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Re: [trinity-devel] TDE running on real ARM hardware!

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:48:16 -0500
> Some of you might find this interesting...attached is a screenshot of TDE
> running on actual (physical) ARM hardware!
>
> To accomplish this I used Debian Squeeze with TDE running on a Raspberry
> Pi over tightvnc.  I did need to disable artsd due to some kind of ALSA
> bug on this hardware, but this was a minor inconvenience.
>
> Next steps include testing Debian Wheezy and trying to get the built-in
> graphics hardware running with Xorg.
>
> Let me know what you think!
>
> Tim

After the upgrade to Debian Wheezy (and the 1GHz Turbo-enabled firmware)
everything pretty much works out of the box, including graphics out to the
composite connector.  Konqueror is a little sluggish but otherwise the
system is quite usable with almost no swapping to disk.

Tim