I just read this thread and thought "wow, this is the same set of experiences I've had over the last couple months."
"OK, I have read this thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/beagleboard/Iem_mHknIUM/buwAqagYukwJ>twice now, and I still fail to see any real solution in between the discussion of various patches." - me too. As can be seen I also appear in that thread asking questions. "I have made a Cape PCB..."- me too (basically). "I have disabled the loading of all HDMI overlay features in uEnv.txt." - me too. "Yes it seems lots of people are in the same situation." - looks that way to me too. "OK, so despite all the halabaloo about Device Tree Overlays you still need to build a custom kernel to add a new cape at boot, is that so? I kind of thought the whole point was getting rid of that ;-)" - my thoughts exactly ("...I thought the nice thing about the 'cape' concept was that you were supposed to be able to basically plug them in...and they would work"<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/beagleboard/DfdVNS_ubnA> ). "OK, I bit the bullet and went through the custom kernel build process." - me too, after waiting patiently for a fix or other solutions. "Robert, after much headscratching at the various Angstrom download and instruction pages, which seem to be in various stages of bit-rot..." - Agreed. It's difficult to find instructions online that are up-to-date. Spending hours traveling down the wrong path becomes frustrating after you do it multiple times. "...I switched my attention to your stuff, which seems a lot more well maintained." - me too at first (especially after I found a post where Robert said he had taken over pushing changes to the beaglebone fork or something along those lines, and of course I can't find it now, but it made me think that was the best way to keep up-to-date), although I got stuck and am back to using the angstrom-distribution "setup-scripts" method (which seems to be working so far). I am still unsure when a person is supposed to use Robert's instructions versus the angstrom-distribution method. Just today I think I've made progress in this area after trying for several days over the last couple months. I think I have to figure out how to title my questions on Google Groups so people are more likely to answer them. I tried changing my question-asking strategy to a higher-level question (most recent example<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/beagleboard/jMNaPu00JA8>) so more people would feel they could answer, but not even that seems to work. Or maybe it's just the weekend, I'm not sure. At any rate, I just wanted to chime in to make it known that there are definitely others with very similar issues regarding capes. I continue to appreciate the help the forums and lists provide and the work and support of the professionals currently involved with the development of the Beaglebone. I hope we all can get our projects working without too much additional struggle. Cheers! -- 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.
