Re: [beagleboard] Re: Passwordless login to GDM for user other than root

2013-11-09 Thread Will Kostelecky
Don: Thanks for your advice. First on the parameters. I did try the auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin parameter a while ago and it did not make any difference. I think whoever did the image for the BBB used the timed login to make sure some startup stuff

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Knee Brace Project planted with 6 Accelerometers and BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Mike Bremford
If they're analog, surely you'd just hook them up to the analog pins and read them the normal way? Probably with a couple of resistors to reduce the voltage range to 1.8V? http://learn.adafruit.com/measuring-light-with-a-beaglebone-black?view=all Out of curiousity is there a reason you're using

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black freezing, USB related?

2013-11-09 Thread Mike Bremford
I switched up to Kernel 3.12 and that certainly fixed my stability issues with USB - haven't seen any USB related issues since then, wireless is fine, 3G modem is fine, everything working. Unfortunately I've lost my UARTs, but that's a different story and no doubt one that will resolve itself as

[beagleboard] compiling kernel 3.12 on beaglebone black?

2013-11-09 Thread Jacob Ole Juul Kolding
Hi I'd like to try compiling Linux kernel 3.12 for my BBB, but i don't really know where to start. Can anyone give me any pointers? I'd prefer to compile directly on the BBB instead of cross-compiling. Thanks /Jacob -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received

[beagleboard] Re: Knee Brace Project planted with 6 Accelerometers and BBB

2013-11-09 Thread TI_University_Program
Hello Zain, I'm no help on the coding, but would like to answer your question on resources for learning more about BeagleBone Black. Best place to start is the http://www.beagleboard.org/ getting started link. Plug in your board first to see the tutorials. Both of these books are available

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Passwordless login to GDM for user other than root

2013-11-09 Thread Will Kostelecky
Don: Thanks for your help... there is obviously something going on under the covers that I just don't want to invest the time right now to try and debug. I hope that it is something simple and that someone that has it working in Angstrom world can help with. Running as root for now as that

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Knee Brace Project planted with 6 Accelerometers and BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Zain Dar
Thanks Cathy for the help, I have been using the beaglebone getting started link and have been trying out the examples, they have been a great help with the tutorials. As for the ebooks, il think about it, but thanks for referring them to me. Prof. Molloy's tutorials have also been helpful, I'll

[beagleboard] Re: Bonescript serial communication ttyO4

2013-11-09 Thread Chris Rogers
I am not sure if you are still having issues - but I got this example working : https://github.com/jadonk/bonescript/blob/master/test/test-serial.js To get that version working, I had to do a few things: 1. you have to have python on your bone # opkg update # opkg install python-compiler

[beagleboard] Re: npm install bonescript Error

2013-11-09 Thread Chris Rogers
Hi all - I am running into the same problem - but the workaround does not seem to fix it. It gets me past the bad python call - but does not compile. Any insights? Thanks root@beaglebone:~# npm install bonescript --save npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bonescript npm http 304

Re: [beagleboard] Setting Up SD Card

2013-11-09 Thread scutzhh
hi Mr Robert Nelson setting up bb by http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu is too slow, it takes about 5 hours after run the setup_sdcard.sh script,it is due to the internet speed. though,l think is there an easy way to boot up BB?more convienient? THX -- For more options, visit

[beagleboard] Re: npm install bonescript Error

2013-11-09 Thread Chris Rogers
And I figured out my error... if you type: beaglebone# nano /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configsre.js search for semver.lt and replace if (semver.gte(version, '2.5.0') semver.lt(version, '3.0.0')) { getNodeDir() } else {

[beagleboard] GPIO Programming c++ library digita I/O + ADC + PWM

2013-11-09 Thread francescocenci...@cencio.info
Hi all, and sorry for bad english... I'm an engeneering student. I've found some C++ library about controlling digital I/O, but nothing about ADC read and PWM. I think that are a lot of people that prefer programming in C++, so I wondered if it is possible to develop a library for Digital I/O

Re: [beagleboard] Installing ubuntu 13.04 server

2013-11-09 Thread hvn052
Op vrijdag 8 november 2013 22:10:07 UTC+1 schreef RobertCNelson: On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:46 PM, hvn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Op vrijdag 8 november 2013 19:02:03 UTC+1 schreef RobertCNelson: dpkg-divert: error: unable to create new file '/var/lib/dpkg/diversions-new':

[beagleboard] BBB: update the software

2013-11-09 Thread Tiziano de togni
Days ago I got my BeagleBone Black card. Actually I'm very satisfied for the choice, I got quite exactly what I expected, and now I have a lot of things to learn. The next step for me will be to update the software, and I will not proceed until I will have clear the whole procedure to

[beagleboard] C-Media USB 2.0 Headphone Set no sound

2013-11-09 Thread oene . bakker
Hello, I plugged in a C-Media 7.1 sound card in the BBB with Ubuntu 13.04 (SD card boot). Everything looks allright but there is no sound. Also the C-Media didn't become the default sound driver. Please help. I did the following:

[beagleboard] PWM is missing value files (period, duty_cycle, run).

2013-11-09 Thread Bodo Kaiser
Hi, I am trying hardly to enable pwm on archlinux-3.8.12-13 on the Beaglebone black. I came so far that after exporting the overlay there is a directory at /sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_16.15. Unfortunately there are no files in this directory which would allow me to modify duty_cycle,

Re: [beagleboard] Setting Up SD Card

2013-11-09 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:46 AM, scut...@gmail.com wrote: hi Mr Robert Nelson setting up bb by http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu is too slow, it takes about 5 hours after run the setup_sdcard.sh script,it is due to the internet speed. though,l think is there an easy way to boot up BB?more

[beagleboard] Re: A Guide for Determining Pin Mux Settings in the Device Tree:

2013-11-09 Thread James Zapico
I just noticed a problem with the http://pinmux.tking.org/p9.html tool. The p9.html page incorrectly flips the input enabled bit. This is confirmed by looking at the javascript. The index.html (p8) javascript has this: if (document.getElementById(inputEnabled).checked){ decPinmux += 32; } The

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Knee Brace Project planted with 6 Accelerometers and BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Mike Bremford
Nice of the other team to leave you no documentation... I guess if I was stuck with 12 analog inputs and only 7 pins to read them on I would use something like a 74HC4051 to multiplex the inputs - use 3 gpio pins to control which of the 8 inputs is connected to the ADC on the BBB. Or use an

[beagleboard] RE: Ubuntu 13.04 Beaglebone Black ethernet connection SSH

2013-11-09 Thread Priyank Patel
Hello all, I have Beaglebone Black eMMC flashed with Ubuntu 13.04 (armhf). I power it up via USB cable phone charger and connected to my computer via ethernet. I was successfully able to SSH when I had Ansgstrom distrib., with both USB provided and Ethernet via command ssh

Re: [beagleboard] Cannot SSH to ubuntu in BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Priyank Patel
Hello Robert, I have similar problem and posted it to http://bit.ly/17fFOLX. I am running 13.04 armhf with your kernel. How to I run this script that you mentioned above. Thanks. -Priyank On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 9:27:49 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:48 AM,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Knee Brace Project planted with 6 Accelerometers and BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Zain Dar
I know, I felt really annoyed that the Prof who provided the brace was not so keen on how it was tested... yet provide at least a history report on it. If the inputs of analog sensors require an extra chip, then I will need to look around for the chips mentioned in the previous post. Thanks alot

Re: [beagleboard] Cannot SSH to ubuntu in BBB

2013-11-09 Thread Robert Nelson
On Nov 9, 2013 4:28 PM, Priyank Patel priyankpatel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robert, I have similar problem and posted it to http://bit.ly/17fFOLX. I am running 13.04 armhf with your kernel. How to I run this script that you mentioned above. Thanks. Search the forums you're missing a program

[beagleboard] U-boot zImage uInitrd confusion?

2013-11-09 Thread Jacob Ole Juul Kolding
I have successfully compiled a zImage of linux 3.12.0 for my beaglebone black but my image is called uImage-dtb.am335x-boneblack and the kernel file in /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt is called zImage. How do I boot the uImage and what ramdisk file must I use? Thanks /Jacob -- For more options, visit

[beagleboard] Re: HDMI video output too wide on screen

2013-11-09 Thread raa . internet
I was having the very annoying problem of having the edges with the menus of the GUI outside of the screen for my Panasonic and Toshiba TV's. The solution I found for the Panasonic TV was to select: MENU PICTURE ADVANCED MENU HD SIZE: 2 The default HD Size is 1 for the Panasonic TC-37LZ85X.

[beagleboard] Re: U-boot zImage uInitrd confusion?

2013-11-09 Thread Jacob Ole Juul Kolding
Hmm uInitrd doesn't seem to do anything even though its specified in uEnv.txt. Anyway I followed this guide: http://wiki.beyondlogic.org/index.php/BeagleBoneBlack_Building_Kernel and copied kernel/arch/arm/boot/zImage to /boot/uboot on the flash card, and it booted (uname -a confirms that its

[beagleboard] Best way to build Angstrom kernel

2013-11-09 Thread Seth
I would like advice on the best way to rebuild the Angstrom kernel for the BBB. I need to do this because I do not want HDMI support, but DO want Audio cape support. I have read (last post herehttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/ZJGwxA7BG4E) that disabling HDMI patches and

[beagleboard] Getting started information for ubuntu 13.04 on BBB (similar to Angstrom)

2013-11-09 Thread vinayak aghor
Hello All , I have downloaded *ubuntu-raring-13.04-armhf-3.8.13-bone20* from http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/beaglebone-black/ installed on SD card. It started fine. Is there any documentation on how to SSH to PC through USB0 (same as angstrom), changing resolution of screen through