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0 Comments 17 July 2012

SD Card setup To boot the Raspberry Pi, you need an SD card installed with a bootloader and a suitable Operating System. Some Raspberry Pi kits will come with a ready-to-go card, but if you didn’t receive one you will need to prepare your own: Official images are available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and there is an overview of [...]

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Raspberry Pi HDMI display spills off the screen or is cut off

0 Comments 17 July 2012

Display Startx fails to start If you just get errors instead of a desktop when typing startx you may be out of storage space on the SD card. By default there are only a few hundred MB free in the 2 GB main partition, which can quickly fill up if you download files. Make sure [...]

Linux

How do I shutdown or power off my debian linux box?

0 Comments 17 July 2012

From the console, either a remote SSH session or from in front of the machine you also have access to the following commands: shutdown poweroff The second command will take no arguments and immediately begin shutting down the machine, simply run as root : poweroff The shutdown command is more configurable, it allows you to specify whether [...]

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Linux: Use the Nano Text Editor

0 Comments 17 July 2012

Introduction Nano is a text editor suited to working in UNIX. It is not as powerful as PC window-based editors, as it does not rely on the mouse, but still has many useful features. Most nano commands are invoked by holding down the Ctrl key (that is, the control key), and pressing one of the other keys. [...]

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Raspberry Pi Setup for Beginners

0 Comments 17 July 2012

Where to start? Any easy question to ask, but a very difficult one to answer! If you are looking for any information related to SD Cards and setup look here If you need to get a RPi, the see the Buying Guide. If you need to know what equipment you will need and how to set it [...]

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Raspberry Pi: How to Create a Linux Image for the SD Card

0 Comments 17 July 2012

This page contains links to SD card images for various Linux distributions. For each distribution, we provide both a direct HTTP download, a torrent file and a SHA-1 hash; the total number of concurrent direct downloads is limited, so we encourage you to use the torrent file if at all possible. It’s helpful to us [...]

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Raspberry Pi Model B Linux Specs

0 Comments 17 July 2012

SoC Broadcom BCM2835 (CPU, GPU, DSP, and SDRAM) CPU: 700 MHz ARM1176JZF-S core (ARM11 family) GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV, OpenGL ES 2.0, 1080p30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile decoder Memory (SDRAM): 256 Megabytes (MiB) Video outputs: Composite RCA, HDMI Audio outputs: 3.5 mm jack, HDMI Onboard storage: SD, MMC, SDIO card slot 10/100 Ethernet RJ45 onboard network [...]

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Raspberry Pi Power supply confirmed as 5V micro USB

0 Comments 17 July 2012

There has been a lot of speculation about the power supply design for the production Raspberry Pi devices. The alpha boards use a pair of switch-mode power supplies to generate 5V and 3V3 rails from a 6-20V input on a coaxial jack, and LDOs to generate the low-current 2V5 and 1V8 rails for the analog [...]

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Raspberry Pi – No Display

0 Comments 17 July 2012

A good power supply that will supply 5V is vital. Red power LED does not light, nothing on display The power is not properly connected. Red power LED is blinking The red power LED should never blink, because it is hard-wired to the 3.3V power supply rail. If it is blinking, as one user has [...]

Internet Explorer is currently running with add-ons disabled (how do I turn it off?)

0 Comments 07 February 2012

Find IE and then right click the application and then go to the Shortcut tab and then look at the Target area. It should be something like this–”C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” Make sure there are no extra strings after the iexplorer.exe. You should be good to go.

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