Download Pyra Debian OS (WIP)

[Grench]

In relation to @EvilDragon recently showing 7 assembled prototypes and noting that he did not have a recent OS image to boot them, would it be possible to get an update on the status of the OS?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Pyra-specific user-space scripts need to be written.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Please provide instructions on how to install pyra Debian Stretch on Pandora.

 

[TrashyMG]

Please provide instructions on how to install pyra Debian Stretch on Pandora.

4th post in this thread, aTc gives some directions. While it does work it's not really optimized to work on the Pandora. Also never tested the current Stretch release on the Pandora, but it should work.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

4th post in this thread, aTc gives some directions. While it does work it's not really optimized to work on the Pandora. Also never tested the current Stretch release on the Pandora, but it should work.

So if I extract the "http://next.openpandora.org/pyra-rootfs-pnd.tgz" on top of the Pyra latest Debian Stretch image, it will work?

 

[TrashyMG]

@Shenmue, yeah from what I remember yes.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

For me the touchscreen didn't work at all though, nor nubs. So it's a bit hard to use.

 

[TrashyMG]

For me the touchscreen didn't work at all though, nor nubs. So it's a bit hard to use.

Nubs should work, but you need to manually run a command to enable them in the right mode. Also the keymap is likely wrong too, think I had to migrate the xmodmap from the Pandora.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Yeah I did have to do that too, with the xmodmap.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

@Silent-Hunter

echo mouse > /proc/pandora/nub0/mode
echo mbuttons > /proc/pandora/nub1/mode

Should work

I'll give it a try tonight.

I was able to upgrade Pandebian all the way to Stretch though, and it works well with Zaxxon

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

When I executed "modprobe ads7846" to activate touchscreen, I got this error:

What does it mean and how to get touchscreen to work?

 

[AndiTheBest]

So, how did you get it working?

on my computer i used these commands to copy the files on the ext2-formatted SD:
sudo tar -xf pyra-debian-stretch-mate-rootfs.tgz -C /media/andi/df8514a1-a483-44f2-8225-969fb36b80a6/
sudo tar -xf pyra-rootfs-pnd.tgz -C /media/andi/df8514a1-a483-44f2-8225-969fb36b80a6/
sync

But after initial boot to setup username/password/timezone/... i just get this on the next boot:

 

[KidPaddle]

I got an error updating my pyra image:

Err http://packages.pyra-handheld.com jessie-pyra/main armhf Packages
404 Not Found

Must i switch to "stretch" before?

Thomas

 

[KidPaddle]

Ok, i have installed new rootfs and new kernel but i got some problems.

TI OMAP5432 EVM, boot from sdcard with boot menue

I have a ssd hardisk with two partitions
/dev/sda1 contains older jessie pyra root fs
/dev/sda2 contains stretch root fs (from 2017-10-08)

Two Kernels available:
a) 4.6.0-letux-pyra+
b) 4.10.17-letux-zmatt-pyra

Booting with a) into jessie pyra root (sda1) works and network, hdmi and usb is fine
Boot menu:
menu label Debian GNU/Linux on Harddisk 800x480, kernel 4.6.0-letux-pyra+, SDA1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.6.0-letux-pyra+
append root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyO2,115200n8 rw rootwait earlyprintk fixrtc omapdrm.num_crtc=2 consoleblank=0 vram=12M omapfb.vram=0:8M,1:4M omapdss.def_disp=hdmi
fdtdir /usr/lib/linux-image-4.6.0-letux-pyra+
initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.6.0-letux-pyra+

Booting with b) works (sda1 or sda2), but no network, no hdmi output, no usb devices found
Boot menu:
menu label Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 4.10.17-letux-zmatt-pyra, SDA1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.17-letux-zmatt-pyra
append root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyO2,115200n8 rw rootwait earlyprintk fixrtc omapdrm.num_crtc=2 consoleblank=0 vram=12M omapfb.vram=0:8M,1:4M omapdss.def_disp=hdmi
fdtdir /usr/lib/linux-image-4.10.17-letux-zmatt-pyra
initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.10.17-letux-zmatt-pyra

Both file system contains
/usr/lib/linux-image-4.6.0-letux-pyra+
/usr/lib/linux-image-4.10.17-letux-zmatt-pyra

What have i to check?

Thomas

 

[klapse]

There is 'apulse' wrapper for alsa which gives a PA sink for programs that need it.

Also palemoon doesn't need PA.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Booting with b) works (sda1 or sda2), but no network, no hdmi output, no usb devices found
What have i to check?

Looks like missing modules.
Type lsusb, and check /lib/modules folder.

 

[Letalis Sonus]

Now that Firefox requires PulseAudio

ALSA miraculously started working again with FF. It's probably still deactivated at compile time by default, though - Arch explicitly enables ALSA support for their FF packages so it 'just works' for me. I just hope that the audio framework was not part of the big overhaul that comes with version 57... (Edit: Nope, ALSA is still working with FF 57 - still one hell of an awful update, though)

There is 'apulse' wrapper for alsa which gives a PA sink for programs that need it.

apulse is very specific and works only with a certain collection of applications, it was not developed to be an universal translation layer. When the time came that Mozilla kicked out the ALSA support entirely its Firefox compatibility was already broken again.

 

[ible]

i'm curious if it's possible for the pyra to do a debian rolling release based on testing by setting the source lists to "testing" instead of "stretch". or are there some pyra-specific things that are specific to stretch?

if it is possible, is it recommended? i'm completely new to debian, though i've been using it implicitly for a while (via ubuntu). i'm considering installing it as a rolling release on an old laptop for testing purposes.

 

[sebt3]

Technically, changing from strech to "testing" or even to "unstable/sid" is completly doable. You'll just need to pin down a few package that come from here (like fbturbo).

You might face issues with dbps though as they will be only tested on strech (even if, most of the time you'll be able to fix the problem with a symlink)

 

[ible]

neat, writing from my "rolling debian testing" laptop now. i just changed "buster" to "testing" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list, even though it says to remove the security lines at this site:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
i.e., i kept lines like this in:

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-free

and these appear to be valid distributions at the http://security.debian.org/debian-security site. this site had them kept in:
http://www.binarytides.com/enable-testing-repo-debian/
that one also explains how to pin repositories, so i'll use that for the pyra specific stuff. thanks!