#timvideos

CarlFK: did you actually log a bug for the video_mode?

yes

CarlFK: where?

Title: video_mode list hangs · Issue #134 · timvideos/HDMI2USB · GitHub (at github.com)

That was not the correct place to do that...

CarlFK: The video_mode list bug should now be fixed - https://github.com/timvideos/HDMI2USB-litex-fir...

Title: firmware: Fix video_mode failing. by mithro · Pull Request #332 · timvideos/HDMI2USB-litex-firmware · GitHub (at github.com)

CarlFK: New firmware should end up on prebuilt in an hour or two

neat - good thing I haven't packed yet :p

CarlFK: https://travis-ci.org/timvideos/HDMI2USB-litex-...

whoops.. the Opsis coen

whoops.. the Opsis doesn't have a usb port I can use to power the odroid

git describe: v0.0.3-732-gccfa97c-dirty Connecting pattern to output0

CarlFK[m]: err I thought the odroids were for atlys boards

tumbleweed (IRC): I need something up there

I will have a few spare laptops with a base debian install

CarlFK[m]: i'm about to try your usb installer, but the instructions seem incomplete. there's no inventory_repo and branch - i assume i should point it to your video-stack-deploy branch, but then i'm not clear on the intent to assign machine hostnames and roles and config

i can guess, but i don't have time to guess

xfxf: what are the host names of the machines you are going to use?

same as LCA

xfxf: the inventory repo was the lca17-av repo

there's like 10 machines

tumbleweed: but aren't there updates in carl's repo i'll want if i'm doing a new deploy using debian?

or is the intent that one holds all of the roles, the other is purely 'this is machine X, it needs Y and Z from the other repo'

yes, which will mean config changesyou have to make to the config (in the inventory repo)

xfxf: one repo is the code, one is the config

right

xfxf: lets start with the main vocto machine in the main room. is that hostname r1mix?

so if i want to add new roles, i.e. for these blackmagic web presenter usb devices I have, i have to get it merged into the debconf git repo?

CarlFK: it's gonna be the same as LCA

actually

or you can put them in the other repo, we did that for some lca things that nobody else would ever want

give me 1 hour

i'll get lunch and actually document this somewhere

but yes, r1mix on the same desktop machine, two cameras, two hdmi2usb's at the front for each lecturn, etc

the only difference is the camera ingest might have the yamaha usb + hdmi2usb for a bm web presenter, as none of the video/audio delay crap is needed, the audio comes through better, etc

one machine at a time

but even that's optional given limited time

s/for a/swapped for a/

r1mix - you want vocto - what about opsis and veyepar ?

r1mix had a PCIe BM card

will be the same

I am not going to pretend to remember what was at lca

only if the room setup / machine config was in a repo somewhere :P

I suspect you want something like this https://github.com/CarlFK/video-stack-inventory...

Title: video-stack-inventory/hosts at master · CarlFK/video-stack-inventory · GitHub (at github.com)

xfxf: forget all the details for now. run the script, make a usb stick, boot it, see what happens

without an inventory_repo/branch specified?

correct

ok

there have been 2 bm driver updates in the last few weeks - if you want them, may as well start dl the huge tarbal

ok that didn't work

404 when it's trying to get the debian iso

xf@yogacore:master ✗:~/dev/video/video-stack-deploy-carlfk/scripts$ ./mk_usb_installer.sh /dev/sdc

oh right.. it just bumped up a ver

lol, this is why i was hesitant doing this

9.1 now i assume

update cfg to 9.1.0, now doing something

yes - iso=debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso

does this usb installer install everything from the internet btw?

because my internet is not very quick

that iso is a small repo - I think it has most of it

when it apt-get install vcoto stuff, it will pull in a bunch of gs debs

i it is going to be a problem, I would setup squid

well, I would setup squid either way because I am a little obsessive or something...

but it isn't perfect smooth, so will likely annoy you. pick your annoyance

the usb stick is made, it's now serving on port 8000, what's the purpose of the latter?

preseed and late.sh

hopefully the target machine can get to that

probably not, different network

usb stick doesn't want to boot either

sec.. let me see if I #ed out aline to speed up testing...

line is ok.

did it ask for sudo pw?

Title: video-stack-deploy/mk_usb_installer.sh at master · CarlFK/video-stack-deploy · GitHub (at github.com)

zcat hd-media/boot.img.gz|sudo dcfldd of=/dev/${dev}

that is the line that makes the usb stick bootable

it did

i'd add a 'sync' before your http server serve line btw

when I plug it into my laptop it auto mounts, and df shows:

i just readded it, then did 'sync', and it took about 15 secs to flush what it claimed it has already done out to the sick

/dev/sdd 952M 348M 604M 37% /media/carl/Debian Inst

stick*

yes I see that, but the laptop isn't picking it up as a bootable

right

ran that command again

then 'sync'

then pulled it out

now works

yay

as per above, add 'sync' before the last command

the installer is asking me questions instead of auto doing stuff, as expected?

a little

non-free firmware and hostname come to mind

and that's not working either, "Installation step failed" - "Scan hard drives for an installer ISO image"

cp ${iso} ${iso}.SHA256SUM /media/${dev}

check to see if debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso got copied

iv'e done this a few 100 times in the last few weeks. most of the time is it solid.

carl@twist:/media/carl/Debian Inst$ sha256sum -c debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso.SHA256SUM

debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso: OK

are any of the Opsis ports better than the others?

mithro: v0.0.3-732-gccfa97c-dirty built: Jul 27 2017 01:11:25 does all the things I care about and m l doesn't crash it

yay.

it's doing something now, after sorting out a few headaches

if this usb stick is just the debian installer with syslinux.cfg modified, and the rest comes fromm that HTTP repo, why usb stick and not tftp?

not using PXE anymore?

because you wanted quick

oh, right, you actually use PXE still?

yes

okay, cool

that's easy enough to do

anyway, you said install this without any config, what am i expecting to see? waiting for it to finish installing now

i assume none of the roles will actually be configured on it so i won't be able to do much

some sort of minimal debian

mithro: i'm attempting to build + test the latest litex firmware, verifying pulling latest master, running download-env etc again is what I should be doing?

CarlFK[m]: the purpose of doing this is?

i want to end up with configured machines. i can install debian by hand :P

get you doing something instead of talking

dude i don't have hordes of time available

ok, keep talking :p

Title: video-stack-inventory/hosts at master · CarlFK/video-stack-inventory · GitHub (at github.com)

make a file like that

er

repo

should i be working off the old lca video-stack-inventory repo in my github, or should i be forking yours and adjusting it?

I would start from scratch

too many surprises when you use the old files

define starting from scratch. i assume it involves forking somebody's work, because creating this all by hand again is too much work

like a 10. ip to get the bm drivers from

wait

is video-stack-deploy a fork of debconf's repo?

which is different to lca's video-stack-deploy?

i am confused. i thought video-stack-deploy was the configuration, where the debconf one was where actual roles were defined

but i see roles in your repo

and i thought yours was a fork of mine from months ago

you were wrong

well, 'mine', not that I did any work on it, but the one in my repo i mean

okay, so please explain what repo is meant to be used for what, because i'm pretty confused

jsut make the files

that will be quicker

debian install failed btw on the final ansible step, i assume because of missing ansible playbook

i don't know what 'just make the files' means

what specifically am i making