01-26-2019, 11:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-26-2019, 12:54 PM by Brian Beuken.)
Returning to this after a few months as promised. FriendlyElec don't list any new graphical version of a Linux, so its still up to use to find one, Ubuntu is no longer listed so it looks like they dropped that. Armbian is now available so I will probably try that if this fails...
I updated and upgraded the Friendly Core, and installed Xorg and openbox to hopefully give me an X11 window. Which previous attempts failed to do..
It is painfully slow to update though, which suggests maybe some issues with cpu speed, since the bulk of the updates are unpacking things this does go faster on a fast cpu....hmm we'll see, its also fair to say a slow SD card can delay an update by quite some amount and one or 2 of my SD's were bought on ebay for little cash, so perhaps.
Everything compiles and sends but it still can't make a window and the xhost+ option also fails so...onto Armbian.
I updated and upgraded the Friendly Core, and installed Xorg and openbox to hopefully give me an X11 window. Which previous attempts failed to do..
It is painfully slow to update though, which suggests maybe some issues with cpu speed, since the bulk of the updates are unpacking things this does go faster on a fast cpu....hmm we'll see, its also fair to say a slow SD card can delay an update by quite some amount and one or 2 of my SD's were bought on ebay for little cash, so perhaps.
Everything compiles and sends but it still can't make a window and the xhost+ option also fails so...onto Armbian.
Brian Beuken
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's