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geep999

Hi,
I tried Slack on my RPi way back in 2012:
http://geep999.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/v ... -with.html

Good luck,
Peter

geep999

I've been very happy with this surge protected PSU made by Masterplug supplying 2x1A. http://www.screwfix.com/p/masterplug-surge-protected-usb-adaptor-2-x-1a-usb-polished-black/28341 Actually bought mine in Sainsbury's post-Christmas sale @ £4.99, so shop around. Masterplug also do one with a single...

geep999

You might get a clue here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt
There are lots of other sites on this topic too - Google for bash colors
Cheers,
Peter

geep999

I'm using 3 of these Kingston 8Gb cards which seem 100% reliable
http://www.ebuyer.com/130039-kingston-8 ... rd-sd4-8gb
The first 2 cost about £3.98, but the 3rd bought a week later cost £4.98.
Cheers,
Peter

geep999

@ sorinm - is your website broken - http://ns1.spit-ct.ro/raspberrypi/ ? I've tried several times recently and get "Unable to connect". @ xeonxu - I installed gnuplot on RPi/ARMedSlack 13.37 by downloading it from the repository at ftp://mirrors.vbi.vt.edu/linux/armedslack/ and using installpkg. It ...

geep999

I'm using one of these surge suppressed by Masterplug with 2 X 1A USB outputs and it seems fine:
http://tinyurl.com/ce6wcd5 - it's £7.99 at present. Was £9.99 last week.
(I got mine for £5 in Sainsbury's just after Christmas when they were selling off stuff).

Cheers,
Peter

geep999

FWIW I've successfully used a USB to PS2 cable http://www.ebuyer.com/106560-xenta-usb-to-ps2-cable-a-usb2ps2 to connect to an ancient PS2 keyboard rated @ 5V / 170mA + a Trust Cordless Mouse AMI Mouse 250S. Both work fine on my RPi.. (Both my Microsoft wireless keyboards suffer "sticky" keys with th...

geep999

Frerovic wrote:Maintenant il me reste plus qu'a trouver un tuto clair pour installer xbmc

OpenELEC - c'est très facile -
Binaries: http://sources.openelec.tv/tmp/image/openelec-rpi/
Instructions: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title ... pberry_Pi
Salutations,
Peter

geep999

I've no complaints at all about the sound quality or volume whilst using OpenELEC RPi.arm-devel-20120614193607-r11315. I've tried both analog sound via headphones and via HDMI to the TV speakers. Tested with .mp4 videos (aac sound) and .ogg audio. So I would suppose any problems are more likely due ...

geep999

Having seen that it's recommended to use a powered hub I bought one from Argos - Mikomi 4 port hub USB 2.0. It has a 5v 2A PSU. Now my Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800 and Wireless Mouse, also my old fashioned PS2 keyboard and mouse (via PS2 to USB converter lead) don't work at all. Previously the wi...

geep999

AndrewS wrote:Unless you're being deliberately obtuse, of course

I was just playing around to see what's possible, and thought it made a nice screenshot.

Cheers,
Peter

geep999

As an alternative to VNC you could try running an Xserver on Windows and just forwarding X11 to it.
I tried it on Vista (32bit) and it worked just fine.
See this post http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 2&p=106887
Cheers,
Peter

geep999

From my notes I see that I started X with

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startlxde

I didn't need to install anything, and I didn't adjust the partitioning.
(Can't test it just now to be sure, as have overwritten that memory card with OpenELEC !).
Cheers,
Peter

geep999

joe is a nice and simple basic editor

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sudo apt-get install joe

ctrl k x - save and exit
ctrl c - exit
Cheers,
Peter

geep999

http://www.ebuyer.com/106560-xenta-usb- ... -a-usb2ps2 - £2.45
I'm using this to connect an old PS2 keyobord to my RPi OK.
It also allows a mouse to be connected.
Cheers,
Peter

geep999

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[email protected] ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.1.9+ #125 PREEMPT Sun Jun 17 16:09:36 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
[email protected] ~ $ whoami
pi
[email protected] ~ $ sudo su 
[email protected]:/home/pi# whoami  
root

Cheers,
Peter

geep999

I used the instructions here: http://www.caslab.queensu.ca/LabHelp/XServer/ and downloaded the referenced Xserver and Putty onto Vista (32bit). VMware Player on Slackware host with Win Vista guest running an X server showing R-Pi running ARMedSlack forwarding X11 of xfce session: http://tinyurl.com/...

geep999

Do you even see the username when you type it in? If not, could indeed be a hardware problem with the RPi. But if you can see the username echoed back OK then perhaps you have the "sticky keys" problem when you enter the invisible password. Perhaps you could try with the ArchLinux version. I get sti...

geep999

Sorry to be off topic and mention Microsoft Wireless keyboard. Please see my post here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=7906&p=95771&hilit=model+1014#p95771 It can take 5 attempts to login to Debian due to sticky keys. With ArchLinux I have no sticky keys at all . My conclusio...

geep999

Thanks for the tip about Video calibration - I'd looked there but only saw the "pixel-ratio". Have now tried the video calibration - the first option is "Top-Left overscan compensation". I did a screenshot of this and discovered the "arrow", which I can't see at all on my TV. Luckily it's possible t...

geep999

Asked this qustion on the OpenELEC forum but no response, so I am trying here... OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120614193607-r11315 on Raspberry Pi with TV connected via HDMI. The TV sys that it's displaying "1080p @ 60Hz"; a Bush 24" 1920x1080 pixels, model 24LED10DVD. The problem is that the edges are c...

geep999

I think it's a Debian problem. I don't see the problem with ArchLinux.
See:http://tinyurl.com/cgb2new
Cheers,
Peter

geep999

Same here with Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard 1.1 Model 1014 running debian6-19-04-2012.img ("squeeze"). It's so bad that it takes about 5 attempts just to login. It seems to be a software problem as I get NO STICKY KEYS running archlinuxarm-29-04-2012.img , and the sticky problem seems to b...

geep999

My RPi is connected to a PC Monitor with DVI cable. Boot screen OK with both Debian and ARMedslack but nothing with Archlinux.. Solution: connect to RPi with ssh ssh [email protected].168.1.9 # I could see the address in my router cd /boot Comment out the first line of config.txt #hdmi_mode=19 Reboot - and t...

geep999

Neat. It works for me. I put the commands into /etc/rc.local just above the "exit 0" so it's there after every boot. My actual commands are: echo "Setting up swap file over nfs to /space5/raspberry.pi/swap/swapfile on dad 192.168.1.1)" mount /space5 sleep 2 losetup /dev/loop0 /space5/raspberry.pi/sw...

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