Did i brick my clockwork pi? (fixed thanks)

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hello

i was trying to move a file to a specific folder via ssh and i kept getting “permission denied”

after a bit of googling i tried a method which involved this “sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /”

soon after i wasnt able to do much on the device , i restarted it and the usual boot up screen showed up then instead of happy hacking it gave me a permission error (iirc)

i took out the SD card so i could flash a new image on it but later i found out that the clock work pi wont boot up at all , no led lights (without the SD card) etc

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There is no memory to brick except the SD card

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The GameShell will not boot without an SD card. You need to restore the ClockworkOS onto the SD Card and reinsert it.

LasVegas

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Question. I didn’t wanna make a whole new post for it.

Anyone else’s screen very “touchy”? Like. Press on shift and the screen distorts almost like you’re pressing on it?

Is it norm or did I possibly damage my screen a bit during assembly lmao

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its fine for me . it doesnt distort . maybe the case is pressing on the screen

while im here . i get alot of permission denied errors when im trying to move or copy files in some directories and i end up just putting it at " / "

for example i tried to copy a file to ~/apps/launcher/Menu/GameShell/pcsx and i kept getting a no such file or directory

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In those cases, use sudo to execute the command as root. If you’re doing a large amount of work in protected areas, use the command sudo bash first to do all of the work in root mode.

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i was transferring the files via command prompt because ssh felt too slow . now im using winSCP and its all good .

thank you !

one more question . i installed the PSX emulator core from Micro007 in retro arch (and used all the settings in the retroarch megathread) but the Audio quality is not that good . maybe its just how ps1 sounded like but imnot so sure.

any tips ?

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Enabling USB Ethernet speeds up SSH & downloads a great deal.

LasVegas