Just ordered my Raspberry Pi

[+BudMan MVC]

So 11Mbps -- that is a what like 1.3MBps, that does not seem all that high. Do you forget some zeros or is that Mbps?

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So 11Mbps -- that is a what like 1.3MBps, that does not seem all that high. Do you forget some zeros or is that Mbps?

This is from the details of the file

And this is the site I got it from

http://www.demo-worl...on-trailers.php

Just tried playing a 1080p .mkv and it freezes for a second every 5 seconds or so

raspbmc is still beta though so..

Can WinSCP into it which saves shutting down and editing in linux vm

SSH no problems too

top command

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That was off a VM using the vmxnet3 driver so that is why it shows 1000 and 10,000, and connected 10,000Mb/s ;) - no I don't have a 10Gb network running, which would be sweet though ;) I would assume the os is trimmed down, so you might not have ethtool - but you should be able to add it if not currently installed. There are all kinds of ways to set that in linux, windows is where its a pain in the ass to view your duplex. Unless your driver allows you to set it, there is really no way to set specific combinations of speed and duplex. As to cpu use?? hmm what are you doing? What is the current load? Do a top command, what does it show for load? budman@ubuntu:~$ top top - 13:34:19 up 2 days, 2:50, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.11, 0.12

Managed to install ethtool via apt-get install but running the command ethtool eth0 brings back

-bash: ethtool: command not found

[n_K]

Try:

-> whereis ethtool

If that doesn't work, do;

-> find / -name "ethtool"

Say it's in /usr/bin/ethtool, open a terminal and type /usr/bin/ethtool

Anyway I see you're now enjoying how much of an absolute pain the device is :p you're lucky you're using sound over HDMI because sound over analogue is very poppy and clicky, although you get the same kinda problem with HDMI in that it will skip parts of the song (like first 2 seconds of the beginning etc).

I haven't done anything with mine in quite a while, was thinking about a music player for car but until the ALSA drivers are actually out of alpha (I doubt it ever will if I'm honest) it's not feasible.

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Thanks, whereis worked :)

looks like xbmc.bin is using most of the CPU, not limited to the Pi from a quick Google, others are thinking its a GPU driver issue, but probably not if its here too

pi@raspbmc:/sbin$ /sbin/ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
	    Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
	    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
							    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
	    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
							    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
	    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
	    Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
											 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	    Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
	    Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
	    Speed: 100Mb/s
	    Duplex: Full
	    Port: MII
	    PHYAD: 1
	    Transceiver: internal
	    Auto-negotiation: on
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted
	    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
Cannot get link status: Operation not permitted

[+BudMan MVC]

normally when you install a new package, you have to restart the shell session to see it in the path.

According to your load in top, the box isn't doing much of anything. 0.02 is nothing.

[n_K]

normally when you install a new package, you have to restart the shell session to see it in the path.

According to your load in top, the box isn't doing much of anything. 0.02 is nothing.

But the CPU usage is 75%, so it is doing quite a bit :p

[+BudMan MVC]

Well your one process there that xmbc.bin is using cpu yes, but since your load is .02 - that means that is really the only thing using it. And when other processes ask for cpu time they are getting it. So its not over taxed or anything, just the process is doing something is all.

Now if you have high cpu by a process, and high load then tells me you got things in contention for cpu time, and your box could be overloaded - more things wanting cpu time, and not being able to get it. But that does not seem to be the case with your output.

Not sure what xmbc.bin is doing - but until is shows as load, there is nothing all that wrong with a process using cpu time. Only when that process HOGS the cpu time do you have a problem ;)

As you can see from this

top - 14:05:10 up 29 days, 13:31, 3 users, load average: 2.09, 1.62, 1.26

You got some load on this box, processes are asking for cpu time and having to wait while other processes finish, so the load goes UP.

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Well your one process there that xmbc.bin is using cpu yes, but since your load is .02 - that means that is really the only thing using it. And when other processes ask for cpu time they are getting it. So its not over taxed or anything, just the process is doing something is all.

Now if you have high cpu by a process, and high load then tells me you got things in contention for cpu time, and your box could be overloaded - more things wanting cpu time, and not being able to get it. But that does not seem to be the case with your output.

Not sure what xmbc.bin is doing - but until is shows as load, there is nothing all that wrong with a process using cpu time. Only when that process HOGS the cpu time do you have a problem ;)

As you can see from this

top - 14:05:10 up 29 days, 13:31, 3 users, load average: 2.09, 1.62, 1.26

You got some load on this box, processes are asking for cpu time and having to wait while other processes finish, so the load goes UP.

Ah right I think I understand, so its not the same as a windows process that was showing 80% CPU, it just means that xbmc.bin is using more of the CPU time than other processes? But not necessarily a bad thing so long as other processes can jump in when needed

When I leave xbmc on the homescreen, xbmc.bin drops to about 28% cpu, but any other screen, even info screen and its back up to 80-95%

[n_K]

Load average is based on a bit of an old system and makes sense for single cpu and core systems only, if you've got 2 cores then you can in theory go up to a load of 2.0 instead of 1.0 etc. but it gives an overall basic idea of usage.

If for example you get X11 and fluxbox for the pi and try to move a window, you'll see the load rocket up to well over 1.0 and X11 will look frozen for a while.

[+BudMan MVC]

"so its not the same as a windows process that was showing 80% CPU"

Nothing wrong with a windows process showing 80% cpu either. Depends on what priority its running at for example. If its running at low priority, then anything can take that cpu away from it.

Back in the day when running dnetc (distributed cracking project back a few years) Always saw 100% cpu usage, whatever cpu was not being used the dnetc client would use, but at lowest priority -- so it would give it back to anything that asked.

Same goes for the @home, and search for SETI projects - those clients all use up 100% if you let them. And just give it back when something needs it.

Having a process use 100% cpu does not have to mean the the machine is non responsive -- comes down to what the load is.

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"so its not the same as a windows process that was showing 80% CPU"

Nothing wrong with a windows process showing 80% cpu either. Depends on what priority its running at for example. If its running at low priority, then anything can take that cpu away from it.

Back in the day when running dnetc (distributed cracking project back a few years) Always saw 100% cpu usage, whatever cpu was not being used the dnetc client would use, but at lowest priority -- so it would give it back to anything that asked.

Same goes for the @home, and search for SETI projects - those clients all use up 100% if you let them. And just give it back when something needs it.

Having a process use 100% cpu does not have to mean the the machine is non responsive -- comes down to what the load is.

Got you, basically why leave the CPU idle when something could be using it, so long as it gives way to anything that asks when needed

Well so far I can boot and be watching a standard def avi in around 30-50 seconds (ish) I haven't timed it yet, but very acceptable and the fact that it boots right into xbmc is great

Still having problems with full HD stuttering or freezing every now and then though but hopefully updates will sort that out

The addon for tvcatchup (UK digital freeview) installs and runs, but not even 1fps on any of the channels

[n_K]

http://www.dynebolic.org/

Just found that. Apparently v1 and v2 will run on a P1 with 64MB RAM and the kernel has been modified to run real-time... I dare say it'd be a pain in the ass to port it to the pi but I'm wondering if it'd increase performance.

Yep you won't get ANY webcam or TV capture/viewer device showing you video well at all because there is absolutely no hardware accelleration (well only h.264), I've tried with webcams and just gave up, you can use say python to record an image frame and it'll work (slowly) and complete but not view a video.

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http://www.dynebolic.org/

Just found that. Apparently v1 and v2 will run on a P1 with 64MB RAM and the kernel has been modified to run real-time... I dare say it'd be a pain in the ass to port it to the pi but I'm wondering if it'd increase performance.

Yep you won't get ANY webcam or TV capture/viewer device showing you video well at all because there is absolutely no hardware accelleration (well only h.264), I've tried with webcams and just gave up, you can use say python to record an image frame and it'll work (slowly) and complete but not view a video.

Yea, I've had enough of xbmc for today :p

Back to normal linux for the rest of the night now, gonna have a try getting my wifi working with wheezy, then gonna try Arch or something

Need more sdcards, it takes that long to get one distro working moderately well that I don't want to wipe it :D

I`ll no doubt get faster and faster at setting them up as I learn

[n_K]

Make backup images of the SD on your PC using dd (dd if=/dev/sdf of=/home/user/RPi_BACKUP1.bk bs=8M) or put the images onto a hard drive, use an IDE/SATA -> USB cable and put the /boot/ directory on the SD card and modify it to use /dev/sda as the root partition in cmdline.txt

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Make backup images of the SD on your PC using dd (dd if=/dev/sdf of=/home/user/RPi_BACKUP1.bk bs=8M) or put the images onto a hard drive, use an IDE/SATA -> USB cable and put the /boot/ directory on the SD card and modify it to use /dev/sda as the root partition in cmdline.txt

Running Windows on my PC, might be able to do the backups with a VM, I like the idea of the HDD though, means I would be able to edit the startup to boot from any image ?

Managed to get my wifi up by editing /etc/network/interfaces with my wireless info and then running sudo ifup wlan0

Bit of a b*tch only having 2 x USB ports, I don't have a hub yet so have to keep swapping between mouse and wifi or keyboard and mouse etc lol

[n_K]

Yep, if you use GPT then you can have say 21 partitions on it, 10 for the boot partitions (that you can get rid of), 10 for the main root partitions and 1 for swap, then you just need to edit cmdline.txt to change the root device (Although if it's using a different version kernel or named kernel you'd need to move the boot files from that OS over to there)

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Yep, if you use GPT then you can have say 21 partitions on it, 10 for the boot partitions (that you can get rid of), 10 for the main root partitions and 1 for swap, then you just need to edit cmdline.txt to change the root device (Although if it's using a different version kernel or named kernel you'd need to move the boot files from that OS over to there)

Great thanks, once I get a bit more familiar with things I think I`ll do that

Just found this one the raspberry pi forums,

The same tool that you use to create the sdcards with (win32diskimager) can also be used to backup your sdcards via windows, just put the sdcard into the windows USB port > browse to "save destination" in win32diskimager > hit "read" :D

So I can swap and choose as I like now without losing anything or having to open a VM

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Here is a video of Raspbian booting, browsing, and playing a couple of python windowed games, excuse the freezing of the video, since WP7.5 update it's ruined the camera recording

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73WQ-F-7j4

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Just flashed this image, boots straight to xbmc, faster than raspbmc and tvcatchup streaming works well

XBian 0.1 Features

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- Fits on a 2GB SD card

- Low RAM usage (XBMC idle it uses 22 - 27 MB ram)

- Low CPU usage (XBMC idle it uses +/- 60%)

- Very smooth UI (XBMC idle @ 1366x768 +/- 57 FPS, @ 1920x1080 +/- 35 FPS)

- Auto mount USB

- Boot's up very fast

- Hard Float binaries (hardfp)

- Overclock without overvolting (arm_freq = 850, sdram_freq = 500, core_freq=450)

- Workaround for a kernel bug which hangs the Raspberry Pi under heavy network/disk loads (again, many thanks to DarkBasic).

- Boot's up XBMC automatically

http://www.raspberry...hp?f=35&t=12893

EDIT - It can play those HD samples that Raspbmc had trouble with, and plays 1080p .mkvs better too, although still what looks like buffering problems, freezing every 5 seconds then playing fine

It doesn't have any problems playing the video, but seems to have problems keeping it going without interuption, the investigation continues but after flashing the above, it really seems like better coding can fix it

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Here is the Pi playing another HD sample, you see the stalling issue, but this one seems to sort itself out part way through and play the rest without any problem (Had to use my camera to record thanks to MS breaking my phone so no HD recording for this one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8FF_GFCh7w