Posting on OcUK from my Raspberry Pi!

Pawnless Endgame · 14 Jul 2012 at 17:05

Yup, got my Pi model B last weekend, and imaged Debian Squeeze onto a 16GB SD card. Now booted to Debian desktop environment using a browser called Midori. All stock settings for the time being except for larger font sizes. Desktop resolution is a bit weird - 1824x1104 (on a 1920x1200 monitor) but I'm surprised that it was able to reach that high a res. You basically get the monitor's native resolution but 1824x1104 with a black border. Haven't installed any packages yet or used command line much, but that's where the fun begins :-)

Hoping to program a bit of Python and reminince on BBC BASIC.

Anyone else got a Pi yet, and what have you managed to do on it?

bam0 · 14 Jul 2012 at 17:08

Use the options here (and create a config.txt for them on the boot partition of the sdcard if you don't have one) to sort out the gfx output and remove the overscan border.
http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt

Pawnless Endgame · 14 Jul 2012 at 17:20

Wow thanks Bam! I've found the /boot folder and will have a tinker using the sudo nano command. Seems to have a lot of hardware options in there. Thanks again.

Reppyboyo · 14 Jul 2012 at 17:25

Only managed to get OpenElec installed on mine.

Cant seem to get wifi working though, I only need it to use XBMC remote working.

RomanNose · 14 Jul 2012 at 17:33

Reppyboyo said:
Only managed to get OpenElec installed on mine.

Cant seem to get wifi working though, I only need it to use XBMC remote working.

Are you using a powered usb hub? Does dmesg come up with anything?

dymetrie · 14 Jul 2012 at 19:00

Running Raspbmc on mine as a media centre

1TB USB HDD and an MCE remote and use it for HDD films and streaming catchup TV.

Very tempted to get a second one to put Debian on so that I can actually learn Linux properly!

Pawnless Endgame · 14 Jul 2012 at 19:31

For those who are using SD cards larger than 2GB, you will find that the Windows imaging tool doesn't utilise the SD card over 2GB, so here's a link on how to use Gpart (a partitioning tool on a bootable Ubuntu CD) so that you can use the entire SD card.

http://mitchtech.net/easy-gui-install-re-partition-raspberry-pi-on-ubuntu

Posting back under Windows for now as I'll be watching a DVD on the computer in a bit :-)

Em3bbs · 14 Jul 2012 at 20:08

There's a long running thread in the Linux and Open Source forum with loads of other Pi owners - check it out.