On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:15 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to this world and to this forum so I don't know is it the right
>> place for the question.
>> I've been trying to install ubuntu on my beagleboard xM for a few days now
>> and still no success. First I tried to install it using windows 7 following
>> this tutorial:
>> http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoard-xM
>> and I've managed to successfully install demo OS that is shipping with the
>> Beagleboard xM, but when I tried to do the same with Ubuntu 14.4 I ran into
>> a problem. Installation on the SD card went without a glitch but when I
>> tried to boot it from BB xM all I got was a brief orange screen and than
>> nothing, TV was signaling "No signal" but in a very uncommon fashion (like
>> he is getting something but can't interpret it). Next interesting thing was
>> that my keyboard worked, when I pressed CTR+ALT+DEL it restarted. I looked
>> all over the internet but couldn't find a solution.
>>
>> Ubuntu .img I got from here: https://rcn-ee.net/deb/microsd/trusty/
>>
>> Can someone help me with that? And can someone point me to some older Ubuntu
>> .img files (not .tar)?
>
> Sounds like edid detection of your monitor failed. Do you have a
> serial connection avaiable to debug?
>
> In /boot/uEnv.txt you can force a resolution via:
>
> cmdline=video=DVI-D-1-1:1024x768@60e

Opps, extra "-1" in there:

cmdline=video=DVI-D-1:1024x768@60e

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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