Debian 12 - 2.10 master branch image for the Raspberry Pi 4b/400

Found that suggestion. Got everything running now.
I've very impressed with the latency numbers - an order of magnitude better than what I was getting before.
Thanks for the help!

ckuecker wrote:

I've very impressed with the latency numbers - an order of magnitude better than what I was getting before.
 

Thanks. Good feedback. Getting a decent 64 bit kernel onto the pi makes quite a difference!
A lot of other installs are only 32 bit.

Thanks for your work on this. I will get a chance this weekend to see if this works OK with my Mesa card and current configuration.

I didn't know about menu-config so I set TZ on the clock app and I just ended up installing:
"synaptic" for searching for relevant packages to install and the only package were I needed the command line.
"network-manager-gnome" for a network status applet and more advanced gui network management (i.e. setting up a static IP for a Mesa card).
"mousepad" for a confusingly-named lightweight gui text editor that is usually a default in XFCE.

I know that you want to keep things small and that there is some expectation that folks know their way around an apt command but I would suggest those three apps be included in the base image to avoid dead ends for those not familiar with the terminal and CLI. There are minimal dependencies that those bring in.

The standard network manager that comes with XFCE is included and is very good.
Geany is included as a text editor and is far superior.
To tell the truth I’ve never used synaptic for package installation.
The aim of the image was to put together what is required to run Linuxcnc and to do some basic housekeeping.

Fair enough ... I will give Geany a try.

I went back and re-imaged just to check if I missed something. There was no network setting menu nor applet when I first booted up ... although my wired connection was configured via DHCP correctly by NetworkManager when I plugged it in.

I checked that the applet was not hidden / not running by default. I also looked in all dropdown menu settings but there just wasn't any way to configure network other than nmtui or menu-config which work, but were not that discoverable.

Which standard network manager option are you referencing?

XFCE network manager top right hand corner where the network connection is shown.