Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry-Pi sanity check

2013-09-30 Thread stanley garvey
On Sep 30, 2013 19:50 Yigit Turgut y.tur...@gmail.com wrote: You post feels like installing windows xp and/thus doesn't prove that you are sane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sane I think it would be better if you could give instructions to get slackarm-current from official

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-27 Thread stanley garvey
On Sep 27, 2013 12:16 Tom tom...@spoko.eu.org wrote: I do not need images to test, just boot files and kernel. With these: ftp://ftp.stanleygarvey.co.uk/pub/slackwarearm_rpi/boot/ Both of mine RPis hang at colorful screen. Set of files that work for me:

[ARMedslack] Raspberry-Pi sanity check

2013-09-27 Thread stanley garvey
Okay, Just to check I am sane I will now demonstrate how to install an image to SDHC card, there will be no camera tricks or fudges: As root: bash-4.2# cd /home/stanley bash-4.2# mkdir sanity-check

Re: [ARMedslack] Generic Allwinner Slackware installer, was: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)

2013-07-28 Thread stanley garvey
On Jul 28, 2013 09:52 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I noticed RPi patches also not making it into kernel.org. Last weekend I tried to compile a generic 3.10.1 kernel for the RPi and it failed to boot. Rather than patch kernel source for a specific ARM target,

[ARMedslack] Kernel 2.10 and raspberry pi

2013-07-15 Thread stanley garvey
Hi, just been to kernel.org to see if the raspberry pi is supported. I see no support for the device in any kernel previous to 3.10.1 which includes support for the BCM2835. I find this odd. I would have thought that patches would have been submitted and merged in the the kernel tree. We still got

Re: [ARMedslack] armedslack on android phone?

2013-07-14 Thread stanley garvey
On Jul 14, 2013 10:22 Davide louigi...@yahoo.it wrote: If the phone is an A1x based SOC there's chance that you can get started really quickly by reusing info on how I got Slackware arm on my XZPAD700 tables (that is a A13 based SOC). There's still work to do like the touchscreen and

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-15 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 13, 2013 21:39 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: Ok I've changed it and will upload the new installers once I've got Linux 3.9.6 kernels built. Actually, can you test it? I just edited it and haven't tested it. It's really just cosmetic, so it should be fine:

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-15 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 15, 2013 15:31 stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Jun 13, 2013 21:39 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: Ok I've changed it and will upload the new installers once I've got Linux 3.9.6 kernels built. Actually, can you test it? I just edited

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-13 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 12, 2013 19:32 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: read write. The Raspberry Pi does not honor the ro flag :( The only way round this is to use a hacked rc.S, Unless somebody has a better idea? Default it into the kernel: CONFIG_CMDLINE: On some architectures

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-13 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 13, 2013 21:35 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: We saw the good side and the bad side of cyclists today and I also got to read a poem from the 'Black Cab poet' Cool. How'd it go?! whoops, don't ya just hate it when that happens? :) Tue 11th Jun 2013 @

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-12 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 11, 2013 21:59 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: stanleygarvey.com/slackwarearm_rpi/index.php and dropped the slackberry name, also I can report that slackware-current does not OK great. Download SlackwareArm for Raspberry Pi®. You're missing the capitalisation

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-09 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 8, 2013 08:12 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I got rid of the problem of eth0 - eth1 udev renamingon the images I create by using the slackware supported standard /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown_local script to remove the70-persistent-net.rules file whenever a shutdown is

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-08 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 8, 2013 18:54 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: Hi Stuart, I could own the master' image' if you would like. I could set aside some hours a week to administer fixes and such. Q. Would I create the base image myself or do you have one in mind? If I have only ever

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-07 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 7, 2013 22:32 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: Hi Rick, [..] I'm probably not the person for anything too technical but I could most likely manage the wiki side of things if the learning curve is not too steep. I've contributed on other wikis in the past and could

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi support for Slackware ARM 14.1

2013-06-01 Thread stanley garvey
On May 30, 2013 08:34 stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: Hi Since Slackware 14.1 is coming together, could all of you who plan on preparing and distributing support for Slackware ARM 14.1 for the RaspberryPi please reply to this message (on-list) with the following information.

Re: [ARMedslack] Strange problem installing Slackware 14.0 on the Raspberry Pi

2013-05-09 Thread stanley garvey
On May 9, 2013 18:33 Michael Langfinger slackw...@langfinger.org wrote: Hi, I tried to install Slackware 14.0 for ARM on my Raspberry Pi (Model B, 512 MB RAM). I used the installer image from http://rpi.fatdog.eu/, the package repository is on a USB flash drive. The installer boots just

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Raspberry Pi

2013-05-02 Thread stanley garvey
On May 2, 2013 13:27 Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@salixos.org wrote: rich@rpi-17:~$ uname -a Linux rpi-17 3.6.11+ #408 PREEMPT Wed Apr 10 20:33:39 BST 2013 armv6l ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BCM2708 GNU/Linux also see

Re: [ARMedslack] Avatar S701-R2A-1 Sirius 7 Tablet

2013-04-15 Thread stanley garvey
On Apr 15, 2013 20:46 Ben Bauer b...@bauers.ca wrote: http://www.comtronic.ca/cci/home.php?do=ShowProductscmd=detailcid=N Bpid=017133 CPU ARM Cortex-A9 1.0GHz Single Core GPU Mali-400, with 3D Accelerator Memory1GB DDR3 Storage 4GB NAND Flash Display 7 TFT-LCD

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi Linux kernel versions for Slackware ARM 14.0

2013-04-11 Thread stanley garvey
On Apr 11, 2013 08:40 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: David spencers installer uses the 3.1.9 kernel, Sorinm's image is also using 3.1.9, I am using 3.2.27, I don't know of any kernels older that these. Some people use the Rpi-update script and so will be using v3.6

Re: [ARMedslack] Raspberry Pi Linux kernel versions for Slackware ARM 14.0

2013-04-10 Thread stanley garvey
On Apr 10, 2013 14:38 Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com wrote: Hi When I bumped the minimum kernel version required by glibc to Linux 3.4.0, I'd checked the Raspberry Pi stuff and believed that the Raspberry Pi's had a mimimum of Linux Kernel v3.6 available. From what I can see now, it

Re: [ARMedslack] Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread stanley garvey
On Mar 31, 2013 23:03 Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com wrote: On the other hand if you release a new rootfs say every month, all that a smart user has to do is umount /home and untar the new rootfs over the old one and some post install cleanup. Alternatively they can be

Re: [ARMedslack] Can't slackpkg update to latest jre/jdk

2013-02-20 Thread stanley garvey
On Feb 20, 2013 22:11 stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Feb 20, 2013 21:08 openpand...@free.fr wrote: Hi ! I have both packages installed, slackpkg mirror is pointing to ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/slackwarearm/slackwarearm-14.0/ slackpkg update works, the /tmp

Re: [ARMedslack] Install Slackware on a new Raspberry Pi

2013-02-04 Thread stanley garvey
On Feb 4, 2013 21:58 rou...@mm.di.uoa.gr wrote: stanley garvey wrote: On Feb 3, 2013 19:33 stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2013 18:51 Andrei B. andrix...@yahoo.com wrote: My experience so far , as I also have the model B (512ram

Re: [ARMedslack] Install Slackware on a new Raspberry Pi

2013-02-03 Thread stanley garvey
On Feb 3, 2013 19:33 stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2013 18:51 Andrei B. andrix...@yahoo.com wrote: My experience so far , as I also have the model B (512ram) is like this: - raspbian or weezy works fine. Note that they were from october 2012

Re: [ARMedslack] Install Slackware on a new Raspberry Pi

2013-02-03 Thread stanley garvey
On Feb 3, 2013 20:17 Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:52 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2013 19:33 stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2013 18:51 Andrei B. andrix...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: [ARMedslack] Mystery Prefixes

2013-02-02 Thread stanley garvey
On Feb 1, 2013 18:04 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: Can anyone explain the mystery prefixes on Firefox and Seamonkey? Most Slackware arm packages have the usual blah-*arm*tgz, however mozilla-firefox has the mysterious armv6j prefix. The slackbuild shows only -march

Re: [ARMedslack] First boot on Raspberry PI for Slackware 14.0 for ARM

2013-01-26 Thread stanley garvey
On Jan 26, 2013 01:05 Dave Dowell dowe...@netscape.net wrote: On 25/01/2013 23:34, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Okay group I just brought up the Slackware 14.0 for the Raspberry pi image available on Stanley Garvey's site. Aside from one nit, the device almost arbitrarily changed the eth0

Re: [ARMedslack] First boot on Raspberry PI for Slackware 14.0 for ARM

2013-01-26 Thread stanley garvey
On Jan 26, 2013 17:28 Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Thanks. As it happens I typed that out in a hurry. I bought a 16, which I did write out your image to. I'm going to leave that image on it, and work out how to reset the keyboard settings. (Even if I end up importing the

Re: [ARMedslack] BCM2835 what -march to use?

2013-01-25 Thread stanley garvey
? Sorry about The Email client, it's web based, and very poor, I run my own mail server and prefer mutt, but Sorbs have blocked me : Name: Stanley Garvey IP/Host: 81.111.128.0/17 IP: 81.111.194.105 DNS: NXDOMAIN DNS TTL: -1 DNS Info is cached: No Additional Information: My response

Re: [ARMedslack] Problems with making use of existing Slackware on ARM for Raspberry PI images

2013-01-09 Thread stanley garvey
Snip! Hello! Interesting thought. So what did you use for both making your images? And then writing them to SD cards? OKay, I followed David Spencers suggestion for the SD-card format, see also this article https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/ I then recompiled a Raspberry-pi Kernel with

Re: [ARMedslack] Problems with making use of existing Slackware on ARM for Raspberry PI images

2013-01-07 Thread stanley garvey
On Jan 7, 2013 15:03 Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:54 AM, stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: Hi Gregg Sounds like the image is corruped I will chk whn bck frm wrkM Did you see a krnel Panic? Can you mount the sdcard on your linux pc and see the ext4

Re: [ARMedslack] Problems with making use of existing Slackware on ARM for Raspberry PI images

2013-01-07 Thread stanley garvey
On Jan 7, 2013 20:15 Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:29 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Jan 7, 2013 15:58 Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:55 AM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com

Re: [ARMedslack] Problems with making use of existing Slackware on ARM for Raspberry PI images

2013-01-07 Thread stanley garvey
On Jan 7, 2013 20:37 Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:31 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Jan 7, 2013 20:15 Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:29 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote

Re: [ARMedslack] Upset regarding raspberry pi - unsuported.-Opinion

2012-12-26 Thread stanley garvey
On Dec 25, 2012 17:19 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: the Raspberry Pi Foundation go and do? they create a raspberry pi store with Debian (Raspiean app store or what ever). enough already, I want my children to lean how to programme, not how to download the latest

Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-09-07 Thread stanley garvey
On Sep 5, 2012 14:38 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: Yeah, I'd miss it too... I still use qemu with its snapshot feature to build packages on a clean installation. My real ARM hardware has too many packages installed to consider it a clean installation. I had a look and

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM current directory name is being changed - Mon 27th August

2012-08-29 Thread stanley garvey
On Aug 28, 2012 22:11 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: #from : rsync -avz --delete $mirror::armedslack/slackware-$system/patches/packages/ packages-$system #to : #rsync -avz --delete $mirror::slackwarearm/slackware-$system/patches/packages/ No because

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM current directory name is being changed - Mon 27th August

2012-08-27 Thread stanley garvey
On Aug 27, 2012 22:15 stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: On Aug 25, 2012 23:30 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: In addition, the root directory on the FTP site the rsync module name will also change as below: FTP: ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack becomes

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-07-12 Thread stanley garvey
On Jul 11, 2012 23:43 Doug Peterson galen...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. I am rsyncing this now. Will give it a try. -Doug On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, stanley garvey stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete rsync.stanleygarvey.co.uk

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-04 Thread stanley garvey
On Jul 4, 2012 18:47 Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@gmail.com wrote: Am Wed, 4 Jul 2012 14:51:29 +0100 (BST) schrieb Davide louigi...@yahoo.it: why the hell should one use flash for authentication on a web site (on some sites if you don't have flash you cannot even see the box for typing

Re: [ARMedslack] libflashplayer

2012-07-01 Thread stanley garvey
On Jul 1, 2012 13:58 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: available in source code I don't see why people can assume one can just drop libflashplayer.so for Android and expect it to work and even if it did you'd open a can of worms. It is a can of worms. It is closed source

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 20, 2012 09:07 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I have an 8gb img Get it via: rsync -avz --delete rsync.stanleygarvey.co.uk::SlackBerry/Image . This is the whole armed slack for an 8 GB sd sandisk card sans KDE. Sorry it's not zipped, it is very late. instructions: dd bs=1M

Re: [ARMedslack] nfs and qemu install

2012-06-15 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 14, 2012 21:59 Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: X will require building xf86-video-fbdev, and you will need to get an xorg.conf from a running pi. I'm not sure why people say this -- this package is in Slackware ARM and always has been. My mistake. I should

Re: [ARMedslack] nfs and qemu install

2012-06-14 Thread stanley garvey
On Jun 13, 2012 09:59 Rick Miles frmr...@aapt.net.au wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:40 +1000, Rick Miles wrote: Qemu-install.txt just says Choose '3 - Install from NFS (Network Filesystem)' I plan on eventually running this on a raspberrypi :) Cheers Hi, the Qemu-install.txt