Category: Rasbperry Pi
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Enable 512MB RAM on latest Raspberry Pi
At first I was very disappointed, because my new Raspis showed only 256MB RAM, although the shop promised to deliver the new model with 512MB RAM. Mr. Watterott answered my email- support request within 5 minutes (!). He told me, that it’s a software issue and pointed me to this link, showing how to identify,…
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Rasperry Pi SPI Touchscreen X-Server
Thanks to Dominique Gallot and vis, I managed to drive a MI0283QT-2 color touchscreen on the raspi 🙂 I followed the steps at www.gallot.be/?p=197 and added the framebuffer driver by vis to run X and LXDE-desktop. 40px in vertical are missing and touch is not working yet, but it’s very funny to use a mouse…
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Raspberry Pi Initialization
Today I received 2 Raspberry Pi boards from watterott.com – Thanx for the fast delivery! Specs: www.watterott.com/de/Raspberry-Pi-Model-B During installation and configuration some bugs appeared, so here are some notes to get around: I used this debian wheezy image: www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and followed the linux console install guide elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup At first various problems occurred: locale- and keyboard-…