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tawalker

I'm mildly surprised no-one else has asked this yet, but anyway: is Arch/ARM ready for the new Pi yet?

tawalker

Many thanks for your feedback :) @B.Goode - it's actually a while since my old Eee 701SD ran (Arch stopped supporting its processor architecture a couple of years ago), and I'm now on an Asus Chromebook Flip (ARM - I like going "off-road" with these things...) :lol: The CentOS site doesn't seem to g...

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I need to "brush up" on administering a CentOS system. I have used Red Hat, and have experimented with CentOS, in the past, but frankly I feel a bit out of practice. I could set up a CentOS VM inside VirtualBox on our Mac, but I noticed there's an ARM version of CentOS optimised for the RPi. I'm wei...

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Thanks pepedog :) I also have an Eee 701SD (running Arch/x86), and where possible I try to run the same kind of applications on the 701 and the Pi. That said, wicd has not always behaved well for me on the Eee - it frequently refuses to log onto some WiFi networks, even though I know the authenticat...

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I recently added a Belkin "nano" USB WiFi dongle to my Pi, and am glad to report it is recognised and enabled "out of the box" under Arch (though I had to tweak wicd to use the correct interface, but that by the bye). However, there's a curious issue, which I hope someone here can suggest a fix for:...

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Thanks MaxK1 :) I've been looking again at what goes on when the Pi boots, and from the messages displayed by systemd (which Arch now uses to manage running services, replacing rc.local / initscripts), it looks as if wicd starts up quite early in the boot sequence. I think the WiFi link must be acti...

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I just took delivery of a USB WiFi dongle for my Pi - a Belkin F7D1102ED, which basically worked out of the box, at least in Arch. (I say "it worked", in the sense that the driver and firmware appear to be included in Arch/ARM, and loaded automatically; however, I had to "tweak" wicd (the network ma...

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Since the news about new RPi's shipping with 512MB RAM, I've been thinking about buying one more to go with my existing "oldie"... like many of you, I suspect ;) My current Pi is mounted inside a PiHouse enclosure, and as I like both the transparent look and the fact that there's a slot in the case ...

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dvtm seems what you want after re-reading the above postings, it is in repositories http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/#screenshots Thank you!!! I've been looking for a "tiling window manager" which doesn't require X11 - I have experimented with awesome (X-based), but it doesn't quite "tile" t...

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Accelerated X will be a solved problem soon; we've put engineering resource on it, and it's actively being worked on. That would really put the icing on the proverbial cake for me... or should that be the "custard on the Raspberry Pi(e)"? :P I don't think the extra RAM would make much difference to...

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The RPi has composite output, not component. Composite video = 1 yellow plug Component = 1 red, 1 green, 1 blue plug you can feed the composite plus (3.5mm audio jack - stereo rca) into a rca/ scart adaptor, easily available Thanks for clarifying that - I didn't actually know there was a difference...

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Now that the Model B is shipping with 512MB RAM, I'm thinking about ordering a second Pi... which leaves me wondering what I would do with my existing one :) My "front-runner" idea at the moment, would be to repurpose the "old" Pi as a media player for our old Toshiba CRT TV in the lounge. We've not...

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With today's announcement of new Model Bs shipping with 512MB RAM, I spotted that the firmware needs to be upgraded so that the OS will recognise and use the extra memory. Not that I'm likely to be taking delivery of a "B+" in the next month (AFAIK), but will a simple pacman -Syu update be enough to...

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Thanks pushpop - I might try grabbing the AUR version and building it this evening, though I guess I might need to leave it compiling for much of the evening

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I've encountered a couple of instances where there are packages missing from the official armv6h repos, which come up in the package search at the Arch Linux ARM site. No "showstoppers" from my perspective (and sadly I can't remember specific examples), and I imagine the "hard float" Arch will catch...

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I've made some progress on this over the weekend - the main one being to find out why the volume controls didn't appear to work with the Fluxbox keymapper code. I eventually discovered by trial and error, that the problem was down to the particular amixer commands I was issuing. In a nutshell, I fou...

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I invested in one of these USB/RS232 converter modules via eBay UK (as they'd been recommended elsewhere on this forum for Pi use). It cost less than £1.50 including postage, though I had to wait nearly three weeks as it had to be shipped directly from China (I could wait :) ). The pins on this modu...

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I'm running Arch (hard float) on my Pi, with both Fluxbox and XFCE as my WM/DE's. At present, I use a Logitech K360 wireless keyboard (longer-term, I'd like a K400 for the integrated touchpad, though :) ), and I'm trying to get the multimedia keys mapped, to do what they're supposed to. This is supp...

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Well, that's a welcome surprise - I got home, modprobe'd snd-bcm2835, fired up XMMS... and it played back without problems. I'm guessing the module wasn't loaded, so I've just set up a config file in /etc/modules-load.d which I'm about to test, but hopefully it'll auoload snd-bcm2835 on boot. It loo...

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I did a fresh install of Arch ("hard float") on my Pi last week, and whilst I'm generally very happy indeed with the improvement in performance with HF, I was disappointed to find that sound still doesn't appear to work (as it hasn't in Arch for weeks, AFAIK). I wondered if I haven't set up the modu...

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There's not much that I'd change with my Pi for a Mk2 version (at least on the hardware front) - yes, it would definitely be welcome to have more RAM to play with (512MB would suit me nicely), and if it were possible to give the "Pi2" a Gigabit Ethernet port, I wouldn't complain. That said, I seem t...

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[EDIT: Sorry, I just spotted that you're more interested in X fonts than the console, but just in case this helps someone else... ;) ] You could check out this page on the Arch Linux wiki about console fonts - it's where I learned how to change the font on my Pi (and my Eee netbook (Arch/x86)) outsi...

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There are quite a few ways you could do this, though the methods I'm aware of are a bit on the technical side: a VPN of some kind (rather involved, so probably best not to "go there"); run servers for Secure SHell (SSH) and VNC (remote desktop display) on the remote Pi, and "tunnel" the VNC connecti...

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Note to self: always search the forums before posting...

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Will check this out, but by the looks of things, I might be best to keep RaspBMC on a second SD card after all?

tawalker

Has anyone who uses Arch on the RasPi, has much success running XBMC (or another media centre suite) under this distro? I'm running Arch (hard float), and I'm thinking of using the Pi partly (not exclusively) as a network media player for a spare TV we're thinking of for the bedroom. However, the Pi...

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Arch Linux ARM on Raspberry Pi 4

Re: Will CentOS for RPi run on the Pi Zero W?

Will CentOS for RPi run on the Pi Zero W?

Re: No time sync on boot when Pi is using WiFi

No time sync on boot when Pi is using WiFi

Re: Delaying time sync until WiFi has connected

Delaying time sync until WiFi has connected

PiHouse case: is it still available?

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Re: Is 512mb a good thing?

Re: Pi as media player for CRT TV: which distro?

Pi as media player for CRT TV: which distro?

512MB Pi supported by Arch?

Re: XBMC (or other media centre suite) on Arch

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Re: Logitech wireless keyboard: mapping volume keys

Re: Problems with serial port adaptors?

Logitech wireless keyboard: mapping volume keys

Re: Sound fixed in Arch yet?

Sound fixed in Arch yet?

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Re: XBMC (or other media centre suite) on Arch

XBMC (or other media centre suite) on Arch