Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/26/2011 01:24 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: Note that framebuffer and display are 2 completely seperate things. The framebuffer is just a portion of RAM linux will draw into, getting that out onto a display is something else. Yep. And I am happy for this, as in the end I want to design an

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/19/2011 12:16 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: I tried to update the Distribution via the opkg package manager. Lots of files were downloaded, but when opkg tried to install them I get an error message like too small memory. The board has 32 MB RAM Does it really only have 32M or is that

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-26 Thread Koen Kooi
Op 26 jul. 2011, om 12:59 heeft Michael Schnell het volgende geschreven: On 07/19/2011 12:16 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: I tried to update the Distribution via the opkg package manager. Lots of files were downloaded, but when opkg tried to install them I get an error message like too small

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-26 Thread Koen Kooi
Op 21 jul. 2011, om 14:02 heeft Michael Schnell het volgende geschreven: We want to use an LCD display (mainly for development and maintenance). The kit features a socket for the chip's LCD/Video pins. We are going to get an LCD panel to connect to the board or to find a converter that

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/19/2011 12:16 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: We want to use I²S audio output. The kit does feature an I²S to analog converter. (Question 4) How to configure, use and test the audio output ? No idea on that, sorry. I think that's a question for logicPD. Just to let you know: I simply loaded some

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Schnell
We want to use an LCD display (mainly for development and maintenance). The kit features a socket for the chip's LCD/Video pins. We are going to get an LCD panel to connect to the board or to find a converter that allows connecting some standard monitor. (Question 5) How to configure, use

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-20 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/20/2011 10:26 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: that will get you 'opkg-cl' back In fact, IIRC, opkg-cl was not missing, just opkg So just using opkg-cl is the trick :-) now opkg-cl update works and opkg-cl upgrade. just returns after some seconds. seemingly the installation is up to date. thanks

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread David Abdurachmanov
@linuxtogo.org Subject: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808 Hi experts. I am new to this list, so please pardon me, if I violate any rules or this is off-topic here. We are starting to design a controller based on an AM1808 (or maybe an upcoming AM 335x) chip. Right now, we just have a Development

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Koen Kooi
Op 19 jul 2011, om 11:31 heeft Michael Schnell het volgende geschreven: Hi experts. I am new to this list, so please pardon me, if I violate any rules or this is off-topic here. We are starting to design a controller based on an AM1808 (or maybe an upcoming AM 335x) chip. Right

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/19/2011 12:16 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: Over here at angstrom we suggest angstrom :) Yep. As I am new to angstrom. I) wanted to make sure that it's suitable for embedded controllers with AM1808 or AM 335x Does it really only have 32M or is that artificially limited by uboot setting

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/19/2011 12:19 PM, David Abdurachmanov wrote: For installing additional packages I would suggest you building it yourself and installing on machine: opkg installpackage_name.ipk opkg did load the .ipg files, but when trying to install them I get: root@da850-omapl138-evm:~# ls -l ppp*

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Gary Thomas
On 07/19/2011 05:22 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/19/2011 12:19 PM, David Abdurachmanov wrote: For installing additional packages I would suggest you building it yourself and installing on machine: opkg installpackage_name.ipk opkg did load the .ipg files, but when trying to install them I

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Koen Kooi
Op 19 jul 2011, om 13:14 heeft Michael Schnell het volgende geschreven: On 07/19/2011 12:16 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: Over here at angstrom we suggest angstrom :) Yep. As I am new to angstrom. I) wanted to make sure that it's suitable for embedded controllers with AM1808 or AM 335x Does

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/19/2011 01:37 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: If you attach a serial console and go into uboot you can do the following (hawkboard has a AM1808 as well): ... I'll try that ASAP. So that's almost a year ago. Trying to update thru opkg would upgrade everything, so I'd advice generating a brand new

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Gary Thomas
On 07/19/2011 06:30 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: On 07/19/2011 01:25 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: What kind of disk space do you have available? You might be able to add a swap file to extend your 32MB of RAM. I understand that there is a lot of disk space, as an SD-card is used for the root file

Re: [Angstrom-devel] AM1808

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/19/2011 01:25 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: What kind of disk space do you have available? You might be able to add a swap file to extend your 32MB of RAM. I understand that there is a lot of disk space, as an SD-card is used for the root file system. meminfo says: SwapTotal: