I solve it. I edited and recompiled the am335x-bone-common.dtsi and place 
it in the /boot directory of the beaglebone black. it now loads the desktop 
and runs my LCD on startup.

On Sunday, October 13, 2013 4:40:45 PM UTC+8, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Yey thanks. I got to see xterm. But I need to see the desktop view so that 
> I can test the touch screen. Maybe I got the wrong image flashed to 
> beaglebone. I used this to reflashed my BBB when SSH stop working: 
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/angstrom/demo/beaglebone/BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.06.20.img.xz
>
> I think I should have flashed the one with gnome thingy.
>
> I also had this problem that my dtbo is not loaded at boot time. I was 
> able to unload the HDMI.
> here's what's inside the uEnv.txt
> optargs=quiet capemgr.disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN 
> capemgr.enable_partno= name of my cape
>
>
> where <name of my cape> is replaced with the name of the cape in my dts.
>
> This does not load my LCD. So I had to load it manual into the slots.
>
> On Sunday, October 13, 2013 8:01:01 AM UTC+8, garyamort wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, October 12, 2013 6:45:21 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh well, I got it working. I disconnected the PWM pin in the backlight 
>>> controller an just left it pulled up. I now have a display. But it is a 
>>> console. I though angstrom has gui. 
>>>
>>
>> When booting up, most modern linux configurations check for a working 
>> monitor when booting.  If the monitor is there it starts the windowing 
>> system.  If there is no monitor it doesn't.
>>
>> Considering the window system takes a lot of memory, it just makes sense 
>> not to load it if it doesn't do anything.
>>
>> If you have a keyboard connected, try logging in and running 'startx" 
>> from the command line.
>>
>> If you don't have a keyboard connected, then you will need to SSH to the 
>> system...  I'm not sure what the command is from remote...maybe try 'startx 
>> &' ? 
>>
>

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