[Rebirth Competition] Slackware for Pandora 13.37 release thread.

[Linux-SWAT]

Weird :/


Will check that.


Thx for reporting.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Did you pushed up when you created your account ?


Anyway, check /etc/group to see if your username is in plugdev, power audio, etc. groups.

 

[gruso]

I don't remember anything about pushing up when creating the account - remind me what that is again?


I just logged in as root and checked /etc/group. My regular user (gruso) is nowhere to be seen. Is that weird?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Yup, you missed something.


After having entered the root password, you're prompted to create an user account.


This is what you can read:

"#############################################################################"


"Now, you can create an user with adduser."


"At some explicit point, push [up] to put this user in adequate groups."


"#############################################################################"

So you enter the login name, push enter maybe once or twice to get a default user ID number and default group, and then:

Press ENTER to continue without adding any additional groups


Or press the UP arrow key to add/select/edit additional groups

When pushing up, it automatically selects "audio cdrom floppy plugdev video power netdev" groups to put you in.


So here's what you can do now:


Be root using su.


Edit /etc/group with any editor.


Add your username in all groups above.


Save ^^ (hey ! you said you're a rookie)


quit the Xfce session


logout


login


Et voilà ! :^)


---Edit: I will now display the "up" in red.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

As promised in another thread, here's the distcc compilation.


I connect two OP with an USB cable, shut down the network manager, manually enter IP adress on usb0, and usb1 for the other unit.


Then i launch the distccd server, and compile a kernel this way:

export DISTCC_HOSTS="localhost 22.2.2.1"

22.2.2.1 is the "slave" unit.

make -j4 CC=distcc  uImage

make -j4 CC=distcc  modules

I went in the bus, with 2 OP in my pockets, listening music ^^. I use nice to lower the priority so i can use the OPs like there's nothing running on it.


Also one OP charge the other. The current drain is huge. There's probably a way to manually stop this.

 

[milkshake]

wow thats quite cool

 

[Darkknight512]

I'm sure there is a software way to change the current draw of the Pandora, but as a hackish way maybe try just cutting the 5 volt line? Maybe that will work.

 

[Binky]

I'm sure there is a software way to change the current draw of the Pandora, but as a hackish way maybe try just cutting the 5 volt line? Maybe that will work.

I suggest removing the battery cover and shaking your Pandora a bit before use - works a treat*


*I take no responsibility for the state of your battery/anything else after this procedure

 

[Darkknight512]

I'm sure there is a software way to change the current draw of the Pandora, but as a hackish way maybe try just cutting the 5 volt line? Maybe that will work.

I suggest removing the battery cover and shaking your Pandora a bit before use - works a treat*


*I take no responsibility for the state of your battery/anything else after this procedure

Cutting the 5 volt line should work though, if you get rid of the 5 volt connection between the Pandora's it won't charge but the data lines will be intact.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

I prefer diplomatic solutions.

 

[gruso]

I prefer diplomatic solutions.

Impressive stuff.


I've got some time again today so I'll fix up my user issues. I do remember seeing that stuff now, but I thought it was just some advanced option that I didn't have to worry about, heh. Thanks for the fix instructions.

 

[Darkknight512]

Finally found some time to move everything off my main SD card and format it so I can give this a test.


Whats a good size of a pure OS partition if I don't plan on putting anything else on the partition but a few packages. is 6 GB good?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

6G is ok.


13.37 is slimmed down so it may fit in 4G but i didn't test.


I could have removed /usr/docs, but i preferred a full OS.


-current is bigger, maybe 4.1G.

 

[ibisum]

Nice work! I look forward to setting up a compiler-farm with my next set of Pandoras ..

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Hope you'll reach some peta-flops ^^.


I realized the external wifi support i announced was not covering the realtek family dongles, including the 8192. Firmware were missing.


I grabbed and tested them: it works now.


They will be included in the next releases and i may provide a small patch soon.

 

[notaz]

Also one OP charge the other. The current drain is huge. There's probably a way to manually stop this.

echo 0 > /sys/class/power_supply/twl4030_usb/enable

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Do i have to type it on the charger, or the charged ?

 

[notaz]

The later, there is no wait to turn off VBUS on host right now.

 

[_David_]

Hi Linux Swat,


would it run webmin ?


about gnome ?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

The later, there is no wait to turn off VBUS on host right now.

Ok, thanks for the tip.

Hi Linux Swat,


would it run webmin ?


about gnome ?

I just compiled webmin under -current. Didn't tested but it should work.


Gnome... well i don't know and i think it's useless. For OP, Xfce is a better desktop and i already shipped most gnome libraries.


Anyway, there's probably some ways to install it and consume all the ram ^^.