On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:52:01 -0800, Zeph writes:
>i need to reconfigure the pins that are not by default gpio. For example 
>P8_46 pin which is by default an LCD_Data pin.

by default the lcd pins are assigned to/used by the hdmi framer, as per the
system reference manual.

>When using the BBB with a debian stretch image I can use those pins as 
>gpio. However, when I use my ubuntu distro, those pins will not work as 
>gpio. When I try and reconfigure the pins using the config-pin utility I 
>get this error:
>
>P8_46 pinmux file not found!

to make these pins available for other purposes you'll need
to disable hdmi, using "disable_uboot_overlay_video=1" in uEnv.txt.

see for example:
https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/issues/139
and not quite as directly related:
https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/issues/76

>This slots file doesn't exist and so I can never proceed.

the slots stuff is long gone, you need to convince your uboot (via uEnv.txt)
to load the relevant overlays.
see https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#U-Boot_Overlays for
a little bit of explanation.

>Note: I need to be running the ubuntu distro.

you may have to update your uboot version to make the u-boot overlay stuff
work properly, but otherwise there shouldn't be any big differences
between ubuntu and debian that are relevant for your specific situation.


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