Hi Christian Ruocco 

Could you please send me a link to download the prebuilt image of the 
ubuntu that you mention? So i can test it.

I'll appreciate that. Sorry about my english.

Regards.

Esteban Binsak

El sábado, 4 de enero de 2014 17:42:20 UTC-3, Christian Ruocco escribió:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I got Ubuntu 12.04 running with the BBB and touchscreen working (Chipsee 
> 1024x600 7”) months ago, simply by using the Chipsee kernel with the ubuntu 
> rootfs and rebuilding other goodies against the Chipsee kernel source (like 
> the SGX OPEN GL ES 2.0 drivers).
>
> Currently I need to boot off the SD card though, but adding the MMC 
> support to the chip see kernel doesn’t seem like a biggie.
>
> Does that help anybody? Or am I missing something? Obviously trying to 
> apt-get kernel related packages will break it but most stuff works.
>
> l8r,
> Xris.
>
> On 04 Jan 2014, at 19:21, Mahammad <cai...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> I passed with same experience trying to run ubuntu with the capacitive and 
> the black beaglebone. I can confirm steps above are very useful. But you 
> will have two problems when it come to BBB:
> - That old version of kernel will hang on Beaglebone Black.
> - Capacitive touch will not work.
>
> I started with 3.2.42-psp27 and then spent like 2 days merging changes 
> Chipsee made to have things working on BBB. Can summarize changes to:
> - Copied the /arch/arm folder from Chipsee kernel. That helped the kernel 
> to operate on BBB.
> - Copy the capacitive touch driver from under /drivers/input/touchscreen/ 
> (ft5x0x_ts.c/h and eeti_ts.c). Please copy the folder in full as it also 
> has the Kbuild, and Makefile changes. And while mearging I note all changes 
> in the folder where made to support the touch.
> - During rebuild, and under the config tool; enable the touch driver under 
> device drivers/input/touchscreen.
> - Install lxde gnu (apt-get install lxde). Without a gnu the screen will 
> stay black. It could have a prompt somewhere outside the screen boundries 
> you can test if you have a keyboard.. but none of my keyboards or mice 
> worked with that kernel. I am investigating this now. I could had messed up 
> something while merging.
>
> No changes to uEnv.txt It finally worked with touch.
>
> This is not the best solution anyway.. but just to move forward. My next 
> milestone is to have it working with kernel 3.8.13.. anyone succeeded 
> extracting the device tree partially or in full?
>
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