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You guys should really just make each of these distributions their own forum instead of just one topic post if you want to organize it better......

hm… I just wrote f17 to a 8gb card, and fired it up! It booted nicely for a while….. but it's taking too long...... something with resizing?...

nmcc said:

trn said:
Running arch on raspberry pi, open box, tint2.
For this combo you may want to consider the standard Debian release and check out the OpenELEC & xmbc threads too.

Why stick with Debian? Arch/OpenBox/tint2 is a pretty lightweight combo, no? However I myself am having a...

Running arch on raspberry pi, open box, tint2.

1.I want running some browser , but midori crashing, firefox (error: failed retrieving file 'xulrunner-1.9.2.15-2-arm.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : The requested URL returned error: 404).

Which browser recommended? Which is working?

2.want play iptv. Install vlc, and dont play, return some no...

Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center, or OpenELEC for short, is a small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a complete XBMC media center. OpenELEC is designed to make your system boot as fast as possible and the install is so easy that anyone...

QtonPi is an Embedded Linux platform plus SDK optimized for developing and running Qt 5 Apps on Raspberry Pi. More information is available...

As per...

Now you see it. Now you don't!...

Email me if there's a problem....

Fedora 17 for RPi seems like it's coming along nicely to me. Here's the latest snapshot 07/05/12, haven't tried it yet....

I had the same thoughts smuggly. In fact I'm wondering if Seneca has bailed from the project? The Fedora distribution was a high-profile release and the recommended distribution by the RasPi Foundation.

But then the bug reports arrived and even the Seneca folks admitted that 2D rendering was not complete. Element...

How embarrassing to admit having the smallest...

TheFreeman04 said:

DSL i think would be perfect for the raspberry pi because of its size and extremely low system requirements, Does anyone know whether there is an ARM version, or of any other tiny distro (less than 500mb preferably).

I think this has been mentioned before - try a...

DSL i think would be perfect for the raspberry pi because of its size and extremely low system requirements, Does anyone know whether there is an ARM version, or of any other tiny distro (less than 500mb preferably)....

With mpthompson building debian for hard float, I am curious if arch would also benefit from being build with hf?...

I have downloaded the QtonPi image from the downloads page and started it in qemu on Windows. It does load, but I get the following worrying messages after I log on (and before).

Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)

Kernel 3.1.9 on an armv61 (tty)

localhost login: root

Password:

modprobe: FATAL: Could...

Liam Fraser said:...

Liam Fraser said:...

I tried Arch yesterday but got bizarrely roadblocked running X with lxde because my mouse wouldn't respond. It's seen in

/proc/bus/input/devices as a Microsoft Basic Mouse - which it is - and this rodent works in Debian. Both udev and evdev are installed. LXDE comes up fine, it just won't...

The BeagleBoard running RISC OS at 1 GHz (a 25% speed boost) took the limelight this time around, along with a ton of software releases.

There is a brief show report on the Wakefield show on RISCOScode at

http://www.riscoscode.com/Page.....m0119.html

The next show is in Birmingham on July 7th by which...

Received my real Pi yesterday & loaded the Debian image. Boots OK but when connected to a Sony 32" TV (1366x768 but I would have to take the TV off the wall to find the model number) the picture is much smaller than the screen (say 15% smaller all the...

It isn"t clear to me if we must use a new image each time you release one, or a pacman -Syu is just enough....

Hi. I'm writing here because this is a perfect topic for my idea I want to share with you. I wrote the idea to some of forum in my country Linux web and sombody told me there that although the idea is good, it would be waste of time to...

Has anyone managed to install Gentoo with uclibc on the PPi? I have tried around with Gentoo/uclibc in the past, but everything available seems to be extremely outdated. Aren't such (semi-)embedded devices as the RPi predestined for a small footprint glibc replacement?...

Thought there were plans afoot to show RISC OS running on a Pi at the Wakefield Acorn User show last Sunday. Have not seen any news about this. Did anybody go to the show....

Appologies if this is the wrong place, but can someone confirm if a usb gamepad type device will work with this distro?...

You could argue that virtual memory is memory not currently mapped in the memory space of the CPU, but has the opportunity to be mapped in. So could be on any device outside the CPU map, not just HDD, but that is connected so it can be loaded in.

Probably. ...

vijay said:

Hi,

I got a surprise answer from senior people from a reputed university.

My question is,is the virtual memory physically there in system or not.Can you call hard disc as a virtual memory?

PLEASE answer my question.

Thanks & Regards,
Vijay

Real / Physical...

Hi,...

After a lot of messy rpm/yum hacking, I now have Fedora 17 (from the standard Fedora ARM repository) running on my Pi.....

NeilNjae said:

Oh, in case anyone"s interested, there seems to be a bug in the Apache2 package installer that doesn"t add the www-data group for the www-data (Apache) user. Fix it with
$ sudo groupadd www-data
$ sudo usermod -a -G www-data www-data
after installation, then restart Apache:
$ sudo
...

Hey,...

pepedog, any chance you could remove the hard coded mac address from cmdline.txt next time round ? ...

I've had a little trouble with updates. Install with archlinuxarm-01-03-2012 works great but any later kernel doesn't boot, I receive the following error:

Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

Copying over the previous kernel has got me back up and running, but...

There won't be public documentation of the GPU, so you cannot directly program it and use it as GPGPU. (That's sad, cuz I like the idea of playing with OpenCL on the Pi)

The graphics acceleration could be done by using OpenGL ES which is fully accelerated by the GPU...

Hi

Anyone know how to enable iptables in the new image? :

"

#modprobe iptables
FATAL: Module iptables not found.
"

and

"

# iptables –list
FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
iptables v1.4.8: can"t initialize iptables table `filter": iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or...

Is anyone else having issues with auto mounting USB memory sticks in the newest Debian Squeeze build?

I know sound doesn"t work, but in order to access USB drives I"m having to manually mount them which is a bit tiresome?

EDIT: On an actual physical Pi by the...

Hi pepedog,...

Don't have my PI yet but thought I would get ahead by preparing my SDHC card. I downloaded the latest Squeeze image and ran SHA1sum to check the download (on Windows XP) and got a checksum of f821205afdbd6136b0f2d32264b526b2cbddb5fc which is the same as is found in the SHA1 file which...

Just a quick note of thanks to everyone who are contributing to this thread. Thanks to all the great information in it, I had absolutely no problems loading up Debian on an 8GB SDHC card and running it on the Pi....

This worked for me. Using Panasonic Viesa TV (32 inch). Now happily runs at 1280x720, which is the same setting as under the debian distro....

Looks like the update to latest version removes the cmdline.txt (and config.txt).

This has the negative effect that the GPU bootloader doesn't append the extra arguments (e.g. framebuffer width/height, serial number, mac address)

This results in 800x480 framebuffer console.

Creating a suitable cmdline.txt fixes it:

echo "dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200...

I've created in accordance with these instructions ( http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wik.....or_Storage ) a corresponding partition on a hard drive.
Then I have in the file"cmdfile.txt", the root-device to "root = / dev/sda1" changed.

booting but stops after the hard disk was detected.
Still need further changes are made (fstab, etc)?

Please...

Hi wcchandler. The short answer is yes. Liz and the team are looking at introducing a bug tracking system on this site, but no ETA at the moment....

A twitter response sent me here, but I noticed a bug when running the Debian 04-13-2012 build.

OS: debian-04-13-2012

State: Initial Boot

Issue:

pi@raspberrypi:~$ perl test.pl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
   LANGUAGE = (unset),
   LC_ALL = (unset),
   LC_MESSAGES
...

I'll be posting this in the relevant OS thread, but any plans for bug tracking?...

ccyymmdd format please - sortable....

+1. Another advantage of ISO8601 is that the lexicographical order corresponds to the chronological order (except if the year is negative), handy if the timestamp information hasn't been preserved between source and destination file systems....

+1. Another advantage of ISO8601 is that the lexicographical order corresponds to the chronological order (except if the year is negative), handy if the timestamp information hasn't been preserved between source and destination file systems....

Shouldn't that be: Give me the file from November 15th '85?...

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