Got my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Today, a quick on going review

[ttuuxxx]

I've been wanting one since they first came out and figured wait a bit and let them work the issues out., then the Pi 2 came out with 1GB memory and that was good enough for me , I ordered one as kit, came with a case, heat sinks, power adapter, preloaded sd card and I also purchased a small/tiny usb keyboard.
Plugged it all in and within seconds it was downloading a 3.1GB Raspbian distro, luckily I have lots of room on my monthly plan .
took about 15 mins to download, and booted straight to the desktop.
The taskbar was not visible due to the video display being too large, but hey this is a fullblown debian distro it should have loads of settings that I could easily run a built in GUI and fix the screen resolution quick smart right??? Nothing but the furthest, Even some of Menu listening content was deactivated. They had only the default settings with no options of different screen sizes to choose from, OMG am I ever spoiled using puppy. lol Puppy would have had at least 10+. So I played around with it, my wireless mouse was very jittery. Youtube loaded slowly but the video's played ok, but you the images were blocky. Once again due to using the wrong video settings. The overall speed was fine, but this was only my first hr using it. I shouldn't have to manually edit a config file to work out the screen resolution. Not on a mainstream linux distro, Very disappointing!. But there are Numerous distros I can download and try. Here's some pics.
ttuuxxx

[ally]

I wanted to use my pi as a nas server but had awaful trouble with file permissions so gave it up

would love for puppy to come to the pi again

[rokytnji]

I don't run a PI but am pretty hip on screwed resolutions because of my unsupported savage graphics chip on my IBM T23 laptop that runs Debian Jessie repos.

I guess you already tried messing with

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xrandr

or

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arandr

settings.

example off of my IBM z60m laptop http://i.imgur.com/lbFfNvr.jpg

xrandr -s <supported screen resolution by debian driver shown goes here like 800x600>

Then when happy. I put it my my startup of window manager or desktop environment.
So after login it starts.

Good luck and have fun with it.

[ally]

I seem to remember a config change for the screen border issue

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 52&t=11325

[ttuuxxx]

I wanted to use my pi as a nas server but had awaful trouble with file permissions so gave it up

would love for puppy to come to the pi again

Very Possible, I'm going to look at Barry's past dealings with Pi in the next few days. I did purchase it for a dedicated tv box but I'm always open to options.
ttuuxxx

[Ted Dog]

Great, sudo is for suckers... it is so difficult to just add your own software. Older puppy arm4 still works but showing age and not compiled for chipset, so max performance suffers ( hard to tell actually due to speed and puppylinux small overhead ) If you do make something please check for it to work with BerryBoot there is a thread for arm fatdog that someone was able to change stuff to make it work. I have not tried but will be a willing helper for a puppylinux spin.
The Omxplayer can be copied from your tv box software with the libs to gain same playback, can also run independently as an alpha blend merged with desktop from terminal command line.

[harii4]

Not having anything to burn to SD with - end up buying noob.
Miss rox-filer ended up downloading it but it had all the bloat too - zero installer.
Might have went apt-get happy...…lol
On noob it was tricky to get composite RCA video to work.

[Sky Aisling]

Hi Everybody,
I'm looking for a small footprint desktop box to replace my current system that is ancient.
The machine's use is: email, research, occasional word processing,
watching videos and online movies.

Sounds like a Raspberry Pi 2 B or Zero doesn't produce a lot of smiles for us Puppy users.

Here are some references a friend sent me:

https://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mob ... rry-pi-2-/


http://www.geeks3d.com/20150603/quick-b ... eocore-iv/


https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing- ... b?view=all

Any comments would be appreciated.

[Sky Aisling]

An After Thought

I think I've solved my concern for finding a small foot print box.
My current desktop system consists of the body of a crushed Dell Inspiron 600m laptop that was donated to me.
The screen was stepped on and shattered. I took the monitor panel off and plugged a lovely big monitor to the remaining body panel.
This 'system' in conjunction with Puppy 528.5 has work flawlessly for at least 5 years.
Space in my house is carefully measured. Not much space is required to house the laptop body and it's light enough I can move it around.

So, I'm thinking to locate a new(er) laptop that processes videos and movies faster then remove the monitor panel then use it in the same manner as the old system.

I penciled in the cost of all the accessories that are needed with the Raspberry Pi 2 B and concluded it's not to far off a good used machine that is Puppy ready out of the box.

[starhawk]

Sky, I just now sent you a PM