libera/#maemo-leste/ Tuesday, 2022-05-31

missMyN900it has been more than 1 h based on IRC time stamp00:00
missMyN900yeah, location must not be working on PP00:00
missMyN900even without A-GPS this seems excessive00:00
missMyN900or maybe the GPS module in the PP just isn't very good00:00
missMyN900alright guys I am going devel00:02
missMyN900wish me luck ;)00:02
missMyN900lots of updates00:02
missMyN900this is looking good00:03
missMyN900if I had not bought the PP already (to use as an LTE hotspot), I would have bought a DB if I was aware of ML00:05
missMyN900(I discovered ML because of the PP)00:08
missMyN900alright, I am going to do some Haiku testing/debugging00:09
missMyN900I am going to try it on some more laptops (I am getting rid of some old ones)00:10
missMyN900the 2G/3G situation is a lot worse than I thought: https://1ot.mobi/resources/blog/a-complete-overview-of-2g-3g-sunsets04:34
missMyN900it is a global problem04:34
missMyN900this is bad news for mapphones...04:35
missMyN900uvos__: why is Droid 4 support so difficult to maintain? Are there frequent regressions in the upstream kernel?06:10
missMyN900it certainly looks like the days of the OMAP phones (as actual phones) are finally numbered...06:11
missMyN900Pinephone will become more important for Leste then, despite its limitations06:11
missMyN900OMAP devices will only be good for nostalgia and as cheap dev devices but perhaps eventually the support burden may no longer be worth it?06:12
missMyN900theoretically you could use them with an LTE hotspot and VoIP but that is not very practical06:13
missMyN900I guess for norayr's WiFi-only friends they will be good06:14
uvos__there are frequent regessions/issues08:03
uvos__lots of stuff that dosent allways work right08:03
uvos__even the mapphones though 99% upstreamed in mainline, require various out of tree patches you have to maintain08:04
uvos__this isent specific to the d4, in fact its the least fussy device we support, since its support almost fully lives in upstream kernel.org repos and tmlind mostly maintains it for us.08:05
uvos__point is that these random arm devices are poorly supported and where there is support its poorly tested and where its tested no one cared about pm etc because it was tested on sbcs08:06
uvos__to give you a taste: the pp has constant lima problems and a absouly massive out of tree patch set you have to maintain, the n900 works with a mostly upstream kernel but it ends up failing to boot seemingly every other kernel release08:08
uvos__th only one that seams to quietly just work is bionic :P08:09
uvos__wrt 2g/3g shutdowns yeah its a big problem08:18
uvos__but we dont really have a alternative atm08:18
uvos__at least where live i looks like 2g will stick around until 2030ish08:18
uvos__there is also the possibility (dont hold you breath) of getting the mapphones LTE modem going08:19
sicelowrong @n900 failing to boot10:55
norayrheh, i think my pinephone started to sleep under leste.13:29
norayror i just started noticing it.13:29
norayrwhen i don't touch it, and then touch it, pidgin starts to reconnect.13:29
norayrthis are mnt reform specs: NXP/Freescale i.MX8MQ with 4x ARM Cortex-A53 cores (1.5 GHz), 1x Cortex-M4F core13:30
norayrinteresting, what you people know about it.13:31
norayrregarding linux support.13:31
norayrand i think they announced they work on a phone.13:32
norayror maybe i was far from the access point for some time.13:35
norayrlove this so much love this so much https://xn--y9azesw6bu.xn--y9a3aq/media/uploads/2022/05/31/ce12c8d9-4cd8-48fc-a2d5-32b004d8d585.png19:05
Wizzuppidgin?19:07
norayryep.19:07
Wizzupyeah it works19:07
norayreven the keyboard works well. if i tap on a field which already has something, it lets me edit it.19:07
norayrneed to build/package amazfish. it'll allow many watches to work. the default daemon conf is for systemd there, need to convert to sysv.19:08
norayrif bt will be recognized on device of course.19:09
Wizzupyes, that's the him gtk2 integration19:14
norayryeah that is great.19:30
Wizzupwe'll add it for gtk3 soon19:37
WizzupI am pretty sure the him port of it is trivial19:37
Wizzupat least, the im module itself19:37
Wizzupmaybe there are other patches that I don't know of19:37
missMyN900<uvos__> there is also the possibility (dont hold you breath) of getting the mapphones LTE modem going : problem is I think the mapphones LTE modem is useless in Europe or even on another US network19:56
norayrwhen i was doing keyboards i didn'g add dvorak's keybpard so i suffer every daywhen i was doing keyboards i didn'g add dvorak's keybpard so i suffer every day19:56
missMyN900norayr: I am a bit familiar with the MNT Reform19:57
norayromgomg19:57
missMyN900however, there is still one issue with it19:57
missMyN900I don't remember exactly19:57
missMyN900something battery related19:57
missMyN900that is a hassle19:57
missMyN900so I would not buy it until you have confirmed that has been fixed19:57
missMyN900also there is the issue of the i.MX8 being a bit dated19:57
missMyN900I mean, even an Allwinner H6 goes to 1.8 GHz at least19:58
missMyN900RK3566 has newer Cortex A55s19:58
missMyN900big cores would be nice for a laptop19:58
missMyN900I think higher clocked A55s would be acceptable for me personally19:58
missMyN900but 1.5 GHz A53 meh19:58
missMyN900for example, the new ODROID M1 has 2 GHz A55s (RK3568)19:59
missMyN900now *that* would be nice in an affordable laptop19:59
uvosits fairly unlikely that motorola really desinged a lte frontend that works on only one band19:59
missMyN900but how do you get it to work on other bands/20:00
uvosthe modem runs android with an exploitable bootloader20:00
missMyN900the modem runs Android???20:00
uvosyes20:00
uvosandroid 2.120:00
uvosits a omap220:00
uvoswith 128mb ram20:00
missMyN900the Motorola modem?20:00
uvosyes20:00
missMyN900so it is almost like the Pinephone then20:00
missMyN900PP has an A7 running Linux20:00
missMyN900in the Quectel EG-2520:01
uvosits way more over engeneered than the pinephone20:01
uvosthe modem has a gpu xD20:01
missMyN900nooo....20:01
missMyN900the LTE modem will definitely kill battery life though...20:01
missMyN900uvos: how is it possible that DB has so little issues?20:01
missMyN900isn't it very similar to the D4?20:01
uvosyes20:01
uvosbut for some reason it allways works slightly better than the d420:02
missMyN900also, I would hope that PP lima issues improve as it becomes more mature??20:02
uvosproblem is no one works on x20:02
missMyN900oh...20:02
missMyN900:(20:02
uvosso maybe but not really20:02
missMyN900what is the plan for the GTK2 parts of Hildon btw?20:03
missMyN900GTK3 or Qt5/6 eventually?20:03
uvosgtk2 forever probubly20:03
missMyN900and that means X11 forever...20:03
uvosswitching to wayland means rewrite20:04
uvosso yeah then you can go gtk3 at the same time20:04
uvosor qt whatever20:04
missMyN900I guess some day someone will have to make a Hildon clone UI20:04
missMyN900in new technologies20:04
missMyN900if we want the Hildon experience to live on20:04
missMyN900which I think is a good idea20:04
missMyN900actually, I had lost faith in mobile phones20:05
missMyN900until I got my PP but now that I know of the issues20:05
missMyN900I am still pessimistic20:05
missMyN900but I still believe in tablets20:05
missMyN900(and using some phones as tablets ;) )20:05
missMyN900and I think Hildon is good for tablets20:05
WizzupI downloaded a pinetab image from 2020 from archive.org to test if the display works20:07
Wizzupuvos: why gtk2 forever? it can be gtk320:07
missMyN900is there no PT image anymore?20:07
uvosWizzup: im pessimistic20:07
WizzupmissMyN900: there is, but the display doesn't work there20:07
Wizzupuvos: *shrug* yeah maybe20:07
missMyN900:(20:07
uvosfor what its worth20:07
missMyN900Wizzup: have you started working on suspend on the PP by chance?20:08
uvosthere was a iniative in fremantle that did port some stuff to gtk3 allready20:08
missMyN900but what is the point when there is already GTK420:08
uvosbut switching to wayland requires throwing away him, hildon-desktop at least20:08
missMyN900and GTK folks don't seem to care for anything but GNOME20:08
missMyN900uvos speaking of him20:09
uvosthe gtk3->4 transition fairly small20:09
missMyN900uvos: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtvirtualkeyboard-index.html20:10
missMyN900this is what qtwebbrowser uses20:10
missMyN900the features look pretty good20:10
missMyN900why not replace HIM with this everywhere?20:10
uvosyes i know20:10
missMyN900(at least in Qt5/6)20:10
uvosits very tightly tied to qt tho20:10
missMyN900most apps will be Qt though?20:11
uvosno20:11
uvosmost apps will be what every they please20:11
uvos*whatever20:11
missMyN900well, but there were already many Qt apps for the N900, right?20:11
uvossure20:11
missMyN900even the calculator and clock are Qt20:11
uvosthere are also millions of desktop linux applications20:11
uvosthat are not qt20:11
missMyN900anyway, speaking of qtvirtualkeyboard20:13
missMyN900I was checking out the qtwebbrowser source code yesterday20:13
missMyN900also, the Qt Docs page20:13
missMyN900and there don't seem to have been any major updates/improvements20:13
missMyN900I checked the SettingsView and there is no search engine choice option20:13
missMyN900Qt Docs page also only mentions Google20:14
missMyN900so I think I will continue modding qtwebbrowser20:14
missMyN900no need to wait20:14
uvosthey did add plugin support20:14
uvosthats a pretty big feature20:14
missMyN900well, but that doesn't really affect anything I wanted to work on though?20:15
uvosi dont know how far the codebase has diverged is the point20:15
uvosif you do want to make major improvements20:15
missMyN900I can use the new codebase as a starting point20:15
missMyN900and wait for Chimaera20:15
uvosit makese sense to check if they can apply to the new codebase20:15
missMyN900please don't expect too much from me ;)20:16
missMyN900I don't know anything about web browser dev20:16
missMyN900and am not an experienced Qt dev20:16
missMyN900so I am just looking for low hanging fruit20:16
missMyN900but I think any small improvement that improves the ML browsing experience at little cost is worth it20:17
missMyN900hmm Bullseye is on 5.1520:18
missMyN900so Chimaera would be too20:18
missMyN900isn't 5.15 a proprietary LTS though?20:18
uvosnot really20:19
uvosthe comunity just has to maintain the patchset itself20:19
uvosthe patches are still foss20:19
WizzupmissMyN900: no, not working on suspend for pp20:24
Wizzuplikely not high on my prio list20:24
missMyN900what is high on your prio list? :D20:24
Wizzupdroid 4 audio register fixes for calls, droid 4 ofono fixes, n900 u-boot patch20:25
Wizzupand conversations telepathy work for dsc20:25
missMyN900ah so no PP dev :(20:25
WizzupI was trying the pinephone keyboard the other day20:25
missMyN900does it work on ML?20:25
Wizzupbtw there are d4's on ebay atm: https://www.ebay.com/itm/17390394581220:25
missMyN900I would rather get a DB20:25
Wizzupit should work on ML, and it does from the experience of others, just not for me20:25
Wizzupbionic?20:25
missMyN900yes20:25
Wizzup*shrug* you can do that too :)20:26
missMyN900especially if uvos says they don't cause much trouble20:26
WizzupI like a hardware keyboard :)20:26
missMyN900me too20:26
Wizzupbionic lacks that20:26
missMyN900but I would rather get something that is in good condition20:26
missMyN900and not too expensive20:26
WizzupI think the d4 is in the same condition as the bionic20:26
Wizzupmaybe bionic has /slightly/ better pm20:26
missMyN900not as the new DBs20:27
Wizzupok then20:27
Wizzupup to you20:27
missMyN900but I am still on the fence20:27
missMyN900PP support will have to be improved eventually20:27
missMyN900as it is the future20:27
missMyN900and the more I use mine, the more I test it20:28
missMyN900PP with 3 GB RAM is also more usable as a tablet replacement20:28
missMyN900won't be using the DB as a phone anyway since I am not on Verizon20:28
missMyN900and Verizon does not register DBs anymore for new customers anyway if I wanted to switch20:28
missMyN900and 2G/3G is dead in the US20:28
missMyN900modern web with 1 GB RAM is not great...20:29
missMyN900pm is really an issue though. The PP drains within hours.20:30
missMyN900only way to avoid it is to turn it off completely20:30
missMyN900that is why suspend matters to me20:30
missMyN900I wouldn't mind trying something myself but to get it out of suspend again, I would have to connect it to the power button somehow20:30
Wizzupright, if you're in the us then the d4 is less of an option20:32
uvosthe bionic is not locked to verizon20:48
uvosso if tmobile allows new 2g/3g gsm phones20:48
uvosor att20:48
uvosi would work20:49
uvos*it20:49
uvosi use the modern web on the d4 quite a bit with ff20:49
uvosthe ram is never an issue20:50
uvosthe cpu speed however is20:50
missMyN900t-mobile has shut down their 3G20:53
missMyN900or at least they are very close to it20:54
missMyN900actually received a message from them on an Android phone that was incorrectly configured20:54
uvoswell if they continue with plain gsm20:54
uvosit would still work20:55
uvosfor calls at least20:55
missMyN900isn't it ironic that you would be going back in time essentially?20:58
missMyN900uvos: but basically if Xorg is not a priority for lima then PP/PT support on ML will never be as good as mapphones?21:12
missMyN900obvious solution would be the PPP... However, I doubt Panfrost cares much about Xorg21:13
WizzupI think panfrost will work on X21:22
norayrmissMyN900, no but seriously. not people like me, but even today, i believe most people use their so called 'messengers' to communicate with each other, because they have wifi at home and at work and at restaurants and everywhere.21:39
norayrthe carriers are gradually becoming what hey should be - internet service providers.21:40
uvosmissMyN900: they DO care about x, at least they where helpfull when Wizzup and fmg came to mesa with issues needing resolution21:50
uvosbut xorg just dosent get as mutch testing21:51
uvossince wayland took over fairly fast on arm21:51
uvosas for being better than maphones wrt 3d21:52
uvosim sure the pp will overtake the mapphones at some point21:53
uvosthe mapphones are burdoned with the partally closed source driver for sgx21:53
uvossgx works a bit better right now, but i would say this is a transient state of affairs21:54
Wizzupwell the pp screen res is much higher right22:01
missMyN900Wizzup, uvos: I think I may have found a solution for the PP pm issues!22:23
missMyN900https://github.com/crust-firmware/crust22:23
missMyN900by the way, does offline mode actually work on the PP?22:23
missMyN900because it occurred to me that I never actually verified that22:23
missMyN900and drain was still absurd with it enabled22:23
missMyN900also, I did not have hildon-connectivity whatever installed since I was not on devel22:24
missMyN900so I am not sure if anything modem related is even working22:24
missMyN900so maybe the modem was still on22:24
missMyN900eventually ML should probably also incorporate the alternative open source modem "firmware" (Linux distro) to get better battery life22:25
WizzupmissMyN900: I think we have crust, don't we?22:35
WizzupI don't know how well it is tested but I think we have it22:36
missMyN900is it used by default?22:36
missMyN900is it only in devel?22:36
WizzupI don't know, I just seem to remember parazyd set it up or something22:36
WizzupI need to go out for a bit22:37
Wizzupfreemangordon: I think we should probably make hildon-rtcom-meta or somrthing22:37
humpelstilzchen[yes, crust is in leste. I manually use it. It just crashes on wakeup from time to time22:37
missMyN900ok that is good news22:38
missMyN900but that is only one part of the problem22:38
missMyN900ML needs to actually utilize the deep sleep22:38
missMyN900I read on ML GitHub that actually zzztop was already used on N900 a few years ago22:39
missMyN900so it does work on ML?22:39
sixwheeledbeastit's just a perl script22:42
sixwheeledbeastit pretty portable22:43
missMyN900sixwheeledbeast: where can I download it?22:45
missMyN900would love to try it on the PP22:45
sixwheeledbeastis the source not on git? if not the meamo package will be fine, i think it was on fatphils website.22:47
sixwheeledbeasthttp://fatphil.org/linux/maemo/zzztop.pl.txt22:50
missMyN900yeah I found the website22:51
missMyN900MartijnBraam[m]: does pmOS use crust-firmware?22:56
MartijnBraam[m]yes22:56
missMyN900ok cool22:57
missMyN900I am thinking of trying pmOS+XFCE4 this summer22:57
missMyN900unhappy with Plasma and Phosh; I am waiting for 22.0622:57
MartijnBraam[m]nice22:57
missMyN900actually, has qtwebbrowser been fixed on pmOS already?22:59
MartijnBraam[m]I'm not sure22:59
missMyN900last time (Nov/Dec 2021) I tried it scaling was broken22:59
MartijnBraam[m]I basically only use firefox in pmos22:59
missMyN900but it did inspire me to suggest the port to ML22:59
missMyN900:)22:59
missMyN900ah22:59
missMyN900I guess I will have to try it myself in 22.0622:59
WizzupmissMyN900: fwiw I have not used zzztop on the n900, we know mostly what blocks idle states23:00
Wizzupsee https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues/54523:00
missMyN900I am selling my Raspberry Pi and Wandboard so now I have additional microSDs to use with the PP :)23:00
Wizzupbasically we need to look at idling more drivers/subsystems23:00
missMyN900Wizzup: yes, I don't have an N900 anymore as my username might suggest ;)23:00
missMyN900I am only interested in PP23:01
Wizzupok, right, so zzztop was for somethin else23:01
Wizzupok23:01
Wizzupsry23:01
* Wizzup is tired23:01
missMyN900no problem23:01
Wizzupso afaik this works http://maemopkgove3kc2xxzyuk26j3ict6qzbqi3govge3s6h5aokr2uo6eqd.onion23:01
WizzupI haven't tried with apt tor transport yet23:01
Wizzupbut maybe someone can23:01
missMyN900hmmm23:01
missMyN900PP is not booting the May 29 image23:02
missMyN900noti LED is red23:02
Wizzupdid you dd the xz'd image?23:02
Wizzupthat happens sometimes if folks forget a step23:03
missMyN900I did that once23:03
missMyN900but not this time: dd if=maemo-leste-1.0-arm64-pinephone-20220529.img of=/dev/sdc bs=1M conv=fsyn23:03
Wizzupif you still have a problem tomorrow I'll try it on mine23:04
missMyN900do you have a 3 GB model?23:04
missMyN900maybe the 3 GB support is broken23:04
missMyN900most devs probably don't have one, I imagine23:05
missMyN900I guess it is a good thing I have one23:05
WizzupI think folks here do23:09
missMyN900ah it is booting23:09
missMyN900I think I experienced this with 22 as well23:09
missMyN900very strange23:09
missMyN900but this time I pressed the power button first23:09
missMyN900and then I connected it to the charger23:09
missMyN900even though it normally boots up automatically23:09
missMyN900I also put the SD card and battery in again23:10
missMyN900but I don't think that was the issue23:10
missMyN900no black screen issue23:10
missMyN900I also get the welcome message this time23:10
missMyN900ah I see expandcard.sh also uses resize2fs23:11
missMyN900hmmm23:12
missMyN900fdisk not found; partprobe not found23:12
missMyN900resize2fs not found23:12
missMyN900fdisk is installed...23:15
missMyN900Wizzup: I think I know what is going on23:15
missMyN900the script is not using sudo23:15
missMyN900I have this issue all the time on my Debian desktop23:15
missMyN900(I have been too lazy to set up sudo)23:15
missMyN900(so I always use su)23:16
missMyN900I modded it and now it is working indeed23:18
missMyN900it is very useful to have a Debian desktop as an ML user23:19
missMyN900I guess you guys never use this since you installed ML a long time ago23:19
missMyN900norayr: I have an excellent porting suggestion for you: desktop command execution widget!23:57

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