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The Natural Philosopher[_2_]

On 08/11/12 11:13, wrote:
Adrian Brentnall wrote:
HI Folks
I see CPC are doing the Raspberry PI with Debian Squeeze on a 4gb
SD-card for about ‚¬40.

Does anybody know if this kit can can
a) be set up to auto-run a program from power-on without needing
keyboard input

Yes, it auto-boots on power up anyway and you can set it to do
passwordless login.

By login at all?

just run your program as root under the init process (or whatever its
called these days). Sick the script in /etc/rc2.d IIRC,

All that's then needed is to get a suitable
picture display program to run (see below) which should be easy enough
though you might have to ask for some help to do it.

b) run a slidehow of jpgs

Well it can certainly do this, I've set mine up to do it. I'm using a
program called jbrout and it chunters through displaying a 1080p image
from my digital camera jpegs quite happily. It takes about 4 seconds
to process the image (but the screen isn't blank, it just continues to
display the previous one).

Chug chug..

Everything written in python is slow..and often buggy too.

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