So you are saying I will still need to stay with the 7.9 image series for BoneScript for the foreseeable future?
Will the image be 2016-01-31 or something else? I notice the beagleboard.org/latest-images page was last edited Jan 31, 2016 but the latest 8.3 image is 2016-01-24 and the latest 7.9 is the 2015-11-12 I'm currently using. Can I get to 8.3 2016-01-24 from 8.2 2015-12-06 with apt-get updates and installs? or should I download the new image and start over? The node-red I've installed for the 2015-11-12 image appears to use BoneScript for the "Beaglebone" nodes as I had to edit the config file to allow bonescript to get them to work. But there is no PWM node, although the GPIO nodes seem to throw the same errors in the terminal that ran the node-red-pi command to start everything as does the tab in Cloud9 that runs the BoneScript example programs. (I haven't bothered with starting node-red automatically yet). Thanks for explaining the bmap tool, I'd wondered what the *.bmap files were for, when I've downloaded images I'd just figured I didn't need them :) I think the "top level" beaglebone.localhost web page needs some serious updating as the link: http://192.168.7.2/bone101/Support/BoneScript/updates/ is still talking about Angstrom. This is all someone like my friend would likely see if he'd just bought a board and hoped for the best. He'd quickly be terminally dead-in-the-water confused and either just give up on the idea or go back to trying to implement it by wiring up timers and relays. He's in a rural area with only cell-phone service Internet access so hours of Googling and websurfing is just not practical. Books like the "Beaglebone Cookbook" and ""Exploring Beaglebone are great, but they are wrong in ways very disconcerting to a beginner by the time they are published. While the link to beagleboard.org/latest-images is good, there is nothing there to give him a clue as to if he'll need 7.9 8.3 or Angstrom. This is not helped by the fact that boards like the BBG seem to be shipping with completely broken images in the eMMC -- there are other threads here about this. On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 1:46:45 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2016 1:36 PM, "Wally Bkg" <wb666...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Great! I'll be among the first to download Sunday's new Jessie image! > Do you know if the BoneScript PWM is now working? > > Bonescript is still only written for 3.8, it needs to be ported to the 4.1 > config-pin interface. > > > Most of my hours wasted is re-installing and re-configuring the > non-standard stuff I use, so I'm not sure how bmaptool (which I assume is a > "better" SD card burner) would buy me much. I start dd and do something > else -- the dd is always done by the time I get back to it :) > > bmaptool does things like skipping writing zero's which dd has to write. > For each img.xz on the file server there is a matching .bmap file. > > > I know apt-get upgrade shouldn't break anything, but I'd been using a > Jessie testing image (I think 8.1 from about April or May 2015) on both my > BBW and BBB I upgraded them both (after skipping several other image > releases) before rebooting either, and neither would allow a login > afterwards -- no X on the BBB and no ssh on both. I could recover my files > from the SD cards so it wasn't a total loss. I posted a message about it > shortly after it happened, but I think my Google Groups filters (which I > find less than helpful) put it where nobody seemed to notice it. > > From may 2015, there was a very big upgrade in lxqt, I tried to minimize > the issue (upstream changed there c++ namespace in 0.10.0) I put out a note > to this usergroup on how to upgrade with out the desktop breaking.. > > > I've come to the conclusion I've a hardware USB issue with my A5A BBB, > it sometimes works, more often not :( > > Regards, > -- 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.
