[Coco] DW4.3.1 - Raspberry Pi support

[Joel Ewy]

Very cool, Aaron.  I'll try to give this a shot with my Pi when I get a 
chance.  Probably not before the weekend, but I'm motivated to be 
irresponsible.

JCE

On 11/27/2012 07:14 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> 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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