11-17-2019, 09:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-18-2019, 09:02 AM by ab1jx.
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I don't like Armbian, or Ubuntu for that matter, because they do too much. There are way more scripts and daemons running in even Debian than I like. I like the idea of Linux From Scratch but last time I looked it was only for x86 and Raspberry Pi. Arch, nah, too much like RedHat, everything's in the wrong place.
So I installed Ayufan's minimal Buster. Could have saved a lot of time and trouble by copying in an interfaces file because I use only wifi. The standard RTL8192 driver is a mess, I plugged in a Ralink one. There's an 8192cu-dkms driver I have on my Odroid that's pretty good. Started installing X programs into the minimal, ended up still missing mouse and keyboard under X. So I went the overkill route and installed Gnome. Very slow and pretty, but it got stuff working, now I'll go back to LXDE. I must be using the wrong video driver, even the mouse pointer is slow.
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Got out of Gnome, set LXDE as the default. But the mouse and keyboard don't work in X (except Gnome). And I haven't figured out where to put a DontZap = False in my config files so atrl-alt-backspace can shut down the X server. So I kill the power to get out.
If I do X -configure it says no devices found, I have a couple of video drivers for X. I have to shut this Pi down to use this mouse and monitor and keyboard with my Rock64, so I can't do much online from it yet. Installed Aptitude since I can't use Synaptic yet. It mostly works but something's still missing.
So I installed Ayufan's minimal Buster. Could have saved a lot of time and trouble by copying in an interfaces file because I use only wifi. The standard RTL8192 driver is a mess, I plugged in a Ralink one. There's an 8192cu-dkms driver I have on my Odroid that's pretty good. Started installing X programs into the minimal, ended up still missing mouse and keyboard under X. So I went the overkill route and installed Gnome. Very slow and pretty, but it got stuff working, now I'll go back to LXDE. I must be using the wrong video driver, even the mouse pointer is slow.
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Got out of Gnome, set LXDE as the default. But the mouse and keyboard don't work in X (except Gnome). And I haven't figured out where to put a DontZap = False in my config files so atrl-alt-backspace can shut down the X server. So I kill the power to get out.
If I do X -configure it says no devices found, I have a couple of video drivers for X. I have to shut this Pi down to use this mouse and monitor and keyboard with my Rock64, so I can't do much online from it yet. Installed Aptitude since I can't use Synaptic yet. It mostly works but something's still missing.