LinuxQuestions.org - Blogs - markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/ LinuxQuestions.org offers a free Linux forum where Linux newbies can ask questions and Linux experts can offer advice. Topics include security, installation, networking and much more. en Sun, 19 May 2013 06:14:45 GMT vBulletin 60 https://lqo-thequestionsnetw.netdna-ssl.com/questions/images/misc/rss.jpg LinuxQuestions.org - Blogs - markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/ Asus EEE-PC X101CH http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/asus-eee-pc-x101ch-35461/ Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:40:25 GMT Thursday 18th April 2013

I came across my Asus X101CH by accident, I work in IT so tend to have quite a "fleet" of machines including 2 Asus EEE-PC 901's which have been my stalwart of Linux "hacking" ... anyway to the X101CH, I got it as a hotel reward after spending 6 months as their guest .. I thank you!


The keyboard, actually I like it the extra inch over the 901's makes typing easier and not had any issues with accuracy, its certainly easier to use that the keyboard on my Transformer Prime! Not up to a full size keyboard maybe but still I like it.

In the 4 years since my Asus EEE-PC 901's there has been some stagnation / cost cutting and even steps backwards. Ye ancient spinning disk thing (Hard Disk) instead of a new fangled SSD (solid state disk, faster draws less power)... come on Asus ... progress please even the 901's were SSD only and helped with their mighty battery life of 6 hours plus ... oh talking of battery life, the X101CH battery life down to 3 - 4 hours another step backwards ... grief! Now ... to the biggest crime Asus has committed ... the messily 1GB of RAM is soldered to the motherboard and totally not upgradeable, Asus you total scum tight wads! The EEE-PC range was always darling of the "hacker" community as it was easy to upgrade but that is a total step toward the "locked in Apple world" (more Asus ranting on that subject when I write my blog on my Asus Transformer Prime ho ho ho).

Screen may be an inch bigger than the 901 but at 1024x600 its the same spec and very ordinary no progress there then.

But the CPU is a dual core Atom running at 1.6Ghz, the cpu is of the "Cedar Trail" variety, no more pwerful than the old Atoms but a lot more frugal on electric hence no fan ... makes me laugh when Asus say the fan less design makes it silent ... er how about that ancient noisy hard disk then? ;-) Oh aparantly it has a 1080P decoder in it so watching videos should be easier on the eye.

Asus have always had a funny relationship with Microsoft, the 901 initially launched with Linux and made Microsoft mess their pants, drop the price of XP and extend its life for several years just so that Asus and the netbook revolution would be XP based and not Linux. Shame on Asus for not offering both side by side, they sort of did for a half hearted while but Linux line never saw much love or development and died out or at least became unavailable in the UK, but no odds it was still a Linux hackers dream netbook. Googling about I see that the X101 had a MeeGo (Linux derivative) offering, not that I ever saw it ... what's so wrong with a 'Buntu based standard offering? Anyhow Windows 7 ran like a dog on the X101 so I binned it for my Linux distribution of choice, Lubuntu (being a simple chap with simple tastes ... speed over style any day baby .... I have a life to lead!)

Linux on the X101CH .... Lubuntu 12.10 was not happy, the screen was so dark ... think there were some issues with the uber new graphics on the X101CH and the Linux kernal of that date ... so I loaded the 13.04 Beta and all is well usual issues with some of the keys and its not fully tested but getting there ..... will update this as and when.

The X101's future? Keep or sell? For the moment keep, my son will get the 901 as its more his size and I like the extra go from the dual core processor but it is getting an SSD as fast as I can sort it out! Its an ok bit of kit if you get it cheap enough £150 here in the UK tops.

Some independant reviews here:

http://mobilityupdate.com/netbooks/a...-disk-upgrade/

http://liliputing.com/2012/03/asus-e...ok-review.html

Toshiba 60GB 2.5" SSD on order, make sure its a 7mm slim drive though! Note, total disassembly of your X101 will be required to install ... Asus ... ahhhhhh!

I still have a lot of "love" for the Asus brand but the X101 & Transformer Prime has tested it somewhat!


Friday 19th April 2013

Fitting the SSD upgrade was not to difficult, 11 screws on the underside including 4 in the battery bay and thankfully no sneaky hidden ones under rubber feet! Separating the two halves of the base section requires some confidence, thin knife blade and an old credit card ... there seems to be "snap" fixings ever inch of the way but once started it unzips nicely, look out for two locking lugs on the inside of the hinges.

Once apart there are two ribbon cables that need released in the usual manner of pulling forward the tiny plastic clamps. The entire top half of the base section & keyboard can now be removed exposing the the standard 7mm 320GB hard drive, remove it swap over mounting lugs to the SSD and reassemble.

Reloading Lubuntu 13.04 and it now flies, lots quicker, totally silent and battery life better too (too early to say how much) the fast recovery from sleep is almost instant now, close lid ... sleep ... open lid awake ... massive improvement. ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/asus-eee-pc-x101ch-35461/ Voice LOG http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/voice-log-35409/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:00:16 GMT *_Friday 15th March 2013_* After a lull in voice activities my lab is in tatters so its back to square 1. First of all my SIP solution is... Friday 15th March 2013

After a lull in voice activities my lab is in tatters so its back to square 1.

First of all my SIP solution is based on Asterix/FreePBX .. I would like to be a CLI purest but I don't have the time and FreePBX has served me well. http://www.freepbx.org/ I would recomend downloading the app / linux distro as one package and either run it from an old box or a VM.

Setting up the external conectivity through a typical NAT firewall arrangement needs a little thought, this article solved all the issues I had.

http://www.freepbx.org/support/docum...-sip-extension

I would recomend you get everything working on a LAN first though just so that you have a baseline of what works and what does not.

SIP clients seem to be my biggest issue at the moment:

LINPHONE has a app for Window, Linux, Android and Mac stuff used to be awesome but they let the designer out of his box and the kindest thing I can say is that its not to my taste. Additionally they have had a run in with the lawyers it would appear and H264 video codec has been pulled and now I wait for VP8 codec support from Asterisk / FreePBX ... sigh.

So now playing with a couple of other clients on Android, CSipSimple and Antisip with Antisip actually working with video too! Will update when I settle on one, preferably with chat support too. ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/voice-log-35409/ Pi - Parrot Cam http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/pi-parrot-cam-35278/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:16:47 GMT Tuesday 22nd January 2013

OK I have been about tinkering with Pi's & Linux just been lazy about blogging and busy with work & family. One Pi Project I have been desperate to do is "Pi-Parrot-Cam" or a wireless streaming web cam to spy on the bird feeder, hardly ground breaking I know but hey its what I want to do .... looks like someone has beat my to it ... thanks for doing the hard work and I shall shamefully plagerise and report back.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Rasp...-Camera-Solar/

Friday 25th January 2103

Hey it works, well at least the motion stuff does, there was only one little typo in the explanation:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo services motion start
sudo: services: command not found
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo service motion start
Think we can forgive that for all the assistance given ;-) now I need to get the Pi outside, solar powered and aimed at the bird feeder :-)

Wednesday 30th January 2103

Left for another trip and pointed the cam out of my grubby office window, set up the port forwarding on the home router and yey .... we have a picture! The quality is rank but that's more to do with the crummy web cam and my dirty windows so the next phase is a better web cam and move it so it can see the bird table :-)

Monday 4th February 2103

Back on the road again but a good weekend, project "Parrot Cam" now has its own Pi (old Rev 1 board, 256MB ram), micro wifi adaptor and a "no name special" web cam stuck to the widow running Raspbian and Motion and apart from the fact the resolution is desperately poor its all working good ... great view of the bird feeder from up here in Edinburgh ... er ok it would be if it was not dark and the resolution was not so crap ... theory De Jour about that is an issue with the Pi & USB throughput, see the article in Pi Land here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/vi...278227#p278227 ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/pi-parrot-cam-35278/ Fuduntu .... inspirational ...but ... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-inspirational-but-35117/ Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:53:40 GMT I have used Fuduntu in my business for the last 3 months and have really enjoyed the look and feel of the distribution and valued the "snapiness" on lower end machines.

Distro's always seem to be in a battle of performance versus "bling" but Fuduntu seems to cut the balance just right, the Jupiter hardware management app is really good and the AWN "mac look dock" it pretty damm good, enough bling to make the experience enjoyable without slowing things down. Worked like a dream on the Asus Eee-PC 901.

However, all is not totally rosy in the Fuduntu garden, they play it very safe legally which meant getting the Broadcom drivers to work on my Dell Latitude E4300 was a complete pig and I failed miserably to get Acidrip to work, archiving DVD's to server for the Raspbmc project .. another story.

Fuduntu is "based" on Fedora but is not repository compatible and there is no "Medibuntu" equivalent either to host the more "off piste" software collections leaving you with no choice but to compile yourself ... I know I should be able and capable but I am not and I am very time poor .... so that's the the reason I am leaving ... the repository issues i.e being limited to just Fuduntu has just been well ... too limiting!

I have one laptop left running Fuduntu and will keep it that way for now but the others have gone over to Xubuntu (12.04LTS) + Compiz + AWN + Jupiter which means they look and feel like Fuduntu but have none of the package limitations.

Fuduntu has literally and metaphorically been an inspiration to me and I wish them all the best for the future ..... I will check in from time to time.

MarkyD ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-inspirational-but-35117/ Raspberry Pi - Debian Raspian-Wheezy http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-debian-raspian-wheezy-34939/ Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:02:20 GMT Thursday 9th August 2012 - VNC & Mounted Shares
What over a month since my last blog? Where did the time go? Well .. 2 weeks working in Edinburgh, 1 week in Paris (Disney land not work) and 1 week lost in data centres ... mmmm .... need portable Pi that's what we need.

Job "1" get the the latest Wheezy-Rasbian build loaded and updated "check" ... wow big improvement guys very happy with that! Enabled SSH from the raspi-config (starts up on first boot or sudo it from the CLI any time) and the resizing of the card (8GB) was so quick I had to check it had done it!

ok so that's comand line headless sorted out but it would be nice to get the GUI up as well so time to load up VNC server. Now I could pretend that my Linux Voodoo is strong and cut an paste the commands in here but that would be hiding the truth that my Google Voodoo is stronger, head over too:

http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server

What I will do is now do a step by step install using their instructions and report back :-) .... yup all works fine!

Time for that old chestnut network browsing, does not work "out of the box" from the file manager but I want to "mount" my shares anyway as VLC does not like SMB or CIFS to stream movies etc.

first I had to create directory as a mount point /home/pi/ServerVIDEO then edit /etc/fstab to mount the share

//192.168.1.9/VIDEO /home/pi/ServerVIDEO cifs username=fred,password=derf 0 0

As per my previous Debian blog I am still getting network errors on boot up but it does work, and life is still to short to fix things that are working but if anyone does have any ideas because I don't like to see errors :-) here is the error produced during startup.

[Configuring network interfaces ...[ 19.594717] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation [ 19.612283] CIFS VFS: cisfs_mount failed w/return code = -101 mount error (101): Network is unreachable

But for all its whining it works fine, is it a case of trying to start up the mounting process before the network has finished setting up? If so that's a bit daft but something thats driven me crackers with windows for year ... why waste time starting up all that crap when there is no network ... ahhh ... ahem I digress.

Next sudo apt-get install vlc so I can play my mp4 videos from my Samsung Note stored on the server .... moment of truth .... browse to share on server ... right click on file select vlc ... few moments wait ... app starts and still of video appears ... but it does not play :-( bummer! Play time over back to work, this will have to wait to another day!


Friday 31st August 2012 - Audio & WiFi

3 weeks between blog entries is not going to get me on the hall of fame is it, ah well, not been totally idle though .. just working up in Edinburgh and my Pi is in London, now have ssh and vnc working nicely thank you even on my Samsung Note :-) over 3G!

Time to finally tackle some of the niggles, sound and WiFi!

Sound, off to edit the modules file sudo nano /etc/modules

in my file the sound module appeared to be already loaded so I just added the to set the mixer output to HDMI

snd_bcm2835
amixer cset numid=3 2


One other thing often mentioned is to force the HDMI output to include sound so the config file needs an edit .. sudo nano /boot/config.txt

hdmi_drive=2



.... now to find a TV with working sound, should have thought of that first ha ha!

Meanwhile lets play WiFi, from what I have read the little nano adaptors with the rtl8188 chip set seem to be the best bet so I got myself a Edimax EW-7811Un off Amazon for £10. Some bloke has obviously done a shed load of work on this but it does pay to read the instructions first as I did was some time dicking about but to summarise, make sure you have the Pi wired into the internet, unplug your nano dongle then from the cli:

sudo wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80256631/ins...8cus-latest.sh -O /boot/install-rtl8188cus-latest.sh
This installs the file in the /boot directory ready to run then:

sudo /boot/install-rtl8188cus-latest.sh
The script then runs, tells when to plug in your dongle, asks questions about your SSID etc ... then in my case, could not find my Virgin Media hub and bombed out .... sigh .. get back to you when I fix it!

Monday 3rd September 2012 - WiFi Update

Cor this PiWiFi game is a giggle isn't, rather than go into the sea of pain I will just point you to my thread (or the thread I jumped into) on the Pi forum ... http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/vi...165001#p165001 .... I am making progress and when I get a solution I will repost.

Looks like the main sticking point was this bit below:

Check the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent.net.rules. This file can sometimes have invalid entries in it that effectively change the name associated with the wifi adapter and can stop it working. If there are any lines referencing "wlanx" - x=0, 1, etc. edit the file and delete them.

After that I did have to do a sudo apt-get update / upgrade and run the script twice ... eventually it all sorted out, I do suggest reading the entire thread on the Pi forum!

Tada!
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:1f:02:59:12:15
inet addr:192.168.0.111 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:354 errors:0 dropped:373 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:42052 (41.0 KiB) TX bytes:1028 (1.0 KiB)
]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-debian-raspian-wheezy-34939/ Raspberry Pi - Debian Build http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-debian-build-34842/ Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:38:30 GMT *_18th June 2102_* So little time to play :-( had my Pi many weeks! So far had the official Debian distro loaded, config file tweaked to shrink... 18th June 2102

So little time to play :-( had my Pi many weeks!

So far had the official Debian distro loaded, config file tweaked to shrink the screen to fit my HDMI TV's and fstab file modified to mount my music and vidieo SMB shares on the server. Will back date this blog with details of the above later, very lax of me I know.

Sound ... oh joy of joys ... Linux and sound is like a shit sandwich, anyone who knows me knows I am a big Linux fan but the Linux sound system is the worst, most difficult cantankerous piece of poop ever. OK I may be a dumrb ass and its all my fault but at the end of the day audio woes have been my biggest issue with Linux.

So to the Pi .. it apear that the stock image has sound disabled, ok I know we are all in the "beta" game and its all part of the Pi fun :-) here is as far as I have got:

Boot up, log on but do not startx

Download the sound application:
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils


Enable the sound hardware
sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835

Then startx and play a music file to test ... mine crashed using the regular player (name escaped me) and VLC moaned that the sound system was not initialised, excellent!!!!

Apparently all is fixed in the next release which is now available, Wheezy .... off to investigate before wasting time fixing this :-)

What a lucky coincedence, its Wheezy day! See below

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1435

Initial feedback on Wheezy is excellent with a swanky new "raspi-config" that sets up a lot of the initial gotchas like HDMI screen size etc and the config file is now created and pre-populated with rem statements to un-rem to activate various features like overscan etc and even over-clocking (for the brave) but more than that I cant comment as all of a sudden my Pi has become unreliable, locking up, loosing USB and or network after a few minutes on either the previous reliable Squeeze build or the new Wheezy. Final testing was in headless / keyboard / mouse less just network and power ... not using it I kept a continuous ping going to it and it lasted 3 minutes :-( sob what's up with my Pi?

Forum entry at raspi http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/vi...104094#p104094

20th June 2012
Things looked promising this morning and the Pi lasted several hours before crashing, it wasn't doing anything just the GUI up as I had work to do. But Then it crashed and from then on it would last mere minutes especially if I SSH's to it or it could last 15 minutes if I left it alone. In desperation I have under clocked it to 600 to see if that helps :-(


21st June 2012
Yesterday was a bad day, a frustrating day. Sometimes you just have to say f**k it and go to bed and let the Pi cool down. This morning is a new day, reverted back to the older Debian Squeeze SD card (PNY SDHC 4GB .. no class markings) started the pi at 08:00 and was still up at 08:30 so decided it needed a stress test so ran a video over the network from the server, performance was a shocker stop start stutter etc but that was not the point, played 2 movies and finally turned it off at 13:00 as the builder needed the power off. Think we can assume the Pi is fine and the only variables are the distribution in use and the SD card, since no one else is having these issues with Debian Squeezy guess I have to look at the SD card. I did read that some SD card actually do get unreliable when they get warm ... its a theory I guess, so suspect SD card used in Wheezy was a Kingston SDHC 16GB class 4. Off to try another card now.

14:00 Wheezy imaged onto a Lexar Professional 32GB Class 10 card, sudo apt-get update / upgrade and mount the server in fstab (remembering to use cifs and not smbfs doh) install VLC and hey presto the Pi was streaming videos over the LAN again, granted still not watch-able but at least it stayed up all day :-) the Pi is fine .. SD cards need careful scrutiny!

3rd July 2012
Been busy working the past week or so, ergo a bit quiet on the Pi front. Decided to push the speed thing to the max, have put Wheezy on to a SanDisk Extreme Pro 95Mbps (class 10 US1) SD card, loaded and booted ok, completed a sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade with no issues, seems to boot and operate a little quicker.

From a terminal session inside the desktop a sudo shutdown now -r reboots back to the CLI login in 35 seconds, startx brings up the desktop in under 10 seconds, I will compare with the other cards when I get a moment.

To access the file server on my network (old XP box, standard windows shares) I usually add the following to /etc/fstab //192.168.1.9/SHARE /home/pi/ServerSHARE cifs username=fred,password=derf 0 0 But today its not happening, looking at the boot up I can see CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101 and looking around here to be exact (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...ode-101-a.html) I can see that the mount point is occurring before the network is ready, so cut and paste the mount to /etc/rc.local which should start up after the network. Nope same issue ... need to do some work today, will come back to this later.

Thursday 5th July 2012
Looks like the issue is to do with the network starting after the share request is made, solution is to prepend _netdev to the cifs command is fstab which stops the operation until the network has started.

//192.168.1.9/SHARE /home/pi/ServerSHARE cifs _netdev,username=fred,password=derf 0 0

Strangely I get the same errors reported on boot up but when I log in the share works .. mmmmm not going to waste more time fixing something that works ;-)

(Moved all entries relating to Debian Raspian-Wheezy to its own thread ... I do like to be tidy :-) ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-debian-build-34842/ Raspberry Pi - Info on Web http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-info-on-web-34828/ Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:38:14 GMT .... ok there is a lot of noise regarding the Pi at the moment and its not always easy to get information, or remember where it was the next day as... .... ok there is a lot of noise regarding the Pi at the moment and its not always easy to get information, or remember where it was the next day as is the case for me ha ha so this little log is a list of places I have visited about the Pi that I would lime to return to. So much fun to be had and so little time ... not fair is it ;-)

http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/

http://www.raspbmc.com/
10th October 2012 - Moved to near the top as this is a top notch distro for turning a Pi into a serious XBMC media centre ... so good that its now our permanent media device in the living room all controled from the TV remote :-)

http://www.themagpi.com/
Nice online magazine with interesting articles, definitely worth a visit.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Home of Pi & the Pi forum

http://openelec.tv/component/k2/item...erry-pi-part-1
OpenELEC / XBMC ... Think embedded Linux media centre

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/vie...=572369#572369
Two of my favorite Linux topics, Puppy & Pi, as it happens the two were made for each other (Puppy Linux designed to be run from an SD card natively etc) this is the Puppy forum discussion on the subject.

http://www.raspbian.org/
Here is one I have just come across Raspberry Pi + Debian, not had time to test it out yet.

http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Hub
The "Embedded Linux" people have a great WiKi style site with lots of information and onward links.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76363
Puppy is one of my fav distro's for USB booting and lightweight VM's etc and it screams "perfect for Raspberry Pi" with all its lightweightyness and designed to be booted from SD from the ground up approach. When I get home next will definitely be on my "to-do" list! ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-info-on-web-34828/ Raspberry Pi Log - OpenELEC - XBMC - Raspbmc http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-log-openelec-xbmc-raspbmc-34826/ Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:37:32 GMT *_10th October 2012_* Has it been that long since my last entry? Crikey! Have been busy, just lazy on the blog sorry .. after the earlier failure of... 10th October 2012
Has it been that long since my last entry? Crikey! Have been busy, just lazy on the blog sorry .. after the earlier failure of OpenELEC or it being too hard for my pea brain .. I concentrated on other issues. Then I discovered the Raspbmc project ... yes another XBMC affair but ...

http://www.raspbmc.com/

OMG what a polished and professional distro, working media centre in no time with Android remote, Android media streaming (OK it does iPhones too but keep it quiet) and the best bit is the CEC HDMI signal intgration which means the TV remote actually controls the Pi .. was gob smacked! Pi-II is now the impermanent media centre in the living room. This thread is now closed ... for now ;-)

19th June 2012
Well I battled for some days trying to compile OpenELEC and failed miserably, going to park this one for now. Details are in the OpenELEC forum see link above. Going to try out Wheezy next :-)

14th June 2012 update - been chasing this down on the OpenELEC forum and seem to have an answer for the "error 2" condition but seems like to generate a 100MB build consumes more than 10GB of disk space which has killed my VM .... see the relevant thread:
http://openelec.tv/forum/124-raspber...on-blues#37301

13th June 2012

... its a log not a blog .... just my thoughts and notes on this lovely little thing and its quest to get it going :-)

OK so far, and to my shame not mentioned in the log, have got the standard Debian build up and running no problem apart from having to fiddle with the config file to get the screen over-scan sorted on the HDMI output, I also need to fiddle it to force the sound to go out via HDMI to the monitor as it is being reluctant, more on that later :-) One of the many things I would like to do with the Pi is have it as a HTPC box and the OpenELEC XBMC project seems like a good bet:

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?ti...r_Raspberry_Pi

So I followed all their instructions and set the compile off and woke up to this bunch of errors :-(

/home/markyd/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/toolchain/lib/gcc/armv6zk-openelec-linux-gnueabi/4.7.0/../../../../armv6zk-openelec-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: /home/markyd/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/eglibc-2.15-18222/objdir-eglibc/libc.so: hidden symbol `__start___libc_subfreeres' isn't defined
/home/markyd/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/toolchain/lib/gcc/armv6zk-openelec-linux-gnueabi/4.7.0/../../../../armv6zk-openelec-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [/home/markyd/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/eglibc-2.15-18222/objdir-eglibc/libc.so] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/markyd/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/eglibc-2.15-18222/elf'
make[2]: *** [elf/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/markyd/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/eglibc-2.15-18222'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/markyd/OpenELEC.tv/build.OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel/eglibc-2.15-18222/objdir-eglibc'
make: *** [system] Error 2
markyd@Luby:~/OpenELEC.tv$

Will have to consult he who knows (my father in law) to see whats up, but if anyone reading this has any ideas :-) ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/raspberry-pi-log-openelec-xbmc-raspbmc-34826/ Lubuntu 12.04 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/lubuntu-12-04-34807/ Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:19:32 GMT In my never ending quest for the distro that does everything, is easy to use and uses zero resources (going to be a long quest) one distro always... In my never ending quest for the distro that does everything, is easy to use and uses zero resources (going to be a long quest) one distro always comes back time and time again, Lubuntu.

Been giving Lubuntu 12.04 a spin on my media PC (ASUS AT3IONT based) and a Dell D600 both installed ok, main gripe was the need to add "smbfs" so I could access my music and movies on my XP based media server ... and the reason for that is the need to mount these drives in /etc/fstab as VLC does not play movies properly from a SMB share, man you cant make this up! OK movies playing sweet, very nice indeed, gave up trying to get HDMI audio working on the ION motherboard a long time ago, Linux needs to get its audio sorted, over the years it has been the biggest headache. So why oh why is BBC iPlayer so bad? Stuttery, rubish quality not nice. Installed XBMC on both devices and the difference was amazing! After getting the appropriate add on files for iPlayer etc playback quality was lovely but intermittent and XBMC (11 Eden) caused the ION motherboard to lock up and become unresponsive.

.... the quest continues. ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/lubuntu-12-04-34807/ Puppy Log http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/puppy-log-34767/ Thu, 17 May 2012 08:25:05 GMT Been a big fan of Puppy Linux for many years, having a bootable USB stick in your pocket in the IT game is a very handy thing. When I got a new work... Been a big fan of Puppy Linux for many years, having a bootable USB stick in your pocket in the IT game is a very handy thing. When I got a new work laptop (ooooooh!) my Puppy stick broke due to drivers and time for an upgrade. Oh work laptop is a Dell E5420, nothing special but not bad either.

After a bit of a search in the forums someone suggested I try Precise Puppy 5.3 and I was mighty impressed, both the LAN and WI-FI worked, yey! I am not sure how mainstream Precise is as a Puppy distro and the word in Puppy land is "Slacko is the future" so hey ho I took Slako 5.3.3 for a walk ..... mmmmmm nope WI-FI totally not recognised, using the corporate Windows build I checked out the hardware its a DW1530 Wireless-N.

Will re-post in Puppy land and come back if I have the answers. ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/puppy-log-34767/ Fuduntu - Dell D600 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-dell-d600-34629/ Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:33:41 GMT After a mostly favourable installation within VMware it was time to take Fuduntu 2012.1 for a spin on my Linux Donkey Test machine, an old Dell... After a mostly favourable installation within VMware it was time to take Fuduntu 2012.1 for a spin on my Linux Donkey Test machine, an old Dell 1.8Ghz, D600, 2GB RAM and a PATA SSD, yes you read that right took a lot of hunting to find that baby!

The intall was smooth, no issues and up and surfing within 10-15 minutes, the "updates" took forever and the "porgress/how long do I have to wait indicator" did not leave me very well informed, minor gripe but still, as an Ubuntu refugee it was a step backwards I felt.

As all my machines need to be able to keep my 2 year old amused the ability to playback shows from the BBC iPlayer / Cbeebies is essential and on a plus note all the codecs etc seemed to be there to play "Mike the Knight" but the performace was woeful and stuttery and as my 2 year old commented "broken daddy".

Seeing as Fuduntu is touted as the champion of older / low powered hardware (hence it has my vote and will try and work my way through this) it my assumption that something is not right rather than Fuduntu is resouce sapping dog.

I suspect the graphics driver, the Dell has a ATI Radion FireGL 250 or something ... sorry working away from home and this is from memory ... and unlike various 'buntus out there there was no obvious proprietory driver "helper / loader". After about 30 minutes of Googling I did not get very far before my playtime was curtailed and I needed to look after the nipper.

Will keep you posted unless anyone has any bright ideas?

General "gripe" love the concept of Fuduntu and has a great oportunity to revive old laptops stuck in the corner, reuse them, give them away to kids or what ever puts a smile on your face. Most of my friends have an older deader laptop that does not warrent money ... most of their Linux skills are zero ... Fuduntu's easy installer (9/10) is a big plus into me giving them a copy to try out .... but ... but ... not quiet ... so nearly there it squeaks!

MarkyD ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-dell-d600-34629/ Fuduntu Again http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-again-34617/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:37:58 GMT A couple of rants .... 1) I am sure I said I lived in London during the install and shure that means by default I should get a UK keyboard layout?... A couple of rants ....

1) I am sure I said I lived in London during the install and shure that means by default I should get a UK keyboard layout? Not going to rant on to our American friends, us Europeans should contribute more and then make it SOOOOO hard to get a US keyboard ... or default dictionaries to German all the time even after seting to US etc ... that would be fun! Or how about a distro that has all the worlds settings and no US ones at all? Take my hat off to the 'buntu installer gets it right every time if you are net connected during the build very impressive.

2) Gnome KeyRing ... personaly ... I hate it, thats just me .... I also hate the way that getting rid of it is like open heart surgery, what wrong with sayin ... "Excuse me sir would you like the very anoying keyring"? --- easiest method of knobbling it is to delte ~/.gnome2/keyrings/* and use a blank password if prompted. ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-again-34617/ Fuduntu - VirtualMachine http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-virtualmachine-34613/ Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:58:20 GMT I like the idea of testing out a Fedora based distro (after years of nothing but 'buntu based fun) especially one thats light and has a focus for netbooks, but before I load up my trusty EEEPC-901 I need to give it a whirl in VirtualBox currently on V4.1.8, I know, a newer version is out but I get cheesed of upgrading and all my distro's breaking!

Created a standard Fedora container and attached it to the Feduntu ISO and installation was very sweet, considering it was done in the office as a background task and internet attached via 3G. Host laptop is a corporate build Win7 Lenovo R400 with 4GB Ram.

Time to add in Guest Additions always a laugh! Now the purpose of this blog was to do it step by step and paste in the errors I got, but typical, mounted the Guest Additions ISO, autorun kicked in and the script activated perfectly.

This did not happen a couple of days ago, where it moaned about the kernel-devel ... blah blah being missing but very helpfully had a complete cut and paste how to correct it ... sadly the version of kernel-devel requested was not available (was out of date) so what did I do, using the package manager to get the latest kernel-devel and I retried, still failed. Googling did not reveal much but I remembered from previous VirtualBox Guest Addition debarcles that DKMS was needed ... installed that.

At this point things get hazy, remember I am doing this at work with a thousand distractions and not sure if I retested after that but anyway thats all I have done to this build and now works fine. I should in all fairness make a new one, install DKMS, install the lastest kernel-devel and then retry adding Guest Additions. Will update the blog.

So far Fuduntu ticks my box's light, fast and allegidly good on old stuff which I have a lot of. Next step real hardware! ]]> markyd http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/markyd-623869/fuduntu-virtualmachine-34613/