Re: [beagleboard] DTS for keyboard Keys question

2015-05-20 Thread Bremenpl
I have just tested the dts again. My configruation is a tact switch connecting the line to ground. The line is internally pulled up. When i used: gpios = gpio3 9 0x0; The letters apperead when i released the button, not when i pressed it. When i changed to: gpios = gpio3 9 0x1; The letters

[beagleboard] optimal board

2015-05-20 Thread Bilal El Haji
Hi, I'm trying to choose between the diferents beagleboards products We are looking for a development board which allows us to communicate with a camera with these principal feautres: - GB Ethernet - USB - 8 bit parallel camera interface Any suggestion? Thank you for your help. -- For

[beagleboard] Re: Bone VDD_3V3EXP Disable Issues

2015-05-20 Thread Maximiliano O. Sonnaillon
Thanks for your response. I see your point about not using SYS_RESETn signal... it can be driven low by the processor. I was considering that one because it's a 3.3V logic signal. PGOOD is a 1.8V signal and the EN pin of U4 has a minimum of 2V to consider it high. [image: Inline image 1] I will

[beagleboard] no acces to UART* anymore after flashing new Debian version

2015-05-20 Thread Harke Smits
I recently had to re-install Debian. After some trials it flashed correctly. But now I have no access to the UARTs anymore. Not via uEnv.txt (located in /boot and not in /boot/uboot, for this version), nor via Python. Both have worked fine before. Do I also need a newer version of Adafruit,

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2015-05-20 Thread Fernando Derkoski
Hello guys, So my hardware people found out the problem, I forgot to mention that the problem only happened when the beagleboard was in our custom cape, so they run some tests and the problem was in our board there was some delay when powering the board sometimes and this cause the problem and

Re: [beagleboard] Losing bytes in RX buffer?

2015-05-20 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 20.05.2015 um 10:35 schrieb ralphvannellest...@gmail.com: Thanks Nikolaus, tonight I will give it a try. But where do I place the echo? Without an echo to write some character there is nothing to read. for ((x=0;x100;x++)); do echo -en '\xAA' /dev/ttyO4 read -n 1 -t 1

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread sa_Penguin
If small is a relative term, and BBB cape compatibility is not on the table, can you aim for slim? By which I mean - no double height USB connectors, etc. Apple have a lot to answer for, making laptops and phone thinner every year. The problem is, customers start to want thin even when there's

Re: [beagleboard] Losing bytes in RX buffer?

2015-05-20 Thread ralphvannellestijn
Thanks Nikolaus, tonight I will give it a try. But where do I place the echo? Without an echo to write some character there is nothing to read. for ((x=0;x100;x++)); do echo -en '\xAA' /dev/ttyO4 read -n 1 -t 1 /dev/ttyO4 done /dev/ttyO4 Something like this? Just add the /dev/ttyO4

[beagleboard] CrossCompile OpenCV with Qt4

2015-05-20 Thread Arnaud
Hi everybody! I'm new to Angstrom and the BBB (and, I admit it, to Linux too...). I'm trying to create a Qt app using OpenCV with QtCreator. Without OpenCV, all is alright: I crosscompile on my Ubuntu VM and I deploy on the BBB. Now, when OpenCV is used, the project compiles and runs well on

[beagleboard] Re: Extracting eMMC contents using FAT formatted card

2015-05-20 Thread shawn
First of all, thank you for this post, it works great on my latest BBBs (REV C). However, I cannot get it to work with my older BBBs (REV A6). We have quite a few of the older versions laying around and would like to use those for some KIOSKs we are setting up in house. Unfortunately, the

[beagleboard] 2.2 TFT SPI LCD pwm polarity change

2015-05-20 Thread bremenpl
Hello there, I am using this dts with an Adafruit 2.2 TFT SPI LCD screen: https://pastebin.com/vrUZ0Wde To drive backlit, pwm is used. My problem is that it is not inverted and BeagleBone Black pins cant give/ sink to much current, not enough for backlit. So in order to drive not inverted pwm i

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Gerald Coley
There is not a better processor available from TI that can fit into the Altoids box sized BBB. We have a processor that is much better but will not fit on the baoad. So we are doing the X15. Not sure how else to say it. We will be building the BBB for a very long time. Gerald On Wed, May 20,

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Karl Karpfen
2015-05-20 15:12 GMT+02:00 Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org: We will be building the BBB for a very long time. This is good news. To give it some numbers, will it be 3, 4, 5 or more years? Karl -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Gerald Coley
As long as there are processors. I would say at least 5 to 10. But that is TI's call. You might ask Jason what TI's plans are for availability. Gerald On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Karl Karpfen karlkarpfe...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-05-20 15:12 GMT+02:00 Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org:

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Jason Kridner
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Karl Karpfen karlkarpfe...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-05-20 15:12 GMT+02:00 Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org: We will be building the BBB for a very long time. This is good news. To give it some numbers, will it be 3, 4, 5 or more years? The general plan is

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread William Hermans
*That's a real problem if the interface doesn't stay compatible in the future. When I look at Arduino, capes are compatible with previous versions. Same goes with the Raspberry Pi. Version 1 to version 2 adds features, but generally keeps compatibility between them. With the Beagle's,

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Chris Morgan
Isn't 10 years just the total life of the chip/product line? This doesn't say TI is going to be advancing that processor line. Consider that right now the Pi2 has a quad core processor. If TI isn't going to be keeping up with that kind of pace of processor development for the AM335x line (or

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Walter Schilling
Pin muxing is something that can very easily be controlled in software / managed with software changes and routing on the board. However, if the physical interface is different, you end up throwing out all of the peripherals you have. Think of it this way: how standard would USB be if each

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread William Hermans
Also, we're talking 10 years down the road here. Whose to say what will happen by then. Take a look at the MSP430 line of MCUs for example. I do not know the exact history of the MCU line, but it became popular, and it is still with us . . . refreshes have been made, changes / variations have been

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:43 AM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Lately TI even extended the MSP430 line by mixing in the M4F processor . For high end applications. Is it truly an MSP430 though ? Here, I think the more important question should be: Does it even matter ? You are

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Gerald Coley
Not if it takes 5 pins to equal the peripheral mix needed by one standard BBB pin. Gerald On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Walter Schilling schill...@msoe.edu wrote: Pin muxing is something that can very easily be controlled in software / managed with software changes and routing on the

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Walter Schilling
I guess I should mention why, at least to me, it does matter. We use the Beagle in coursework on campus, teaching students how to develop real time systems. We first started out with the XM, and a set of peripherals. However, right as we were ready to gear up for the course, the XM

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Gerald Coley
That is a question for Jason. He is the TI guy. Gerald On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't 10 years just the total life of the chip/product line? This doesn't say TI is going to be advancing that processor line. Consider that right now the Pi2 has

[beagleboard] Re: no acces to UART* anymore after flashing new Debian version

2015-05-20 Thread glslang
I may have misunderstood but have a look here on how to enable UARTs for Jessie. https://theunemployablekoder.wordpress.com/ On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 1:10:00 PM UTC+1, Harke Smits wrote: I recently had to re-install Debian. After some trials it flashed correctly. But now I have no

[beagleboard] Re: HDMI audio truncated

2015-05-20 Thread Matteo Guallini
Someone have any suggestion? On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 11:49:38 PM UTC+2, Matteo Guallini wrote: Hello, If I do aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav from SSH and from command line the audio is truncated or missing. Truncated signify that the played sound is like right or ight.

Re: [beagleboard] Re-flashing an Angstrom EMMC with Debian Latest from beagleboard, fail

2015-05-20 Thread Jack Fisher
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 8:40:03 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: I can still put the full version on Debian on an SD and load from that right? Yes. But you would use one of the standalone images, instead of a flasher image. I just don't really want to have two different versions of

Re: [beagleboard] BBB LCD3 Cape and inactivity

2015-05-20 Thread aahilario
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NW_qX1Cz0Vk/VVzTguPp-RI/DKs/NIVwCCQ1PLM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-21%2Bat%2B02.25.52.jpeg Hi there folks, The CircuitCo LCD3 cape version A2 basically pulls up the backlight supply enable line via R126. By removing R126, and adding a 0R resistor

Re: [beagleboard] BBB LCD3 Cape and inactivity

2015-05-20 Thread Colin Bester
Thanks! On May 20, 2015, at 1:33 PM, aahila...@gmail.com wrote: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NW_qX1Cz0Vk/VVzTguPp-RI/DKs/NIVwCCQ1PLM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-21%2Bat%2B02.25.52.jpegHi there folks, The CircuitCo LCD3 cape version A2 basically pulls up the backlight

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Karl Karpfen
2015-05-20 18:15 GMT+02:00 Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com: Isn't 10 years just the total life of the chip/product line? This doesn't say TI is going to be advancing that processor line. Plesse chek out this thread, there is a link to a TI-statement where they say it will be available for a

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Gerald Coley
BeagleBone Black needed to be cheap. something had to go. Rest of the expansion signals are the same and those signals are still there on the board.. I disagree that the changes were radical. I fact, we lowered the cost and added features. If we change to another processor, the pin muxing

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Walter Schilling
That's a real problem if the interface doesn't stay compatible in the future. When I look at Arduino, capes are compatible with previous versions. Same goes with the Raspberry Pi. Version 1 to version 2 adds features, but generally keeps compatibility between them. With the Beagle's, each