Notices by minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)

multi track drifting

lol so smol

i killed the i2c sda pin by hot plugging a downstream i2c battery board, which is a legitimate use case, so i'm gonna need to add some protection circuits for this

perhaps i need a TI I2C isolator

hit me with your GPIO protection best practices (esp for i2c interfacing to power-related circuits)

anyone going to GPN in karlsruhe next week? will be there with @theawesomerandomness

another thing that i'm quite excited about is that we've now rolled out the first official system controller firmware update for MNT Pocket Reform on LVFS/fwupd. this has been prepped for quite a long time now with major contributions by @ch2500 and lots of help by @hughsie, thanks a lot!

this means that people can now update this part of the firmware comfortably through `fwupdmgr` or Gnome Firmware (`gnome-firmware`). the keyboard firmware and fw for other devices will follow.

Posting this from my Amiga 3000/68030! (via IBrowse and Brutaldon, and MNT ZZ9000 graphics/network card)

at the moment MNT is mostly a little factory floor where i also do a bit of kicad and programming sometimes, and tina the dog is barking at us

i hacked this into Pocket Reform, and RK3588 Pocket Reform with Intel WiFi 6E + Bluetooth is pretty awesome

made a thing (3rd PCIe port+USB breakout for RCORE) and yes, Intel Wi-Fi+BT card says hello

my home wi-fi connection is pretty ok now with pocket reform

proof

10 blinkenlight rainbow LEDs on MNT Desktop Reform now controllable via echo to a sysfs file

wrote a few notes about the current status of shipping GNOME as one of two default options on the MNT Reform series devices https://community.mnt.re/t/gnome-integration-notes-issue-tracking/3168/24

originally i wanted to ship GNOME already with the original pocket reform, but the imx8mplus GPU turned out to be too slow to support it well enough to have a great time with the machine, so as a compromise, i tried to make wayfire friendly enough to ship it (in addition to Sway, which performed well but is more for advanced users). but it fell short of my original goal of having a comfy approachable desktop. now with RK3588, this original goal can be met, and i can focus on other rough edges

because of shipping and technical debt cleanup etc i'm a bit behind on announcing that we've replaced the wayfire desktop with GNOME on the mnt reform series laptops, as one of the two primary default environments (the other being Sway), and replaced greetd with GDM. we'll soon publish a longer article about this. the main motivation is my goal to make reform devices as accessible and discoverable as possible by default, and if you're more advanced, you can dismantle and customize anything.

@aesthr meh! i'm sorry to hear. the transition is even harder to get right than including it from the start :/

@josch @dnkl one has to say that foot always worked flawlessly on other compositors on imx8mq, imx8mplus (etnaviv) and a311d (panfrost), and currently also works fine on gnome on panfrost (tested on rk3588 cpu), so the issue seems isolated to gnome/mutter compositor and etnaviv (mesa driver for vivante gpu) cc @austriancoder @rmader maybe related to the switch from gnome gl to ngl renderer?

running the "foot" terminal on gnome on imx8mplus (etnaviv) results in a "rectangle of doom", not sure how to describe it better