Re: [beagleboard] Re: Cross compiling linux for BBB

2014-01-05 Thread dlewin555
I do too .Disapointed by the recent events from Angstrom side I think it's a good way and alternative to buildroot. PS : in the build_kernel.sh you use a make -j 8 assuming the user will have 4 cpu which is not allways the case. Maybe something like cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk

Re: [beagleboard] current solution for JTAG debugging of beagleboard xm?

2014-01-05 Thread William Hermans
My own time to me is free . . . then while CCS may work, and well for you.. I have plenty of hand on with the software since CCS v4.x up until v5.3.x. But without me getting into too much detail. Let us just say the software is not for me. I already have my own toolchain / IDE setup, and I do not

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Programmatically load device tree overlay in Go

2014-01-05 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
What does dmesg say? That's where you'd find any error messages. On 1/3/2014 9:52 AM, Frank Davidson wrote: Thanks, Thorsten, but that didn't see to help, unfortunately... It doesn't generate any errors, it just doesn't actually load the

[beagleboard] SPI0

2014-01-05 Thread Shady68
hi, how to add a second chip select to spi0? cheers -- 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, send an email to

[beagleboard] Linuxcnc

2014-01-05 Thread peleb7
How do you run Stepconf Wizard from the software at http://bb-lcnc.blogspot.com/p/machinekit_16.html ? Do you have to edit the ini and hal files manually? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone as media player

2014-01-05 Thread evan
Thank you Scott! I will try that... Best Evan On Saturday, January 4, 2014 8:09:53 AM UTC+8, Scott Force wrote: I just received my BBB so I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I do know that Angstrum Linux comes with mplayer. Someone on this forum has already been trying to use it

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone as media player

2014-01-05 Thread evan
Thank you Scott! I will try that... Evan On Saturday, January 4, 2014 8:09:53 AM UTC+8, Scott Force wrote: I just received my BBB so I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I do know that Angstrum Linux comes with mplayer. Someone on this forum has already been trying to use it with

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone black socket bonescript And socket io question

2014-01-05 Thread jeremiah . wolf
There is another guy doing the same thing from this website:https://github.com/lgxlogic/BoneScript-SocketIO I would recommend installing the socketio by typing npm install socket.io within the /var/lib/cloud9/ directory. Lets us know if you get either example working. Bests, ~Jeremiah

[beagleboard] Re: Developing a simple GUI in Beagleboard

2014-01-05 Thread carlos . amaral
How did you get glade going on BB? Does it have ANgstrom or Ubuntu? Thanks On Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:13:21 PM UTC-5, amit wrote: Hi, Thanks all for your suggestions. I figured out how to get glade going on BB. Are there any good tutorials or books available for glade gtk

[beagleboard] BBB Revisions

2014-01-05 Thread JBodine
I was on one of the resellers websites and noticed they listed five BBBs, with different revision numbers. All but the A6A was was listed as discontinued. The one I have is an A5A, the oldest on the list. It wasn't too long ago that I bought this thing, seems like a lot of revisions in a

[beagleboard] SPI0

2014-01-05 Thread Shady68
hi, how to add a second chip select to SPI0? tx -- 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, send an email to

[beagleboard] Re: PWM input in beaglebone

2014-01-05 Thread Bruce Schaller
I'm guessing that you figured this out already or don't care any more. But in case you were wondering, you can use the GPIO pins, google around for this and there's the interrupt method. Maybe the easiest if you don't mind 10bit resolution would be to use the PWM with an optocoupler, like the

[beagleboard] Gambas 3.5.1 graphical basic for linux

2014-01-05 Thread Salim Safran
did any try to compile *Gambas 3.5.1 on beaglebone ? any ideas?.. * -- 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, send

[beagleboard] Micro sd card not recognized as extra storage?

2014-01-05 Thread Andrew Hendricks
I am running Ubuntu 13.10 build from here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#eMMC:_BeagleBone_Black and followed the instructions to set up the micro SD card as extra storage space, here: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:MicroSD_As_Extra_Storage Now, I'm rather new to linux commands and new to

[beagleboard] Two BB Black working together.

2014-01-05 Thread Isai Mendoza
Hi i'm going to buy a BB Black to dome some gaming stuff, but i need to know some things, can two boards work together as one? like the raspberry pi super computer. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[beagleboard] problem installing angstrom in sd card

2014-01-05 Thread anupama jaju
hi, i am new to bb-xm. I am trying to Format the SD card via fdisk Expert mode. but when i am creating partitions in place of cylinders i am getting sectors and later while forming 2nd partition its showing ,the device apparently does not exist. Command (m for help): n Partition type: p

[beagleboard] Re: emacs on Ångström - no keys

2014-01-05 Thread rltenney
Thanks. I would have installed Debian on my machine by now, but the 16GB Toshiba uSD I bought a couple of weeks ago has failed already. After the first couple of days, I had to reformat it repeatedly, both on the BBB and on each of two Windows (XP 7) machines. Win32DiskImager didn't work at

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone repository access problem

2014-01-05 Thread conradawhite
I followed the /etc/host fix, still had a problem.Checked disk space using df -k and saw that /tmp was full.opkg had run and failed a few times and written some temp files and filled it up. Cleared a few files out of /tmp and voila, opkg update worked ok. On Thursday, December 15,

[beagleboard] Java program with RxTx cannot find /dev/ttyUSB connected device

2014-01-05 Thread theironflag
Hi all, I've been working on a project with XBee communication boards which utilize USB connection to transmitt and receive messages. The program is written in Java and uses RxTx library 2.2pre2. I've written tested the program on PC running Ubuntu 12.04LTS and everything works great(i can

[beagleboard] Basic4android on beaglebone with android and lunix3.8 from Anywhere Software

2014-01-05 Thread Salim Safran
will be real revolutionary step to have such embedded applications for example here as beaglebone and could be arduino TRE to be programmed with Basic4android tool, it will bring the use of such high-end processors to all the educational of all levels to support and upgrade the knowledge

[beagleboard] dumb quest: why PIR example shows pull-up (P8_19) to 5v when GPIO pins are 3.3v tolerant?

2014-01-05 Thread james . wang . atx
http://beagleboard.org/Support/BoneScript/PIRMotionSensor -- 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, send an email

Re: [beagleboard] To CANBUS or not to CANBUS

2014-01-05 Thread Maxim Podbereznyy
CAN bus is mostly for automotive applications. All contemporary cars have this bus and all inner units in a car interact through this bus For industrial applications rs485 is the most widely used bus, but it may depend on your budget. Sometimes a radio connection is better than simple wiring.

Re: [beagleboard] Micro sd card not recognized as extra storage?

2014-01-05 Thread William Hermans
$sudo fdisk -l That is lower case L or el. Be very careful how else you run fdisk, as a newb you could accidentally wipe your media. Also those instructions are whack. Not very clear . . . On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Andrew Hendricks zinxtris...@gmail.comwrote: I am running Ubuntu 13.10

[beagleboard] Re: Java program with RxTx cannot find /dev/ttyUSB connected device

2014-01-05 Thread Tom Davies
Will you post the stack trace of the exception and the relevant Java code? Can you connect to /dev/ttyUSB0 via (say) screen? (i.e. 'screen /dev/ttyUSB0 baud rate') -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [beagleboard] How many PRU clock cycles does a LBBO instruction take?

2014-01-05 Thread Lenny
Thanks a lot. These delays are quite disappointing. Is it possible to shorten these delays by using e.g. DMA to transfer data from a peripheral (in my case the TSC_ADC) directly to PRU memory? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you

Re: [beagleboard] How many PRU clock cycles does a LBBO instruction take?

2014-01-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/5/2014 3:50 PM, Lenny wrote: Thanks a lot. These delays are quite disappointing. Is it possible to shorten these delays by using e.g. DMA to transfer data from a peripheral (in my case the TSC_ADC) directly to PRU memory? It should be possible to DMA into the PRU data memory, and

Re: [beagleboard] Boot failure external abort on non-linefetch in cpsw_probe with any image after Wi-Fi install

2014-01-05 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:44 PM, lorenamel...@gmail.com wrote: Bought a BBB [0 047132904547 A6] last month, and had about two hours of delight, followed by literal days of fruitless struggle Googling for clues. I'm about out of ideas. Contacting Beagleboard produced: Did you send the same

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Cross compiling linux for BBB

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Micali
Yeah good point - my machine is 4core/ht but that should change depending on what your machine is! One thing I should update also on the wifi - i switched from the crap realtek chipset to an atheros-based TP-LINK adaptor, and things are MUCH much better. On Sunday, January 5, 2014 at

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Revisions

2014-01-05 Thread Eric Fort
section 2.2 starting on page 13 of the current Beagle bone black SRM addresses board revisions as does the wiki page in section 6. links to both are below: wiki page: http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack . SRM:

Re: [beagleboard] To CANBUS or not to CANBUS

2014-01-05 Thread Digitech Engineers, - Deepak Bodhani
Zig Bee is the right choice. Less power, No limitation on distance. Visit www.sena.com for details Deepak Bodhani -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] DDR2 MT47H128M16RT25E config

2014-01-05 Thread liyaoshi
Post it on http://e2e.ti.com/support/arm/sitara_arm/f/791/t/312683.aspx 2014/1/5 Vaibhav Bedia vaibhav.be...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 9:49 PM, liyaoshi liyao...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I review the code from

[beagleboard] Changing Kernel back to 3.2 for Angstrom - Steps

2014-01-05 Thread Terry Storm
Hello, I am trying to find out how to build the Rowboat 3.2 Kernel and apply it over the latest Angstrom build in the hope to get to a working OS which works for LCD Capes, such as the LCD4, LCD7, 4DCAPE-43T and 4DCAPE-70T I have been told that going back to a stable 3.2 kernel may result in a

Re: [beagleboard] Changing Kernel back to 3.2 for Angstrom - Steps

2014-01-05 Thread Terry Storm
*git clone git://gitorious.org/rowboat/ http://gitorious.org/rowboat/kernel.git* Seems to be taking a stupid amount of time to do. Currently getting 180kb/s and has now had fatal cutouts after 600 or so mb. Just tried it via windows and it was downloading around 800kb/s, which is still kinda slow

Re: [beagleboard] dumb quest: why PIR example shows pull-up (P8_19) to 5v when GPIO pins are 3.3v tolerant?

2014-01-05 Thread liyaoshi
From https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8630 This unit works great from 5 to 12V (datasheet shows 12V). You can also install a jumper wire past the 5V regulator on board to make this unit work at 3.3V. Sensor uses 1.6mA@3.3V. 2014/1/6 james.wang@gmail.com

[beagleboard] Re: Boot failure external abort on non-linefetch in cpsw_probe with any image after Wi-Fi install

2014-01-05 Thread Loren Amelang
@RobertCNelson: Your kernel is out of date, please upgrade to v3.8.13-bone35 first... That kernel version is from attempts to boot Ubuntu. Maybe I could find a newer Ubuntu image, but I have the same kernel panic problem trying to boot Angstrom. It only says: ## Booting kernel from Legacy

[beagleboard] Re: Boot failure external abort on non-linefetch in cpsw_probe with any image after Wi-Fi install

2014-01-05 Thread Loren Amelang
@Vaibhav, Just found this: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/vEQ2y6LmBVoCWJwTbcnr about a problem with clocks not being enabled before mdio: probe - which seems directly applicable to my Ubuntu fail! Make the driver control the device clocks. Appearantly, the Davinci platform probes