On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:21 PM, mzimmers <mzimm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I was originally running Ubuntu...changed when I started playing > with the BBB, as most of the examples used Debian and I figured there might > be some advantage to having the same OS on my desktop. > So every day usage, they're pretty much the same. It's when you start getting into the inner workings where they're different. They do also have different package names for some packages. Typically, I stay away from Ubuntu because I've had a lot of bad blood with it in the past. e.g. I was trying ot use it for server related duties in place of Debian, because it supposedly had reliable drivers for things Debian at the time was not supporting( new hardware that was released between Debian dev cycles ). In the end, I wound up moving ot Sabayon, whcih at the time was *the* cutting edge distro, and it did not support the hardware either . . . > > By the way, someone in another forum identified the problem. It turns out > that an app brltty was interfering. I uninstalled brltty and now screen > works, even though PuTTY doesn't. Also, ttyUSB0 now shows up in my /dev > directory. > No way anyone here could have known that. Without physically being at your system. Maybe not even then. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORp_OTTOvcYjugtYa8afscPKK2_qMBseX%2ByNGG_3jjmQkw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.