I've got a raspberry pi!

AlanD · 2012-09-21 07:51:54

Its great fun, though a bit finicky about power and usb devices.

Meanwhile, though, I dont much care for its LXDE desktop, and I'm dreaming about crunchifying it.

Is anyone else playing with one? Lets talk about what we are doing!

pvsage · 2012-09-21 11:07:00

Looks like a few #!ers already have the Raspberry Pi...the bbq search engine seems the best way to find the threads/posts.

zhogan85 · 2012-09-21 13:28:38

AlanD wrote:

Is anyone else playing with one? Lets talk about what we are doing!

I've had one for a little while, but only just started tinkering with it this week. I've installed the wheezy image from the raspberrypi downloads page, but haven't customized it much yet. I'm currently trying to get my usb wifi device to function, though with limited (read, none! )success so far. I initially tried to install the Arch image, but kept getting a kernel panic. I'm content with the wheezy image for now, but plan to put the Arch image (or ArmedSlackware) on another SD card.

dura · 2012-09-21 16:56:44

I have 2! Yes, 2!

I have the most recent rasbian on one. Even though it has X I am using it as a server, and its running fine. It's serving subsonic media streamer, and owncloud set up with lighttpd and mysql (yeah, I probably should have used sqlite but it handles it fine) very well.

I have installed xfce4 instead of lxde. When its running as a server I just leave it logged out of course, without X running.

The other I use as a telly, etc., sticking in rasbmc on an SD card. Other times I just use it for messing about on, learning, testing, etc.,

I've been thinking about making my own distro for it, but the more I look at that the more complex it seems to get, and out of my ball park really. But its something I'd like to do.

Most of the time just the one I use as a server is running. It's constantly on. I guess what I've done with them so far is pretty boring, but it certainly felt quite exciting at times.

I used to use Linux Mint, but since having raspberry pi to play around with I became much more interested in minimal systems. That's what brought me to crunchbang really.

Power issues- especially with keyboard- have been the biggest problems. That's solved now though.

I would love to use crunchbang on it, and think there is some affinity between the project, if only in their aesthetics somehow.

tmillic · 2012-09-21 17:10:30

I'd love to get one. What power issues are you having? Is it something that using a powered USB hub would remedy?

schlem · 2012-09-21 21:10:58

I got a couple of these too! I have played with the "official" Debian, but I have been monkeying around with the ARM port of Arch. Typical Linux puzzlers to solve - currently working on sound and wireless issues. Among other applications, I want to use it headless to control an autonomous robot that could serve up webcam etc data. Lots of experience with Arduino, but hacking the RasPi looks to be fun.

A powered USB hub seems to solve the power issues people are having. You want about 700 mA for the Pi, and a good powered hub might put out 2A across all ports.

Here's a link to ARM Linux distros:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions

AlanD · 2012-09-22 02:06:03

tmillic wrote:

I'd love to get one. What power issues are you having? Is it something that using a powered USB hub would remedy?

I have a four port dynex powered hub. I plug my external drive in that and it works fine, as I use ssh to access the raspi.

Away from home(I've been showing it off), I have to plug in a mouse and keyboard. With those, its finicky about what works where. I have to plug things in certain slots only. The dynex just doesnt have enough juice it seems. I plug my wireless mouse dongle in the raspi above the hub cable. The hub powers my drive as well as a wireless keyboard.

So the plan is to get a a mouse and keyboard sharing one wireless connection. That should ease up on the power.

I'm planning on trying a web camera next(on the hub).

I've started customizing the raspian software. I'm working on a tint2 replacement for the lxpanel, and I just got conky working, but the font is rendered very ugly. I'll try a different one. I eventually want to get a crunchbang look to it. I miss openbox!

I'm considering using it as a server for a mud, but I am not sure that raspian is populated with the right libraries to run the Evennia mud server. Still, it will be a fun experiment.

Trouble that I had(other than the power) was getting the NTFS partition of my external drive to mount. It wanted to be read only. The solution was to install the ntfs-3g package.

I want a second Raspberry Pi. Its gutless, but I love it. smile

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dura · 2012-09-22 10:48:28

Keyboard and USB issues were the worst for me. I ended buying a microsoft keyboard (yep, shameful, but it was the only one the shop had, honest...) and that worked. I had the Logik slim keyboard previously which is marked as both working and not working on the elinux raspberry pi site. Microsoft one works a charm (grrr).

With the usb, I have to add mount points, and change permissions. Yup. I have a crappy logik powered usb that seems to do the trick.

One is in a pibow, the other is still nekked, but will have clothes soon.

Thinking about overclocking this weekend, but really I want to make a simple distro using debian, open box, x, etc

Having it has changed my music consumption patterns. I haven't used spotify or iTunes since. Can stream all my music via my phone, so don't have to use hi-fi either. Its made a lot of things redundant in that sense. Have my own piCloud (yeah that's what I call it in gigolo), which backs up dropbox (extra safe!).

I trick myself and my girlfriend that what I'm doing is functional (the music and file streaming actually is), but most of it is just love of the game and learning

pvsage · 2012-09-22 11:06:18

For all its faults, Microsoft makes quality hardware. "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater." wink

dura · 2012-09-22 22:23:53

Overclocking has seriously made raspbian faster... its like almost usable as a desktop...perhaps...well ok then

AlanD · 2012-09-23 01:36:20

pvsage wrote:

For all its faults, Microsoft makes quality hardware. "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

I agree there. My excellent keyboard is MS branded.

AlanD · 2012-09-23 01:38:33

d! wrote:

Overclocking has seriously made raspbian faster... its like almost usable as a desktop...perhaps...well ok then

I'll give that a try. Something ventured, not much lost, eh?

dura · 2012-09-23 11:58:31

Indeed. Its on the newest raspbian install. I just overclocked it to medium (2 volts extra, and I think up to 900mhz. The difference is massive.

Zilvarael · 2012-09-23 15:28:05

I have been thinking about getting one of them, as well as the mini Android PC stick. Personally I would rather get a Pi and learn more off it since it seems to be nice so far!

.not · 2012-09-24 14:25:32

I would recommend to get one. It's a fine piece of hardware.

I bought two exemplars, mainly because I ordered at both shops and forgot one order in the end.. The first one was equiped with Raspbian and given as a present to a friend's son who now enjoys his first steps in computing. The second one also runs Raspbian, without a graphical interface, and serves as mpd-server at work and has also been target for several SQL-experiments. Absolutely satisfied with it, although I'm thinking about playing around with the Arch build a little bit, mainly because of potential fun.

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dura · 2012-09-24 15:24:15

Was fiddling with Arch on raspi over the weekend and couldn't get it to work. It couldn't install properly because of some dependencies issues, and wouldn't download them when I told it to.

.not · 2012-09-24 18:40:05

I've already read about some issues with this since the last glibc-update, it seems that many machines are now wrecked. Well, I'll give it a try anyway. big_smile

dura · 2012-09-30 00:01:58

I've already read about some issues with this since the last glibc-update, it seems that many machines are now wrecked. Well, I'll give it a try anyway. big_smile

I think that just applies to the Arch img rather than raspbian or the others.

berryboot is good tool for picking and choosing.

The arch issue doensn't wreck them, just doesn't work I think neutral

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