Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 November 2016 22:26:43 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > If you're going to toss it, care to toss it over here? :) I wondered about that. It will come w/o the psu as I tend to collect wall warts for the next project. OTOH I have a 5V 5A thats going to run it all, so I can skip this one

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
If you're going to toss it, care to toss it over here? :) From: Gene Heskett To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q I in turn thought you were talking about the r-pi.  The

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Last nite booted lubuntu on OPI+2e heat sinks and a good 3a5v supply are neccesary slow boot but great desktop, lotsa apps and very slow screen refresh i knew this would happen so I am not disheartened i ran some apps and web browsing on chromium and firefox, both were slow slow meaning it was

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread Chris Albertson
DOn't toss it. here is lot of use for a computer with no or broken video.. Like controlling a machine or something or serving up media files. Back to the poor X11 performance. I bet a video driver problem or just maybe X11 does not run well on a real-time modified Linux kernel. X11 works

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 November 2016 16:28:49 bari wrote: I got down thru this, then discovered that you seem to think I am, still trying to make the O-Pi+2e work, which is not the case, its video is broken. As is alibaba/aliexpress's web site, so I cannot open a dispute, so I've been screwed out of a

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread bari
You need to get LLVMPIPE working on the extra cores. We had AXIS running at 1920 x 1080 at 30fps. Colors were fine. The Rpi has the open drivers for the GPU. Your distro sounds broken or the graphics drivers are. On 11/15/2016 09:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 14 November 2016 02:38:44

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread W. Martinjak
On 2016-11-15 16:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > that the r-pi > running x displays a great picture with. But the display update rate is > about 2 frames a second on the r-pi, it just doesn't have the ponies to > run x and linuxcnc. Aha!??? -- "In der Wissenschaft siegt nie eine neue Theorie,

Re: [Emc-users] Anybody here tried the Odroid C2?

2016-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 November 2016 12:19:15 Jeff Epler wrote: > forum user "kaklik" has reported that the Odroid C1 has a broken SPI > driver (no support for 32-bit transfers). I wouldn't bet on the > Odroid C2 working without further modifications to the kernel SPI > driver, linuxcnc hm2_spi driver,

Re: [Emc-users] Anybody here tried the Odroid C2?

2016-11-15 Thread Jeff Epler
forum user "kaklik" has reported that the Odroid C1 has a broken SPI driver (no support for 32-bit transfers). I wouldn't bet on the Odroid C2 working without further modifications to the kernel SPI driver, linuxcnc hm2_spi driver, or both (and mesaflash too). Don't buy if you don't want to wear

[Emc-users] Anybody here tried the Odroid C2?

2016-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Still looking for an SBC to use as the x rendering device here. The Odroid C2 is 3 days away (in Noo Joisey) and $60 in this listing: Arm 64 bit quad core running at

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 November 2016 02:38:44 TJoseph Powderly wrote: > Hello Gene > I have just mounted heatsinks on a new OPI+2e ( lapped and siliconed > with crazy glued corner dots ) > > will you be using armbian jessie desktop version? > > Armbian_5.20_Orangepiplus2e_Debian_jessie_3.4.112_desktop.7z