Talking Linux for Raspberry Pi

Talking Linux for Raspberry Pi

[Martin McCormick]

	I just got a Raspberry Pi2 and have been experimenting
with it, using the latest raspbian version.

	It really works well except that right now, I can't get
the serial console to work but that is not quite as bad as it
might be because when you boot this up, ssh works. You log in as
pi with a password of raspberry.

Martin McCormick

Re: Talking Linux for Raspberry Pi

[Kyle]

I'm planning to try to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 2 in the near
future. I will be experimenting with Arch and OpenElec mostly. I got
OpenElec running on my Pi model B, and I was even able to get it
talking. I did have to do some unconventional things with it though, as
OpenElec appears to create its system partition on first boot. So I had
to boot up the Pi, wait about 10 minutes to be sure it did everything
it was supposed to do, pull the plug and then unzip the Kodi screen
reader into the .kodi/addons folder on the newly created system
partition. As for Arch, I have been able to make it run with MATE on
the old beast, but it's really slow, as this is the older single-core
700MHz. I haven't tried getting Speakup working yet, but my goal is to
get the Pi 2 and work with that more extensively instead of continuing
to mess with the model B.
Sent from my pot of coffee

Re: Talking Linux for Raspberry Pi

[Mike Ray]

I solved the spluttering tts with espeak and speakup on the Pi by
writing an OpenMAX IL library that bypasses the broken ALSA driver:

git clone https://github.com/cromarty/ttsprojects.git

See the raspberry-pi directory.

It uses the OpenMAX IL client libraries found in /opt/vc to render audio
on the GPU, thus bypassing ALSA totally.

Mike


On 27/08/2015 19:37, Kyle wrote:
> I'm planning to try to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 2 in the near
> future. I will be experimenting with Arch and OpenElec mostly. I got
> OpenElec running on my Pi model B, and I was even able to get it
> talking. I did have to do some unconventional things with it though, as
> OpenElec appears to create its system partition on first boot. So I had
> to boot up the Pi, wait about 10 minutes to be sure it did everything
> it was supposed to do, pull the plug and then unzip the Kodi screen
> reader into the .kodi/addons folder on the newly created system
> partition. As for Arch, I have been able to make it run with MATE on
> the old beast, but it's really slow, as this is the older single-core
> 700MHz. I haven't tried getting Speakup working yet, but my goal is to
> get the Pi 2 and work with that more extensively instead of continuing
> to mess with the model B.
> Sent from my pot of coffee
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Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

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