Pandora Stalker

May 10 2021 07:48:13 UTC: hns: It is just a little waste of SD card space for the twl6030 driver which is neither loaded nor used by the Pyra. But yes, the CONFIG can be removed which will also improve compile time a little.
May 09 2021 15:12:33 UTC: EvilDragon:
May 09 2021 09:07:46 UTC: EvilDragon: But would that increase the CPU usage? If it's just waiting for a value, it shouldn't keep the CPU busy, should it?
May 09 2021 02:33:44 UTC: EvilDragon: Cool :D Sounds like we're getting close to a bounty here :D Next step would be to find out why the reading takes so much CPU time - but that doesn't have to do anything with the bounty :)
May 08 2021 16:19:21 UTC: EvilDragon: Please use the livechat or WhatsApp / Telegram. PM, eMail, Ticket... anything that is not live will take time at the moment, as I'm stuffed with work. Sorry about that :(
May 08 2021 15:17:18 UTC: hns: Good news: 1. starting your image I flashed the card again (with a fresh download) and this time it did boot and run through the wizard. I checked that it is running your kernel build [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.12.1-letux-lpae (pyra@debian-buster) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Debian 8.3.0-2)...
May 08 2021 13:31:16 UTC: EvilDragon: The cable wasn't properly rolled and was damaged. :)
May 07 2021 18:00:11 UTC: hns: Hm. There was no wizzard. Just boot log on the screen and console and now a login: on both. And the message [FAILED] Failed to start Pyra First Run Wizard. See 'systemctl status pyra-first-run.service' for details. Starting Light Display Manager... Doing as suggested: root@pyra:~#...
May 07 2021 12:32:21 UTC: hns: Thanks! I've now flashed an SD card and could boot up the login: prompt. Now I am stuck with the standard-issue of prebuilt images :) What is the user/password to get into the console?
May 05 2021 19:12:32 UTC: EvilDragon: The firmware is for a really old kernel (2.6.x I think), so it needs to be updated to work with the latest kernel versions. And yes, it is available and I even linked to it in the first post.
May 05 2021 07:56:41 UTC: EvilDragon: It's the exact same volume wheel that the Pandora uses. So yeah, it's a poti with absolute values and an ADC. We discussed that a long time ago - and users here disliked an encoder but wanted to have a classic volume wheel. So that you can turn the volume fully down without looking. Also...
May 04 2021 15:40:38 UTC: hns: Well, this can have thoudsands of reasons. Which kernel and which config are you using? Which user-space setup? Or in other words: do you have an SD card image or a full description of all steps which I could use to try to reproduce this and analyse e.g. differences to my LetuxOS setup?
May 04 2021 15:29:52 UTC: hns: I haven't observed that myself or run into trouble, but if a CONFIG is missing, please let me know to add it to the pyra_defconfig. It is done in minutes if I know. Well, in an ideal world the latest Debian kernel would simply boot the Pyra fully functional. When starting the GTA04 project...
May 04 2021 13:31:51 UTC: EvilDragon: That's why we use an older one. However, some fixes that improves things (including audio driver support) have not been implemented in the one we use, so all those improvements would need to be backported.
May 04 2021 08:30:34 UTC: hns: I'd suggest to base work on letux-5.10 because it already contains all the work I have invested to make AESS work. Unfortunately I am no longer in a situation where I could help out ED with this topic, even with a bounty (I have to focus my plethora of projects). Status is: * AESS driver is...
May 03 2021 06:01:51 UTC: EvilDragon: Yes, each kernel updste caused various issues which need to be solved before we can switch to them. aTc is usally trying out the kernels, so I'm not sure what the issue is with this one. Could be non-bootable, 3D not working anymore, etc.
May 02 2021 20:27:17 UTC: EvilDragon: I'm also the one cooking here:)
May 02 2021 20:26:19 UTC: EvilDragon: I think it's not supported by the hardware. Hm. it might be possible that the system informs the daemon that music is playing, so no polling needed. Not sure. Usually, when no audio is playing, the output is being disabled (power saving). That should be known to the system. I think it's...
May 02 2021 16:55:37 UTC: EvilDragon: Good start :) Ah, another thing that came to my mind: Maybe disable polling completely while audio is not playing anything is also an idea. No need to change the volume while nothing plays. 1619974603 PulseAudio has full audio emulation, most software fully works with that. And it has the way...
May 02 2021 13:44:26 UTC: EvilDragon: This is a small bounty - but it also shouldn't be too much work. Basically, I'd like to improve the volume wheel daemon aTc wrote so that it uses less power and gives some more improvements. At the moment, it regularly polls the status of the volume wheel and changes the ALSA hardware volume...
May 02 2021 12:55:58 UTC: EvilDragon: The Pyra has some not-so-easy things that need fixing - and I'd like to offer bounties for those! The audio driver is part of that. What's the issue with audio on the Pyra? At the moment, we're using a very basic audio driver, which causes quite a few problems. * I provides ONE audio device...
May 02 2021 11:45:16 UTC: EvilDragon: OOohh... that's a very interesting thread! I already know that the air gap between the plastic and the CPU board happened because the old case company didn't give us one part of the mould which is needed to make the plastic in that area thinner. This is why it worked with the prototype case but...
May 02 2021 11:30:47 UTC: EvilDragon: Hi! It's been ages since I found the time to visit here - so I just wanted to tell everyone here that I'm still alive and working through a heap pile of stuff. I'll try to change that and hopefully will find more time to reply to any questions here. Pyra's are still slowly shipping, my wife...