Hi, On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 01:06:11PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 12/28/24 08:24, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:53:41PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > Synaptic is a GUI frontend to apt. It's not really much different to > > > aptitude, except that it's maybe a bit more mouse-friendly. > > That much I know. I am wondering what its killer feature is that Gene > > wants to work so hard to make it run on a headless single board computer > > that one would think to be wholly unsuitable for running GUI apps.
What would have been useful for you to tell us at this point or in any of your other replies: - How exactly you are trying to run synaptic on these Banana Pi computers, e.g. with display and keyboard/mouse directly attached and you logged in through the Mate desktop environment, *or* over the network by SSH in a terminal from another computer that is running the Mate desktop environment. What you instead chose to tell us: > armbian in the full desktop version runs noticeably slower than it runs on > amd64 stuff, but its more than fast enough to run a full screen gui for a 3d > printer. I'll gladly tolerate a just noticeable lag that never crashes, > uptimes from kernel update to kernel update, with klipper/moonraker/fluidd > feeding nginx, broadcasting to any web browser in the house that is watching > aliasname:80, in exchange for an 18 watt power draw (including its 24" AOL > monitor) while sitting idle between jobs. I use firefox to localhost:80 on > the local machine actually running the printer at speeds around 10x what it > could do OOTB 4 years ago when it was new. > > FWIW, I probably have another $2000 in better hdwe., much of which I > designed in OpenSCAD. I may ask what seems to be off the wall questions > simply hoping to glean additional info because I enjoy plowing new ground > and making it work better. Part of the upgrade is closed loop > stepper/servos, because they have at least a 10x improvement in the accuracy > of motor control. The error at the instant determines motor current, running > at 7x speeds, average motor power is 30% of the burn your hand temps the > usual setup does, it can even reverse a motor that overshoots, putting it > back where it belongs using around 4x the instant power if it has to. The > latest addition is a motorized nozzle cleaner, operated as part of the > startup gcode. > > I've got to get my web page up again, I lost it when those two seagate 2T > drives went offline at 2 weeks accumulated runtime as I was trying make > bookworm run now 18 months ago. It runs when it gets around to it, opening a > local file is an automatic lockup for 30 seconds. And no one has identified > that problem. Around 30 fresh installs with the only usb plugged in being > the wireless button for logitek keyboard/mouse but I still get orca and > brltty yelling every keystroke at me thru my speakers. Yet when I question > the broken bookworm installer, I catch hell from the powers that be here. > Total denial that the problem exists has been the universal response. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
