Next iteration has been done: the Raspberry Pi Model B (the original
Pi, not the 2, 3 or 4) is back!
Well, I made another attempt to use the ODROID XU-4 first. It has the
RTC battery now, I checked all connectors (everything seemed to be OK
on the board) and carefully connected all things: the HDMI, the USB,
the power cable. And result was the same at it was previously: a green
screen (it seems that black and green are swapped). The same cable and
the same HDMI-DVI adapter worked at home with almost the same LCD (the
ViewSonic vp171b vs the vp171s - the "b" and "s" only differs in
plastic frame colors). And it worked well with my home EIZO. So I
decided to stop these vain attempts. I will try to find a different use
for it.
Thus the Pi is back. The device uses the Rapsbian Linux with the LXDE.
It is much slower and has problems with WiFi (I'm going to set the
wpa_supplicant.conf to work with the EDUROAM - hopefully it will be the
solution). At least I have installed some important software pieces
(still have no LaTeX here but the gcc, the git, the XFig, the Gnuplot
and the GNU Octave are installed and working - and the JPilot, too!).
I have found that on this setup is is more comfortable to use the XTerm
at full screen (Alt+F11 in the XDE) with the tmux. It has nicer fonts
(both size and shape - they are the default X11 ones, by the way) than
the default (Gtk+-based?) terminal can use. So for now I use the
XTerm+tmux combination to run the Vim, the Octave and so.
There is the Wolfram's Mathematica pre-installed in the Raspbian. I
should give it a look - I never had an opportunity to use it.
And I'm going to try the FVWM here. It may by lighter and it should be
much more flexible than the default LXDE.
