Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 01:59:36PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: >> I have just acquired two of these, one for my son's school project, >> one for our mediacentre. Using the KDE appliance, it boots up fine, >> but as soon as I start setting up the wifi, it crashes. Then I tried >> usig yast to set date&time - crash. > > Are they equipped with _appropriate_ power supplies? RPi3 is said to > have higher demands than just an ordinary 5V/2.5A plugger.
Ah, I was not aware. Well, the power supply says 5V/3400mA, it has multiple usb sockets at max 2400/socket, Looking at the power supply supplied by e.g. Conrad, they are also 2500mA. > Some shops sell 3.0 amps minimum, others swear by raising Vout to > 5.2V. My assumption is those rascals like to demand sudden current > bursts, e.g. when certain peripherials kick in or the CPU gets to do > some work. That is possible, but sofar I'm still installing :-) Also, when I tried with TW a little later, it worked fairly well, at least it didn't crash. > For the media centre you might want to look at libreELEC, for a > comparison, just to see whether that runs stable. OTOH it's only > 32-bits wide :-P https://libreelec.tv/downloads_new/raspberry-pi-3-3/ Thanks, I'll check it out. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (6.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
