Raspberry Pi upgrade RC5 to RC6 available

You can now upgrade your Raspberry Pi RC5 SD card image to the latest RC6 without having to re-image your card, using PackMan.

See the PackMan User’s Guide for details on how to upgrade. (Network connection required)

Excellent news!

Works fine, although to get sound back I needed to add

to the config.txt and reduce gpu mem to 32

to get my RAM back

You can now upgrade your Raspberry Pi RC5 SD card image to the latest RC6 without having to re-image your card, using PackMan.

And it’s very quick and easy…

You can’t please all the people all the time mode… I had to add back the line ‘disable_overscan=1’ into config.txt in order to get a correct display. Without this I had a black border with a slightly fuzzy display due to the GPU rescaling. This on two different displays, an Iiyama E2409 and and a 32" Panasonic TV

At the moment, it will replace your config.txt with its own version. There’s a good reason for this – we’re upgrading from old to new style firmware (GPU memory set by a line in config.txt rather than picking a start.elf) – so we replace the config.txt with a known-good version to make sure we can boot, with an explicit GPU memory setting. Since the firmware is still changing rapidly and not under our control, we don’t want to leave machines unbootable if people changed their files.

That’s fair enough.

The odd thing about the hdmi_drive=2 is I don’t think I had to do it on the pre-release version. (I suspect it is a firmware thing, I’m using an Atrix.)

Presumably when everything is all settled, there will be an extra option in configure to tweak these settings.