[SGVLUG] Raspberry Pi 50% Performance Boost

[James McDuffie]

Also one more thing that I forgot. Check that you have:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list

If not add this to it:
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ wheezy main

This gives you access to the raspberrypi.org specific packages such as 
raspberrypi*, raspi-config.

apt-get will complain about an untrusted source until you add the public 
key for raspberrypi.org:
wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/raspberrypi.gpg.key -O - | 
sudo apt-key add -

On 09/19/2012 09:18 PM, James McDuffie wrote:
> You probably do not have to reflash. Looking at the latest wheezy image
> from raspberrypi.org I see that /etc/apt/sources.list has:
>
> deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib
> non-free rpi
>
> If your already using a wheezy based image you could make your
> sources.list consistent with that and then try the apt-get dist-update
> route. If anything your probably just missing the "contrib" and "rpi"
> package locations.
>
> I was using a Raspbian image from before the official raspberrypi.org
> one and doing this did not blow up my Pi. Yet.
>
> Clicking through from the blog post I sent earlier:
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=17788&p=176847
>
> You can see instructions on how to update the firmware:
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install raspberrypi* raspi-config
>
>
> On 09/19/2012 08:16 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
>> Oooh, on further reading I want that update.  My WiFi dongles aren't
>> happy with the August kernel (goes into a tight kernel loop in the USB
>> driver).  I guess I'm going to have to re-flash my OS image with
>> September's code drop and try again.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dvdmatt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Urm.  Nice, but the command produced:
>>     The following packages have been kept back:
>>        alsa-base
>>     0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>
>>     Either I already had the update from August or there is another
>>     dependency.  As this post is dated today this does not compute.
>>
>>     Matt
>>
>>     On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:22 PM, James McDuffie
>>     <mcduffie at pitfall.org <mailto:mcduffie at pitfall.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         If you have a Raspberry Pi and you are using the wheezy image
>>         from their website, you can now get a 50% speed increase just by
>>         running apt-get upgrade.
>>
>>         "Introducing turbo mode: up to 50% more performance for free"
>>         http://www.raspberrypi.org/__archives/2008
>>         <http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008>
>>
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