Raspberry PI

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@Bbond

You seem to have some odd USB issues there... Issues similar to what I had with the pre-Raspbian distribution.

Make sure you have run "apt-get update" followed with "apt-get upgrade", which will do a system update.

Also why are you only running 800Mhz turbo? Try at the top setting first and only drop down if you suffer any stability issues.

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bbond007: I think you have something wrong somewhere.   My 256Mb Pi (and those of friends) all work fine with whatever keyboard/mouse we happen to have spare.  It definitely sounds like something isn't right there ...

Thinking about it, I suspect that bbond007 has a power supply issue... The Raspi model B needs at least 700mA to function and some keyboards/mice will try and pull much more that that.

I'm using a 1.2A (IIRC) supply, and have has no USB issues at all.

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@bbond007

Well, I would say backlit keyboards definitely pull too much current... But as you say, it's on a powered hub so that "should" be a non-issue.

Also, you should run the Pi at 1Ghz turbo mode really... And only drop it down if the device is unstable (an unstable pi, will just reset when the load is too large) at that over clock. Linux is not a lightweight OS by any standard, and prefers the faster clock speed!

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Cool. I'll try it when I get home, I'm at the eye doctor now and I don't know if they would appreciate me plugging in the PI to the TV in the waiting room.... But if they take as long as usual...

I also tried playing a few video files, one was 1080 h264, one was Divx. Used VLC, mplayer, the supplied one(o..something) and it did not go well. I did end up buying those codecs, hopefully it helps. Not installed them yet. I was playing the video files from /home/pi...

For video playback I use omxplayer (which is command line only at the moment), it plays back 1080p H.264 videos with virtually no CPU usage!!!

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Wow! I received a shipping notice from Farnel, I guess the backlog is clearing