Re: [beagleboard] Need to hire someone to change the BBB layout

2016-06-17 Thread Chris Morgan
And you might consider looking at this to help with size as well: http://octavosystems.com/octavo_products/osd335x/ On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Randy Normann wrote: > We have spend ~$40K on software for the BeagleBone Black. However, it > will not physically fit in our application. > >

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Kernel Panic: NULL pointer dereference

2016-05-27 Thread Chris Morgan
Can you provide a schematic for your cape? On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Jan Meitner wrote: > UPDATE: Once it is started, I can reboot without a problem, as long as > power is not cut. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because yo

Re: [beagleboard] Loading on Beaglebone Black Boot Pins?

2016-04-18 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Greg wrote: > I'm trouble shooting a problem on a simple cape for a BeagleBone Black. > > I have a bipolar switch for an LED, very similar to that used for the "User > LEDS". > So I have added an approximately 10Kohm load to one of the "boot pins", > which > in hea

Re: [beagleboard] eMMC gets timeout when I put on cape

2016-04-06 Thread Chris Morgan
that all the eMMC pins are located on the P8 header. > If this was the problem, I should be able to see the same problem when I > set the values of all the GPIO to 1, even without putting the cape on, > right? > > Den mandag den 4. april 2016 kl. 17.58.17 UTC+2 skrev Chris Morgan: >

Re: [beagleboard] eMMC gets timeout when I put on cape

2016-04-04 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Martin Wiingaard wrote: > Hey There, > > I'm running BeagleBone Black Rev C. > I have developed my own custom cape, it is using the following IO-pins: > > BBB-header no > > BBB GPIO no > > P9_42 > > 7 > > P9_18 > > 4 > > P9_17 > > 5 > > P9_15 > > 48 > > P9_28 > >

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 power > up the Beagle Bon

Re: [beagleboard] BBB power led only

2016-02-22 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:07 AM, wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > > I bought a BBB and tested it: at start up, the USERS leds blinks. I have > followed the instructions in the site Beagleboard:Updating The Software - > eLinux.org. > > I unplagged the power supply and I keep pressed the S2 button (

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Power Supply

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Morgan
On Friday, February 19, 2016, Rizalino de Guzman wrote: > also, as of this writing, the Beaglebone is the only load connected to the > custom power supply. the lab power supply is not showing any current draw. > > On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 4:06:10 PM UTC-8, Rizalino de Guzman wrote: >> >> H

Re: [beagleboard] Play audio/video in the background.

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Morgan
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:21 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > How do I go about playing audio/video in the background? > > The idea is to trigger the player then go deal with other I/O tasks. > > Pointers appreciated. > > Dudi > I think you'll want to be a little more specific. Linux is a multi-tasking os,

Re: [beagleboard] usb data filtering

2016-02-02 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:41 PM, wrote: > Hi, > I need a device which makes usb disks read only. It will be a bridge > between PC and USB disk (hard disk, stick, etc). PC will be able to read > everything in usb disk but not able write. If there is no usb disk > connected to the device it will not

Re: [beagleboard] Damage on power off?

2015-09-16 Thread Chris Morgan
What size cap would be recommended? We are using the bbb in a device that can be powered down externally without any notification. Are the battery pins exposed on the headers so we can do this on our carrier board? Chris On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Gerald Coley wrote: > No, you can add a

Re: [beagleboard] Damage on power off?

2015-09-16 Thread Chris Morgan
How should one properly handle the case where the external power can be interrupted without notice? Eg. the user pulls the plug from the wall? Chris On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Gerald Coley wrote: > Shorting out pins on the processor due to improper power sequencing. When > you pull the

Re: [beagleboard] Meassuring CPU load on BeagleBone Black

2015-08-20 Thread Chris Morgan
We use 'top' and 'htop'. Chris On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, William Hermans wrote: > and not anything specific to this hardware or kernel < > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:09 AM, William Hermans wrote: >> >> This is really a Linux topic, and not anything specific. There are >> commands,

Re: [beagleboard] RAM 1GB option

2015-08-13 Thread Chris Morgan
If it were a few dollars bump in cost +1 for me. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy wrote: > Hi! > > Are there any plans to increase RAM to 1GB instead of 512MB at BBB? I > understand that this move can only be based on support of the majority of > user, therefore I wonder how ma

Re: [beagleboard] Same SD card in different BeagleBones Blacks

2015-07-15 Thread Chris Morgan
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:47 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if it's possible to use the same SD in different > BeagleBones. > > I used a SD card to install Debian on one BeagleBone, I configured the > system and everything I needed, but now I would like to use that SD card in > a d

Re: [beagleboard] Up, up and away and x15

2015-05-28 Thread Chris Morgan
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:42 PM, rh_ wrote: > I was reading about a $9 board on kickstarter. It is based on an allwinner > chip. > > An interesting board and price. A loss leader for sure but I don't know > what the loss will lead to. Bankruptcy? Dissolution? Too many long > days? I wonder if they

Re: [beagleboard] Future of BeagleBone (Black)?

2015-05-20 Thread Chris Morgan
Isn't 10 years just the total life of the chip/product line? This doesn't say TI is going to be advancing that processor line. Consider that right now the Pi2 has a quad core processor. If TI isn't going to be keeping up with that kind of pace of processor development for the AM335x line (or maybe

Re: [beagleboard] BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-26 Thread Chris Morgan
all form > factor based on the same CPU. > At a guess > > P. > > On 25/04/2015 11:18 PM, "Chris Morgan" wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> >> We, the company I work for and myself personally, like the bbb for its >> performance, price, headers and support

[beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Morgan
rm secrete >> handshakes, or special incantations / magic hand waving every time the >> kernel changes. >> >> the rPI 2 should be inline with #2 above, but we'll see how well their >> BSP shapes up. After that though. They're using the same old GPU . . . >&g

[beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Morgan
nge. > Which may have been by design ? > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Chris Morgan > wrote: > >> Hi Graham. >> >> I've been watching the x15 project. It doesn't look like the same kind >> of board for the same kind of end user imo. eSATA isn&#

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Morgan
Hi Graham. I've been watching the x15 project. It doesn't look like the same kind of board for the same kind of end user imo. eSATA isn't something we'd use (we are ok with sd or emmc for these limited uses), audio codec is interesting but wonder if that also increases cost for people that don't n

[beagleboard] BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Morgan
Hi all. We, the company I work for and myself personally, like the bbb for its performance, price, headers and support. Has there been any thought to update the cpu on the bbb to be more competitive with the quad core in the Pi2? Does TI produce a processor that would be suitable? I'd be interes

Re: [beagleboard] will a buildroot build for BBB work out of the box?

2015-04-15 Thread Chris Morgan
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just a yes or no ... if i configure and build buildroot for a BBB, > will the generated artifacts simply "work" if i copy them to an > appropriately formatted SD card? > > i ask as i downloaded the current state of buildroot, did the >

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB USB Transfer Rate

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Morgan
I can also confirm ~10MB/sec transfer rates with some testing I've done. This was some time ago, maybe 6 months, and with Angstrom. Chris On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Jeffrey Wilson wrote: > I am having transfer rate issues as well. My post over on BeagleBone group > has gotten zero attent

Re: [beagleboard] bbb: u-boot change

2014-12-31 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On the advice of Tom Rini, > > I'm making 'another' small change to the default u-boot. > > For awhile now, in u-boot we defaulted to a usb-eth gadget on the slave port. > > I'm switching that to the UMS or USB Mass Storage function.. > > Wha

Re: [beagleboard] use of USB sound card freezes BBB

2014-12-27 Thread Chris Morgan
That's kind of disappointing to hear. Pio sounds like it means a lot of overhead if you are using a lot of usb bandwidth. I'm interested as we are using a bit of usb and a usb audio codec... Is this issue something exclusive to the ti kernel or also in mainline? Chris On Saturday, December 27,

Re: [beagleboard] CE and ESD, BBB is failing 4kV contact discharge ESD testing

2014-12-23 Thread Chris Morgan
How is your esd protection designed at the usb connections, or are you hitting the usb connectors right on the bbb? Would need a lot more details about exactly how the system was being built and where you are discharging to know what might be going on. I'm guessing your esd protection may not be ge

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB freezing

2014-12-13 Thread Chris Morgan
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:29 AM, david turvene wrote: > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:35:39 AM UTC-5, Julian Gold wrote: >> >> On both B and C revisions of Beaglebone black, our application (running >> under either the shipped Angstrom or Debian distros) locks up after random >> amounts of tim

Re: [beagleboard] USB hub won't work . . .

2014-12-01 Thread Chris Morgan
Hi Robert. I've been using a few different kinds of hubs with the host port on the bbb for some time now without any issues. Cable issue from the host port to the hub or are you trying with alternate cables? Chris On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:03 AM, ROBERT ACKERFIELD wrote: > Hello All, > >I'v

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Recommendation to boot / resume Linux in less than a second...

2014-11-11 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Maxim Podbereznyy wrote: > I wonder if systemd is so magical why it is not used by any of PC's Linux > distributions? > It looks well represented, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Adoption -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You re

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBoard-X15 - seriously? :)

2014-11-09 Thread Chris Morgan
The bbb sgfx is one reason why I've found the minnowboard is so appealing. While we (my company) are using the bbb, and its a great board, if we needed something in a higher performance range and could float the cost we've been eyeing the minnowboard due to its fully open graphics stack. If the sg

Re: [beagleboard] MySQL and Wear Leveling on SD Cards

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Morgan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:21 PM, wrote: > I think we are having SD card failures in the field. We are waiting for > them to come back for inspection. > > In the meantime, I'm doing some investigation... > > I read the "SD Card Corruption on Read Only File System" post and while it > had a lot of

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Rebooting Several Times Every Day

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Olofsson wrote: > Greg we are experiencing the same issues as well with reset not bringing up > the eth0 interface. we were trying to do a hw watchdog that would reset the > board and when we press reset the eth0 interface fails as well. We are also > setti

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Blacks that suddenly die.

2014-09-10 Thread Chris Morgan
I would be interested in the outcome of this investigation. We are using the bbb in a commercial setting, through CircuitCo, and I'm not sure what the power down ramp will look like. It is possible (and likely) that the voltage falloff will be slow compared to a quick unplug, but our devices power

Re: [beagleboard] DLNA Client for telveision.

2014-08-19 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:13 PM, RetiQlum FakeName wrote: > I have been trying to find a cheap method of serving media to my > televisions. > > Here is my current setup: I have a PC running TVErsity (under Windows) and > another running MediaTomb (under KUbuntu) which stream media quite > delight

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Your help wanted in creating the BeagleBoard.org Foundation bylaws

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Morgan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jason Kridner < jason.krid...@hangerhead.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Chris Morgan wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2014 12:10 AM, "William Hermans" wrote: > >> > >> Ah, ok got it. > >> > >>

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Your help wanted in creating the BeagleBoard.org Foundation bylaws

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Morgan
On Jun 26, 2014 12:10 AM, "William Hermans" wrote: > > Ah, ok got it. > > Well . . . since it's been well over a year I think the video drivers need priority. This is something that I personally have no interest in, *HOWEVER* many do have interest, and I think it is high time TI made an effort to

Re: [beagleboard] Worth buying a BBB? What to do with it?

2014-06-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Robert Nelson >> wrote: >>>> I appreciate the response, there isn't much good detail on this stuff >>&g

Re: [beagleboard] Worth buying a BBB? What to do with it?

2014-06-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Maxim Podbereznyy wrote: > I don't understand why people want to take control over everything, like > they really understand what's going on in these huge sources. All wireless > (and not only) firmware is provided in binaries and nobody cares. Just > accept that so

Re: [beagleboard] Worth buying a BBB? What to do with it?

2014-06-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> I appreciate the response, there isn't much good detail on this stuff >> on the web. I'd love to see a page on elinux.org or somewhere that >> covered the state of the union and the next steps. >> >> I agree that having sgx support is a prett

Re: [beagleboard] Worth buying a BBB? What to do with it?

2014-06-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> How would one find out about the state of accelerated graphics on the >> bbb? I'm particular interested in running wayland with 3d acceleration >> on the bbb. I'd love to hear that the work was being upstreamed and >> make easy (at least eas

Re: [beagleboard] Worth buying a BBB? What to do with it?

2014-06-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > You are a great prospect to do something interesting with a Beaglebone > because you have a specific application. I quite agree with you that > getting a BBB to blink LEDs or serve web pages is not that > exciting---but it probably is a g

Re: [beagleboard] Work remaining to get >3.8 kernels (3.14+) working smoothly on the bbb?

2014-05-31 Thread Chris Morgan
On May 31, 2014 1:07 PM, "Bill Traynor" wrote: > > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:34 AM, chmorgan wrote: > > Is there any documentation for the issues that might be holding back the > > usage of a >3.8 kernel on the bbb? My work is using the bbb so we have some > > interest in ensuring that we can us

[beagleboard] Re: angstrom build for beaglebone has texinfo issue

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Morgan
ot included in rootfs) for > different reasons. I have switched from a 64-bit Mint host back to 32-bit > Xubuntu host to investigate these problems. > > Hope this helps > > > On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 4:24:17 AM UTC+11, Chris Morgan wrote: >> >> On Tue,

[beagleboard] Re: angstrom build for beaglebone has texinfo issue

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:57 AM, wrote: > Is this problem occurring while you are attempting to build the > console-image? I just finished a build a few minutes ago using the > following: > > This guide details the process of building a console image from the Angstrom > source on an Xubuntu 12.04