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| minute | bkeys41: look at reform-windowmaker | 00:15 |
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| minute | bkeys41: you can adapt the script for another x11 wm | 00:15 |
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| minute | bkeys41: "nothing works on it" is also such a broad overgeneralization that i find it hard to help | 00:17 |
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| cinap_lenrek | http://felloff.net/usr/cinap_lenrek/music/pll2.mp3 | 00:53 |
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| tinybronca[m] | Hi all I just found this site: https://www.slant.co/topics/15760/~notebooks-based-on-arm-processors | 01:27 |
| tinybronca[m] | It says cons for MNT Reform " NVME slot operates at PCI-E 1.0 1x speeds. That's slower than a SATA drive. " | 01:28 |
| tinybronca[m] | What would be required to update this, for example a new SOM with SOC supporting faster PCI-e? | 01:28 |
| tinybronca[m] | or do you need to change the entire motherboard? | 01:28 |
| tinybronca[m] | also why does it say this: " Nonfree firmware baked into SOC chip set, so no non-free firmware in software stack. Unable to be updated. " | 01:29 |
| tinybronca[m] | I thought all ARM SOCs have at least code in SOC to start boot.... what else is there in MNT Reform? | 01:30 |
| tinybronca[m] | They don't have this warning for the other laptops, only MNT Reform | 01:30 |
| sknebel | That tells you how much you should trust their "evaluations" I guess ;) | 01:47 |
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| kfx | tinybronca[m]: the nonfree firmware is the ddr timings, and optionally a blob for the hdmi port | 01:50 |
| cinap_lenrek | arent the ddr timings from boundary? | 01:51 |
| tinybronca[m] | kfx: thanks.... any insight on faster PCI-E and more recent NVMe versions? | 01:51 |
| cinap_lenrek | ddr timings usually depend on the length of the traces on the board | 01:51 |
| kfx | whoever complained about that is a bit of an idiot. it's a 1.5ghz arm computer. if you want a zomg gaming rig then go buy that. | 01:52 |
| kfx | I get about 200MB/s read speed, but I use full-disk encryption so it'll be a bit faster without that | 01:53 |
| kfx | cinap_lenrek: yes the timings blob came from upstream as far as I know, same for the hdmi blob | 01:53 |
| tinybronca[m] | kfx: I'd want faster SSD read/write even with 1.5GHz ARM machine, it says even slower than SATA | 01:53 |
| vkoskiv | kfx: Are you using luks or some hardware encryption? | 01:53 |
| kfx | vkoskiv: luks | 01:53 |
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| vkoskiv | Cool. I think I'll use that as well. Any weirdness when setting that up or is it normal? | 01:54 |
| cinap_lenrek | ddr timings are not something you can get hacked from | 01:54 |
| kfx | cinap_lenrek: I'd bet a huge amount of money whoever complains about ddr blobs does so from a macbook | 01:54 |
| cinap_lenrek | they'r a result of some calculations of the board and some systematic trial and error to get good center values covering variations in manufacturing | 01:55 |
| kfx | tinybronca[m]: it's not a meaningful difference | 01:55 |
| kfx | we're talking fractions of a second unless you're regularly writing multi-gigabyte files | 01:56 |
| tinybronca[m] | kfx: how is it not? I though it was big performance bottleneck | 01:56 |
| kfx | many, many people in here use this machine as their main computer, and some of us just keep a fast desktop to remote into if they need horsepower | 01:57 |
| kfx | tinybronca[m]: I don't know what to tell you. it depends on what you do with computers, I guess | 01:57 |
| kfx | but that one anonymous sentence from some random internet stranger is not worth much | 01:57 |
| kfx | here is a channel full of people you can ask if they are mad at their nvme drive speeds | 01:58 |
| vkoskiv | I added cluster render support to the renderer I wrote so I can use it from my reform but offload the heavy compute to my desktop over the network :D | 01:58 |
| kfx | at least one person in here started out with reservations about the speed of the mnt reform and has since expressed that it was fine and they were surprised at how capable it turned out to be | 01:59 |
| vkoskiv | As long as my reform runs vim smoothly, I'm happy :D | 01:59 |
| kfx | for my part, I'm incredibly picky about laptops, and the reform is the only arm laptop I don't absolutely hate | 02:01 |
| kfx | this reminds me, I meant to put all these pine64 devices on ebay | 02:02 |
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| kfx | because I really, really hate them. | 02:02 |
| cinap_lenrek | kfx: or a fire. | 02:02 |
| kfx | good idea. they're called pine for a reason, I guess | 02:03 |
| cinap_lenrek | will they crack? ONLY WAY TO FIND OUT! | 02:03 |
| sl | one of my old friends used to shoot his old computers | 02:03 |
| kfx | the only device I hated so much that I ritually destroyed it was my ipod | 02:03 |
| kfx | that one got crushed in a hydraulic press | 02:03 |
| sl | i was pretty mad when i found out there was no gapless playback | 02:13 |
| tinybronca[m] | <kfx> "this reminds me, I meant to..." <- what is the GPU performance like between them? Someone told me Panfrost is much more feature complete and performant of a driver than etnaviv | 02:21 |
| tinybronca[m] | but I have no hardware to run benchmarks | 02:22 |
| kfx | I can't answer that question because I don't do things that need GPUs | 02:31 |
| kfx | the pinebook pro didn't work correctly for more than a week at a time anyway | 02:31 |
| kfx | all of the available operating systems are garbage and they break regularly | 02:31 |
| tinybronca[m] | I've talked to people who use it as daily driver | 03:28 |
| tinybronca[m] | <kfx> "the pinebook pro didn't work..." <- why did it not work correctly? | 03:28 |
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| kfx | the hardware is pretty bad but the available distributions are unreliable, so random shit just stops working | 03:33 |
| kfx | I'm sure manjaro users are accustomed to this but I don't have time for that crap | 03:33 |
| bkeys41 | kfx I can confirm that nothing runs nicely on the pinebook pro; I have enjoyed the Reform a lot more | 03:41 |
| bkeys41 | I'd say this is the coolest laptop I have ever had | 03:41 |
| kfx | when the pinebook pro is working correctly it's a decent machine. but it works correctly about a third of the time and there's no way to predict when it will break, so there's no point in owning it | 03:56 |
| kfx | I'm sure it's a fun toy for the right person but I am not that person | 03:56 |
| vagrantc | ACTION uses pinebook pro as a primary computer quite happily | 03:58 |
| vagrantc | though the mnt/reform is pretty nice too :) | 03:58 |
| vagrantc | ACTION used the older, slower pinebook for a coupel years, too | 03:59 |
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| kfx | I should sell mine as a set: pinebook pro, pinephone plus keyboard case, pinenote | 04:18 |
| kfx | the Failed to Live Up to Potential Boxed Set | 04:18 |
| vagrantc | heh | 04:53 |
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| verx | that’s pretty accurate. I have Pinephone Pro, the keyboard, and it feels like a big pile of wasted potential | 05:34 |
| verx | Reform still feels like an investment | 05:35 |
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| bkeys41 | I really like using rpm based distros and mainline Fedora doesn't have audio at all on the pinebook pro | 06:15 |
| bkeys41 | But I do get hardware acceleratin. My end goal is to get Fedora on my reform (which I am typing this on) but this laptop is a simple joy to use compared to any other laptop I have ever had; including the older thinkpads | 06:16 |
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| josch | bkeys41: what problems do you have with libreoffice and gimp? | 06:47 |
| tinybronca[m] | and if you like rpms maybe you don't compile? | 06:48 |
| bkeys41 | josch I don't have any problems with those softwares | 06:50 |
| josch | ah i read the backlog wrongly | 06:50 |
| bkeys41 | So I talked with the guy who maintains the fedora ARM effort; and he says Fedora does not use boot.scr at all and that uboot simply implements UEFI and that is all that Fedora needs | 06:52 |
| bkeys41 | I guess I have to figure out how that all is going to work on the Reform's version of uboot | 06:53 |
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| bkeys41 | Usually on other boards as long as the uboot is on either SPI or eMMC it boots out of the box | 06:55 |
| josch | Interesting. I don't own a single ARM device with UEFI. Now I know why I'll never run Fedora on any of them. ;) | 06:55 |
| bkeys41 | Well uboot implements the UEFI interface | 06:56 |
| bkeys41 | So it usually works out of the box so long as uboot isn't on the same device that Fedora is on. So on the Reform I am going to have to run uboot on eMMC and have Fedora on the nvme drive in here | 06:56 |
| bkeys41 | Then I will probably take the patches that are in the reform kernel and build a custom kernel to boot from; and I should be good from there | 06:57 |
| vagrantc | you'll almost certainly need a newer version of u-boot closer to mainline, where the EFI support is more mature | 06:58 |
| bkeys41 | Does the Reform not use a recent version of uboot? | 06:58 |
| vagrantc | ~2018, if i recall correctly | 06:58 |
| vagrantc | there are patches submitted to mainline, but ... i've had mixed luck getting them to work | 06:59 |
| bkeys41 | The guy leading the fedora ARM effort says that uboot has supported EFI for a very long time | 07:00 |
| vagrantc | ACTION shrugs | 07:01 |
| bkeys41 | I will have to give it a go; I still burnt my carrier board and it only uses 7 of the batteries, then I left it on too long and killed the rest of them. I got new batteries coming in | 07:01 |
| vagrantc | never found the support to be decent until the last few years | 07:01 |
| bkeys41 | All Fedora needs it to do is boot grub, at which point that boots the kernel | 07:01 |
| vagrantc | yeah, i know how it works :) | 07:03 |
| vagrantc | i mean, the birds-eye view, anyways :) | 07:03 |
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| flowy | my screen jitters/shakes/glitches during any significant wifi activity. in sway. sysimagev3 up to date. familiar to anyone? | 14:31 |
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| Boostisbetter | Nope and that is weird. Do you have your wifi antenna cables running near the display cable? | 15:31 |
| Boostisbetter | Could interference be a problem? | 15:32 |
| bkeys41 | flowy Mine did the same thing, interestingly enough | 16:01 |
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| minute | bkeys: i'm running KDE plasma desktop on reform right now | 16:22 |
| minute | i am using system image v3 and did `sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland` | 16:23 |
| minute | bkeys: and to start, `dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland` | 16:23 |
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| bkeys74 | minute when you have time, I did a writeup of all the debugging I tried to do. If there is anything else you suggest me try let me know. | 16:34 |
| bkeys74 | https://cloud.bkeys.local/s/3PHRPcT3bADYsFC | 16:34 |
| bkeys74 | Here is a link to the writeup | 16:34 |
| minute | bkeys74: i just wrote you some messages here about KDE | 16:34 |
| minute | bkeys74: did you see? | 16:34 |
| bkeys74 | https://cloud.bkeys.org/s/3PHRPcT3bADYsFC | 16:35 |
| bkeys74 | Accidentally sent link for my LAN | 16:35 |
| bkeys74 | And no, I am still on this web client atm | 16:35 |
| bkeys74 | I read some you sent, I don't know if I got all of them | 16:35 |
| minute | bkeys74: i am running KDE plasma at this moment | 16:35 |
| minute | it's pretty nice tbh | 16:35 |
| bkeys74 | What did you have to do? | 16:36 |
| minute | bkeys74: i already had some kde packages, but i mainly did: `sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland`, and in a console: `dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland` | 16:36 |
| minute | and then it started pretty quickly | 16:36 |
| minute | this did not work around half a year ago | 16:37 |
| minute | but the desktop feels stable and responsive | 16:37 |
| bkeys74 | I will see about replicating it over here. Does my cloud link work for you? | 16:37 |
| minute | bkeys74: yeah | 16:37 |
| minute | bkeys74: i read your report, but if you want to start a real process about this you have to write this to support@mntre.com please | 16:38 |
| bkeys74 | Am I good to just copy paste my report to an email and send it there? | 16:38 |
| minute | bkeys74: sure | 16:39 |
| bkeys74 | I know you are a very busy person, would you suggest me try to get it done locally or send it to you (if you are willing). Also since 7 of the cells work it isn't too terrible to live with, if you have a season or month that is less busy for you I'd be willing to send it in then as well | 16:40 |
| minute | josch: i think we should ship a minimal version of KDE plasma-wayland as an additional desktop, it appears very usable | 16:40 |
| minute | bkeys74: if you can find someone locally that would be fantastic, as we could then also recommend such a shop to other people overseas (from us). shipping the board back and forth alone will cost at least 70-80 euro | 16:41 |
| minute | bkeys74: also, you absolutely cannot use the charger with 7 of 8 cells working, it will damage the battery system over time i think | 16:41 |
| bkeys74 | Yeah I looked at how much it would cost me to ship it to Germany and it was about the same in USD | 16:41 |
| bkeys74 | Duly noted | 16:41 |
| minute | bkeys74: but you can use the system without batteries on the power brick of course | 16:42 |
| bkeys74 | Yeah; I will turn everything off and remove it all | 16:42 |
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| bkeys1 | minute: It now says each battery is at 5.3V, the boards are disconnected and the batteries are out of the laptop | 16:53 |
| bkeys1 | Does that sound right to you? | 16:53 |
| minute | bkeys1: yes, that's fine | 16:56 |
| bkeys1 | Okay good, so likely no damage done | 16:56 |
| bkeys1 | I will call the PCB people. Hopefully they don't charge me too much, but this laptop is also really cool so I'd really like to have it back how it was | 16:57 |
| bkeys1 | minute: Now when I get on my work laptop my thumb tries to feel around for a trackball | 16:57 |
| minute | bkeys1: luckily all schematics are available ^^ | 16:59 |
| bkeys1 | Yeah I was thinking that, that and it's not like its where any real logic happens; it's just where the battery connects | 16:59 |
| minute | bkeys1: it could be one of the big discharge resistors or mosfets | 17:00 |
| bkeys1 | minute: I just got off the phone with a company; they said they do more industrial stuff and I tried to make it clear that this isn't a typical laptop repair that it is an I.MX8 board which is commonly used in industrial stuff and it's a SoM/Carrier board set up which is also common in industrial stuff | 17:07 |
| minute | interesting | 17:07 |
| minute | yeah it's closer related to industrial boards indeed | 17:07 |
| bkeys1 | I remember using I.MX8 for a project at work, since I am an embedded software developer by trade so there is no way these people have never seen a I.MX8 board | 17:07 |
| minute | correct | 17:07 |
| minute | also, all documentation and datasheets are available | 17:07 |
| bkeys1 | They might tell me no but I will try to make it as clear in my email to their team that this is basically what they do, it's just "unusual" for I.MX8 to be seen in a laptop | 17:08 |
| minute | they won't even need to mess with the imx part | 17:08 |
| bkeys1 | I will make it also clear to them that all the schematics and such are available | 17:08 |
| bkeys1 | Theoretically this is a rather easy repair, it's just a matter of finding a party that is willing | 17:08 |
| minute | yep | 17:08 |
| bkeys1 | I gotta be afk for a bit; mind reposting the commands that install KDE? I am on my actual IRC client now so I have logging | 17:08 |
| bkeys1 | Thank you for your help | 17:09 |
| minute | bkeys1: > i already had some kde packages, but i mainly did: `sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland`, and in a console: `dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland | 17:09 |
| minute | bkeys1: i assume you are on system image v3 | 17:09 |
| minute | bkeys1: also, make sure to do `sudo apt update` before | 17:09 |
| bkeys1 | At the moment yes, I have the nvme drive detected and such but my long term goal is to get Fedora on here | 17:10 |
| bkeys1 | Which should be easy as long as the uboot supports UEFI | 17:10 |
| minute | sure, just give kde plasma a spin before so you have seen it can work ^^ | 17:11 |
| bkeys1 | Yeah I like KDE a lot more than gnome | 17:11 |
| minute | i can understand that... it's also faster on reform than gnome | 17:11 |
| bkeys1 | Alright, time to ride off and run some errands on my electric bike. I will keep you updated on how me asking these people to repair it goes | 17:12 |
| minute | dolphin (the file manager) is really snappy | 17:12 |
| bkeys1 | There are plenty of places in the US that do PCB repairs one of them has to say yes. Actually come to mind, when we used I.MX8 at my previous job we actually had a place do repairs on our I.MX8 board and other circuit modifications to it. I will also contact my old boss and ask for their contact info | 17:13 |
| minute | cool | 17:13 |
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| + chomwitt (~chomwitt@2a02:587:dc1f:5600:f6a9:3725:b3e3:513d) | 17:40 | |
| minute | konqueror is also an interesting alternative to firefox and chromium... it's def. faster than firefox | 17:57 |
| josch | minute: re plasma-wayland: you mean just by including the package in the full image? We should then also add the "dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland" instruction to /etc/motd-full | 18:54 |
| minute | yeah, or include a wrapper script... i just need to determine which packages comprise a minimal functional kde plasma desktop | 18:59 |
| josch | I think a wrapper script would make sense. We | 19:01 |
| josch | .[5;5~ | 19:01 |
| josch | sorry, baby | 19:01 |
| kfx | probably kde-standard | 19:02 |
| josch | I think a wrapper script would make sense. We already have ~/.local/bin/gnome | 19:02 |
| minute | yep! | 19:07 |
| minute | we could use "kde" or "plasma" | 19:08 |
| josch | we should probably also remove the line "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 0" from ~/.local/bin/gnome because we now suspend using systemd | 19:08 |
| josch | kfx: I don't think installing kde-standard is very smart -- that would make the image more than 3.5 GB larger. | 19:11 |
| minute | josch: i'm not sure if waking is intuitive enough yet though | 19:15 |
| + vagrantc (~vagrant@2600:3c01:e000:21:7:77:0:20) | 19:19 | |
| josch | minute: "intuitive"? Do you maybe mean "reliable"? I don't understand why it wouldn't be intuitive. | 19:20 |
| kfx | josch: as a target package for the script to install, I mean. it's smaller than task-kde-desktop, and debian seems to lack the concept of 'minimal kde'. but, to be fair, kde also seems to lack that concept. | 19:39 |
| vagrantc | josch: merged the linux/initramfs-tools stuff :) ... i presume there are other patches not yet mainlined to actually use them, though? | 19:49 |
| minute | josch: the waking up shortcut is kind of hidden. i think we should change it so that any keypress wakes the computer up again | 20:11 |
| + littlebobeep (~alMalsamo@gateway/tor-sasl/almalsamo) | 20:25 | |
| - littlebobeep (QUIT: Ping timeout: 240 seconds) (~alMalsamo@gateway/tor-sasl/almalsamo) | 20:55 | |
| josch | kfx: I think I understood you correctly. Installing kde-standard as the package to install in the script, then it pulls in over 1 GB of dependencies taking up another 3.5 GB of disk space once installed. So maybe instead of installing kde-standard we should install a subset of its dependencies? | 21:03 |
| josch | vagrantc: yes, all our not-yet-mainlined patches are here: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-debian-packages/-/tree/main/linux/patches | 21:03 |
| josch | minute: ah okay, yes, that would make sense :) | 21:03 |
| - bkeys1 (QUIT: Remote host closed the connection) (~Thunderbi@static-198-54-135-37.cust.tzulo.com) | 21:06 | |
| kfx | that's a hard thing to define. kde's just not a minimal system. kde-plasma-desktop and plasma-nm might be enough? but kde folks would probably recommend kate and okular as well. leaving out kmail (and other kde-pim projects) would save a ton. | 21:07 |
| kfx | I can't remember if kde-plasma-desktop brings in konsole... | 21:08 |
| + littlebobeep (~alMalsamo@gateway/tor-sasl/almalsamo) | 21:08 | |
| josch | kfx: kde-plasma-desktop brings in kde-baseapps which depends on konsole | 21:08 |
| kfx | ok, that's good | 21:08 |
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| + littlebobeep (~alMalsamo@gateway/tor-sasl/almalsamo) | 21:20 | |
| vagrantc | josch: that's a pretty manageable level of patches, at least | 21:22 |
| josch | vagrantc: did you see the 7k line mnt5000-imx8mq-import-HDMI-driver-and-make-DCSS-compatible.patch monster? | 21:23 |
| vagrantc | josch: well, sure, some of them are ... pretty long ... :) | 21:23 |
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| + bkeys1 (~Thunderbi@static-198-54-135-37.cust.tzulo.com) | 21:36 | |
| + littlebobeep (~alMalsamo@gateway/tor-sasl/almalsamo) | 21:47 | |
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| + littlebobeep (~alMalsamo@gateway/tor-sasl/almalsamo) | 22:29 | |
| bkeys1 | minute: Indeed Plasmma does run very well on here | 22:46 |
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| + littlebobeep (~alMalsamo@gateway/tor-sasl/almalsamo) | 22:50 | |
| minute | bkeys1: cool! | 22:56 |
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| * ChanServ changed mode (+o, minute) | 22:58 | |
| * minute changed mode (+b, littlebobeep!*@*) | 23:00 | |
| vagrantc | josch: hrm. just barely missed the upload to linux, apparently :/ | 23:21 |
| vkoskiv | the merge window? | 23:31 |
| vagrantc | nah, just some weird branch uses of the debian kernel team | 23:31 |
| vagrantc | josch: next time propose to merge into sid instead of master, if it's appropriate | 23:32 |
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