[beagleboard] Re: PinMuxing P9_21 and P9_23 to I2C2?

2016-03-22 Thread Graham
If you understand device trees, you should be able to turn off I2C2 on p9-19 and P9-20 and enable on P9-21 and P9-22 (as Mode 4). I doubt that you can route the I2C2 out to two separate pin-outs at the same time. If you don't understand how to make all of that work, then I would put some very

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread William Hermans
Oh, and by the way, this hardware and community is 100% open source. If you've got a problem that us supposedly crapper community helpers can help you with. Go download the schematics, or source code and figure it out for yourself. Unles of course as I suspect you're not a real engineer, but some

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread William Hermans
Yeah well those Rabbit semi boards actually are not bad, its the software stack you're forced to use with them that is horrible. Wulf and I built an ethernet connected lead acid charge controller using one of these and the crappy compiler you're forced to use introduced random bugs that where hard

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread John Syne
For someone who has been "working with products like this for 18 years", you would think he would be able to help himself by now. Yet he still thinks he is smarter than the rest of us, advising us to “leave this BBB”. Well, Karl, there are many more smarter people here who think BBB is way

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread Gerald Coley
Source has been noted. Gerald On Mar 22, 2016 6:52 PM, "evilwulfie" wrote: > Nobody has forced you to use the BBB. > Nobody has forced you to even LIKE the BBB > > As long as you feel that way remove yourself from the list and we will not > be bothered > by you anymore. >

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread evilwulfie
Nobody has forced you to use the BBB. Nobody has forced you to even LIKE the BBB As long as you feel that way remove yourself from the list and we will not be bothered by you anymore. On 3/22/2016 4:42 PM, Karl Easterly wrote: > > to be a bit more nice about my grandious statement that the BBB

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread Karl Easterly
to be a bit more nice about my grandious statement that the BBB is dead.. here is a bit of history. I have been working with products like this for about 18 years. Small form factor boards like the basic stamps and zworld jack rabbits to todays rasp pi's and bbb's and the banana pros and such and

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Walker Archer
SPI1 shows the same 1.8v output. I will attempt to move to another BBB (a BBG actually) and if things work there then I'll assume I toasted the SPI on this board. On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 1:07:43 PM UTC-4, Walker Archer wrote: > > I suspect you're exactly right Wulf Man. I was not really

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread ChrisB
My experience has been quite different. Pretty much all the progress I've made with the BBB was enabled by various forum posts and code repositories. And every time I think I have an original question or observation, a little searching online finds the answer or a similar developer

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-22 Thread Karl Easterly
Ya.. I didn't ask for help.. as you noticed :) The point is the community for the beagle board is so sparse self help is not an option. A sparse community around this type of product equals a dead product. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >

Re: [beagleboard] CONFIG_NTP_PPS

2016-03-22 Thread Robert Nelson
Hi Mike, On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Mike wrote: > root@beaglebone:/boot# grep NTP config-4.1.18-ti-rt-r52 > # CONFIG_NTP_PPS is not set > root@beaglebone:/boot# > > Any chance we can get this enabled? > > Been chasing my tail for too long now trying to figure out why

[beagleboard] CONFIG_NTP_PPS

2016-03-22 Thread Mike
root@beaglebone:/boot# grep NTP config-4.1.18-ti-rt-r52 # CONFIG_NTP_PPS is not set root@beaglebone:/boot# Any chance we can get this enabled? Been chasing my tail for too long now trying to figure out why ntpd doesn't see my pps signal. Thanks Mike -- For more options, visit

Re: [beagleboard] RPMsg from Linux User Space to PRU on Beaglebone Black

2016-03-22 Thread John Syne
Hi Lucas, This seems to work just fine for me. What kernel version are you using? I’m using V4.1.13-ti-r33. As you can see, all remoteproc/rpmsg kernel modules are loaded automatically at boot time. [ 16.251480] pruss-rproc 4a30.pruss: 8 PRU interrupts parsed

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Walker Archer
I suspect you're exactly right Wulf Man. I was not really paying attention to the order I applied the power and I was assuming that the POT voltage would be isolated from the digital control side of the chip. But I also assumed that if I blew the drivers that I would no longer get any signal

Re: [beagleboard] Play audio throuhg HDMI on BeagleBone Black

2016-03-22 Thread Jason Kridner
Only specific video modes of the HDMI framer device support audio. See the wiki page. > On Mar 22, 2016, at 10:44 AM, yolc...@gmail.com wrote: > > After work with a multitouch screen for the BeagleBone Black, now I just want > to play audio/sounds through the HDMI connection as the multitouch

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Walker Archer
There are no other SPI chips on that bus. Since the AD5206 is permanently a slave on the SPI bus I would think it would not try to drive the line. On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 10:55:49 AM UTC-4, Harvey White wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 05:47:19 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > > >I've been

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Play audio throuhg HDMI on BeagleBone Black

2016-03-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, wrote: > Adding new information about the issue: > filename: /lib/modules/4.1.16-bone18/kernel/sound/core/snd.kp > HDMI audio is in patch hell on mainline, if you want to use "4.1.x" with hdmi audio you need to use the ti branch: cd

[beagleboard] Re: Play audio throuhg HDMI on BeagleBone Black

2016-03-22 Thread yolcopc
Adding new information about the issue: 'lsmod': snd 56846 6 snd_soc_core, snd_timer, snd_pcm, snd_seq, snd_seq_device, snd_comp 'modinfo snd': filename: /lib/modules/4.1.16-bone18/kernel/sound/core/snd.kp alias: char-major-116-* license:

Re: [beagleboard] UART4 not working - configuration kernel version 4.1.18

2016-03-22 Thread Le Costaouec Vincent
Le mardi 22 mars 2016 14:28:48 UTC+1, RobertCNelson a écrit : > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Le Costaouec Vincent > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently trying to configure and test UART4 on the BBB. > > So I my point is to connect the two pins and try to

[beagleboard] Play audio throuhg HDMI on BeagleBone Black

2016-03-22 Thread yolcopc
After work with a multitouch screen for the BeagleBone Black, now I just want to play audio/sounds through the HDMI connection as the multitouch screen has a speaker. First of all, I just copied an audio sample, and try to reproduce it by 'vlc', but next message is shown: "*Audio

[beagleboard] PinMuxing P9_21 and P9_23 to I2C2?

2016-03-22 Thread cw . earley
As stated in the topic's subject, I am currently trying to expose I2C2 (The I2C bus that's normally connected to P9_19, P9_20) to pins P9_21 and P9_22. Since the documentation for the Beaglebone Black/Green show that pins 21 and 22 can be used for I2C2 it must be possible, I just can't find a

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread evilwulfie
Power sequencing is the key. How are you doing this? If you are applying the 5v to the pots first you may be causing the issue and blowing the processor pins. All pins on the processor need to be isolated from everything until power rails are stable. Drive a input pin when the processor is not

Re: [beagleboard] Issue with USB devices through a USB hub

2016-03-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Karina Bond wrote: > A question about Robert's commentsmy USB devices are powered with their > own supply though. In this case neither of the devices should be requesting > the full 500mA. > > Anything I try To make this work with an

Re: [beagleboard] Issue with USB devices through a USB hub

2016-03-22 Thread Karina Bond
A question about Robert's commentsmy USB devices are powered with their own supply though. In this case neither of the devices should be requesting the full 500mA. Anything I try To make this work with an unpowered USB HUB? -Karina Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 22, 2016, at 7:18 AM,

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Harvey White
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 05:47:19 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I've been building a custom cape for a robotics project and one of the >chips I'm using is controlled via SPI. I've used an oscilloscope to >validate that the SPI is working as expected. However, two days ago I >noticed that the chip

[beagleboard] RPMsg from Linux User Space to PRU on Beaglebone Black

2016-03-22 Thread lucas
I am trying to use rpmsg from user space. I am following the PRU training of TI (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/PRU_Training:_Hands-on_Labs#Part_1:_Linux_Command_Line_LED_Toggling) I use the latest beaglebone black image (Debian 8.3 2016-01-24 from

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Walker Archer
Forgot to add info about how the cape is powered. The chip I'm using on the cape is an AD5206 digital potentiometer (10k). I'm using the 3.3v rail to power the SPI side and an external 5v (4.9v measured) supply powers the pots. However, I've been getting voltages from the pots that aren't

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Walker Archer
Thanks for responding Gerald. The scope capture above was done with no cape. It was taken from SPI0. The chip has one-way communication so I'm only using SPID1 (P9_18 from memory). The clock is coming from P9_22. Chip select is P9_17. When I get home tonight I'll try the same from SPI1

Re: [beagleboard] Issue with USB devices through a USB hub

2016-03-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Karina Bond wrote: > > So the hub in my setup is unpowered. But I have tried powering up the USB > devices first. Then powering up the beagle bone . In this case the two USB > show up in the output of 'lsusb'. > > I am working on finding a

Re: [beagleboard] Issue with USB devices through a USB hub

2016-03-22 Thread Karina Bond
So the hub in my setup is unpowered. But I have tried powering up the USB devices first. Then powering up the beagle bone . In this case the two USB show up in the output of 'lsusb'. I am working on finding a powered USB hub to try this with. But ideally I'd like to use an unpowered hub.

Re: [beagleboard] Need support in compiling ubuntu for BBB

2016-03-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:58 AM, wrote: > hello, > almost the same problem with me but as i am following the link: > https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black > after downloading the boot loader and linux kernel for "am33x-v4.5 (Stable)" > i.e git checkout

[beagleboard] UART4 connexion and configuration with kernel 4.1.18

2016-03-22 Thread vincent . lecostaouec
Hi, I'm currently trying to configure the UART4 of the BBB. In addition my test is simply to connect the RX and TX pins and try to received the message through minicom. However after my configuration I didn't succeed to make it work. I don't really understand why. I use the following dtb

Re: [beagleboard] jSSC install problem on BBB Rev C Debian

2016-03-22 Thread mihainigrini
you can just package it from the IDE in the jar and use default jssc jar 2.8 version. On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 10:01:03 PM UTC+3, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:40 AM, > wrote: > > I'm having problems using jSSC on my BBB Rev C running Debian.

Re: [beagleboard] Need support in compiling ubuntu for BBB

2016-03-22 Thread sheri1771
hello, almost the same problem with me but as i am following the link: https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black after downloading the boot loader and linux kernel for "am33x-v4.5 (Stable)" i.e git checkout origin/am33x-v4.5 -b tmp, the build_kernel.sh script is not running and is

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Gerald Coley
No way for me to tell what you may have done, but 1.8V is not good. Any chance you can provide more information like the pin number and connector you are using? What do you have connected to this pin? How is that device powered? Gerald On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Walker Archer

Re: [beagleboard] Driving a Multiplexed LED matrix directly from gpio

2016-03-22 Thread CEinTX
David, William's suggestion of the PRU is a really good one. I know there are examples on the forum for using them - even though I personally haven't looked at them. You should be able to do everything inside the PRU - You only need 144 bytes per buffer (assuming 1 color / 1 bpp). So even

Re: [beagleboard] UART4 not working - configuration kernel version 4.1.18

2016-03-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Le Costaouec Vincent wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to configure and test UART4 on the BBB. > So I my point is to connect the two pins and try to communicate with them > through minicom. > However I haven't any response from

[beagleboard] BBB Broken? SPI signal is at 1.8v

2016-03-22 Thread Walker Archer
I've been building a custom cape for a robotics project and one of the chips I'm using is controlled via SPI. I've used an oscilloscope to validate that the SPI is working as expected. However, two days ago I noticed that the chip stopped responding and after scoping the SPI signal I can see

[beagleboard] UART4 not working - configuration kernel version 4.1.18

2016-03-22 Thread Le Costaouec Vincent
Hi, I'm currently trying to configure and test UART4 on the BBB. So I my point is to connect the two pins and try to communicate with them through minicom. However I haven't any response from the board. for my dts i'm using this one :

Re: [beagleboard] Issue with USB devices through a USB hub

2016-03-22 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Karina wrote: > Hi, > > I have a unpowered 2-port USB hub that I have connected to the BeagleBone > Black (Rev C). I have two (serial over ) USB devices connected to the two > port of the USB hub. They are are not powered to begin with. When i

Re: [beagleboard] rfkill

2016-03-22 Thread Pierce Nichols
So... I have a BBB rev C with a wifi dongle. I downloaded the 8.3 disk image, started it, no channels blocked by rfkill when I first started with the new image. I was able to modify /etc/network/interfaces and connect to wifi. I then ran the apt-get update/upgrade combo. After that, I rebooted...