[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone + LIDD-capable LCD

2013-10-12 Thread garyamort
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 6:45:21 AM UTC-4, engka...@gmail.com wrote: Oh well, I got it working. I disconnected the PWM pin in the backlight controller an just left it pulled up. I now have a display. But it is a console. I though angstrom has gui. When booting up, most modern linux

[beagleboard] Re: BBB 24-bit LCD using device tree

2013-10-08 Thread garyamort
On Monday, October 7, 2013 10:31:17 AM UTC-4, bdwi...@gmail.com wrote: I have created a custom cape for a 24-bit LCD and am having trouble getting the upper bits (16) to work. I have disabled the HDMI and on board eMMC. The panel comes up but is not showing all 24-bit color. What video

[beagleboard] Re: IS possible to use an LCD without controller, on the BBB?

2013-10-08 Thread garyamort
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 7:46:49 PM UTC-4, Karl Longen wrote: I wish that on the next model of BB, someone will put a programmable LCD controller; you may not use it, but it is great to know that it is there if needed It HAS a programmable LCD controller. The tilcdl driver uses the

[beagleboard] Re: SMD Circuit Design Question

2013-10-08 Thread garyamort
Thanks for the feedback. I think for my purposes a simple buffer will work[now that I know how they work]. I want to attatch 2 BBB's to each other in a master/slave setup, so to stack them on top of each other means the board needs to reverse the P8/P9 headers[I'd make the board bigger than

[beagleboard] Re: IS possible to use an LCD without controller, on the BBB?

2013-10-06 Thread garyamort
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 4:45:05 AM UTC-4, Karl Longen wrote: So, I've trashed an old laptop, and I have this nice 13 inch LCD screen that is sitting in my drawer. I was planning to use it for some project, and I thought that the BBB would be perfect. From what I understand, to use

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread garyamort
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 11:38:31 AM UTC-4, Amalinda J' Gamage wrote: Dear garyamort, Since the book is written for the Linux Kernel version 3.2 and the current version is 3.8 do you think I will have any problem? awaiting your reply. It includes both versions - the examples

[beagleboard] Neon enhanced FB Driver[fbdev replacement for Xorg]

2013-10-05 Thread garyamort
Ran across this article last night: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTI5MDI Siarhei Siamashka http://ssvb.github.io/ wasn't happy with the open source framebuffer driver for his Raspberry Pi that utilizes the built in Mali GPU. It seems the main problem was that the driver

[beagleboard] SMD Circuit Design Question

2013-10-04 Thread garyamort
I've mulling about an really off the wall idea, and I'm wondering if there is a standard way to do this. I want a cape which can be used to connect a BeagleBoneBlack with another dev board in a manner to maximize flexibility. IE P8 pins 1 to 45 will connect to 45 pins on the other board, with

Re: [beagleboard] Re: DBTO is not loaded by capemgr (Capes eeprom-info is correct and dbto-file exists in /lib/firmware)

2013-10-04 Thread garyamort
On Friday, August 23, 2013 8:29:27 PM UTC-4, Seth wrote: This particular thread looks promising, but I am not sure how the two patches Pantelis posted fit into a solution. Pantelis says This should fix kind of problem when the dtbo is not included in the kernel image. which seems to be

[beagleboard] How to Submit Patches for Robert Nelson's Linux-Dev

2013-10-04 Thread garyamort
Out of curiosity, what is the process to get patches into the 3.8 Kernel Linux-Dev repository? https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev/tree/am33x-v3.8 There are some updates for the Cape Manager in https://github.com/pantoniou/linux-bbxm/commit/66166f29c1cfa5035ba4782266d677b908e81f0e which

Re: [beagleboard] SMD Circuit Design Question

2013-10-04 Thread garyamort
On Friday, October 4, 2013 12:00:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Smith wrote: Lattice use to produce, and I believe it is still available, a product called ispGDX, ispGDX2 allows one to reprogram I/O's any to any, as well as adjust input/output threshholds. Something like that would be great for

Re: [beagleboard] Different HARDWARE same Rev.

2013-10-04 Thread garyamort
On Friday, October 4, 2013 1:11:48 PM UTC-4, synko...@gmail.com wrote: so from what i see is impossible to scale an image flashing to multiple BBB without setting the eth interface... is it correct? When Linux boots up, it assigns loads the various network drivers for each network

Re: [beagleboard] Changing cape from CAN to RS232

2013-10-03 Thread garyamort
On Thursday, October 3, 2013 8:09:02 AM UTC-4, stephane...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had the same need and try to change my RS485 cape into a 232 one on my BB White. I have the folowing issue : the command cp eeprom.new /sys/bus/i2c/devices/3-0054/eeprom failed due to connexion

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI and LCD design

2013-10-03 Thread garyamort
On Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:43:35 PM UTC-4, Flavio Alves wrote: Hello, I want to be able to manage 2 displays with BBB. Each display will show differente information. For instance: a HDMI output playing video and a LCD display with internet browser. Both applications must be

Re: [beagleboard] Bootchart on Ubuntu (slow boot)

2013-10-02 Thread garyamort
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 10:02:05 AM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Dan Lipsitt d...@typeamachines.comjavascript: wrote: The reason I ask is that it takes about two minutes for a login prompt to show up over my ftdi serial line. The console

[beagleboard] Re: BBB, Ubuntu 13.10 (RCN distro) - stk1160 (EasyCap) not recognized

2013-10-02 Thread garyamort
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:56:34 PM UTC-4, Ivan Korman wrote: Any further hint? So, finally googled skt1160 and after looking through the results, I'm thinking the issue might be the device. Based on

Re: [beagleboard] Changing cape from CAN to RS232

2013-10-01 Thread garyamort
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 8:24:10 PM UTC-4, lazarman wrote: Maxim You must have some magic Hexedit that writes I2C . Very nice (-: how does that work? You use one of the Linux I2C EEPROM drivers to access the EEPROM like a file. I don't have any capes, but it is quite possible that

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone + LIDD-capable LCD

2013-09-30 Thread garyamort
On Monday, September 30, 2013 2:15:22 PM UTC-4, engka...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah. I think I can disable the onboard HDMI framer and enable my own LCD display through the cape manager at runtime or set it in the Env.txt to do it at boot process( as I have read from here

[beagleboard] Re: Fast ADC access on BBB causes buffer underflow error (seg fault)

2013-09-29 Thread garyamort
On Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:21:37 PM UTC-4, geo...@gmail.com wrote: I discovered a problem when accessing the Analog pins on the BBB. Whenever I would read the value of the pins, I needed to read a second time to get the correct value. This is because the first file read initiates

[beagleboard] Re: How can I improve processing time on BB?

2013-09-26 Thread garyamort
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:47:17 AM UTC-4, 서재필 wrote: I'm trying to use Beagle Board for real-time audio-processing. I bought this one because of these clock speed(1Ghz). My algorithm running time is about 0.6 ms for one frame in my computer(window7, 2.6Ghz Quad-core). But

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

2013-09-26 Thread garyamort
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:33:36 AM UTC-4, Anguel wrote: The concept here is the people that buy them, know how Linux works and can get things going themselves and make what ever tweaks are required. Supporting all the different kernel versions and distributions, that is no

[beagleboard] Re: Anyone interested in writing or helping with a media playback app?

2013-09-26 Thread garyamort
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:24:11 AM UTC-4, Mike Langensiepen wrote: Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong area Is there an app or does anyone fancy giving me a price for writing an app do to the following: Play an ambient audio/video track (whatever format needed) On

[beagleboard] BBB Video Drivers

2013-09-26 Thread garyamort
As a stick in the ground, I wanted to provide a quick summary of video drivers for the BeagleBoneBlack. There is the Xorg Kernel Mode Setting Driver : an extremely basic frame buffer driver and the fallback driver if no better Xorg driver is found. It has extremely limited functionality and

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is it possible to connect an SHT75 sensor to I2C bus of BBB?

2013-09-25 Thread garyamort
On Sunday, September 22, 2013 5:10:22 PM UTC-4, Eric Westphal wrote: It looks like it has to be done within the device tree, setting gpio_data, gpio_sck, and supply_mv in a platform device struct. I have yet to tackle the device tree myself, and it's too late here for me to start that

[beagleboard] Device tree for HDMI and HDMI-Audio

2013-09-25 Thread garyamort
Can someone point me to the source code for the HDMI and HDMI-Audio device trees? I've run into an odd situation where when booting Ubuntu under the latest Robert Nelson 3.8 kernel, the HDMI-Audio device tree fails to load when the BBB is plugged into the ethernet network at bootup. I seem to