[beagleboard] Heartbeat but USB connection to computer not working.

2017-08-07 Thread ryan . vanrooyen1
I just purchased a BeagleBone Blue. I initially plugged in into my laptop over USB, installed the drivers, and it showed up as expected. I made sure it was alive and working, looked at the readme.htm and then disconnected it. Later that day I plugged it back in and now it won't ever connect

[beagleboard] File writing from PRU

2017-08-07 Thread Clark Sann
I need some help from someone who has succeeded in getting the PRU to write files onto the host's file system. I have tried two methods: 1. Using open, fputs, fprintf, etc. This does not work for me. First of all, unless I set the printf_support flag to minimal, even a simple program with only

Re: [beagleboard] recommendation for a symbolic debugger

2017-08-07 Thread John Syne
I haven’t used CCS for several years as I use Lauterbach for all my linux kernel/driver debugging. However, I’ll try to remember how to everything you need. See inline comments: Regards, John > On Aug 5, 2017, at 9:44 AM, clarkbriggs...@gmail.com wrote: > > John, > Thanks. It does sound

[beagleboard] Re: What Are Some "Okay" Ways to Test If Specific Pins on the P8 and P9 Headers are Still Working?

2017-08-07 Thread Mala Dies
Hello Graham, Seth here. Okay, I will just check to see if they are working. I thought the distro could detect our hardware and if it was in working order or not. I know of the *i2cdetect *command to see if the hardware is available but I thought there was a software to detect if the hardware

[beagleboard] Running bbb without emmc memory chip (physically, unsoldered)

2017-08-07 Thread superdare
Hello, Is there any way to physically extract the emmc memory chip and boot successfully the Angstrom linux distribution just/only from microSD card ? Do you have any advice for this problem ? Thank you in advance. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received

[beagleboard] Re: What Are Some "Okay" Ways to Test If Specific Pins on the P8 and P9 Headers are Still Working?

2017-08-07 Thread Graham
I don't know how to do a pure software solution. If you want coverage of the BBB Hardware all the way to the pin, I would do a simple loop-back test, where the pins are connected in pairs, and you wiggle one pin as an output, and see if its paired pin can see it as an input. Then reverse and

[beagleboard] Re: What Are Some "Okay" Ways to Test If Specific Pins on the P8 and P9 Headers are Still Working?

2017-08-07 Thread Mala Dies
Hello, I am still looking around for test options for the Debian OS on our BBB. Do you know how to test the P9 and P8 headers on our boards with software? Seth On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 7:28:09 PM UTC-5, Mala Dies wrote: > > Hello, > > The other day is when I did some incorrect