IRC log of #maemo-ssu for Sunday, 2011-03-06

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jpala16Hello everyone. Anyone can tell how distant is a Stable Maemo 5 CSSU release?00:32
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psycho_oreosjpala16, years away01:21
jpala16Years? Man, you kidding,right?01:23
psycho_oreosit was a fairly stupid question to begin with, there's lots of factors one needs to consider and for it to go stable could vary in many ways01:24
jpala16Agree, but as I am kind of disconnected I asked if some1 could make an approach01:24
psycho_oreosit varies on the number of active developers over time, the number of testers whom are also doing their job of reporting back over time, the number of fixes that needs to be addressed and or new ones01:25
jpala16Ok, you convinced me, hard to imagine01:26
psycho_oreosthere isn't a simple calculation of when it'll be stable01:26
psycho_oreosone set of CSSU update maybe more stable than the other01:27
jpala16sure, but dont really know what are the cbjectives01:27
psycho_oreosits listed on the wiki page01:27
psycho_oreosprovide fixes that normally Nokia cbf dealing with01:28
jpala16so where is the top if bugs remain untouchable? We would be always unstable?01:29
psycho_oreoswhat do you mean top? the end? I don't know, usually its up to the devs to decide when there's things the community cannot fix01:31
jpala16Im spanish and my english is sometimes weird01:31
psycho_oreosit all depends on the limitations of each and every developer's contribution01:31
jpala16sorry for that01:31
psycho_oreosyou could have suddenly a developer who has knowledge in being able to decompile binaries and he/she could be helpful for opening up areas where Nokia doesn't provide source codes to write up a GPL alternative which may take several months depending on how big the project itself is, that plus the testing phase. You could have an ex-Nokia engineer whom may provide sources on the project he/she worked on and then suddenly they vanished, etc01:34
psycho_oreosits not something one can easily measure01:34
jpala16sure it isnt01:36
jpala16I was asking because I dont have an image in my mind of the hugeness or smallness of the CSSU project01:37
psycho_oreoswell picture yourself how big it is for one to create Maemo 501:37
jpala16you mean the CSSU is aiming to fix the WHOLE Maemo 5?01:38
psycho_oreosno I'm just giving you a very rough indication in layman's terms what CSSU is about. There's many areas in Maemo 5 that remains binary01:39
lcukjpala16, consider this to be like the previous SSU's which aim to patch your system to latest available level.01:39
lcukpsycho_oreos, there are also many areas which simply do not require touching01:39
DocScrutinizerpsycho_oreos: stable != complete01:40
lcukjpala16, it all depends upon focus01:40
psycho_oreoslcuk, then again there's areas that could be fixed, had Nokia bothered to release codes for the entire distro01:40
lcukas psycho_oreos said - the developers are tweaking hildon libs and stuff mostly but as more people find out, more patches are being offered for different areas01:40
psycho_oreosDocScrutinizer, not directly implying that, it was only just a very rough measurement gauge01:41
psycho_oreosand patches don't always fix it, it may cause bugs in other areas01:41
jpala16that sentence is a really huge truth01:42
DocScrutinizerpsycho_oreos: jpala16 asked for time til CSSU goes stable, that's not the same like a completely FOSSed maemo501:42
lcukpsycho_oreos, "offered" was the term01:42
lcukmany patches and branches and tags were tried for the official build01:43
lcukbut only the best made it :)01:43
psycho_oreosDocScrutinizer, no but you care to give jpala16 a definitive answer?01:43
DocScrutinizera stable CSSU doesn't mean a bugfree maemo either. It's just a question of QA for the patches actually included in CSSU01:43
DocScrutinizerpsycho_oreos: I'd need him to rephrase / rethink his question first01:44
jpala16I dont need a definitive answer01:44
DocScrutinizerit's not quite clear to me what's the question actually01:44
DocScrutinizerwhen will CSSU offer a stable release? maybe next week, when we decide to throw out all the not yet tested fixes, and only publish some 2 or 3 improvements.01:46
jpala16Ok, the question must be rephrased as: Will we see a stable CSSU this year?01:46
DocScrutinizerwhen will CSSU fix all the bugs known in maemo? never01:46
jpala16DocScrutinizer Of course, the stable release must fix many bugs but never all of them, thats Utopia01:47
DocScrutinizerjpala16: I'd guess yes, though it seems this is up to discussion yet01:47
DocScrutinizerCSSU will roll out a stable snapshot when the snapshot is tested and found to be stable. That's unrelated to the percentage or absolute number of fixes included in that particular snapshot01:49
DocScrutinizerfor the question of "how long until CSSU has managed to fix XX% of known bugs in maemo?" please refer to all the pointsa stated above by psycho_oreos and lcuk01:50
jpala16Get it. You mean that they will try to fix some bugs and when that gets tested then it will be the first stable version01:50
bistonHas anybody ever seen anything like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlHJnoHrXUg ?01:51
DocScrutinizerjpala16: exactly01:51
bistonit started happening after i installed the cssu transition tuner, and it didn't stop after deinstallation01:51
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DocScrutinizerumm01:52
lcukjpala16, the additional things here are organisation, the CSSU is the first community one01:52
lcukand lots of things need organising properly01:53
lcukand some down the line considerations too01:53
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jpala16I wish I had time to deal with testing. No talk about developing01:56
jpala16Id like to contribute to accelerate the process, but I havent enough knowledge actually about Maemo, and time as I said01:59
lcukjpala16, just reading the documentation and discussing as you have done this evening is more productive than you imagine :)02:05
jpala16lcuk, have to say that just talking to you guys has made me look towards contrinuting to the community02:07
jpala16I felt something when typing with the N900 kbd through irssi (Im new to IRC). At first, I thought nobody would answer02:08
lcukeverybody is a n00b :)02:11
jpala16 DocScrutiner,lcuk,psycho_oreos: I think Im answered already. Thank you for yor answers and sorry for my english. I can go to bed as it is 01:12 here and Im quite tired. Again, thank u and hope we will meet again. Bye02:13
lcukgood night \o02:13
jpala16good... whatever XD02:14
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macmaNmorning guys13:59
merlin1991morning13:59
macmaNi am browsing around for external minimonitors, like the 7" usb samsung u7014:00
macmaNand got to thinking is there a way to utilize the n800, or n810 as a straight usb display14:00
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macmaNa hack *too* humongous probably to undertake?14:08
macmaNssh-ing into n800 -> to ssh into devserver to display a tmux session seems like a roundtrip, feels like im missing a shortcut :)14:12
lcukmacmaN, write a script, add a .desktop to it, click icon on n80014:16
lcukremove the initial ssh session14:16
macmaNactually youre right, i cant even do anything if i ssh into n800 from the laptop :) so ssh has to come from n800. but i think i will want to have it connecting through usb networking using the laptop as gateway14:18
macmaNthat should be quite plugnplayish14:18
macmaNfrom everywhere14:19
macmaNgeez the virtual keyboard is cramped on diablo :)14:20
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thpmacmaN: but it has cool gestures15:48
MohammadAGthp, the PR1.0 keyboard had gestures :(15:50
thpyep, it was practically the diablo fullscreen keyboard for the most part15:54
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TronicI've been using CSSU for a few weeks now and must say that it is totally awesome :)16:26
TronicBig thanks to all the developers. Even if those "small annoying bugs" are trivial, it sure took a community effort to get them fixed...16:28
macmaNTronic: word to that one16:31
macmaNhrm is there a tmux binary for diablo16:31
TronicmacmaN: Hey, didn't know you had N900 too?16:32
macmaNTronic: i got em all16:32
TronicHeh.16:32
macmaNN800, N810 have been quite unused though16:33
macmaNjust sitting around16:33
macmaNbut i think i have use for them now again16:33
TronicI only got interested once a phone was bundled but even then it took me several months to get one because no-one managed to communicate me exactly how cool Maemo was.16:33
macmaNN900 was about to get thrown out for android until thp fixed rotation16:33
macmaNfull blown linux on the phone is superpower16:34
macmaNwith android your like clark kent16:34
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macmaNlookin pretty wearin sexy glasses16:34
macmaNwith maemo you go into the phonebooth16:34
macmaNcome out with that S on the chest16:35
ZogGmacmaN, nice one16:35
TronicThe ability to port over regular desktop software by merely recompiling (or in the case of Python, not even that) is seriously cool and if only someone had told that I could essentially have a Debian desktop on a phone with full (enough) access to hardware and all, I would have been queuing in front of the shop the day they started selling these.16:36
macmaNhey thats imgur material for sure :)16:36
macmaNtoo bad im busy flashing n80016:36
TronicmacmaN: The N8xx devices have IR port, right? I suppose you could use them as universal remote controls.16:37
TronicJust keep the charger connected all the time so that they don't run out of juice.16:37
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ZogGmacmaN i want it on reddit16:37
macmaNit wont go into usb mode wth charger connected16:38
ZogGtwittered already =)16:38
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macmaNZogG: lol thx, url?16:38
macmaNTronic: i already have logitech harmony16:38
TronicmacmaN: I was about to get one too but they seriously suck.16:38
macmaNi beg to disagree16:39
macmaNi have the 88516:39
Tronic(I do realize that they suck considerably less than other universal remotes, but still I would prefer to have far better UI on my remote controls)16:39
macmaNprogramming is not fun16:39
macmaNbut once you got it...16:39
macmaNits alright16:39
ZogGmacmaN i'm hidden in twitter16:39
ZogG@ZogG - the last one (edited as it needed to be 140)16:40
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TronicmacmaN: It would be nice to have far less physical buttons and instead have a touchscreen for numbers and other functions. It is frustrating having to change my grip on the remote to reach different buttons. I almost never use the numbers, the color buttons, most of the device selection buttons, not to mention most of that large array of other miscellanous function buttons.16:44
macmaNZogG: you confirming me yet?16:44
ZogGalready16:45
macmaNTronic: on what? harmony? youre right i almost never use the numbers there.16:45
macmaNmaybe you could repost it with @lkraav :)16:46
macmaNprobably cant start the tweet with it though, or it will be a personal msg16:47
TronicWait, messages starting @username are private?16:48
Tronic(or did that have something to do with having a hidden account)16:49
macmaNright, they dont appear on public timeline16:49
macmaNfor others16:49
macmaNno16:50
TronicI have been trying to spam messages for multiple users by @foo @bar @baz ...16:50
TronicSo those will only go for the first one?16:50
macmaNthats 1337 twitter knowhow16:50
macmaNthat i dont know actually16:50
macmaNgood q16:50
macmaNhave never wanted to do that16:50
TronicNot that I really use Twitter anymore, just terminated my character yesterday :P16:51
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macmaNi find it a useful tool16:51
macmaNlord knows when i wouldve found out about thp for example otherwise16:52
macmaNmy thoughts about maemo and meego have taken a new turn ever since that16:52
macmaNyou could say twitter is a life altering experience for me :P16:53
TronicBtw, did you hear that Nokia is also targeting MeeGo for N900 now (officially still only for developers though)?16:53
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macmaNTronic: yep of course16:53
TronicI never got notified of either of those things via Twitter :/16:54
macmaNim subscribed to so many maemo meego feeds i probably know when a lead developer farts and what his average fart rate per day is16:54
macmaNwoot, diablo flashed and cssu installed16:54
macmaNZogG: looks like its not possible to retweet private tweeters :/16:59
ZogGjust try sending with RT or just copy17:01
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macmaNyeah i made my own too now17:03
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TronicThe only thing with MeeGo is that it has a *long* way to go if it is going to be able to replace Maemo.17:08
TronicBtw, has there been any attempts at porting Maemo to other Nokia phones?17:08
macmaNTronic: i was actually asking questions about getting a development job in #meego-arm couple of days ago17:08
Tronic256 MB is quite not enough for me :(17:09
MohammadAGother Nokia phones have a locked bootloader17:09
TronicAlso A8 @ 1150 MHz is still somewhat slow.17:09
BCMMhas any experimented with using very fast uSD cards as swap?17:10
BCMM^anyone17:10
MohammadAGShadowJK on #maemo17:10
TronicBCMM: Yes but apparently the card speed doesn't make that much difference, it is still slow.17:10
BCMMwell, ofc it would be much slower than real memory17:11
lcukTronic, perspective is everything17:11
MohammadAGmoving swap to uSD might be faster17:11
MohammadAGright now, eMMC is being accessed for apps and swap17:11
BCMMor do you mean that the read speed from a uSD doesn't match the uSD's own read speed due to limitations in the n900?17:11
MohammadAGmoving swap would get some load off the eMMC17:11
TronicMaybe swap on the root device would be good? 200 MB isn't much bet it just might be enough for your swapping needs.17:12
Tronic*but17:12
MohammadAGlowering swap isn't a good idea ;)17:12
TronicBCMM: Yes, that, even though I have only seen subjective testimonials about there being no difference between Class 4 and Class 10, no actual benchmarks.17:13
TronicMohammadAG: You could still have a lower priority swap on eMMC.17:13
MohammadAGsec17:13
MohammadAGfound it17:14
TronicThat said, it would also be great to have a larger high performance flash disk.17:14
MohammadAGhttp://i53.tinypic.com/21b3k7s.jpg17:14
MohammadAGTronic, ^17:14
BCMMok how the hell does that work? have they broken oom_kill, or just modified the app launcher so it ensures there is a certain amount of memory available?17:15
MohammadAGhildon-desktop checks for available memory afaiki17:16
TronicQuite likely the latter.17:16
MohammadAG-i17:16
BCMMthat's silly, since it can't know how much memory an application is going to require...17:16
TronicMy phone often simply reboots when it runs out of memory (I think), so it could be that oom_killer ain't so hot either.17:17
MohammadAGno, your phone reboots when the overclock goes bonkers :P17:17
TronicIt happens also without overclocking.17:17
MohammadAGlow memory doesn't cause a reboot17:17
MohammadAGI'd start worrying if I were you ;)17:17
MohammadAGunless you're crashing a critical system app, somehow17:18
TronicOk, quite possibly there is something else wrong then.17:18
TronicI cannot quite pinpoint at which situations this happens in but the phone is always acting very slowly when it goes (it actually happens rather rarely).17:19
TronicBtw, is there any way to disable automatic software updates?17:22
MohammadAGauto check?17:22
TronicThe best that my local N900 community has came up with is to disable all repositories in appman and then use fapman for upgrades.17:22
MohammadAGHAM is open source, you could change that17:22
BCMMTronic: "It happens also without overclocking." - yeah, OCing does that...17:23
TronicThe check is triggered by the Internet connection going up and I suppose this causes some signal that launches the check.17:23
macmaNTronic: there was a gconf setting to change check interval17:23
BCMMthat, or oom_kill is targeting something like h-d17:23
TronicI haven't been successful in finding where that signal happens.17:23
macmaNTronic: no, it isnt triggered by only that, there is also a time interval defined17:24
macmaNbut it is very short right now, something like 24h or 48h17:24
lcukmacmaN, the setting still exists ;)17:24
MohammadAGyes, there's a time interval17:24
TronicmacmaN: I have set that interval to a very large value already.17:24
lcukie not past tense :P17:24
BCMMi think if oom_kill did take out hildon-desktop, then when hildon-desktop respawned, it'd be a process with a short cpu-time trying to claim lots of memory17:24
BCMMand get killed again17:24
macmaNhold on let me dig bookmarks17:24
BCMMtriggering the watchdog thingy17:24
macmaNTronic: ohhh17:24
macmaNthen im stumped, im happy with what that does for me17:25
TronicI guess this might be a thing to fix in CSSU.17:25
BCMM(oom_kill prefers processes with large amounts of memory that have not used too much CPU time so far, since that suggests not too much work can be lost by killing it)17:25
TronicOne probably wouldn't want any automatic updates on mobile connections, even less so when roaming.17:26
TronicI ended up downloading 50 € worth of data because of that because I just had to check a phone number online while in Germany.17:26
macmaNwow17:27
TronicSo the very second I went online it started getting updates (and I suppose all the IM stuff, emails etc. also takes some) and even though I tried to be quick with the browser and then disconnect, a lot of data was transferred.17:27
BCMMhow do i get a proper /usr/bin/top on this thing?17:29
BCMM(alternatively, how do i get TIME+ from /proc myself?)17:29
TronicBCMM: Does htop suit your needs?17:30
BCMMyeah, it would17:30
BCMMoh, there is actually a procps package17:31
BCMMwonder how it plays with busybox...17:32
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macmaNthere is no better app launcher for diablo is there18:50
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lcukmacmaN, perhaps not launcher, but have you installed telescope?18:51
macmaNyep18:52
macmaNskype, dropbear sshd, telescope, droid-fonts, rootsh, vim, asui, x11vnc, load-applet, bash3, headphone-daemon, maemo-control-usb, maemo.org-startup-screen18:52
macmaNoh gotta have python2.5 too for ranger18:52
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macmaNtoo bad dorian doesnt seem to be ported18:55
macmaNjudging from tmo, personal launcher is as good as its gonna get18:57
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macmaNok telescope was also supposed to get a launcher feature..18:59
macmaNaaah telescope dev builds have more stuff19:01
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macmaNyeah, telescope rc will do juuust fine20:00
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MohammadAGJaffa, thoughts on Conflict:-ing with theme-customizer?22:02
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JaffaMohammadAG: Apparently the latest version doesn't overwrite hildon-home, but maybe Conflicts: <latest version?22:34
JaffaMohammadAG: and/or a HildonNote post-install if TC enabled saying "Some of Theme Customizers functions are achieved by intercepting the lowest levels of the Maemo UI. These features are not available whilst using the CSSU"22:35
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njsf1Hmmm how should I fix CSS features configuration util (just updated)  "Reading the configuration settings gave a fatal error while loading. not all settings are available exiting"22:52
njsf1Where should I look for the features configuration to see what could be wrong?22:53
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DocScrutinizerso let's see what's that CSSU thing :-)23:26
DocScrutinizerthought I better install it now, prior to booting my device anyway to insert SIM after cherrysmashing23:27
DocScrutinizerMohammadAG: cssu enabler install requester needs a "(scroll down ➘ please)" inserted between/after "... own risk." and "/n/n After installation..."23:34
DocScrutinizeralternatively remove the two empty lines at beginning of text23:35
njsf1should I avoid forcing an upgrade of libsdl-mixer1.2 ?23:38
njsf1Interesting after apt-get upgrade CSSU features configuration works again23:41
njsf1it seems FAM did not do all it could :P23:41
DocScrutinizerFAM?23:42
njsf1Fast Application Manager23:42
DocScrutinizerooh fapman23:43
DocScrutinizerfapman is known to fail on random (or not so random) occasions23:44
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