Micro HDMI - no sweat ... Micro HDMI to HDMI for $5.00 on Amazon.. The brick and mortar stores around me also attempt robbery when it comes to cables....
:-) http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_3_9/182-5664315-3225654?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=micro%20hdmi%20to%20hdmi%20adapter&sprefix=microhdmi%2Caps%2C310 No need to run headless! Dave On 4/29/2013 7:57 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 4/29/2013 7:35 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > >> Greg - >> >> Am 29.04.2013 um 11:11 schrieb Gregg Eshelman<g_ala...@yahoo.com>: >> >> >>> --- On Sun, 4/28/13, Michael Haberler<mai...@mah.priv.at> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> ad 1): Kent was the first to try and confirmed the BBB does >>>> NOT boot this image; however, it doesnt boot the BBW >>>> Angstrom card supplied with the BBW either, so we're in good >>>> company and I am pretty sure this is a trivial issue to >>>> resolve once I can get my hands on a BBB. >>>> >>> Not a good thing for a new product launch to ship it with software that >>> doesn't actually work. >>> >> I think you're reading something here which isnt there. >> >> I did _not_ say the BBB doesnt work with the Angstrom SD card as delivered. >> I said 'it doesnt work with the BBW image'. >> >> Since the BBB has some differences to the BBW, among them 2GB flash >> on-board, that wasnt entirely unlikely to happen. >> >> >> > Indeed, there is no uSD card in the Beaglebone Black box; the onboard > flash memory contains an Angstrom image, and the boot code is set up for > it by default. > > I can accept this cost-cutting measure. It's harder for me to accept > that the uSD socket is very vulnerable to accidental electrical shorts > when no card is inserted. If you're a messy desktop experimenter like me > you'll want to protect the exposed opening of the socket by mounting the > board, contriving a cover, or somesuch. > > From the standpoint of marketing hype, a more interesting cost-cutting > measure is the use of a microHDMI connector. Add at least US$10 to the > cost of the board if you want to bring out video. Locally, > microHDMI-to-HDMI cables cost at least US$30. Don't have any in my > junkbox so I"m running headless (which should come as no surprise to > some of you). > > Regards, > Kent > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now& We'll Send You this Cool Shirt > New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service > that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your > browser, app,& servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic > and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
