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I have just upgraded the installation
 


apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

and almost everything went well except that xserver-xorg-video-fbturbo can no longer be installed.  It depends on xorg-video-abi-18 which is not available.  This is probably an upstream Debian issue but it does stop X working on the Pandora with this distribution.

Everything else works just as it did before and I am (personally) happy to work using the console alone if need be so this is not critical.  However, it would be good to get X back...  Any suggestions?

Thanks.
 
Just to earmark this for aTc if he bothers to read this thread anymore that the First Launch script fails after clicking "Run"
 
the first run wizard does actually work, but since i've built the last image using the pyra repo instead of my own packages, it ended up using some ancient version that only really shows the welcome screen.

I'll fix that, and see if i can update the pandora stuff a bit.
 
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Thanks aTc for stopping by this thread. Any chance bluetooth and overclocking could work in the next version? Also, I posted this in Pandian Mark3 thread that can this be run in conjunction with SZ like Pandebian? If so, this could be cool as we can have armhf jessie with full PND support.
 
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I wish aTc gives more love to the Pandora with this :)
use pandian mark III it's essentially the same OS.
Does pandian support SGX/pnds/nubs/etc?
Pandian uses hardfloat libraries and as far as I know there is only softfloat SGX driver for the Pandora, so SGX is a no... The rest I'm not sure of as I haven't used pandian. 

As far as I know Linux-Swat's Slackware distribution (SL4P) is the only alternant OS that really put effort in supporting the hardware fully. If you are set on using Debian, Pandebian that runs in a chroot on top of SuperZaxxon is a good choice, I've updated it to Wheezy and have had a generally good experience with it.
 
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I wish aTc gives more love to the Pandora with this :)
use pandian mark III it's essentially the same OS.
Does pandian support SGX/pnds/nubs/etc?
Pandian uses hardfloat libraries and as far as I know there is only softfloat SGX driver for the Pandora, so SGX is a no... The rest I'm not sure of as I haven't used pandian. 

As far as I know Linux-Swat's Slackware distribution (SL4P) is the only alternant OS that really put effort in supporting the hardware fully. If you are set on using Debian, Pandebian that runs in a chroot on top of SuperZaxxon is a good choice, I've updated it to Wheezy and have had a generally good experience with it.
Well, it wasn't my question but I can't run PanDebian. It says, "Remove your SD Card and then put it again, press ok to continue. If it doesn't work, reboot." I tried everything, but it doesn't work.
 
I wish aTc gives more love to the Pandora with this :)
use pandian mark III it's essentially the same OS.
Does pandian support SGX/pnds/nubs/etc?
Pandian uses hardfloat libraries and as far as I know there is only softfloat SGX driver for the Pandora, so SGX is a no... The rest I'm not sure of as I haven't used pandian. As far as I know Linux-Swat's Slackware distribution (SL4P) is the only alternant OS that really put effort in supporting the hardware fully. If you are set on using Debian, Pandebian that runs in a chroot on top of SuperZaxxon is a good choice, I've updated it to Wheezy and have had a generally good experience with it.
Well, it wasn't my question but I can't run PanDebian. It says, "Remove your SD Card and then put it again, press ok to continue. If it doesn't work, reboot." I tried everything, but it doesn't work.
Hmm never encountered that issue.
 
I managed to fix my problem by basically doing a loopback file, but it now says "Failed to create /var/run". Please help me this is my 24th attempt to install this, never succeed.
 
I managed to fix my problem by basically doing a loopback file, but it now says "Failed to create /var/run". Please help me this is my 24th attempt to install this, never succeed.

did you try to install wheezy initially?  I remember having issues with that... if so, try installing squeeze and doing an apt upgrade to wheezy, I'm not sure if jessie would work seeing how init systems are totally different: 

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy 
 
I managed to fix my problem by basically doing a loopback file, but it now says "Failed to create /var/run". Please help me this is my 24th attempt to install this, never succeed.

did you try to install wheezy initially?  I remember having issues with that... if so, try installing squeeze and doing an apt upgrade to wheezy, I'm not sure if jessie would work seeing how init systems are totally different: 

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy 
Ok, I will try that tomorrow. In fact, I couldn't find jessie in the list so I will install squeeze and then do an apt-get upgrade... Thanks!
 
I managed to fix my problem by basically doing a loopback file, but it now says "Failed to create /var/run". Please help me this is my 24th attempt to install this, never succeed.

did you try to install wheezy initially?  I remember having issues with that... if so, try installing squeeze and doing an apt upgrade to wheezy, I'm not sure if jessie would work seeing how init systems are totally different: 

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy 
Isn't able to download squeezy :(  It is just able to download 8-9 packages and others fail to download (btw its not about my connection, I am able to download wheezy, but it doesn't work (it always says "failed to create /var/run"))
Can you please help me :D  (sorry for disturbing everyone)
 
Wifi is just as bad on mine as it is in the normal OS.. in fact, it's worse if i don't run "iwconfig wlan0 power off" first.

It also doesn't set the cpu speed, so it's left at the default speed, which is probably slower than what's normally used.

No nubs in there either, so you'll have to set them up manually : http://pandorawiki.org/Nubs#section_2

A pandora specific repo (or pandora specific packages) is an option, but not really a high priority for me at the moment.

Hello, the link given to download the nub firmware here is no longer working.  How can I get the nubs and touchscreen to work?  I'm using the latest Pyra image from ED's first post.
 
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