[beagleboard] heres a LOL moment

2014-09-11 Thread evilwulfie
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2605093/laid-off-from-job-man-builds-tweeting-toilet.html You 2 can have your very own BBB toilet -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black switching to 3.14 kernel

2014-09-11 Thread neo
Will the kernel have PREEMPT enabled as its now disabled for debian ? On Monday, August 18, 2014 6:56:34 AM UTC+5:30, Jason Kridner wrote: It is time to make another big software push for BeagleBone Black. We have several recent updates from Robert, including managing the kernel as Debian

[beagleboard] Beagle Bone Black PRU Cape

2014-09-11 Thread Micka
Hi, During my research, I discovered that there is a BeagleBone Black PRU CAPE. = http://www.ti.com/lit/df/tidr938/tidr938.pdf Do you know where I can buy it ? Thx you, Micka. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are

[beagleboard] Re: Beagle Bone Black PRU Cape

2014-09-11 Thread jstampfl
More info at: http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/tidu426/tidu426.pdf -- 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

[beagleboard] Re: CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread mickeyf
This does not tell us strictly speaking if the canbus itself has issues, but we have a heartbeat device on the canbus. If we fail to hear from it (or any other traffic) for a set period of time, we reset the canbus as you described. In practice I've only seen this reset trigger when I've

[beagleboard] Re: Accessing BeagleBoard features through Mono runtime on Ubuntu for C# development

2014-09-11 Thread mickeyf
doesn't support? Doesn't come pre-installed, perhaps. What's not to support? On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 7:08:48 AM UTC-7, Peter Gregory wrote: What version of Ubuntu are you running? I believe 14.04 doesn't support mono. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss ---

[beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Cedric Malitte
Hi Robert, I checked this morning and it's A3 [0.595611] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #0: '4D 7.0 LCD CAPE- 4DCAPE-70T ,00A3,4D SYSTEMS ,BB-BONE-LCD7-01' [0.689675] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: Skipping loading of disabled cape with part# BB-BONELT-HDMI [0.689690]

[beagleboard] Re: Issue getting DS18B20 temperature sensor working

2014-09-11 Thread cwrseckford
On Saturday, August 30, 2014 12:01:18 PM UTC+1, Michaël Vaes wrote: Hi - I'm stuck getting my DS18B20 temperature sensor working on my Beaglebone Black. I installed and loaded the DTC overlay but Im not getting the '28-*' files in my '/sys/devices/w1_bus_master1/' directory. The dts

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Cedric Malitte cedric.mali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Robert, I checked this morning and it's A3 [0.595611] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #0: '4D 7.0 LCD CAPE- 4DCAPE-70T ,00A3,4D SYSTEMS ,BB-BONE-LCD7-01' Ah, the 4dcape-70t, (i grabbed the wrong

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread Tom Rini
On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:39:04 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org javascript: wrote: SW is supposed to set it to 1.35V. Sounds like it got dropped somewhere because initially it did.. It was designed this way because

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Cedric Malitte
I will try, but I'm checking diffs between 3.8.13 dts and 3.15.10, because using dtb from 3.14 is not really a solution for me as I also need pruss. Well I think :) Thanks Le jeudi 11 septembre 2014 10:02:28 UTC-4, RobertCNelson a écrit : On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Cedric Malitte

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Cedric Malitte cedric.mali...@gmail.com wrote: I will try, but I'm checking diffs between 3.8.13 dts and 3.15.10, because using dtb from 3.14 is not really a solution for me as I also need pruss. Well I think :)

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread Jason Kridner
On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:23:40 AM UTC-4, Tom Rini wrote: On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:39:04 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: SW is supposed to set it to 1.35V. Sounds like it got dropped somewhere

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tom Rini tom.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:39:04 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: SW is supposed to set it to 1.35V. Sounds like it got dropped somewhere

Re: [beagleboard] CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread Toan Pham
​Brent, have you tried to use can-utils to dump traffic on the canbus when the NIC is found in that bad state? AFAIK, socketCAN implementation on linux does not utilize ID filtering on the can transceiver, it is done at the SocketCAN api level. You maybe able to see traffic. Also, what can

[beagleboard] BBB A6 B running slow, C ok

2014-09-11 Thread jstampfl
From dmesg: A6 - Debian bone 60 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV, Bogomips 545 B - Debian bone 60 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV, Bogomips 545 C - Debian bone 60 - vdd-mpu 1325 mV, Bogomips 993 Also: A6 - Angstrom 3.8.13 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV, Bogomips 545 B - Angstrom 3.8.13 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV, Bogomips 545 C -

Re: [beagleboard] BBB A6 B running slow, C ok

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:23 AM, jstam...@gmail.com wrote: From dmesg: A6 - Debian bone 60 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV, Bogomips 545 B - Debian bone 60 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV, Bogomips 545 C - Debian bone 60 - vdd-mpu 1325 mV, Bogomips 993 Also: A6 - Angstrom 3.8.13 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV,

Re: [beagleboard] BBB A6 B running slow, C ok

2014-09-11 Thread John Stampfl
What information would you like? What is the latest version of the bootloader for these boards? On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:23 AM, jstam...@gmail.com wrote: From dmesg: A6 - Debian bone 60 - vdd-mpu 1100 mV,

Re: [beagleboard] BBB A6 B running slow, C ok

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:34 AM, John Stampfl jstam...@gmail.com wrote: What information would you like? What is the latest version of the bootloader for these boards? Well, since the C works.. Run the debian flasher on the A6/B http://beagleboard.org/latest-images Regards, -- Robert

Re: [beagleboard] BBB A6 B running slow, C ok

2014-09-11 Thread John Stampfl
Ok, will do that tomorrow and report On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:34 AM, John Stampfl jstam...@gmail.com wrote: What information would you like? What is the latest version of the bootloader for these boards?

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Cedric Malitte
Le jeudi 11 septembre 2014 10:32:25 UTC-4, RobertCNelson a écrit : On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Cedric Malitte cedric@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I will try, but I'm checking diffs between 3.8.13 dts and 3.15.10, because using dtb from 3.14 is not really a solution for me as

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Cedric Malitte cedric.mali...@gmail.com wrote: Le jeudi 11 septembre 2014 10:32:25 UTC-4, RobertCNelson a écrit : On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Cedric Malitte cedric@gmail.com wrote: I will try, but I'm checking diffs between 3.8.13 dts and 3.15.10,

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:23:40 AM UTC-4, Tom Rini wrote: On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:39:04 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: SW

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
Here's a fix for the dts.. debian@beaglebone:/opt/source/dtb-3.14-ti/src/arm$ git diff am335x-boneblack.dts diff --git a/src/arm/am335x-boneblack.dts b/src/arm/am335x-boneblack.dts index d594da5..c1420f3 100644 --- a/src/arm/am335x-boneblack.dts +++ b/src/arm/am335x-boneblack.dts @@

Re: [beagleboard] Re: registering asynchronous events on kernel thread in user space

2014-09-11 Thread neo
Hi John 1. You said that i can execute control functions / time critical functions using PRU, but how ? Is there any guide/sample code to using the PRU like in github ? 2. There is nothing described about using PRU in the TRM, except that its has 7 interrupt lines so are there

[beagleboard] Re: Boards abilities

2014-09-11 Thread Walker Archer
I would suggest looking at Dokeos or Moodle as a web-based platform to deliver your curriculum from either the Rpi or the BBB. They are both great tools. I've used both in hosted settings but haven't tried them on an embedded Linux platform yet... so I can't vouch for performance. --

Re: [beagleboard] Re: registering asynchronous events on kernel thread in user space

2014-09-11 Thread neo
Hi Brandon 1. I agree with jitter involved with processing interrupts and 100% cpu usage during polling for the same, so is there no way to let the user-space know that interrupt has occurred apart from polling ? 2. The reason why i said pseudo-interrupt is because we are polling

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Purchase original Beaglebone (white)

2014-09-11 Thread Edu Galvez
Thanks! -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For

[beagleboard] Trying to use ttyO0 but I can't disable the console login.

2014-09-11 Thread jgold
I've got a RS232 micro cape http://www.logicsupply.com/components/beaglebone/capes/cbb-ttl-232/ that I need to use as a serial port. The problem is that by default /dev/ttyO0 is setup as a login console. I need to disable that so that I can use the port for my own purposes. I've found

[beagleboard] Re: CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread Devan Lai
You can configure the controller to automatically recover from bus-off conditions by setting the restart-ms option. The python-can documentation has some useful notes on socket-can and bus-off conditions: http://python-can.readthedocs.org/en/latest/socketcan.html#can-errors On Wednesday,

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone black, Debian, Setting up Wifi access point.

2014-09-11 Thread yousif
Hi Colin, Have you figured out whether it is a config or dongle issue? Thanks! On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 3:21:34 PM UTC-7, Colin Bester wrote: i purchased Ralink5370 USB dongle and it is working as access point. I am having issues connecting with a windows client but am not yet sure on cause

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Device Tree Compiler

2014-09-11 Thread Amit Sama
Hi Robert, I want to read/write data directly from the registers for SPI0. 1) I read the arm335X manual for this. 2) I am coding in C. 3) According to the manual I have to first soft reset the the module. For this purpose I have to set the RESETDONE bit in the MCSPI_SYSCONFIG register. 4) So I

[beagleboard] SDI 12 for beaglebone black

2014-09-11 Thread seik
Hi, I want to read data from a sensor that uses SDI-12, i read about how the SDI-12 functions but I can't find a way to implement it in my Beaglebone Black. Any suggestions on how to do this? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Cedric Malitte
Le jeudi 11 septembre 2014 12:26:53 UTC-4, RobertCNelson a écrit : On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Cedric Malitte cedric@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Le jeudi 11 septembre 2014 10:32:25 UTC-4, RobertCNelson a écrit : On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Cedric Malitte

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
in pinmux file: bbcape_lcd7_pins: bbcape_lcd7_pins { pinctrl-single,pins = 0x150 (PIN_OUTPUT_PULLUP | MUX_MODE7) /* spi0_sclk.gpio0_2, OUTPUT | MODE7 - AVDD_EN */ I think this was the fix ^.. Yes this is the fix :) Cool! i'll enable that by default... Another trouble is with

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread Jason Kridner
On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:39:25 AM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tom Rini tom.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:39:04 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Start QT Application on bootup on Beaglebone Black

2014-09-11 Thread Mahendra Gunawardena
Tim, Please look the this stackoverflow questions and response Start QT Application on bootup on an Embedded Linux Device (Beaglebone Black) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25701662/start-qt-application-on-bootup-on-an-embedded-linux-device-beaglebone-black Based on this input I was able to

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread John Syn
On 9/11/14, 12:06 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:39:25 AM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tom Rini tom.r...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [beagleboard] BBB A6 B running slow, C ok

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
*william@arm:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo* processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l) BogoMIPS: *297.40* Features: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x3 CPU part: 0xc08 CPU

Re: [beagleboard] BBB A6 B running slow, C ok

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
By the way. For what it is worth. While the CPU profile is set to ondemand, the processor will stay at 300MHz until CPU utilization goes above 60%. I tested this early on last year with a simple load test application that I wrote. Which I think I may have even posted the code on these groups . . .

Re: [beagleboard] Re: registering asynchronous events on kernel thread in user space

2014-09-11 Thread Brandon I
OK, one more time. All userspace interrupts work the same, pru, network driver, *anything*. The process blocks until the interrupt handler unblocks the process with a semaphore or completion in the kernel. For example, when you read data for a socket connection, it blocks. When data comes in, the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel 3.15.10 bone 8 + 4D LCD7 cape failed on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Cedric Malitte
About Touchscreen forget all I said :) My very own fault, I had leftover TS things in /etc/profile pointing to /dev/input/event1 instead of /dev/input/event2 So back to my sandbox for a bit more games :) -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black DDR3 RAM Voltage levels

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:39:25 AM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tom Rini tom.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:39:04 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On

Re: [beagleboard] Re: custom cape i2c bus

2014-09-11 Thread kyle
Then it appears your cape is working and the chips are at least visible to the bus. You should be able to use the smbus system calls to talk to them. Might be able to do something with i2cget. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Start QT Application on bootup on Beaglebone Black

2014-09-11 Thread Tim Cole
Thanks! That's more grist for my slowly grinding mental mill On Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:29:15 PM UTC-4, Mahendra Gunawardena wrote: Tim, Please look the this stackoverflow questions and response Start QT Application on bootup on an Embedded Linux Device (Beaglebone Black)

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread Brent Sink
Adding restart-ms did the trick! Thanks so much, I never knew that was even there. On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Devan Lai devan@gmail.com wrote: You can configure the controller to automatically recover from bus-off conditions by setting the restart-ms option. The python-can

[beagleboard] Re: Trying to use ttyO0 but I can't disable the console login.

2014-09-11 Thread Lee Crocker
Some reason you can't just use one of the other UARTs? It's very handy to have a serial console for debugging. On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:29:48 AM UTC-7, jgold wrote: I've got a RS232 micro cape http://www.logicsupply.com/components/beaglebone/capes/cbb-ttl-232/ that I need to use

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black rev B - Embedded QT and X Sever - Deployment OS Ubuntu

2014-09-11 Thread Peter Gregory
Ok, where does one get qtwayland? It is not a part of the normal distribution repositories Nor is it in ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa I saw some references on how to download and compile it. Is that my only option? Do any of the desktops in the normal distribution work or are they all X desktops?

Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread janszymanski12345
I was able to build and install the same version of openCV (2.4.9) on BBB debian as on my desktop Ubuntu by using an external USB memory stick. Now I have a problem with changing CPU frequency (as I would like to increase it from 300MHz to 1GHz) debian@beaglebone:~$ cpufreq-info cpufrequtils

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black rev B - Embedded QT and X Sever - Deployment OS Ubuntu

2014-09-11 Thread John Syn
From: Peter Gregory talkto...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 3:33 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Cc: wingli...@163.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black rev B -

Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread John Syn
From: janszymanski12...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB I was able

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black rev B - Embedded QT and X Sever - Deployment OS Ubuntu

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Peter Gregory talkto...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, where does one get qtwayland? It is not a part of the normal distribution repositories Nor is it in ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa I saw some references on how to download and compile it. Is that my only option? Do any of the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
$ cpufreq-set --help. You may need to set you profile limits/ performance is default 300MHz to 1Ghz just like ondemand, but for some reason it is always 1GHz whenever I look. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: From: janszymanski12...@gmail.com Reply-To:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
From memory setting profile limits would be like this You change to a profile via $ sudo cpufreq-set -g govenor_name Check profile limits $ sudo cpufreq-info -p Change minimum profile range $ cpufreq-set -d 100 /*set minimum processor freq for active profile to 1 GHz */ I do not know if

Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
Oh, and for the uninitiated . . . setting your governor to performance / 1Ghz _all_the_time_ may not be a very good idea. For instance it has been in the mid to upper 80's F outdoor ambient here, and I've noticed my BBB getting pretty warm. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:34 PM, William Hermans

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Trying to use ttyO0 but I can't disable the console login.

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
ttyo0 has to be disabled in uEnv.txt, and also the board device tree file I believe ( could be wrong on the last part ). Also, systemd may have a service profile for it. I have not looked, and currently am not running systemd. Maybe I'll check later once I get this rootfs working good, and backed

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
Brent, what guide are you reading for CAN ? I've never used CAN personally, and am curious . . . On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Brent Sink brent.s...@gmail.com wrote: Adding restart-ms did the trick! Thanks so much, I never knew that was even there. On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Devan

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black rev B - Embedded QT and X Sever - Deployment OS Ubuntu

2014-09-11 Thread Peter Gregory
Thanks for all the great info. I was in the process of testing lxde (Lightweight X11 desktop environment) as of my last post It works quite well. I installed bone-ubuntu-14.04-console-armhf-2014-08-13-2gb.img.xz onto a SD card I installed the SGX drivers as described at

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black rev B - Embedded QT and X Sever - Deployment OS Ubuntu

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
How about performance ? I'd expect it would run sluggish.I wonder how well xcompmgr + cairo-dock would run on it heh. I recently installed Lubuntu 14.04 on an older laptop, and have to say I'm impressed with it. Aesthetically it looks very nice, and otherwise is just Ubuntu, except it

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread Brent
Well, I'm not reading a guide, but I'll share a few links that helped me get started. I have a Qt application and I use the SocketCAN to read/write CAN messages. This will work with J1939 as well. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/can.txt

[beagleboard] Re: Trying to use ttyO0 but I can't disable the console login.

2014-09-11 Thread jgold
The micro cape I purchased can be either UART0 or UART4 but to change it you have to solder some bridges across some little bitty pads. It looked too delicate for my fat fingers so with this setup, I'm kinda stuck with UART0. On Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:02:34 PM UTC-7, Lee Crocker

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread William Hermans
Thank Brent, However I was more curious about the bring up of the hardware on the BBB. IS there cape file I have not noticed yet ? If so I can probably figure it out on my own. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Brent brent...@hotmail.com wrote: Well, I'm not reading a guide, but I'll share a

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Trying to use ttyO0 but I can't disable the console login.

2014-09-11 Thread jgold
I found the answer here; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21596384/cannot-disable-systemd-serial-getty-service My port is at ttyO0. so in my case I entered systemctl mask serial-getty@ttyO0.service. I was able to confirm the device name by typing systemctl --full. My device was in the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CAN bus recovery

2014-09-11 Thread Brent Sink
Ah, yes. The TT3201 cape has three CAN channels, but two of them are over SPI. This should help you out... https://github.com/beagleboard/devicetree-source/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/TT3201-001-01.dts On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:00 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Thank Brent,

[beagleboard] Will the watchdog reset if the kernel panics?

2014-09-11 Thread Brent
Does anyone know that if the watchdog timer is enabled, will a kernel panic still allow the watchdog to reset? Since it's not an external watchdog, I wasn't sure what would happen. I've seen some cases where the kernel will panic and completely brick my device until it is manually rebooted.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread Brandon I
Or, cpufreq-set -f 1GHz On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:39 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, and for the uninitiated . . . setting your governor to performance / 1Ghz _all_the_time_ may not be a very good idea. For instance it has been in the mid to upper 80's F outdoor ambient here,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: color ball tracking with opencv on BBB

2014-09-11 Thread janszymanski12345
That works. Another question is how to clone or replicate BBBs eMMC? How to move it into microSD card and vice versa? If I need to have exactly the same image on another BBB as the one I am currently working on (when it's finished) what is the procedure then? On Friday, 12 September 2014

[beagleboard] Re: Will the watchdog reset if the kernel panics?

2014-09-11 Thread Brent
I figured out how to change the watchdog duration. The example program is here: http://embeddedfreak.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/howto-use-linux-watchdog/ And a good description of the available commands is here: