Do keep in mind that I know nothing of your hardware, and am not exactly a hardware guy. However, before you start making modifications to anything I would check to make sure you have power to the cape first. After that, I would remove your battery cape, and plug your LCD cape( I'm guessing ) directly into your BBB and see if it works that way.
After that I am not exactly sure how I'd proceed, but I may try to find adapter / extension headers before any thing else. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:20 PM, jubishop <jubis...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks for the followup Robert. I can see who my main source of wisdom is > going to be here :) > > the screen is actually just 100% blank, no cmd line prompt or anything. > the screen does power on and turn a light grey, and the user and power > led's on the board light up, but I'm wondering whether maybe I'm not > getting connection on all the pins, because the battery cape doesn't allow > the screen pins to slide down into it's female equivalents very far....in > fact if i flip the board over the screen is liable to just fall out of > place... :( > > i'm going to try outputting the BBB to the tv through the normal HDMI out > and see if i can bring up a window system that way. > > there's just one particular part of the battery cape that is impeding the > progress of the lcd cape from sliding all the way down onto it's pins. > that particular part is the jumper pins for setting the EEPROM. I've > attached a photo. Do you think I could get away with bending these down or > snipping them off or something? they come with little jumpers to connect > them in different orientations. if i needed a certain orientation, i could > just snip the pins and then dab a piece of solder between the ones that > needed connecting, maybe? > > thanks again! > > > -- > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
