The Official RaspberryPi Thread

bekdik said:
What speed did you overclock to?

I'm running at 850 without any problems, but I'm not viewing movies.
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I've got the following now on OpenELEC
arm_freq=865
gpu_freq=380
sdram_freq=400
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It works well for playing my movies :) Seems stable.

I can't get my sdram to overclock though. Causes freezes the whole time
 
froot said:
That screen will have to be powered by a USB source other than your Pi.
The memory card you have there is a decent one.
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The onboard USB ports are designed for USB devices using one "unit load" (100 mA) of current. Devices using more than 100 mA are incompatible with the Raspberry Pi, and for them a self-powered USB hub is required.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Read this thread and take note of the 1 ohm resistors across the polyfuses.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/v...id=ddf7815f560af2e2a1ed65ef207f1f81&start=125
 
Raspbian-based SD card image released

We are pleased to announce the release of our first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution. This is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by Alex and Dom over the past couple of months, and replaces the existing Debian squeeze image as our recommended install. Notably, it is the first official image to take full advantage of the Raspberry Pi’s floating point hardware for, amongst other things, much faster web browsing.

Users who are still using Debian squeeze will definitely want to switch to this, as it contains numerous tweaks and performance improvements to the firmware, kernel and applications. Those who are using the recent Debian wheezy beta will also see a very worthwhile, but somewhat smaller, improvement.

Among many others, we would particularly like to thank:

Mike Thompson and Peter Green from the Raspbian project
Simon Hall for his optimised ARMv6 memcpy() and memset() implementations
Everyone who has contributed to the Raspbian project so far

Special thanks to Edgar (gimli) Hucek, whose omxplayer accelerated media player is preinstalled in this image, and Sergio Conde for his work on packaging it for distribution.

Those interested in the remarkable history of the Raspbian project might like to take a look at this brief timeline. Adam Armstrong has done some benchmarking which demonstrates the benefits of hardware floating point across a range of applications.

As always, the image is available from our downloads page.
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Source
 
Pakka said:
I've got the following now on OpenELEC


It works well for playing my movies :) Seems stable.

I can't get my sdram to overclock though. Causes freezes the whole time
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Just a quick question, where must I put the config file that contains the above info when using Openelec, I know for the Debian release it is under /boot
 
qc_fs said:
Just a quick question, where must I put the config file that contains the above info when using Openelec, I know for the Debian release it is under /boot
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You put it on the small partition created by OpenElec where the kernel and bootload is too. By default there won't be a config.txt, so just create one there and only inster the thing you'd like to change.
 
Pakka said:
You put it on the small partition created by OpenElec where the kernel and bootload is too. By default there won't be a config.txt, so just create one there and only inster the thing you'd like to change.
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Thanks, will give it a go tonight, not really in the mood to increase the voltage settings yet.
 
Happy to report Raspbian is a little gem of a image. Got it all up and running, now I'm using lftp and some scripts to automatically sync between my seedbox & my NAS.
 
Much to my surprise and relief, I discovered that I could power my Raspberry Pi through my TV's USB port. It gives enough power for the Pi and the USB Wi-Fi dongle I have on it. Only briefly tested it, but it streamed SD contect from my OpenELEC server without issues, and the little bit of HD content I tried didn't stutter, so that's encouraging.

The advantage of having it powered through the TV, is that it the Raspberry Pi powers off when I switch the TV off.
 
BrokenRSA said:
Much to my surprise and relief, I discovered that I could power my Raspberry Pi through my TV's USB port. It gives enough power for the Pi and the USB Wi-Fi dongle I have on it. Only briefly tested it, but it streamed SD contect from my OpenELEC server without issues, and the little bit of HD content I tried didn't stutter, so that's encouraging.

The advantage of having it powered through the TV, is that it the Raspberry Pi powers off when I switch the TV off.
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Nice one!
 
BrokenRSA said:
Much to my surprise and relief, I discovered that I could power my Raspberry Pi through my TV's USB port. It gives enough power for the Pi and the USB Wi-Fi dongle I have on it. Only briefly tested it, but it streamed SD contect from my OpenELEC server without issues, and the little bit of HD content I tried didn't stutter, so that's encouraging.

The advantage of having it powered through the TV, is that it the Raspberry Pi powers off when I switch the TV off.
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If your TV isn't wall mounted you should look at making a plate to screw into the back plate.
 
BrokenRSA said:
I bought this Wi-Fi dongle, and it works fine in OpenELEC. www.takealot.com/electronics/networking/trendnet-150mbps-mini-wireless-n-usb-adapter,9303453

Haven't tried RaspBMC yet, but I think you might need to install the drivers there to get it working currently, RC4 should have the drivers in by default.

I'll definitely look at ways of getting it mounted behind the TV once I've get everything nicely sorted out and working.
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It looks like a sweet little dongle.

Unfortunately the "n" will be useless for me seeing that if I push my router to g/n mode, my cellphone won't connect anymore.
 
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