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Empty desktop after typing "startx"

I've flashed a 2GB SD card with the Raspbian wheezy image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads, which boots up fine, but after typing "startx", I'm facing an empty desktop with the raspberry logo; nothing further happens. The pointer moves, I…
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Can I use an Amazon Kindle Fire power supply?

So i have a spare Kindle Fire power adapter: it's quoted as 5V @ 1.8A. I haven't tried as I don't really want to risk blowing it up!
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How can I access my Raspbian Wheezy installation via SSH? Is it enabled by default?

Is SSH enabled by default on the Raspbian Wheezy 7 install image? And if it is, which IP address is used so I can access Pi via PuTTY and Filezila? Important! As per Philippe Lhardy's answer current (post ~2016) versions of Raspbian do not have…
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Raspberry Pi Won't Boot

I have tried multiple operating systems... Raspbian Debian OpenElec Raspbmc Two different SD cards... Sandisk 2gb BE1210021871G Sandisk 4gb And two different Raspberry Pis. I cannot get any combination to boot. I followed the OSX install guide…
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Is there any point to a 2.0A (or greater) power supply, given the 1.1A polyfuse?

My question: it's my understanding, based on the official Raspberry Pi FAQ, the wiki, and numerous forum threads on Stackexchange and elsewhere, that the Raspberry Pi has a 1.1A polyfuse on the micro-USB input, which limits the total current that…
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Does Atlassian JIRA run well on the Raspberry Pi?

Using the RaspPi to run an issue tracker such as Atlassian JIRA seems a natural use case. However, apart from this Spanish-language blog post nobody seems to have tried it yet, and that one does not give any details. Is JIRA usable when run on the…
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How do I connect Raspberry Pi to my TV?

I have an old TV set and it does not have HDMI. I wanted to know how to connect my RPi to it and which cables I should buy. Problem is I don't know what are these inputs called as, so I couldn't Google. The front panel of TV has 3 inputs,…
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I get WiFi timouts with the rt2800usb driver

I use the rt2800usb driver (with a RT5370 USB dongle) and configurated my Raspberry Pi as a WiFi hotspot with hostapd. The problem is, that I get periodically timeouts (see example). This wouldn't be a problem if I wouldn't use my RPi as a remote…
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use ssd as main drive

I would like to know, if it is possible to use a SSD as the only drive for a Raspberry PI. The reason is, I would like to use it as database- and webserver and I am not sure about the lifetime of SD-cards.
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How to set up a Static IP on Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspbian - dhcpcd.conf missing

I am trying to set up a static IP lease on Raspberry Pi 5. The /etc/dhcpcd.conf file does not exist and dhcpcd is not installed. Following the latest guides does not work. I ideally don't need to use DHCP, but if there's a way that works with either…
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Boot from USB with a Raspberry Pi 4B that apparently has a broken SD card reader

I have spent the last couple of days testing my Raspberry Pi 4B to be able to boot from the SD card. Apparently, I think that the SD card reader stopped working, and I can not have any OS inside my Raspberry Pi 4B. I noted that there are a couple…
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Is there a port of DirectFB?

The website states that progress has been made "using Raspberry PI or other Broadcom hardware". I've looked at their graphics support and BCM2835 wasn't there. If it has been ported then what are the required libraries and tools to compile it for…
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Watch YouTube in Browser with Raspbian

What is the easiest way to watch YouTube in a web browser when using Raspbian? I tried using something called PiVid with Chromium, but videos never played (despite it otherwise working as described here: Bringing YouTube to Raspberry Pi Browsers. …
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How can I install the RT5370 WiFi dongle driver on Arch Linux?

I would like to get the Ralink RT5370 module to work on the Pi, but I couldn't find any tutorial related to the Arch Linux. How can I install the RT5370 WiFi dongle driver on Arch Linux? I found these instructions, but they are for a Debian system…
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Cannot SSH to Raspberry Pi via WiFi only

I am having trouble connecting to my Raspberry Pi over SSH when it is connected through WiFi. When the RasPi is connected through Ethernet everything works fine. However, when it is connected through the WiFi dongle, I can ping the router (on…
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