• Vanilla arm64 bullseye and vcgencmd / Install docs

    From Ralph Aichinger@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 28 16:30:01 2021
    Hi, I am very very happy with my RPi4 running Bullseye aarch64.
    While the Raspberry Pi has right from the beginning been a very
    pleasant device to work with, since the vanilla Debian port,
    the solid USB boot, 64bit and enough RAM, to me it is more or
    less indistinguishable from any other Debian box with amd64
    or whatever. Yes, I know about the binary vc blob problem.

    I've got 2 questions on this device:

    Is there any way to either get "vcgencmd" from Raspberry Pi OS
    or is there any other way to get the temperature of the board
    as measured by internal sensors?

    And: Is there any effort to get installing on RPi4 better documented,
    eg to include the very comprehensive walkthrough in the RPi
    Forum as some kind of official installation documentation?

    https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=282839

    I installed twice with that tutorial (with a few months
    in between) and in my opinion this is the best description
    on how to install on the RPi4, if there is something similar
    on the Debian website, then I did not find it. Through its
    availability and huge numbers sold, the RPi4 might become
    a very popular Debian/arm64 platform IMHO.

    I am somewhat hesitant to offer my help in compiling docs,
    as I am not a native speaker, but I'll gladly help out
    in testing install documentation by checking it actually
    works as described ;)

    Thanks in advance,
    Ralph

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?aWJ1IOKYiSByYWRlbXBh?=@21:1/5 to Ralph Aichinger on Fri May 28 17:30:01 2021
    On 28.05.21 16:10, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
    Is there any way to either get "vcgencmd" from Raspberry Pi OS
    or is there any other way to get the temperature of the board
    as measured by internal sensors?

    No idea about vcgencmd, but you can read the temperature directly from /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp according to this (random) source: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-out-raspberry-pi-gpu-and-arm-cpu-temperature-command/

    And: Is there any effort to get installing on RPi4 better documented,
    eg to include the very comprehensive walkthrough in the RPi
    Forum as some kind of official installation documentation?

    https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=282839

    To my knowledge RPiX is currently not officially supported in debian,
    but there are robust minimal images built by DD Gunnar Wolf: https://raspi.debian.net/
    After configuring rootpw, hostname, ... you can run tasksel to install
    e.g. a desktop environment.

    Depending on your needs, you could also try the freedombox image: https://www.freedombox.org/download/raspberrypi4b/

    Greetings from Vienna,
    ibu

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  • From Andrei POPESCU@21:1/5 to Ralph Aichinger on Sat May 29 08:10:01 2021
    On Vi, 28 mai 21, 15:10:07, Ralph Aichinger wrote:

    And: Is there any effort to get installing on RPi4 better documented,
    eg to include the very comprehensive walkthrough in the RPi
    Forum as some kind of official installation documentation?

    https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=282839

    I installed twice with that tutorial (with a few months
    in between) and in my opinion this is the best description
    on how to install on the RPi4, if there is something similar
    on the Debian website, then I did not find it. Through its
    availability and huge numbers sold, the RPi4 might become
    a very popular Debian/arm64 platform IMHO.

    I am somewhat hesitant to offer my help in compiling docs,
    as I am not a native speaker, but I'll gladly help out
    in testing install documentation by checking it actually
    works as described ;)

    Specific devices are typically documented in the wiki under InstallingDebianOn.

    https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn

    The RaspberryPis seem to have a dedicated page for it, linked from
    there.

    Kind regards,
    Andrei
    --
    http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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