Gerald, You are prolly right but I thought the xM would give me a bit more processing power, still learning.
liyaoshi, They were on ebay $50 each and I got all they had. I am sure if you watch there will be more. On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:10:09 PM UTC-5, Jon Holcomb wrote: > > All: > First off, thanks to Brian Hensley and Robert Nelson for their wealth of > information and support. > > I am a retiree that, after a 30+ year stint building electronic/mechanical > devices in the medical research field in a MS Windows centric university , > thought that I would expand my horizons and decided to play with the BBxM. > I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and have gotten to the point where I am ready to > try and compile a u-boot.img in order to > set the pinmux values. I have downloaded and ran the TI Pinmux utility > and have made the mux.h and pinmux.h files. I have the u-boot source file > from denx.de and have expanded it and have found the board/ti/beagle and > evm subdirectories. > > I have read a lot of stuff on the internet but since things change daily I > want to check on several things. > Bear with me if I am asking obvious questions but I am still learning to > get around in the linux environment and I have seen conflicting info in > various posts. > > 1. Where in the tree do these files go? Do I need to make changes to > evm.h? > 2. I have the spidev working that RCN made available via the uEnv.txt > change uncommenting buddy = spidev. Will my changes to the pinmux affect > this. > i.e Do I have to set the SPI3 and SPI 4 pins as well as the I2C pins > in the utility? > 3. Should I assume that the baseline that is given by the pinmux utility > sets all of the proper pads for the correct functioning of the BBxM? > 4. Am I going dangerously wrong in any of this??? Have I missed anything? > > I bought 3 BBxMs off of eBay and gave one to my buddy that just retired as > Director of IT at the university where I worked. I had Ubuntu and lxde > already running on the BB. > I told him the first one is free - just like crack, and yes he is addicted. > > Thanks in advance for your help > Jon > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
