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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5384 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Tue 10 May 2016, 20:36 Post subject:
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I use berryboot to compare the various distros. It saves having to have a
lot of SD card on hand.
It should be possible to make a berryboot package for fatdog arm
but nobody has gotten around to it.
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9083 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 07:52 Post subject:
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don570,
I have recently purchased a pi3, so keen to try armdog!
I followed your instructions on page 1. Created a fat32 partition on my 16GB SD card, starting at 8MB, then copied all the files onto it.
But it won't boot. I just get a big rectangle with rainbow colours in it, and another small rectangle at top right. Then nothing happens.
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ally

Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1931 Location: lincoln, uk
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 07:57 Post subject:
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the rainbow top right is an insufficient power warning
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=82373
iirc a 2A power source is recommended for the pi3
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9083 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 08:06 Post subject:
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BarryK wrote: | don570,
I have recently purchased a pi3, so keen to try armdog!
I followed your instructions on page 1. Created a fat32 partition on my 16GB SD card, starting at 8MB, then copied all the files onto it.
But it won't boot. I just get a big rectangle with rainbow colours in it, and another small rectangle at top right. Then nothing happens. |
I also own a pi2, so obvious thing is to try that, and yes, it boots!
So, something needs to be changed for the pi3.
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9083 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 08:18 Post subject:
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Thanks for that info. Yes, I only have a 1A supply.
Ubuntu-Mate still ran, despite the under-voltage.
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TeX Dog
Joined: 06 Jul 2016 Posts: 341
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 12:00 Post subject:
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I use a 2.1A tablet charger and haven't had any under-power issues on my days old RaspberryPi3 currently doing a looped playback on mine to see if it will break before 30 day full refund window (shipping box was very abused )
Yet to try the Fatdog version but a up-todate full 64bit puppy version would be great. hint-hint
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5501 Location: GB
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 12:30 Post subject:
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Quote: | a big rectangle with rainbow colours in it |
Quite a bit of discussion about non-booting RPi-3, not necessarily a power issue. Detailed discussion is out of my range but seems some mods are need to the SW and multiple attempts to boot.
Incidentally, my early Berryboot with Puppyalpha4 still runs fantastically well on B+. Just wondering whether BK could port that over to the RPi -3 64bit ARM iteration? [-and, separately as a single .img, the Zero].
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5384 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 16:20 Post subject:
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For a power supply to my raspberry pi2 board I use a modified tablet power supply.
I cut off the barrel plug and substituted a micro USB plug.
I checked for 5v with a voltage meter.
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Here is my config.txt file.
Note that I must put in the following because the audio stutters otherwise...
hdmi_ignore_edid_audio=1
Code: | disable_overscan=0
start_x=1
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gpu_mem=128
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=4
# Safest video mode
#hdmi_safe=1
hdmi_ignore_edid_audio=1
# Berryboot settings, do not change
#initramfs berryboot.img
#[pi2]
#kernel=kernel_rpi2_aufs.img
initramfs initrd.rpi2
[pi2]
kernel=vmlinuz.rpi2
# Warning: CMA does not work properly in newer firmware versions
#
#cma_lwm=16
#cma_hwm=32
#cma_offline_start=16
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I was able to make a second card work with omxplayer
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5384 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Sat 16 Jul 2016, 16:43 Post subject:
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Quote: | So, something needs to be changed for the pi3.
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I thought berryboot kernel would work with rpi3??
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5501 Location: GB
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Posted: Sun 17 Jul 2016, 05:50 Post subject:
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Discarded Cisco switched mode PSU from a Virgin (Sky?) box will supply 5V @ 3A. Should be sufficient to run plenty of peripherals, probably including a bank of analogue converters and relays for projects.
Quote: | I thought berryboot kernel would work with rpi3?? |
Don't think the ARM6/7/9/11 architectures are compatible apart from being 32 or 64bit? BK will know.
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TeX Dog
Joined: 06 Jul 2016 Posts: 341
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Posted: Mon 18 Jul 2016, 08:16 Post subject:
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there is a different firmware loaded for RPi3 but software wise backwards compatible, there was a long black screen on the media OS I am currently running during boot and not the normal loader messages, liken it to the long boot darkness of changing between BIOS and UFI boot-loaders.
I haven't seen any noticeable speed changes, audio is different or my ears are playing tricks (music and effects louder dialog is muted, etc ) can't see why that could occur with HDMI
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5384 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Mon 18 Jul 2016, 14:25 Post subject:
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I made an important upgrade --- Samba and OMX player is now included
inside the package.
File system has been squashed into one file using the command ....
Code: | mksquashfs squashfs-root fd-arm.sfs -comp xz -Xbcj arm -noappend |
Also some minor improvements as well.
geeqie and puppy units now work properly.
Now boots directly to desktop because there is no save file.
If you want a save file you can set this with the control panel.
Instructions on first post.
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5384 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Tue 19 Jul 2016, 19:55 Post subject:
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I was able to get Xming X server to control the raspberry pi2 computer remotely.
I could even get the raspberry pi 2 to play music
(remotely controled by windows XP).
With omxplayer installed the rp2 will play a video (with sound)
on the HDMI monitor of the rpi2 fullscreen.
Check youtube videos to explain how to use Xming.
DropBear needs to be running on the raspberry pi.
Set with the control panel.
Xming must be running on windows XP,
(Xlaunch.exe will set the window options, it's part of the xming package)
then...
Putty makes the connection to the rpi2 over ssh.
Then login as root , password woofwoof
Then you can launch rox or any gui program installed on the rpi2.
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5501 Location: GB
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Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2016, 02:17 Post subject:
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RPi getting very complicated with ARM6/11, 7, model 1, B, B+, model 2, model 3, 32bit, 64bit and now availability in limited quantities of Zero, but only one per punter.
Not sure whether it's your bag don, but a ZeroPup/Dog, albeit 32bit, would be a master stroke, especially with strong terminal options and comprehensive dongle networking drivers (doesn't have on-board NIC). It's 1GHz with 500Mb so putative strong performer with most Puppy incarnations except FD64, albeit with the intention of device control being a principal objective.
{Anyone writing about HW for Zero and RPi s, generally, on this Forum? The 'official' blurbs on the InterWeb are useless invocations to buy ready-made plug-ins. [Appreciate any links to basic hard wiring projects together with operating code, either here or by PM].}
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5384 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Mon 25 Jul 2016, 15:25 Post subject:
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New version available at first post :
File: fatdogarm-07-25-2016.zip
Size: 231.68 MB
-Corrected some right click icons
- background image is now generated without using the disk clipboards.
See this command for more info
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=914556#914556
There is no savefile by default, however you are asked if you want to create
a savefile when you quit. Here is some info to read about savefiles.
It applies to fatdogarm as well as fatdog.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/boot-options.html#savefile
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