screen snapshot utility needed on an r-pi 3b running jessie

2017-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings folks, new to the list, with 2 problems. 1. Need a snapshot utility like this x86 wheezy install has. What it its name if it exists. Using LXDE if that's important. 2. Whats the magic recipe to enable AIGLX rendering on the r-pi 3b's? Thank you all. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: screen snapshot utility needed on an r-pi 3b running jessie

2017-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 January 2017 08:13:17 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 02:13:17AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings folks, new to the list, with 2 problems. > > > > 1. Need a snapshot utility like this x86 wheezy install has. What it > > its name

Re: screen snapshot utility needed on an r-pi 3b running jessie

2017-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
xwd -root -out /tmp/snap.xwd' > > Then I do 'gimp /tmp/snap.xwd' because I usually want to crop anyway. Excellent & helpfull stuff, thank you Alan. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, an

xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
knowledge of the monitors real status. Is my install missing some utility X11 thing? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://gene

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
des on the fly, otherwise you need to > put a change into /boot/config.txt and reboot. Straight Debian on a > Pi, I've no idea. > > X needs to talk to the GPU better. Agreed. > On 1/8/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings folks; > > > > Running LXDE. &g

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
ead, is this xscreensaver the default? Its running, and I found the control file, and dpms was set false. I set it to True just for S & G. [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

AIGLX not working

2017-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
to software rendering Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
are > keyboards like modern phones that have no "keys", they're capacitive > pads under a flat glass or plastic cover so nothing can get into them. > The only machine tools I've run were several decades too old to have > computers. Good to learn on, but totally manua

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
was that when horizontal and vertical sync pulses > > both go away the monitor's supposed to immediately switch off or > > after a delay period. An adapter shouldn't interfere with that. > > Never happens though. > > > > On 1/8/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > &g

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
quit, but it stayed powered up and sitting in black for the minute I observed it. Back inside I see that after another 20 minutes, something called xlyap has kicked in and is burning a bit over 70% of one core. (gotta get aiglx working, hint hint) I assume thats one of the animated screensavers. But I have work to do that will shut it down, so I'd better git-r-done. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
inside out and would > >> hold a key down. It was much worse than just being carefull. This > >> was on a medium > > Logitech should have stuck to selling compilers. > Thats a different company I believe. > I want an APL keyboard. One of those controlling CAM kit would be &g

How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
illance van." I even catch the next door neighbors hp printer. Thank you all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 January 2017 08:10:29 Alan Corey wrote: > On 1/10/17, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > On 09/01/17 22:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 09 January 2017 10:52:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >>> Logitech should have stuck to selling compilers. > >

Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
ng job, thats a lot of traffic to ignore, so I'd much druther have it powered down and generating zero interrupts. > > -Original Message- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net] > Sent: January-10-17 9:19 AM > To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org > Subj

Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
covered the chattr +i applied to interfaces, and resolv.conf. Gr. Anyway. I believe I've whupped up on this, at least until I know better. Thanks for the hints, all of you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo

keyboard went funkity with last nights update

2017-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
ould this be the problem?, and if so, where the heck do I turn that off. Thanks for any enlightenment. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: SOLVED keyboard went funkity with last nights update

2017-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
things are back to normal. Put it back on the list as I'm subscribed. So now the archive s/b be searchable for the next guy this one bites. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: SOLVED keyboard went funkity with last nights update

2017-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
o in Raspbian. If it bites again that wasn't the > right way to change it. Mine looks like: > > # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE > > # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page. > > XKBMODEL="pc101" > XKBLAYOUT="us" > XKBVARIANT="" > X

missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
otion. There is something funkity in the usb keyboard handling that can get much worse with a reboot, or get almost perfect with a reboot. Its all uptodate a/o yesterday. The psu is a 4 amp box, making 5.07 volts solidly. Verified with a 100 Mhz scope. What can I do to fix this? Cheers, Gene He

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 January 2017 11:58:57 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > However, I have now had 5 different keyboards plugged into it, some > > wired, some wireless, and none of them can give me a dependable > > response to a key, and

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 January 2017 12:16:52 Jonathan Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 08:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings everybody; > > > > I am in the process of bringing a nearly 70 yo Sheldon lathe back to > > life, useing an raspberry-pi 3b for the machine

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
tp://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/lathe-stf/lathe-noise-pix/> Its not purdy, but its what I have on my SS determined budget. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re:[SOLVED]missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 January 2017 13:56:53 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2017 11:58:57 Paul Wise wrote: > > > USB protocol: use wireshark to see if the keyboard event packets > > > are reaching th

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 January 2017 13:56:53 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2017 11:58:57 Paul Wise wrote: > > > USB protocol: use wireshark to see if the keyboard event packets > > > are reaching th

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 January 2017 04:51:59 Jonathan Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 13:10 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2017 12:16:52 Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 08:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings everybod

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 January 2017 09:48:10 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 01:48:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Alan, ALL of the motor drivers are switchmode, with the current > > regulation running at or above 20 KHz. And these noise spikes are > > ringing at

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-30 Thread Gene Heskett
ed filtering on both sides of it, metallic conduit all the way to the motor, and brick wall filtering in series with the line power. And it will all be done before power is re-applied. 7i90's are 59 USD each. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 January 2017 22:46:07 Christopher Barry wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:47:34 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Sunday 29 January 2017 11:58:57 Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > However, I have n

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-02-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 February 2017 17:41:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2017 12:40:21 Alan Corey wrote: > > > > Alan, ALL of the motor drivers are switchmode, with the current > > reg

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-02-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 February 2017 23:06:51 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 1/29/2017 1:48 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Alan, ALL of the motor drivers are switchmode, with the current > > regulation running at or above 20 KHz. And these noise spikes are > > ringing at nominally 100 MHz.

htop wierdness

2017-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
x86 boxes here. And they all run it full time because its such a handy window into system activities. Could this be an indication of something more serious? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in t

Re: htop wierdness

2017-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 February 2017 10:32:59 Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 09:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I just noticed an oddity about htop, running uptodate jessie on an > > r-pi-3b. > > > > If sudo to run it, or if run from root shell, the top panels > &

gfx Rodeo redux

2017-02-11 Thread Gene Heskett
at I am missing something. So whats the next step up in desktop's above LXDE that might solve this problem for a Raspbian Jessie install on an R-Pi 3b? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in tha

Re: gfx Rodeo redux

2017-02-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 February 2017 19:33:26 Christopher Barry wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:23:24 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > >Greetings all; > > > >I asked about this before, but the original post seems to have been a > >victim of my expiry rules, so...

A workspace pager for the toolbar?

2017-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
how can I restore the pager to the toolbar? Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

armhf current clock speed? big secret, very high vacuum

2017-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings list; How does one go about ascertaining the current clock speed of a r-pi-3b? It is not reported by dmesg, nor can dmidecode access it. So how do we find out how fast its running? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:

Re: armhf current clock speed? big secret, very high vacuum

2017-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 April 2017 09:20:07 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So how do we find out how fast its running? > > $ lscpu > Architecture: armv7l > Byte Order:Little Endian > CPU(s):2 >

Re: armhf current clock speed? big secret, very high vacuum

2017-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 April 2017 09:47:29 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is that the only control we have? And how much faster before forced > > air cooling is needed? I'm thinking 1000 might help with an spi > > problem. Its not heat

Re: armhf current clock speed? big secret, very high vacuum

2017-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
te it. > On 4/8/17, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Is that the only control we have? And how much faster before forced > >> air cooling is needed? I'm thinking 1000 might help with an spi > >> problem. Its not

question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
difficult to see if the correct item is about to be clicked on. I've trolled thru the setup menu's w/o finding such a configuration option that seems to affect this. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, a

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
ke I'll have to go to its console to run xwininfo, brb. Out at the pi, its 1366x768, 16 bit. The rest of it is a copy of what you pasted in above. I'll take a look at fbset's man page. And I think video ram is 128 megs. Maybe I'll learn something. :) Thanks Alan. [...] Ch

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 09 April 2017 18:58:07 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 09 April 2017 12:09:20 Alan Corey wrote: > > Color depth is a deep subject (couldn't resist). Different windows > > (every X program technically has it's own window) can run at > > different depth

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 09 April 2017 18:58:07 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 09 April 2017 12:09:20 Alan Corey wrote: > > Color depth is a deep subject (couldn't resist). Different windows > > (every X program technically has it's own window) can run at > > different depth

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
ish between resolution/sync > configuration and the colour depth, the latter being largely > determined by available memory. And 128 megs is not enough for 32 bit apparently. It (24 bit) also slows rendering speed noticably. Thanks Mark. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 April 2017 07:21:45 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 10/04/17 10:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 10 April 2017 04:55:39 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 10/04/17 02:30, Alan Corey wrote: > >>> I think you can add entries to /etc/fb.modes but it

Re: question on armhf color depth, now keyboard

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:21:43 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I note there's a link to a help site at the top of /boot/config.txt, > > so I went thru the motions of setting it for a 1366x768, 32 bit > > screen. But on the reboot it was just noticably slower, and xwininfo &g

Re: question on armhf color depth, now keyboard

2017-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 April 2017 15:14:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2017 14:33:35 Diego Roversi wrote: > > Well, I guess I am stuck with it then. Synaptic, on a 24 bit screen, > is much more pleasant to use. > > But I also have another problem. The usb inputs from the mo

this mornings update bricked my pi.

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
It flashes the green led 3 or 4 times in the first second of powerup, and dead, so I assume the sd card is now trashed. This was rasbian, running a special pre-empt-rt kernel. Where can I find some help? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of li

Re: this mornings update bricked my pi.

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
32 so it only shows 480 megs, but its there. I may see if the OTP can make it boot from that drive. I have another pi if it doesn't work... Thanks Alan. > On 5/2/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It flashes the green led 3 or 4 times in the first second of > > powerup, and

keyboard config for english UTF-8

2017-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
can paint on the wall for when I have to build/rebuild another sd card. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: keyboard config for english UTF-8

2017-05-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 May 2017 17:53:55 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 21/05/17 21:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I just spent 2 hours trying to get std US keyboard response out of > > PI. > > > > The closest I have gotten so far are the correct chara

Whats the next step up in display manaagers from lightdm for a pi 3b?

2017-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
menu, from which I can call up a terminal, and from there I can run things, and even the limited color looks way better than it did on a 12 bit screen. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

What is the recommended armhf disk partitioner for use on rotating media?

2017-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; See subject, on an rpi3b running raspian/jessie. I have a terabyte usb drive plugged in, and I want to set up an rsync cron job to backup the sd card to this drive and I need to reset the /dev/sda1 file system to vfat, which it is not ATM. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: What is the recommended armhf disk partitioner for use on rotating media?

2017-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 June 2017 10:24:11 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 17/06/17 14:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > See subject, on an rpi3b running raspian/jessie. I have a terabyte > > usb drive plugged in, and I want to set up an rsync cron job to >

Re: What is the recommended armhf disk partitioner for use on rotating media?

2017-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
d for the previous tries had very short uptimes, and piclone never got to the finish line. Amanda has backed it up, so I have that as a last resort, but I want at least 2 bare metal backups to protect the ground breaking work of putting a pi to work running heavy metal via LinuxCNC in real time

Re: What is the recommended armhf disk partitioner for use on rotating media?

2017-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 June 2017 12:27:08 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 June 2017 11:12:06 Alan Corey wrote: > > I like parted or the gui version gparted, but I also have fdisk and > > sfdisk. There's a live CD of gparted which can probably also be > > written to a USB s

piclone needs "blank" sd card.

2017-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
/dev/zero? I'm concerned that might wipe out the card totally. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: piclone needs "blank" sd card.

2017-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
otcode.bin. And I suspect a lot of wasted time updating > everything else. Still the same Jessie image I spent 10 days > downloading last summer, with updates. I ran rpi-update to update > firmware. That bricked one of mine, worked on the other 2, fortunately I bought 3. :) Thanks Alan. Che

pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
es in particular. I've had 200 megs of updates take over an hour to complete. How is this accomplished? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <h

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
nside I've found is that piclone doesn't know to ignore > it. I put mine at the end of 320 GB, now I can't use piclone for > backups to SD anymore. But there's been discussion that swap will > wear out an SD fast, they're rated by read/write cyccles. Eggzakly. :

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
is less than 15 megabytes. Now I've more honeydo's, its a physical therapy day for the better half. Take care, Alan. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
oard to use. I keep seeing a pine-something, with 2x the memory, but haven't tripped over its price, or whether or not hm2-rpspi.so will work with its gpio. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Pleas

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
is going to cause head thrashing if it gets used a lot. > So some swap space near where everything else is is good. > > Does your /boot/cmdline.txt still refer to the SD card? The one on the sd card does not. > Mine now says > root=/dev/sda2 The one on the hard drive that is. >

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
efore I try this. Since I won't have the material to mount a scale on the tailstock till next week late, I need some 1/4" alu sheet for that, this might "keep me out of the bars" :) Thanks Alan. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used i

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
rnet and usb3, and a sata adaptor that plugs into the usb3 port is a $10 bill. IOW, same cpu, much better gpu, and apparently lots more I/O bandwidth. I haven't approached Bertho about it yet, but would send him one of them to play with if he thinks it would bypass some of the r-pi herpes

Re: CP15 Barrier emulation performance?

2017-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
t > > > > The ghc sources don't appeart to have direct CP15 instructions, so I > > suspect ghc might be calling llvm with options that make it emit > > CP15 barriers instead of DMB. Anyways look like a configuration > > error rather than a coding error. > > ht

Re: Rock64

2017-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
claiming pi compatability on the gpio header, theres a good chance it will Just Work(TM). The application needs the spi bus to run at 25+ megabits. The pi does a wee bit better than that. That machine however is in the middle of a job that I need to finish before I play with the rock64. Never cha

sshfs failure

2017-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
machines running wheezy in my home network? Any idea why the jessie machine is now failing? Thanks people. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 August 2017 13:56:16 Jens Thiele wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just went to restore my sshfs shares so I could move a file I had > > written, but if fails to connect. This was working, and working well > > as recently a

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
d wired network, radios are all disabled. > On 8/11/17, Jens Thiele wrote: > > Gene Heskett writes: > >> Greetings all; > >> > >> I just went to restore my sshfs shares so I could move a file I had > >> written, but if fails to connect. This was worki

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
-o pi@picnc:/ /sshnet/picnc missing host see `sshfs -h' for usage And that "help" screen is worthless, zero examples. The man page is better. And the pi was just rebooted after 46 days, again no difference, sshfs can't find the host with both hands. So what do I check nex

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
er wheezy machines, but when I try to mount the pi: gene@coyote:/etc$ sshfs -o pi@picnc:/ /sshnet/picnc missing host I am the only user, and user #1000 on all machines. And it has been working for at least 11 months, until the last month or so. > On 8/11/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Fri

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 August 2017 04:02:59 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 12/08/17 00:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 11 August 2017 13:56:16 Jens Thiele wrote: > >> try to ssh with -v to get more info: > >> gene@coyote:~$ ssh -v pi@picncsheldon > >> > >&g

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 August 2017 05:18:20 Christian Knoke wrote: > Gene Heskett schrieb am 12. Aug um 00:53 Uhr: > > ssh works fine, its sshfs that isn't. It was working in June or > > early july, now it replies: > > gene@coyote:/etc$ sshfs -o pi@picnc:/ /sshnet/picnc >

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 August 2017 06:25:21 Marcus Poller wrote: > Hi Gene, > Cc debian-arm, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > gene@coyote:/etc$ sshfs -o pi@picnc:/ /sshnet/picnc > > missing host > > This does not appear right to me. Let's check your your ssh-options: > &

How can I use the r-pi 3b's bluetooth facilities for local keyboard/mouse

2017-08-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Whats next? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: How can I use the r-pi 3b's bluetooth facilities for local keyboard/mouse

2017-08-22 Thread Gene Heskett
nostic connector and talks to an Android app. But I haven't > tried to use it for anything in like a year. And you can't use > existing wired keyboards and mice, you have to get Bluetooth ones. > > As far as extending the antenna, I don't think you can get to it,

contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
t rpspi.ko driver (available as part of any recent linuxcnc install from buildbot.linuxcnc.org for armhf's, since except for keyboard/mouse, video(hdmi,mali drivers a huge plus) and LAN net stuffs, all other i/o is thru the gpio for this application, will be investigated. Thank you. Cheer

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
o Pi 4. Will it run Raspbian? I was looking for another Pi in > the next few months anyway. > The raspian question is one I've not yet found the answer to. If it will, the gate just opened and the race is off to a good start. Unforch, the next batch won't ship till the 6th of Se

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
rom being newly applied in East Moline Ill. The 1st priority is getting this jungle knocked down again. Then 2nd, finding a load the new 6.5 CreedMoor barrel I just put in old meat in the pot, likes well enough to shoot a 10 shot, 10mm group at 100 meters. I've a hankerin for fresh venison thi

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
OTOH, SA front ends are very susceptable to permanent damage that will show up like that. And the fix was a trip back to tek, accompanied by a check for 5G's or so in the 70's. If you get that working so the keyboard/mouse can come in on the BT circuit of the pi, you might solve my

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
fi. It may have helped, but still has the funkity reboot until it works requirement. That got rid of sit, leaving only lo and eth0 as detectable by ifconfig. Cheers Alan, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 August 2017 07:26:54 Philip Hands wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > ... > > >> There are about a dozen SDR programs for WIindows, almost nothing > >> for Unix. > Somebodies quoteing is broken, I didn't write that. I believe Alan Corey did. >

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 September 2017 12:07:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:31:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But aren't the huge majority of the wireless keyboards and mice just > > BT at the core? Max reliable range when the dongles can see the > >

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
f what was listed as desirable dependencies for solaar. Can you spell ridiculous? I don't think I can. Assinine maybe. Can we say the Unified Receiver stuff came and went without a whimper? > On 9/4/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 04 September 2017 12:07:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote: &

Re: contemplating conversion of an r-pi3b based system to a rock64

2017-09-04 Thread Gene Heskett
_receiver > > It's sort of like Bluetooth without pairing. Not sure about the FCC > > part but it's 2.4 GHz like Bluetooth or WiFi. > > > > On 9/4/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 04 September 2017 12:07:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >>> O

Re: Cannot build OpenGL application on Qt5 on armel/hf

2017-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
e for use on an rt-preempt linux system? My google-fu has failed me so far. I have a pair of 4GB rock64's here to play with & see if they'll out pi the pi's. They should, but ... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: Cannot build OpenGL application on Qt5 on armel/hf

2017-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 21 September 2017 23:05:29 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Where might one come into possession of these "proprietary drivers" > > for the dual mali 450's, suitable for use on an rt-preempt linux > > s

need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
the traffic led on the reader/writer showing continuous activity. Is there another way/util that actually works for making verbatim backups of these limited lifetime sd cards? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
e that it won't? Or with wheezy if the refusal is here? From that terminal screen on this wheezy box: pi@picnc:~ $ sudo piclone X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (piclone:2001): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:11.0 pi@picnc:~ $ Thanks Alan. > On

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
pi's gfx engine can run LinuxCNC over this X11 connection well except for video rendering speed, its slowed to around 3 or 4 fps over the network connection. I have lcnc configured such that I can power it up and run it from here, but if I see a potential crash about to occur in the backplot

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 September 2017 04:36:49 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 23/09/17 05:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Months at a time here, but anytime I need to do anything as root > > that involves more than ncurses graphics, I have to go to the > > machine and do it there, and it

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 September 2017 07:43:14 Jonathan Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 22:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Trying to dd a copy of the micro-sd card the pi-3b is booting from, > > to another micro-sd card in a usb reader/writer, and

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 September 2017 10:58:47 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 23 September 2017 07:43:14 Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 22:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > Trying to dd a copy of the micro-sd card the pi-

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 September 2017 12:26:23 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 23/09/17 15:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I've never had problems with dd provided that the USB->SDcard > >> adapter's OK: what command are you using? > > > > The usual syntax: > &

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 September 2017 13:28:51 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 23/09/17 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 23 September 2017 12:26:23 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 23/09/17 15:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>> I've never had problems

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
e of the pond. Tomorrow is a new day. Thanks Alan. > On 9/23/17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 23 September 2017 13:28:51 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 23/09/17 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > On Saturday 23 September 2017 12:26:23 Mark Morgan Lloyd w

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
RT is set to broadcast it, but thats made no diff either. At 2:41 local, it says: root@rock64Sheldon:/etc/init.d# date Sun Sep 24 06:41:34 UTC 2017 Which is UTC I think, its too late in the evening, so I'm headed back to the sack. Maybe it will fix itself in the night? Thanks Alan. >

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 September 2017 04:34:50 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 23/09/17 20:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > I'd suggest checking using traceroute -I and then looking at route > -n and/or ip route ls which should give you a bit more of an > indication of what's going on.

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
t; > markmll.debian-...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > > On 23/09/17 20:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > So my local network is working as expected. BUT: > >> root@rock64:/etc# ping -c1 yahoo.com > >> PING yahoo.com (98.138.253.109) 56(84) bytes of data. &g

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