Thanks. I like to think of PINN as more of an enhancement than an alternative to NOOBS ;-) VNC is already included in NOOBS. It is largely undocumented, but there are references to it on here and in github. Add 'installvnc' to recovery.cmdline and the output will be on VNC instead of your monitor. I...
@Knlgdgl The /OS/ folder on the USB stick needs to have the same format of files as you would find on the root partition of a NOOBS-FULL version. (I shall update newfeatures.md to state this explicity). So, if you wanted to install Raspbian from USB stick, for example, the USB stick would look somet...
There is a limit of about 4GB on NOOBS to store the compressed images because of the requirement to be able to install RISC_OS and it's unusual file system, which is why the other OSes were dropped from the full version as they increased in size. So any "NOOBS Heavy" would have to omit RISC_OS. With...
There are instructions on how to install a custom OS with noobs here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/blob/master/README.md#how-to-create-a-custom-os-version Or have a look at my enhanced version here : https://github.com/procount/pinn & read newfeatures.md for a list of additions that might be...
It's all about partition arrangement. If you put plain Raspbian on your SD card, then /dev/mmcblk0p1 will be the boot partition and /dev/mmcblk0p2 will contain the root file system. (Maybe the setup program assumed this arrangement) If you install Raspbian from NOOBS, then the partition arrangement ...
NOOBS (1.4.x) uses an old kernel and old boot files that do not yet support the 7" touchscreen display. However, if you copy the bootfiles from Raspbian Jessie onto the Recovery partition, the NOOBS recovery program can be displayed on the touchscreen. The touch interface still won't work as it need...
Once you have opened QT Creator from the command line with the -noload argument, you can disable the Welcome plugin permanently from the options (somewhere) and thereafter it will work normally from the programming menu.
There is already a Fork of NOOBS and a Pull request that implements wifi in NOOBS by Jumaka (and included in my repos too). So far it only implements the Ralink rt2800usb drivers (5370 chipset), I may be able to add drivers for other wifi chipsets if someone can tell me which drivers I need to add f...
NOOBS update was only a minor one to include the new Raspbian Jessie. NOOBS recovery progtam itself is still the same and needs the boot files updating as above to work with the new touchscreen.
I have already set the boot option to go to CLI. That was the way to get a VNC possibility in the first place by running the vnc.sh script from a PuTTY session. So I saw - I was explaining why that solution worked. I will try to change the scripts etc to use display :1 instead and see if that impro...
@Bosse_B - I suspect your .X0_Lock error is due to the desktop GUI already running (which will be display :0) To use that display when the GUI is already running, you might have to enable some shared opens in tightvnc to allow the main desktop to be shared between vnc and the main screen. Some other...
I can now confirm that NOOBS will work with the new RPF touchscreen IF the NOOBS bootfiles are updated. After unzipping and copying NOOBS onto a blank SD card, delete the bootcode.bin and recovery.elf files. Then download the following files and copy then to the SD card: https://github.com/raspberry...
From Pimoroni website FAQ: Note: An update has been pushed to Raspbian to flip the screen ( rotate it by 180 degrees ) for a better desktop viewing angle. This makes it upside-down in our stand, so you'll need to change a setting to flip it back. To do this, open /boot/config.txt in your favourite e...
I use the Bionic lapdock with my Pi2 and I tried it yesterday with the new Raspbian Jessie distro. When I first plugged it together, I got the screen display ok, and the Pi was powered, but no mouse, no keyboard, in fact no USB from the lapdock at all. But then I pushed the micro USB cable a bit har...
IIRC I didn't build from source - I just did 'sudo apt-get install qt.....'. Sorry I can't remember the package name, but you can find it with 'sudo apt-cache search qt'. That was for Qt V4.8. I'm not at my Pi so I don't know if QT5 has been packaged. If not you'll have to build from source as you h...
I have been tinkering about with NOOBS, which is developed with QT4.8.1 Following the NOOBS build instructions, I was able to install QT4 on Ubuntu on my PC and cross-compile the buildroot subsystem and NOOBS, then copy the resultant system onto the PI. When I got my Pi2B, I thought it might be poss...
On the Noobs screen with a keyboard attached, press ctrl-alt-f2 and logon with username=root password =raspberry.
Mkdir -p /media/boot
Mount /dev/mmcblk0p5 /media/boot
cd /media/boot
Then use vi to edit the file directly.
(i to enter insert mode, Esc : w q to save & exit when done)