Not only what John says, but if you have problems with a specific piece of hardware made by a specific person or entity. You really need to be demanding satisfaction from them. Not the open source community.
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:12 PM, John Syne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Terry Storm <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant > > > A little birdy told me that Angstrom has been abandoned for the BBB ?? > > If this is the case, and seems to be the case as there hasnt been an > update for the Angstrom image for the BBB for quite some time, and there > are still a number of issues with LCD CAPES which have not yet been > resolved... > > What is the 'new' standard distribution for the BBB going to be now? > > Us LCD CAPE users are having a hard time getting touch working reliably > for a wide range of LCD Capes on the market. I know most of us don't know > enough to fix problems ourselves or know what the problem is actually > caused by, and we don't know if anyone is working on these issues or if > they are being ignored or pass over, or if 'the people' who do know what is > going on just don't have time to look at them etc? > > Starting to really dislike this whole 'open' community based thing > especially when there are issues and no one wants to own them. These issues > have been reported for many months, and we are no further ahead. > > Hi Terry, > I think you are mistaken in treating this community as some sort of > commercial product support. Everyone here is a volunteer and give freely of > their own time to support users like yourself. I’m not sure that you will > get much help by demanding that works gets done. Also, the ARM based Linux > community went through dramatic changes (devicetree, display subsystem, > etc) since the V3.2 kernel and we are expecting things to settle down after > V3.12. There are users working on the issues your mentioned and I expect > that you will see many of these issues resolved in the next several weeks. > I just think you stepped into this at the wrong time. BTW, you are always > welcome to fix anything that is broken since everyone has access to the > same tools and source code; but you won’t be able to do that with > commercial software. > Regards, > John > > > Does anyone know of anyone who is working on the LCD CAPE touch issue > which is a problem on Angstrom (and maybe others which use the same > driver/source?) > > Terry > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
