2023-10-19.log

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violeti have also had lockups after long periods of idle. but like, not consistently06:32
violetjust, every now and then06:32
violeti think only twice now actually06:33
violetand i suspected it might be thermal related or something because i had it sitting on a surface that does not conduct heat well06:33
doctorhoojosch: thanks for the tip, I will try your workaround!06:36
doctorhooviolet: I have had a similar suspicion that heat could play a role; with the laptop sitting in the evening sun for example, it seems to happen quicker; however, it also locks up in the middle of the night with much cooler conditions and I have never had it lock up having it sit on my lap and with almost constant CPU load.. But still, I have been meaning to exchange the silver paste on the CPU at some point, will try that too :06:40
violetbodies *are* pretty good heat sinks in my experience06:41
violetlots of water, lots of thermal mass06:41
doctorhooviolet: Interresting points! Do you have a specific component in mind that you think is affected by overheating?07:09
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joschfor me, i have my reform on 24/7 and it *never* locked up again since i switched from "dpms off" to "brightnessctl set 0"08:18
joschit can happily compile linux for six hours on all four cores while being placed on the couch cushion08:19
vkoskivhttps://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara09:19
vkoskivI imagine it would look much like that if MNT decided to enter the music player space :D09:19
minutei only had lockups if i forgot to enable my swapfile and ran out of memory in unhappy ways09:43
joschminute: but how do you put your display to sleep?09:58
joschdo you use dpms off or brightnessctl?09:59
joschminute: here are again images with reform-tools 1.33 together with the changes to u-boot to all three platforms that we have discussed. This includes the changes to the cmdline with cma=512 https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-system-image/-/jobs/2386/artifacts/browse10:06
minutejosch: ah. i do not10:15
minutejosch: or, i manually do it with brightnessctl, no dpms10:15
joschthen that explains :)10:15
joschi had my reform connected via serial when putting the display to sleep via dmps but nothing shows up in dmesg10:16
joschit just stops responding10:16
joschinteresting how for eery it also happens with a311d10:16
minuteweird10:25
joschthis should've been something i should've tested with ls1028a... next time then10:31
minutebpi cm5 seems alive, but afaik there's no mainline support for a311d2 yet https://mastodon.social/@bananapi/11126073885939386010:39
joschi worry that potential customers will again be put off by "only" having 4 GB of ram -- even more so in a year or so once support for it ends up in mainline linux and people expect even *more* ram in their machines...10:49
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vkoskivIt does say "Max 8G" on their wiki page about the A311D211:06
- Boostisbetter (QUIT: Ping timeout: 255 seconds) (4a410829d7@irc.cheogram.com)12:06
violetdoctorhoo: i dunno, just the laptop in general. bottom was somewhat uncomfortable to the touch12:06
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violetram is so overrated lol12:07
violetgood to have but overrated12:07
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joschBefore i had the reform i had 12 g of ram. The only thing I'm missing is to have a huge scratch space in a tmpfs mounted /tmp.12:43
joschBut I can also see how other people have workloads that are different from mine and where much more than 4 gigs are necessary.12:43
minutejosch: yeah the interesting thing about a311d2 is the 8 gigs13:04
minuteand 8 cores13:04
joschdo the rockchip options that you are evaluating also have 8G+?13:05
erleregarding workloads, i recently had someone claim that having a single-digit of RAM was unbearable and then it turns out they were hugely addicted to electron apps13:07
joschspeaking of 8G: the reform also works with the imx8mplus, no? should we not build a system image for that as well and add support for that to reform-tools?13:07
erleor, as some call it, the webkit vulnerability portability framework13:07
erlesingle-digit GB of RAM i mean ;)13:07
joscherle: yeah that's what i meant with "different workloads" above. I don't have any electron thing installed and even with firefox and 4.2k tabs open I never saw any problems...13:09
joschthe other thing is compiling things with heavy c++ templating requirements13:09
joschwhich... incidentally... brings us back to chromium :D13:09
erle> 4.2k tabs open13:11
erlei think you beat me13:11
erleit crashes too often for me to get to that point13:11
erlei only manage hundreds13:11
erlehow do you manage those anyway, tree style tab?13:12
joschmost of them are never loaded into memory -- i think firefox only loads the few active ones13:12
joschi'm a heavy user of the %-search in the firefox address bar13:12
joschessentially i use tabs like other people use bookmarks13:13
erleto quote an acquaintance ”i am a turing machine going forwards and backwards through tabs”13:13
sknebelyeah, usually firefox is pretty good about only the tab-rendering processes crash when memory gets scarce13:13
erleon x86 i have this nasty thing that webrender manages to starve itself of memory at some point13:14
sknebelerle: ... tab-based esoteric programming language?!13:14
erlesknebel we have this already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)13:14
erle> Commands are composed of sequences of spaces, tab stops and linefeeds. All other characters are ignored and thus can be used for comments.13:15
sknebelwrong kind of tabs ;)13:15
erlei know13:15
erleyou should have made that comment context-free or regular!13:15
erlemy take is actually that every joke requires a misunderstanding, i.e. context-sensitivity13:15
erletherefore, jokes can not be unambiguously parsed13:16
sknebelhm...13:16
sknebelnot sure that follows?13:16
erlewell, you have to backtrack at last13:16
erleto reparse13:16
sknebelbecause with complete knowledge of the parser it could unambiguous what the ambiguity initially was?13:16
sknebelyeah13:16
erlebut during the parse you are lead astray13:17
erleled? i don't know englishing13:17
minutejosch: rockchip goes up to 32GB13:22
minutejosch: we're kind of phasing out the plus-for-reform option. we are not able to buy these in small quantities13:22
minutejosch: MOQ 40013:22
minutejosch: so we won't be able to order them later13:22
minutefor reforms13:22
joschokay, makes sense13:23
minuteand too much fragmentation for little gain13:23
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minutejosch: we found out today that the ls1028a display flashing can be remedied by just applying a few layers of isolation tape around the area of the flat cable that goes under the heatsink (until the origami section)13:27
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minutejosch: it looks like the most important thing is that the cable doesn't hug the hatsink nor the module too much. my theory is that it is about ground plane discontinuity13:27
minutes/hatsink/heatsink13:28
joschminute: could you post some photos of your setup so that i can replicate it the next time i install the ls1028a?13:28
+ GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon)13:28
minutejosch: yep, i'll ask greta to make a photo of the next one13:28
joschthank you! <313:28
minutejosch: https://chat.mnt.re/files/ns8auanantbz3j7dynnhq3both/public?h=wXs42GE59u5sH6hkrMife_z6iFgwtX0xduY6_dpshvs13:59
minutejosch: https://chat.mnt.re/files/ns8auanantbz3j7dynnhq3both/public?h=wXs42GE59u5sH6hkrMife_z6iFgwtX0xduY6_dpshvs13:59
minuteweird, these are the same link.14:00
minutejosch: https://chat.mnt.re/files/obizdah5m3fydyfhmza37nm1tc/public?h=uqGMKItuYk7pcWw-mmFUVAoQesDbj3xXfQbd3WTV5Os14:00
joschminute: thank you! that looks like it's quite some wide tape -- does its type matter much? i don't recognize the type from the photos14:05
minutejosch: the type doesn't matter. this one is called teraoka https://www.modulor.de/teraoka-klebeband-mit-gewebe-p-cut-nr-4140-50-mm-x-25-m-s-0-15-mm-gelb.html14:09
joschi'd wager it matters a little bit, given how my heatsink managed to get up to 84°C -- i'll try out what i have at home :)14:11
joschthis is certainly an easier fix than having to keep the ferrite ring around it14:14
joschhah i see in the corner that this board already has the jtag boot-fix applied :D14:14
joschi'm so happy that you found that *and* that it was easily fixable like this!14:14
minutejosch: can't tell you what a relief that was14:19
joschi probably cannot imagine anyways since i never had that much of my money depend on something like this XD14:20
joschit's quite the safe life if all you ever gamble is company money (without being the owner of that company)14:21
Boostisbetteryou know with suspend working flawlessly now, I think it might be time to work on power efficiency improvements. Particularly when in standby. I have noticed that all of the ports stay powered when in standby. If we could get consumption during standby down to around 50 or 25 mah I think that would make the Reform lasting a full day off the charger a lot more possible. 14:26
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joschi just finally migrated both my desktops at $work to the wayland+greetd+sway+waybar setup from my reform using the sway config from reform-tools. Much easier to switch between machines now. :)14:54
minutejosch: nice! which greeter for greetd?14:56
joschjust the default agreetd14:57
joschi do not need it to look nice for the three times a year that those machines get rebooted and i have to log in :D14:57
joschthough the list of available greeters on https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd/ did grow considerably since the last time i visited14:58
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vkoskivjosch: I also use sway + the reform config in my VM on my work mac15:24
vkoskivThough I never fully copied the needed configs, so some things don't match15:24
Boostisbetterthe greeters basically make it so that you log in similar to gnome instead of manually via the CLI?15:42
vkoskivSo the Reform charges at 48 watts with 24V @2A. I can put in up to 32V @ 1.5A, but if I were to plug in 9V @ ~5.3A, wouldn't that blow the 4A fuse at F1?15:43
minuteBoostisbetter: yup15:44
minutevkoskiv: do you have a power supply that can do 5+A?15:45
vkoskivI probably don't :D15:45
vkoskivI forget the max of my old bench supply, probably like 2.5A15:45
vkoskivBut if I were to just plug a 12V solar panel directly in the barrel jack, what would happen then?15:45
vkoskiv(Not going to, just wondering)15:46
minutedon't know!15:46
vkoskivI know enough to know big amp bad, if wire small15:46
vkoskivWould be a cool off-grid kinda thing to just plug a solar panel into this thing :D15:47
vkoskivACTION says, being extemely on-grid, living in a large city.15:47
Boostisbetterminute: any plans to move this into the official image, or do we feel that this is guiding the direction of Reform use too much? I don't have a problem with using the TTL to launch sway after logging in manually15:47
jfredYeah I hope that can be made to work without frying the Reform 😅15:47
vkoskivIf I understand correctly, the D13 diode is there if one were to hook the polarity up wrong15:48
vkoskivSo then it'd either overload the power supply, or worst case, blow F115:48
joschvkoskiv: you read about the other people in this chan who directly plugged their solar panel into their reform, right?15:51
vkoskivNope16:00
vkoskivI can grep the logs though16:00
vkoskivOh, there is me pondering this same thing in june 202216:01
joschah found it! noam was the one who powered their reform off of a solar panel by directly plugging it into their reform16:37
joschah and vagrant16:38
vkoskivI'm not sure if the boost converter knows to draw lower current if it detects the voltage dropping further16:39
vkoskivIs there any downsides to having a hidraw command like 'xJTBL' that makes the mcu jump into the bootloader?16:47
vkoskivI added that for the trackpad, and made flash.sh send that command, and it seems like a nice way to develop the firmware16:47
vkoskivi.e. no need to open the back to reflash16:47
vkoskivSame for the keyboard, I've been using circle+x to kick it into the bootloader to flash it, no need to remove the bezel16:48
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noamjosch: Hi yes I have done that23:17
joschnoam: you posted photos about that but those are offline now?23:18
noam...probably23:25
noamIf I post a photo, it's generally temporary23:25
noamI toss those in /tmp23:25
noam[on the server]23:25
noambut yeah, 12V nominal-100W panel plugged directly in through a DIY barrel jack adapter :P23:25
noamworked like a charm23:25
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