the battery cape will come off. William has a good suggestion to test one thing at a time and getting the 2 apart is good practice. just apply gentle but firm pressure on the ends and corners of the boards in question working your way around moving a little on each end at a time (8th or 16th of an inch at most). further if you think contact may be an issue, don't hesitate to push the pins on the lcd board in a bit deeper. things should not be so loose as to fall out when jiggled, though you may have overdone it a bit plugging in the battery cape.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:35 PM, jubishop <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]. >>> >>> 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. > -- 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.
