Raspberry Pi
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General info about the ACKspace Raspberry Pi board
For quick starters, Power is provided via the µ-USB or via GPIO pins. There is (standard) no USB slave software available when you plug in the device to your host (for stupido's this means,you won't see the device)
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RPi XBMC
If you want to use XBMC on your RPi, you can use either of the following images.
RaspBMC (still in beta, use the release found on the frontpage!)osmc.tv- OpenELEC (remember that you have to setup a complete build environment for this one)
- OpenELEC-07062012.tar.bz2 Download a complete working OpenELEC image for the RPi. Later here will be described how to install this image onto a SD card.
Must have RPi XBMC
Get more free cpu usage time (using OpenELEC)
- Make sure you have the RPi running
- Login to the RPi via SSH
- Type the following command
nano /storage/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml
- Paste the following text into the editor
<advancedsettings>
<gui>
<algorithmdirtyregions>3</algorithmdirtyregions>
<nofliptimeout>0</nofliptimeout>
</gui>
</advancedsettings>
- Save the file and reboot the RPi
Overclock the RPi (using OpenELEC)
- Create a file named config.txt and save this file onto the SYSTEM partition on the SD-Card
- type the following text into this file
arm_freq=850
- Reboot the RPi
- Login to SSH on the RPi
- Type the following command
cat /proc/cpuinfo
- The output will look like this:
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BogoMIPS : 847.05 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture : 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xb76 CPU revision : 7 Hardware : BCM2708 Revision : 0002 Serial : 000000000a5256dc
- Look at the line BogoMIPS. This line will read something around the 850 and is a representation of the RPi MHz
