linux/Raspberry pi SD card compatibility

annoying fact:

Linux on my old netbook only works with some SD cards.

much to my surprise, it seems that some SD cards are not compatible.

for the longest time I assumed it was the kernel and drivers I was using, but then I switched to another brand, and it worked perfectly....

so general advice;  have a variety of different vendor SD cards available when you are trying out the linux support.

a different SD card may work perfectly, on the same setup.

(using Fedora on Acer aspire one D257)

found the same true with the raspberry pi board, could not get it to boot with some SD cards, and others work fine.

MythTV and old WII, via WIIMC

http://www.wiimc.org/

Have connected our Fedora MythTV to the WII Multimedia player, installed on the Homebrew Channel

WIIMC does not see the MythTV as a server, so connecting to the mythtv machine as a fileserver to access the video files directly.

two modes currently: FTP and SMB

Notes:

1) annoying fact:  vsftpd does not follow symlinks;  so my rename/make symlink script does not work, have to access the files directly, if using the default fedora vsftpd server.

2) smb share does see the symlinks, but does not play, still working on this.

TODO:  Create some sort of web interface... still need to research, on this one.

MythTV Android Frontend BETA

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mythtv

recently installed MythTV Android Frontend from the  Google Play Store .

Working great.

Client is a 2012 Nexus 7, with VLC player as the video client

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon

Notes:
for internal network tests, have default settings.

Landscape mode, is a bit cramped on the program listing.  On my current setup, I can only see two shows in the show list;  Seems to be setup to use portrait mode, and then flip to landscape when playing the video.

No problems with Fedora

All quiet here, recently.

Why?

Things "just work"

Recently been running Fedora 18 linux, recently upgraded to Fedora 20.

Was running Fedora 18, 32 bit + PAE, switched to Fedora 20, x64.

Been using for homework, MythTV, Office VPN, Old machine VM.

Fedora 20 upgrade

yearly upgrade cycle...

now on Fedora 20

also decided to try x64, and see the full 8 gig ram on my main system!

no more eap.

looking good so far;

minecraft working on full x64 java;  perhaps a bit slower, but running.

scanner/printer from epson : Artisan 730   working over wireless network!  These rpms from the epson site:

• iscan-data-1.26.0-1.noarch.rpm
• iscan-network-nt-1.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm
• iscan-2.29.3-1.usb0.1.ltdl7.x86_64.rpm
• epson-inkjet-printer-201112w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm

note: to get network scanning, need to edit 

• /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf

not any of the "epson" conf files.  There is a more recent "generic" printer driver, but it does not have any settings to use the small photo tray.

mythtv with old Hauppauge external usb video0; needed to update to "testing" from rpmfusion at this time (by the time you read this, may work with default set of rpms)

• mencoder-1.1-18.20140111svn.fc20.x86_64.rpm  
• mplayer-common-1.1-18.20140111svn.fc20.x86_64.rpm

firefox, chrome, gimp

all ok so far

french accents on fedora; via unicode !

Had to assist with some homework this week; the kids using the fedora gnome netbook...

they needed characters with accents: Ééek!

now at the school, they have windows machines, and use alt+{nnn} codes, and they tried that at first.  Panic!

after some searching of the web, I found the page for using unicode on gnome:

CTRL+SHIFT+u {hex code}

so for above two codes
c9 and e9

looking up the rest on wikipedia

we have success!

Minecraft Pi 0.6.1 cannot talk to the updated Android version 0.7

Oh no...

updated my android minecraft;

(looks nice)

but now can no longer connect to our raspberry pi minecraft :(

so now it is a waiting game;  I assume minecraft_pi will be updated?

so if you read this, and have not updated minecraft... you may want to wait...