erland wrote: > JackOfAll, great work with the image, it was easy to install and very > clear instructions in the beginning of the thread, thanks a lot for your > work to make this as simple and possible. I got it all working a lot > faster than I had expected.
Before picking up on individual points, I think it may be worth giving an update on where we are at currently. I know a lot more people seem to have started purchasing Wandboards and although I'd hoped by that point to have put the "Community Squeeze OS" (CSOS) Beta image out bfore now, things don't always go as planned. So people installing the PBWPN image, please understand that this image is now more than 3 weeks old, was put together fairly quickly and although perfectly usable, I would designate it to be of alpha quality. So much has happened since I made that image, that it isn't a fair reflection on where we are now and it was targeted at developers and people who can find their way around a Linux install, rather than joe user. The plan is to release the CSOS Beta image on Monday 25/03. This will include the web configuration ui, which although still a little fugly looking makes it usable for non-techy users, along we everything we have "discovered" and improved over the last couple of weeks. It will also include an out of the box configured VNC server session, and an out of the box configuration for squeezelite to use the default line-out audio device, with alsamixer having already been used to set the volume defaults, which is an issue you have flagged below. A lot of work has gone into what I see in my mind as being the first "proper" image, the PBWPN image being nothing other than an initial starting point on a journey to where we are now. erland wrote: > Just to help other people and give you some ideas of things that might > be worth to improve, the main issues I had was: > 1. How to switch it to use the analoge output > - I just run "squeezelite -l" and picked the first device in the list > "default:CARD=sgtl5000audio" and edited the -o parameter in > /etc/sysconfig/squeezelite > - I changed the Mac address in the -m parameter and also changed the -a > parameter to ::16: which was mentioned later in the thread. > - It had very low volume at start, using alsamixer to raise "Headphone" > and "PCM" to 100% and also raise the volume in LMS to 100% solved that. > - Used "sudo alsactl store 0" to ensure it survives a reboot > - After this it works properly and all these instructions was actually > in the thread, so it was just me being a bit too excited to get things > going and not reading the instructions that caused the struggling. I > know the analoge output is not the best option but it was the only free > cable/connection I had available for my amplifier at the time. > Everything you have flagged here is taken care of with the CSOS Beta. erland wrote: > 2. I had some issue to connect the WiFi to my Airport Extreme WiFi > router > - It's not something I've solved and I've seen other devices have > similar issues previously so I suspect it's not caused by the Wandboard, > just thought I'd mention it in case someone else have similar issues. > - The WiFi works properly when I switched it to connect to my D-Link > WiFi network instead. > I don't have an Airport Extreme. I have been using wi-fi with 3 different routers and haven't had an issue. erland wrote: > > 3. It hangs during reboot > - Removing the > /usr/lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants/alsa-store.service file > seems to solve that > Dealt with in CSOS Beta. erland wrote: > > 4. NFS mounting didn't mount automatically > - The NFS mount to your vortexbox obviously doesn't work in my setup, so > I adjusted /etc/fstab to point to the NFS share on my own NAS and also > had to change "noauto" to "auto" in the /etc/fstab row to make it mount > at boot. > The entry in fstab was what I was personally using to mount my music share. I changed it from "defaults" to "noauto" so it didn't cause a hang on bootup for anyone else and left the entry in fstab as a placeholder/example. Not developed yet, but the intention is to have a new web configuration page that provides a gui to add nfs/cifs shares to fstab. erland wrote: > > A question I have is if it is safe to rename the clivem user to > something else or will this break anything ? > I'm just asking because I would prefer to have a user with the same name > and UID as my other machines to make it as smooth as possible to access > NFS shares from the NAS from the wandboard. > The clivem user was my own user id. It should have been removed from the image prior to release, but it got overlooked. The fedora user was created as a generic login id, so there was a non-root user configured out of the box, and of course you should create your own user id if you know how. ;) erland wrote: > > Now, a stupid question (don't feel obligated to answer if you don't have > the time). > If I wanted to compile some programs for the Wandboard, my idea was to: > 1. Setup an Ubuntu VirtualBox machine (because I want to build it on a > separate machine and I'm used to Ubuntu) > 2. Install the toolchain you seem to have been using: > http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/toolchains/angstrom-2011.03-x86_64-linux-armv7a-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2 > > Is this the best way to do it or should I handle it some other way to > make it easier ? > Do I need anything else than the above toolchain ? > As an example, there seems to be some Wandboard SDK on their download > page: http://wandboard.org/index.php/downloads, is this needed to > compile programs (I'm not planing to compile the kernel) ? > I've used several toolchains now. The Angstom one is as good as any. The Wandboard SDK contains the kernel and u-boot source. If you are not intending to compile them yourself, you don't need it. erland wrote: > Finally, is there anything in particular you would like people with a > wandboard to help you try if it works or not ? >From my point of view, and I mean this in a nice way, it would suit me if there isn't any more feedback on the PBWPN image, as I believe that pretty much everything that has been raised has been taken care of, (and a whole bunch of stuff that hasn't been publicly flagged), leaving me to concentrate on what I need to do between now and Monday, getting the COS Beta image ready and a bunch of other stuff that needs to be done, like getting the source for the web-gui cleaned up and publicly available on github for open development by anyone who wants to contribute. After that has been done, I'm more than happy to get any feedback, work on adding additional features and fixing bugs. And I'm rather hoping that a few other developers will start to contribute, not just me and Adrian. ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98190 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
