Re: [beagleboard] Up, up and away and x15

2015-05-28 Thread William Hermans
*There were a lot of MSP430 boards sold for $4.30* Two of those are sitting in a box here, right next to 4 LM4F120 LP boards. We actually made a reflow oven controller with 1 ( of 4 ). The LM4F Launchpads however were completely free from TI. Didn't even have to pay shipping. I think an

Re: [beagleboard] bmaptool vs dd

2015-05-28 Thread William Hermans
First I've heard of it. Seems like a good find though. If you're wanting someone to test an eMMC flash image though, I'd be willing to try on an A5A( 2 GB). So long as it does not permanently ruin the board. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote:

[beagleboard] bmaptool vs dd

2015-05-28 Thread Robert Nelson
https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool voodoo@hades:/opt/images$ time sudo bmaptool copy --bmap bone.bmap bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img /dev/sdd bmaptool: info: block map format version 2.0 bmaptool: info: 947200 blocks of size 4096 (3.6 GiB), mapped 485153

Re: [beagleboard] B3+BR: 4.0.4 kernel. Recognize these symptoms?

2015-05-28 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:08 AM, g...@novadsp.com wrote: I don’t get this close to the metal too often so do let me know if I’ve missed something screamingly obvious… trying to get gadget audio to work. Using BR/Busybox/4.0.4 I get a clean booting system with Ethernet working and USB

RE: [beagleboard] Re: B3+BR: 4.0.4 kernel. Recognize these symptoms?

2015-05-28 Thread g4
1. Does anyone have a known good 4.0.4 config file for a B3? Kernel configuration file 3. What is the recommended way to manage USB devices (and best docs?) I don't understand the question. Is question that your pc doesn't see the BBB when you connect them via USB? Zero activity on

RE: [beagleboard] B3+BR: 4.0.4 kernel. Recognize these symptoms?

2015-05-28 Thread g4
Hello Robert and thanks for the input here. -Original Message- did you load the gadget driver? We do in the factory images. https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot- scripts/blob/master/boot/am335x_evm.sh#L105 Think it may even be lower level than that. The following dmesg dump

Re: [beagleboard] Re: power supplies and max input voltage for BBB

2015-05-28 Thread Gerald Coley
!a is the correct number. It also says to have everything else unplugged for that current. If you have something plugged in that takes over 400mA, it will have issues.The SD card current adds ot the total consumption. Bigger the card,the bigger the current. Gerald On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:54

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread evilwulfie
Richard, to set you straight a bit the power supply can supply up to 100 amps. it does not matter how much current the supply can supply the beagle will draw up to 1 amp if you are flashing the Emmc the beagle runs fine on the 500ma USB power supplies as long as you are not flashing the emmc.

Re: [beagleboard] Up, up and away and x15

2015-05-28 Thread Gerald Coley
The race to the bottom could be the end of real OSHW. Real meaning HW that really has an impact on the world, not just something cheap that does what a thousand boards already do, like blink LEDS, but is really cheap. There were a lot of MSP430 boards sold for $4.30. I suspect that most of them

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Gerald Coley
So these are not BeagleBoard.org boards and are not covered by our warranty. If you feel you need them replaced, you need to contact the folks at Element14 about their product.. Gerald On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:21 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing to forget when flashing

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread evilwulfie
Doing some searching your board comes from element14. they are made in china. so far they have good quality control, my 3 were flawless. you may be forgetting something. the board is open source. any number of people can build them and sell them if you are having specific issues with a hardware

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Jesse Cobra
I have used something like 20-30 beagleboards and bones over the years and have not had a single failure other that maybe one I fried on my own... Sounds like user error to me... On May 28, 2015 10:07 AM, evilwulfie evilwul...@gmail.com wrote: amazon does not make boards On 5/28/2015 9:58

Re: [beagleboard] Make the Board to boot as fast as possible

2015-05-28 Thread William Hermans
wireshark ? On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Dieter Wirz didi.w...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that making X and LXDE booting faster is an option. Maybe with a mayor rewrite of both;-) But, depending on your project, it might be worth to have a look at framebuffer, there are a lot of

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread William Hermans
Nothing to forget when flashing the eMMC in this case really . . . Also, the error he is showing is not exclusive to him only. rsync timing out after 60 seconds. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:12 AM, evilwulfie evilwul...@gmail.com wrote: Doing some searching your board comes from element14. they

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread evilwulfie
amazon does not make boards On 5/28/2015 9:58 AM, Dennis Kerrisk wrote: Amazon.com Dennis -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] bmaptool vs dd

2015-05-28 Thread William Hermans
I'll have to read up on it first probably. The syntax doesn't make sense to me yet. Usually, I prefer to understand things before I use them. Been working hard reversing a proprietary NEMA 2000 protocol, and writing code to display the data I'm reading off the CANBus . . . so no telling when I'll

Re: [beagleboard] Cloud9 Blank White Screen

2015-05-28 Thread William Hermans
Odd . . . as it only takes around an hour to compile Nodejs from source ( natively ). . . I think the bigger problem would be space wasted, using the current image as a dev image assuming the link you posted does recompile from source as well. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:27 AM,

Re: [beagleboard] Up, up and away and x15

2015-05-28 Thread Chris Morgan
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:42 PM, rh_ richard_hubb...@lavabit.com wrote: I was reading about a $9 board on kickstarter. It is based on an allwinner chip. An interesting board and price. A loss leader for sure but I don't know what the loss will lead to. Bankruptcy? Dissolution? Too many long

Re: [beagleboard] bmaptool vs dd

2015-05-28 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:01 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: First I've heard of it. Seems like a good find though. If you're wanting someone to test an eMMC flash image though, I'd be willing to try on an A5A( 2 GB). So long as it does not permanently ruin the board. It seems to

Re: [beagleboard] Cloud9 Blank White Screen

2015-05-28 Thread bisschoprick
Above fix works like a charm. It does however gets you the errormessage that there is an old node.js version present. You can ignore this, but this gives you weird Reconnect errors and weird cloud9 behaviour. You can fix this by following this link

[beagleboard] not seeing clock on i2c bus 1

2015-05-28 Thread jscharf
Hi, I am trying to get a cape I built working. It uses both i2c buses. i2c bus 2 (after enabling) works just like I expect. Bus 1 is not behaving anything like what I expect. I am using i2cdetect as a simple minded tester just to see the pins wiggle and do connection tests. The i2c goes

Re: [beagleboard] Up, up and away and x15

2015-05-28 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 5/28/2015 5:17 PM, Gerald Coley wrote: The race to the bottom could be the end of real OSHW. Real meaning HW that really has an impact on the world, not just something cheap that does what a thousand boards already do, like blink LEDS, but is really cheap. There were a lot of MSP430 boards

[beagleboard] Re: how to activate LED on BB xM using gpio?

2015-05-28 Thread Gurpartap Singh
Hello RobertCNelson Sir,, I am stuck at same problem.please help on activating GPIO in mode 7 so that I can connect one of them to some Leds. I only knows that It is possible by editing dtb filefor omap3-beagle-xm.dtb I decompile the dtb file with device-tree-compiler..Now it

Re: [beagleboard] 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Dennis Kerrisk wrote: We bought 3 beaglebone black boards last week. When we received them only 1 of the boards would load code and run. The other 2 would kernel panic in the code loading process. I am very dissapointed, and I guess I will have to find a more reliable

[beagleboard] 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Dennis Kerrisk
We bought 3 beaglebone black boards last week. When we received them only 1 of the boards would load code and run. The other 2 would kernel panic in the code loading process. I am very dissapointed, and I guess I will have to find a more reliable platform. Thanks for wasting my time beaglebone.

[beagleboard] B3+BR: 4.0.4 kernel. Recognize these symptoms?

2015-05-28 Thread g4
I don't get this close to the metal too often so do let me know if I've missed something screamingly obvious. trying to get gadget audio to work. Using BR/Busybox/4.0.4 I get a clean booting system with Ethernet working and USB modules loading as expected. However I get no device enumeration

RE: [beagleboard] 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread William Pretty Security
Could you tell us how you were booting the board? It could be as simple as re-flashing the eMMC or booting from a uSD card. From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Kerrisk Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 7:28 AM To:

[beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Dennis Kerrisk
Yes we did. The serial connection worked. When we tried to flash the eMMC they paniced. Dennis -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Dennis Kerrisk
I have tried reflash https://groups.google.com/d/optouting them both at least 10 times each. They panic every time. Dennis -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread evilwulfie
Are you flashing them while USB powered ? if so that's your fail use a good 2a wall wart power supply On 5/28/2015 6:13 AM, Dennis Kerrisk wrote: I have tried reflash https://groups.google.com/d/optouting them both at least 10 times each. They panic every time. Dennis -- For more

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Bill Traynor
Where did you buy them? There are a few diffierent BBBs out there now. Did you initially try the Getting Started steps first, before trying to reflash them? http://beagleboard.org/getting-started On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Dennis Kerrisk dennisk8...@gmail.com wrote: That is what we were

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Bill Traynor
So all 3 boards initially worked fine? Then afte flashing the eMMC, only 1 worked? If that's the case, just reflash the non-working ones again, as it just sounds like the flash process failed. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Dennis Kerrisk dennisk8...@gmail.com wrote: Yes we did. The serial

[beagleboard] BBB 4xInput Audio Channel

2015-05-28 Thread sabeeh31
Hi, I need to process 4 Audio Channels on BBB. The channels need to have resolution of atleast 16 bits and sampling of 48KHz. I need to know what kind of options could help me achieve this goal if its possible. Use 1xUSB Hub and 2xUSB sound cards containing mono inputs and use Beagle Boards

[beagleboard] BBBAndroid: WiFi/DNS Issues with BBBAndroid

2015-05-28 Thread ankit . chaturvedi
Hi, I have a BeagleBone Black RevC with 3.8 kernel Android 4.4 built using the instructions provided at http://bbbandroid.sourceforge.net/build.html . I made further changes to add a RT8192 based usb wifi adapter as per instructions provided here:

[beagleboard] Make the Board to boot as fast as possible

2015-05-28 Thread klang . christoph . pieper
Hi! I'm a BeagleBone starter. So please excuse me if my questions are beginner-like. I'd like to make the board to startup as fast as possible. Only one executable will run on it and therefore I don't need thinks like the taskbar or anything like that. The tool has to run under LXDE and needs

Re: [beagleboard] g_multi not loading at boot

2015-05-28 Thread Iñigo Martínez
Ok, I compiled a new version of the kernel with that modification and it's working now. Thank you :) On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 6:58:54 PM UTC+2, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Iñigo Martínez inigom...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Thank you Robert for your

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Dennis Kerrisk dennisk8...@gmail.com wrote: The serial port shows a kernel panic trying to flash one of the memory blocks. Can you attache the error message? I have tried several different SD cards. I can't even get an image loaded, so I can't try 3.14.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Dennis Kerrisk
Here is what I get: - Formatting: /dev/mmcblk1 complete - Copying: /dev/mmcblk0p1 - /dev/mmcblk1p1 rsync: /boot/uboot/ - /tmp/boot/ rsync: ignore the % values when shown as they are not accurate... Copying: /dev/mmcblk0p2 - /dev/mmcblk1p2 [

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Dennis Kerrisk
No using a 5V 2A wall wort. Dennis -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread evilwulfie
I own 5 of them 2 from circutco 3 from element 14 all work perfectly where did you buy your boards from ? do they boot from the SD card ? whats the serial debug output have to say about the error ? On 5/28/2015 6:27 AM, Dennis Kerrisk wrote: No using a 5V 2A wall wort. Dennis -- For

[beagleboard] Re: how to use python ?? ( on BBB)

2015-05-28 Thread Andrey Somov
What is the tutorial ? Can you provide us with the link ? Andrey -- 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: BBBAndroid: WiFi/DNS Issues with BBBAndroid

2015-05-28 Thread Keith Conger
Those instructions didn't work for me, I posted working instructions awhile ago: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/tHXTzJhH_Qc/1dIcYqFlj5gJ On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 7:28:04 AM UTC-6, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: Hi, I have a BeagleBone Black RevC with 3.8 kernel Android 4.4 built

[beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Dennis Kerrisk
That is what we were trying to do, Reflash the eMMc. The would start to flash and then kernel panic. 1 worked fine. The other 2 both paniced. We tried each board several times. Dennis -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are

Re: [beagleboard] Make the Board to boot as fast as possible

2015-05-28 Thread Dieter Wirz
I don't think that making X and LXDE booting faster is an option. Maybe with a mayor rewrite of both;-) But, depending on your project, it might be worth to have a look at framebuffer, there are a lot of options and programs. E.g., if you want a slideshow, have a look at fbi... On Thu, May 28,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread William Hermans
Dennis, you still have not told us where you bought the board from, and who makes the board. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Dennis Kerrisk dennisk8...@gmail.com wrote: Here is what I get: - Formatting: /dev/mmcblk1 complete -

Re: [beagleboard] Re: 2 out of 3 boards defective

2015-05-28 Thread Dennis Kerrisk
Amazon.com Dennis -- 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