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Questions tagged [driver]

Questions about software drivers for external peripherals as well as drivers for the system components. This is NOT for questions about "driver boards", e.g., for motors; use 'dc-motor' instead.

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Level of Hackability of raspberry pi

I have been working with embedded systems (mostly micro controllers) for about 3 years. I want to know how much of RPi of actually open source?? I know arduino gives us complete details of hardware /software etc. But what about RPi? This is…
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How do I load a module at boot time?

As stated in Why is my Audio (Sound) Output not working?, to initialise the sound driver, you must run sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835 every time you want to output sound. How do I get this to run on boot? (i.e. before logging in and without any input)
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Hooking up a Kinect?

There is a driver project established to run Kinect on Linux. See here: https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect Will this work with an RPi? What are the constraints/obstacles likely to be? I'm thinking this would be a real help for an ambitious…
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What SPI frequencies does Raspberry Pi support?

What SPI frequencies does Raspberry Pi support? Additionally: Are they all supported by the bootc.net SPI driver? Are there any additinal things I should be cautious about when trying to communicate with some other chip via SPI?
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Playstation Emulation

Does anyone know if it is possible to get the PCSXR (Playstation 1) emulator to work on the Raspberry Pi? On both Debian Squeeze and Wheezy, running any game on it with the xvideo plugin just gives. RGB & YUV not found. Quitting. I presume this…
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Has anybody tried to Debug using JTAG/BDM?

Is there a useable JTAG/BDM interface available on the Raspberry Pi? What hardware Debugger is needed for Debugging ? Can Open OCD be used?
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Kernel .config necessary options

I'm interested in compiling a custom kernel for the pi. I have the source from the github archive, which includes a make target for a default configuration: make ARCH=arm bcmrpi_defconfig But (as with normal linux distro kernels) this includes a…
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Enable monitor mode in RTL8188CUS realtek wifi USB dongle

I am trying to enable monitor mode in a RTL8188CUS dongle attached to a raspberryPI. This is the error I get when I try to change the mode: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET…
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Mysterious RPi wifi problem -- No wireless interfaces found

Alright, I have been unable to find a solution to this problem anywhere else online, so please bear with me: I have a new Raspberry Pi Model 2B which came with a wifi dongle (Ralink RT5370) and when I fired it up with the pre-installed Raspbian,…
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Does anyone know of any kernel/driver programming tutorials?

I'm interested in using the RPi to teach myself hardware level programming. I've searched the internet for some tutorials for RPi but all I find are general "how to compile the kernel" tutorials. I'm more interested in actual "how to write kernel…
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Enable monitoring mode for RTL8188CUS via USB on Raspbian

I am trying to enable monitoring mode for a USB wifi dongle with the RTL8188CUS chipset on a raspberry pi model b+ (or any raspberry pi for that matter). $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN…
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Can I use a DHT22 as a temperature sensor for my Pi?

Is it possible to use a cheap temperature sensor such as the DHT-22 with the Raspberry Pi? I have found Arduino drivers for this and many similar things, and would be comfortable porting the code to the Raspberry Pi, but my understanding is that…
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Learning Linux driver development with Raspberry Pi

I'd like to write a Linux device driver for some real hardware device. What Raspberry Pi peripherals are a good fit? Basically I need the following: It must be small enough for a beginner (few month at most, better few weeks). Datasheet must be…
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Using USB as a slave

is it possible to have the Rpi act as a USB slave/device. I would like to be able to connect its usb to the USB of a standard computer, have the host machine recognize the RPI as a USB disk and then programmatically deal with the incoming data. Any…
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Is it possible to communicate with I²C devices via the GPIO?

Is it possible to communicate with I²C devices via the GPIOs? Also, are there any existing drivers or libraries that make this possible from Python?
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