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/ -- 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.
