Re: Buster+Gnome on Pi4
Thanks Tixy, Ill try that. In summary, I found debian buster with gnome on rpi4 to be good enough for everyday browsing, online banking and shopping, etc. Its not for gamers, and there are issues with some things. For example I installed wxMaxima as a replacement for REDUCE and while my script ran correctly, It reported a Lisp error, a condition in PROGN that I haven't figured out yet. I also tried to run an application I wrote that uses meson and ninja, and I got a message that implied libgtkmm-3.0 has a different path on ARM. Instead of /usr/lib/x86-64-linux-gnu/, it is under /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/. Next I am going to try the tested Bullseye image to see how things have changed. On 7/17/21 10:01 AM, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2021-07-16 at 16:34 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: pcr [2021-07-16 20:28:01] wrote: Yesterday I had good luck with LibreCAD, did a nice drawing without any trouble; today, however, I failed to install REDUCE-algebra, because there is no version for ARM. I tried to get the source and compile it myself, but that meant installing Subversion, and they don't have an ARM version either. That's weird. I'd expect `subversion` to be in Debian and to compile for ARM without any particular problem. Looks like it's available for arm64 architecture since Stretch... https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=subversion
Re: Buster+Gnome on Pi4
On Fri, 2021-07-16 at 16:34 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > pcr [2021-07-16 20:28:01] wrote: > > Yesterday I had good luck with LibreCAD, did a nice drawing without any > > trouble; today, however, I failed to install REDUCE-algebra, because there > > is no version for ARM. I tried to get the source and compile it myself, but > > that meant installing Subversion, and they don't have an ARM version > > either. > > That's weird. I'd expect `subversion` to be in Debian and to compile > for ARM without any particular problem. Looks like it's available for arm64 architecture since Stretch... https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=subversion -- Tixy
Re: Buster+Gnome on Pi4
pcr [2021-07-16 20:28:01] wrote: > Yesterday I had good luck with LibreCAD, did a nice drawing without any > trouble; today, however, I failed to install REDUCE-algebra, because there > is no version for ARM. I tried to get the source and compile it myself, but > that meant installing Subversion, and they don't have an ARM version > either. That's weird. I'd expect `subversion` to be in Debian and to compile for ARM without any particular problem. > Today I was unable to get Zoom for ARM; > I'm beginning to see a pattern :-) As a general rule, Free Software should work just fine, but proprietary software will be problematic because they only provide binaries for the most common platforms. Stefan
Re: Buster+Gnome on Pi4
Yesterday I had good luck with LibreCAD, did a nice drawing without any trouble; today, however, I failed to install REDUCE-algebra, because there is no version for ARM. I tried to get the source and compile it myself, but that meant installing Subversion, and they don't have an ARM version either. Today I was unable to get Zoom for ARM; I'm beginning to see a pattern :-) On 7/15/21 8:39 PM, Josef Strýček wrote: Hi, Debian on Pi4 have disabled 3D acceleration, so it makes desktop slow and bugs. It can solve upgrade kernel to 5.10 from buster-backports or if you are on bullseye only upgrade. Good luck, Josef 15. 7. 2021 20:50:46 pcr : Recently I flashed the 20200210 build of debian to a 128 GB A2 SanDisk micro sd card and I have been using in in in my raspberry pi. I recently lost my desktop to a crash, so I am temporarily relying on the Pi. So far it pretty good, about as fast as my old i3 laptop; one bug, however, is a black rectangle that appears on the middle of my screen occasionally. It goes away if I right click-left click, or if I waggle the mouse pointer over the black rectangle, so it remains usable. Ill let you know how it goes.
Re: Buster+Gnome on Pi4
Hi, Debian on Pi4 have disabled 3D acceleration, so it makes desktop slow and bugs. It can solve upgrade kernel to 5.10 from buster-backports or if you are on bullseye only upgrade. Good luck, Josef 15. 7. 2021 20:50:46 pcr : > Recently I flashed the 20200210 build of debian to a 128 GB A2 SanDisk > micro sd card and I have been using in in in my raspberry pi. I > recently lost my desktop to a crash, so I am temporarily relying on the > Pi. So far it pretty good, about as fast as my old i3 laptop; one bug, > however, is a black rectangle that appears on the middle of my screen > occasionally. It goes away if I right click-left click, or if I waggle > the mouse pointer over the black rectangle, so it remains usable. Ill > let you know how it goes.
Buster+Gnome on Pi4
Recently I flashed the 20200210 build of debian to a 128 GB A2 SanDisk micro sd card and I have been using in in in my raspberry pi. I recently lost my desktop to a crash, so I am temporarily relying on the Pi. So far it pretty good, about as fast as my old i3 laptop; one bug, however, is a black rectangle that appears on the middle of my screen occasionally. It goes away if I right click-left click, or if I waggle the mouse pointer over the black rectangle, so it remains usable. Ill let you know how it goes.
