Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-14 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 11/03/2019 12:15, Terry Coles wrote: This is another question that I asked on the Raspberry Pi Forums, since it relates mainly to the performance of miniature monitors when used with the Pi. Here is the original post: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38=234636 To

Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:42:53 GMT Patrick Wigmore wrote: > Could you elaborate on what was involved to 'do things properly'? Well. In the context of what you're asking, I can't tell you any more than I have already. although I now realise that I wasn't doing quite what I thought I was

Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-14 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi Terry, On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:27:44 +, Terry Coles wrote: > However, this morning I realised that the thing I hadn't tried was > to create a program to run automatically on boot up of the Pi, run > minicom and then and login in the normal way. Lo and behold, > there was my executing

Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 13 March 2019 16:25:10 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > So the only thing left is to turn off getty. I had a rummage around on line > and found lots of old pages that talked about disabling it in initab, which > no longer exists on Raspbian Stretch. I then found references to issuing: I

Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > `disable' stops it starting on booting rather than stopping it now. > > `mask' blocks it from starting either manually, or as a dependency > > of something else that's starting. ... > $ systemctl | grep getty > serial-getty@ttyS0.serviceloaded active running Serial Getty on

Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 13 March 2019 17:15:20 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It's hard to say because the systemd units configured will be specific > to Debian, or even Raspbian, and I think the names of the serial ports, > e.g. ttyAMA0, have changed between models because they nicked the SoC's > real UART

Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > sudo systemctl disable serial-getty@ttyAMA0.service > > but it doesn't seem to work, I still get the login prompt. It's hard to say because the systemd units configured will be specific to Debian, or even Raspbian, and I think the names of the serial ports, e.g. ttyAMA0, have

Re: [Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38=234636 I've just read that. If you've TCP/IP to each Pi then I'd ditch the idea of a physical screen, no matter how small, and use your laptop's, etc. > I've been using SSH and Filezilla; the former to log into the Pi and > the

[Dorset] Slightly Off-Topic - Reasonable Miniature HDMI Monitor

2019-03-11 Thread Terry Coles
This is another question that I asked on the Raspberry Pi Forums, since it relates mainly to the performance of miniature monitors when used with the Pi. Here is the original post: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38=234636 To re-iterate, we will eventually have around 15