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[01:17:43] <steerpike> hey guys :)
[01:17:57] <sweet_away> amazing enough you caught me awake :)
[01:18:01] <steerpike> :D
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[01:18:11] <steerpike> i've been out of the loop for weeks
[01:18:12] <steerpike> what's new?
[01:18:23] <sweet_away> last night I managed to the the kbd backlight working in new kernel builds
[01:18:29] <steerpike> nice! :D
[01:18:47] <sweet_away> GPSFan: is migrating all patches to the latest RC kernel, in line for a hopeful upstream merge and offical support in the kernel
[01:18:59] <sweet_away> wireless is still not working, but I am sure he will crack that soon.
[01:19:00] <steerpike> how about the lcd switch?
[01:19:07] <sweet_away> on / off?
[01:19:17] <steerpike> yeah
[01:19:32] <sweet_away> well its better than that actually, lcd backlight is working and when the FB activity timeout kicks in the screen now switches off :)
[01:19:41] <steerpike> awesome! :)
[01:19:44] <sweet_away> kbd backlight is also connected to that timer, so they all turn off together :)
[01:21:45] <steerpike> but the lcd turns off if you close the lid as well?
[01:22:32] <sweet_away> ahh dunno about that. haven't actually tried it. I would assume not as I haven't seen any gpio for that setup, shouldn't be too hard to do tho
[01:22:37] <steerpike> oh
[01:22:45] <steerpike> and the brightness? :\
[01:22:46] <sweet_away> slowly we chip at the mountain :)
[01:22:49] <steerpike> hehe yeah
[01:22:53] <steerpike> that's great news though :)
[01:23:06] <sweet_away> brightness is now PWM based, you can echo to /sys/class/backlight/pwm-backlight.0/brightness and controll it from the shell ! :)
[01:23:49] <sweet_away> if you want to set up an OE environment, I put together some stuff to make it more simple, check my blog: http://sweetlilmre.blogspot.com
[01:24:08] <sweet_away> and I'll be posting more patches / kernel support etc there as we get it going
[01:24:10] <steerpike> speaking of OE, did you get it working with the new git repository?
[01:24:16] <sweet_away> yep ^^^
[01:24:19] <steerpike> awesome!
[01:24:34] <steerpike> bookmarked! ^_^
[01:24:36] <sweet_away> basically I took the zipit SVN patches, cleaned out all the crap and rebuild the makefile to get everything
[01:24:44] <sweet_away> going
[01:25:00] <sweet_away> you got serial installed?
[01:25:01] <steerpike> yeah, i attempted to do it myself and didn't bother continuing with the cleaning up portion
[01:27:04] <steerpike> nah
[01:27:20] <sweet_away> heh, I tested flashing a replacement kernel and it works :)
[01:27:32] <sweet_away> which you need serial for at the moment
[01:27:36] <steerpike> :o
[01:27:36] <steerpike> darn
[01:28:00] <steerpike> thought you could just copy over from sd while booted in shell lol
[01:28:10] <sweet_away> if you read the first post I have a note at the end on how to get it going.
[01:28:16] <sweet_away> only for the orig kernel
[01:28:37] <sweet_away> the script takes over and does a re-init type thing. so you are actually hijacking the userland
[01:29:03] <steerpike> ah
[01:29:25] <sweet_away> which is cool for testing. you can build OE with 2.6.21.1 support and dev. userland apps to run off the sd. I am just more interested in getting full GPL kernel support going :)
[01:29:40] <steerpike> heh gotcha
[01:29:59] <steerpike> and how is gpsfan doing with the sound stuff? i'm excited about doing voip/sip over it
[01:31:45] <sweet_away> once we have wireles... damn I can't wait. I am going to port some games on
[01:31:56] <steerpike> bzflag! XD
[01:32:04] <sweet_away> interesting you should ask :) he has recording working now!!!
[01:32:09] <steerpike> :O
[01:32:15] <sweet_away> we all want a pocket VOIP phone :)
[01:32:16] <steerpike> wow, a lot has been accomplished while i was away
[01:32:24] <sweet_away> yeah, my wife hates me ;)
[01:32:31] <steerpike> did he use the nintendo ds headset?
[01:32:44] <sweet_away> no, direct solder. I have been meaning to order one to check it out
[01:33:00] <steerpike> pretty cheap off ebay
[01:34:03] <steerpike> well.. 9 bucks, unless you bother with an auction
[01:34:17] <sweet_away> yeah its just the shipping time that kills me :(
[01:34:22] <sweet_away> south africa is a loooong way away :)
[01:34:29] <sweet_away> bbiab
[01:34:33] <steerpike> you're in south africa?
[01:34:34] <sweet_away> yep
[01:34:41] <steerpike> i know some afrikaans ^_^
[01:34:59] <sweet_away> cool :) kan jy lekker afrikaans praat?
[01:36:58] <sweet_away> (I am english so my afrikaans is not that great :))
[01:36:58] <steerpike> skiet hom! .. that's all i learned from playing FPS games lol
[01:37:04] <sweet_away> heheheh brilliant
[01:37:11] <sweet_away> skiet hom dood!
[01:37:25] <sweet_away> and when he shoots you, you say: Jou bliksem!!!
[01:37:32] <sweet_away> (dood = dead)
[01:37:38] <steerpike> heh, will make a note of that ^_^
[01:37:54] <sweet_away> okay be back in a bit.
[01:38:11] <steerpike> alrighty
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[02:07:41] <sups> hi
[02:11:50] <steerpike> hi
[02:32:46] <sups> sups?
[02:42:28] <steerpike> not much, you?
[02:42:45] <sups> just f** around with this eee
[02:42:48] <steerpike> eeepc?
[02:43:24] <sups> yea
[02:43:28] <steerpike> cool
[02:43:37] <sups> the old one tho
[03:43:08] <steerpike> sups: have you tried using a distro other than the one provided?
[03:44:58] <sups> not yet, prepping to do that
[03:49:35] <steerpike> http://slackwiki.org/EeePC :)
[03:49:54] <sups> thhanks
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[05:48:22] <sweetlilmre> w00t! 2.6.29rc3 support is now available for OE
[05:59:30] <sweetlilmre> and SDHC cards work! wow this gets better and better :)
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