Adding X Desktop to rpiCore

[fritz3170]

Hey guys,

i tried to install X because it seems not to be integrated in the stock version wich i downloaded
(rpiCore-20121103.img.gz)

searched the forums wich linked me to the wiki page:
hXXp://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:adding_a_desktop_to_microcore

tried out the steps but i think some packages arent compiled yet or some not provided to add
a desktop to the core system on raspberry pi because its arm.

but i found 2 topics in thi raspberry pi forum where bmarkus solved to run a gui.

can someone explain the steps to get X with rpiCore?

Thanks in advance!

fritz3170

[bmarkus]

Work in progress. Wait a bit for extensions.

[phillip.toone]

Hello all.  I just discovered the Raspberry Pi last week and Tiny Core just yesterday.  I am trying to build a device that will take input from two momentary switches through the GPIO and provide graphical results a monitor/TV (among other things).  I was going to use an old computer paired with a PIC Micro or an arduino to accomplish this but the Raspberry Pi looks perfect.  I suppose I could accomplish this with the official Raspbian "wheezy" but Tiny Core seems ideal.  But I am going to want to use something like FLTK or something even lighter to keep this project small, fast and simple.  Any help would be appreciated.

I just got Tiny Core running in terminal on the Raspberry Pi I got in the mail just yesterday.  Now what do I do to get some sort of graphical interface/GUI/X?

[bmarkus]

For those eager to have piCore with X before official release I can offer a private preview using current snapshot. Let me know here or in PM if you want to have it.

[phillip.toone]

Thanks bmarkus, I've sent you a PM.  I look forward to hearing back from you.  Maybe I can help you develop this.  I'll do my best but don't hold your breath.  I'm not really a programmer, I just play one on the internet. =)

[bmarkus]

Thanks bmarkus, I've sent you a PM.  I look forward to hearing back from you.  Maybe I can help you develop this.  I'll do my best but don't hold your breath.  I'm not really a program, I just play one on the internet. =)

No PM received.

[phillip.toone]

No PM received.

Thank you for letting me know.  I think it took me three tries to get this to work.

[bmarkus]

Thanks bmarkus, I've sent you a PM.  I look forward to hearing back from you.  Maybe I can help you develop this.  I'll do my best but don't hold your breath.  I'm not really a program, I just play one on the internet. =)

Phillip,

thanks for your interest. You can help with testing, sending bug reports, create extensions and on many other ways.

Sent instructions in PM. Let us know the result.

Regards... Bela

[phillip.toone]

Let us know the result.

Ok, since you said to let "us" know I will respond here rather than a PM.

I first cleared the contents of my 16GB SD card using RedHat Disk Utility 2.30.1.

I installed rpiCore-20121103.img.gz to the SD card with the following:

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gunzip < rpiCore-20121103.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdf bs=1M
I viewed contents of the SD card (using RedHat Disk Utility 2.30.1).  There is now a 39MB FAT32 (0x0c) partition on the SD card.

I created a 1GB ext4 (0x83) partition named tce (again using RedHat Disk Utility 2.30.1)

I mounted the partition and created a folder named "tce" on the root of this partition.

I unzipped the contents of the TC.ZIP file to the tce folder (contained ondemand, optional, firstrun, onboot.lst, xwbar.lst)

I created a 1GB Linux swap (0x82) partition (again using using RedHat Disk Utility 2.30.1)

I installed the SD card into the Raspberry Pi and was booted into the CLI

I typed startx at the command line and received the following response

-sh: startx: not found

I typed the following:

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ls /mnt
and received the following response:

mmcblk0p1/ mmcblk0p2/

[bmarkus]

Are extensions installed? Try mc for checking and look at the /usr/local/tce.installed dir.

[phillip.toone]

Try mc for checking and look at the /usr/local/tce.installed dir.

I typed

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mc
at the command line and got

-sh: mc: not found

I typed

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ls /usr/local/tce.installed/
at the command line and got nothing in response (directory exists but is empty).

[bmarkus]

For some reason extensions not loaded

Type

ls -l /etc/sysconfig

and check tcedir which is a symlink to used tce directory

Is the new partion, mmcblk0p2 mounted? If not, can you mount it? Is tce der with the expected structure?

[phillip.toone]

ls -l /etc/sysconfig

Yes the link tcedir is pointing at /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce

I'm not sure how to assess the contents of the link.  The following

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cd /mnt/mmcblk0p2/
yields

-sh: cd: can't cd to mmcblk0p2/

(note, I am an ubuntu user and I am used thing automatically mounting to /media when I plug them in)

[bmarkus]

Try:

sudo mount /mnt/mmcblk0p2
ls /mnt/mmcblk0p2
ls /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce
ls /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/optional

At the last command you must see extensions inside.

Try to install mc:

tce-load -i mc

What happenes?

[phillip.toone]

tce-load -i mc

I rebooted the device and typed

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tce-load -i mc
but nothing happens.

The contents of tce partition are mounted correctly but are only viewable as su

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sudo ls /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/optional