[Coco] DW4.3.1 - Raspberry Pi support

[David Ladd]

Thank you Aaron!  You have done a great job on this project and I thank you!

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you don't have a Pi, don't bother with this update.
> It's the same as 4.3.0 but with support for the Pi.  Actually the
> server is still 4.3.0, all the changes are in the platform detection,
> which is in the UI.   A new version is coming "soon" with improvements
> but wanted to make this available since it's ready now.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Aaron, Is this a new version in general, or just additions for the
> Raspberry Pi?
> >
> > Bill P
> >
> > Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > Bill Pierce
> > ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 8:14 pm
> > Subject: [Coco] DW4.3.1 - Raspberry Pi support
> >
> >
> > I've put an updated version of DW4 on the web site:
> > https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
> >
> > This version adds full support for the Raspberry Pi (and possibly
> > other arm based linux devices).  Both the server and the GUI should be
> > fully functional and no special configuration needs to be done in the
> > config.xml.
> >
> > Instructions for Raspian:
> >
> > To run the server on a Raspberry Pi, you must have Java installed:
> >
> > # apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
> >
> > If you'd like to run the GUI client, you also need some libraries:
> >
> > # apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-java libswt-gtk-3-jni
> libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni
> >
> > That should do it.  Interested in feedback from those of you with Pis,
> > this isn't well tested but seems to work nicely.  The UI is a bit
> > pokey but not unbearable, and I'd think most people would want to be
> > running the UI on a different machine anyway.  Server seems fine.
> >
> > Important note:  it seems Raspian has been updating the pulseaudio and
> > other sound packages recently.. at this time MIDI is not working.  You
> > must leave MIDI disabled or the server will not start.  Not sure if
> > this is a DW problem or a Raspian problem yet.
> >
> > -Aaron
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