Thanks, I'm currently trying to downgrade to a 3.8 revision, 1st attempt 
resulted in a 'won't boot, all the LEDs are on' so I guess I missed a step.

On Friday, 3 February 2017 13:31:00 UTC, abhilash h wrote:
>
> I had used debian . And it worked with busybox rfs and 3.8 kernel also .
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 6:20 PM, Hugh Frater <hugh....@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Abhilash, 
>>
>> That's interesting, I will try and downgrade. May I ask what image you 
>> are using now (Angstrom, Debian etc)?
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 3 February 2017 12:36:34 UTC, abhilash h wrote:
>>
>>> Hi hugh,  
>>>
>>> It never worked for me in 4.x kernel. I used to get same values. So i 
>>> swutched back to 3.8 kernel . 
>>>
>> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 5:47 PM, Hugh Frater <hugh....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>> Hi, I'm getting started on a control system that needs to read 2x 
>>>> quadrature encoders. One is a 1000 line, the other a 2000 line, but that 
>>>> is 
>>>> really immaterial. I have the physical interface sorted (one needs a 
>>>> 26lv32 
>>>> to glue it to the BBB, the other is open collector), and the traces look 
>>>> good on the scope.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running Jessie IOT with 4.4.36, I have disabled hdmi and universal 
>>>> cape. I can load Nathaniel Lewis' overlays (supplied with the clean 
>>>> install 
>>>> of Jessie) just fine with no errors in dmesg.
>>>>
>>>> However when I 'cat position' in each of the relevant sys entries 
>>>> (having moved my encoder A/B lines to the relevant pins each time), I get 
>>>> a 
>>>> changing value but it isn't meaningful. Am I missing something, or is it 
>>>> more likely that I've blown up the inputs? I did power on the servo drive 
>>>> (that was connected to the 26lv32 breakout board) by accident when the BBB 
>>>> wasn't powered up.
>>>>
>>>> I've tested with a simple 24ppr 'audio style' encoder and again don't 
>>>> get meaningful results.
>>>>
>>>> Do I have to mess about with config-pin for each of the eQEP inputs, or 
>>>> should loading the relevant dtbo file for the eQEP module (0, 1 2 etc) set 
>>>> up the pins for me?
>>>>
>>>> There's so much old documentation floating about it's hard to identify 
>>>> what is current and what is no longer relevant now that the universal-cape 
>>>> is in existence.
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Hugh
>>>>
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