Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread Amalinda J' Gamage
thank you Pedro and Przemek . I read through the materiel provided but I still have some doubts. 1. Do you know a place where a very beginner coming from TI microcontrolers (e.g. MSP430 and ARM Cortex M) can learn this embedded linux from the begining? can you provide a guidance? a series of

[beagleboard] Re: BBB as mediaplayer via UPnP?

2013-10-06 Thread Illutian Kade
While this may or may not apply to how this plugin would gather the YouTube data. I did experience severe audio stuttering when trying to play YouTube videos via Iceweasel (with GNASH plugin). This was with nothing but the web browser running; pegged the CPU/Resource Monitor at 100%. Though, I

Re: [beagleboard] Board crashes on image open

2013-10-06 Thread Gerhard J.
Both of my two boards running Angstrom with GNOME have the very same problem. Tested with Angstrom production images 2013.06.06 and 2013.08.21 (both booted from microSD). Opening even small images crash the GIMP application. I don't think it's a power supply related hardware issue. Suppose a

[beagleboard] IS possible to use an LCD without controller, on the BBB?

2013-10-06 Thread Karl Longen
So, I've trashed an old laptop, and I have this nice 13 inch LCD screen that is sitting in my drawer. I was planning to use it for some project, and I thought that the BBB would be perfect. From what I understand, to use the LCD I need a LCD controller, which per se is an inverter and a

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 06 Oct 2013, Amalinda J' Gamage wrote: I am a new user to beaglebone and I have a couple of basic questions. I want to know what is meant by DT or Device tree overlay and why it is required for BB/ ARM335X. Is it not required for other main processors like Intel because they are

[beagleboard] LCD7: Drilling holes...

2013-10-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to build a case for my LCD7+Beaglebone black. For that I need to drill four holes for screws at the exact position into a plate, which will become the bottom of the case. The screws goes into the vertical stands, which again are srewed into the PCB of the LCD7. I saw aZIP

Re: [beagleboard] PRU writing to DDR-ram takes long time

2013-10-06 Thread Nils Zottmann
Okay, my problem seems to be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access#Cache_coherency Is there a way to do this without programming kernel-level code? I've never done this before and don't really know what to do exactly. I found the option to drop the cache by writing a 1 to

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread Amalinda J' Gamage
Dear garyamort, Since the book is written for the Linux Kernel version 3.2 and the current version is 3.8 do you think I will have any problem? awaiting your reply. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[beagleboard] Re: Bad to the Bone (review)

2013-10-06 Thread Amalinda J' Gamage
Thanks. great review. -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread David Lambert
I think this rant from Linus explains it all ;) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/55060 On 13-10-05 11:07 PM, Amalinda J' Gamage wrote: I am a new user to beaglebone and I have a couple of basic questions. I want to know what is meant by DT or Device tree overlay and why it

[beagleboard] Re: IS possible to use an LCD without controller, on the BBB?

2013-10-06 Thread garyamort
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 4:45:05 AM UTC-4, Karl Longen wrote: So, I've trashed an old laptop, and I have this nice 13 inch LCD screen that is sitting in my drawer. I was planning to use it for some project, and I thought that the BBB would be perfect. From what I understand, to use

Re: [beagleboard] PRU writing to DDR-ram takes long time

2013-10-06 Thread Nils Zottmann
I think I found a better solution now. Opening /dev/mem was done by info-mem_fd = open(/dev/mem, O_RDWR); before, i changed it to info-mem_fd = open(/dev/mem, O_RDWR | O_SYNC); Now it works with the speed I expected and I don't have to drop the cache. I'm not really sure if I should also use the

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread garyamort
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 11:38:31 AM UTC-4, Amalinda J' Gamage wrote: Dear garyamort, Since the book is written for the Linux Kernel version 3.2 and the current version is 3.8 do you think I will have any problem? awaiting your reply. It includes both versions - the examples

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread Brandon I
2. Why is a DT used to define the HDMI Because this is a system-on-chip. The HDMI, gpio, gpu, pruss, etc are all peripherals of the cpu that are located on the chip, but still separate from the cpu. 3. If you just want to get gpio or leds working quickly, check out this post:

[beagleboard] Re: new (6/2013) BBB w/ Angstrom needs java.

2013-10-06 Thread joshua bailey
pederm i have installed oracle java as you have suggested but i am now trying to launch processing.js to run some code but can't get it to work, any ideas? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[beagleboard] Random SIGILLs in arbitrary programs

2013-10-06 Thread Richard Watts
Hello, I'm afraid I have a mysterious problem and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on it? I am trying to run quite a bit of a code on a Beagle xM, Rev C and I get random segfaults and/or SIGILLs. These turn up, occasionally, in every program I attempt to run - busybox,

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread Amalinda J' Gamage
thank you David Lambert , G aryamort and Brandon , appreciate your time spent! I'm planing to buy the book recomended. I think it might stop me from wandering around with my problems:-) and that means using previous Kernel in the beaglebone its possible that we connect an LED in series with a

[beagleboard] BBB and sd card trouble

2013-10-06 Thread coater87
I have tried with 3 different micro SD cards, and I have the same problem with each. If I have a sd card in the slot on BBB, all four user lights light, and freeze that way. Once I remove the card and re-apply power, the BBB boots as normal. What am I doing wrong here? -- For more

[beagleboard] Two's Complement Arithmetic

2013-10-06 Thread Bit Pusher
Has anyone used the PRU for signal processing with two's complement arithmetic? And a related question, are there any ideas on how to best implement sign extension? Thanks Bit Pusher -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are

Re: [beagleboard] Re: new (6/2013) BBB w/ Angstrom needs java.

2013-10-06 Thread joshua bailey
Hi Paulo No i want to use processing to run a gui i have designed in processing, this will eventually control and arduino, i cant even get the processing IDE to load. I followed the instructions online to install open jdk but as the links no longer worked someone else suggested

Re: [beagleboard] Board crashes on image open

2013-10-06 Thread Paul
Interesting. Yes, my windows freeze as well when calling image popups from OpenCV. A question to anyone who might know, is this an issue that might be resolved soon, or is there a workaround? It's a very good reason to switch from angstrom to ubuntu, even though my dev environment is

[beagleboard] Re: touchscreen driver (for LCD7)

2013-10-06 Thread Terry Storm
Hello Have you had any luck with this? Just trying debian wheezy on the BBB with the LCD7 and I find the mouse moves ok using the touch screen, but its constantly trying to draw selection boxes. It also needs to be calibrated as it doesnt reach to the very edges of the display. Regards Terry

Re: [beagleboard] Device Tree Overlay ? why do we need it?

2013-10-06 Thread Pedro A. Melendez
this blog have a lot of helpful DT stuff http://hipstercircuits.com/ On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Amalinda J' Gamage amalinda.gam...@gmail.com wrote: thank you David Lambert , G aryamort and Brandon , appreciate your time spent! I'm planing to buy the book recomended. I think it might

[beagleboard] Re: IS possible to use an LCD without controller, on the BBB?

2013-10-06 Thread Karl Longen
Thanks for the reply. Yes, it is a LVDS; sadly I have no clue about the model of the LCD, since has no identification marks...it is plain white, was in an old macbook white. Did some research, and they used 3-4 different panels, so it is hard to pinpoint exactly which is it. So I am

Re: [beagleboard] IS possible to use an LCD without controller, on the BBB?

2013-10-06 Thread Karl Longen
I do not understand your reply; I didn't ask for the numbers of the super ball. Just trying to figure out if it is possible without buying an external LCD controller. Thanks On Sunday, October 6, 2013 4:56:50 AM UTC-7, lisarden wrote: Send a lcd datasheet. We are not fortune tellers

[beagleboard] Re: touchscreen driver (for LCD7)

2013-10-06 Thread Terry Storm
Update to above, I realised I was using Wheezy 7.0 and there was a 7.1 available, so I tried that, updated and installed LXDE, and some of the issues are resolved, however now the mouse pointer jumps all over the place, same as what happens on Angstrom. Terry On Monday, 7 October 2013

Re: [beagleboard] how to install a new version of nodejs on Beaglebone

2013-10-06 Thread Pedro A. Melendez
check your package.json file you can put version of your dependencies that work with nodejs on the BBB, I'm running express, serialport and i2c with no problems maybe is socket.io -Pedro On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Janek ja...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi, I need to run a nodejs webserver