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Hi, all,
I am a total beginner at this game - I have installed Ubuntu Mate on a PI-3B, intending eventually to interface to an Arduino Uno. To do this, I want to use the I2C interface. When I open raspi-config, go to the Interfacing Options, and select the I2C interface (option 3), it comes up (incorrectly?) with the option to enable SPI. When I tried to open SPI, (option 2), it says "Programmer Error: unrecognized option".
Is this an error in raspi-config, or have I done something wrong?

kwardill wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:19 pm

Hi, all,
I am a total beginner at this game - I have installed Ubuntu Mate on a PI-3B ...
Is this an error in raspi-config, or have I done something wrong?

The state of being a beginner and the fact of installing Ubuntu are mutually exclusive.

What you've done wrong is not installing plain Raspbian until you're beyond the beginner level.

Thanks for your really helpful reply, Doug. Long may you also try to learn something new.

kwardill wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:32 pm

Thanks for your really helpful reply, Doug. Long may you also try to learn something new.

Then your statement about being a beginner is false. Make your mind up.

So much for the "helpful" people on the RPi forum - you need to get a life, Doug.
For those of us who are trying to move forward and not indulge in stupid abuse:
https://www.cube-controls.com/2015/05/1 ... pberry-pi/

I didn't look in detail, but the version of raspi-config that https://ubuntu-mate.org/ports/raspberry-pi/ points at is 3 years old, and might be a bit moldy?

If I were a Pi Newbie, I would start with the OS having the highest likelihood of success: Raspbian. It's built in conjunction with the Pi hardware, and is likely to always support the Pi better than any other distros.

Once you have confidence that your project works on a Pi with Raspbian, then you can move on to the distro of your choice.

kwardill wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 20, 2020 4:04 pm

For those of us who are trying to move forward and not indulge in stupid abuse:
https://www.cube-controls.com/2015/05/1 ... pberry-pi/

5 years old... not really new and moving forward, is it?

Bis - Thanks for your answer. I had been using Raspian, but was interested in moving to Ubuntu because I use that on other machines. I ran into a problem, and was simply looking for suggestions - I had updated the Raspi-config which was installed with Ubuntu, and it still did the same thing, so I was hoping that someone could suggest why, and that the answer would help other people - but then, as you saw, I got the answers from the trolls...

The rest of you: thanks for your 'contributions'. There is good useful stuff on this forum, then there is stuff from people like you - don't bother to reply - I won't be logging in again.