RE: [beagleboard] MachineKit

2021-06-07 Thread John Dammeyer
Thank you. That explains what happened. Fascinating. John Dammeyer From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Allwine Sent: June-07-21 8:55 AM To: Beagle Board Subject: Re: [beagleboard] MachineKit Hi John, I'm not a maintainer of MachineKit

RE: [beagleboard] MachineKit

2021-06-04 Thread John Dammeyer
> > For the BBB, they originally used the Xenomai kernel patchset, then > eventually started working on utilizing the RT Linux stuff.. Then they > discovered FGPA hardware, shortly after their forum really became > quiet.. > > It's just an application that utilized Xenomai and RT kernel

RE: [beagleboard] MachineKit

2021-06-04 Thread John Dammeyer
I read that. Thanks John > -Original Message- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Robert Nelson > Sent: June-04-21 2:51 PM > To: Beagle Board > Subject: Re: [beagleboard] MachineKit > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2021

[beagleboard] MachineKit

2021-06-04 Thread John Dammeyer
What's the status with MachineKit for the BBB? Will it ever be resurrected and brought up to date? My understanding is MachineKit used a different approach to the RTOS part of real time Linux compared to LinuxCNC running on say the Pi4. John -- For more options, visit

RE: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black (C) USB based touch not working

2021-06-03 Thread John Dammeyer
eagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black (C) USB based touch not working It was the Beaglebone USB connector. Touch is currently not calibrated. But on my WIN10 PC it works fine. Can recommend the display. John Dammeyer schrieb am Do., 3. Juni 2021, 22:27: So it was t

RE: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black (C) USB based touch not working

2021-06-03 Thread John Dammeyer
So it was the display USB that had the issue. Not the BBB. How do you like the touch response on that display? From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Lange Sent: June-03-21 12:28 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard]

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
> From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > On Tue, 25 May 2021 19:44:55 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "John Dammeyer" wrote: > > > > > >OK. Hadn't noticed unt

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
Hi Dennis, I will investigate that further. Wanted to get the SPI bus Type K Thermocouple module working first. Baby steps. The code is slightly different from the Pi but not radically so. I used '/dev/spi/0.0' since there is no '/dev/spidev0.0' on my Beagle. > > My concern was that

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
And yet more progress using the pxl library and Lazarus with the rewritten code from the pxl Blinky.pas example and adafruit_max31855.py. SPI bus operation. Source code attached. debian@ebb:~/lazarus/TC$ ./TC Reading temperature, press any key to exit... Temperature: 21.25C 70.25F

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
> Because this example program uses the high speed gpio the fault happens much > sooner on the Pi without the sudo. > > pi@raspberrypi:~/projects/lazarus/TC $ ./TC > An unhandled exception occurred at $00084EE4: > ERPiOpenFile: Cannot not open > file

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
Hi Dennis, I tried on the groups site to edit this post and change what I wrote. I meant to say both systems _do_not_ place local variables on the heap. In fact I'm not sure that static are placed on the heap since that could cause all sorts of fragmentation issues. The advantage of static is

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
ps.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > Sent: May-25-21 10:39 AM > To: Beagleboard > Subject: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port. > > On Tue, 25 May 2021 09:45:39 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "John Dammeyer" < <mailto:jo

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
May 2021 15:36:54 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "John Dammeyer" wrote: > > > >I will state that waiting over two minutes for a Beagle to boot into Linux > >desktop mouse/keyboard/screen is unacceptable. Windows > with a 640K 8088 or a Pentium-33MHz could c

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-25 Thread John Dammeyer
So I've solved the problem with the ESysfsSPITransfer: Cannot transfer <1> data byte(s) through SPI bus. The C versions with the spi_ioc_transfer structure declared inside the transfer() function work on both the Beagle and Pi3. Here's the BBB version from and you can see the code is

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black

2021-05-24 Thread John Dammeyer
> From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > wrote: > > > > >For a screen based turnkey app, you can only display a splash screen for a > >few seconds, before the user thinks it is broken, a bit longer for an > >animated splash

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black

2021-05-24 Thread John Dammeyer
107872968?pid=InProduct=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers_wl=ym_sub1=Internal_sub2=Global_YGrowth_sub3=EmailSignature> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:32 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: Just a totally irrelevant side note here. I finally found out why my Panasonic DMP-BD30 is so incredibly annoying on power up. I can press the po

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black

2021-05-24 Thread John Dammeyer
Just a totally irrelevant side note here. I finally found out why my Panasonic DMP-BD30 is so incredibly annoying on power up. I can press the power button and the display lights up and a 'HELLO' message shows up instantly. Then noises come from inside. The 'HELLO' brightens and then

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-21 Thread John Dammeyer
> From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > On Fri, 21 May 2021 09:39:34 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "John Dammeyer" wrote: > > >static const char *device = "/dev/spidev1.

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-21 Thread John Dammeyer
age- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of John Dammeyer > Sent: May-21-21 9:40 AM > To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port. > > Thanks Dennis, > > > >

RE: [beagleboard] Re: ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-21 Thread John Dammeyer
Thanks Dennis, > -Original Message- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > "John Dammeyer" wrote: > > > >The sad thing is that Derek Molloy's book, only in passing refers to >

RE: [beagleboard] ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-20 Thread John Dammeyer
[mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: May-20-21 5:43 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [beagleboard] ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port. The latest version of Buster does this when I look for SPI bus ports. The older Stretch version doesn't have the 0.0 and 0.1

RE: [beagleboard] ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-20 Thread John Dammeyer
The latest version of Buster does this when I look for SPI bus ports. The older Stretch version doesn't have the 0.0 and 0.1 and everything is scaled up by 1. On either system the scope doesn't show any activity on the SPI0 pins. No CS, no CLK no Data Out. The test program from

RE: [beagleboard] Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black

2021-05-20 Thread John Dammeyer
Thanks. Yes. It does. John From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Amit Goradia Sent: May-20-21 2:42 AM To: BeagleBoard Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black On Wednesday, 19 May, 2021 at 10:07:53 pm UTC+5:30

RE: [beagleboard] ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-20 Thread John Dammeyer
ub3=EmailSignature> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:10 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: So to add this so the research I did isn't repeated. The control message breaks down as follows: Top two bits are the direction. The 'k' (0x6B) identifies the SPI type. The number of bytes is placed into the 32 bi

RE: [beagleboard] ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-19 Thread John Dammeyer
YPEBITS) #define _IOC_DIRSHIFT (_IOC_SIZESHIFT+_IOC_SIZEBITS) From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: May-19-21 8:44 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: [beagleboard] ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port. The spidev_test.

[beagleboard] ioctl messages to Beagle SPI port.

2021-05-19 Thread John Dammeyer
The spidev_test.c program from the Exploring BeagleBone by Derek Molloy (chp08) tests the SPI port by setting the SPI parameters and then writing out a test block. The text diagnostics I've added show what the macro was that is sent as part of the ioctl call. Trying to break down the macro

RE: [beagleboard] Reducing Boottime in Beaglebone Black

2021-05-19 Thread John Dammeyer
Hi Amit, Interesting. 4.19.94 is a only a little bit faster than 4.14.108. Is there a document somewhere that explains what to do to even just speed up both start up and shut down? What did you do to get it to 50 seconds? John debian@ebb:~$ uname -a Linux ebb 4.14.108-ti-r136 #1stretch

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-18 Thread John Dammeyer
> -Original Message- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of John Dammeyer > Sent: May-18-21 10:40 AM > To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo > > Hi

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-18 Thread John Dammeyer
Hi Dennis, > Suggest > > if (not (IsPinBitSet(Pin, ExportedBitmask) > or IsPinBitSet(Pin, ExportDefinedBitmask)) then begin > > That way you don't waste time with the TryReadCharFromFile() if you already > know it was externally exported. The

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-17 Thread John Dammeyer
- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > Sent: May-12-21 9:24 AM > To: Beagleboard > Subject: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo > > On Tue, 11 May 2021 18:51:22 -0700, in gmane.comp.

RE: [beagleboard] Mikroe Click board inccorect.

2021-05-17 Thread John Dammeyer
the same issue. The Raspberry Pi Click Shield lists that pin as an Rx but of course the Pi doesn't have a CAN device so who cares… John From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: May-17-21 1:22 PM To: beagleboard

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-16 Thread John Dammeyer
> -Original Message- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of John Dammeyer > Sent: May-16-21 8:25 PM > To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com; 'Robert Nelson' > Subject: RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot >

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-16 Thread John Dammeyer
is active. John > -Original Message- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of John Dammeyer > Sent: May-16-21 8:15 PM > To: 'Robert Nelson' > Cc: 'Beagle Board' > Subject: RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildr

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-16 Thread John Dammeyer
With a 2A 5V supply. No capes installed. Only Ethernet connected and the 4 port USB 2.0 hub is also powered with a 2A supply John > -Original Message- > From: Robert Nelson [mailto:robertcnel...@gmail.com] > Sent: May-16-21 7:05 PM > To: John Dammeyer > Cc: Beagle Boar

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-16 Thread John Dammeyer
eboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of John Dammeyer > Sent: May-16-21 6:47 PM > To: 'Beagle Board' > Subject: RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Robert Nelson [mailto:robertcnel.

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-16 Thread John Dammeyer
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Nelson [mailto:robertcnel...@gmail.com] > > I moved the MicroSD card over to the other Beagle. Booted and USB mouse > > and keyboard (Logitech wireless) work. The Logitech > wireless was not discovered on the other Beagle. > > > > I think it may be

RE: [beagleboard] Unable to boot from SD card or mount a blank one

2021-05-16 Thread John Dammeyer
the lsscsi and lsblk commands to see what the system thinks that device is? On Sun, May 16, 2021, 12:49 PM John Dammeyer wrote: If it's like the Beaglebone Black, when you apply power, you have to hold the boot button down for quite a while.That's what tells the system to boot from the sd

RE: [beagleboard] Unable to boot from SD card or mount a blank one

2021-05-16 Thread John Dammeyer
If it's like the Beaglebone Black, when you apply power, you have to hold the boot button down for quite a while.That's what tells the system to boot from the sd card. It won't matter if you form the card as Balena etcher will write the image in the format required for the Beagle. John

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-14 Thread John Dammeyer
With the Cape plugged into the console version it gets to a certain point and then shuts off. U-Boot SPL 2019.04-g10968f0 (Feb 19 2021 - 21:40:51 +) Trying to boot from MMC2 Loading Environment from EXT4... ** File not found /boot/uboot.env ** ** Unable to read "/boot/uboot.env" from

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-14 Thread John Dammeyer
the cape back. >From the descriptions on https://beagleboard.org/latest-images I can't figure >out what the latest graphical desktop image is for the BBB. Thanks John From: Robert Nelson [mailto:robertcnel...@gmail.com] Sent: May-14-21 6:45 PM To: John Dammeyer Cc: Beagle Board Subje

RE: [beagleboard] Configure CAN0 with buildroot

2021-05-14 Thread John Dammeyer
I've only used CAN1 since the I2C for Cape ID isn't something I wanted to lose. The Beagle that was running with the CAN cape had its SD card die so I lost the configuration information. But this site here does a pretty good job of explaining what is needed.

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-13 Thread John Dammeyer
Hi Dennis, I've been playing with that yesterday. I think the library needs to be changed in a couple of places. As you pointed out, it doesn't really know if the GPIO pin was already exported until it tries to do it and then flags that it's exported in the flags variable. The problem is if

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-12 Thread John Dammeyer
ssage- > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > Sent: May-12-21 9:24 AM > To: Beagleboard > Subject: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo > > On Tue, 11 May 2021 18:51:22 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.bea

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-11 Thread John Dammeyer
Followed what this user reported step by step. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41586162/access-gpio-on-beaglebone-as-non-root-user No matter. ./Blinky still requires sudo as explained in the comments at the start of the program. So after creating the 80-gpio-permissions.rules And creating

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-11 Thread John Dammeyer
May-11-21 5:30 PM > To: Beagleboard > Subject: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo > > On Tue, 11 May 2021 09:43:49 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "John Dammeyer" wrote: > > > >To try this program do sudo apt install lazarus. >

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-10 Thread John Dammeyer
> From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > "John Dammeyer" wrote: > >The SPI bus ADAfruit application for a 320x240 display written in Python > >runs properly rendering LENNA.JPG onto the

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-10 Thread John Dammeyer
First of all thank you for responding. Comments below. > From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber > On Mon, 10 May 2021 10:09:14 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "John Dammeyer" wrote:

[beagleboard] Using GPIOs without Using sudo

2021-05-10 Thread John Dammeyer
That's the section heading on page 302 of Derek Molloy's second edition "Exploring Beaglebone" I found the section lacking in information on exactly how to do this. A web search showed up the following pages. https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-beaglebone-io-python/issues/137

[beagleboard] BBB and 4DCAPE-43Tor SPI based LCD interfacing

2020-07-17 Thread John Dammeyer
A number of years ago I bought the 4DCAPE-43T. I have an SD card with Wheezy 7.11 that can display the desktop. I believe Jesse and subsequent releases no longer supported this cape and 4D System in Australia doesn't either. So here's the thing. I realize that with this cape installed I

[beagleboard] RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-03-18 Thread John Dammeyer
From: machine...@googlegroups.com [mailto:machine...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of justin White Sent: March-18-20 5:24 PM To: John Dammeyer Cc: Machinekit; beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI Wow

[beagleboard] RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-03-18 Thread John Dammeyer
it up but don't even know where to start. Obviously there's probably more going on under the covers to deal with hard limits. Seems like soft limits are dealt with before motion starts with the option to not move because it will exceed machine limits. Thanks John Dammeyer -- For more

[beagleboard] RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-03-13 Thread John Dammeyer
, an MPG and a display it's not something buried deep in a box behind the machine. So based on my experience I would never again build the motor drivers onto the cape. John Dammeyer Bas -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you

[beagleboard] RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-03-12 Thread John Dammeyer
he array and when and how. John Dammeyer From: machine...@googlegroups.com [mailto:machine...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: March-12-20 4:59 PM To: 'Machinekit' Cc: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape

[beagleboard] RE: [Machinekit] Seeed to design and build Machinekit focused Cape for BeagleBone Black/AI

2020-03-12 Thread John Dammeyer
. The amount of time the 8th pair is ON and OFF is dependent on the PWM frequency and PWM pulse period within that frequency. It's a simple matter of keeping the queues with this information full and default values when they aren't. John Dammeyer From: machine...@googlegroups.com

RE: [beagleboard] Re: BBB- DCAN1 problems using latest debian image

2017-11-02 Thread John Dammeyer
first CAN working. Thx, Tracy On Nov 1, 2017, at 10:33 AM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: CAN1 and CAN2 are available when you aren’t using any other cape and I think eiher HDMI or perhaps it’s the LCD interface. It’s been a while. There is no relationship between

RE: [beagleboard] Re: BBB- DCAN1 problems using latest debian image

2017-10-31 Thread John Dammeyer
a good idea to have auto line feed set in putty so that each received message is on a new line. John Dammeyer From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Smith Sent: October-31-17 3:42 PM To: BeagleBoard Subject: [beagleboard] Re: BBB- DCAN1

[beagleboard] Re: Debian 8.6 QTerminal has garbage characters with VNC

2017-01-17 Thread John Dammeyer
Almost a month later. Anyone tried this and duplicated the results? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

[beagleboard] Re: Debian 8.6 QTerminal has garbage characters with VNC

2016-12-23 Thread John Dammeyer
One more screen capture that shows a small app developed on and run headless using WIN-7 and VNCserver. No text problems. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Announcement: Debian 8.6 released for all boards

2016-12-23 Thread John Dammeyer
On Friday, December 23, 2016 at 9:57:23 AM UTC-8, William Hermans wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:36 AM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com > > wrote: > >> My apologies Robert, >> I realize now after seeing your answer (sarcastic?) that the lack

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Announcement: Debian 8.6 released for all boards

2016-12-23 Thread John Dammeyer
On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 7:21:04 AM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:20 AM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com > > wrote: > > I realize this isn't the correct thread to discuss the > > problem of slow response on the Jesse

[beagleboard] Re: Announcement: Debian 8.6 released for all boards

2016-12-22 Thread John Dammeyer
I'm a little bit afraid of updating and have moved backwards. I've had nothing but troubles with Jesse 8.6. Using a Rev B Beaglebone Black I have MicroSD cards with 7.8, 8.6 and the original Angstrom in the on board 2GB. IMHO LXQt sucks. I realize this isn't the correct thread to discuss

[beagleboard] Ubuntu on the Beagle

2016-12-14 Thread John Dammeyer
The web page http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu is a link to putting Ubuntu on the Beagle. What it doesn't say is why? Why not stay with Debian Jesse? I like the lxqt interface far less than lxde. And to be truthful I like the Raspberry Pi XWindows installation the best. Does Ubuntu add

[beagleboard] Re: Problem of CAN with Debian 8.2

2016-11-29 Thread John Dammeyer
CAN requires at least two devices on the bus running the same bit rate. That's because the sender of a message expects all receivers to assert a dominant bit in the ACK slot at the end of the message. Without receivers the protocol resends the message continuously. Your easiest solution is

[beagleboard] Re: Troubleshooting one-wire DS18B20 detection on BBB, debian, kernel: 3.8.13-bone70

2016-10-16 Thread John Dammeyer
I've not really had a lot of trouble getting my One Wire temperature sensor to function. But there have been lots of stumbles and I'm still confused in a lot of places. Let's start with what I'm running on a BBB RevB with the OS on a 16GB MicroSD card. uname -a for all shows: Linux

[beagleboard] A step backwards with bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb for tightvncserver

2016-10-10 Thread John Dammeyer
Debian 7.8 and the LXDE desktop work with tightvncserver, although a bit fuzzy compared to a Raspberry Pi3. From 8.1 to 8.6 and the lxqt desktop the keyboard doesn't work. The fix for GNOME doesn't have any effect. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received

[beagleboard] Re: BBB- DCAN1 problems using latest debian image

2015-04-11 Thread John Dammeyer
I'm a little late on this discussion but since I have lots of CAN experience and I'm also working on getting CAN working on my Beagle so I thought I'd jump in. I bought the Logic Supply CBB_Serial with the on board CAN driver. I followed the instructions on page 14 of their Serial Cape Manual

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB- DCAN1 problems using latest debian image

2015-04-11 Thread John Dammeyer
may be happening. If that does not work, then maybe you can use *strace* to debug candump. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-strace-command-examples.html On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 11:07 AM, John Dammeyer jo...@autoartisans.com javascript: wrote: I'm a little late on this discussion

[beagleboard] Re: MachineKit LinuxCNC on the BeagleBoard Black

2014-08-17 Thread John Dammeyer
Problem solved. My ViewSonic Monitor didn't wake up properly to the HDMI signals so it appeared like the BBB wasn't running the graphic interface. Logging in with PuTTY did work after entering a null password the first time. Then it accepted the machinekit password and gave the illusion it

[beagleboard] MachineKit LinuxCNC on the BeagleBoard Black

2014-08-16 Thread John Dammeyer
I've created the MachineKit SD card image. Verified as non-corrupted. I've held down the Boot button and powered up the Beaglebone Black. I use PuTTY on WIN7 to connect. I log in as machinekit. Enter the same as password. And the system hangs there doing nothing else. Clearly it runs to