thanks William, I wish I could remove the battery cape to test if the pins are all connecting, but unfortunately the battery cape isn't coming off at this point :) once it's down on those pins, it doesn't seem to want to relent.
if you're curious about the hardware it's nothing unusual: i linked to the battery cape and lcd cape above, and besides that it's the latest revision of BBB with Debian Wheezy 7. i definitely had power to the cape, as I could still ssh into it on 192.168.7.2, and ping around, etc. i kept the 5V 2A power supply plugged in. Robert, i'll give that a shot and report back. thanks again! On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 2:36:48 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > Do keep in mind that I know nothing of your hardware, and am not exactly a > hardware guy. However, before you start making modifications to anything I > would check to make sure you have power to the cape first. After that, I > would remove your battery cape, and plug your LCD cape( I'm guessing ) > directly into your BBB and see if it works that way. > > After that I am not exactly sure how I'd proceed, but I may try to find > adapter / extension headers before any thing else. > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:20 PM, jubishop <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> thanks for the followup Robert. I can see who my main source of wisdom >> is going to be here :) >> >> the screen is actually just 100% blank, no cmd line prompt or anything. >> the screen does power on and turn a light grey, and the user and power >> led's on the board light up, but I'm wondering whether maybe I'm not >> getting connection on all the pins, because the battery cape doesn't allow >> the screen pins to slide down into it's female equivalents very far....in >> fact if i flip the board over the screen is liable to just fall out of >> place... :( >> >> i'm going to try outputting the BBB to the tv through the normal HDMI out >> and see if i can bring up a window system that way. >> >> there's just one particular part of the battery cape that is impeding the >> progress of the lcd cape from sliding all the way down onto it's pins. >> that particular part is the jumper pins for setting the EEPROM. I've >> attached a photo. Do you think I could get away with bending these down or >> snipping them off or something? they come with little jumpers to connect >> them in different orientations. if i needed a certain orientation, i could >> just snip the pins and then dab a piece of solder between the ones that >> needed connecting, maybe? >> >> thanks again! >> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/d/optout.
