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piCore-6.1alpha2
Paul_123:
--- Quote from: bmarkus on February 19, 2015, 08:29:52 AM ---Next test release will have 1.23.1 the stable version. It was already prepared but just before relesing it the new DT enable kernel arrived and decided not to pack other changes. Now we have 3.18.7 and 3.19 kernels also available :(
--- End quote ---
It seems 3.19.y is where everyone is moving. Bleeding edge.
Gerrelt:
FWIW: I've installed this version as a squeezelite player, and all went well.
Somehow this version feels a lot faster then 6.0.
sodface:
I installed this a few minutes ago, first boot was fine, wifi and ssh working ok. I then edited config.txt to enable the camera:
gpu_mem=128
start_file=start_x.elf
fixup_file=fixup_x.dat
and pi doesn't boot - apply power, red light comes on, green light flashes a couple of times and then I get a multi color screen and that's where it hangs.
The procedure for enabling camera support must be somewhat different with device tree. Hopefully just operator error on my part, still researching - has anyone else successfully used the camera on this release?
sodface:
Well, confusingly, the camera is now working. After much trial and error I *thought* that it was the gpu_mem=128 line in config.txt that was causing the hang. I could get a good boot with gpu_mem=64 and then put it back to 128 and it would hang at the rainbow screen. Or so I thought. I figured I would try to break it with gpu_mem=128 just to be sure before I came to post my findings - but of course it then booted!
I'm not sure what happened. I thought since I copied and pasted the config.txt changes into my ssh console that maybe an illegal character made it's way into the config.txt and that was causing the hang and only later after one of many config.txt edits I inadvertently fixed it?? I just put a line of random characters in config.txt to see if it would hang on it and it didn't so I'm at a loss.
One thing I did find out was that apparently you can use this to enable the camera:
--- Code: ---gpu_mem=128
start_x=1
--- End code ---
Not sure if there's any difference between that and:
--- Code: ---gpu_mem=128
start_file=start_x.elf
fixup_file=fixup_x.dat
--- End code ---
Both seem to work. Is it worth adding to config.txt as part of the official release but leave commented with a note about "to enable the camera uncomment the following..." or similar?
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