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[HelenF]

I'd like to see the Pyra OS officially supported on the Pandora, for the best compatibility with Pyra software. Also, the better it works on Pandora, the more testing it'll get before the Pyra is released.

Pandian has just come out with a Jessie version and looks like it's in better shape at the moment, for people wanting one to use on the Pandora right now.

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17950-pandian-mark3-beta//URL]

 

[eric]

It was a direct response to the prior post. Especially when using my phone i don't feel the need to quote everything.

Thanks for the clarification and sorry for the noise!

 

[TrashyMG]

I'd like to see the Pyra OS officially supported on the Pandora, for the best compatibility with Pyra software. Also, the better it works on Pandora, the more testing it'll get before the Pyra is released.


Pandian has just come out with a Jessie version and looks like it's in better shape at the moment, for people wanting one to use on the Pandora right now.

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17950-pandian-mark3-beta//URL]

While the Pyra OS is using Jessie as well and can run on the Pandora, I don't think aTc is planning to put much work into bettering the Pandora experience with it. So Pandian is most likely the better choice, you can always link to the Pyra specific repository to install the DBP system if need be. Both Pandian and Pyra OS on the Pandora could be used to build software for the Pyra, try out slashjag's DBP system and such.

 

[eric]

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.

 

[Wally]

Just to earmark this for aTc if he bothers to read this thread anymore that the First Launch script fails after clicking "Run"

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

I wish aTc gives more love to the Pandora with this

 

[Wally]

It's near impossible as the Pandora doesn't have enough NAND space to even begin

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Running on SD card is OK.

 

[TrashyMG]

I wish aTc gives more love to the Pandora with this

use pandian mark III it's essentially the same OS.

 

[aTc]

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.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

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.

 

[Swordfish II]

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? Or is that pandebian? Or am I going crazy?

 

[TrashyMG]

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.

 

[Alperoot]

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.

 

[TrashyMG]

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.

 

[Swordfish II]

I'll have to give SL4P a whirl then.  Never used slackware before

 

[Alperoot]

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.

 

[TrashyMG]

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 

 

[Alperoot]

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!

 

[Alperoot]

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  (sorry for disturbing everyone)