Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Tuesday 26 June 2018 01:20:09 William Morder wrote: > > > On Monday 25 June 2018 21:54:13 Felix Miata wrote: > > > William Morder composed on 2018-06-25 21:22 (UTC-0700): > > > > Beware of UEFI/EFI ... don't know if your devices have such new > > > > "features", as it was hard for me to keep track of the different > > > > devices, the various issues, and their place in your own scheme of > > > > things. But if you try to install a Linux system on a newer > > > > machine that has UEFI, it will "protect" you from the dangers of > > > > Linux and hackers. There are ways to disable UEFI, though. > > > > > > Like anything, to use it safely some (re-)education is involved, > > > getting the hang of new paradigms. I have two UEFI PCs. When I > > > started composing this I was doing my 7th (multiboot, adding OS #3 > > > to an M.2 device) installation in UEFI mode, *buntu 18.04, to become > > > Tubuntu, to follow-up on a year-old, still open TDE bug, but it's > > > already finished and rebooted. > > > > I had a friend who tried to install Trisquel Ubuntu on a new Toshiba > > laptop, but wasn't familiar with the newer UEFI, and thus turned her > > machine into a brick. Still no luck unlocking or resuscitating it, > > last I heard. > > > > Bill > > I've done that to one very highly rated raspi killer. No place in the > propaganda did it mention it had a UEFI bios. I made one last try by > going into the bios and found an option to disable the trusted computing > chip. Its a brick I'll have to buy a jtag programmer and cable to fix, > at 2x the nominally $100 cost of the board itself. Someday I'll come > across it again and it fill make one last high trajectory flight into > the trash can. Its one of the higher priced ODROID'S. The rock64 has no > such bios, is a u-boot architecture, and with its different architecture > can do i/o 500x faster than the pi can thru its usb-2 data pinhole. > > But support ranges from media only to non-existent. Changing the > installed kernel questions are for a beginner at u-boot like me, either > ignored on the forum, or answered by pointing at 6 year old build tools. > The rock64 is almost a year from its announcement right now. We need > tools to go with todays hardware, and they are not forthconing from the > pine people. > > That, and I need someone to remove all the "am I running on a real pi3b" > tests in the LinuxCNC rpspi.ko driver, then make it work with the gpio > headers that come with the rock64. > > But this is off-topic. To get back on-topic, changing the mouse focus > behavior as directed by several here, was exactly what the doctor > needed, speeding up my workflow overall on the milling machine by at > least 50%. Thank you to all that responded. When we are at LinuxCNC, could you try out the new syntax highlighting for gcode? It's included in the latest psb builds. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
