance is that the rest of the Slackware discussions are going on, so I'd rather link the ARM port to the rest of it rather than having it as an outlier.

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking of decomissioning this mailing list in favour of a sub forum on LinuxQuestions.org

2013-11-21 Thread Stuart Winter
e? That is the search engine is > aware of the archival site for the list? > - > Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Stuart Winter > wrote: > > > > Hel

[ARMedslack] Thinking of decomissioning this mailing list in favour of a sub forum on LinuxQuestions.org

2013-11-21 Thread Stuart Winter
x27;t be squirreled away in an archive mbox. I am personally not a fan of web forums as I don't like having to click everywhere - it's easier to use PINE and the keyboard controls; however the two points above really should outweigh my personal preferences ;-) Any thoughts? -- Stuart W

[ARMedslack] Slackware ARM 14.1 community supported devices - update installation guides and availability

2013-11-21 Thread Stuart Winter
ckware.com will/should contain the ARM documentation, or at least be a portal/jump point to 3rd party hosted content if you don't fancy keeping your docs on the wiki). Thanks s. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARM

Re: [ARMedslack] Creating a rootfs from a x86 host: unknown machine 40

2013-11-18 Thread Stuart Winter
o a similar error. > > ATB > David > > > > > Il Domenica 17 Novembre 2013 3:04, "openpand...@free.fr" > ha scritto: > > Thanks ! > I appreciate. > > - Mail original - > De: "Stuart Winter" > À: "Slackware ARM port"

Re: [ARMedslack] Linux 3.12.0 on Kirkwood?

2013-11-18 Thread Stuart Winter
> Things start going wrong right after the "calibrating delay loop": > [    6.455145] Calibrating delay loop... > [    6.460464] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual > address > > I think that's the root cause ...  > I'm not sure on this but I suppose the kernel ai

Re: [ARMedslack] Linux 3.12.0 on Kirkwood?

2013-11-17 Thread Stuart Winter
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Stuart Winter wrote: > > I built it but it fails. I'm not sure whether it has something to do with > flattened device tree - which the u-Boot on my OpenRD client does not nor > probably never will have. Yes it was flattened device tree. Remove t

[ARMedslack] Linux 3.12.0 on Kirkwood?

2013-11-17 Thread Stuart Winter
18) [7.078535] 3ec0: c0493f18 c049e090 c0493f60 c0008f64 and goes on for quite some time before finishing up crashing. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists

Re: [ARMedslack] Creating a rootfs from a x86 host: unknown machine 40

2013-11-16 Thread Stuart Winter
> "'These are _not_ just warnings; ldconfig ignores the library content, so > "output/target/etc/ld.so.cache" is left unpopulated, meaning that the > target device will not boot successfully due to missing libraries (the > libraries are on the file-system, just the ld.so.cache does not list them).

[ARMedslack] Slackware 14.1 is released

2013-11-07 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi! Slackware x86, x86_64 and ARM v14.1 is released today. Thanks to everyone here who has helped with testing, feedback and improvements. The next thing I plan on looking at is the Chromebook suport. Happy release day and have a good weekend upgrading. Stuart -- Stuart Winter

Re: [ARMedslack] Are updated firefox/jdk planned for 14.1 release ?

2013-10-28 Thread Stuart Winter
> > > Also seamonkey and thunderbird ? > > I wasn't planning on it any time soon - they have been removed from 14.1 - > check the change log. I have updated Firefox and it'll go out with the RC3 push today. I will update the others you mention as time permits, but that may be after the 14.1 releas

Re: [ARMedslack] Are updated firefox/jdk planned for 14.1 release ?

2013-10-26 Thread Stuart Winter
Hello > Also seamonkey and thunderbird ? I wasn't planning on it any time soon - they have been removed from 14.1 - check the change log. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedsla

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM 14.1,rc1 released

2013-10-23 Thread Stuart Winter
[..] > 2) This morning I did a "slackpkg update-all" and got the 3.10.17 kernel > update. The package updated successfully deleting the 3.10.16 files and > installing the correct symlinks, but I did notice that the dtb-3.10.16 > directory was not deleted although the dtb symlink was updated to po

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up Slackware ARM 14.0 on the OLinuXino A10S from scratch

2013-10-21 Thread Stuart Winter
x27; section here: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:start -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

[ARMedslack] Slackware ARM 14.1,rc1 released

2013-10-18 Thread Stuart Winter
Hello As the subject says - it's rc1 is now released. Please have a look at it (preferably using a new installation) and let me know if there are any issues. Thanks s. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack ma

Re: [ARMedslack] fw_env,conf offsets for Pogoplugs and Dockstars

2013-09-23 Thread Stuart Winter
> > Would it be possible to add the following offsets in the stock > /etc/fw_env.conf file? Yes I've added it into the config file and it'll be pushed out in the next batch. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armeds

Re: [ARMedslack] fbdev ABI problem in -current and new video driver

2013-09-17 Thread Stuart Winter
he link: > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=arm/xorg/driver/xf86-video-armsoc.git I've updated this to the latest snapshot. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http

Re: [ARMedslack] Kernel for Allwinner A1X

2013-09-16 Thread Stuart Winter
anyway. I don't have any Allwiner machines, but I did add some Allwinner SoC configs into the Linux 3.10 kernels. If there are any patches, I could apply them to Linux 3.10. I think we'll be using Linux 3.10 for the Slackware 14.1 release. I did try Linux 3.11 but it wa

Re: [ARMedslack] Sbopkg missing certificates

2013-08-22 Thread Stuart Winter
> I'm making some test compilations with -current, using sbopkg, and i > have a ton of non-downloads because of missing https certificates. > Anyone else experiences this ? Missing HTTPs certificates where? if it's on the server to which you're connecting, then contact the administrator of that s

Re: [ARMedslack] armedslack on android phone?

2013-07-16 Thread Stuart Winter
t I was trying to say. Different story if you want me > to add it to the non officially supported platforms section on the  > http://arm.slackware.com/supportedplatforms/ page. I've moved the community platforms and linked it from that page, so the community can

Re: [ARMedslack] miniroot 14 and current: vi is broken

2013-07-15 Thread Stuart Winter
apart > from manipulating the flash. I didn't fix 14.0. I'll fix it before the next batch goes out. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armeds

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-11 Thread Stuart Winter
s to be modified in inittab? http://ftp.arm.slackware.com/slackwarearm/slackwarearm-current/source/a/sysvinit-scripts/sources/doinst.sh.openttyS0 Could the change be added into here? The less changes you have to keep adding in the better - especially when I'm already doing it for the others!

Re: [ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-06-04 Thread Stuart Winter
AC100 site and my short how-to as a specific tutorial > on a possible way to get Slackware ARM on the AC100. > The link in  http://arm.slackware.com/supportedplatforms/ still only points > to http://ac100.grandou.net/ I'

Re: [ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-06-03 Thread Stuart Winter
content easier to find although it may break up the structure of the site a little bit. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-06-03 Thread Stuart Winter
> > Would http://docs.slackware.com or http://slackwiki.com be a good place > to put this in ? Regards David docs.slackware.com is the best place, IMO. alienBOB is keen to have more docs there! :-) ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-02 Thread Stuart Winter
essentially becomes the gate keeper so has to be able to dedicate some time to folding requests and fixes back in to the distributed images. Thoughts? Any takers? -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list A

Re: [ARMedslack] Toshiba AC100

2013-06-01 Thread Stuart Winter
> > There's probably something wrong with me or with my browser or some other > dumb thing ... but I recognize a menu that's resembles remotely what used > to be on tosh-ac100 ... but I looked on every element of the menu and could > not recognise my armedslack (it was not slackware arm at the tim

[ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-05-28 Thread Stuart Winter
is shouldn't be a reason for the 14.1 release - you should treat this as new rather than a patch to someone else's work (even if that's what it started out as). Deadline: - I'll stop taking submissions at the release of RC1 of Slackware 14.1 x86.

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware minirootfs on unsupported device wm8850

2013-05-11 Thread Stuart Winter
auto" WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto" WLAN_KEY[4]="YOURWLANKEY" #WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPAPSK | set EncrypType=TKIP | set WPAPSK=YOURWLAKEY" WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant" WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="wext" WLAN_WPAWAIT[4]=10 -

Re: [ARMedslack] slackware-arm on chromebook

2013-05-08 Thread Stuart Winter
ebook), but might be useful. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-18 Thread Stuart Winter
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Davide wrote: > So I updated the uboot image with the install script (I did it by hand > the first time around and I;ll savemyself the trouble if possible) and > nor the kernel gets loaded properly. I still have an issue concerning > that the root filesystem on the usb stick i

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread Stuart Winter
latest Kirkwood kernel on a Plug machine, but I know it does work on the OpenRD client. I added the 'earlyprintk' debugging to the Tegra20 kernel which'd show you what was wrong, but I don't think this is available in the kirkwood implementation (although I'll

Re: [ARMedslack] miniroot 14 and current: vi is broken

2013-04-16 Thread Stuart Winter
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Davide wrote: > Well actually on my live slackware 14 (x86)  vi is a link to elvis > > Although both are installed, by default vi is linked to elvis (and it's > not something I did manually). looking at the sizes I cannot but agree > that on the miniroot vim is just eating up

Re: [ARMedslack] miniroot 14 and current: vi is broken

2013-04-15 Thread Stuart Winter
th elvis as this works without bundling additional packages. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Omap video driver request.

2013-04-13 Thread Stuart Winter
> Segfault: > [ 372.736] (II) omapfb(0): XRandR extension initialized > [ 372.736] (--) omapfb(0): Virtual size is 800x1440 (pitch 800) > [ 372.736] (**) omapfb(0): Mode "720x574": 13.5 MHz, 15.6 kHz, 25.0 Hz > [ 372.736] (II) omapfb(0): Modeline "720x574"x25.0 13.50 720 732 788 864 >

Re: [ARMedslack] Omap video driver request.

2013-04-12 Thread Stuart Winter
> Tired your package. Same result as mine: What about the fb versio? http://armed.slackware.com/slackwarearm-current/test/x/xf86-video-omapfb-0.1.1.1-arm-1.tgz ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mail

Re: [ARMedslack] Omap video driver request.

2013-04-12 Thread Stuart Winter
> > The omap driver isn't included in Slackware ARM: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-omap/ > > > > The source is in the "slackware64-current/source/x/x11/src/driver" > repo. can you build it from there? (And is it supposed to work on > ARM?) It builds... http://armed.slack

Re: [ARMedslack] Openjre/jdk in -current.

2013-04-11 Thread Stuart Winter
> Just saw it's in /extra . The 'patches' directory is only used once a tree has been marked as a stable release. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi Linux kernel versions for Slackware ARM 14.0

2013-04-11 Thread Stuart Winter
o see some Rpi kernel upgrades to the latest release -- is the Rpi support not yet in the upstream kernels? -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

[ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi Linux kernel versions for Slackware ARM 14.0

2013-04-10 Thread Stuart Winter
.1. Is there anyone who's distributing anything that's older than this version? It looks like I'll need to respin glibc to change the mimimum kernel to be 3.1.0 so that RPi users can upgrade to Slackware ARM 14.0 to 14.1. -- Stuart Winter www.slackware.com/~mozes Slackware for A

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-04-02 Thread Stuart Winter
n't really a candidate for your favourite OS - it's just about what apps you can install upon it; thus it would never cross my mind to want to install Slackware on my ARM powered phone. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
> On the other hand if you release a new rootfs say every month, all that a > smart user has to do is umount /home and untar the new rootfs over the old > one and some post install cleanup. Alternatively they can be educated to > update properly. Untarring would lead to cruft lying around which w

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > The default method now is to untar a rootfs, there's no point using an > installer. That is a remainder of the pc world. I did try it though and may > recall it didn't work. For me, the reasons to use the installer are: 1 - Someone has to provide root

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
> Are you using the default chrome os kernel or is it a native one? The default one at the moment but if I make the work public, I'll have built my own 3.4.0 from the ChromeOS Git repo. I do keep my notes in the 'slackwarearm-devtools/chromebook' dir on the FTP site though. It's a bit random at

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
media efficiently. That said, for general usage (non multi media) I really don't think there's much in it with soft vs hard float. Running Firefox and some other stuff on this Chromebook is *fast* even with the default Slackware ARM packages. -- S

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
> The build order of Slackware is not deterministic - the distribution evolves > upon itself. > There is no sort of 'make world' type script. I was just looking at the comments I put in the bootstrap script that I wrote for Slackware ARM's x11 packages: As you can see, it's not a simple affair.

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
> Just a quick one, is there a top level script / slackbuild esq script that > starts a build of a complete Slackware distro ?.. The build order of Slackware is not deterministic - the distribution evolves upon itself. There is no sort of 'make world' type script. Eric's documenting his build p

Re: [ARMedslack] Using the x-toolchain.

2013-03-31 Thread Stuart Winter
> Now i would like to use the toolchain directly on my x86 64 bit host. > For instance, i'd like to compile a kernel for ARM. I'd also like to use > the other ARM distcc on my network. > > How do i setup the pathes, launch the stuff etc ? You don't. It's not a full cross compiler - as it says in

Re: [ARMedslack] Installing Slackware arm to NAND storage

2013-02-23 Thread Stuart Winter
t again can you up it somewhere? I might be able to > > work something from it. > > > > I'll try to look for instructions from other distros and if I arrive at a > > working solution, I'll try to post it. > > > > Regards, > > Sam > > &g

Re: [ARMedslack] Question about list usage.

2013-02-22 Thread Stuart Winter
> I would like to respond to > http://lists.armedslack.org/pipermail/armedslack/2013-February/001548.html , > but > as i never used a mailing list (i'm more a boards or mail guy), i don't know > how. As you're a new joiner who doesn't have their own local copy, the only way you can do that is b

Re: [ARMedslack] Can't slackpkg update to latest jre/jdk

2013-02-21 Thread Stuart Winter
e entire life time of "-current" up until the next release, then it will never appear in the ChangeLog.txt for that release. However, it may appear in "patches" if a security patch appears after the release is made. This isn't the reason why OpenJDK isn't in Slackware A

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello everyone

2013-02-11 Thread Stuart Winter
> So an installer of some description could be performed, perhaps the > simplest would be a pxe boot to boot a minimalistc image to bring up the > 10/100 ethernet and install over the internet from a repo. Have you had a chance to look through the INSTALL_* docs in the main tree yet? This will g

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello everyone

2013-02-10 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi Nigel, > So maybe do an image that then starts off running the ncurses slackware > configuration tool to setup networking / wifi etc etc. may require some > changes / additions for wpa_supplicant. Under all distro's ive tested with > none deal with wpa_supplicant, so it requires manual editi

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello everyone

2013-02-10 Thread Stuart Winter
ook at the miniroot build script. I can help with the Slackware installer stuff where need be. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: http://arm.slackware.com ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] slocate wrong permission

2013-02-10 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi > The file "/usr/bin/slocate" has wrong permission. Could this be corrected? Thanks I'll put that out in the next patch batch. The fix is this change: chown root:slocate /{var/lib/slocate,usr/bin/slocate} chmod 0750 /var/lib/slocate chmod 2755 /usr/bin/slocate -- Stuar

Re: [ARMedslack] Installing Slackware arm to NAND storage

2013-02-08 Thread Stuart Winter
h, it is a pity that it remains unused > when it could be used as the root partition. I think I've seen it documented a couple of years ago and shouldn't be too hard to setup. Robby - I think you did this on your Guruplug didn't you? -- Stuart Winte

Re: [ARMedslack] Mystery Prefixes

2013-02-01 Thread Stuart Winter
#x27; definitley needs a machine with a HFPU, but may or may not also contain the armv7 NEON instructions. Needless to say I am pleased to have dropped Mozilla. What a ball ache that thing was with every release. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___

Re: [ARMedslack] BCM2835 what -march to use?

2013-01-25 Thread Stuart Winter
build. > > Also needed to upgrade to /a/usbutils.006 as source not in > > slackware64 ls slackware64-current/source/a/usbutils/ slack-desc usbutils-006.tar.xz usbutils.SlackBuild* usbutils.url -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org

Re: [ARMedslack] BCM2835 what -march to use?

2013-01-19 Thread Stuart Winter
compiled for 3 > > > > days the got stuck with ld in deep sleep 98%wait. > > > > so I might want to x-compile that one. Thanks for the great slackit! > > I don't cross compile it and it works for me - takes an hour or less to >

Re: [ARMedslack] BCM2835 what -march to use?

2013-01-19 Thread Stuart Winter
to build, IIRC. Perhaps you don't have enough RAM on your machine? -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] BCM2835 what -march to use?

2013-01-19 Thread Stuart Winter
ge when x-compiling. > The big problem is setting the appropriate switches. Once you know what systems you're targetting, it's easy. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] BCM2835 what -march to use?

2013-01-19 Thread Stuart Winter
is is the same CPU as the Raspberry, so check what everyone else's using for the RPI. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] file permissions php session directory wrong?

2013-01-09 Thread Stuart Winter
> There is a difference in file permissions of /var/lib/php/ between slack and > armed slack: [..] Thanks Hans, I know why that is. I'll put out a patch package for 14.0 & a -current update soon. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www

Re: [ARMedslack] Upset regarding raspberry pi - unsuported.-Opinion

2012-12-27 Thread Stuart Winter
e ARM's. You can find his email address here: http://www.slackware.org.uk/ -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Upset regarding raspberry pi - unsuported.-Opinion

2012-12-27 Thread Stuart Winter
need to work on how to upgrade > the system and preserve my content... It doesn't matter what version of gcc you build the kernel with really, as long as it's reasonably recent. You'd need a cross compiler anyway, which is independent from the host toolchain. Unless you wa

Re: [ARMedslack] Upset regarding raspberry pi - unsuported.-Opinion

2012-12-27 Thread Stuart Winter
to lucid dreaming where they can act the stuff out again, as far as I can tell. Vi? heh. I wish '!Zap' could be ported to Linux. http://zap.tartarus.org/screenshots It was the best editor in the entire solar system. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___

Re: [ARMedslack] Upset regarding raspberry pi - unsuported.-Opinion

2012-12-25 Thread Stuart Winter
Also, it just occurred to me that an App Store isn't much different from a big 5.25" floppy disk containing loads of BASIC programs you could load in and run. The concepts are the same, just the name and the format changes. -- Stuart W

Re: [ARMedslack] Upset regarding raspberry pi - unsuported.-Opinion

2012-12-25 Thread Stuart Winter
7;ve read, they want to try and provide a system on which youngsters can develop software, scripts and so on. On the BBC, we had direct access to BBC BASIC and 6502 Assembler. People made some great software in BBC BASIC, and it's where I learnt started learning about programming and computer

Re: [ARMedslack] Using a bootdisk to install armedslack on TrimSlice

2012-12-16 Thread Stuart Winter
itful, where did you get the 2010 firmware from? -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-12-10 Thread Stuart Winter
atch the init script to accept both parameters. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-12-09 Thread Stuart Winter
So your issue is your u-boot parameters: http://pastebin.com/XLyCFiGV [0.00] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda3 rootdelay=10 rootfstype=ext4 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),4M(uImage),32M(rootfs),-(data) It should be 'rootfs=' not 'rootfstype='. Also Slackware's i

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-12-09 Thread Stuart Winter
> > When I had a similar problem myself, I unpacked the kirkwood's initrd and > > put in the classic "print" statements into the init script to find out > > where it was broken. > > I've built my own kernel now (same version like 14.0 and based on your > config). I've just added the needed drivers

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-11-30 Thread Stuart Winter
> On 30 November 2012 13:03, Thorsten Mühlfelder wrote: > > > 4. changed some U-Boot settings to match my USB stick (rootfs=sda3, ext4) > > I am not familiar with that device but shouldn't you add "rootwait" ? Yes - try adding that. The fact that it worked with 13.37 doesn't really mean a lot,

Re: [ARMedslack] Bringing mlan0 up at boot

2012-11-30 Thread Stuart Winter
> > Exactly - if your WLAN is secured (most likely) then you'd need another > > service to help bring up the interface, so it doesn't seem that there's > > any value in adding this at boot. > > > > But would it bring mlan0 up anyway, instead of typing: > ifconfig mlan0 up I don't think it'll make

Re: [ARMedslack] Bringing mlan0 up at boot

2012-11-30 Thread Stuart Winter
't seem that there's any value in adding this at boot. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-11-30 Thread Stuart Winter
> But while booting the initrd system fails to mount the rootfs. You can find a > complete log here: > http://pastebin.com/XLyCFiGV You have four partitions not 3. What is on /dev/sda4? Is your /etc/fstab setup? You have a root shell there - can you share what you have done to investigate it?

Re: [ARMedslack] fltk

2012-11-23 Thread Stuart Winter
> slackbuilds.org has a few versions of fltk - perhaps you can compile it? > > http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/libraries/fltk/ I'm in the giving mood ;-) http://armed.slackware.com/misc/ It got me thinking that it'd be great to have a set of the most commonly requested packages from SBo

Re: [ARMedslack] fltk

2012-11-23 Thread Stuart Winter
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Davide wrote: > > Anyone know where to get an arm binary for fltk-1.1 that also works on > Slackware ARM 14 ? slackbuilds.org has a few versions of fltk - perhaps you can compile it? http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/libraries/fltk/ -- Stuart Winter Slac

Re: [ARMedslack] Mounting installer initrd on Chrome OS: would it work

2012-11-21 Thread Stuart Winter
ike is on about though regarding supporting ARM hard float. You don't "migrate away" to hard ware floating point, as then you cannot support the devices that do not have a hardware floating point unit. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org __

Re: [ARMedslack] Mounting installer initrd on Chrome OS: would it work

2012-11-21 Thread Stuart Winter
> > You might not have that symlink. > > root@pepa:~# ls -la /lib/ld-linux.so.3 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 12 10:01 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 -> ld-2.15.so* > > localhost / # find / -name ld-linux.so.3 > localhost / # > > localhost / # find / -name ld-2.15.so > /lib/ld-2.15.so > > localhost / # ls

Re: [ARMedslack] Mounting installer initrd on Chrome OS: would it work

2012-11-20 Thread Stuart Winter
10:01 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 -> ld-2.15.so* It also might be that the kernel is unable to execute soft float binaries. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.or

Re: [ARMedslack] Mounting installer initrd on Chrome OS: would it work

2012-11-19 Thread Stuart Winter
> Thanks, the problem is I don't have cpio on Chrome OS. I am working on What stops you from downloading the package and extracting the cpio binary? You can clearly mount an external device, so I'm not really sure what the issue is. ___ ARMedslack mailin

Re: [ARMedslack] Mounting installer initrd on Chrome OS: would it work

2012-11-19 Thread Stuart Winter
tile image: mkdir installerdir cpio -di < ../Downloads/initrd-versatile -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Mounting installer initrd on Chrome OS: would it work

2012-11-18 Thread Stuart Winter
> before I attempt to so something stupid, would it work if I mounted > the Slackware installer initrd onto Chrome OS and then I attemped an > installation on a local partition? (Yes, I know it's not elegant, but You wouldn't mount it, you'd just unpack it into a dir and chroot into it. You'd n

Re: [ARMedslack] Where is libjpeg.so.62 ?

2012-11-17 Thread Stuart Winter
> I am not even sure this is the right package but anyway, I have > unpacked this zip file into my home directory. I think I have > installed all dependencies but the only unfullfilled one is > libjppeg.so.62. libjpeg6b isn't included in Slackware which is why it's not available. I compiled it a

[ARMedslack] rsync 'armedslack' module has been removed from ftp.armedslack.org

2012-11-12 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi The rsync module 'armedslack' has now been removed from ftp.armedslack.org If you have the 'armedslack' name in any config files or scripts, now's the time to rename it 'slackwarearm' Cheers s. -- Stuart Winte

Re: [ARMedslack] Missing firmware for Ralink RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

2012-10-30 Thread Stuart Winter
It's patch-o-rama this week! > I copied the rt2* and rt3* firmware files from /lib/firmware on my laptop to > the trimslice and that fixed the problem. Wireless interface is now up. I did wonder if anybody'd ever notice that I was bundling the firmware from the kernel source tree rather than th

Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-30 Thread Stuart Winter
other people's kernels. If there is, I'll be getting one of these as it matches my goal of having a laptop running Slackware ARM. But then the dream will be fulfilled so I might have to stop working on Slackeare and get a new hobby ;-) -- Stuart Wi

Re: [ARMedslack] Failed to Boot ARMSlackware [13.37] in Beagle Board -xm - Rev C

2012-10-30 Thread Stuart Winter
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, chekkizhar N wrote: > ok. I will wait and meanwhile will do searching as Stuart told. > I got this mail today [30/10/2012 in India ] only. > But, the question and the reply was made on that day [ Sun, 21 Oct 2012 ] > itself. > So, what went wrong? Time zone config on the l

Re: [ARMedslack] fix for missing Xvnc in tightvnc

2012-10-28 Thread Stuart Winter
Thanks - I'll be putting out a patched package in 14.0 that contains Xvnc. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Failed to Boot ARMSlackware [13.37] in Beagle Board -xm - Rev C

2012-10-21 Thread Stuart Winter
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, chekkizhar N wrote: [..] > 1. Created soft link, uImage, which points to uImage-kirkwood-2.6.38.4, in > /etc/boot dir. > 2. Edited the console port number to ttyS2 from ttyS0 in /etc/fstab file /etc/boot? what is using /etc/boot ? serial console in /etc/fstab? I assume you

Re: [ARMedslack] fix for missing Xvnc in tightvnc

2012-10-10 Thread Stuart Winter
> before I had my own Xvnc I used x11vnc, but I need Xvnc for xrdp > # CAUTION: make raspberrypi X server accessible without password! > /usr/bin/x11vnc -display :0 & x11vnc is in /extra already and works for me. Is there something wrong with it? -- Stuart Winter

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMv4 assembler optimizations for OpenSSL

2012-10-04 Thread Stuart Winter
[..] > I'll add the new packages into patches in 14.0. Done! ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMv4 assembler optimizations for OpenSSL

2012-10-04 Thread Stuart Winter
ifysign/s verify/s dsa 512 bits 0.000886s 0.000960s 1128.6 1041.7 dsa 1024 bits 0.002722s 0.003172s367.4315.3 dsa 2048 bits 0.009785s 0.011479s102.2 87.1 I'll add the new packages into patches in 14.0. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armeds

Re: [ARMedslack] Installing Slackware 14.0 on Sheevaplug (with ESATA)

2012-10-01 Thread Stuart Winter
[..] > I think it might be that the variable inside u-boot has changed. I don't > don't have an ESATA Sheevaplug, and would have had to look up the arch > numbers from another source -- which I assume were correct at the time. Yes that's what's happened - this is the upstream version, as it says

Re: [ARMedslack] Installing Slackware 14.0 on Sheevaplug (with ESATA)

2012-10-01 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi Michael, Thanks for your mail. [..] > U-Boot: > It seems like you can't boot the new kernel that is delivered with Slackware > 14.0 (3.4.11) with an older U-Boot version (mine was from mid 2011, iirc). The > bootup process will hang after "Uncompressing linux kernel...". My first guess > was

[ARMedslack] Slackware 14.0 is released

2012-09-28 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi! Slackware x86, x86_64 and ARM v14.0 is released today. Instead of pasting the same content as the web site, you can read it here instead :-) http://www.armedslack.org/ Happy release day and have a good weekend upgrading Stuart.! -- Stuart Winter www.slackware.com/~mozes Slackware for

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi summary of my first installation

2012-09-21 Thread Stuart Winter
> when I'm using installpkg */*t?z to install the slackware packages, they > are sorted and a/aaa_base and a/aaa_elflibs are the first packages that are > installed, I don't have to take extra care for that They may become unsorted, or sorted differently depending on your setting of LC_COLLATE.

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi summary of my first installation

2012-09-21 Thread Stuart Winter
[..] > installed 4 packages on raspbian, cd / > tar xvzf /mnt/armedslack/armedslack-current/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz ; sh > ./install/doinst.sh ; rm -rf ./install > tar xvzf /mnt/armedslack/armedslack-current/slackware/a/tar-*.tgz ; sh > ./install/doinst.sh ; rm -rf ./install tar xvzf > /

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