I got the LCD working! But it with using Adafruit's user space LCD 
interface[1].
I still need a framebuffer solution.

--Mark

[1] https://learn.adafruit.com/user-space-spi-tft-python-library-ili9341-2-8

On Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 7:14:19 PM UTC-5, Mark A. Yoder wrote:
>
> Well, I though I had a solution.  I switched from the 4.9 kernel to 4.4
> bone$ *uname -a*
> Linux bone-5eca 4.4.91-ti-r137 #1 SMP Tue Nov 7 01:13:03 UTC 2017 armv7l 
> GNU/Linux
> and I still can't unexport the pins I want for the LCD.
> bone$ *sudo bash*
> bone# *echo 116 > unexport* 
> bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>
> I'm not sure what to try next.
>
> --Mark
>
> On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 9:24:39 PM UTC-5, Yoder, Mark A wrote:
>>
>> I can't unexport them.
>>
>>
>> root@bone-5eca:/sys/class/gpio# echo 116 > unexport 
>> bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>>
>>
>> --Mark A. Yoder, PhD
>>   Electrical and Computer Engineering
>>   Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
>>   812-233-3219
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 29, 2017 9:22:10 PM
>> *To:* Beagle Board; Mark Yoder
>> *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Is cape manager obsolete? What about device 
>> tree overlays? 
>>  
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Mark A. Yoder <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > I see that if I edit /boot/uEnv.txt and comment out:
>> > #enable_uboot_cape_universal=1
>> > I can then access all sorts of gpio pins. But now I can't run 
>> config-pin on
>> > them since there is no pinmux entry in /sys/devices/platform/ocp.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to free up a few gpio pins to drive the LCD and keep the 
>> rest
>> > pinmux-able?
>>
>> I'm not sure why it's broken now, but you should be able to un-export
>> all those pins to drive the LCD, Jason's done it before..
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- 
>> Robert Nelson
>> https://rcn-ee.com/
>>
>

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