Where do console messages show up in RasPiOS?

On a Raspberry Pi group, the majority use Raspberry Pi OS.

Do you even use one, or just come here to s*it post?

---druck

Indeed, an SD card is in use. However, it's relatively big and still only 17% in-use according to df. It's unlikely the entire card has been written to even once. It's a Samsung Evo Plus, so a reputable manufacturer. The problem could be the card, but that would be at least slightly surprising.

I'm actually more disturbed at the consistent failure of the 'scope control program working on more recent RasPiOS versions. That's almost certainly a software problem and it seems persistent.

There are install scripts for Windows, MacOS and Debian, naturally I've used the Debian script on RasPiOS. I've looked at the MacOS script to see if it might be adapable to FreeBSD, with which I'm relatively familiar. Clearly there are path differences between MacOS and FreeBSD, which I might be able to adjust. More worrisome is how well the Java libraries in FreeBSD support the 'scope program's requirements. I'm not a programmer, so anything more sophisticated than copy-paste fixes are likely beyond me. I've asked on the developer's GitHub page, no answer yet.

If anybody's got insights on adapting to FreeBSD please let me know.

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska

I think the nail has travelled well into the wood there.

bp> FWIW, the command run was from the raspberry>accessories menu, bp> it's called owon-vds-tiny and it runs control software for a bp> USB oscilloscope. When run from the command line it emits bp> a considerable flow of status information to the controlling bp> terminal.

A few ideas on this.

It looks like some others are having issues with modern versions of libusb and this device (ie: OWON device can't get claimed by libusb started with kernel 6.4.15). This could mean that you need to find an older/unsupported build of Raspbian that may no longer receive updates.

Search the issues section of the github site to see if anyone else is having similar issues:

-- Rob

... My reality check just bounced

You didn’t say “Raspberry Pi users”, you said “people”.

I came here to ask you the same question!

Do you feel you have to use the same distro that the “majority of Raspberry Pi users use”? You don’t feel you can try anything else, that might be better suited to your peculiar needs (or lack of them)?

For example, I understand that there is a version of NetBSD for the Pi as well. You might be happier commiserating among that group.