David, thank you for responding. We have a cable like that. I'm trying to get this working for an academic project, at the moment another partner has access to the BeagleBoard.
When I do get the board back: how could I login with the RS232 cable and where would the log file be located? On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:52 AM, David Come <davidb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Did you try to log in using a RS232 cable to see logs or errors you get ? > > David. > 2012/3/30 W.A. Garrett Weaver <weav...@email.arizona.edu> > > > Angstrom mailing list! > > > > I'm trying to get the Angstrom operating system installed on my > > BeagleBoard-xM > > <http://beagleboard.org/hardware-xM>using a tutorial by Trey > > Weaver< > > > http://treyweaver.blogspot.com/2010/10/installing-angstrom-on-beagleboard-xm.html > > >and > > the angstrom > > distribution builder <http://narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org/> on > the > > angstrom-distribution site. I can get the board to boot off the SD card > but > > instead f getting the XFCE gui: I get a terminal prompt. Furthermore > when I > > try to run a gstreamer pipeline the console returns can't find /dev/cmem. > > > > Could I be doing anything wrong with the configuration? > > I'm selecting, on the narcissus page (other than the defaults): > > > > - BeagleBoard for rootfs image > > - Advanced complexity options > > - Extended base system > > - X11 for the user enviroment > > - Xfce for X11 desktop enviroment > > - Bootloader Files (x-load/uboot/scripts) > > - Gstreamer > > - Gstreamer GLES Plugin > > - Texas Instruments Gstreamer plugins > > > > Do I need to install more things? Do I need to do more stuff? > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > -- > > *W.A. Garrett Weaver * > > weav...@email.arizona.edu > > _______________________________________________ > > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > -- *W.A. Garrett Weaver * weav...@email.arizona.edu _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
