On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 06:32:58 -0700 Greg Beam <ki...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill, Richard, > > At present, ARMv7 builds have to be specifically enabled per package by > the Launchpad administrators. All of the WSJT-X packages I have on > Launchpad are ARMv7 build enabled (current 1.6.0 GA Release, and v1.7.0 > Testing version). > > As fare as I am aware, there's no reason WSJT and WSPR (Python3 > versions) should not run on ARMv7. I tested WSPR on an RPI2 and > everything seemed normal, though I was using outboard sound. > > JTSDK-Nix also works on ARMv7 distros like Ubuntu Mate etc, and I've had > feedback from a couple users about successful Superbuilds. If your > compiling any of the WSJT apps, you'll want to have a descent size swap > enabled ~1GB at least. > > > 73's > Greg, KI7MT > > On 12/29/2015 05:31, Bill Somerville wrote: > > On 29/12/2015 12:21, Richard Bown wrote: > >> My main use is MS FSK441 > > > > Hi Richard, > > > > I do not think we are doing official Ubuntu ARM WSJT-X package builds > > yet but there's no reason I know of that would preclude using WSJT-X on > > that platform. There are certainly RasPi2 users and that runs WSJT-X > > reasonably well. > > > > I do not know the status of WSJT on ARM but I'm sure it can be made to > > work once the relevant packages have been installed. > > > > AFAIK Qt5 is in the ARM Ubuntu distributions these days. > > > > WSJT-X does not support FSK441 currently. > > > > 73 > > Bill > > G4WJS. > Thanks both for the replies As for compiling and needing ~1GB , it should cope, there's 2GB RAM plus RAM, I think about 500MB on the Mali chip, which can be used before writing to the eMMC Flash, so it should cope. Just the audio card to sort out, if Hardkernel don't produce an audio card,can a USB audio card be recommended that wont break the bank ??? Thanks -- -- Best wishes /73 Richard Bown Email : rich...@g8jvm.com HTTP : http://www.g8jvm.com nil carborundum a illegitemis ################################################################################## Ham Call: G8JVM . QRV: 50-432 MHz + Microwave 23 cms 140W, 13 cms 100W & 3cms 5W Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W QRV VHF 6mtrs 200W, 4 mtrs 150W, 2mtrs 400W, 70cms 200W OS: Linux Mint 17.3 x86_64 on a Dell Inspiron N5030 laptop ################################################################################## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
