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Sylvander · Posted: Tue 28 Mar 2017, 07:41 Post subject:

@Sage

1. "Insufficient power?"
Perhaps.
Remember, the RPi2 works just fine, except there is no power LED displaying.
I'm using a power unit [5-volt-DC, 1.3-amp] identical to the one for my wife's mobile phone [Nokia Lumia 610 methinks].
I see no obvious signs of inadequate power to the RPi2.
I have an 10-port multi-USB power hub somewhere [Trust 5-volt-DC, 2.0-amp].
RPi needed power supply
Is my Nokia 1.3A power unit ok?

2. "Incorrect USB connection/hub design?"
I very much doubt it.

3. "SD card not pushed home?"
I always make sure it's properly pushed home.
Got it wrong once [the mmc was in at the correct orifice, but angled toward the outer casing; might this have done irreversible damage?], and removed and re-inserted to make sure it was properly located and all the way home [the little ridge on the end of the mmc is located between the internal cover/hood and the outer edge].

4. "Try powering it from pins 4 & 6 on the GPIO with an independent old AT or ATX PSU..."
Eh, what? Confused

I wonder if I even know what that means.
I don't have any spare PSU's about.
Aren't they HUGE?
I fitted a replacement one once to an old PC.

5. "Disconnect your USB hub - only USB2/3 ones work and if you try to power them (not necessary with RPi2) you can get conflicts."
The hub [not yet used for RPi2] is USB-2.0 and 1.1.
Not sure what the Lumia power unit is [USB 2.0?]
See: Genuine Nokia AC_50X (1.3AMP) USB Mains Charger Wall Adapter

6. "There are plenty more possible issues including you've blown it, blown a fuse, bad cable, you-name-it."
I very much doubt all of these, except as in 3 above.
Everything is NEW, and appears to work OK [except no power LED display].
Looks like my son fitted it in an old case [doesn't look new]...
Might the case be obscuring the LED?

7. "please be sure to report back when you sort it so that it will help legions of others struggling ..."
Will do.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5432 Location: GB

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5211 Location: Ontario

Green led always blinks when booting.
If it doesn't then the usual reason is a card that doesn't have bootable
fat32 partition. In other words you screwed up the installation.
The board itself could be fine. Let's hope so.

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Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5432 Location: GB

amj · Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 71

In January I made a post on page 37 of this thread saying that I'd experimented with installing the new vlc-plugin-qt from the Debian sid repository. I made a fresh installation of QX814 and installed the plugin, not really expecting it to work. Having made the experiment, I put the micro-SD card in a drawer and moved to something else.

Today I retrieved that micro-SD card, popped it into a RPi2 and launched vlc from the console because I wanted to play some music. After a string of warning messages, up popped the QT interface.

I'm not sure why that did not happen when I made the original experiment and equally unsure why it did work today. But I now have an installation of QX814 with a full vlc running. I've made a desktop icon for vlc and when I click it, up pops the familiar vlc QT interface. And it's working.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5211 Location: Ontario

It is possible to make a pet package for vlc-qt by putting all the debian dependency packages
in one folder and running alien2puppy

I wrote a tutorial.

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amj · Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 71

Thanks Don.

For the record, the 11 Debian sid packages I installed were:

libdouble-conversion1_2.0.1-4_armhf.deb
libicu57_57.1-5_armhf.deb
libpng16-16_1.6.27-1_armhf.deb
libqt5core5a_5.7.1+dfsg-2_armhf.deb
libqt5dbus5_5.7.1+dfsg-2_armhf.deb
libqt5gui5_5.7.1+dfsg-2_armhf.deb
libqt5network5_5.7.1+dfsg-2_armhf.deb
libqt5widgets5_5.7.1+dfsg-2_armhf.deb
libqt5x11extras5_5.7.1~20161021-2_armhf.deb
libxcb-xinerama0_1.12-1_armhf.deb
vlc-plugin-qt_2.2.4-12_armhf.deb

I also think a word of warning is appropriate. If you have an existing QX814 installation with QT packages installed, trying to add the vlc-plugin-qt might not be a good idea since the Debian sid packages and any standard Ubuntu QT packages may not be fully compatible.

The plugin may also work on Debian based amd64 versions of Quirky Xerus. I may experiment with the QX815 system I have.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5211 Location: Ontario

Thank for info . If I have time I'll down load those and make the pet package.
Just put the packages in a folder and run script 'alien2puppy'

Mitchellray · Joined: 07 Dec 2009 Posts: 116

Hello,
I downloaded quirky xerus 8.1.4.
Then, unxz --stdout quirky-pi2-sd-8gb-xerus-8.1.4.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M.
Then, the process never terminates.
I type in the terminal (but there is no prompt yet) sync (return).

I kill the process after a long time, and viewing the SDcard, there are two partitions created. Oddly, even though the card is formatted for fat32, and flagged 'boot', a second linux partition shows up with files in it. I reformatted three times to fat32 after deleting all partitions, but same results.

Then, when trying to boot the Raspberry Pi3, it can't launch X.
I try xwin, and I try xorgwizard.

16GB Sandisk extreme brand new
Using Precise Puppy o/s
md5sum for download passes

Error Messages

xwin -> /usr/bin/xwin: line 12: .: /user/bin/gettext.sh: cannot execute binary file starting X, specs in /etc/X11 , startup apps /root/xinitrc....
Exited from X

xorgwizard -> /usr/sbin/xorgwizard: line 91: .: /usr/bin/gettext.sh: cannot execute binary file
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/local/' : too many levels of symbolic links

Thanks.
Mitchellray

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5211 Location: Ontario

Mitchellray · Joined: 07 Dec 2009 Posts: 116

Thanks don570,

I tried it again without the boot flag toggled by gparted.

The same thing occurred where the process of dd to sd card would not terminate, even after over one half of an hour.

I killed the process and put the sd card in the Raspberry Pi3 and this time it booted to desktop and setup dialog box.

I will have to see if any functionality is impaired or if files are missing.
So far, it will at least get online.
Mitchellray

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5211 Location: Ontario

I had the same experience once as well.

The solution was take the card to a Windows machine and use their software to
format it --- I believe I chose fat32

Everything went well after that.
I think the problem was trying to use gparted in linux OS Crying or Very sad

By the way you don't need to mark the partition 'boot'

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amj · Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 71

Mitchellray, reading your description makes me wonder if your original download of the image terminated successfully?

If your download of the image cut out just before the end, attempting to write the incomplete image onto the card might give problems of the sort you describe.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5211 Location: Ontario

The file downloaded correctly so I'm sure that the problem is that gparted is having problems with formatting the card .

I suggest going to windows and formatting as fat32 with

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html

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rameshiyer

Unable to browse certain site in Seamonkey browseer. It says it is not supported. (www.amazon.in, etc.) Also while browsing google.com, I am getting mobile site. I don't know this is because of Internet connection. I am getting internet through mobile hotspot .

Any other browser for raspberry pi3. Quirky Xerus 8.1.4)