On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Patrick Sathyanathan <wp...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks much, that was exactly what was happening ! I tried with a sample
> rate of 250k and the window responds just fine to keyboard/mouse. That's
> great since I don't know much about keyboard/mouse event handling and was
> dreading having to debug it.
>
> The Raspberry pi 2 has a quad core processor and as long as the flow-graph
> does not take more than ~25-28% CPU (one entire processor) with nothing
> else running the GUI window responds fine. Go above that and it stops
> responding.
>
> I am new to the Pi 2 and having seen this issue reported on the Pi 2
> forums thought it was an obscure software bug.
>
> --Patrick
>

Patrick,

Great! Glad to hear it. The RPi2 is a much more capable machine than the
RPi was, but still limited, especially when running a GUI and a bunch of
math signal processing. It'll probably take a bit to understand those
limitations -- and then work to help improve them :)

Tom



> ________________________________
> > From: t...@trondeau.com
> > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:23:23 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mouse/keyboard events not working
> > raspberry pi 2
> > To: wp...@hotmail.com
> > CC: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Patrick Sathyanathan
> > <wp...@hotmail.com<mailto:wp...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I managed to build gnuradio from source using pybombs on a raspberry pi
> > 2 machine running raspbian. It took many tries and the build itself
> > took a day and only worked after increasing the swapfile size to 2GB.
> >
> >
> > I am able to run osmocom_fft at 2.4Msps sample rate with an rtl-sdr
> > dongle plugged in. However, the window does not respond to keyboard or
> > mouse interactions. I unable to change the frequency in the text box.
> > Nor can I move the slider. I have verified that gnuradio-companion
> > works fine and accepts mouse/keyboard inputs. However, flowgraphs
> > generated using GRC do not accept mouse/keyboard.
> >
> >
> > Any idea what the problem could be ? If I switch to other windows when
> > osmocom_fft is running the keyboard/mouse work just fine. I am using a
> > wireless mouse and keyboard that share a single usb dongle.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> >
> > --Patrick
> >
> >
> > It's quite possible that you are just overloading the rpi2's processor.
> > What if you take the sample rate down to 250 ksps?
> >
> > Tom
> >
>
>
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