I had looked at it and overlooked what was the problem but you asking and my copy/paste made me realize I'd cat'ed it onto the capemgr.disable.... mesg with a comma instead of separating it. It now works. Thanks for slap in the back of the head.
Doug On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:29:22 PM UTC-8, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > On 1/28/2014 6:57 PM, doog wrote: > > I'm getting going with LinuxCNC Machinekit on BBB but my first hiccup is > > that I can't get HDMI hardware enabled. I have an HDMI-DVI cable and for > > whatever reason the hardware has to be told to turn on. With Angstrom I > > pass "video=HDMI-A-1:e" on optargs in uEnv.txt but default Debian in > > Machinekit doesn't do it. > > > > is there something I can do to force it on/enabled from the command > line? > > I've tried shelling in with ssh -X then doing xrandr :0.0 --output > HDMI1 > > --auto but it didn't work. > > I'm checking /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/enabled and when booting > > Angstrom without a display connected it states "enabled" as it should. > > Booting Machinekit it states "disabled". > > First, are you sure the option is being passed to the kernel? What does > "cat /proc/cmdline" return? > > Second, have you tried the 'e' flag while also specifying a resolution? > Try something like: > > kms_force_mode=video=HDMI-A-1:1024x768@60e > > ...in /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt. > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- 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.
