Hi,
What 'patch' are you referring to? I never heard of having to apply any 
patches to get PWM to work.



On Thursday, December 12, 2013 2:18:49 AM UTC-7, Giuseppe Iellamo wrote:
>
> Just to tell you.
>
> I use PWM on BBB and encoders and they are working quite well.
>
> You have to use kernel 3.8.13
> You have to patch pwm test using
> https://github.com/SaadAhmad/beaglebone-black-cpp-PWM<https://github.com/Teknoman117/beaglebot>
>
> and if you have encoders try 
> https://github.com/Teknoman117/beaglebot
>
> all that you need is:
>
> http://www.phys-x.org/rbots/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106:lesson-3-beaglebone-black-pwm&catid=46:beaglebone-black&Itemid=81
>
>
>
>
> Il giorno mercoledì 11 dicembre 2013 14:18:10 UTC+1, Sika ha scritto:
>>
>> HI Ian, 
>>
>> Sorry to say it did not work for me either. I think Adafruit are aware of 
>> it -- I posted a bug notice  a couple of weeks ago and they deleted it 
>> because there was one already.
>> PWM on the BBB does not seem to be working real well at the moment. I got 
>> it to work fine on the RPI with the equivalent library.
>> It was OK for me in the end --Im using a stepper, and I've just been 
>> switching the GPIO on and off in python -- which seems as fast as I need.
>>
>> Better than trying to use PWM in my case, anyway.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:46:47 PM UTC+10, [email protected]:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm a newbie to the Beaglebone Black. I'm trying to get a servo moving 
>>> with the BBB. I have a separate 5V power supply going to my servo and the 
>>> signal wire (orange) going to P8_13 on my BBB and going to the servo orange 
>>> wire (signal).
>>> I have confirmed that my wiring is definitely correct.
>>> How can I go about getting PWM to function? or even test to see if it's 
>>> working? I have tried the Adafruit_BBIO library which is supposed to work - 
>>> but it's not working.
>>> I have also tried to use GPIO to display a message within my SSH window 
>>> when a push button switch is pressed - nothing there either. It seems none 
>>> of the IO ports on the BBB are working. I have actually purchased another 
>>> BBB thinking that my first one was broken. I have the same result on both 
>>> of my BBBs.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any step by step directions that can help me? I really 
>>> want to start creating things and playing but nothings working... :(
>>> I've searched google endlessly and have gone to basically every article 
>>> to try and get more information but still at a loss. Any help would be 
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>>

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