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Unfortunately this will have to wait until I get my N900 back, but I hope I can check out QtonPi today.

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I just booted QtonPi image. Everything seems ok but my QtCreator installation is probably too old for Qt5, because I get a ton of "skipping incompatible" errors.

UPDATE: After updating qtcreator and

sudo apt-get install libmpc2:i386

on my Precice x64, hello compiles but fails to run because tar is not installed on the pi.

I was expecting a full develop-on-device image with X and QtCreator and one click to run hello world, but I understand this is not the case.
My only proposal taking into consideration the nature of the image as a target only is that it should be a less-step procedure for installation.

For example tar should be installed by default on the pi, and networking should be already enabled. I will play a bit with it and report back.

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Hi, thank you for testing!

I asked my colleague Rajiv about your points and here is his answer. Note that you can find the QtonPi devs and contributors at the [QtonPi] mailing list, where questions get answered pretty fast. Thanks!


Known issue. See,

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTONPI-11

We'll fix it in QtonPi 0.3

Yes, that's the end goal. Hopefully once we open up the build tools and some of the packages, it'll be much easier to accept contributions and we can get there before Qt5 launch.

We don't need tar to be on the device to run the "hello world" program, as we scp the files over. There are two ways of getting tar on the image.

1. Do a "sudo yum install tar" on the device (or)
2. Build yourself a custom sysroot/device image as documented here,

http://qt-project.org/wiki/Contribut...b6a2730e3ffdae

(Btw, the wiki migration has messed up a few things. I'll also take
a look at it)

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Thank you very much for the detailed reply. It seems that QtCreator scp's the files tarred and tries to untar on the device. After I installed tar everything worked nicely. (Except my MS mouse that malfunctioned and I thought it would fry my Rpi) The question here is does it use X or wayland to display the graphics? Or some other non-standard method (android style)?

Anyway I liked the whole idea very much.

Another thing, is that there is an entry in the debian rpi image sources.list that says something about QtonPi. Does that include qtcreator or only qt binaries?

Sorry for the waterfall of questions, I can ask them over at the mailing list if that is better.

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Currently eglfs, but the QtonPi developers are trying to get Wayland instead.


Huh? The Debian image also contains Qt 5 modules, contributed by the same QtonPi developers and coming from the same place. You know, these guys are in a mission to get Qt 5 in any stack running cool hardware with good graphics performance.

Thank you for your interest! I helped twice here, if you keep liking QtonPi you are welcome meeting the devs directly there. :)

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Yeah, I didn't phrase the question in legible english as I see now... The question is whether I can install QtCreator on the debian pi image, but I guess I can try that out tomorrow I will get my hands again on the Pi (don't have hdmi screen at home)

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@qwazix
As a mean of preparation before having Your N900 back, You can try to use advices from HDMI on N900 thread, to "stream" any linuxbox to HDMI screen with Pi as middleman. It should make preparing same setup for N900 (as whole) and EasyDebian much faster, due to experience gained.

/Estel

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The ignorant engadget editor claims that "finding compatible desktop apps for the Linux desktop is an exercise in futility". Last time I checked, debian had 29000 packages...

Why do they let them publish such crap?

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YAY! My Pi arrived today :)

Currently at work though so can't power this bad boy up before tonight.

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Same here - I got info about courier with foreign package, during my train travel :)

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If there is anyone in the UK wanting to attend a meet for the R-Pi, there is a Raspberry Pi jam happening in nottingham...

http://nottinghack.org.uk/?p=1285

I know it may be too far for some to travel but for any midlanders on the boards, it would be awesome to see some TMO users there. Maybe if we could get the HDMI out working we could show it off too? :)

As for my attempts at HDMI, I will update the other thread. So far i have not had much success :(

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Got my Pi a couple of days ago - whaoo!

I was wondering what the chances were of using an old N900 screen as a display for the Pi? Would it be even feasable driving it from the Pi's HDMI port?

And then, would it be possible to use the touchscreen as well?

I've got a soldering iron... But pretty bad electronics knowledge!

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Umm, does Pi have wi-fi?

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No, but it has 2 x USB so you can use a WiFi dongle

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

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Oh ya, with what driver?

there is one out there with wi-fi for slightly more, i would want that one. VIA APC doesnt have it, that other chinese one for $74 has it, but i dont know.

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The appropriate driver for the WiFi dongle you choose?!

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My Pi's are waiting for me too (I got 2 of them, after all, lol - one from Farnel, and another one from this 2nd partner-company, forgot name).

As for N900 screen, no chances - such screen require own (proprietary, closed) "driver" hardware on board. Same apply for all notebooks (some were reverse-engineered, but it's rather about old, big models).

/Estel

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Cool - thanks for the info... I'll put my soldering iron away for now :)

I thought it was a long shot...

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Model B now ships with 512MB of RAM!!!!

Quoted from the R-Pi boards

Posted on October 15, 2012 by eben

One of the most common suggestions we’ve heard since launch is that we should produce a more expensive “Model C” version of Raspberry Pi with extra RAM. This would be useful for people who want to use the Pi as a general-purpose computer, with multiple large applications running concurrently, and would enable some interesting embedded use cases (particularly using Java) which are slightly too heavyweight to fit comfortably in 256MB.

The downside of this suggestion for us is that we’re very attached to $35 as our highest price point. With this in mind, we’re pleased to announce that from today all Model B Raspberry Pis will ship with 512MB of RAM as standard. If you have an outstanding order with either distributor, you will receive the upgraded device in place of the 256MB version you ordered. Units should start arriving in customers’ hands today, and we will be making a firmware upgrade available in the next couple of days to enable access to the additional memory.

I’d like to thank our partners, RS Components and element14/Premier Farnell, and the suppliers, particularly Samsung, Sony and Broadcom, for all their help in delivering a smooth transition to the 512MB. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all get up to with your shiny new Pis.

I will have to get myself another one :)

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I'll wait it became w/ one extra GB :-)

--
http://rzr.online.fr/q/armv6

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Looks like we were quite lucky with our local (Czech Republic) group order being delayed. :)

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Now this is interesting, there is the first mobile Raspberry Pi with build and parts list...


http://blog.parts-people.com/wp-cont...pi-togo-06.jpg

http://blog.parts-people.com/2012/12...ble-rpi-to-go/

Well done that man!


On a slightly different note, Minecraft Pi is coming along nicely. I may have to revisit the old n900 MC thread upon its release.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2872

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wondering if you are still using rpi ? and what for ?

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yep. Right now for a backup server and I plan to use ny second one as a PBX

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I'm planing to build an Amiga floppy drive emulator with my rpi.

I wanna get all my disks onto a CF card before my 25+year old disks stop working due to age...

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RPi is awesome! :)

I bought mine about one year ago from Farnell UK.
Now I'm using it as kippo SSH honeypot (thinking about making some app / widget with stats & control for Maemo) & small home server.

Nowadays I'm about to get my hands on second one, which is going to be used as base of my (Open)EEG project.

There are so many things you can do with RPi! Just select one, and start.
(In best case, integrate it somehow with Fremantle & N/eo900).

#lexik

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forgot I have one :P

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Something similar (for SD) here http://amigadrive.blogspot.com... :)

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I have three Pi's, using one as owncloud server and one as a htpc with openelec and tvheadend. And for the third i have not decided what to do maybe this http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5321

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I have 2 pi's and no time to make anything with them :(

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I have one of the original PIs so time to get the new version with more memory and then find a less demanding role for the old one)

Richard

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Ive got 1 pi and I don't know what to build with it :P