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<kristianpaul>
wolfspraul: if you have already tested some baterry options for M1 please let us now
<kristianpaul>
i'm carrying with me milkymist since tomorrow, so i'll not have power for main avaliable all times..
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<wolfspraul>
not tested
<kristianpaul>
i was thinking buy 1.5V AA rechargable batteries until get the 4.5V and see what worked :)
<kristianpaul>
wpwrak: about labsw, had you consider a cad designed case for next version? :)
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<pabs3>
git rm doesn't remove non-free stuff, its still in the repo history
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<roh>
well.. duh
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<wpwrak>
kristianpaul: (M1 power) at least in theory, you need regulated 5V. just a battery pack will produce weird results, since things like USB and MIDI feed directly off the 5V input.
<kristianpaul>
well, i can skip MIDI not sure about USB but try avoid it
<wpwrak>
(labsw) yeah. the case may be the hardest part to source. i'm stuck at the relays, though. they should be socketed, but it seems nearly impossible to find reasonably small relays with matching sockets.
<kristianpaul>
wpwrak: i was thinking a 4,8V (1.2V 2100mhA x 4) battery pack
<wpwrak>
if your batteries are fresh, you'd even be within the USB spec :)
<kristianpaul>
;)
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<larsc>
does anybody by chance know anything about pc fan control? my laptop gives me an error at startup "Fan control". The fan is a 4wire 5V DC fan. When I apply power it starts rotating, but I don't get a feedback signal. Is this normal?
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<larsc>
I see pwm signals on some of the ICs pins
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<Ayla>
larsc: the mobo expects a signal from the fan
<Ayla>
you can fake it with a 555
<Ayla>
a better idea would be to change the fan if it's not working
<larsc>
it is working fine, as far as i can see
<larsc>
there is just no signal on the additional pins
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<larsc>
Ayla: do you know if it would work, if I shorted control and sense?
<Ayla>
I don't think so
<Ayla>
mth: I made a couple of experimental changes on gmenu2x, I'd like you to (dis-)agree with before I push anything
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<larsc>
Ayla: you can always push it into a 'experimental' branch
<Ayla>
hmm
<Ayla>
I could do that, but I suck at GIT :p
<larsc>
git push remote localbrach:remotebranch
<mth>
is the implementation experimental or the feature itself?
<Ayla>
for the first change, I'm not sure of the implementation
<Ayla>
the first change is a "reload()" function on the Surface object, that (when applicable) restores the content of the backbuffer, so that when fading is used (loading screen and contextual menu) the very last image is displayed as the background, and not an old image
<Ayla>
that's was not the case when rendering at 32bpp, because then the main surface is not double-buffered (as SDL does a conversion later)
<Ayla>
the experimental features are a switch to 16bpp, and a menu clock set to... 48MHz
<mth>
gmenu2x is already slow sometimes, I prefer not to clock it down further until we resolve that slowness
<Ayla>
48MHz / 16bpp is as fast as 192MHz / 32bpp
<mth>
not when building a file list in the explorer, I think
<mth>
also some context menus take a long time to open
<Ayla>
which ones?
<mth>
I forgot, but I'll make note of it when it happens again
<mth>
it happens quite often
<mth>
I do agree with wanting to render at 16bpp, although for themes that use a lot of transparency 32bpp might look better
<larsc>
Ayla: how crazy is this? The fan wouldn't work the whole weekend long. Took it with me to work today, hooked it up to a power supply and it worked fine. Now I took it back home and it works fine again with the laptop...
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<kristianpaul>
dust dust..
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<Ayla>
larsc: it just needed some fresh air ;)
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