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Originally posted by lkcl View Posti got 1080p60 hardware-accelerated video playback working btw, which is awesome.
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"I (lkcl) got 1080p60 hardware-accelerated video playback working btw, with 100% free software, no proprietary code and (of course) no stinking GPL violating code, thanks to mine (lkcl) and cedrus team efforts, which is awesome, and video also works in the 720p laptop enclosure display."
Congrats, Luke.Last edited by phoron; 04 August 2016, 12:58 PM.
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Originally posted by phoron View Post
I think I know what you meant but yet I'd like you to say it yourself.
Did you mean:
"I (lkcl) got 1080p60 hardware-accelerated video playback working btw, with 100% free software, no proprietary code and (of course) no stinking GPL violating code, thanks to mine (lkcl) and cedrus team efforts, which is awesome, and video also works in the 720p laptop enclosure display."
Congrats, Luke.
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Originally posted by lkcl View Postwell, all i did was just test the compiled code, it's running on the HDMI monitor so is full1920x1080 display, haven't got the laptop hardware PCBs here (they're on the way by sea shipping)... correct about the libre code, oh and the parabola team have packaged it all up - *already* - in pcr which is totally awesome.
So thanks to each of the three, surely.
Is it just me or you and your gadgets are difficult to track ? The other day you post a LO and Gimp video and now you're overseas from your laptop hardware...
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Originally posted by phoron View Post
Is it just me or you and your gadgets are difficult to track ? The other day you post a LO and Gimp video and now you're overseas from your laptop hardware...
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Originally posted by lkcl View Post
i've been in NH, USA, all this time for the crowdfunding campaign, except when we went to NYC for hope2016.
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Only just found out about that device here btw. I must admit though to being in two minds about it. On the one hand, I like the idea that it's a tiny computer and that it is based around having non-propietary bits and pieces. That's good. On the other hand it dosen't really seem ready for the "big time", so to speak. Let me explain. I've seen the videos of this device on the crowdfunding page and on youtube. The problem as far as I can see is that - unless I am wrong - the device seems to be so slow as to be almost unusable. In this video the device is shown running XFCE4. But openoffice seems to be taking a *long* time to open there, and the device is experiencing .... connection issues as well ("Network unavaliable" in the web browser, pages eternally loading...). Also in this page there's a video of gimp being loaded up and used, and again it seemed to be very slow loading. Must admit I'm quite concerned -- from what I see the device looks like it is already struggling. I'd imagine that webpages loading in a full blown browser such as firefox would be painfully slow to the point of unusability :-( . Is it just me, is this some sort of driver issue (is there no 2D acceleration?) or what is going on? ljones
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Originally posted by ljones View PostOnly just found out about that device here btw. I must admit though to being in two minds about it.
On the one hand, I like the idea that it's a tiny computer and that it is based around having non-propietary bits and pieces. That's good.
On the other hand it dosen't really seem ready for the "big time", so to speak. Let me explain. I've seen the videos of this device on the crowdfunding page and on youtube. The problem as far as I can see is that - unless I am wrong - the device seems to be so slow as to be almost unusable.
In this video the device is shown running XFCE4. But openoffice seems to be taking a *long* time to open there,
and the device is experiencing .... connection issues as well ("Network unavaliable" in the web browser, pages eternally loading...).
Also in this page there's a video of gimp being loaded up and used, and again it seemed to be very slow loading. Must admit I'm quite concerned -- from what I see the device looks like it is already struggling. I'd imagine that webpages loading in a full blown browser such as firefox would be painfully slow to the point of unusability :-( . Is it just me, is this some sort of driver issue (is there no 2D acceleration?) or what is going on? ljones
the 4.7 kernel is *significantly* faster.... is written by the sunxi team and is now mainline... but also is unstable as it's still under development. i get crashes at any point from 30 seconds to 5 minutes into the boot with 4.7, whereas i've left the 3.4 kernel on for several days (so far) and it's still up.
yes there's 2D acceleration: using xf86-sunxi-fbturbo which has already been kindly packaged by the parabola-arm team.
what you're seeing here is the first publicly-available proof-of-concept modular upgradeable computing platform that's *not* brought to you by a conglomerate with a profit-maximising axe to grind. when we say "we bring you hardware that respects your privacy" that's not just a marketing exercise, we've *ALREADY* released the full source code and have been operating as a libre software project with public archives right from day one.
if we had even $100k in funding we'd be able to bring you the latest-or-greatest processor - a quad-core, or even an octal-core - if we could get one that is (see https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/m...ng-a-processor ) - but we're operating from the budget of a single small-to-medium-sized company's resources. that means going slowly, and also going step-by-step.
this critical phase *is* one of those steps. we'll get there... but we have to get there by way of this slightly-slower-than-modern processor, because it's the only one available that at the same time meets the strict privacy-respecting and ethical criteria that we've set. if you don't agree with those criteria, and are prepared to compromise on privacy to get speed, you can always buy a librem laptop, where the spying back-door co-processor is still enabled.
this is more an indictment of the state of computing in 2016 than it is a reflection on what we're doing. we choose to only include processors that are ethical. that there *aren't* any modern ethical processors available for sale in 2016 gives you a clear indication as to how far down the george orwell rabbit hole we really are. this project is very much a wake-up call as it is anything else.
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