Robert, The image you provided works great. Thanks for the swift reply. Any chance you could describe the mods you made to the base debian-lxqt image to make the display cooperate? I'm curious as to what I was doing incorrectly.
On Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 9:01:03 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Eric Carlson <ecarl...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I've been having trouble getting the New Haven 7.0' touchscreen to work > well > > with my BBB rev C. I got to the point of being able start a desktop > manager > > (lxde) and move the mouse around, however after a little bit the display > > will start randomly flickering out. It looks like the display is > rebooting: > > Flashing white, going black for about 0.5 seconds before coming back. > > Occasionally I see FIFO underflow errors from tilcdc, but not everytime. > > > > I have followed a couple different methods to get to this point: > > 1. http://elinux.org/Nh5capeSoftware#Kernel_4.1 > > I got the device overlay from: apt-get bb-cape-overlays, as it claims it > > can't find the device overlay for the display, despite it being included > in > > the kernel build. > > I installed SGX and tslib, but SGX crashes at boot time. Other than > > installing tslib, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with it. > > > > 2. I also tried updating uboot and updating bb-cape-overlays using > > instructions provided in this thread on a 4.4.36-ti kernel: > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/0orEIvzkOj8/d-Ms_xpcAgAJ > > I did this without including SGX, tslib, or the kernel drivers provided > by > > New Haven, but it seems to work just as well as the method New Haven > > suggests. > > > > Any thoughts on what might be going wrong? > > Well i just got that lcd and pushed out offical support less then 2 > weeks ago.. ** > > Just grab Sunday's eMMC flasher image: > > https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-05-07/lxqt-4gb/ > > BBB-blank* > > dd' it to a microSD and let it flash the eMMC. > > after it's done, take out the microSD, then plug in your display and power > up.. > > You should see the backlight turn on followed by the lxqt desktop.. > > > ** okay 9 days ago: > > https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/commits/master > > 24bit: lcd: enable blue-and-red-wiring = "crossed"; otherwise xorg do.. > add: BB-BONE-NH7C-01-A0.dts … > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > https://rcn-ee.com/ > -- 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/1dcc3188-8e68-4143-8be4-d04b2901115a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
