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

2014-03-13 Thread Dennis Cote
On Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:49:52 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > Which brings up a fun question. What default timezone do you guys > want? Or is "utc" generic enough? > I think UTC would be best, but there should be clear instructions for how to change it. Most users (like me) are no

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

2014-03-13 Thread Mike
On 03/13/2014 02:49 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:04 PM, William Hermans wrote: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata <--- Doesnt work ? Yeap, that works too.. Which brings up a fun question. What default timezone do you guys want? Or is "utc" generic enough? My only vote is US/Cent

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

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Robert Nelson > wrote: >> Or is "utc" generic enough? > > > It is "utc" generic ! ;-) I know! ;) I was having fun playing with that sentence. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For mo

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

2014-03-13 Thread Hajo Dezelski
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: > Or is "utc" generic enough? It is "utc" generic ! ;-) 72 de Hajo --- ... indessen wandelt harmlos droben das Gestirn ... http://hajos-kontrapunkte.blogspot.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You receive

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

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:04 PM, William Hermans wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure tzdata <--- Doesnt work ? Yeap, that works too.. Which brings up a fun question. What default timezone do you guys want? Or is "utc" generic enough? My only vote is US/Central as that is where i'm located.. Regards,

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

2014-03-13 Thread William Hermans
*dpkg-reconfigure tzdata* <--- Doesnt work ? On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Dennis Cote wrote: > > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:56:05 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > >> > >> The wicd deamon should setup eth0 within 30 seconds on 2nd

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

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Dennis Cote wrote: > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:56:05 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> The wicd deamon should setup eth0 within 30 seconds on 2nd boot. >> (first boot there is a slight delay as the ssh key's are generated). >> > > I had rebooted many times.

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

2014-03-13 Thread Dennis Cote
On Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:56:05 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > The wicd deamon should setup eth0 within 30 seconds on 2nd boot. > (first boot there is a slight delay as the ssh key's are generated). > > I had rebooted many times. I hadn't paid any attention to the wicd program since it s

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

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Dennis Cote wrote: >> Please take the time to give a detailed look over this image and report >> any issues to the bug tracker on elinux.org: >> http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/debian-image-releases >> > > On booting this new image I noticed a few issues immediate

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

2014-03-13 Thread Dennis Cote
> > Please take the time to give a detailed look over this image and report > any issues to the bug tracker on elinux.org: > http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/debian-image-releases > > On booting this new image I noticed a few issues immediately, but I'm not sure if one is by design. The ethernet

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

2014-03-13 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 4:18:02 PM UTC-6, Dennis Cote wrote: > > Since you seem t think the problem is SD card specific, I will try again > with a different card. > > Using a different 8GB SD card my BBB boots this new image as expected. Hopefully the bootlog from the problem card will help

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

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 4:08:50 PM UTC-6, Dennis Cote wrote: > > There is a line that says: > > systemd=quiet init=/lib/systemd/systemd > > I'm not sure if you mean to remove the quiet from this line, or perhaps > something else. > OK, so I removed the quiet from the systemd definition and r

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

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:02:55 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > mount the first fat partition, edit "uEnv.txt" remove the "quiet" from > optargs.. save unmount.. > > Next using a usb-serial convert log the full serial boot log for me. > Robert, The uEnv.txt file from the FAT partition

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

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:31:13 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > Yeah this annoyance.. > > What brand of microSD cards are you using? > > I'm using a 4GB Kingston Technology cards. Note, I have not expanded the partition to fill the card yet, I just to boot with it after copying the im

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

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Dennis Cote wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:02:55 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> "panics" on every boot? >> >> Do you have any error log? I can't really help with that limited info. >> > > When I said "panics like this" I meant in the same way th

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

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:02:55 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > "panics" on every boot? > > Do you have any error log? I can't really help with that limited info. > > When I said "panics like this" I meant in the same way that as the user whose message you replied to. I have copied hi

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

2014-03-12 Thread William Hermans
He has done something wrong, or has missed a step in setting up his media. Having a serial debug cable on the board and working would clear things up in a hurry. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Steve French of Volt Vision < voltvis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dennis, > I am not sure what you mean

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

2014-03-12 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 12.03.2014 20:02, schrieb Robert Nelson: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Dennis Cote wrote: On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:28 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Doesn't really make a difference for 3.8 thou, as you see.. Best to just switch to v3.13.x Robert, How do you propose that us

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

2014-03-12 Thread Steve French of Volt Vision
Dennis, I am not sure what you mean by "BBB panics", but I can tell you that I have been upgrading my kernel using the new Debian eMMC flasher image. I have done it on several BBBs so far with no problem *Before the procedure:* uname -a Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar 4 22:51:47

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

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Dennis Cote wrote: > > > On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:28 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> Doesn't really make a difference for 3.8 thou, as you see.. >> >> Best to just switch to v3.13.x >> > > Robert, > > How do you propose that users switch to v3.13.x (by w

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

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:28 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > Doesn't really make a difference for 3.8 thou, as you see.. > > Best to just switch to v3.13.x > > Robert, How do you propose that users switch to v3.13.x (by which I assume you mean the Linux kernel version)? My BBB panic

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

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Steve French wrote: > Robert, > Thanks for your response! I have 15 BBBs and one uSD card, so I am kinda > leaning toward using the eMMC on each. > > Robert said: >> >> Correct, to meet everyone's out of box pkg requirements, the eMMC is >> mostly full. If you d

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

2014-03-12 Thread Steve French
Robert, Thanks for your response! I have 15 BBBs and one uSD card, so I am kinda leaning toward using the eMMC on each. Robert said: > Correct, to meet everyone's out of box pkg requirements, the eMMC is > mostly full. If you drop opencv/python/chromium you'll gain a lot of > space back.

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

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > Robert, > > that was a fast one. Thanks again - discussions in other groups can > sometimes lead you to nowhere and you get lost. (There was written > that the uEnv.txt was mandatory) So I will not use your 64 MB image. > Sorry, I am happy th

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

2014-03-12 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Robert, that was a fast one. Thanks again - discussions in other groups can sometimes lead you to nowhere and you get lost. (There was written that the uEnv.txt was mandatory) So I will not use your 64 MB image. Sorry, I am happy that this one is running. Have a nice day and so long from Nowhere

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

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Hajo Dezelski wrote: >> Hello Robert, >> >> thanks for your advice. I deleted the man pages and some other stuff. >> It helped. Now I have about 15 % available. Great. I noticed, that >> most of the non-criti

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

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > Hello Robert, > > thanks for your advice. I deleted the man pages and some other stuff. > It helped. Now I have about 15 % available. Great. I noticed, that > most of the non-critical packages (from: Reduce Debian) were already > missing. > >

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

2014-03-12 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello Robert, thanks for your advice. I deleted the man pages and some other stuff. It helped. Now I have about 15 % available. Great. I noticed, that most of the non-critical packages (from: Reduce Debian) were already missing. But bare with me, I'm not a Linux Guru like you. I reformatted the s

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

2014-03-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > Hello, > > this was one of the problems with BBB. I managed to install Debian with > "BBB-eMMc-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-02-16-2gb.img" installed only Xfce (needed > an graphical output) and had about 450 MB left. Beside that I had to install >

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

2014-03-11 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, this was one of the problems with BBB. I managed to install Debian with " BBB-eMMc-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-02-16-2gb.img" installed only Xfce (needed an graphical output) and had about 450 MB left. Beside that I had to install a swap file 128 MB I'm down to 211156. That's not a lot. Under

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

2014-03-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Steve French wrote: > Hello all! > I have been testing the new official Debian eMMC flasher image for the BBB... > http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/ > (...in particular this one Debian (BeagleBone Black - 2GB eMMC) 2014-03-04) > > root@vBBB5studioS:/var/lib/cl

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

2014-03-11 Thread Steve French
Hello all! I have been testing the new official Debian eMMC flasher image for the BBB… *http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/* (…in particular this one Debian (BeagleBone Black - 2GB eMMC) 2014-03-04) root@vBBB5studioS:/var/lib/cloud9# uname -a Linux vBBB5studioS 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar 4 22:

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

2014-03-10 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:55 AM, wrote: > I am having issues with this image and mmcqd daemon, X crahes often and I > end up with an empty console on my LCD 4.3: > > [ 180.537526] INFO: task mmcqd/0:74 blocked for more than 60 seconds. > [ 180.544275] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout

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

2014-03-10 Thread michael . ring
I am having issues with this image and mmcqd daemon, X crahes often and I end up with an empty console on my LCD 4.3: [ 180.537526] INFO: task mmcqd/0:74 blocked for more than 60 seconds. [ 180.544275] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 180.552668] Ker

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

2014-03-07 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:22 PM, wrote: > > Trying to run i2cdetect but keep getting: > > Error: Can't use SMBus Quick Write command on this bus > Well you need to add the optional "-y -f" commands.. (off the top of my head, --help to get the correct options) Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://w

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

2014-03-07 Thread sfugarino2
Trying to run i2cdetect but keep getting: Error: Can't use SMBus Quick Write command on this bus On Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:58:32 AM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: > If you have a BeagleBone Black and are able to try out this image, it > might be good to propose fixing any short-falls you see

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

2014-03-07 Thread botheringelectrons
> > Hi Robert, > > The fix I suggested yesterday still leaves some debug dmesgs. > > I tried to eliminate DBG entirely. > However, make with -DDBG removed from os/linux/config.mk lines 290:293 > > # config for STA mode > > ifeq ($(RT28xx_MODE),STA) > --WFLAGS += -DCONFIG_STA_SUPPORT

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

2014-03-07 Thread me
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: > The latest BeagleBone Debian images are now posted at: > http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/ > > I removed that adapter and plugged in an adapter I bought from Adafruit > (and switched ra0 back to wlan0) and got the issue >

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

2014-03-06 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM, wrote: >> Hi Robert, > > First, thanks for the instruction to remove x11... that gets my rootfs usage > down from about 83% to 69%. More room for building stuff! > > The Mediatek driver software has a define in os/linux/rt_linux.c line 54: > > - ULONG RTDebugLevel

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

2014-03-06 Thread botheringelectrons
> > Hi Robert, > First, thanks for the instruction to remove x11... that gets my rootfs usage down from about 83% to 69%. More room for building stuff! The Mediatek driver software has a define in os/linux/rt_linux.c line 54: - ULONG RTDebugLevel = RT_DEBUG_TRACE; +ULONG RTDebugLevel = RT_DEB

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

2014-03-06 Thread lee
Dittos on the Kudos. With the 3.13 kernel works very nicely: all 7 of my weird USB gadgets work, Networking is good, Chrome on lxde is nice. Node 10 all looks good. Even rebuilding the kernel wasn't too painful (though still not fast enough to ditch the cross-compiler). I'm not an IDE guy so I

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

2014-03-06 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:04 AM, wrote: >> Jason and Robert: well done for this fine upgrade! Seems like a lot of >> things are really coming together very quickly. > > Hardware: BBB A5C; OS Version: Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar > 4 22:51:47 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux > > Tried it

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

2014-03-06 Thread botheringelectrons
> > Jason and Robert: well done for this fine upgrade! Seems like a lot of > things are really coming together very quickly. > Hardware: BBB A5C; OS Version: Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar 4 22:51:47 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux Tried it last night and a lot of things are working w

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

2014-03-06 Thread Jason Kridner
If you have a BeagleBone Black and are able to try out this image, it might be good to propose fixing any short-falls you see in what is provided on the image. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: > > The latest BeagleBone Debian images are now posted at: > http://

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

2014-03-06 Thread Casey Atherton
I can confirm that the UWN200 (and UWN100) are working well with the fix Robert mentioned. I'm getting a solid connection with WPA2 encryption. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: > > The latest BeagleBone Debian images are now posted at: > http://beagleboard.org/

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

2014-03-05 Thread Robert Nelson
> > I use a Mac and despite the latest version of HoRNDIS fixing issues with > Internet Connection Sharing, getting on the WIFI at home makes getting my > BeagleBones on the network much easier, further making grabbing new > packages with 'sudo apt-get install' much simpler. Drivers and firmware fo

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