I grabbed the stretch image and played with it some today. It turns out there is no GUI installed. I checked with Robert Nelson, and he indicated the image was made at the request of a user who did not need the GUI (or was using one of the remote user interfaces), so it isn't included.
You should be able to install one of the desktops via Debian packages, but that might be more work than you're wanting to tackle. If you only want to use a remote UI, you can just launch machinekit and specify the configuration file (so it doesn't try to launch the configuration picker gui): machinekit path/to/your.ini ...or you can just use the Jessie image, which has a desktop already installed. I'll try to find enough time over the holidays to get the stretch image fixed up. Assistance welcome, grab the source and send pull requests based on: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder On 11/13/2018 9:55 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Please keep questions on the list. > > I'm pretty sure the image should have a GUI, but I haven't tried the > latest Stretch download for a while and updates are being handled by > RCN. Is the HDMI out working (eg: you have a display, but it's a text > terminal console) or is there no display at all? > > If there's no display at all, check the uEnv.txt file and make sure > HDMI is enabled. > > On 11/12/2018 10:05 PM, Peter Huerter wrote: >> Thank you for the advice. I've flashed over the stretch image, but this >> one doesn't seem to have a GUI? >> >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 8:23 AM Charles Steinkuehler < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 11/11/2018 7:57 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm having trouble getting my copy of Machinekit configured on the >>>> Beaglebone Black. I am currently getting the below error: >>>> >>>> [image: Machinekit_error_0.JPG] >>>> >>>> >>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I installed the below >>> build: >>>> >>>> [image: Machinekit_error_1.jpg] >>>> >>>> Which was sourced from here: >>>> >>>> >>> https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit >>>> >>>> >>>> If anyone can help me with this I would be eternally thankful. >>> >>> Just start with the Stretch image, which is a bit further down the page: >>> >>> >>> https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit_2 >>> >>> Try the Probotix configs as-is before making any changes. If the >>> Probotix configs don't load, try some of the other BeagleBone configs >>> (without any hardware attached, just the BeagleBone!) to see if they >>> load. I don't think the Probotix configs get a lot of testing, so >>> something may have gotten broken and not been noticed. >>> >>> -- >>> Charles Steinkuehler >>> [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: >>> https://github.com/machinekit >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Machinekit" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> > > -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
