I'll give 7.9 a go and let you know my findings, thanks.

On Friday, 3 February 2017 13:40:05 UTC, abhilash h wrote:
>
> I had used debian 7.9 
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 7:05 PM, Hugh Frater <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, I'm currently trying to downgrade to a 3.8 revision, 1st attempt 
>> resulted in a 'won't boot, all the LEDs are on' so I guess I missed a step.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 3 February 2017 13:31:00 UTC, abhilash h wrote:
>>
>>> I had used debian . And it worked with busybox rfs and 3.8 kernel also .
>>>
>> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 6:20 PM, Hugh Frater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>> Hi Abhilash, 
>>>>
>>>> That's interesting, I will try and downgrade. May I ask what image you 
>>>> are using now (Angstrom, Debian etc)?
>>>>
>>>> Hugh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 3 February 2017 12:36:34 UTC, abhilash h wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi hugh,  
>>>>>
>>>>> It never worked for me in 4.x kernel. I used to get same values. So i 
>>>>> swutched back to 3.8 kernel . 
>>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 5:47 PM, Hugh Frater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Hi, I'm getting started on a control system that needs to read 2x 
>>>>>> quadrature encoders. One is a 1000 line, the other a 2000 line, but that 
>>>>>> is 
>>>>>> really immaterial. I have the physical interface sorted (one needs a 
>>>>>> 26lv32 
>>>>>> to glue it to the BBB, the other is open collector), and the traces look 
>>>>>> good on the scope.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm running Jessie IOT with 4.4.36, I have disabled hdmi and 
>>>>>> universal cape. I can load Nathaniel Lewis' overlays (supplied with the 
>>>>>> clean install of Jessie) just fine with no errors in dmesg.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However when I 'cat position' in each of the relevant sys entries 
>>>>>> (having moved my encoder A/B lines to the relevant pins each time), I 
>>>>>> get a 
>>>>>> changing value but it isn't meaningful. Am I missing something, or is it 
>>>>>> more likely that I've blown up the inputs? I did power on the servo 
>>>>>> drive 
>>>>>> (that was connected to the 26lv32 breakout board) by accident when the 
>>>>>> BBB 
>>>>>> wasn't powered up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've tested with a simple 24ppr 'audio style' encoder and again don't 
>>>>>> get meaningful results.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do I have to mess about with config-pin for each of the eQEP inputs, 
>>>>>> or should loading the relevant dtbo file for the eQEP module (0, 1 2 
>>>>>> etc) 
>>>>>> set up the pins for me?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There's so much old documentation floating about it's hard to 
>>>>>> identify what is current and what is no longer relevant now that the 
>>>>>> universal-cape is in existence.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards, Hugh
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