On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM, blues man <[email protected]> wrote:
> I followed the advice generously offered by others here, expanded the file > system to the full 64G on my uSD card, burned a fresh Debian Jessie image > from BB.org, and am now running nicely from the card. So I reinstalled > JRiver Media Center 21 (which I love and have running on multiple other > machines - including a Pi 3 - and had running on my 'bone during their > development & beta period for Linux on ARM), expecting everything to be > fine - but the JRMC window is just a white rectangle. The advice I got > from the JRiver tech staff was that the color bit depth on my BBB is > probably set to 16 (which turned out to be correct) and has to be set to 24 > for JRMC to display properly. So I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change > the bit depth from 16 to 24 in the display section, and I couldn't reboot > afterward. I got everything back to the above state again but changing the > display section in the xorg.conf file from 16 to 24 again prevented booting > and I had to restore the original intact image to get it running. And I > cannot find any other configuration file with a color bit depth setting in > it. > > This has happened to others - there are several posts on various boards > about it. But no one has posted a solution anywhere else. Does any of you > have an idea how I can get my display up to 24 bits? Thanks!! > This is a hardware limitation of the beaglebone black in it's default state... The HDMI framer chip used is only wired to the am335x in 16bit mode... Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYizMskNV22E40RFgt9h%2BB5AdcM5UzPF53CWWZE0Dsp9mg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
