Title: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 24, 2012, 20:47:13 PM
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 24, 2012, 20:47:13 PM
I got myself a Raspberry Pi, set it up and it works. I have a problem though, I can't really read a damn thing on the screen as everything is so small. Anyone know how to increase the size of the taskbar thingy at the bottom and the icons?
Running the Raspbian "wheezy" image on the SD card, is there an alternative with bigger icons etc for my TV screen to display?
Running the Raspbian "wheezy" image on the SD card, is there an alternative with bigger icons etc for my TV screen to display?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: Carlos on September 24, 2012, 21:12:40 PM
Post by: Carlos on September 24, 2012, 21:12:40 PM
You should be able to configure the overscan settings, what telly are you using, is it via hdmi or av?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: Carlos on September 24, 2012, 21:20:48 PM
Post by: Carlos on September 24, 2012, 21:20:48 PM
http://elinux.org/RPi_raspi-config (http://elinux.org/RPi_raspi-config)
check out the overscan section.
check out the overscan section.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 24, 2012, 21:23:16 PM
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 24, 2012, 21:23:16 PM
HDMI on a fairly small screen. I'll try that link for overscan setting thanks Carl
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 24, 2012, 22:00:06 PM
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 24, 2012, 22:00:06 PM
OK, played with settings and got something quite a bit better but still need to tweak some more, thanks for the help Carl.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: Carlos on September 25, 2012, 07:24:28 AM
Post by: Carlos on September 25, 2012, 07:24:28 AM
Glad you are getting joy out of it.
What things do you need tweaking?
What things do you need tweaking?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 25, 2012, 19:35:11 PM
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 25, 2012, 19:35:11 PM
I'm still going to play around with the video settings a bit. I found all the modes for HDMI and now it's a matter of finding the one which best suits my needs and my TV. The one I'm on at the moment makes everything a touch too large but at least now it's viewable and I can see what's going on.
The whole reason for getting a Pi was to start trying to learn some programming again, I learned on a Spectrum in Basic, and just wanted to try it out now I'm older with something cheap. Now it's a matter of getting to grips with a languageÂ
The whole reason for getting a Pi was to start trying to learn some programming again, I learned on a Spectrum in Basic, and just wanted to try it out now I'm older with something cheap. Now it's a matter of getting to grips with a languageÂ
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: Carlos on September 26, 2012, 07:40:18 AM
Post by: Carlos on September 26, 2012, 07:40:18 AM
well good luck with that, there will be some good applications out there, you may have to look on the Pi forum to find them.
To learn how a computer works and to do organic programming, I would recomend a FIGnition, everyone around here knows I am evangelical about them
Its £20 available in NTSC and PAL
My mate has just put his PI on a VPN network and says that the playback of films ect is brilliant.
To learn how a computer works and to do organic programming, I would recomend a FIGnition, everyone around here knows I am evangelical about them
Its £20 available in NTSC and PAL
My mate has just put his PI on a VPN network and says that the playback of films ect is brilliant.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 26, 2012, 20:07:18 PM
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on September 26, 2012, 20:07:18 PM
Just googled the FIGnition, looks pretty interesting, maybe next month. Just don't tell the wife
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on October 13, 2012, 12:55:46 PM
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on October 13, 2012, 12:55:46 PM
I just downloaded RISCOS for the Raspberry Pi. A lot closer to what I'd imagined it would be and from a cursory glance it appears to have BASIC as a programming language option (as well as PHP and some others) screen display is a sensible size and now it's just a matter of finding my way around it a little.
I'll let you know how it goes.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi help from clever people please
Post by: Havantgottaclue on December 15, 2012, 14:18:53 PM
Post by: Havantgottaclue on December 15, 2012, 14:18:53 PM
Yeah, RISCOS is pretty nice, and it just feels so very right to have it running on an ARM device - it's like having a genuine modern day Acorn Archimedes.
It's well worth having an SD card with XBMC on it for video stuff, especially if you have a NAS server on your network - it'll be able to play stuff directly from it.
For the big screen though, I think an Android port would be very handy - there were positive noises about this months ago but little seems to have happened of late. According to entries on Raspberry Pi forums, it's dependent upon Broadcom to do the porting - they're not targeting Raspberry Pi specifically but for devices powered by a similar SoC, so it should appear some day ...
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 8&start=25 (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=22158&start=25)
It's well worth having an SD card with XBMC on it for video stuff, especially if you have a NAS server on your network - it'll be able to play stuff directly from it.
For the big screen though, I think an Android port would be very handy - there were positive noises about this months ago but little seems to have happened of late. According to entries on Raspberry Pi forums, it's dependent upon Broadcom to do the porting - they're not targeting Raspberry Pi specifically but for devices powered by a similar SoC, so it should appear some day ...
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 8&start=25 (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=22158&start=25)