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Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
The recent frontpage article about how to enable the extra 256MB on 512MB Pis has gone out of date because the arm384_start.elf file is no longer present at the destination of the link in the second line of that article. There are a couple of start.elf files in that directory but the description "add vcgencmd get_config for extracting config.txt settings" does not seem relevant to this problem.
On the other hand, there are three very new kernel.img files all of which have the description "Remove plethora of start.elf files". The implication, possibly, is that we should replace the present kernel.img file with one of these so that the start.elf file is no longer required (ie, the new kernel may dynamically allocate the split as required?).. but I have seen nothing which actually says that, and if you didn't know that start.elf had something to do with controlling the memory split then it would never occur to you to do this.
Edit: just found it in another post in this forum: "Test whether Raspberry Pi has 512MB RAM"
But could you please amend that news item anyway?
On the other hand, there are three very new kernel.img files all of which have the description "Remove plethora of start.elf files". The implication, possibly, is that we should replace the present kernel.img file with one of these so that the start.elf file is no longer required (ie, the new kernel may dynamically allocate the split as required?).. but I have seen nothing which actually says that, and if you didn't know that start.elf had something to do with controlling the memory split then it would never occur to you to do this.
Edit: just found it in another post in this forum: "Test whether Raspberry Pi has 512MB RAM"
But could you please amend that news item anyway?
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
A new system for setting the GPU ram is forthcoming and I expect a new post about it and probably an updated img file as well.
For those industrious enough to download the new files (there are 8 I believe) and replace the current content of /boot with the new files you can set the GPU memory in two ways
in config.txt add the line
gpu_mem=
or
gpu_mem_percent=
They also stack so if you use
gpu_mem_percent=25
gpu_mem=16
it will allocate 25% of the ram (64 MB for the 256 MB PI and 128 for the 512 MB PI) then add an additional 16 MB (giving you a total of 80 MB or 144 MB depending on which Pi you have)
For those industrious enough to download the new files (there are 8 I believe) and replace the current content of /boot with the new files you can set the GPU memory in two ways
in config.txt add the line
gpu_mem=
or
gpu_mem_percent=
They also stack so if you use
gpu_mem_percent=25
gpu_mem=16
it will allocate 25% of the ram (64 MB for the 256 MB PI and 128 for the 512 MB PI) then add an additional 16 MB (giving you a total of 80 MB or 144 MB depending on which Pi you have)
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Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Here's the how-to I made from my troubles getting it to recognize the memory split for 512MB Pi boards
Create your new installation on SD
boot it
change the following in raspi-config
· Resize partition (as needed)
· change password (as needed)
· 128mb split (or whatever value you need)
· timezone set to your locale
Exit raspi-config (do not choose to reboot yet)
set your time
date -s "22/10/2012 08:00am"
Run raspi-config again
· update raspi-config (now that your date/time is set properly)
Exit raspi-config
sudo reboot (to Resize partition)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git (Since you can't run rpi-update without it)
sudo wget http://goo.gl/1BOfJ -O /usr/bin/rpi-update
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update
sudo rpi-update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo sh -c 'cp /root/.rpi-firmware/* /boot'
sudo rm /boot/arm*_start.elf
cd /boot
sudo nano config.txt
Add "gpu_mem_512=XXX"
Add License Keys for MPEG & VC-1
Add overclocking settings (if desired)
Ctrl=O
Ctrl-X
sudo shutdown -r now
Create your new installation on SD
boot it
change the following in raspi-config
· Resize partition (as needed)
· change password (as needed)
· 128mb split (or whatever value you need)
· timezone set to your locale
Exit raspi-config (do not choose to reboot yet)
set your time
date -s "22/10/2012 08:00am"
Run raspi-config again
· update raspi-config (now that your date/time is set properly)
Exit raspi-config
sudo reboot (to Resize partition)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git (Since you can't run rpi-update without it)
sudo wget http://goo.gl/1BOfJ -O /usr/bin/rpi-update
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update
sudo rpi-update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo sh -c 'cp /root/.rpi-firmware/* /boot'
sudo rm /boot/arm*_start.elf
cd /boot
sudo nano config.txt
Add "gpu_mem_512=XXX"
Add License Keys for MPEG & VC-1
Add overclocking settings (if desired)
Ctrl=O
Ctrl-X
sudo shutdown -r now
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Interesting I didn't have to do the _512 to get the right memory showing up. I'll be interested in reading the official "do it this way" explanation on the GPU memory.notarat wrote: Add "gpu_mem_512=XXX"
Also for some reason every time I tried to do an r-pi update it errored out on me yesterday. It might have been an issue with git, I uninstalled and reinstalled it today and it seems to be working a little nicer
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Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Having read what Dom wrote, there are a couple of ways you can express the GPU memory.abishur wrote:Interesting I didn't have to do the _512 to get the right memory showing up. I'll be interested in reading the official "do it this way" explanation on the GPU memory.notarat wrote: Add "gpu_mem_512=XXX"
Also for some reason every time I tried to do an r-pi update it errored out on me yesterday. It might have been an issue with git, I uninstalled and reinstalled it today and it seems to be working a little nicer
If you use "gpu_mem=xxx", the GPU takes the specified amount of memory regardless of the total memory available.
If you use "gpu_mem_512=xxx", then the GPU takes that amount of memory *if* the total memory is 512 MB.
There is also "gpu_mem_256=xxx" which allows you to specify how much GPU memory to use on a 256MB board.
Using these enables one to have different amounts of GPU memory on different boards, but use a single config.txt to do it.
I think it's a wonderful improvement...and I don't even have a 256MB Rev. 2, let alone a 512MB Pi...yet.
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Ah, that would explain why both worked sufficiently well, thanks!W. H. Heydt wrote:Having read what Dom wrote, there are a couple of ways you can express the GPU memory.abishur wrote:Interesting I didn't have to do the _512 to get the right memory showing up. I'll be interested in reading the official "do it this way" explanation on the GPU memory.notarat wrote: Add "gpu_mem_512=XXX"
Also for some reason every time I tried to do an r-pi update it errored out on me yesterday. It might have been an issue with git, I uninstalled and reinstalled it today and it seems to be working a little nicer
If you use "gpu_mem=xxx", the GPU takes the specified amount of memory regardless of the total memory available.
If you use "gpu_mem_512=xxx", then the GPU takes that amount of memory *if* the total memory is 512 MB.
There is also "gpu_mem_256=xxx" which allows you to specify how much GPU memory to use on a 256MB board.
Using these enables one to have different amounts of GPU memory on different boards, but use a single config.txt to do it.
I think it's a wonderful improvement...and I don't even have a 256MB Rev. 2, let alone a 512MB Pi...yet.
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Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
My understanding is that some of the commands actually stack so, in the example below, the system would reserve 128MB of RAM for the GPU.abishur wrote:Ah, that would explain why both worked sufficiently well, thanks!
gpu_mem_512=96
gpu_mem=32
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Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
No. That would be 96M for GPU on 512M part, and 32M for GPU on 256M part.notarat wrote: My understanding is that some of the commands actually stack so, in the example below, the system would reserve 128MB of RAM for the GPU.
gpu_mem_512=96
gpu_mem=32
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
any idea when we will see a new image?
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
I have a 512Mb pi
This is what I have done and the results
A working Raspbian on the SD card.
Downloaded all the latest boot files from Github manually using raw.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware ... aster/boot
Pasted them with overwrite onto the root of the SD card
(This was done from a windows machine)
i then used wordpad to edit the config.txt file on the SD card and added these lines at the end
# This is an attempt to give 32Mb to GPU with the rest 480Mb for CPU
gpu_mem_512=32
SD card back in the pi and a reboot was successful
checking the memory using cat/proc/meminfo|grep Mem
produced this
cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 481508 kB
MemFree: 342180 kB
A complete sucess - but I wanted to know will the memory change if i change config.txt again ......
I then tried this which stopped the HDMI working for me but everything else worked and had the expected memory allocation
# This is an attempt to give 16Mb to GPU with the rest 496Mb for CPU
gpu_mem_512=16
I just used nano to amend the config.txt file this time
checking the memory using cat/proc/meminfo|grep Mem
produced this
cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 497764 kB
MemFree: 366276 kB
(My HDMI no longer produce any display with 16mb)
using nano i changed the config.txt file to change the split to 256 CPU 256 GPU and rebooted.
# This is an attempt to give 256Mb to GPU with the rest 256Mb for CPU
gpu_mem_512=256
meminfo now produces
cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 254124 kB
MemFree: 111352 kB
and HDMI works fine again
This is what I have done and the results
A working Raspbian on the SD card.
Downloaded all the latest boot files from Github manually using raw.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware ... aster/boot
Pasted them with overwrite onto the root of the SD card
(This was done from a windows machine)
i then used wordpad to edit the config.txt file on the SD card and added these lines at the end
# This is an attempt to give 32Mb to GPU with the rest 480Mb for CPU
gpu_mem_512=32
SD card back in the pi and a reboot was successful
checking the memory using cat/proc/meminfo|grep Mem
produced this
cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 481508 kB
MemFree: 342180 kB
A complete sucess - but I wanted to know will the memory change if i change config.txt again ......
I then tried this which stopped the HDMI working for me but everything else worked and had the expected memory allocation
# This is an attempt to give 16Mb to GPU with the rest 496Mb for CPU
gpu_mem_512=16
I just used nano to amend the config.txt file this time
checking the memory using cat/proc/meminfo|grep Mem
produced this
cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 497764 kB
MemFree: 366276 kB
(My HDMI no longer produce any display with 16mb)
using nano i changed the config.txt file to change the split to 256 CPU 256 GPU and rebooted.
# This is an attempt to give 256Mb to GPU with the rest 256Mb for CPU
gpu_mem_512=256
meminfo now produces
cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 254124 kB
MemFree: 111352 kB
and HDMI works fine again
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
jwlittle, I used your above procedure and it worked without any problems. I added the following line in config.txt:
gpu_mem_512=64
Everything is working normally, and Webmin reports the correct memory available.
I should also mention that when I opened config.txt in notepad, all the text was concatenated into two or three long lines. I added line breaks at the appropriate places (# marks, etc.) to make it easier to read. This did not create any problems; the system processed it just fine.
Thanks for the post!
gpu_mem_512=64
Everything is working normally, and Webmin reports the correct memory available.
I should also mention that when I opened config.txt in notepad, all the text was concatenated into two or three long lines. I added line breaks at the appropriate places (# marks, etc.) to make it easier to read. This did not create any problems; the system processed it just fine.
Thanks for the post!
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The notepad all on one line issue is that the file used Linux line endings, which are not recognised by Notepad. See here for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_endin ... n_problemsknowack wrote:jwlittle, I used your above procedure and it worked without any problems. I added the following line in config.txt:
gpu_mem_512=64
Everything is working normally, and Webmin reports the correct memory available.
I should also mention that when I opened config.txt in notepad, all the text was concatenated into two or three long lines. I added line breaks at the appropriate places (# marks, etc.) to make it easier to read. This did not create any problems; the system processed it just fine.
Thanks for the post!
Principal Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi Ltd.
Working in the Applications Team.
Working in the Applications Team.
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Hi
I am hoping you can help me out here, I have just received my Raspberry Pi which should be 512MB "k4P4G324EB" and according to Raspberry the 4G inclusive indicates it has 512MB. but no matter what I do all I get when I run "cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem" is Total = 185MB.
So I am wondering, am I doing anything wrong, I am following your instructions to the letter, admittedly except for changing the date and time, still I never see the 512MB materialize.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One quick note - I should mention I am a novice at using the Raspberry Pi and the use of the CLi.
Thanks
I am hoping you can help me out here, I have just received my Raspberry Pi which should be 512MB "k4P4G324EB" and according to Raspberry the 4G inclusive indicates it has 512MB. but no matter what I do all I get when I run "cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem" is Total = 185MB.
So I am wondering, am I doing anything wrong, I am following your instructions to the letter, admittedly except for changing the date and time, still I never see the 512MB materialize.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One quick note - I should mention I am a novice at using the Raspberry Pi and the use of the CLi.
Thanks
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
First get gitmnjaafar wrote:Hi
I am hoping you can help me out here, I have just received my Raspberry Pi which should be 512MB "k4P4G324EB" and according to Raspberry the 4G inclusive indicates it has 512MB. but no matter what I do all I get when I run "cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem" is Total = 185MB.
So I am wondering, am I doing anything wrong, I am following your instructions to the letter, admittedly except for changing the date and time, still I never see the 512MB materialize.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One quick note - I should mention I am a novice at using the Raspberry Pi and the use of the CLi.
Thanks
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sudo apt-get install git
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https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update
once you've gotten it, run it with
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sudo rpi-update
Once it's done, you'll need to edit your config file to take advantage of the memory available.
do
And wherever is convenient, add a new line that sayssudo nano /boot/config.txt
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# Memory Allocation for GPU Memory
gpu_mem_512=192
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Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Hiabishur wrote:First get gitmnjaafar wrote:Hi
I am hoping you can help me out here, I have just received my Raspberry Pi which should be 512MB "k4P4G324EB" and according to Raspberry the 4G inclusive indicates it has 512MB. but no matter what I do all I get when I run "cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem" is Total = 185MB.
So I am wondering, am I doing anything wrong, I am following your instructions to the letter, admittedly except for changing the date and time, still I never see the 512MB materialize.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One quick note - I should mention I am a novice at using the Raspberry Pi and the use of the CLi.
Thanks
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sudo apt-get install git
to get rpi-update, this is a very handy tool for updating the firmwareCode: Select all
https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update
once you've gotten it, run it with
This will allow you to take advantage of the increased memory.Code: Select all
sudo rpi-update
Once it's done, you'll need to edit your config file to take advantage of the memory available.
do
And wherever is convenient, add a new line that sayssudo nano /boot/config.txt
The line with the # isn't really necessary, it's just a description for you for the next time you open the file. The line "gpu_mem_512=" tells the pi how much RAM you want to give to the GPU. I believe 16 is the smallest amount of ram you can give to the GPU and still have everything happy, if you want to use things like xbmc, I'd advise giving it at least 128, though as you can see I gave it 192. If you want to run headless, then 16 is plenty.Code: Select all
# Memory Allocation for GPU Memory gpu_mem_512=192
Thanks for the help, I wanted to let you know what happened.
After going through the steps you gave this is what happened after the reboot.
I ran free on the CLi and the result was as follows
mem: Total=189 Used=178 Free=11 Shared=0 Buffer=29 Cached=97
-/+ buffers/cache: Used=51 Free=138
swap: Total=0 Used=0 Free=0
I should note when I first ran rpi-update, it said 'start.elf' was missing so I had to download it and place it in the /boot folder from the site provided by Raspberry
I also had to run rpi-update twice because the first time it asked is git a repository
FYI
My config.txt is
core_freq=250
sdram_freq=400
over_voltage=0
arm_freq=700
gpu_mem_512=192
Thanks again for the help
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
First off, if you look at the main chip on the PI, do you see "2G" or "4G" written on it?
Second can you re-run rpi-update and copy/past the output it gives?
Second can you re-run rpi-update and copy/past the output it gives?
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Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
The main chip has the following K4P4G324EB-AGC1, so 4Gabishur wrote:First off, if you look at the main chip on the PI, do you see "2G" or "4G" written on it?
Second can you re-run rpi-update and copy/past the output it gives?
The output of rpi-update
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 189608 178752 10856 0 29940 97644
-/+ buffers/cache: 51168 138440
Swap: 0 0 0
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo rpi-update
Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS
Performing self-update
ARM/GPU split is now defined in /boot/config.txt using the gpu_mem option!
Updating firmware (this will take a few minutes)
fatal: http://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware.git/info/refs not valid: is this a git repository?
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo rpi-update
Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS
Performing self-update
ARM/GPU split is now defined in /boot/config.txt using the gpu_mem option!
Updating firmware (this will take a few minutes)
Your firmware is already up to date
pi@raspberrypi ~ $
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
It's a little odd that it had the error at first, when you first log in you should see a linux version followed by a # what does yours say?
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I am using Wheezyabishur wrote:It's a little odd that it had the error at first, when you first log in you should see a linux version followed by a # what does yours say?
I ran the following to get the version info
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.2.27-cutdown-aufs #11 PREEMPT Fri Sep 21 14:35:17 CEST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd version
Sep 20 2012 01:16:53
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 338245 (release)
pi@raspberrypi ~ $
Here is a picture of the version once I logged in
http://www.web-island.net/screencap1.jpg
I also took a picture of the screen when it booted up, hope it helps
http://www.web-island.net/screencap.jpg
I re-ran rpi-update from scratch, here is the before and after
BEFORE REBOOT
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install git
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
git-man libcurl3-gnutls liberror-perl rsync
Suggested packages:
git-daemon-run git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-arch git-cvs git-svn
git-email git-gui gitk gitweb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
git git-man libcurl3-gnutls liberror-perl rsync
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,622 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libcurl3-gnutls armhf 7.26.0-1 [306 kB]
Get:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main liberror-perl all 0.17-1 [23.6 kB]
Get:3 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main git-man all 1:1.7.10.4-1+rpi11 [1,074 kB]
Get:4 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main git armhf 1:1.7.10.4-1+rpi11 [5,863 kB]
Get:5 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main rsync armhf 3.0.9-3 [355 kB]
Fetched 7,622 kB in 13s (585 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libcurl3-gnutls:armhf.
(Reading database ... 57768 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcurl3-gnutls:armhf (from .../libcurl3-gnutls_7.26.0-1_armhf.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package liberror-perl.
Unpacking liberror-perl (from .../liberror-perl_0.17-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package git-man.
Unpacking git-man (from .../git-man_1%3a1.7.10.4-1+rpi11_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package git.
Unpacking git (from .../git_1%3a1.7.10.4-1+rpi11_armhf.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package rsync.
Unpacking rsync (from .../rsync_3.0.9-3_armhf.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libcurl3-gnutls:armhf (7.26.0-1) ...
Setting up liberror-perl (0.17-1) ...
Setting up git-man (1:1.7.10.4-1+rpi11) ...
Setting up git (1:1.7.10.4-1+rpi11) ...
Setting up rsync (3.0.9-3) ...
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ca-certificates is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo wget http://goo.gl/1BOfJ -O /usr/bin/rpi-update
--2012-11-01 01:36:17-- http://goo.gl/1BOfJ
Resolving goo.gl (goo.gl)... 173.194.34.166, 173.194.34.169, 173.194.34.167, ...
Connecting to goo.gl (goo.gl)|173.194.34.166|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-updat ... rpi-update [following]
--2012-11-01 01:36:17-- https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-updat ... rpi-update
Resolving raw.github.com (raw.github.com)... 207.97.227.243
Connecting to raw.github.com (raw.github.com)|207.97.227.243|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5649 (5.5K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `/usr/bin/rpi-update'
100%[======================================>] 5,649 --.-K/s in 0.001s
2012-11-01 01:36:24 (10.6 MB/s) - `/usr/bin/rpi-update' saved [5649/5649]
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 189608 170588 19020 0 14756 88192
-/+ buffers/cache: 67640 121968
Swap: 0 0 0
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 189608 kB
MemFree: 18412 kB
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo rpi-update
Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS
Performing self-update
ARM/GPU split is now defined in /boot/config.txt using the gpu_mem option!
We're running for the first time
Setting up firmware (this will take a few minutes)
fatal: http://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware.git/info/refs not valid: is this a git repository?
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo rpi-update
Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS
Performing self-update
ARM/GPU split is now defined in /boot/config.txt using the gpu_mem option!
We're running for the first time
Setting up firmware (this will take a few minutes)
Using HardFP libraries
If no errors appeared, your firmware was successfully setup
A reboot is needed to activate the new firmware
pi@raspberrypi ~ $
CONFIG.TXT Settings
core_freq=250
sdram_freq=400
over_voltage=0
arm_freq=700
hdmi_drive=2
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
gpu_mem_512=192
AFTER REBOOT
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.2.27-cutdown-aufs #11 PREEMPT Fri Sep 21 14:35:17 CEST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd version
Sep 20 2012 01:16:53
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 338245 (release)
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 189608 kB
MemFree: 10796 kB
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 189608 176492 13116 0 28484 93632
-/+ buffers/cache: 54376 135232
Swap: 0 0 0
pi@raspberrypi ~ $
I hope this makes things clearer, if not, please let me know if there's anything I can do.
Thanks again
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
okay, so yeah, it's not updating your firmware for some reason. Do a
That should get you to the most recent firmware. I prefer using rpi-update, but I'm not certain why it's not working for you 
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I ran what you suggested, rebooted and looks like no change.abishur wrote:okay, so yeah, it's not updating your firmware for some reason. Do a
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
I'm not sure if this is a factor, but I use Berryboot when setting the Raspberry Pi, and it's still on the SD afterwards.
Here is the out after running it, tried to attach a file of it, TXT,RTF,DOC,DOCX non were allowed
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy InRelease
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy InRelease
Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy/main armhf Packages
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Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/contrib armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/non-free armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/rpi armhf Packages
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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libmikmod2 lxsession
The following packages will be upgraded:
aptitude aptitude-common binutils bsdutils dbus dbus-x11 dpkg dpkg-dev gdb
gdbserver gnome-themes-standard gnupg gpgv insserv isc-dhcp-client
isc-dhcp-common iso-codes kmod libblkid1 libcap2 libcroco3 libdbus-1-3
libdpkg-perl libgail-3-0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgtk-3-0
libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libkmod2 libluajit-5.1-common libmount1
libparted0debian1 libproxy0 libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev
libraspberrypi-doc libraspberrypi0 libsdl-mixer1.2 libtiff4 libuuid1
libxcb-glx0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb1 libxml2
libxslt1.1 luajit manpages manpages-dev module-init-tools mount net-tools
openssh-blacklist openssh-blacklist-extra parted python-pygame
python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio raspberrypi-bootloader rsyslog squeak-vm
tasksel tasksel-data tzdata util-linux vim-common vim-tiny xkb-data xml-core
xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
74 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
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pi@raspberrypi ~ $
After reboot
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal: 189608 kB
MemFree: 10380 kB
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 189608 179404 10204 0 73744 54756
-/+ buffers/cache: 50904 138704
Swap: 0 0 0
pi@raspberrypi ~ $
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Berryboot does not update the firmware as it uses a custom kernel. If you are using Berryboot then you will have to wait for an updated Berryboot version.
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
When I ran the setup, one of the first thinks it did was to alert me that there was a new Berryboot and firmware and would I like to download update. I said yes, it did and it carried on the setup.itimpi wrote:Berryboot does not update the firmware as it uses a custom kernel. If you are using Berryboot then you will have to wait for an updated Berryboot version.
Is there a way to update the firmware manually.
Re: Amend frontpage item re: 512MB
Hiitimpi wrote:Berryboot does not update the firmware as it uses a custom kernel. If you are using Berryboot then you will have to wait for an updated Berryboot version.
Just wanted to update you after much thinking on what to do, I decided to forgo berryboot and download the image file of wheezy from the raspberrypi download page and use win32diskimager-binary to install it directly into the sd drive.
what I found is that it worked
I set the GPU in the memory split section of raspi-config to 192
here is the output after the "free" command
------------total -------used --------free ---shared ---buffers ---cached
Mem: 318948 ---108188 ---210760 -----------0 ----12140 ---49152
-/+ buffers/cache: 46896 ---272052
Swap: 102396 -----------0 ---102396
Previously it was
-------------total -------used --------free ---shared ---buffers ---cached
Mem: 189608 ----179404 -----10204 ----------0---- 73744 -----54756
-/+ buffers/cache: 50904 ----138704
Swap: -------0 ------------0 ------------0
The way it works now is that, when you enter the memory split section of raspi-config all you need to do is type in the amount you need.
Thanks for all the help you gave, it was much appreciated.