[beagleboard] Setting the CPU speed.

2014-03-14 Thread cwrseckford
I've been looking at the speed of my BBB and not really understanding what's going on. The files under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq show that the performance governor is in use, but the speed is a constant 550,000 whatever the load. The scaling_setspeed unsupported entry probably

[beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread Thorsten Gonschior
NEWS: - Show stopper - After clearing up some technical aspects I ran into a major show stopper. Price of QNX Develoment environment is about 10.000,-eur. Even if I would be willing to invest this kind of money, my tarket was to establish a development platform for engineering offices. I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread David Lewin
Well that was my point in my previous comment. Whereas I think QNX is a really great RTOS hopefully brigded to opensource -whereas being closed source- in recent years (yes recent compared to 20 years of existence) , from the start I've believed in the µKernel architecture as the best one. Anyway,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread Thorsten Gonschior
quote: Seems not so obvious. So QNX has an opensource part but for BBB it implies these steps ... hm, ok sry I must have missed your point :) I agree that QNX is probably the best choice for a robust and well designet real time embedded system. In this I do not bother the OS-price or royalty

Re: [beagleboard] Setting the CPU speed.

2014-03-14 Thread Maxim Podbereznyy
cpufreq-info cpufreq-set 2014-03-14 13:31 GMT+04:00 cwrseckf...@gmail.com: I've been looking at the speed of my BBB and not really understanding what's going on. The files under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq show that the performance governor is in use, but the speed is a constant

[beagleboard] Re: USB does not power ON on beagle board XM at low temperature

2014-03-14 Thread volcanovt87
Hi Robert, I had connected a USB camera to the beagle XM board running ubuntu and it worked successfully( tested with camorama application). I applied this patch https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/blob/v3.4.x/patches/omap_fixes/0001-Fix-sprz319-erratum-2.1.patchas I was facing the

Re: [beagleboard] HOW TO MAKE UBUNTU BEAGLEBONE BLACK STANDALONE (GUI)

2014-03-14 Thread Agung Triwicaksono Pamungkas
I using LG 505G monitor. Is there monitor type for compatible? Pada Jumat, 14 Maret 2014 10:50:40 UTC+7, William Pretty Security menulis: You are going to have to tell us more about you setup. For example what is the make and model of the monitor ??

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread iustinian . input
Robert, thanks for your work. Is there a guide somewhere to build or a way to download a absolute minimal image. Something with only ssh, apt and full hardware initialization on it and nothing else. That would be a good base for couple of headless projects I am thinking about. When I am

[beagleboard] Re: BBB + PREEMPT_RT

2014-03-14 Thread mhfarzaneh
Hi thats great! Is that possible to have your compiled kernel for BBB? I would avoid the compiling process. Thanks a lot, Morteza Am Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2014 14:53:05 UTC+1 schrieb quik...@gmail.com: I have recently tested kernel 3.8.13-rt9 (

Re: [beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread David Lewin
well ok, but I'm not sure to understand all of it : I am 50% convinced today that I will build my platform on Linux RT what are the other 50% stands for ? what will change it for a complete decision, what are the requirements above price ? For the freeing part I'd say that QNX did it

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 6:46 AM, iustinian.in...@gmail.com wrote: Robert, thanks for your work. Is there a guide somewhere to build or a way to download a absolute minimal image. Something with only ssh, apt and full hardware initialization on it and nothing else. That would be a good base

[beagleboard] Re: Understanding i2c on BBB: a different approach : help needed

2014-03-14 Thread Richard-tx
I think you are going about it wrong. I would start by adding a device to the bus and them with the basic commands like i2cdump, i2cget, etc, control it. If you want to learn Linux internals, that is great, but start at the device driver. assuming you know how the kernal works. richard On

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Steve French of Volt Vision
Robert, Just my $0.02 about *where* info should be stored: I completely agree about Dennis' Wild West comment. When I first started with the BBB back in Sep2013 all 5 of the various websites that Dennis referenced seemed to contradict each other. The official image was outdated and the most

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Steve French of Volt Vision voltvis...@gmail.com wrote: Robert, Just my $0.02 about *where* info should be stored: I completely agree about Dennis' Wild West comment. When I first started with the BBB back in Sep2013 all 5 of the various websites that Dennis

RE: [beagleboard] HOW TO MAKE UBUNTU BEAGLEBONE BLACK STANDALONE (GUI)

2014-03-14 Thread William Pretty Security
Try this link: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_HDMI#Supported_Displays_and_TVs This is a good resource for all Beaglebone related. http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Mike
On 03/14/2014 10:55 AM, Dennis Cote wrote: You are missing my point. These commands are already in the default .profile created for the debian user. See the pastebin.com/kjDXbEpJ for a copy of mine. I added the TZ environment variable at the end. ls ~ shows my bin directory exists env |

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Friday, March 14, 2014 8:54:08 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: I've started an offical page at: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian Hi Robert, I'm sorry to nitpick, but this new official page is wrong right out of the gate. It says it is about running an ARM EABI

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:51:53 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Can you pastebin this file for me: /var/log/xinput_calibrator.pointercal.log and the output of xinput you will have to run it from x11, no serial/ssh..

[beagleboard] Ethernet interface failure

2014-03-14 Thread atomiklan
The BeagleBone Black ethernet interface will fail after a few hours of operation. As an example, we did a fresh install of both Debian and Ubuntu on two Beagles (Newest updates for the Arm OS), connected them to the network and sure enough the next morning, both of the interfaces had failed.

Re: [beagleboard] Ethernet interface failure

2014-03-14 Thread Gerald Coley
So if the board never works again, have you sent it in for repair via an RMA? Gerald On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:28 AM, atomik...@gmail.com wrote: The BeagleBone Black ethernet interface will fail after a few hours of operation. As an example, we did a fresh install of both Debian and Ubuntu

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 8:54:08 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: I've started an offical page at: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian Hi Robert, I'm sorry to nitpick, but this new official page is

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:21:31 AM UTC-6, Mike Bell wrote: Is this shell running within X? If so .profile isn't sourced as it's not run as login shell. Ah ha... there is the nugget of truth I was looking for. Yes, this is the LXTerminal under LXDE. I checked and the .profile *is*

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:21:31 AM UTC-6, Mike Bell wrote: Is this shell running within X? If so .profile isn't sourced as it's not run as login shell. Ah ha... there is the nugget of truth I was looking for. Yes,

[beagleboard] BBB UVC/DMA crash kernel 3.13.6-bone7.1

2014-03-14 Thread David Lambert
The USB DMA still appears to have problems when used with USB cameras. It appears that whenever I attempt to issue controls via UVC to a camera that is capturing, then I get the attached crash. PIO mode works fine. Could I suggest that the default defconfig selects PIO mode until DMA mode

Re: [beagleboard] Ethernet interface failure

2014-03-14 Thread atomiklan
This is not an isolated instance. We have SEVERAL Beagles 10+ all bought at different times, and all showing the same issue. This is not one specific Beagle that needs to be RMA'd On Friday, March 14, 2014 11:33:48 AM UTC-4, Gerald wrote: So if the board never works again, have you sent it in

Re: [beagleboard] Ethernet interface failure

2014-03-14 Thread Gerald Coley
So it is not a hard HW failure then. You may find this conversation useful. Start at the top. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/ethernet$20address/beagleboard/9mctrG26Mc8/09EatsZon40J Gerald On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, atomik...@gmail.com wrote: This is not an

Re: [beagleboard] BBB UVC/DMA crash kernel 3.13.6-bone7.1

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:14 AM, David Lambert d...@lambsys.com wrote: The USB DMA still appears to have problems when used with USB cameras. It appears that whenever I attempt to issue controls via UVC to a camera that is capturing, then I get the attached crash. PIO mode works fine. Could I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:51:53 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Can you pastebin this file for me: /var/log/xinput_calibrator.pointercal.log and the output of xinput you will have to run it from x11, no serial/ssh..

Re: [beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread Thorsten Gonschior
the 50% means that I still hope for QNX to make a better price for the development system (much better). The local Distributor is making an appeal to qnx in this matter, especially to reduce costs for the endcustomer developer. My reality proven me tells me to accept the situation as it is

[beagleboard] Re: Why beaglebone black restarts after a shutdown ??

2014-03-14 Thread arunbarnabasjohn
thanks I will try that out. On Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:27:17 PM UTC+5:30, meerutmicr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have noticed that the beaglebone black starts up after a shutdown. I have a C++ program running in the bbb, the bbb is backed by an external +5V battery pack. When the C++

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:56:45 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: It works if i add: # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d $HOME/bin ] ; then PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH fi into .bashrc If there is no objections i'll probably set that up by default..

Re: [beagleboard] BBB UVC/DMA crash kernel 3.13.6-bone7.1

2014-03-14 Thread David Lambert
On 03/14/2014 11:20 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:14 AM, David Lambert d...@lambsys.com wrote: The USB DMA still appears to have problems when used with USB cameras. It appears that whenever I attempt to issue controls via UVC to a camera that is capturing, then I get the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:56:45 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: It works if i add: # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d $HOME/bin ] ; then PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH fi into .bashrc If

Re: [beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread Thorsten Gonschior
the 50% means that I still hope for QNX to make a better price for the development system (much better). The local Distributor is making an appeal to qnx in this matter, especially to reduce costs for the endcustomer developer. My reality proven me tells me to accept the situation as it is

Re: [beagleboard] BBXM and SGX libs

2014-03-14 Thread Gregoire Gentil
I have similar issues and achievements. More precisely, I have Beagleboard-XM + 3.7.x stable kernel + Ubuntu 13.10 + Graphics_SDK_setuplinux_4_08_00_02. Both kernel and SGX have been built through the stable-kernel scripts. I do see a Graphics_SDK_setuplinux_4_08_00_02_hardfp_BinOnly.bin so I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Friday, March 14, 2014 11:53:15 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Yeap it does.. debian@beaglebone:~$ echo $PATH /home/debian/bin:/home/debian/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games What gets sourced first? i can patch it to

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Friday, March 14, 2014 10:25:42 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: btw, as a workaround till i can debug it with the same hardware, just run: sudo sed -i -e 's:display-setup-script=:#display-setup-script:g' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf And it'll stop displaying the calibrator on bootup.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread doog
RIM has lots of money they need to keep coming in and cutting prices means less income so don't hold your breath or you'll never get the project done but you also won't be around to worry about it neither. ;-) FYI, they paid around $200M for QNX and their other businesses are not doing well...

Re: [beagleboard] HOW TO MAKE UBUNTU BEAGLEBONE BLACK STANDALONE (GUI)

2014-03-14 Thread doog
On Friday, March 14, 2014 4:42:42 AM UTC-7, Agung Triwicaksono Pamungkas wrote: I using LG 505G monitor. Is there monitor type for compatible? my first link on the specs for that state it is a VGA monitor so you are using some HDMI to VGA converter and there lies the problem. -- For

[beagleboard] Re: BBB Analog Digital Convertion error on Ubuntu

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:48:40 AM UTC-6, cagri yilmaz wrote: I used for AIN1 (P9-40) connected a PTC with parallel 480 ohm resistor and P9-03 3.3V and P9_34 AGND. I did not used VADC P9-32 as reference. Is there anybody knows what I did wrong? Oh oh... The absolute maximum allowed

Re: [beagleboard] Re: QNX on BBB

2014-03-14 Thread Thorsten Gonschior
understood :) but think of this... 5.000 development licenses @ 10.000,-€ - 50.000.000 plus 5.000 projects decoupling 1000 OS licenses @ 100€ each - 500.000.00, ok I am just guessing so 500.000 development licenses for free - 0,- plus 20.000 projects decoupling 1000 OS licenses @ 100,- each -

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:56:45 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: It works if i add: # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists

Re: [beagleboard] BBXM and SGX libs

2014-03-14 Thread Brett
I had not tried the demos besides the ones that reside in the same directory as the blit test. I decided to give EvilSkull a shot on my board. I noticed however that the instructions on http://elinux.org/index.php?title=BeagleBoardUbuntuoldid=314498#SGX_Video_Acceleration are not 100%

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread William Hermans
Robert, your timezone is fine for me. I am actually AZ time myself, but really simple to change via dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. Also, as for how to change some default stuff, perhaps have a web page ( html file, or maybe even a node.js thing to make it more dynamic ? ) Dennis, just so you know, you

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread William Hermans
Sorry, I felt i was not clear in my last post . . . *Also, as for how to change some default stuff, perhaps have a web page ( html file, or maybe even a node.js thing to make it more dynamic ? )* What I mean by the above, is have an information web page on how to do various things, like how to

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2014-03-14 Thread William Hermans
NFS root as done on ARCH, Debian, and busybox will not work the same way on ubuntu. Nor fedora or Angstrom for that matter. What you need to do is find a how to for netbooting Ubuntu ( PC ) and adapt it. obviously going by the error messages above, this configuration does not like your initial

Re: [beagleboard] Setting the CPU speed.

2014-03-14 Thread William Hermans
Honestly unless you have a specific reason I think the default ( ondemand ) governor is probably the best. While idle for me the CPU has always been 300Mhz, and with a heavy load ( over 60% load ) the CPU goes up to 1Ghz. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2014-03-14 Thread John Syn
From: siva kumar boopathisivaku...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, March 14, 2014 at 7:55 AM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. hello john, thanks

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Friday, March 14, 2014 2:08:00 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Here is a better fix: sudo sed -i -e 's:Exec=lxterminal:Exec=lxterminal -l -e bash:g' /usr/share/applications/lxterminal.desktop As far as I can tell by using ps - p $$, lxterminal is already running bash, so adding -e

Re: [beagleboard] Setting the CPU speed.

2014-03-14 Thread Carl-Fredrik Sundström
I would like to test my application at different lower CPU Frequencies to make sure that it would work on a custom board with a lower specced sitara processor. Could I lock the CPU at max 600 or 720 MHz ? On Friday, March 14, 2014 4:34:30 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: Honestly unless

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread William Hermans
dpkg-reconfigure dash - select no. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 2:08:00 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Here is a better fix: sudo sed -i -e 's:Exec=lxterminal:Exec=lxterminal -l -e bash:g'

Re: [beagleboard] Setting the CPU speed.

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Carl-Fredrik Sundström audio...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to test my application at different lower CPU Frequencies to make sure that it would work on a custom board with a lower specced sitara processor. Could I lock the CPU at max 600 or 720 MHz ?

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread Dennis Cote
On Friday, March 14, 2014 2:56:50 PM UTC-6, William Hermans wrote: Dennis, just so you know, you should be able to google debian + whatever keyword you need to know something about to find an answer. We're talking basic Linux / Debian stuff here. For example. google - howto change debian

[beagleboard] Re: Touchscreen Jitter / Jumping on Beaglebone Black LCD Capes

2014-03-14 Thread Piotr Murawski
There is a part in the driver (ti_am335x_tsc.c): config = STEPCONFIG_MODE_HWSYNC | STEPCONFIG_AVG_16 | ts_dev-bit_yp | ts_dev-bit_xn | STEPCONFIG_INM_ADCREFM | STEPCONFIG_INP(ts_dev-inp_xp); titsc_writel(ts_dev, REG_STEPCONFIG(end_step), config);

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2014-03-14 Thread John Syn
From: William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, March 14, 2014 at 2:27 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. NFS root as done on ARCH,

Re: [beagleboard] Ethernet interface failure

2014-03-14 Thread Mark Grosen
Which kernel are you using? I've been running a BBB on Ethernet 24x7 using the Debian distro plus the 3.13 kernel with no networking issues for several weeks. Mark Mark On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:12 AM, atomik...@gmail.com wrote: This is not an isolated instance. We have SEVERAL Beagles 10+

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2014-03-14 Thread Douglas Jerome
I build linux Linux systems that run on their inital RAM disk and I can NFS boot them, so I don't think the kernel haveing initrd capability does anything wrong. Maybe I missed something in the thread, but why are you using /lib/modules/3.8.13/init ?? When I see this Kernel panic - not

[beagleboard] Re: Understanding i2c on BBB: a different approach : help needed

2014-03-14 Thread halherta
Ritu, have a look at Free Electron's Embedded Linux kernel and driver development training materials http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/linux-kernel/ They demonstrate step by step how to write an I2C driver under Linux for the beaglebone. Frankly I've given up on learning Linux device

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-14 Thread William Hermans
I have very seldom run into a situation where google did not give me a correct answer. Sometimes the first hit is not always right / succinct either. It takes experience googling to know what to look for, and this does not always work either. Anyway, answers linked on debian.org, and superuser