Is there a way to make the pi use swap?

2018-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
? There is a 10Gb defined in the /etc/fstab, on partition sda2, one of the 2 ssd's plugged into a usb hub. If swapon -a is run, I can see 999megs of swap in htop, which goes away after a swapoff -a, both of course as sudo root. Thanks for any clues. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are

Re: my raspbian jessie repo seems to have been moved to packagecloud.io

2018-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 September 2018 04:16:21 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 04/09/18 01:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > So how do I install the new key for B62D900077D1B979 > > Gene, that's not remotely a Debian problem. Raspbian's a derivative

Re: my raspbian jessie repo seems to have been moved to packagecloud.io

2018-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 September 2018 01:48:38 Tobias Frost wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 07:59:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > So how do I install the new key for B62D900077D1B979 > > raspian != Debian. This is true, but that should no

my raspbian jessie repo seems to have been moved to packagecloud.io

2018-09-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; So how do I install the new key for B62D900077D1B979 Thanks all. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinu

Re: Running Pure Debian on the Raspberry Pi 3B+?

2018-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
s involving LinuxCNC, which needs at least a fully preemptable kernel to run. RTAI or *enomai might work, but hasn't been tried. > On 8/15/18, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 August 2018 03:44:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> > On 8/14/18, Rogério Brito wrote: > >>

Re: Running Pure Debian on the Raspberry Pi 3B+?

2018-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
) at 50 megabaud speeds. The pi CAN do it at 42 megabaud w/o breaking a sweat. Thats a roadblock I expect will eventually be fixed with a new spi driver. But I'm not reading any rumors yet. :) -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: RockChip (and possibly others) broken static IP

2018-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 July 2018 03:40:34 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 27/07/18 21:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 27 July 2018 12:29:34 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > > I found the 8.8.8.8 in /etc/resolvconf/resolvconf.d/head and changed > > it to point at the router, a

ssh refusing X11Forword this time on stretch

2018-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Back again, this time playing with the rock64 and ssh logins, armban stretch install. copy/paste from login: gene@rock64's password: X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 So obviously I can't run anything that needs X11 services. How can I fix this? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: RockChip (and possibly others) broken static IP

2018-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 27 July 2018 12:29:34 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > A few days ago Gene Heskett was complaining that his RockChip-based > board was refusing to pick up a gateway address defined statically in > /e/n/interfaces or /e/n/interfaces.d. I just thought I'd confirm that > I

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 July 2018 14:32:08 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 26/07/18 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2018 12:51:07 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >>> Wouldn't the file, if put on /media/slash, it seems dd would > >>> include /media/slash

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 July 2018 12:51:07 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 26/07/18 16:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2018 03:06:31 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 July 2018 03:06:31 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> There are still ways of working round that sort of problem. For > >> example, you can copy an entire

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
took it back out of sshd_config. So now I have a working shell into the pi from both on this machine, and the rock64. Life will be better now. Many thanks to all that tried to help. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 25/07/18 19:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 07:22:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > > I have not been successfull at "make pdfdocs", it hits something it > > does

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2018 15:25:18 Brian Sammon wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:04:01 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > They acknowledged it, and told me how to fix it, but the fix cost > > more than the odroid, a jtag programmer and a special cable that > > cost

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2018 07:22:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 25/07/18 10:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 00:49:55 Brian Sammon wrote: > >> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:42:41 -0400 > >> > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>> http

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2018 00:49:55 Brian Sammon wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:42:41 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 > > > > I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux > > installer had n

Re: rpi, now no shell for an ssh login

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 17:19:28 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 24/07/18 20:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 July 2018 14:23:33 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > > haven't tried the ssh -v, which machine? The output of service ssh > > status, on the pi

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 16:40:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 24/07/18 20:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 July 2018 14:29:49 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> So you get the password prompt which is actually issued by your SSH > >> client. The two things I'd sugg

Re: rpi, now no shell for an ssh login

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
s, including SHELL, TERM, DISPLAY, USER, HOME, > PATH, etc. You may have inherited a weird environment, or an empty > (null) one. > I'll look at that after I've fed us dinner. > On 7/24/18, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > On 24/07/18 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > >&

Re: rpi, now no shell for an ssh login

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 14:23:33 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 24/07/18 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Now to see if the pi can be fixed, but the second of those two > >>> commands does not exist in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the pi, even > >>> there but com

Re: Building armel on arm64

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
r these architectures. > > If this is a concern, how to solve it? Have some native non-DSA > armel/armhf boxes where volunteers rebuild the archive and hope test > suites will catch such issues? > > My 2¢ > > Christoph -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are fo

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
thered me in a few weeks. So maybe thats been fixed. Also, setting the keyboard repeat from the gui, only lasts till a reboot, at which time it goes back up to at least 100/second, maybe more. Thank you Mark. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: s

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 13:22:34 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 24/07/18 17:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 July 2018 10:07:45 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 04:21:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> And that works, geany now runs o

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 10:07:45 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 04:21:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And that works, geany now runs on the rock64 from an ssh login!!!. > > Now to see if the pi can be fixed, but the second of those two > > commands d

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 01:28:41 Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 18:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > When you said you had isses with ssh -Y not allow X connections... > > > > > > Check that /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the rock64 has these settings:

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 July 2018 17:00:04 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:37:48PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > As I keep repeating, x is TOTALLY not available to the common user. > > I need to set that up as an auto reply I guess. All the good > > editors,

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 July 2018 12:30:40 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:00:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > First I am logging in as user 1000, aka pi on the pi and rock64 on > > the rock64. Root logins are disallowed. I can sudo later, but can't > > run

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
to login as root! I've said as much several times. If I need to be root, there is always sudo -i for long enough. Like to change the ownership of a plugin drive so I as user 1000 can build a realtime kernel as the user. Recommended practice BTW. > Cheers, Phil. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 July 2018 07:50:23 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 23/07/18 10:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 23 July 2018 06:09:01 John Holland wrote: > >>>> shot. It can't be any worse of a C.F. than the ayufan builds with > >>>> its pre-allocated

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
he group sudo. With that there is no need to edit sudoers. > > John But that does not fix the x server being locked and unusable when logged in from a comfy chair because user 1000 is not the same name. So you are limited to ncurses at best for a gui. And that sucks somewhere around 10-35 Torr.

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
power consumption seems too high for a > portable. But if it's got a clock it makes sense it should have a > battery connector. More than likely a much bigger, rechargeable battery like the pinebook would use. > > On 7/22/18, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 22 July 2018 18:5

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
t; http://uk.pine64.xyz:9090/?channels=Pine64=MTE9MjE131 > Yes, I hit that at least daily. I'm the gene83 there. > Strange URL, there are pine64 and rock64 channels in there. > Apparently their own irc server. Thanks Alan. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used i

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 July 2018 14:58:33 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 22/07/18 15:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 22 July 2018 10:11:04 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 22/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> I have a bunch of locale related errors too. >

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 July 2018 12:35:13 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 22 July 2018 12:14:00 Alan Corey wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:43:38 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > These things don't have a clock, so they use fake-hwclock, so I > > > turned

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 July 2018 12:14:00 Alan Corey wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:43:38 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > These things don't have a clock, so they use fake-hwclock, so I > > turned on ntp.conf logging and that looks like its doing well. But > > since its

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
to add the missing gateway to the routeing tables, so its on the net ok now if I run that after a reboot. That helps considerably. Thanks Alan. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that orde

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 July 2018 10:11:04 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 22/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have a bunch of locale related errors too. > > Was a stretch-minimal install by ayufan, has xfce for desktop > > > > What am I missing? > > The traditio

rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
I have a bunch of locale related errors too. Was a stretch-minimal install by ayufan, has xfce for desktop What am I missing? -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershe

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
latex_documents = [ ('index', 'userspace-api.tex', project, 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), ] and userspace-api.tex does not exist. linux-rt-users list CC'd. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Plea

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
my job, but AFAIAC, they sold me the s.o.b. under false pretenses. That bios according to US law, is sick bird as there is supposed to be a way it can be turned off, but there is not. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 13:13:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> I'd been comparing the performance of a Rockchip-based board's LAN > >> and USB against an RPi3B+

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 21/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on > >> a TinkerBoard (Rockchip

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
unt for moving stuff around. It seems to work for me with a lot less hassle than an nfsv4 mount ever has. ymmv of course. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershel

Re: Error message on update of debian jessie on banana pi M64

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 04:03:24 Freek de Kruijf wrote: > Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 03:00:00 CEST schreef Gene Heskett: > > On Friday 20 July 2018 17:55:23 Freek de Kruijf wrote: > > > Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 10:36:53 CEST schreef Paul Wise: > > > > On Thu, Jul

Re: Error message on update of debian jessie on banana pi M64

2018-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
unning anything that needs x. This makes maintenance or code development a major pain in the a$$. > > If you don't want to upgrade and don't need security support: > > > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/ > > Appears to be quite easy. Found the method by searching t

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 July 2018 14:43:43 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 13/07/18 15:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 13 July 2018 10:49:10 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> Yes, and route (and ifconfig etc.) is obsolete. But still sometimes > >> useful. > > > > A

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
d by 99% of the responders. > > > > Thanks Mark. Perhaps this fix will be usefull to others. > > But the major thing you were asking was why your interfaces file was > being ignored. You might still have that one lurking. Of that I'm also sure, but thats the same exact interfa

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 July 2018 10:09:30 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 13/07/18 13:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 13 July 2018 05:08:57 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 13/07/18 02:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Thats a direct copy/paste, so whats wrong with that. Othe

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 July 2018 05:08:57 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 13/07/18 02:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats a direct copy/paste, so whats wrong with that. Other than the > > fact that its been rebooted twice since the address was changed from > > 192.168.71.2 to

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
-- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4001ms pipe 4 > > Sent from my Motorola XT1527 > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 5:32 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 13 July 2018 05:02:26 Christian Knoke wrote: > > > Gene Heskett schrieb am 13. Jul um

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 July 2018 05:11:29 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/13/2018 11:02 AM, Christian Knoke wrote: > > Gene Heskett schrieb am 13. Jul um 03:53 Uhr: > >> On Thursday 12 July 2018 23:36:13 Christopher Barry wrote: > >>> follow the

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 July 2018 05:02:26 Christian Knoke wrote: > Gene Heskett schrieb am 13. Jul um 03:53 Uhr: > > On Thursday 12 July 2018 23:36:13 Christopher Barry wrote: > > > follow the below 5 steps for help solving this. > > > > > > [...] > > &

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 July 2018 23:36:13 Christopher Barry wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:52:13 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Thursday 12 July 2018 18:04:54 Christian Knoke wrote: > >> Du schriebst am 12. Jul um 16:57 Uhr: > >> > On Thursday 12 July

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 July 2018 18:04:54 Christian Knoke wrote: > Du schriebst am 12. Jul um 16:57 Uhr: > > On Thursday 12 July 2018 14:16:43 Christian Knoke wrote: > > > Gene Heskett schrieb am 12. Jul um 10:07 Uhr: > > > > > > hth > > > > Not yet. If

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 July 2018 13:27:20 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 12/07/18 05:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I have been playing the 10k monkeys scene trying to figure out how > > to add a gateway entry to the route -n report on a rock64 with

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 July 2018 14:16:43 Christian Knoke wrote: > Hello, > > Gene Heskett schrieb am 12. Jul um 10:07 Uhr: > > > > auto eth0 > > > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > > > iface eth0 inet static > > > > address 192.168.71.2 > > >

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
.71.1 > > > > But that is ignored. > > In /etc/network/interfaces you need an uncommented line like > > # source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > > $ ifconfig > > might tell you that the interface's name has been changed to something > different. > > May

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
84 (341.0 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 2414 bytes 213883 (208.8 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 40 So its, even with nm purged, inventing its own data, and I cannot change it. WTH? Wh

missing gw in route -n

2018-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
ous (to me that is) place would be in /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0, which has this: auto eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.71.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.71.1 dns-nameserver 192.168.71.1 But that is ignored. Help please. Thanks. -- Cheers, Ge

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Gene Heskett
hinking at least 10 would be indicated based on the binutils comments. Comments otherwise? Thanks everybody. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 June 2018 05:43:19 Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > On 2018-06-24 at 10:13:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Next roadblock, make pdfdocs can't find sphinx, 1.3 or better. And > > > apt can't find it either... Sigh. > > > > > > I guess I

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 June 2018 05:26:41 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: > https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I will try to remember that s35xx intel. > > > &g

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2018 06:15:24 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> So when you first plug in a flash device, only a few megabytes are > >> actually available for writing, and the controller is busy running &g

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2018 09:31:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 24 June 2018 04:07:28 Diego Roversi wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:15:47 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 June 2018 09:18:29 David Pottage wrote: > > > Now I need

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2018 04:07:28 Diego Roversi wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:15:47 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 23 June 2018 09:18:29 David Pottage wrote: > > Now I need to locate a source for xelatex so I can print the docs > > and get started. apt

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
minutes. So that parts done. Now I need to locate a source for xelatex so I can print the docs and get started. apt can't find it it the repo's. Sigh... Hints welcomed of course. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. P

causes for this?

2018-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
at this rate. Does anyone have a clue where the blockage for data might be? This is from that drive, to that drive. htop is showing perhaps 1 megabyte of swap being used. Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, b

Re: Thank you Michael Stapelberg

2018-05-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 May 2018 00:23:38 Alan Corey wrote: > Loaded your 64 bit Pi image a couple days ago, love it. > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63=213672 Humm, any chance of this working on a rock64? With full usb3 speed on the usb3 port? -- Cheers, Gen

Re: arm64 aka rock64, x fails on stretch

2018-04-25 Thread Gene Heskett
> as a backup. I think a different kernel config might knock that out. > I had a devil of a time with my hp which is nvidia. > > On 4/24/18, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > But its ayufan's latest kernel, > > > > It makes it, after pressing enter, to

arm64 aka rock64, x fails on stretch

2018-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
pth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp [ 115.035] (EE) modeset(G0): drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument [ 115.035] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 115.035] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for gpu driver 0 -1 [ 115.035] (EE) [ 115.035] (EE) Any more ideas? Thanks all. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &q

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
the round container that gets bagged and picked up by the trash service weekly. I've trashed 2 of them now on the 2nd image write. SamSung and pny seem to be solid stuffs. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and a

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
k and its not in the jessie/armhf repos that I know of. Src URL for the latest? > High Endurance SD cards made for video surveillance may be an > improvement, too soon to know. Thats all I buy, class 10 stuff. Now, the helper has arrived, and I'm outta here to go get a plate sticker. -

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 April 2018 00:07:01 Chris Moore wrote: > Hi, > > Le 22/04/2018 à 16:05, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Sunday 22 April 2018 00:46:42 Chris Moore wrote: > >> I hope I haven't misled you into bricking your Rock64 :( > >> (Luckily unbricking should be

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
d. Maybe the file manager is only > controlling the automount happening somewhere else. > > You can do dmesg | less or into grep for what you're looking for. Or > send it to a text file with >. Or journalctl is the newer way, about > the same stuff I think, but you can enable persistent

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
_isr] *ERROR* BUS_ERROR irq err What is this trying to tell me? So how and where do I create an xorg.conf that gives it that screen? Thanks Alan. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 April 2018 00:46:42 Chris Moore wrote: > Hi, > > Le 21/04/2018 à 08:04, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Saturday 21 April 2018 00:24:55 Chris Moore wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Le 20/04/2018 à 17:32, Gene Heskett a écrit : > >>> The n

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 April 2018 00:24:55 Chris Moore wrote: > Hi, > > Le 20/04/2018 à 17:32, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > The new kernel just installed is: > > Linux rock64 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136 #1 SMP Thu Oct 12 09:14:48 > > UTC 2017 aarch64 GNU/Linux > > > &g

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-20 Thread Gene Heskett
UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= As it does on this rock64, but the default shell is not aware of it now.

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-20 Thread Gene Heskett
unhappy. I've wasted close to $250 on this and its time to salvage the accessories and start on a different card. Or go back to an *86 platform and figure out where to hide the humungus box that implies. Not debians fault by any means. 100% lack of support from the board maker. Thanks Stefan. &g

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-20 Thread Gene Heskett
ERIC="en_US" > LC_TIME="en_US" > LC_COLLATE="en_US" > LC_MONETARY="en_US" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US" > LC_PAPER="en_US" > LC_NAME="en_US" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" > LC_MEAS

Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 20 April 2018 06:23:44 Punit Agrawal wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > I just did an update on it, running stretch, 70 files updated, and > > now the locale is trashed. > > > > Running xfce for

Anybody here know what a rock64 is?

2018-04-19 Thread Gene Heskett
is not an update.locale file to be found. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: screen snapshot utility needed on an r-pi 3b running jessie

2018-04-13 Thread Gene Heskett
ptures. Date and time is part of the output > filename. > > On 4/12/18, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Monday 02 January 2017 02:13:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings folks, new to the list, with 2 problems. > >> > >> 1. Need

Re: screen snapshot utility needed on an r-pi 3b running jessie

2018-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 January 2017 02:13:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings folks, new to the list, with 2 problems. > > 1. Need a snapshot utility like this x86 wheezy install has. What it > its name if it exists. Using LXDE if that's important. The name will likely contain snapshot,

Re: Using a custom device tree file

2018-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 February 2018 17:43:11 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-02-18, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 17 February 2018 19:22:06 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> On 2018-02-17, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >> > Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2018, 22:24:51 CET schrieb Rai

Re: Using a custom device tree file

2018-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
t would be a nice > goal for buster, at least. > Thank you very very much, this is probably the post, a howto, that I've been looking for, for months. Now my problem is that the db for flash-kernel is 2 or 3 years out of date and contains no mention of either the pi-3b, nor the pine offering called the rock64. And quite likely, u-boot-tools is also dated. Where can I report that? Another similar boot composer needs docker, but that doesn't run on stretch for arm64's. Many thanks for more info. > live well, > vagrant Take care, Gene -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: screenblanker vs login

2018-02-15 Thread Gene Heskett
: thanks to the GPL > this part of the Mali support legally has to be Free Software so it is > distributed that way (tho AFAIK it hasn't been integrated into the > mainline kernel because it doesn't try to integrate into the standard > GPU infrastructure). But to make use of the Mali GPUs y

Re: screenblanker vs login

2018-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
0 yard races. Don't get old folks, the so-called golden years are actually /not/ fun. > Yes, for DPMSInfo your program has to include the header > X11/extensions/dpms.h and link to the library Xext. > > On 2/14/18, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Wednes

Re: screenblanker vs login

2018-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 February 2018 07:51:26 Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What they have can do 4k60hz so even tho its being pushed as a media > > server, there doesn't seem to be any real clean room effort to write > > an opensou

Re: screenblanker vs login

2018-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
4k60hz so even tho its being pushed as a media server, there doesn't seem to be any real clean room effort to write an opensource driver to exploit the mali hardware on the SoC. Lack of both info from the mali people, and manpower I'd guess. > > On 2/13/18, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shente

Re: screenblanker vs login

2018-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:34:44 Wookey wrote: > On 2018-02-05 12:12 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > How do I shut the screenblanker off on an arm64. > > It's no different on arm than any other arch SFAIK. This is probably a > debian-user question really. > > > I hav

screenblanker vs login

2018-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
until xfce is up and running. Thanks for any hints that will restore this thing to usable. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://gene

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 February 2018 05:23:56 Wookey wrote: > On 2018-02-03 11:46 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > greetings all; > > > > I very carefully selected docs, x11, kde and xfce to be installed > > on this rock64. That was something over 2000 packages when I hit the &g

no gateway is set, was Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 23:37:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2018 21:04:40 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I know you cannot remove a package with it, because its > > > interpretation of

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 23:27:11 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It turns that I am not supposed to be running aptitude as root. > > If you want it to make changes to the system you must run it as root. > > > but my sudo

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 21:04:40 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I know you cannot remove a package with it, because its > > interpretation of dependencies will leave you with an unbootable, > > destroyed system. Its done tha

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 11:46:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > greetings all; > > I very carefully selected docs, x11, kde and xfce to be installed on > this rock64. That was something over 2000 packages when I hit the g. > There was a bare jessie image, a little under 3.5 G

aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
install? Something you can actually build a working system with? Sigh. While I am up on my soapbox about this, that set of html docs on aptitude someone pointed me at, is that available in a printable pdf? Link plz if it is. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be

Re: is the jessie/stretch aptitude broken?

2018-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 February 2018 20:10:51 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 6:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Running an ayufan 5.15 version of a gnu-8 image on a rock64, I am > > getting absolutely nowhere. > > Do you mean to say Debian 8 instead of gnu-8? > > It seem

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