Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-17 Thread Chris Albertson
I've have very good service from Chinese vendors on eBay. A few items were damaged in transit (with obvious damage to the package exterior) and a couple times the count was short and in every case they just refunded the money or sent a replacement letting me keep the broken parts. About 1/3rd

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 November 2016 09:55:08 John Thornton wrote: > I made a claim with aliexpress once when I didn't get the shipment and > I got a refund. IIRC it is done on your orders page not a suppliers > page. > > JT The page I started from in trying, was the emailed link asking me to confirm

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-16 Thread John Thornton
I made a claim with aliexpress once when I didn't get the shipment and I got a refund. IIRC it is done on your orders page not a suppliers page. JT On 11/15/2016 9:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > And when I tried to open a dispute, with the target being getting a > good o-pi, their dispute form

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
one time. Send me a PM with your address & LL number & we can hammer out something thats a wash for both of us. > > From: Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Emc-u

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 <ghesk...@shentel.net> 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 th

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] 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

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-13 Thread TJoseph Powderly
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 downloaded from https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-plus-2e/ or

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 13 November 2016 22:10:55 Chris Albertson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings fellow travelers on the road to running machinery with an > > r-pi; > > > > That part I seem to have more or less under control, and whats left >

Re: [Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-13 Thread Chris Albertson
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings fellow travelers on the road to running machinery with an r-pi; > > That part I seem to have more or less under control, and whats left is a > matter of carving up the hal file, and finishing the encoder, at

[Emc-users] armbian vs raspian Q

2016-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings fellow travelers on the road to running machinery with an r-pi; That part I seem to have more or less under control, and whats left is a matter of carving up the hal file, and finishing the encoder, at which point its more a matter of keeping swarf out of places it doesn't need to