On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:37 PM, agent paisley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> With the factory flashed eMMC image , the 4DCape-70T was detected on boot
> up, and a calibration screen was launched before the GUI. This calibration
> application included a countdown timer , shown using a animated color circle
> in the middle of the screen. Everything worked nicely on a quick test.
>
> Using http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian, I used a 8Gb uSD
> card to flash the jessie debian testing image from 2015-1-27 to get access
> to qtcreator (for qt 5) via apt-get. [
> https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-01-27/lxqt-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-jessie-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-01-27-4gb.img.xz
> ]
>
> The 4DCape-70T didnt work on boot up, but required adding in a
> dtb=am335x-boneblack-4dcape-70t.dtb  line in /boot/uEnv.txt and rebooting.
> The LCD cape works for display, but the calibration application wasn't
> installed.
> I did install a "libts-bin" from wheezy , and can run ts_calibrate, but this
> isn't the same version (or maybe not even the same program) as above. It
> looked partially the same, but for instance had no timer, counting down. I
> presume that the timer was added, because it was added into the boot-up
> sequence. However, even with the version of ts_calibrate it still is very
> badly calibrated, with the boundary areas inaccessible, and has ghost input
> / skipping the cursor around the screen.

Don't use libts-bin, use xinput-calbrator (which is already installed)..

However i haven't wired it up the lightdm "yet"

Priority right now is to ship the last "wheezy" stable release..
Before i focus entirely on jessie.

> Any hints how to get back to the calibration program via the factory flashed
> version of Debian? I can offer to port it to Debian testing BBB image. :-D
>
> Less important, since i can patch around it, but what changed between the
> (presumably) Wheezy image and jessie image, so that the cape isn't
> automatically available anymore?

Well, downgrade to:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone70

and your cape will be autodetected..

Regards,

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

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