On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would the Micro USB cable be ok from a powered USB hub? As I just > mentioned, an idea that came to me was using the hub not only as a hub but > a power source. But I don't know for sure that such would work. I don't see > why not off my head, but I'm far from an expert on such ideas.
Yes, that would work, as long as it's a decent powered USB hub. > I don't know as I'd want to use Arch. Isn't that a source based > distribution kind of like Gentoo? Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Gentoo! But I > don't know as I'd want to take the time to compile things on a 700MHz chip. > Besides, the Raspbian distro has some tools built in specifically for the > pi, like overclocking utils and utils to change the system/video memory > split. Fedora for ARM may or may not have those. Arch isn't a source based distro like Gentoo. It is a lot more "hands-on" than others like Fedora and Debian though. No compiling, just more involved. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
