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It sounds like either you did not complete installation or your SD card could be corrupted. When you say the foundation image, is that the plain Raspbian or from NOOBS? There could also be something wrong with your permissions. Post results of following commands if you are in a terminal: whoami ls -...

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If reflashing does not work, check your power supply and cables. If you are able to measure between TP1-TP2, that should be between 4.75 or 5.25 at all times or there could be problems.

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You might consider uninstalling the package and re-installing it using apt or apt-get. There are recent posts in this subforum about how to install packages that are local rather than retrieve them over the internet. Then, the other thing they give in the instructions there on that site is to tell y...

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I agree, you cannot get NOOBS going without a display. Download and install one of the OS for the Pi directly. Most have ssh enabled by default. You will need to have an ssh client on your Mac, and then once you get ssh on the Mac and an OS installed without NOOBS, you can ssh in to the Pi from the ...

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I just typed and lost a very long reply. :o( It can also be done on Arch, see my early posts in the Arch subforum to see what happened when I was struggline with neither a keyboard nor a monitor when got my Pi December 2012. Consider getting a cheap, simple USB keyboard and/or a cheap SD card reader...

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If nothing happens when you try to use the keyboard, the problem could be the keyboard. Some keyboards require more power than the Pi can deliver, especially if they are plugged directly into the Pi. Do the keyboard lights behave properly (CAPSLOCK, NUMLOCK)? Is this a simple keyboard or fancy one? ...

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For those that are wondering why they should learn vi and it's brethren, it really boils down to this: Not every *nix system has nano, etc. However every *nix system has vi. So if you ever decide to venture into a career in IT, it is best to learn vi now. Back in the day, it was recommended that pe...

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By data card I think you mean a USB modem? Whether you can attach the modem directly to the Pi without your Pi crashing depends on how much power the data card requires. I would guess it requires too much power, you can check how much power it uses by looking at the manual or running "lsusb -v" with...

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Since you mention X, I would guess you are using a terminal emulator? It could be lxterminal or xterm or xfce terminal, for example. When I run mine, there is a menu at the top and if I click on the choices, one of them has a dropdown list that includes Preferences. To change the font size, I click ...

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All I know is that the vi that came I think as default in arch on my Pi drove me nuts because I am used to using arrow keys to move around when I am typing in visual mode. I kept ending up with weird characters on my screen, and found out that vim could handle moving around with plain arrow keys jus...

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thank you! lsmod does work in arch. but we do not use /etc/modules, there is no such directory. <grin>

My hunch is that there might need to be files created for each module in /etc/modules-load.d/ but possibly it could be done with systemd service files?

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What system did you install on your Pi? And what commands did you enter in lxterminal?

If it was a pre-installed SD card, you might need to upgrade.

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What hardware is attached to your Pi? Answers depend on the setup. If too many devices are attached to the Pi that require more power than it can deliver, they will not work.

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Can anyone help oki_one with his problem? I don't know anything about lirc, but wouldn't there need to be something showing up as output of route command for this sort of communication to occur, or is that not the case as it uses the GPIO pins?

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To reinforce what others have said, then you can download the package with Windows and transfer to the Boot partition of the Pi, which is the one that Windows can read and write to. But also, it is a lot of work because you have to find out what the dependencies are (other packages also required to ...

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This is a little confusing to me. If you want to control the Pi remotely, it has to be the host and you log in remotely from somewhere else. But it looks to me like you are referring to your Windows machine as the host. You will need to either ssh in to the pi via command line, or if you want to do ...

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Is your Pi connected to the Internet? It cannot retrieve any packages to install unless it is online.

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bad cable or connectors?

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geometry is a standard option for things in x. I am suggesting finding what starts lxde (and I do not know), and adding the desired geometry on the line that starts up lxde. It would not be inside of lxde or it's files, but outside of it, unless you can find a config file for lxde that declares disp...

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I don't have access to it right now, but the man page for lxsession might tell you how to change what it called the geometry in the startup file. Whatever is starting lxde (is it in /etc/X11?) will have a line starting with lxde, what you can do is put the desired geometry there as part of the start...

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I assume that is a piece of hardware, and it depends on whether there is a driver for it in your distribution. What Operating system are you running on your Pi and from what date? (cat /proc/version)? If you can get to command line and post the results of lsusb for the device (from any computer), th...

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Hmm, you could possibly do "su pi" and that will ask you to login and request a password. Of course, your whole point was to avoid having to do that, I do understand. There is probably a file where you can change the default user for startup, although it might vary by which distribution you are runn...

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I did find my Pi tending to freeze a lot when I went online, especially to websites that were browser intense. How long is there no activity? It is possible that a website you are going to is not understanding the response from luakit, or vice versa. Some websites just would not work for me in luaki...

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I don't know raspbian or python but I do run lxterminal and bash startup scripts on my Pi with archlinux, and I don't think you have to open up lxterminal to run the script. Your call to the script containing your commands from the autostart file will be something like: mystarterscript.py & You can ...

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Have you thought about just using a text browser with a standard search engine?

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