Re: debian installer on rock64

2023-01-14 Thread Diego Roversi
n worse, failing to read from micro sd. Finally I've erased the SPI, and now it works fine. Thanks again, Diego. -- Diego Roversi

debian installer on rock64

2023-01-13 Thread Diego Roversi
initrd.gz from ram). Just fyi, bullseye d-i seems it works fine. Except no hdmi output and no error on Xorg.log, but this is another story :) Thanks in advance, Diego -- Diego Roversi Debian-Installer 1: Debian-Installer Enter choice: 1 1: Debian-Installer Retrieving file: /in

Re: Rockchip RK3399 based board for server use?

2020-01-20 Thread Diego Roversi
5 years ago. Right now the only benefits It's a cortex-a53 vs cortex-A7, and arm say it should be 30% faster at the same clock. So it should be a nice upgrade, even if not spetacular. Also is a 64bit architecture. Regards, Diego. -- Diego Roversi

Re: Lowest power Debian SBC

2019-11-26 Thread Diego Roversi
27;t think it has real ethernet. > Pocketbeagle looks much faster than a Zero. It's a cortex A8 vs armv6. Regards, Diego. -- Diego Roversi

Re: causes for this?

2018-06-24 Thread Diego Roversi
e. I think you should install texlive-xetex package. Or just install texlive, if you have planty of disk space. -- Diego Roversi

Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?

2017-09-25 Thread Diego Roversi
ales" And follow the istruction, that should made the trick. For the timezone it looks like the clock is correct. Just to be sure: $ TZ=EDT date should display your current time. If not, post here the output, (and the correct time, for comparing). Regards, Diego. -- Diego Roversi

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Diego Roversi
wap /var/swap (supposing that /var/swap was a file used for swap) For activate it: swapon /var/swap For checking swap usage, you can: cat /proc/swaps If you need to make some more ram available, and you don't want to use swap, you can use zram: https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam Regards. -- Diego Roversi

Re: Bug#864260: Missing kernel in debian-installer sd-card images for armhf (stretch)

2017-06-06 Thread Diego Roversi
ing vmlinuz ** Unable to read file vmlinuz ** SCRIPT FAILED: continuing... PS: The daily image, indeed had the vmlinuz, but not the initrd.img. Thanks in advance. -- Diego Roversi

problem with Debian installer on A10-OlinuXino-lime

2017-06-04 Thread Diego Roversi
aint about missing the vmlinuz file. I suspect that the generated images for D-I for arm are broken at the moment. I've also tried to download the image from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/, but initrd.img is missing instead of vmlinuz. -- Diego Roversi

Re: question on armhf color depth, now keyboard

2017-04-10 Thread Diego Roversi
-> enable autorepeat, 200ms delay, 5 keystroke / s -- Diego Roversi

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Diego Roversi
used because usually cpu read 16/32/64 bit at a time, so you can see 32bit in the framebuffer, and still having X saying 24 bit. -- Diego Roversi

Re: armhf current clock speed? big secret, very high vacuum

2017-04-09 Thread Diego Roversi
req). ie: # echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor I hope it helps. Some more informations are found at this page: https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/CpuFrequencyScaling -- Diego Roversi

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288. Solved missing mmc and eth

2017-01-01 Thread Diego Roversi
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:12:50 +0100 Diego Roversi wrote: > > Ok, now I'm trying to create a d-i with custom kernel... > > > Here are some (slighted rotted) docs: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CustomKernel > > I've compiled my custom

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-25 Thread Diego Roversi
ree that is a nice > > board. The cpu is quite fast. The only thing I miss is a native sata port > > (or usb 3.0). > > yehh, these are sub-$10 SoCs, operating in an extremely cut-throat > market: it's hard to justify the inclusion of a hard macro that costs > $100k to license and way more than that to test... when most of your > customers are never going to add a SATA drive in their target > products. > > the only reason SATA was included with the A20 is because it was > multi-product-targetted, including for the IPTV / Set-Top Box market. > > l. > -- Diego Roversi

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-20 Thread Diego Roversi
ME for kernel-wedge, but it's quite criptic to me. Does it exists some example? -- Diego Roversi

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-13 Thread Diego Roversi
On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:26:43 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On 12/12/16, Diego Roversi wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:35:01 + > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > >> add console=ttyS2 to the kernel parameters, also earlyprintk is rea

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-12 Thread Diego Roversi
cgi?bug=821311 But it should be already fixed, so I'm not sure. Someone have already seen this problem? TIA, Diego. -- Diego Roversi

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-11 Thread Diego Roversi
e to 1ed86000, end 1ed91cbc ... OK Starting kernel ... and now it hangs here. I was expecting something on the serial, and I have no monitor attached to the board, so I don't understand if it is doing something or not... -- Diego Roversi

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-10 Thread Diego Roversi
usly render the OS on the eMMC non-functional. I should write on /dev/mmclblk0 ? Or should I write on a specific partition of the eMMC (/dev/mmcblk0p?) ? TIA, Diego. -- Diego Roversi

Re: d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-10 Thread Diego Roversi
oblem, but a this point you should reflash the uboot with a usb cable. Because even spl can became corrupted, and you need to cover also this case (imho). > > the firefly's a really nice board, btw. did you get one with 4GB RAM? 2GB ram model. I found it on sale on a online shop. I agree that is a nice board. The cpu is quite fast. The only thing I miss is a native sata port (or usb 3.0). -- Diego Roversi

d-i on Firefly-rk3288

2016-12-09 Thread Diego Roversi
o boot:backup try to start rockusb If I remove the microsd, it boots the original ubuntu on the nand. Someone have already installed debian on the firefly and have some suggestion? Thanks in advance, Diego. -- Diego Roversi

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

2016-05-23 Thread Diego Roversi
ortex-a12 as a product name, now theye are also called cortex-a17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A17 -- Diego Roversi

Re: headless LAMP server buying advice: Beaglebone Black or Cubieboard

2013-05-06 Thread Diego Roversi
x27;ve compiled kernel 3.6 and I had no problem at all). So it has a very good support. I'm using one, since 3 years ago and it works fine (except for the power supply that died one year ago, it's a well known issue, I hope they fixed it in recent model). This is my 2c advice. Reg

Re: Rootfs on sheevaplug without killing my sd cards / usb sticks

2010-03-26 Thread Diego Roversi
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:43:21AM +0100, Karsten König wrote: > Heya, > > I ruined 1 expensive sd card and two usb flash sticks already with a basic > debian system, even though /var is already on a seperate stick, I don't want > to dive into it too much to find out what process is responsible.