Christian, I think that's a genius solution. Thank you! My hesitation in installing Ubuntu has been pin muxing, but it's worth the difficulty.
Thanks again, Arthur On Monday, July 22, 2013 5:03:28 PM UTC-4, Chris Cherry wrote: > > Arthur, > I had success with Pygame on the Beaglebone Rev. 5 using the Joystick > module, however I used Ubuntu as Angstrom was ill suited to... Well > anything I wanted to use it for. Have you considered changing OS? > > Cheers, > Christian > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ------------------------------ > From: arthur...@gmail.com <javascript:> > Sent: 22/07/2013 21:06 > To: pygame-mirror...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Subject: [pygame] Installation on Beaglebone Black w Angstrom Linux > > I've been trying to install Pygame on the Beaglebone Black running > Angstrom Linux with a Cortex-A8 processor. Although the online opkg > repository lists python-pygame as available for arm7a architecture, > searching via the beaglebone does not find python-pygame. After installing > all of the dependencies listed on the online opkg repository, except for > libsmpeg, I tried to install from source. However, the installation can't > find libsdl-mixer, which I have already installed (v libsdl-mixer-1.2-0 - > 1.2.11-r0.1) into /usr/lib. > > Installation output: > root@beaglebone:~/Desktop/pygame-1.9.1release# LOCALBASE=/usr/lib python > setup.py install > > > WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "config.py" > Using UNIX configuration... > > > Hunting dependencies... > sh: smpeg-config: command not found > WARNING: "smpeg-config" failed! > SDL : found 1.2.15 > FONT : not found > IMAGE : not found > MIXER : not found > SMPEG : not found > PNG : found > JPEG : found > SCRAP : found > PORTMIDI: not found > PORTTIME: not found > > I tried to set LOCALBASE, as suggested in the documentation, but this did > not affect the installation output. I only hope to use the sound mixer > portions of pygame. Can someone help me install it on the Beaglebone Black? > > Many thanks, > Arthur > > > In case it's useful, here's the rchitecture from beaglebone opkg: > root@beaglebone:~/Desktop/SDL_mixer-1.2.12# opkg print-architecture > arch all 1 > arch any 6 > arch noarch 11 > arch arm 16 > arch armv4 21 > arch armv5 26 > arch armv5-vfp 31 > arch armv5e 36 > arch armv5e-vfp 41 > arch armv6-vfp 46 > arch armv7a 51 > arch armv7a-vfp 56 > arch armv7a-vfp-neon 61 > arch beaglebone 66 > > Pygame opkg link: > http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=python-pygame > > >
