Hi Robert
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Robert Jonsson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> 2016-03-21 10:17 GMT+01:00 Dan MacDonald <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi Tim
>>
>> It was me that brought up the ARM UI prob.
>>
>> I've been helping get FreeBSD running on it so I'll have to get Arch
>> re-installed first.
>>
>> If I can't get uboot to dual-boot Arch and FreeBSD I'll just install them
>> on separate SD cards and have partitions for both on my HD.
>>
>
> If I recall correctly the problem was with the toolbars being on one line?
>
Yes, that was the problem.
> If so I think I spotted the same problem under x86 when starting from a
> fresh slate.
>
Ah OK so its not ARM-specific then!
>
> Also, for those interested, I installed linux on an OrangePi some weeks
> ago so I tried to take a look at this but the distros I tried didn't
> provide the alsa sequencer interface (among other things) so I needed to
> hack muse and start it in a severely cut down state.. I saw all toolbars
> being put on one line though.
> Possibly it's better with Arch but it's so damn much work to get going :P
>
Good point! I didn't get round to checking if the ALSA MIDI stuff is
compiled as standard with the ALARM armv7 kernel. It should be because it's
available as a module in the Arch x64 kernel but there are differences in
the ARM kernel config such as only being built with ext4 support by default
so its not guaranteed. If it's missing I can build a new kernel package
easy enough, it just takes 12.5 hours to build it!
I really don't think its much work to get MusE running under ALARM. You
just need to install xorg, xterm, xorg-xinit, a wm or desktop and then
building muse from AUR pulls in all the other deps. Building muse does take
a while though.
Arch and Pacman is wonderful when you get to grips with it. Its so easy to
make packages for it I create PKGBUILDS evey time I have to build something
from source now as its very little extra work and it saves me doing a
manual build next time. bacman is a notable pacman command as it lets you
create Arch packages from stuff you have already installed but don't have
the package for any more. Its saved me lots of hassle.
I've not had any luck getting any x64 -> ARM cross-compiling working for
Linux so I'm tempted to buy something like the Odroid C2 which has a 2Ghz,
quadcore 64bit ARM CPU as I could use that to build stuff faster for my Bpi
and Zaurus.
I'm really disappointed the latest Odroids and the RPi 3 don't have SATA as
it makes such a huge difference to the usability and responsiveness of a
system and brings access to lots of cheap, fast storage. Running off SD
cards is unbearable and ruins the extra RAM and faster CPU offered by stuff
like the Odroid C2 which would've made a decent Linux desktop machine if it
had SATA (on a separate bus from USB) like on the BPi and Orange Pi and the
other A20 boards.
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