[Coco] DW4.3.1 - Raspberry Pi support

Juan Castro jccyc1965 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 12:52:06 EST 2012


I just bought a DB9 adapter for my RPi, but it has the opposite sex:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230874302440

I'm going to make a cable. Do I use the same pinout as the normal one,
respecting the same pin numbers on the DB-9 side regardless of sex, or
is it different?

Juan

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> 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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