On Friday, 30 January 2015 13:49:56 UTC+11, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:37 PM, agent paisley <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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. >
Ok, yes xinput_calibrator works. Thanks mate. > > > 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/ > I am sticking to 3.14.30-ti-r47 and testing repo , thanks :) Everything is working nicely for QT5 development. qtcreator 3.2.1 / qt5.3.2 installed via apt-get all work. QT Creator wasn't auto configured properly, but it was possible to get it to work manually configuring the 'kit' via (Tools->Options) setting the qt versions and compilers. Very nice work to all involved! Andy -- 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.
