Hi folks,
Has anyone here tried using a picoscope with Slackware? I bought a 2204 a couple of years ago and have made several attempts at getting it to work with Slackware 14.2.

The makers supplies software for Linux but only for 2 distros not really suited for this kind of work (Ubuntu & OpenSuse)? I have tried installing & converting from both with no luck.

A report on my attempts can be found here. I see no reaction from 'udev' when I plug it in. I can get the software to start but it only runs as described in the link above.

Has anyone had any luck with these gadgets?

Cheers, Kimdino

This will be hard to troubleshoot actual functionality since I don't have a "picoscope" (just regular oscilloscopes ). However, I went to their website to see what they provide for drivers/software for the 2204. They provide a driver download, as well as an AppImage. Any chance you tried the AppImage? because that would be the simple route. The download link is here: https://www.picotech.com/downloads/_...og-6-for-linux
I chmod +x that AppImage and it ran okay from what I can tell (UI is working at least). It asked to install a udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and I stopped there since I have no actual picoscope hardware.

I'm using slackware64-current so there is a difference as far as system config and libs, but an AppImage is supposed to be a self contained image, AFAIK. IMO its still worth a shot trying that way before trying to see if the package compiled for ubuntu has the right libraries.

Edit: Maybe that software isn't the same thing? Second guessing that now since it's saying picolog.

Further Edit: I extracted the contents of the .deb package for the picoscope 2000 series from here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libps2000/ I just tested using a 14.2 chroot and installing the opt/ contents from that package. It looks like 14.2 should have all the libraries for their libps2000.so library so nothing obvious for why it shouldnt work there. Hopefully someone else with an actual picoscope can chime in.

Thanks OXBF,
Sorry for not replying sooner, somehow I missed your post.

Yes, the Appimage is for picolog only. I checked for an Appimage for the scope software but there doesn't seem to be one.

I already have libps2000 installed on my system. I got it when I installed their deb.

Cheers, Kimdino

I don't know if this is any help but there's a package for Arch Linux built from the Debian package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/picoscope/. There's a udev rule in the Sources section and it says to a add a "pico" group and add the users you want to use the scope to that group. That might be Arch specific but I wonder if it means the software needs a "pico" group.

I had picoscope working on 14.2 several years ago. Currently using 6.13.7 - it won't start

Reverted to 6.11.13 - picoscope starts.

My device is a 2206B this time not tested it in earnest, but it previously worked successfully. Will try a proper test and measure something, I'm sure it will work!

Picoscope 6.13.7 won't start on 14.2 or current.

Picoscope 6.11.13 works as expected on 14.2 and current.