SignageWithAlpineLinux

Signage with Alpine linux on the raspberry pi

Steps:

• Format SD-Card as FAT32 with a MSDOS partition table
• Grab the base file system from the alpine linux website (pick aarch64)
• Mount new partition and unzip archive directly to SDcard
• umount and plug SDcard into raspberry pi
• boot and log in as "root" without entering a password
• Make sure the raspberry-pi is connected to the internet
• start "setup-alpine"
• Agree to install on /dev/mmcblk0p1
• install as "sys
• add user e.g. "sign"
• nano /etc/apk/repositories and uncomment the community repository
• apk update
• apk add nano screen
• add file boot/usercfg.txt

disable_overscan=1
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
gpu_mem=128

• (optional) switch to udev

setup-devd

• install window manager

apk add seatd wlr-randr mesa-dri-gallium sway

• start seatd on boot and add "sign" to its group

rc-service seatd start
rc-update add seatd default
adduser spn seat

• setup autostart of of sway as user "sign"
• copy and edit sway config for user "sign"

mkdir -p /home/sign/.config/sway
cp /etc/sway/config /home/sign/.config/sway
echo "seat seat0 hide_cursor 8000 # hide cursor
exec /home/sign/run.sh" >> ~/.config/sway