I didn't know you had a BPi too Robert? How many ARM boards have you got?
I've also got a Pandaboard.
Yes, the A20 is quite special amongst the many ARM boards in having SATA on
a separate bus from USB so its a good choice for a low budget/power
personal file/media server.
I get a solid 140MB/s reads off my 2 TB, board powered HD under Arch. I'm
working towards getting FreeBSD installed onto ZFS on my BPi so I can use
it with LIfePreserver, the PCBSD ZFS network backup, file snapshotting
tool. Prob is that USB is bust under FBSD on the BPi currently but it works
on the Cubieboard so we're wading through that first.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Robert Jonsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 2016-03-21 12:54 GMT+01:00 Dan MacDonald <[email protected]>:
>
>> 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 there as MusE complains loudly if it can't find the alsa
> sequencer device.
>
>
>> 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!
>>
>
> Hehe :P
>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I've done a few arch installs and common denominator of them all is that I
> have to redo it two or three times before I get it right. There's great
> documentation but there are just so many details so I think it's not for me
> ;)
>
>
>>
>> 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 been very impressed with just using pacman so there is definitely
> things that attract me Arch (besides building a lean mean killing linux
> machine).
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Yeah, SATA makes a big difference, I've got a banana PI with SATA as a
> kind of file server and it's solid.
> Not sure if this SATA is separate from the USB bus but it's plenty fast
> enough anyway.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
>
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