On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Aitor Ardanza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to operate the Seeds Studio HDMI cape into the BeagleBone Green
> with last firmware. The LCD screen that I'm using is a 5" size and 800x480
> resolution touch screen. I know that this resolution is not supported
> directly by the beaglebone but as I read is posible to configure
> beaglebone's out resolution manualy. But that's a problem that I will
> later. The screen works because if I connet it to the laptop I can see the
> laptop desktop there.
>
> So with newly installed firmware the output of the "cat
> /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots" command is
>  0: PF----  -1
>  1: PF----  -1
>  2: PF----  -1
>  3: P-----  -1 Beaglebone green hdmi cape,00A0,Seeed,BB-GREEN-HDMI
>  4: P-O-L-   0 Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,univ-emmc
>
> So with this, I can interpret this firmware brings support for this cape,
> but is not loaded for some reason...
> I try editing the /boot/uEnv.tx file adding
> "cape_enable=bone_capemgr.enable_partno=BB-GREEN-HDMI" line but it has not
> been effective.
>
> I found multiple threads with information to disable the hdmi in
> beaglebone, but nothing about how to activate the hdmi cape. SeedStudio
> gives you a firmware but is out of date and I want to try to configure it
> for the last firmaware.
>
> Can anyone give me some tip as to which way to go?
>

For this cape, you'll need to downgrade to 3.8.x:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone79
sudo reboot

I haven't got it working on v4.1.x yet..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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