ubuntu / xubuntu 12.04 (precise pangolin)

[johnnygal]

Yep, cheers. That's got it!

[BuZz]

Interestingly, with vaapi on and vaapi off, the video is automatically scaled to the correct dimensions to fit the screen. This doesn't happen on the base images - the scale remains 1:1 and only the central 800x480 pixels are displayed. Don't know if that helps at all, but thought I'd mention it all the same.

which "desktop" btw on the base image did you install ? the "size" could just be down to the window manager i guess. specify "-fs" and it will scale nicely to the screen.

I just tested with my base image - just did "sudo apt-get install --no-install-depends lubuntu-desktop; sudo apt-get install mplayer" and mplayer worked ok with vaapi acceleration.

perhaps some library is missing - although the dependencies should take care of it (its possible something can be missed though.

[roobarb!]

roobarb: precise uses a conf.d to split the alsa conf up, so you need to disable this config to get sound on precise. shame the "pulse" compatibility is gone - was that a regression in port audio or something ?

Must have been - there aren't enough changes in the SqueezePlay code to have caused it.

They've shifted all of their development over to Git now, so once I've updated my build environment I'll give it another run. Maybe try with some of the older PortAudio code, too.

[roobarb!]

Interestingly, with vaapi on and vaapi off, the video is automatically scaled to the correct dimensions to fit the screen. This doesn't happen on the base images - the scale remains 1:1 and only the central 800x480 pixels are displayed. Don't know if that helps at all, but thought I'd mention it all the same.

which "desktop" btw on the base image did you install ? the "size" could just be down to the window manager i guess. specify "-fs" and it will scale nicely to the screen.

I just tested with my base image - just did "sudo apt-get install --no-install-depends lubuntu-desktop; sudo apt-get install mplayer" and mplayer worked ok with vaapi acceleration.

perhaps some library is missing - although the dependencies should take care of it (its possible something can be missed though.

Ah, I'm not using a desktop environment - just firing up X with xterm and using the dependencies from the mplayer package.

I'll have a toy around, see if I can find what's missing.

[BuZz]

probably some mesa / dri stuff - check output of "vainfo" also. it's possible I need to add some dependencies to the joggler drivers. Ideally I need a package with the x config in that could pull in other stuff. I just never got around to it.

[roobarb!]

probably some mesa / dri stuff - check output of "vainfo" also.

Thanks, will do. Had to abandon attempts today, but will try again tomorrow.

[kappa__2]

Does anybody has trouble booting this version? I't flickers and hangs after passing the grub menu, on my joggler.
I've tried both the base and the ubuntu image.

I had no trouble booting previous versions... (they still work >> so it's not hardware)

[BuZz]

:/ ill remove a couple of modules from grub which could be problematic and send you a replacement to try

[kappa__2]

:/ ill remove a couple of modules from grub which could be problematic and send you a replacement to try

I appreciate your effort and... the super fast response!
Thanks

[BuZz]

response was quick but I may not have the build ready until later. in the meantime you can replace the grub.efi on the first partition with this one http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/joggler/grub.efi (which is the older one and I have just tested it works as a drop in)

[johnnygal]

Does anybody has trouble booting this version? I't flickers and hangs after passing the grub menu, on my joggler.
I've tried both the base and the ubuntu image.

I had no trouble booting previous versions... (they still work >> so it's not hardware)

Working ok here..with Xubuntu btrfs version.

[kappa__2]

response was quick but I may not have the build ready until later. in the meantime you can replace the grub.efi on the first partition with this one http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/joggler/grub.efi (which is the older one and I have just tested it works as a drop in)

Ok. I'll try it when i'll get home, and post the results here.

[kappa__2]

response was quick but I may not have the build ready until later. in the meantime you can replace the grub.efi on the first partition with this one http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/joggler/grub.efi (which is the older one and I have just tested it works as a drop in)

Ok. I'll try it when i'll get home, and post the results here.

Works great!
Thanks again BuZz!

[kazan]

Hello,

Thanks for all your hard work.
I just wanted to test xubuntu and I can confirm I've got same problem with on screen keyboard like someone earlier. Then I've add thermal.psv=85 to grub.cfg and that didn't help at all.
Other problem which I've noticed is I've used on screen short cut to install squeezeplay and accepted "Auto start" at the end. Now when system starts I've got crash report strait away and squeezeplay doesn't start on start up.

|Kazan|

[roobarb!]

what do you do about the joggler getting warm and slowing down or you dont have that problem running mostly squeezeplay ? just that the older releases didnt know about tweaking throttling thermal point etc - although they are probably changable in the same way as mine.

Just spotted this, BuZz - to be honest, there's not that much demand from SqueezePlay that the throttling really becomes an issue. However, on all the kernel builds I do (with your patches!) I always set the trip point to 80 degrees and put a warning on the download page. I've run it like that on so many Jogglers for such long periods of time now that I'd be amazed if it ever caused a problem.

[roobarb!]

probably some mesa / dri stuff - check output of "vainfo" also.

Just had a try of vainfo. Got this for my troubles:

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joggler@joggler:~$ vainfo 
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
vainfo: dri2_util.c:176: isDRI2Connected: Assertion `dri_state->fd >= 0' failed.
Aborted

Well, at least it's consistent.

[roobarb!]

Ah, here we go. Running as root gets further, so perhaps a permissions problem?

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joggler@joggler:~$ sudo vainfo
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/emgd_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

It's not wrong, though - there's no emgd_drv_video.so in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/. Tried adding 'joggler' to the 'video' group too, no beans either way. Still the same old error:

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joggler@joggler:~$ vainfo 
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
vainfo: dri2_util.c:176: isDRI2Connected: Assertion `dri_state->fd >= 0' failed.
Aborted

Running mplayer as root on a video file results in the weird situation where the crash has gone, but the file plays without video:

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joggler@joggler:~$ sudo mplayer -va vaapi -vo vaapi /mnt/big_buck_bunny_480p_h264.mov 
MPlayer svn r (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /mnt/big_buck_bunny_480p_h264.mov.
libavformat version 53.22.0 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x89957a0]Unknown container channel layout.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 2: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang eng
VIDEO:  [H264]  854x480  24bpp  24.000 fps  2899.9 kbps (354.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 major_brand: qt  
 minor_version: 537199360
 compatible_brands: qt  
 creation_time: 2008-05-27 18:32:32
Load subtitles in /mnt/
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/emgd_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
[vo_vaapi] vaInitialize(): unknown libva error
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
libavcodec version 53.39.1 (internal)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 437.6 kbit/9.50% (ratio: 54700->576000)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
Home directory /home/joggler not ours.
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  10.1 (10.1) of 596.5 (09:56.4)  4.4% 

Exiting... (Quit)

[BuZz]

the latest xorg-emgd makes a symlink from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/ (because I made it do that), so that is strange. best thing, image up what you have and ill tell you what is missing.

[BuZz]

did you try doing apt-get install --no-install-recommends lubuntu-desktop just to see? it installs a very minimal setup. would help with working out depends.

[kappa__2]

I'm tempted to try the KDE plasma-mobile desktop manager, using your base version. It seems to be very finger friendly.
But i wonder why this is not mentioned here.

You guys think that the joggler can run it?