Re: Why not a cheaper, good ARM laptop?

2024-10-31 Thread Alan Corey
Underpowered = long battery life. I have an Acer CP-513 that ran about 10 hours when it was new. On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 6:36 PM Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian dijo [Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 01:24:02PM -0700]: > > Having largely happily* used both the Pinebook and Pinebook Pro as > > primary c

Re: Debian on ARM64

2024-08-09 Thread Alan Corey
Old-fashioned maybe but maybe I was expecting an ftp//. URL, or I did a web search. That was a few months ago. On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 7:30 PM Wookey wrote: > On 2024-08-08 17:34 -0400, Alan Corey wrote: > > Thank you, it's not easy to find. > > Type 'debian' in

Re: Debian on ARM64

2024-08-08 Thread Alan Corey
Thank you, it's not easy to find. On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 5:11 PM Luna Jernberg wrote: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-cd/ > (if you have network and can burn a CD and use netboot) > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-dvd/ > (if you need an offline ins

Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures

2024-01-12 Thread Alan Corey
ett wrote: > On 1/12/24 13:07, Alan Corey wrote: > > Are you forgetting that 64 bit is slower? In the arm world where it's > > easily switchable 64 bit is pokey when you don't need it. > > > Thank Alan, to put numbers behind that, linuxcnc has a thing called &

Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures

2024-01-12 Thread Alan Corey
Are you forgetting that 64 bit is slower? In the arm world where it's easily switchable 64 bit is pokey when you don't need it. On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 12:54 PM wrote: > > > Sent from my mobile device. > > -- > *From:* YunQiang Su > *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2024 10

Re: Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

2023-08-15 Thread Alan Corey
Seems to me it would be a good target to shoot for having "make menuconfig" encompass hardware choices as well as others, so the hardware is just another choice in the menu. On 8/15/23, peter green wrote: > On 15/08/2023 17:44, gene heskett wrote: >> used dd to write the arm64-bookworm-12.1 netin

Re: Looking for an armhf install image

2023-04-04 Thread Alan Corey
; On 03/04/2023 12:56, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 09:51:23PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: >>> I know I can but it will be twice as slow, which is why I want armhf. >>> Under 64 bit both the data and pointers will be twice as big. With >>> unlimited

Re: Looking for an armhf install image

2023-04-03 Thread Alan Corey
/3/23, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 09:51:23PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: >> I know I can but it will be twice as slow, which is why I want armhf. >> Under 64 bit both the data and pointers will be twice as big. With >> unlimited memory that would be OK but a P

Re: Looking for an armhf install image

2023-04-02 Thread Alan Corey
, Apr 01, 2023 at 09:01:42PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: >> I'm typing on one of my trusty Raspberry Pi 3B machines which I set up >> with Debian armhf > > The Raspberry Pi 3 has a 64-bit CPU, you can install Debian arm64 instead > of > armhf on it. > > ema@raspi:~ >

Re: Looking for an armhf install image

2023-04-01 Thread Alan Corey
Never mind, I'm just looking at https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/ which is about what I'm looking for. I also found a complete(?) set of raspbian archives back to 2012 at http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/ On 4/1/23, Alan Corey wrote: > I'm typing o

Looking for an armhf install image

2023-04-01 Thread Alan Corey
seye is fine, I want something stable. Alan Corey -- - Education is contagious.

Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?

2023-03-20 Thread Alan Corey
I also have an Acer Chromebook that's aarch64, bought because it was Arm to replace the Pinebook. Chromebooks are weird but it does a little Debian Bullseye running under Chrome OS. It runs for days on a battery charge, quite fun compared to the usual Intel/AMD power hungry beasts. On Mon, Mar

Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?

2023-03-20 Thread Alan Corey
minal" to SSH into > my real work machine? Which begs the question of what the work machine > would be :) > > > And any idea for a laptop? > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 08:16:26PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: >> This is a non-technical barely qualified opinion but yes. An

Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?

2023-03-20 Thread Alan Corey
This is a non-technical barely qualified opinion but yes. An easy start is a Raspberry Pi, about a 3B ($35), it's what I'm typing on. I've got 4 of them. And this one is running Debian, not Raspbian AKA Raspberry Pi OS. The differences are tiny. Just get a monitor and keyboard, a couple of SD c

Re: About ARM

2023-02-08 Thread Alan Corey
Sounds a little like a Pinebook Pro https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ I wish mine hadn't died (hinge crapout). As far as I know they aren't available right now doe to the chip shortage but that's getting to be an old story, there might be some around somewhere. I bought a mid-price Chromebook

Re: Debian abandoning armhf, Raspberry Pi OS - was Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups formultiword loads

2022-07-15 Thread Alan Corey
Debian ARM actually splits 3 ways: https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ for armel, armhf, arm64. Raspbian still uses one version I think. I had been using Raspbian for years until somebody there decided to drop the LXDE/Openbox desktops with Bullseye. And they seem to be using Debian now(?). I act

Re: Debian Pinebook Pro

2021-09-13 Thread Alan Corey
See https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/community/pinebookpro-post-install/blob/master/asound.state for a sound fix, it's just an asound.state file, delete it if it doesn't work. There are other weirdnesses, like speaker/headphone sound is 2 cascaded devices, and the speaker may not t

Re: kernel configs in Debian

2021-04-27 Thread Alan Corey
The headers wouldn't be unnecessary if you want to build modules for it I think. The linux-config may do the same thing as a config.gz. On 4/27/21, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> I think you can probably enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG, I'm running a > > I am pretty sure I can, > as I am using

Re: kernel configs in Debian

2021-04-27 Thread Alan Corey
I think you can probably enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG, I'm running a Bullseye kernel that has a /proc/config.gz. But the kernel did come from Manjaro I think, it's a little strange. It's on a Pinebook Pro and there's no official Debian release for it yet, this came from debootstrap. Getting the driver

Re: kernel configs in Debian

2021-04-27 Thread Alan Corey
Also look lor /proc/config.gz. If you have it it's a dump of the config options of the running kernel. Whether it gets generated or not is itself a config option. On 4/26/21, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: > Hi Arnd, > >> Also, do you see the same performance difference with the non-rt kernel? >> Mos

Re: Unclean (USB) filesystem on reboot of arm64 8GB RPi4 UEFI

2021-04-02 Thread Alan Corey
I always use halt -p (or reboot) and I have USB drives on just about everything. I don't have a Pi 4 though. Probably no UEFI. I use hard drives or SSDs in USB adapters. Arm64, got 3 of them. How about SDs in USB readers? I usually use msdos partitiion type. On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 10:43 PM Ryu

Re: WiFi on RPi

2021-03-03 Thread Alan Corey
Interference from bluetooth? On 3/3/21, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: >> | 3: wlan0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode >> DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 >> | link/ether dc:a6:32:ae:8d:59 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> >> \-

Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-03-03 Thread Alan Corey
I remember when 16 bit computers ran faster than 32. The data is half the size. But eventually the advantages of the wider bus win out. Like memory was measured in K, some chips wouldn't handle more than 640k of RAM without weird schemes. My first computer had 64k. On 3/3/21, Gene Heskett wrot

Re: How to push back against repeated login attempts?

2021-03-02 Thread Alan Corey
Of course, dictionary or random attacks will be drastically hampered if you limit how often they can fail. 3 failures or so causes a lockout for some hours is the usual. Failed attempts can constitute a denial of service attack under some circumstances though due to network chatter. On 3/2/21, L

Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-03-01 Thread Alan Corey
Or just run raspbian on a Pi 3B, I've got 4 of them. omxplayer and other things that utilize the GPU make it quite livable. On 3/1/21, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:40 AM LinAdmin wrote: >> >> Bullseye 64 Bit does more or less work. There arise problems when you >> install a d

Re: RPi customization utility [Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]]

2021-02-28 Thread Alan Corey
t; do. Having verified that it really doesn't do anything I can't do just as > easily manually (all the things Andy listed and a few more) I will probably > take the manual approach in the future. > > Enjoy! > Rick > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 3:49 AM, Alan Corey wrote:

Re: RPi customization utility [Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]]

2021-02-28 Thread Alan Corey
or change your keyboard layout. And it's maintained, unlike some ancient documentation that should be banished but is still out there. On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 6:17 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 25

Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-02-25 Thread Alan Corey
There are scripts for those, keyboard and language too. Also WiFi country, I forget what else. Locales is in there. Take a look at a recent raspi-config. I think Odroid, maybe the Pine64 bunch has a generic-ized version of that. Armbian probably does too. Raspi-config is just a Bash script tha

Re: 20210210_raspi_4_buster.img - howto boot in graphics mode

2021-02-23 Thread Alan Corey
As an aside, I found it interesting that you can run xorg and wayland at the same time in different virtual terminals (ctrl-alt-Fn). But I've yet to find a use for wayland. On 2/23/21, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 06:00:03PM +0100, martin wrote: >> This morning I downloaded

Re: 20210210_raspi_4_buster.img - howto boot in graphics mode

2021-02-23 Thread Alan Corey
try sudo apt-get install xinit but it may be a non-graphics (minimal) version meant for headless use. I've converted them before, start installing some big GUI stuff like Firefox or Gimp, eventually you'll get it. Or maybe it's set up for wayland. On 2/23/21, martin wrote: > This morning I downl

Re: Progress report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-02-21 Thread Alan Corey
n Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 12:19:31PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > > I think it's unreasonable to expect that kind of time accuracy from the > > first microsecond of bootup. Relative accuracy maybe, by counting cycles > > of a crystal oscillator and storing events in some buffer.

Re: Progress report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-02-21 Thread Alan Corey
M Reco wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 08:42:45AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > > > > > I guess a question is why you want an RTC. If you have a decent > > > > > internet connection just run NTP on something and it will set the > > > > &g

Re: Progress report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-02-21 Thread Alan Corey
I guess a question is why you want an RTC. If you have a decent internet connection just run NTP on something and it will set the computer's clock. If you have a cell phone install the Termux app and then NTP under that, that can be your local NTP clock. I looked into it a little years ago when

Re: Progress report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]

2021-02-21 Thread Alan Corey
Price sounds high, look around a little. This is a GPS clock module? The bare module is in the $5 range I think, I have a few. Mine came from dx.com On Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 5:42 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, at 11:14 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at

Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?

2021-02-20 Thread Alan Corey
Yet if you stick with Raspbian everything "just works". There is only one distribution that works on everything they sold. If you look at the source of raspi-config you can see how the software identifies the hardware versions And ARMv7 becomes ARMv8 under the right conditons and can run 64 bit

Re: Reducing apt's memory footprint (on small boxes)

2021-02-14 Thread Alan Corey
Linux From Scratch is interesting because it has no package system at all. But it's mostly i386 with Raspberry Pi added by a contributor. Once it's bootstrapped everything is built from sources. You don't actually need most upgrades, I have a Jessie machine running, haven't updated it in a couple

Re: No /dev/video0 on Pi 4 with CSI camera

2021-02-10 Thread Alan Corey
riting PNG image to 'fsw2.png'. > > # file fsw2.png > fsw2.png: PNG image data, 384 x 288, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced > > > > January 29, 2021 6:53 PM, "Alan Corey" wrote: > >> The CSI cameras are not natively anything like v4l, maybe you can r

Re: Debian on a Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d...

2021-02-03 Thread Alan Corey
Try ctrl-alt-F(1-4 or so) for virtual terminals. On booting, you'll probably need some uboot. Which looks quite complicated, see https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot On 2/3/21, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > Someone gift me a NAS as subject, some year ago, and i was curious about > installing debian

Re: No /dev/video0 on Pi 4 with CSI camera

2021-01-29 Thread Alan Corey
The CSI cameras are not natively anything like v4l, maybe you can run something now to make them compliant. The Pi should work with a USB camera and give v4l. See the RPI forums at https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=43&sid=a62693ef63165f18071bd85d069e6e90 Or in Raspbian look at th

Re: Debian installer auf Pinebook (Was: X11 modul for pinebook?)

2020-11-01 Thread Alan Corey
I'm wondering when it will be available. Is this in the daily builds? On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 2:27 PM Christian Kastner wrote: > On 10/31/20 11:52 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > Well, lima wasn't actually necessary. > > > > Turned out to need i2c_mv64xx for the console video on the LCD. > > > >

Re: pinebook wifi (rtl8273cs) (Was: Debian installer auf Pinebook)

2020-11-01 Thread Alan Corey
It's in Daniel Thompson's Bulleye package for the Pinebook Pro. I see a few variants like 8723ae,be,com https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pinebook-pro-debian-installer I'm not using it right now, it has Manjaro stuff in it that I don't like. On 11/1/20, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2020-11-0

Re: Debian installer auf Pinebook (Was: X11 modul for pinebook?)

2020-10-31 Thread Alan Corey
Serial is through the headphone jack but there's a switch inside to change it from headphone to serial. So 10 screws or so. On Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 1:21 PM Christian Kastner wrote: > On 4/22/20 7:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > The debian-installer concatenateable images from buster *should*

Re: Installation images for arm64

2020-10-28 Thread Alan Corey
441534464 462505983 2097152010G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/nvme0n1p7 462508032 2000409263 1537901232 733.3G 83 Linux On 10/28/20, Alan Corey wrote: > OK, I downloaded the netboot stuff first, there's nothing bootable on > the sd image it made, mostly a bunch of dbs. So I tried

Re: Installation images for arm64

2020-10-28 Thread Alan Corey
OK, I downloaded the netboot stuff first, there's nothing bootable on the sd image it made, mostly a bunch of dbs. So I tried the netinst. On my Pinebook Pro, booted from a mrfixit Stretch on emmc I see: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT mmcblk0 179:00 59.5G 0 disk Ã

Re: Bullseye installer, daily image broken for cubox-i

2020-10-27 Thread Alan Corey
Concatenateable images seem like a good idea but it looks like there are none for any hardware I have (Pinebook Pro, Odroid N2, Rock64, Raspberry Pi 3B). Having a serial console might let you see more of what's going on. How to do that varies with the machine. On 10/26/20, Vagrant Cascadian wrot

Debian support for SPI/MTD on ARM?

2020-10-23 Thread Alan Corey
Since some of the original eMMCs are starting to fail I decided to give a more serious try to getting the nvme ssd in my Pinebook Pro working. It's one of the Intel 1 TB ones. The first hurdle is dealing with uboot but the more serious one is that the PBP relies on putting something in SPI that

Re: Is there any "easy to use" arm64 laptop

2020-10-13 Thread Alan Corey
I have a PBP and mostly like it except: 1. The small physical size and 1920x1080 resolution make old-school non-GUI stuff almost impossible. 2. The touch pad has the usual buttons but they're unmarked. And it's a black touchpad in a black case so in low lighting it takes experimenting to find th

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Alan Corey
ut people do it, the visors that people into wearable computers use are hid I think. The device name becomes longer because it's device.subdevice. Except not with a period. On Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 1:14 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 26 September 2020 08:23:14 Alan Corey wrote: >

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Alan Corey
software. On 9/26/20, Alan Corey wrote: > I moved the base to my earbuds downstairs and connected to this Pi. Some > notes: > > Some of these things get cached, here B1 shows up twice at different > addresses: > > devices > Device CB:20:07:42:99:64 B1 > Device F3:66:

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Alan Corey
the Pi to do too, at least now. But according to the advertising these also have microphones in them. On 9/26/20, Alan Corey wrote: > bluetoothctl's info feature can be useful to see what states devices > are in even if you're not pairing with them. Especially devices with >

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Alan Corey
26 September 2020 06:48:11 Alan Corey wrote: > >> Bring your devices closer together at least until you get them paired. >> BT doesn't have great range. There are covid tracing schemes which >> figure if you got within BT range you're in danger. 20 feet or so >&g

Re: bt question

2020-09-26 Thread Alan Corey
Bring your devices closer together at least until you get them paired. BT doesn't have great range. There are covid tracing schemes which figure if you got within BT range you're in danger. 20 feet or so should be OK. Also heavy WiFi use disrupts it since they're both in the same frequency band.

Re: bt question

2020-09-25 Thread Alan Corey
Heh-heh, I'm putting off setting up another one. What I have installed is just libbluetooth3, lxplug-bluetooth, pi-bluetooth. First of all there's low power (newer) and older bluetooth, there aren't many chances of mixing them. If you scan from some device and don't see everything it's probably b

Re: Debian with Debian kernel on Pinebook Pro

2020-08-29 Thread Alan Corey
I think it's not officially released yet from Debian. I have one, I just use the stock emmc for now. My SSD in there isn't doing anything yet either. But then I'm retired now, don't use a laptop that much anymore. On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 4:06 PM Birger Schacht wrote: > Hello *, > > I am trying

Re: Selecting compatible Raspberry Pi components

2020-05-04 Thread Alan Corey
I was talking about the original official 7 inch display from Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-touch-display/ I have one, the resolution's not wonderful (800 x 480) but it just works. I changed from Stretch to Buster (Raspbian) with a blank SD, the display works wit

Re: Selecting compatible Raspberry Pi components

2020-05-03 Thread Alan Corey
As a data logger you can get A/D converter boards under $10 for a Pi GPIO. On May 3, 2020 1:23 PM, wrote: I'd go with a Pi 3, 7 inch touchscreen, and 3 - 10 18650 lithium cells. You can get little switch mode voltage regulators on Aliexpress or eBay for a couple bucks. When you're not using it as

Re: Selecting compatible Raspberry Pi components

2020-05-03 Thread Alan Corey
I'd go with a Pi 3, 7 inch touchscreen, and 3 - 10 18650 lithium cells. You can get little switch mode voltage regulators on Aliexpress or eBay for a couple bucks. When you're not using it as a portable you've got 4 USB jacks, WiFi, Bluetooth, CAT5 ethernet., HDMI. Not sure about Debian drivers f

Re: Raspberry Pi images SSH access

2020-04-29 Thread Alan Corey
Or just use su after you connect On Apr 29, 2020 9:57 AM, "Reco" wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:43:47PM +0200, fl4co wrote: > > Since I use this Pi headless and don’t have a monitor or a USB > > keyboard available for the first boot, I’d like to know if it’s > > possible to e

Re: The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation

2020-04-05 Thread Alan Corey
Can't be a real program, it doesn't have a man page. I just installed it (on a Pi under Raspbian) because I'm looking for a way to put Buster or Bullseye on my Pinebook Pro SSD. Which is going to need drivers and firmware. The best thing I've seen is https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pinebook-p

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-26 Thread Alan Corey
If you say so, it wasn't aparent that was what the problem was. Lots of things can manipulate UUIDs. apropos uuid on this Pi says: dbus-uuidgen (1) - Utility to generate UUIDs FcDirCacheCreateUUID (3) - Create .uuid file at a directory FcDirCacheDeleteUUID (3) - Delete .uuid file findfs (8)

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Alan Corey
Try your kernel config string. On this Pi /boot/cmdline.txt has root=PARTUUID=d9b3f436-02 I copied an sd to a hard drive once and it wouldn't boot until I put the partuuid from the hard drive in there. That and the fstab were the only changes I had to make. Should have put rootwait in there too

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Alan Corey
in OpenBSD, not Linux. apcalc will handle the big numbers. You can copy and paste the inputs and outputs, it's just text. And keep files of notes. I've never used truncate. On 3/24/20, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 24 Mar 15:46 -0500, Alan Corey wrote: >> Downsizing requ

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Alan Corey
rking. This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just install one of them, create an image, and restore the image on all other machines. On 3/24/20, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2020 16:44:42 Alan Corey wrote: > >> Downsizing requires that no

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Alan Corey
Downsizing requires that no files are in the part you trim off. Upsizing can sometimes be done by deleting the partition and recreating letting fdisk use the maximum size. Don't format between or anything and in case you have to type the numbers in you should have a copy of them handy like Device

Re: RockPro64 - Boot fails if fstab has volumes on PCIe SSD

2020-03-22 Thread Alan Corey
Yes, staring at a blank screen while important stuff is happening sucks. A serial console might show more, I haven't tried it. OK, you did. If there's a quiet in your kernel command line options get rid of it, also splash. The list keeps changing and moving but see https://www.kernel.org/doc/ht

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-02 Thread Alan Corey
On 3/2/20, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2020-03-02, Alan Corey wrote: >> That poses an interesting question: can you install Debian debs on a >> Raspbian system and vice versa? Never thought about it. I've maybe >> used Ubuntu ones a couple times. I suppose each case is un

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-02 Thread Alan Corey
That poses an interesting question: can you install Debian debs on a Raspbian system and vice versa? Never thought about it. I've maybe used Ubuntu ones a couple times. I suppose each case is unique and the worst casualty would be to the apt system and it's record-keeping. You don't want foreign

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-02 Thread Alan Corey
Gene was complaining about speed and at times video has been part of the problem. Yes, the Pinebook Pro has a T860 Mali which supposedly is compatible with Vulkan. https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ I've been trying to find something to learn Vulkan on, I can't quite do it on an RPI 3B, Rock64

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-01 Thread Alan Corey
Check that your file manager isn't set to automount, Ir's very annoying. It's in preferences there. On Mar 2, 2020 1:00 AM, "Keith Bainbridge" wrote: > On 1/3/20 3:31 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > >> Good afternoon >> >> I have tried a couple of times to run my Pi on debian, using >> debian-10.3.

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-01 Thread Alan Corey
In Raspbian Buster on my Pi 3B es2gears libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate EGL_VERSION = 1.4 vertex shader info: fragment shader info: info: 743 frames in 5.0 seconds = 148.541 FPS 751 frames in 5.0 seconds = 150.110 FPS 765 frames in 5.0 seconds = 152.908 FPS 743 frames in 5.0 seconds =

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-01 Thread Alan Corey
Geez, I remember 8-bit CPUs, and computers with vacuum tubes. But every time the word size doubles there's a transition period then it becomes the norm. Maybe the hardware design is capable but not optimized for the difference at first. Maybe the fact that a Pi 3B can run either as 32 or 64 bit

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-01 Thread Alan Corey
Tell us more technical details. That's like saying there was a problem but not saying what it was. Seems odd you'd be trying a CD Iso file and not some IMG file but it might work. Write it to an SD card in block mode. Yes, I had mine running Debian a couple years ago. Raspbian from raspberrypi.o

Re: Raspberry Pi

2020-03-01 Thread Alan Corey
I was running a 64 bit Buster in 2018 from somebody's debootstrap script. Fairly stable for a year or so until I got rid of it. It was what I'd call "smooth", but 64 bit isn't faster than 32 for the most part. Everything's twice as big and a Pi 3B can only have 1 GB of RAM by the design of the S

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-14 Thread Alan Corey
What if we define an epoch to be 50 years and the epoch number becomes part of how the computer keeps track of the date. Something similar is done in astronomy I think, star charts always have an epoch. So epoch 0 was 1970, epoch 1 is 2000, epoch 2 is 2050. Then we can keep a time_t at 32 bits.

Re: Armbian

2020-02-02 Thread Alan Corey
Arnbian is too much of what I don't like about Debian, full of little specialized scripts for this and that with new ones coming out practically weekly. If you're used to living without them and they break something because they're suddenly required it isn't appreciated. I don't re-read documenta

Re: Support for accelerated graphics and video decoding on PINE A64+ in bullseye

2019-12-06 Thread Alan Corey
The issue probably centers around the Mali GPU if it has one. ARM stopped providing x11 drivers, expect everyone to jump to Wayland. Hope they get sued. I've spent most of a week trying to get Vulkan or OpenGL ES running on an Odroid N2 and a Rock64. Gross misrepresentation in my opinion. On D

Re: Lowest power Debian SBC

2019-11-25 Thread Alan Corey
A PocketBeagle might be close, seems slower than a Zero. Mine's gathering dust somewhere. http://beagleboard.org/pocket or https://www.mouser.com/new/beagleboardorg/pocketbeagle/ Lots of I/O options but I don't think it has real ethernet. On 11/25/19, john cooper wrote: > On 11/24/2019 06:15 P

Re: MP30-AR0 arm64 sdcard slot not detected

2019-10-20 Thread Alan Corey
Do you have a way to boot a generic kernel as a test? What does ls /dev/sd* look like? How about a USB SD card reader? Reminds me of building a custom kernel and leaving something out by accident. Maybe a dependency of the SD card slot. Weird though. On Oct 20, 2019 8:30 AM, "Gene Heskett" wr

libxp-dev and libxp6 for aarch64 and forward?

2019-08-17 Thread Alan Corey
They seem to be missing from Stretch but they're in Buster. Maybe, by pkgs.org, and they only have the i386 and amd64 versions. They don't show up using this sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch main contr

Re: loss of synaptic due to wayland

2019-07-09 Thread Alan Corey
ordered an Odroid N2, instead of a Pi 4. On 7/9/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2019 11:37:17 Alan Corey wrote: > >> I thought it was possible to have both X and Wayland installed and >> just start the one you want to use. Pretty sure I did that when I was >>

Re: loss of synaptic due to wayland

2019-07-09 Thread Alan Corey
I thought it was possible to have both X and Wayland installed and just start the one you want to use. Pretty sure I did that when I was playing with Buster. I can do apt search but then I have apt installed. There are several package management tools. What I like Synaptic for besides the obvio

Re: heatsink -- was [Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced]

2019-07-04 Thread Alan Corey
8.3 x 38.8mm spacing > Self-adhesive rubber feet included, set of 4 > Matte finish hides fingerprints > DIMENSIONS > External dimensions: 97 x 66 x 41mm > Internal volume for breakout boards: 90 x 60 x 28.8mm > > > > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:54:39 -0400, Alan Corey &

Re: Hostname v buster

2019-07-01 Thread Alan Corey
BitTorrent is also good when you can use it. The site has to have a torrent link. The Raspberry Pi site does this for their images. I used to use Transmisssion as a client, now I use Deluge (It's in the debs). If you have cell phone service where you live you can get an "unlimited" plan from St

Re: Hostname v buster

2019-07-01 Thread Alan Corey
Absolutely. Or maybe curl. If you can get the file's URL, and if the site you're downloading from will let you, some won't. Usually you can right-click on a link and do "copy link location" then type wget You can also start the download (or on a failed one), go to tools -> downloads, right-clic

Re: heatsink -- was [Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced]

2019-06-28 Thread Alan Corey
ore like a car stereo and in fact it even has audio DACs. Support for the Rock64 is mostly in Chinese, this is Korean, we'll see. On 6/29/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Vi, 28 iun 19, 20:54:39, Alan Corey wrote: >> >> What I'd like to see is a massive heat

Re: heatsink -- was [Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced]

2019-06-28 Thread Alan Corey
Debian that will run on one of these? > Or should I just plan on running Raspbian? > > Thanks! > Rick > >> On Jun 28, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Alan Corey wrote: >> >> No big surprise there. Something about 1500 more on 7/4. I got on >> the list to get emailed when

Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced

2019-06-28 Thread Alan Corey
page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ On 6/28/19, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 2:57 PM Alan Corey wrote: >> >> Tech specs at Element14 >> https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-92643/l/meet-the-new-raspberry-p

Raspberry Pi 4 is announced

2019-06-28 Thread Alan Corey
Tech specs at Element14 https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-92643/l/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-with-technical-specifications?CMP=e-email-ADH-e14-NA-280619-RPITechSpec-H&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldRNE56VTJOVGxqWldabCIsInQiOiIyMllcLzZiS2FQb1NpVWt6Q2pkamNnUTVXSThMTGtISWJMZWVRXC9XQVlOWEFLa3dS

Re: screen update rate on a pi3b+ running stretch?

2019-06-25 Thread Alan Corey
It's possibly easiest to hack whatever's driving it and stick in a counter that increments every frame and check 100 or so of them against the output of gettimeofday() or clock_gettime(). That's the way I've always done it, which was maybe twice. xrandr, xdpyinfo, fbset don't do it. You can try

Re: hidden help in make

2019-06-21 Thread Alan Corey
his and that and working blind. You can do adb push and pull for file transfers. On 6/21/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2019 20:23:17 Alan Corey wrote: > >> unzip is much faster than mc on big files. mc is just convenient for >> small stuff. >> unzip file

Re: hidden help in make

2019-06-21 Thread Alan Corey
unzip is much faster than mc on big files. mc is just convenient for small stuff. unzip file or see the man page On 6/21/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2019 10:29:20 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Which makes it easier to build/install an rt kernel, BUT >> >> now I need to define for an

Re: need recommendation for a realtime kernel to build for an armhf

2019-06-18 Thread Alan Corey
On 6/15/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 15 June 2019 04:07:36 pm Alan Corey wrote: > > Get familiar with it Alan, despite our objections, both ifconfig and > route have been expunged from the stretch and newer repo's. I haven't > figured it out either. And the m

Re: need recommendation for a realtime kernel to build for an armhf

2019-06-15 Thread Alan Corey
What does just ifconfig (by itself) say? And route by itself? What's your /etc/network/interfaces file like? I think the 69.254.163.253 is the IP assigned dynamically by your router. Or it's your router's IP. But I think 69.254.163.x is your outside IP. I'm not familiar with ip. Route shows

Re: a Debian executable on Android

2019-03-27 Thread Alan Corey
There are also odd ways of running Debian under Android like the Debian kit. They use Android's Linux kernel and supply most of a Debian userland. The trouble is it's pretty busy accomplishing nothing in Android, the load average in Debian is pretty high. Search Debian on Google Play if you're i

Re: Does ARMEL toolchain include NEON support?

2019-02-27 Thread Alan Corey
I ran into something similar once. Don't use the -neon switch for AARCH64 because it's built in. On 2/27/19, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 06:30:36PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 5:46 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> So, I've got to ask - what hardwar

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Corey
machine. Ah, does linuxcrc do any kind of video acceleration? Never seen it. It could with DRI I think. On 11/26/18, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2018 09:40:34 Alan Corey wrote: > >> Try glxgears and es2gears on few different platforms. On a Pi 3b >> glxgears ru

Re: Bug#881333: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Corey
Why couldn't you choose QT for Desktop or QT for ES OpenGL when you compile your program? Supply both libraries? ES gives an enormous performance boost to little machines that need it, desktop OpenGL is more pretty pictures. On 11/26/18, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El lunes, 26

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Corey
Try glxgears and es2gears on few different platforms. On a Pi 3b glxgears runs at about 45 FPS, es2gears slightly lower. On my Rock64 it's in the hundreds of FPS but that's Mali. Look at omxplayer, full screen HD video while the CPU idles (on a Pi). The GPU is more capable than the CPU. You ca

Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-17 Thread Alan Corey
Even this Android phone has it set to 100 by default. Funny, in the BSDs I think it's more like swap strategy. apropos helps sometimes but can't help if your man pages are incomplete. At least you quickly find out if you misspelled apropos. Then Google (or ducky). Googling error messages is also

Re: Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-15 Thread Alan Corey
achine and it didn't happen. I try to not leave it mounted though. Sent from my Motorola XT1527 On Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 9:20 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2018 23:36:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 14 September 2018 23:12:35 Alan Corey wrote: > > >

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