Question about X on the arm's.

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 29 November 2016 03:39:51 Thomas Lübking wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:59:26PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >root       797  0.0  1.9 271380 33600 tty7     Ssl+ 20:50
> >0:02 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat
> >seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
> >
> >gene      4114  0.0  0.0   5564   908 pts/8    S+   23:48   0:00
> >grep --color=auto listen
> >
> >builders took advantage of that to get rid of 100k of object code. 
> > So I have challenged the odroid people to actually make it work.
>
> Got any clue on this or just a hunch? There's an explicit nolisten
> switch that didn't end up there magically but will oc. prevent tcp
> access for sure.
>
> >That server starts automatically.
>
> That's the "problem" - ask the odroid people about "automatically"
> (i've no experience with that system, sorry)
>
> >The line that starts it, xinit/xsessionrc specifically says -listen
> > tcp as an argument for /usr/bin/X
>
> I doubt the call is simply altered from listen to nolisten.
> Pass it some unexpected bullshit argument ("-gnarf") and see whether
> that has some impact - otherwise i'd say whatever starts X in that
> environment doesn't care about xinit/xsessionrc at all.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas

Well, the droid may have a place sometime in the future, but at the 
moment it has been such a pain in my rear that it was popped of the 
panel, disconnected from the psu, and tossed on a high shelf.

I had been instructed to originally install the jessie-lite version of 
raspian, but I went back to the site and pulled the full install image, 
and wrote that to the u-sd card. sync'd it, then unplugged it and 
plugged it back in and the automount dutifully mad it available 
as /media/usb1 and /media/usb2.

So I dived into the /etc directory and installed my network setup, and 
made myself user 1000:1000, changing the name pi to gene anyplace I 
found it, making me the first user like I shoulda been in the first.

And of course I forgot to make the network stuff immutable, so N-M 
destroyed it, as usual. A couple root sessions with nano, followed by 
some chattr +i on resolv.conf and interfaces fixed all that up. I'll 
have to see if I can remove that POS, but at least it can't cripple me 
again.

This boots to a gui they call PIXEL, fair, needs some colors adjusted.

I upgraded it to the latest, then installed synaptic since I couldn't 
make out which end of the horse their package manager was faceing me.

I had saved the ~/linuxcnc directory out, and wrote it back to my new 
$home directory, and I installed the bleeding edge linuxcnc.

modprobed the spi stuff into memory, fired up linuxcnc, and the interface 
card responded properly to the spi from linuxcnc, reporting a full list 
of its capabilities. So I loaded up a program to carve a chess pawn, 
homed it and hit the r key.  And was blown away, it was running at about 
a 20 frame/second display rate! With nothing plugged into the droid, the 
raspi 3b was doing it all. No worries about whether or not x was 
listening on a tcp port (its not according to htop).  Put the modprobed 
stuff into the load list file in /etc/modules. Rebooted, and it still 
Just Works(TM).

I am indeed pleased. I might even sleep well tonight.  Now to get the 
rest of it built & wired up.

And in about 30 minutes amanda will see if it can back that puppy up. The 
checker didn't fuss, so I believe that will work.

Only one problem, which I'll pose as a separate post.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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