[beagleboard] beaglebone blue availability?

2016-03-10 Thread Eric Fort
I keep hearing about the beaglebone blue and really want one or more of them. That said when and where can one be bought? For that matter, the design for the cape upon which this spin is based can be found on githib and references are made indirectly to http://www.strawsondesign.com/#!board-buy

Re: [beagleboard] Tablet display to be used with BBB?

2016-01-22 Thread Eric Fort
Can u run either vnc or x on the tablet? That would be my suggestion. On Jan 22, 2016 4:54 AM, wrote: > Hello. I was wondering if it's possible to use a tablet display As the > display for Beaglebone black? I am at the moment in a different country so > I'm not really

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Blue

2016-01-09 Thread Eric Fort
Ok hurt me. How much and when? Also, what does one loose over the black to gain the cool features it offers... N just how many Servos will it control? On Jan 9, 2016 10:12 PM, "Drew Fustini" wrote: > I was excited to see this new page: > http://beagleboard.org/blue > >

Re: [beagleboard] 5V Power without use of an external Transistor

2015-10-08 Thread Eric Fort
not quite sure what you're asking. if yo want 5v regulated power you already have it. if you want a voltage proportionate to the pwm frequency that's another matter. if you want to output a rectangular waveform with an amplitude of 5v and 90% duty cycle, there are chips that sit on the i2c or

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Can a beaglebone black go through a luggage X-ray machine?

2015-09-22 Thread Eric Fort
It's all security theatre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater> anyway. As difficult as it may be, I'd go after TSA for a replacement. Eric Fort On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Przemek Klosowski < przemek.klosow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:39

Re: [beagleboard] push button on 7-inch touch screen to send some strings through the serial port.

2015-06-12 Thread Eric Fort
did you want to use soft buttons (buttons generated on the touchscreen as needed in software) or hard buttons (buttons on the display that consist of an actual hardware switch that causes a detectable contact closure) for this? For the soft buttons I'd look at Qt. For the hard buttons, look at

Re: [beagleboard] push button on 7-inch touch screen to send some strings through the serial port.

2015-06-12 Thread Eric Fort
As a quick hack, the hard button(s) may be easier with less code, but you are right, using the soft button approach with software based menus is much more flexible. With the touchscreen attached, the beagle starts running it's display on the touchscreen and enables the touch interface as if it

Re: [beagleboard] Cape Template License

2015-05-24 Thread Eric Fort
What kind of cape did you want to build? unless you are going to simply replicate the protocape you reference it's likely easier to simply start with the adafruit and/or sparkfun eagle library and simple use the parts you need, one of which *IS* the cape itself, already pre-layed-out and done for

Re: [beagleboard] Interfacing a 7400 series with the BeagleBone Black

2015-03-11 Thread Eric Fort
first off, to properly answer your question we need to start by referencing the datasheet for the part you wish to use found here: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74s02.pdf something missed by many is that 3.3v OUTPUTS on a device such as the beagle will drive standard 5v TTL logic just fine!

Re: [beagleboard] Thinking of Buying

2015-01-10 Thread Eric Fort
what is it that you ultimately want to do or accomplish? while the beagle bone (black) has IO and capes that will accomplish much of what you list and could likely do everything on the list with appropriate sensors and circuitry interfaced it may or may not be the appropriate platform for your

[beagleboard] seeking recommendation for SD card imaging hardware

2014-12-30 Thread Eric Fort
After recently upgrading my computer, I moved my desktop from windows to linux and no longer havea built in SD card slot. I'm thus seeking recommendations for an inexpensive USB 3 adapter known to work well with debian jessie AMD64 for imaging SD cards for Beagle(bone) and Rpi. What are you

Re: [beagleboard] DDR3L 4gb chip installed, but only 512mb used. Why?

2014-12-12 Thread Eric Fort
this was covered in a really recent thread here. it's the difference between big B and little b which people are often sloppy about. b represents bits, B represents bytes. since a Byte is by definition 8 bits, there is an 8:1 difference, thus 4Gb = 512MB. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:33 AM,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: FS: beagle battery cape

2014-11-17 Thread Eric Fort
yes, I just packed it in a box for you. send your address and I'll send a paypal invoice and get it shipped upon payment. Eric On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:43 PM, 'Scott W' via BeagleBoard beagleboard@googlegroups.com wrote: Eric, Do you still have the battery cape for sale? I'm interested

[beagleboard] FS: beagle battery cape

2014-10-25 Thread Eric Fort
Wanting to get other hardware and sell off my beagle bone battery cape. they regularly sell for $48.95, I'd like to find it a new home for $36.25 (via Paypal preferred) or make me an offer. so who's interested? who want's / needs a battery cape for their next project? here's what I'm

[beagleboard] difference between available beaglebone display capes

2014-10-21 Thread Eric Fort
what is the difference between http://www.4dsystems.com.au/product/4DCAPE_70T/ and http://boardzoo.com/index.php/bone-lcd7.html or http://www.4dsystems.com.au/product/4DCAPE_43/ and http://boardzoo.com/index.php/bone-lcd4.html are both well supported under the current debian install? how are

[beagleboard] trouble updating ubuntu on beagle

2014-09-29 Thread Eric Fort
In running updates on my beagle black ubuntu I had the following errors: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.15.3-armv7-lpae-x5 WARNING: missing /lib/modules/3.15.3-armv7-lpae-x5 Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image! depmod: ERROR: could not open directory

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB LCD Interface

2014-09-19 Thread Eric Fort
by a 20x4 lcd, you mean a 20x4 character lcd, correct? generally these are a simple serial or 8/4 bit parallel interface. got a data sheet to share (preferably a link)? On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:46 PM, anupsingh chandel anupsinghchan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear chitra, I am a novice with begal

Re: [beagleboard] debian: sgx: v3.14.x

2014-08-01 Thread Eric Fort
in a nutshell what will this help beagle do better? Eric On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to Darren at TI, we now have v3.14.x working with SGX. Just pushed out a build.. So shortly you can use: sudo ./update_kernel.sh --kernel

Re: [beagleboard] debian: sgx: v3.14.x

2014-08-01 Thread Eric Fort
Thanks john... so in other words using sgx vs not using it means faster rendering and fancier graphics and now that can be done on the beagle running the 3.14 branch. Eric On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:45 PM, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/1/14, 1:35 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com

Re: [beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-07-29 Thread Eric Fort
have you considered environmental factors where it will be installed? what extremes of temperature and humidity will it see? also make sure you're running from onboard eMMC as doing so eliminates yet another connector issue. basicly keep the board cool and dry and it ought run for a good long

Re: [beagleboard] debian testing install (jessie)

2014-07-26 Thread Eric Fort
...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a netinstall version of jessie available for beagle bone black? I'm having trouble with sorely needed packages being unavailable in wheezy. Jessie is enabled in the netinstall: --distro jessie

[beagleboard] debian testing install (jessie)

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Fort
Is there a netinstall version of jessie available for beagle bone black? I'm having trouble with sorely needed packages being unavailable in wheezy. Thanks, Eric -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB

2014-07-23 Thread Eric Fort
Robert, Yes, I suppose you have a point, but this does sound like another good use for one of the PRUs. Eric On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: so that sounds like a software

Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB

2014-07-23 Thread Eric Fort
, to understand how a sdxc stack runs failed on a sdhc host https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/pls/simplified_specs/part1_410.pdf 2014-07-23 12:25 GMT+08:00 Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com: so that sounds like a software issue not a hardware issue. When I refer to hardware I really mean the electrical

Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB

2014-07-22 Thread Eric Fort
AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: so can someone link to something definitive stating that for the beagle bone (black) 32GB SDHC is the biggest card supported (assuming this is correct)? From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#SDXC The Secure Digital eXtended Capacity

Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB

2014-07-22 Thread Eric Fort
2014-07-23 11:03 GMT+08:00 Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com: so one is completely unable to reformat an SDXC card with another filesystem type such as ext3? Is it simply a filesystem issue or are there hardware differences to be overcome? Eric On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Robert Nelson

Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB

2014-07-21 Thread Eric Fort
:09 GMT+08:00 Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com: I'm using a 32GB SD card, so yes it works. Has anyone tried 64GB and larger cards yet? 64 or 128GB would be insanely nice! Eric On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: We use two BBB's here, and both use

[beagleboard] flashing newest image to beagle bone black

2014-07-19 Thread Eric Fort
(Robert), I just downloaded and ran unxz on https://rcn-ee.net/deb/flasher/wheezy/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-console-armhf-2014-07-06-2gb.img.xz . this gave me BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-console-armhf-2014-07-06-2gb.img as expected. I then freshly formatted and resized back to a single 4gb

Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB

2014-07-18 Thread Eric Fort
I'm using a 32GB SD card, so yes it works. Has anyone tried 64GB and larger cards yet? 64 or 128GB would be insanely nice! Eric On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: We use two BBB's here, and both use 16GB class 10 cards. I've heard that 32GB works

Re: [beagleboard] Concerns with Battery Cape?

2014-07-15 Thread Eric Fort
you'll have to wait for an official answer as to why they were discontinued, but I have one and it works ok with both the black or white bones and pretty much any other capes. the only caution I have is to use it only with batteries, as my cape earned a trip to beagle hospital, i.e. rma after

[beagleboard] looking for android 4.4 kitkat image for BBB

2014-07-08 Thread Eric Fort
where can I download a kitkat 4.4 image to use on the beaglebone black? Thanks, Eric -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] 4DCAPE-43 on Debian

2014-07-08 Thread Eric Fort
yes the jumpers need to all be set to an address not used by another board in the cape stack. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:54 AM, jubishop jubis...@gmail.com wrote: Have people gotten this to work on the new Debian Wheezy image? When I plug it in I just get a blank screen. Sorry if this is a

[beagleboard] big little or middle endian (beaglebone debian armhf)

2014-07-05 Thread Eric Fort
Is the beaglebone running debian armhf big or little endian? can the beaglebone black hardware run both as big and little endian? Eric -- 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] BBB dial up phone capability

2014-07-02 Thread Eric Fort
how about using asterisk and a usb or ethernet based ata? a list of apropriate hardware is here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Analog+Telephone+Adapters On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Bosko Loncar blon...@scadacontinuum.com wrote: My project requires the BBB to dial a phone number

Re: [beagleboard] Educated Noobie: Should i start with Arduino, or Beagle?

2014-07-02 Thread Eric Fort
first of all you are going to have to assess your needs. what do you really want to do? how close to real-time processing do you need to be? the arduino is actually more of an echosystem and a brand than any one board and it's mostly tied together by the arduino IDE software. The arm processor

[beagleboard] sd card insertion causes kernel panic

2014-07-02 Thread Eric Fort
I booted my Beagle Bone Black from the onboard MMC then inserted an SD card in the SD card slot. Syslogd imediately began outputting messages to numerous to capture or reproduce faithfully herin ending in kernel panic and a system hang. What's wrong here, and how can I get the partitions on this

Re: [beagleboard] TNC Cape Now Available for the BBB

2014-06-11 Thread Eric Fort
Great start. But how about integrating a 5W transceiver directly on the cape? That way you could go RF to bits and bits to RF without an external radio similar to a t3-301 from argent data or similar.nice as well that it can use i2c! Eric On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:07 AM, John Hansen

Re: [beagleboard] Radio Spares (UK) - BBB - Out of Stock

2014-06-10 Thread Eric Fort
They may be out of stock, but bear in mind they are not the only place on the planet that sells them either. Try ordering from boardzoo, digikey, adafruit, Newark, Allied, or a whole list of other places. Eric On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Mark Hopewell ryme.intrinseca1...@gmail.com

Re: [beagleboard] Radio Spares (UK) - BBB - Out of Stock

2014-06-10 Thread Eric Fort
empty breadboard? . . . Thanks for the suggestions meanwhile, M. On 10 June 2014 09:05, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: They may be out of stock, but bear in mind they are not the only place on the planet that sells them either. Try ordering from boardzoo, digikey

[beagleboard] device tree for battery cape

2014-06-09 Thread Eric Fort
Does a device tree file exist for the battery cape? if so where may I download it. If not, how can I create it? Thanks, Eric -- 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] BeagleBone Black web server

2014-06-07 Thread Eric Fort
Where does httpd.conf say your files should go? On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Michael Thompson thompsonmichael...@gmail.com wrote: I flashed Debian to the eMMC and it seems to be working fine. My plan is to host a small web page using Apache. I installed Apache and using the IP address

Re: [beagleboard] Some help required

2014-06-06 Thread Eric Fort
basic email works. just put a script together that invokes your mailer with the proper attachments. On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Alastair Gilmore a.gilmo...@ulster.ac.uk wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project to grab images from a webcam and send them to a web site, triggered by an alarm

Re: [beagleboard] Do as Raspberry - Make a Beaglebone Black - Compute Module !? - Why not

2014-06-05 Thread Eric Fort
These pretty much already exist as a module check out gumstix which ave been around for quite some time. Eric On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:11 AM, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: From: CEinTX mpo...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 7:22

Re: [beagleboard] Debian + Resizing Partition

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Fort
Actually if you start with the flasher image found at https://rcn-ee .net/deb/flasher/wheezy/ https://rcn-ee.net/deb/flasher/wheezy/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-15-2gb.img.xz you ought to be able to easily fit what you want to do on the 2GB eMMC on the board without any extra card.

[beagleboard] differences between white and black

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Fort
If someone assembled a beaglebone black but left off the eMMC and HDMI framer chips what would the differences be between that and the beaglebone white? (other than the white has usb serial and usb jtag which the black lacks) Thanks, Eric -- For more options, visit

Re: [beagleboard] differences between white and black

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Fort
, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: If someone assembled a beaglebone black but left off the eMMC and HDMI framer chips what would the differences be between that and the beaglebone white? (other than the white has usb serial and usb jtag which the black lacks) Thanks

Re: [beagleboard] Beagleboneblack

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Fort
It would be a bit easier for most of us here if you posted in english as that is what most of those here use a a language for exchanging ideas and asking questions but google translate does a decent job of giving the gist of what you are asking. As Gerald replied, you need only provide 5V to

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Enhanced

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Fort
how about 2 versions of an enhanced black. one, as is but with 8GB eMMC. The other with the HDMI framer, audio codec and eMMC along with associated parts *UNPOPULATED*. Either ought be an easy change as one option just involves the robot not populating certain parts, and the other the robot just

Re: [beagleboard] 2GB emmc, what is recommended development image?

2014-06-02 Thread Eric Fort
If you need systemd, you can install it but unless you need it, plain ole init works fine. but yea, the idea with a bare image in that you choose and install just what you need. so install what you need and go from there. Eric On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Charles Kerr

Re: [beagleboard] how hot does the processor on your beaglebone black get? How hot should it get?

2014-06-02 Thread Eric Fort
finger gets. It should run right around 50 C when running at 1GHz. Beaglebone white default was 750MHz. Gerald On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:00 PM, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: From: Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 2:54

Re: [beagleboard] Did I kill my BBB?

2014-06-02 Thread Eric Fort
Since you're booting from SD card is the card Fully seated? Just checking, as it's in a spot easily bumped and I've knocked it out a couple times without realizing it then thought oh, what happened, it's dead!. Also to boot from SD you need to depress the boot switch. really though to do much

Re: [beagleboard] Announce: Flasher Changes

2014-06-02 Thread Eric Fort
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@beagleboard.org wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: It would seem that a piece of official documentation ought to be updated then. As of 5:21pm Pacific time on 29MAY2014 http

Re: [beagleboard] BBB + Dedbian

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Fort
what steps are you doing to try to do this? Maybe I'm not understanding what you are attempting to do but as I understand it it does not seem possible. what I understand from the question is that you have 2 physically separate devices (the eMMC the SD card) and you are trying to make a single

Re: [beagleboard] RTC options: Was The CryptoCape is now available at SparkFun Electronics

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Fort
, Mike bellyac...@gmail.com wrote: Changed subject as this is getting away from Joshua's original post about the CryptoCape. On 05/29/2014 10:01 PM, Eric Fort wrote: Are you guys talking about the crypto cape or the RTC cape? The crypto capediscussed in this thread uses a ds3231

Re: [beagleboard] 2GB emmc, what is recommended development image?

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Fort
There is a bare and/or netinstall image available, or at least the tools to build it in the RCN git repo on github that I've been looking at. I really wish that when new images are released that the bare images would be built along side and released as a smaller alternative to the bloated full

Re: [beagleboard] 2GB emmc, what is recommended development image?

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Fort
Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 1, 2014 9:48 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: There is a bare and/or netinstall image available, or at least the tools to build it in the RCN git repo on github that I've been looking at. I really wish that when new images are released

Re: [beagleboard] 2GB emmc, what is recommended development image?

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Fort
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: http://debian.beagleboard.org/images/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz - 470MB and https://rcn-ee.net/deb/flasher/wheezy/BBB

Re: [beagleboard] 2GB emmc, what is recommended development image?

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Fort
definitive answer: it's already there. part of the debconf package somehow the path misses it. try: sudo /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure tzdata works like a charm. seems reboot, shutdown, halt, and poweroff are there as well (found in sbin) but the path again misses those as well. yea,

Re: [beagleboard] 2GB emmc, what is recommended development image?

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Fort
btw, is there a non-flasher version of https://rcn-ee.net/deb/flasher/wheezy/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-15-2gb.img.xz https://rcn-ee.net/deb/flasher/wheezy/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-15-2gb.img.xzavailable or what happens if I put this image into a board (white) that has no eMMC

Re: [beagleboard] Debian + Resizing Partition

2014-05-31 Thread Eric Fort
Mike, Not to worry, with practice your Linux will improve, just as your English has with practice and use. In both cases we all start with zero competency as a complete newb. As for the steps, I asked the same question not long ago here on this list. here's a link to the question and answer

Re: [beagleboard] Debian + Resizing Partition

2014-05-31 Thread Eric Fort
Mike, Just reread your question again. Note, the onboard eMMc is pretty well filled by the standard image as was referenced by the following query to the list.

[beagleboard] how hot does the processor on your beaglebone black get? How hot should it get?

2014-05-31 Thread Eric Fort
I've had some issues recently with my beagle bone black going stupid, dropping from the network and at times being flaky and unresponsive. when I picked up the board it felt substantially warmer than my beaglebone white. Both are running on 5VDC input power (measured at 5.00V with a VOM). the

[beagleboard] my beagle (white) thinks it has a sound card - why?

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
I installed my DVI-D cape on my beaglebone (white) this evening by itself to verify it still functions. I'm happy to say that it does, at least so long as my AudioCape Rev. B1 is *NOT* also in the cape stack. The interesting thing is that when I boot with just the DVI-D cape in the stack the

[beagleboard] cape comparability (DVI-D Audio rev. B1)

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
I'm really trying to get the AudioCape rev B1 DVI-D cape to work together at the same time in the same cape stack on a recent 3.8 kernel. Both capes work flawlessly as the only cape in the cape stack. when stacked together I initially get a flash of video showing the console display of the

Re: [beagleboard] my beagle (white) thinks it has a sound card - why?

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
The white has no HDMI to disable. and the cape is a DVI-D cape, not an HDMI cape, thus no audio. Eric On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: I installed my DVI-D cape on my

[beagleboard] Don't do this.... be careful

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
In trying to gently pry apart my cape stack I accidentally got the pencil I was using to gently pry the 2 capes apart mispositioned such that it used my nice new 32GB SD card as a leverage point and broke it off in the SD card slot where now the part that formerly stuck out of the slot is now a

Re: [beagleboard] apt-get upgrade crashes beagle bone black (shuts down)

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
the same image and the same process (series of steps) does not show the same symptom. The black I'm referencing is an A4. Eric On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: I just flashed my

[beagleboard] audio cape working but fails to load with DVI-D cape in stack

2014-05-29 Thread Eric Fort
Now that the audio cape works (when it's the only thing in the stack...) I'm trying to get it and the DVI-D cape working together. when I place the DVI-D cape on the stack the audio players (aplay, timidity, mpg123, etc appear to play just fine but no audio is output through the headphones and the

Re: [beagleboard] Announce: Flasher Changes

2014-05-29 Thread Eric Fort
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: As an alternative or maybe in conjunction you could have the 4 LED's blink together in the following order

Re: [beagleboard] Announce: Flasher Changes

2014-05-29 Thread Eric Fort
It would seem that a piece of official documentation ought to be updated then. As of 5:21pm Pacific time on 29MAY2014 http://beagleboard.org/Getting%20Started#update still reflects the old pattern. I'd propose the following sentence be added, flasher images dated after insert proper date

Re: [beagleboard] The CryptoCape is now available at SparkFun Electronics

2014-05-29 Thread Eric Fort
ok, the data interface for all these chips sits in the i2c bus, so it looks like for much real encryption work this cape will be really slow, bottle necked and constrained by the chosen bus and it's bandwidth. I might also suggest for a rev 2 adding a set of 3 way jumpers such that it can sit on

Re: [beagleboard] The CryptoCape is now available at SparkFun Electronics

2014-05-29 Thread Eric Fort
curves. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: ok, the data interface for all these chips sits in the i2c bus, so it looks like for much real encryption work this cape will be really slow, bottle necked and constrained by the chosen bus and it's bandwidth. I

Re: [beagleboard] The CryptoCape is now available at SparkFun Electronics

2014-05-29 Thread Eric Fort
Are you guys talking about the crypto cape or the RTC cape? The crypto capediscussed in this thread uses a ds3231 not a ds1307. Also why anyone *needs* the rtc cape I don't get. just keep the rtc rail powered on the processor. That I believe is a software issue. Eric On Thu, May 29, 2014 at

[beagleboard] apt-get upgrade crashes beagle bone black (shuts down)

2014-05-29 Thread Eric Fort
I just flashed my beagle bone black with images_BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img after verifying the md5sum and aot-get update. when I issue apt-get upgrade the board initially looks to be properly processing the download and install of files then shuts downmight there be a problem

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread Eric Fort
While CircuitCo incurs some risk in expanding production capacity on a board that anyone can step in and manufacture a clone of, and Embedest *is* making a clone of as a second source I will still hold out when purchasing beagleboard products for those sourced from CircuitCo as their quality has

Re: [beagleboard] Re: beagle audio cape (Rev B1)

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Fort
Apr 11 01:36:09 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux root@beaglebone:~# as you can see it still needs done manually, even with the above change in uEnv.txt On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:20 PM, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: From: Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com

Re: [beagleboard] Beagle Bone power sequencing and power states

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Fort
to look at the datasheet for the TPS65217C for the power sequencing and power down modes available. Gerald On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: Can the beagle bone (black/white) be powered down to the point where only the on chip RTC continues to run

Re: [beagleboard] Beagle Bone power sequencing and power states

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Fort
wrote: From: Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014 at 4:02 PM To: beagleboard beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Beagle Bone power sequencing and power states on the software side of this, where might I find

[beagleboard] help building/updating a debian kernel or image

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Fort
The instructions found here: http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Rebuilding_Software_Image likely do a fine job for doing so on the bone that is also attached to an internet connected network (I wouldn't know as my bone presently is *not* on such a network). That being the case,

[beagleboard] Beagle Bone power sequencing and power states

2014-05-24 Thread Eric Fort
Can the beagle bone (black/white) be powered down to the point where only the on chip RTC continues to run? If this is the case then the need for an external RTC would seem nil. where can I find more info about the power sequencing of the bones? The SRM shows the order in which the rails are

Re: [beagleboard] Re: beagle audio cape (Rev B1)

2014-05-24 Thread Eric Fort
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:06 PM, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: From: Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM To: beagleboard beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: [beagleboard] Re: beagle audio cape (Rev B1) ok

Re: [beagleboard] beagle bone dc power connector

2014-05-23 Thread Eric Fort
, May 22, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: What is the proper size for the beagle bone DC power connector? The SRM says, 2.1MM center positive x 5.5mm outer barrel but a number of connectors I have that state 2.1x5.5mm will not mate as they are to large outside diameter

Re: [beagleboard] windows internet connection sharing - beagle connected to windows over usb

2014-05-22 Thread Eric Fort
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: could someone who has made this work actually describe how to do it? My windows laptop has an internet connection (over wireless). that same laptop

Re: [beagleboard] windows internet connection sharing - beagle connected to windows over usb

2014-05-22 Thread Eric Fort
:10 AM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@beagleboard.orgwrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@gmail.comwrote: On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: could someone who has

Re: [beagleboard] ncp349 chip on beagle

2014-05-22 Thread Eric Fort
the NCP349 on the BBB..Out of the 150,000 of those shipped, I think we maybe had 3 cases of reverse polarity. Gerald On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: are you saying that the ncp349 *CONTAINS* a full wave bridge rectifier? I certainly didn't see

[beagleboard] beagle bone dc power connector

2014-05-22 Thread Eric Fort
What is the proper size for the beagle bone DC power connector? The SRM says, 2.1MM center positive x 5.5mm outer barrel but a number of connectors I have that state 2.1x5.5mm will not mate as they are to large outside diameter and they measure 5.5mm OD as stated. A 5mm OD connector seems to fit

Re: [beagleboard] help getting audio cape rev b1 working

2014-05-20 Thread Eric Fort
: From: Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, May 19, 2014 at 6:56 PM To: beagleboard beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: [beagleboard] help getting audio cape rev b1 working I have followed the instructions found at http://elinux.org

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Audio Cape Rev B audio Input

2014-05-20 Thread Eric Fort
in my use of audio and this card from the console I found alasmixer much easier to use. I just went through and set all the levels to 100% and it works well. Try using alsamixer it should get things fixed up in an easy and intuitive way. F1 and the man page cover the controls. Eric On Tue,

[beagleboard] windows internet connection sharing - beagle connected to windows over usb

2014-05-20 Thread Eric Fort
could someone who has made this work actually describe how to do it? My windows laptop has an internet connection (over wireless). that same laptop (running windows 7) has a network connection over usb to the beagle bone (part of what's auto configured when usb gets connected between the bone

[beagleboard] help getting audio cape rev b1 working

2014-05-19 Thread Eric Fort
I have followed the instructions found at http://elinux.org/CircuitCo:Audio_Cape_RevB#Audio_Cape_Revision_B1 and I'm just getting static when I try speaker-test -f 600 or aplay filename.wav. the wav file plays fine on my windows laptop and aplay identifies it properly but just static for audio.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: beagle audio cape (Rev B1)

2014-05-18 Thread Eric Fort
so what can I expect to happen if I define a cape as being present in uEnv.txt then remove the cape without (un)defining it? Eric On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:09 PM, John Syn john3...@gmail.com wrote: From: Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday

[beagleboard] beagle audio cape (Rev B1)

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Fort
The beagle audio cape seems to not have a cape eeprom. How then is it detected as being there with the present kernel? since it has no cape eeprom does this mean that it does not count as to being one of the 4 cape addresses thus giving a free pass with the ability to have this cape and 4

[beagleboard] Re: beagle audio cape (Rev B1)

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Fort
or more files to do this manually each and every time I add or remove the audio cape from the stack. Eric On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: The beagle audio cape seems to not have a cape eeprom. How then is it detected as being there with the present kernel

Re: [beagleboard] Announce: Flasher Changes

2014-05-16 Thread Eric Fort
So has this change been incorporated in the latest downloadable flasher images? If so it might be a good thing to note both here and on any official wiki instructions (possibly linked to *FROM* the Download page) that images *AFTER* said date have this change. Though many do not, we ought hold

Re: [beagleboard] Announce: Flasher Changes

2014-05-16 Thread Eric Fort
, halt, or otherwise not obtain success it could blink 00010101110100010111000101000101110101 (FAIL) using the same timing as above. Just a thought Eric On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.comwrote: On May 16, 2014 5:49 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote

[beagleboard] resizing partitions on SD Card

2014-05-15 Thread Eric Fort
I have a 4GB (3.62GB fat32 formatted) SD card and just downloaded images_bone-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz . Note this is intended to work with a 2GB SD card which wastes much of the card I have to use much less anything smaller is getting difficult if not impossible to find. How can I

[beagleboard] battery cape - is it working as expected?

2014-05-15 Thread Eric Fort
Just got the chance today to run a set of batteries through my beagle bone with the battery cape installed. Run time while running off batteries with the DVI-D cape installed and a reasonably constant amount of heavey ethernet traffic running apt-get install / apt-get update extended to over 3

[beagleboard] displays supported by linux framebuffer driver

2014-05-13 Thread Eric Fort
boardzoo offers a 128x128 spi display cape found here: http://boardzoo.com/index.php/minidisplay-cape.html I know that the adafruit ST7735R based display found here: https://www.adafruit.com/products/358 Is documented as working complete with wiring diagram and instructions here:

[beagleboard] arduino tre - (beagleduino)

2014-05-05 Thread Eric Fort
see: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardTre Where can one find more info about this board such as board layout, schematics, pinout, interfaces, etc. and when will it be available? Eric -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are

Re: [beagleboard] Announcement: Power Cape (UPS)

2014-04-14 Thread Eric Fort
Ron, As for adding a RTC to the board all the drivers for that are already in the kernel. Just add one of the following RTC chips: DS3232 (high accuracy), DS1338C, DS1339C, or DS1374 all of which can attach to the same i2c pins as your cape EEPROM. Given the pcb cad files I'm guessing it would

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