Re: my raspbian jessie repo seems to have been moved to packagecloud.io

2018-09-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ome of the more general issues which might affect multiple Debian derivatives (e.g. both Raspbian and the OS on your Rock board) might be relevant here I'm afraid that one isn't. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not

Re: Running Pure Debian on the Raspberry Pi 3B+?

2018-08-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
port. My suggestion would be to stick with Raspbian unless you have a very good reason to explore alternatives. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: RockChip (and possibly others) broken static IP

2018-07-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 27/07/18 21:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 27 July 2018 12:29:34 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I found the 8.8.8.8 in /etc/resolvconf/resolvconf.d/head and changed it to point at the router, and rebooted since a service networking restart hung and never came back from this machines login

RockChip (and possibly others) broken static IP

2018-07-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
interfaces. However this is by no means the first time that I've found inconsistencies in this area. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
r if it leaves the hardware in an operating state which the device's owner considers unacceptable (e.g. one that requires a signed kernel). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 26/07/18 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2018 12:51:07 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Wouldn't the file, if put on /media/slash, it seems dd would include /media/slash in that file, and the result even if it didn't get into a recursion forever loop, would still be a

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 26/07/18 16:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2018 03:06:31 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: There are still ways of working round that sort of problem. For example, you can copy an entire

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 25/07/18 21:00, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:15:03PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Really depends what you mean by an "image backup". I do a lot of stuff using "ye olde traditional" dd, either between devices or more often making an image of th

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: There are still ways of working round that sort of problem. For example, you can copy an entire device using dd to capture boot segments and partition layout, inspect and recreate the

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 25/07/18 19:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 07:22:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I have not been successfull at "make pdfdocs", it hits something it doesn't like in the chapter on networking, not finding a file that is (or was) installed since this is now arm

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
nd push the power button. Usual caveat about not getting anything on the eMMC that subsequently prevents you booting from SDCard etc. I for one always feel a bit queasy about writing to non-removable Flash devices. We had a removable Odroid eMMC module that died, they subsequently admitted (

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 24/07/18 22:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2018 16:40:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: And what does ssh -v tell you? In the shell session you're using try echo $$ which will give you the PID of that instance of bash, and then see where that appears in ps faux output.

Re: rpi, now no shell for an ssh login

2018-07-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 24/07/18 20:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2018 14:23:33 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: haven't tried the ssh -v, which machine? The output of service ssh status, on the pi looks legit as its the log of successfull stuff from the data there. On the machine you run ssh on, obvi

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 24/07/18 20:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2018 14:29:49 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: So you get the password prompt which is actually issued by your SSH client. The two things I'd suggest are (i) if you have one use a shell session on the local console to run something lik

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
issues... SSH login should /not/ be a problem. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: rpi, now no shell for an ssh login

2018-07-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
om a PC rather than your Rock64? Logging into Raspbian Jessie is something I do on a very regular basis. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
xt to check? Please describe the problem exactly. Most of us are reading this while working etc., assume our memory is limited. Debian or Raspbian Jessie? Main console? Text? GUI? Manual or auto login? SSH? What shell? and so on. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [O

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
#x27;t see it either on Raspbian or on the 32-bit Debian build I've got for an RPi2/3. IME it's the first which is important. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 23/07/18 19:45, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 7/22/18, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It's regrettable that dpkg-reconfigure doesn't have something like a --list command which summarises the packages to which it may be applied, or even a --search which works by analogy with apt

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
handle keeping access to X while switching to root. Sudo's -E option very often helps. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 23/07/18 15:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 09:18:56PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: We've got an ODroid. The impression I got was that the hardware was fairly well done, but that the distro that came with it (some variant of Ubuntu) rather less so... the usual t

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
here? if it's simply that you can't get a GUI login as root from your system console then that's a display manager thing which should be fixable. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ot password into an unsecured desktop system. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
tion on Debian- but have on Solaris- where one has to muck around with PAM to change this, which TBH is a fairly common requirement during system setup. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 22/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2018 14:58:33 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 22/07/18 15:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2018 10:11:04 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 22/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a bunch of locale related errors too. Was a stretch

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 22/07/18 15:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2018 10:11:04 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 22/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a bunch of locale related errors too. Was a stretch-minimal install by ayufan, has xfce for desktop What am I missing? The traditional command for

Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)

2018-07-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
: the tzconfig command is deprecated, please use: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
that the commands I used were dpkg-reconfigure locales dpkg-reconfigure console-data plus checking the content of /etc/default/locale -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
onal on PCs but mandatory on ARM systems that had UEFI. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd been comparing the performance of a Rockchip-based board's LAN and USB against an RPi3B+, results were satisfactory. There's a modicum of muttering that the 3B+ has broken som

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 21/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on a TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an old PC hand I ran telinit 1 At that point the SDCard became a boat

Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
unate coincidence. But unless absolutely sure, it might be a hack best avoided. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 13/07/18 15:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 13 July 2018 10:49:10 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Yes, and route (and ifconfig etc.) is obsolete. But still sometimes useful. And will probably continue to be usefull as long as the man pages for ip and friends continue to suck dead toads thru

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
g ignored. You might still have that one lurking. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 13/07/18 13:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 13 July 2018 05:08:57 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 13/07/18 02:00, Gene Heskett wrote: Thats a direct copy/paste, so whats wrong with that. Other than the fact that its been rebooted twice since the address was changed from 192.168.71.2 to the

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
that we've got enough problems of our own without trying to fix yours. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
the .2 address. Possibly from an initrd file that needs to be rebuilt. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: missing gw in route -n

2018-07-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
wrong, there's a file which in principle tells NetworkManager to never under any circumstances touch an interface but TBH I've yet to find a circumstance in which NM is less trouble than it's worth and very often I just tell systemd not to run it. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. tel

Re: Can't bring up the network

2018-06-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
efugee from Yggdrassil and they say you never forget your first distro :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Busbox missing fdisk and fsck: How to add?

2018-05-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
tached and whether it's partitioned or a single fiefsystem. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Device trees

2018-03-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
rticle I'm sure that it would be very much appreciated by the overall community. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Module aliases etc.

2018-02-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 20/02/18 16:45, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 12:05:13PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'm trying to disentangle some driver issues so that I can backport a module for a colleague with a weird peripheral. Can anybody tell me what the "b" field here is, an

Module aliases etc.

2018-02-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ally plugged in, but I'm curious to see it varying on a virgin system that's never seen the peripheral in question. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: screenblanker vs login

2018-02-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 14/02/18 15:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 13/02/18 18:00, Alan Corey wrote: No, I think it's at a lower level than X.  See if just a plain text screen blanks.  I tracked it down once under OpenBSD and turned it off but they have different names for things and that was 10 years or s

Re: screenblanker vs login

2018-02-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
that one thanks to a reminder in the Raspberry Pi foramina). c) On the main text console (or possibly in a startup script): setterm -blank 0 (Found on a Slackware system I set up 15 years ago). d) Plus at least one other that I've not tracked down yet :-/ -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .

Re: OpenJDK-jre and sun.arch.abi

2018-02-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
t floating point. On the raspberry PI3 its defined... Presumably that's an RPi3 running Raspbian (i.e. not Debian per se), which I believe explicitly licenses stuff from Oracle. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: arm64 support? When?

2018-01-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 14/01/18 11:00, Gene Heskett wrote: I can't find a stretch release for a rock64. Thats not an armhf, but an arm64. Is this relevant? https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-rootfs/releases -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's,

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

2017-09-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
#x27;m going, because while Raspbian Lite or pukka headless Debian is on my critical path having a desktop environment isn't. And right now my path is pretty darned critical... -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 25/09/17 14:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 25 September 2017 05:15:36 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I believe lo is now inserted automatically. Its not mentioned as a builtin in the debian handbook pdf, I read the networking section yesterday looking for clues. I've another machine ab

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
orum, since I think this is an Raspbian issue rather than more general Debian. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ted. X server not in path. :( There's something badly wrong there. Run ifconfig -a to check that your interfaces are named as expected. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
l console just in case... it's ! probably better to MOVE THIS EARLIER since apt-get upgrade warns ! about some LANG etc. settings that haven't yet been established. You can see what packages are installed using something like dpkg --get-selections -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. tele

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
t might have been a power issue). I'd suggest checking using traceroute -I and then looking at route -n and/or ip route ls which should give you a bit more of an indication of what's going on. IME this sort of thing is usually because the router isn't NATting the entire 1

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 23/09/17 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 23 September 2017 12:26:23 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 23/09/17 15:00, Gene Heskett wrote: I've never had problems with dd provided that the USB->SDcard adapter's OK: what command are you using? The usual syntax: dd if=somef

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
can delete the top filesystem and partition before using dd and be confident that you won't be doing an incomplete copy. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

2017-09-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
th dd provided that the USB->SDcard adapter's OK: what command are you using? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Is this the right list to discuss Debian problems on pinebook?

2017-09-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ader into /boot. The thing to note in this case is that you also have to copy the appropriate tree from Raspbian (or whatever) /lib/modules onto the Debian root. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: ARM Ports BoF: armel in buster

2017-08-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
found that it didn't play nicely with the Raspbian display subsystem, although we might reconsider that now that Raspbian "Stretch" is available. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: sshfs failure

2017-08-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
w but not existing connections to fail if a security update has deprecated a key size or type but the daemon hasn't been restarted to pick it up. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: pi vs swap on flash

2017-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
files are being used. But the bottom line is that the RPi is trying to push all I/O through limited bandwidth, and if you want decent performance it's probably not the best board to use. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not th

Re: advice on Raspberry Pi and alternatives?

2017-07-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
a headless ("Lite") distro which doesn't require local video etc.? For headless operation, is the situation the same for both 32- and 64-bit variants of the distro? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: piclone needs "blank" sd card.

2017-06-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
partition table with dd using 20k worth of /dev/zero? I'm concerned that might wipe out the card totally. I have no reason to believe that dd can damage a card. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: What is the recommended armhf disk partitioner for use on rotating media?

2017-06-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 17/06/17 15:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2017 10:24:11 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 17/06/17 14:15, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; See subject, on an rpi3b running raspian/jessie. I have a terabyte usb drive plugged in, and I want to set up an rsync cron job to backup

Re: What is the recommended armhf disk partitioner for use on rotating media?

2017-06-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
the device was partitioned at the factory it's worth restoring to that if possible. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: keyboard config for english UTF-8

2017-05-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ect if any. Thanks for any help I can paint on the wall for when I have to build/rebuild another sd card. Be warned that this might break subsequent use of raspi-config, but have you tried either of dpkg-reconfigure locales dpkg-reconfigure console-data -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemet

Re: this mornings update bricked my pi.

2017-05-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 10/04/17 10:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 10 April 2017 04:55:39 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 10/04/17 02:30, Alan Corey wrote: I think you can add entries to /etc/fb.modes but it's like making old-style modelines, it takes lots of information. And my old buddy xvidtune doesn'

Re: question on armhf color depth

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
determined by available memory. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 01/03/17 15:00, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:57:15AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Yes, I agree. What I don't know yet is whether there's a comparatively straightforward way to copy the loader (plus its header etc.) into the appropriate area of Qemu'

Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 28/02/17 21:30, Lee Fisher wrote: On 02/28/2017 11:38 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] Is it possible to use Qemu or some comparable emulator to check the boot sequence in situ, i.e. without breaking the U-Boot and kernel images out into separate files? There are a few tools which take

Re: Testing boot loaders

2017-03-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 28/02/17 22:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 07:38:28PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I wonder whether I could ask a general question, with a particular focus on Debian ARM devices. I've got in front of me a file containing the image of an SD-Card that I've e

Testing boot loaders

2017-02-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
sources etc. are available on Github, I think I can see that the boot loader's entry is at 0xF8006458. Is it possible to use Qemu or some comparable emulator to check the boot sequence in situ, i.e. without breaking the U-Boot and kernel images out into separate files? -- Mark Morgan L

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-31 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ped lumps) that are held together with a plastic shell, specifically for retrofitting to troublesome kit to bring it in line with required levels of emission and sensitivity. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
they shuffle blocks around. I /do/ see a delayed UI response on occasion, but I put that down to KDE and/or X11 gradually claiming an excessive amount of memory. I'm not aware of completely missed events. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
whatever) using Curses on Linux it might really have made a difference to the extent to which it was adopted. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 10/01/17 19:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 06:43:57PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've just managed to rescue a bunch of Logitech compiler manuals (I've recently had to sacrifice a lot of old stuff) with the hope of at least getting a photo of their earl

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 10/01/17 17:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:17:59AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 09/01/17 22:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 09 January 2017 10:52:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Logitech should have stuck to selling compilers. Thats a different company I

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 09/01/17 22:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 09 January 2017 10:52:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Logitech should have stuck to selling compilers. Thats a different company I believe. Same company, I was their de-facto UK tech support for a while. Long predated Linux of course (in a

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
aba. A capacitive keyboard doesn't need to be much more than 2 spirals for each "key" etched as printed circuit traces. I want an APL keyboard. One of those controlling CAM kit would be decidedly cool :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions abo

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ting ink out. Of course a lot depends on what colour the swarf is glowing :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Routers with multiple "dirty" interfaces

2016-12-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 07/12/16 17:00, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Potentially, the bearers come up and go down in an arbitrary sequence, with each event triggering a small number of iptables commands. When the a) Am I correct in believing that Debian's handling of /etc/network/interfaces is single-threaded

Re: Routers with multiple "dirty" interfaces

2016-12-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 07/12/16 16:00, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:41:56PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: My apologies for asking something here which is not strictly an ARM question, but I thought I'd run it past the local experts before raising my head in somewhere like LKML.

Routers with multiple "dirty" interfaces

2016-12-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ingle-threaded (non-reentrant)? b) Is it safe to use /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward (and the various rp_filter and log_martians states) as counters? So far (b) appears to work, but I'm interested to know whether this is by design or by luck. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .D

Re: Debian, Qemu, KVM and Raspberry Pi

2016-11-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 17/11/16 17:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 08:21:13AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'm obviously watching these ongoing threads with a lot of interest :-) If I can ask two questions so that there's a summary in a single place ready for me to get back

Re: Debian, Qemu, KVM and Raspberry Pi

2016-11-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
uest, and am I correct in assuming that the only indication of whether it's using KVM etc. is its speed of execution? I'm interested in embedding a low-traffic DMZ in a firewall, I think Qemu is adequate for this but wouldn't trust weaker containerisation. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markM

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
include the MMIO (discovered via DTB or ACPI) variant. (Other platforms like x86 use the PCI based stuff though, so I'd expect it to work) Is there an equivalent to lspci for this type of device? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not th

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ike a QEMU problem - but what do I know? I'm just a lowly programmer. If I knew the problem, I'd fix it :) I'm about to hit the sack or something, but just remember that when a programmer has a hard time finding a bug it's almost always because he's looking in the wrong

Debian, Qemu, KVM and Raspberry Pi

2016-11-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
rging patches from GOK where to be painful. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ne thing that really does make a big difference is making absolutely sure that Qemu error messages are visible, i.e. at least initially run it from a standard shell. Some of the Qemu console status commands might also turn out to be useful. I suppose this leads on to a question of my own...

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 08/11/16 09:30, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 08:42 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Does "ifconfig -a" (as root) show the virtio device with some name other than eth0? If so then you might need to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to cause it to forget the

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to cause it to forget the old device. Is that file still valid on Jessie? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Debian on RPi

2016-08-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is there still a kernel etc. anywhere for the original Raspberry Pi? I've got a colleague who's dead set on using the one that we've got as a router rather than dipping into our stock of 2's and 3's, and while usb_modeswitch runs fine on p

Re: Debian on RPi

2016-07-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 02:59:41PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If I had £10 for every bug I'd seen over the last 40 years that nobody wanted to investigate I'd be much more wealthy than I am today. Well looking at the debian bug track system I see no

Re: Debian on RPi

2016-07-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:07:00PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is there still a kernel etc. anywhere for the original Raspberry Pi? I've got a colleague who's dead set on using the one that we've got as a router rather than dipping into our stock of 2

Re: Debian on RPi

2016-07-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Is there still a kernel etc. anywhere for the original Raspberry Pi? The wiki says you need a custom version of the Linux kernel, so probably you'll have to grab the one from Raspbian: https://wiki.debia

Debian on RPi

2016-07-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
little success with Raspbian. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Rebuilding xl2tpd

2016-06-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've been trying to rebuild xl2tpd 1.3.6 (rationale etc. below) on a Raspberry Pi before moving to the next version since its changelog suggests that it fixes a problem we're experiencing. Whether I use pukka Debian Jessie as described at http://sjoerd.luon

Re: Rebuilding xl2tpd

2016-06-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Red herring alert :-) The Debian is only good for an RPi2 or later FYI, given suitable boot blobs and Linux kernel, Debian armel userland can run on the RPi1. Noted, but I was referring to the particular one I&#

Re: Rebuilding xl2tpd

2016-06-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 07:45:07PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've been trying to rebuild xl2tpd 1.3.6 (rationale etc. below) on a Raspberry Pi before moving to the next version since its changelog suggests that it fixes a problem we're experiencing. Whe

Rebuilding xl2tpd

2016-06-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
freezes when the connection is broken, the changelog for 1.3.7 suggests that this is a fixed problem. There's also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760602 which might be relevant. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

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