by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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....
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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...
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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...
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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:...
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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...
by ray | Jul 17, 2012 | Raspberry Pi
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...
