Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-03-20 Thread Gerald Coley
Where are you looking exactly? Gerald On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Kees k keeskwekkeb...@gmail.com wrote: The 5V is fine (maybe a little spike of 0.8V after 60 ms PS). However, the 3.3V gives a strange 2-stage powerup cycle. I compared a revision A5C to a revision A6, see plots

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-03-20 Thread Gerald Coley
I did not use the NCP349 on the BBB. What board are you looking at? Gerald On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Kees k keeskwekkeb...@gmail.com wrote: I measure 3.3V on P9.3. USB powering shows the 'good' powercycle, 5V via P9.5 shows a 'bad' powercycle. Btw, I seen that in revision A6 and

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Failes to flash

2014-03-20 Thread Gerald Coley
Press and HOLD the button until after the first user LED comes on. Sounds like it is booting from eMMC and hanging when it detects the SD card. Gerald On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Rafael Fiebig-Bindner r.fiebig.bind...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone out there, I wanted to flash my BBB

Re: [beagleboard] Open-source hardware

2014-03-20 Thread Gerald Coley
http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Terms_of_Use describes what you can do with the HW information we provide. Yes there is open source SW as well, but that has some more interesting restrictions on the usage of that code and licenses that are involved. Gerald On Thu, Mar 20,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-03-20 Thread Gerald Coley
A cape. I hate capes. Maybe on the next revision I will just disable all of them! Thanks! Gerald On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Kees k keeskwekkeb...@gmail.com wrote: Haha, I was looking at the wrong file (BB white A6). Sorry for the trouble; it seems our cape causes this difference

Re: [beagleboard] test

2014-03-20 Thread Gerald Coley
Incomplete answers. Geald On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.comwrote: test failed -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To

Re: [beagleboard] switching distribution

2014-03-20 Thread Gerald Coley
I would try the Debian version and see how it works for you. If something is missing, you can ask an maybe it can get added. http://beagleboard.org/latest-images BTW, Ubuntu is based on Debian. Gerald On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:58 PM, janszymanski12...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to get

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-19 Thread Gerald Coley
http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Board_Shipments Gerald On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Micka mickamus...@gmail.com wrote: Don't take it personally, I've nothing against you, or TI ... . You did a great Job. Micka, On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Coley ger

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-19 Thread Gerald Coley
hat and the TI hat are going to elicit questions here that rightly belong somewhere else. -david On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: You need to ask Arduino about what their plans are for their product. Gerald On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:29 PM

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI Interface data sheet

2014-03-19 Thread Gerald Coley
Contact me direct and I will give you what I have. It isn't much. Gerald On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:39 PM, gj...@vnssystems.com wrote: Looking for the data sheet for the NXP TDA19988. It's not on any distributor web site or the NXP web site. There are very few units in the channel. Is

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI Interface data sheet

2014-03-19 Thread Gerald Coley
I have more. Gerald On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:39 PM, gj...@vnssystems.com wrote: Looking for the data sheet for the NXP TDA19988. It's not on any distributor web site or the NXP web site. There are very few

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI Interface data sheet

2014-03-19 Thread Gerald Coley
You can contact me. There is also the source code for the driver that we have been using in our Linux images. Gerald On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Travis Estep teste...@gmail.com wrote: I made a post about this exact thing here a couple of months back, and received little help. One user

Re: [beagleboard] industrial project

2014-03-18 Thread Gerald Coley
You can find the answers at the following link. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Yes it supports a 7 LCD panel. Commercial temperature range. It can be sustained. It will be a round for a long time. Gerald On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:21 AM, acali...@bmti-alcen.com wrote:

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Distribution from White to Black Edition

2014-03-18 Thread Gerald Coley
No. The PMIC configuration is different between the two boards. BBB used DDR3. The BeagleBone uses DDR2. Gerald On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:59 AM, bonnefoy.sebast...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, in the past I used BB White edition and we make our own image with our softwares. I'd like to know if

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-18 Thread Gerald Coley
has nothing to do with beagleboard.org but Gerald Coley is a TI Engineer ? Which part I didn't understand ? Micka, On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Anders danders@gmail.comwrote: Venkat, On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:36:42 PM UTC-5, Venkat Bommakanti wrote: On Monday, March

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-17 Thread Gerald Coley
Thank you for confirming what I have been saying all along. We are going to raise the price so we can get more capacity. How much we are not sure as of yet, but it will be as little as possible to allow us to bring more CMs on line and to make sure we can handle future cost issues in components.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-17 Thread Gerald Coley
Now this version would be less expensive to build for sure. Gerald On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:45 AM, José Luis Redrejo jredr...@gmail.comwrote: 2014-03-17 16:35 GMT+01:00 Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net : On 3/17/2014 10:01 AM, Gerald Coley wrote: This is a great point. I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-17 Thread Gerald Coley
? If this assembly option can be done with the same PCB it might solve both cost and capacity problems without creating a too big logistical nightmare. -- Bas On 17-3-2014 16:47, Gerald Coley wrote: Now this version would be less expensive to build for sure. Gerald On Mon, Mar 17

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-17 Thread Gerald Coley
We have already tried your suggestion. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Terms_of_Use That is why our plan is to increase capacity by being able to pay additional CMs to build the boards for us while still having the control over the whole process. The goal here is to find the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-17 Thread Gerald Coley
We have that already, Adafruit limits purchases to 1 per order. Check daily for when they have stock and order then. When they run out, wait until they come back in stock to order more Gerald On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Venkat Bommakanti achar...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone black came with broken microsd and no serial number

2014-03-16 Thread Gerald Coley
You have a response form the RMA team. Gerald On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:37 PM, danie...@umbc.edu wrote: I have an unresponsive BBB as well, I submitted an RMA and am waiting for a response. But is there a way to recover the contents of the eMMC after the board goes dead? -- For more

Re: [beagleboard] BBB won't boot

2014-03-16 Thread Gerald Coley
It is not a bootable device that a PC boots from. It does not need a PC to boot. It is a stand alone board intended to be a Linux PC, with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It can look like a USB drive on a PC, but that is about it. Gerald On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:37 PM,

Re: [beagleboard] Ethernet interface failure

2014-03-14 Thread Gerald Coley
So if the board never works again, have you sent it in for repair via an RMA? Gerald On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:28 AM, atomik...@gmail.com wrote: The BeagleBone Black ethernet interface will fail after a few hours of operation. As an example, we did a fresh install of both Debian and Ubuntu

Re: [beagleboard] Ethernet interface failure

2014-03-14 Thread Gerald Coley
So it is not a hard HW failure then. You may find this conversation useful. Start at the top. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/ethernet$20address/beagleboard/9mctrG26Mc8/09EatsZon40J Gerald On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, atomik...@gmail.com wrote: This is not an

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-13 Thread Gerald Coley
There in people's products. Gerald On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Satz Klauer satzkla...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:08 PM, David Funk dwf...@gmail.com wrote: and then the boards would not be available for it's intended market. Hm...where is the difference to current

Re: [beagleboard] Is anything logged on power failure?

2014-03-13 Thread Gerald Coley
If you cut power, the processor turns off so it is hard for it to keep running and print logs without power. Hook a meter to the DC input and see if it turns off. If it does, the 7805 is shutting down. The best that can do is 500mA without a heat sink,. Gerald On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:40 AM,

Re: [beagleboard] What's in a Beagle Bone other than the circuit diagram?

2014-03-13 Thread Gerald Coley
If you copy it exactly and build it correctly it should work. People do this all the time. I would expect SW to have to be added to support whatever you put on the board to fit your application. There is no SW loaded onto the SOC. All code for the SOC is loaded from an external source, eMMC or SD

Re: [beagleboard] Why beaglebone black restarts after a shutdown ??

2014-03-13 Thread Gerald Coley
Yes it does sound vague. I would hook a scope to the power and see what it does in the reset scenario. What is your current capacity of your power source? If the power pin is held down too long, it will result in a power cycle and not a shutdown. Gerald On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:57 AM,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is anything logged on power failure?

2014-03-13 Thread Gerald Coley
Nothing the PMIC can do once it is gone. There isn't enough capacity in the caps t keep a board running. 9V is better than 15V. Gerald On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:24 PM, c...@isbd.net wrote: Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: ISO

Re: [beagleboard] Re: beaglebone hdmi to VGA using powered Köning convertor not working ?

2014-03-12 Thread Gerald Coley
Yes I know. It is the way I designed the board. I do not see it as an issue. It is designed to limit the current. You are free to change it if you like as long as you don't expect any RMA support on the board. Gerald On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:58 AM, suteerth tripathi

Re: [beagleboard] Could BB-BONELT-BT-00A0.dtbo have an error?

2014-03-12 Thread Gerald Coley
From the schematic you can see that thi spin is used as th eclock input for the HDMI. Please read the note. Gerald : [image: Inline image 1] On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Bit Pusher ken.w.mar...@gmail.com wrote: BBB Ubuntu 3.8.13-bone28 cross compiled from Robert Nelson's source I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone black HDMI/VGA converter problems

2014-03-12 Thread Gerald Coley
purpose On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: It is not a fuse. It is a PTC. That is why on the Wiki we recommend an externally powered converter. The 5V comes from the power supply in the wall, so there is no regulator on the board to overload. We decided

Re: [beagleboard] Could BB-BONELT-BT-00A0.dtbo have an error?

2014-03-12 Thread Gerald Coley
It is loaded by default. It is the clock for the HDMI Audio. From a HW standpoint to use that pin as a GPIO pin, you have to disable the clock oscillator and reconfigure the pin usage for GPIO. From a SW standpoint you may have to disconnect the HDMI. Not sure if Audio can be killed separately or

Re: [beagleboard] power adapter question

2014-03-11 Thread Gerald Coley
Yes. They have the same connectors. They have the same polarity. And they are both 5Vr. Now, as there is no official XM power supply, you need to make sure the one you bought has the right amount of current for you application. Gerald On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:35 PM, madjac...@gmail.com

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-03-11 Thread Gerald Coley
Correct. You can also solve the issue by using the correct SW as well. The issue is that the processors interferes with the default address settings when the PHY reads the pins. If the SW looks for the other addresses, it works fine. Also, removing these caps will also create issues where the

Re: [beagleboard] Support for the Embest 14pin jtag XDS100v2 USB Emulator in Beaglebone black

2014-03-11 Thread Gerald Coley
You will need an adapter. Gerald On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Elavarasu elavarasu@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there is anyway to use the Embest XDS 100v2 14 pin jtag for the beaglebone black, i referred the difference for the 20pin and 14pin here:

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-03-11 Thread Gerald Coley
My SW guy is currently out. There is a change that needs to be made. I will get with him next week to make sure the change gets done. Gerald On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Robert Kuhn rob...@ku.hn wrote: Gerald: Correct. You can also solve the issue by using the correct SW as well. The

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone black HDMI/VGA converter problems

2014-03-11 Thread Gerald Coley
It is not a fuse. It is a PTC. That is why on the Wiki we recommend an externally powered converter. The 5V comes from the power supply in the wall, so there is no regulator on the board to overload. We decided to meet the HDMI specification, so that is the reason for the current limit. Gerald

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-03-11 Thread Gerald Coley
The base address of the PHY. Only one address per PHY. I believe it is 0 to 7. It is my understanding that the fix was pushed up a week ago. Robert's image should handle this. It is not the MAC address. PHY NOT FOUND means that at the one address of 00 the PHY did not respond because the PHY has

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-03-11 Thread Gerald Coley
I know what I have seen. I know what I have replicated. And I know the SW fix takes care of it. I also know it does not happen on every board and doe snot happen every time. Do keep in mind that the board reset is not a HW reset. It is a SW reset. The fix is in the latest image from Robert.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-10 Thread Gerald Coley
It is real. But, if you wait until you see it in stock, it may be a while before you will get one. Gerald On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Satz Klauer satzkla...@googlemail.comwrote: Am Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2014 15:54:05 UTC+1 schrieb Giuseppe Iellamo: Just to say our order on RS

Re: [beagleboard] 4 Channel SPI

2014-03-10 Thread Gerald Coley
This is the correct place to ask.. Gerald On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Julian David Rath julian.r...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I just found out that this is a better place to ask my question, it seams like there is also a beaglebone Google group, little confusing. So here my cross-post:

Re: [beagleboard] Gibberish messages in the terminal window

2014-03-10 Thread Gerald Coley
What are the terminal settings you are using? Gerald On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:08 AM, roshan sebastian roshan4...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I`ve bought a Beagle Board-xM recently..It`s working fine, except that, in the terminal there is some gibberish,some sort of random symbols which we can`t

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-10 Thread Gerald Coley
users will move to other platforms and in a couple of month we will see plenty of boards on stock but no demand. it is an old story but it seems some lessons are never learned. *From:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Gerald Coley *Sent

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-10 Thread Gerald Coley
and making it up in volume, and it's not a fun place to be. Please keep us posted! On 3/10/2014 9:15 AM, Gerald Coley wrote: We cannot increase supply. We are maxed out. Why? Well, because we can't find another CM that will make the board for no profit. SO, unless we increase the price we

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-10 Thread Gerald Coley
Actually most shops do. That is why we can never catch up.; Gerald On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Satz Klauer satzkla...@googlemail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: It is real. But, if you wait until you see it in stock, it may

Re: [beagleboard] 2014-03-04 Debian flasher doesn't flash the eMMC in BBB

2014-03-07 Thread Gerald Coley
Are you holding S2 pressed until after the board powers up? Gerald On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Sam Hon samhonboo...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to update the latest version Debian in http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/ Download BeagleBone Black (eMMC flasher) Debian (BeagleBone

Re: [beagleboard] When to power sensors connected to the BeagleBone Black?

2014-03-07 Thread Gerald Coley
You are fine. Reset is no the issue. Power is. The fact that the power is removed makes everything safe. Reset is an easy way to make sure the board is powered up and provides a logic level indication of that fact.. Gerald On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:47 AM, k...@cranehome.info wrote: On a

Re: [beagleboard] Trying to understand the IO Pin Modes in the manual

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
From a HW standpoint, all this information is found in the Technical Reference Manual for the AM3358 processor. http://www.ti.com/product/am3358 Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:56 AM, c...@isbd.net wrote: I'm trying to understand how to *use* the tables in the BBB manual that how the

Re: [beagleboard] When to power sensors connected to the BeagleBone Black?

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
I put that in there for a reason. It may not happen all the time, but eventually you could blow up the processor. Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Matthew Witherwax ablec...@gmail.comwrote: As part of the Control of Mobile Robotics class offered through Cousera, the students are

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Trying to understand the IO Pin Modes in the manual

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
That is taken care of by the device tree file. Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:57 AM, c...@isbd.net wrote: Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: ISO-8859-1, 54 lines --] From a HW standpoint, all this information is found

Re: [beagleboard] When to power sensors connected to the BeagleBone Black?

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
you see any issue with powering the sensors via a voltage regulator like http://www.pololu.com/product/2098 that can be turned on via a pin on the BBB once it is up and running? On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: I put that in there for a reason. It may

Re: [beagleboard] When to power sensors connected to the BeagleBone Black?

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: Yes you can do that Use the 3.3V to enable the regulators. Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Matthew Witherwax ablec...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Gerald. That is exactly the response I was expecting and exactly the feeling I had. Never really

Re: [beagleboard] When to power sensors connected to the BeagleBone Black?

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
That is my secret. I don't need coffee! The inside story is that I am always here. I have no life! Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Eric Palmer e...@ericfpalmer.com wrote: Yes I get that. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: I am not sure how

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Trying to understand the IO Pin Modes in the manual

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:30 AM, c...@isbd.net wrote: Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: ISO-8859-1, 46 lines --] That is taken care of by the device tree file. Ah, yes, makes sense now. That gets 'written' at boot time and sets

Re: [beagleboard] Re: why update eMMC?

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
Cost. That is what a $45 board allows us to buy. 4G is more expensive than 2G, And eMMC is faster and more reliable than an SD card. Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Brad Hopper brad.hop...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder why the BBB has only 2G of space in the eMMC - aren't most small

Re: [beagleboard] Watching boot without HDMI

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
Yes. It is called the debug port. Connector J1. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_Black_Serial Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Brad Hopper brad.hop...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, It seems to take a while for the BBB to boot. I'm going to check out the newly posted Debian

Re: [beagleboard] When to power sensors connected to the BeagleBone Black?

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: I am not sure how to take that!Not sure if it is luck or something else. Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Eric Palmer er...@ericfpalmer.comwrote: Awesome Gerald we are lucky to have you on this mail list

Re: [beagleboard] would a bad modified u-boot damage BBB to ?

2014-03-06 Thread Gerald Coley
It won't damage the hardware. It may not work, but you can always put it back the way you got it. Gerald On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:31 PM, mingzhao.l...@gmail.com wrote: I just got my first BBB and try to study u-boot on it. I just wonder whether or not some bad assembly code in charge of

Re: [beagleboard] Powering the BBB

2014-03-05 Thread Gerald Coley
are dropping 6.7V across the regulator. Gerald On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Dorian Levy dorianal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 4, 2014 7:42 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: Can you share a schematic with me? I can't visualize what you are doing. Gerald On Tue, Mar 4, 2014

Re: [beagleboard] Powering the BBB

2014-03-05 Thread Gerald Coley
Are you using a heatsink? Voltage? Gerald On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Dorian Levy dorianal...@gmail.com wrote: Addicore 5V 1.5A Positive Voltage Regulator L7805CV On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: That particular regulator can have different

Re: [beagleboard] Powering the BBB

2014-03-05 Thread Gerald Coley
OK. Then what you are describing as your issue, i would expect to happen. Gerald On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Dorian Levy dorianal...@gmail.com wrote: No heatsink 5V On Mar 5, 2014 11:13 AM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: Are you using a heatsink? Voltage? Gerald

Re: [beagleboard] Powering the BBB

2014-03-05 Thread Gerald Coley
at 1:02 PM, Dorian Levy dorianal...@gmail.com wrote: Because the IC can't provide the required current without a heat sink? Or because the BBB is going into thermal protection? A little insight into why you would expect that would be appreciated. On Mar 5, 2014 1:43 PM, Gerald Coley ger

Re: [beagleboard] Powering the BBB

2014-03-05 Thread Gerald Coley
because it can take up to 25V, but I'll try a heat sink and see if that helps. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: Because the regulator is going into thermal limit due to excessive heat dissipation. Make the 11.7V supply say 8V and it will run longer

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black Vdd Power

2014-03-05 Thread Gerald Coley
The PMIC is sensitive to slow ramping power supplies. A 10uF capacitor is also a little small. You could be seeing a dip in the voltage when the PMIC does kick in and it could in some instances cause it to shutdown. Gerald On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, edwin.j@gmail.com wrote: Using

Re: [beagleboard] How can I omit pullup resister.

2014-03-05 Thread Gerald Coley
Check the datasheet. The pull up may or may not be small enough depending on what it has to pull up. The current is the max the pin can do. In other words, that is who large the pull up actually is. Turning on all the weak pullups isn't going to strain the total current of the power supply which

Re: [beagleboard] Powering the BBB

2014-03-04 Thread Gerald Coley
Can you share a schematic with me? I can't visualize what you are doing. Gerald On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Dorian Levy dorianal...@gmail.com wrote: I am building a robot that uses an 11.7V battery. I tried attaching a 5V regulator to the T5(+)/T8(-) (pins with the T6(SENSE) bridged to

Re: [beagleboard] BBB doesn't complete boot, little help :-)

2014-03-04 Thread Gerald Coley
Here is how to reflash the eMMC to factory condition. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:Updating_The_Software Here is the link to the support Wiki. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Gerald On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:12 PM, brad.hop...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, first time

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone black is not booting..........

2014-03-03 Thread Gerald Coley
http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:Updating_The_Software Gerald On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Vikas Gaikwad vksgaikw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, This is Vikas here I am facing problem with my beaglebone black its not booting but all the three USER LEDs 1,2 and 3 are

Re: [beagleboard] Which pins are the best for my application

2014-03-03 Thread Gerald Coley
Processors today use pin muxing. The 2nd and 3rd are not meanings. They are the available options to be routed to those pins by setting a register in the processor. As long as you sue a function that is listed, you should have no problem. In other words, do not use a pin for UART1 that does not

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Power Supply

2014-03-02 Thread Gerald Coley
The board can be powered by USB or 5VDC external power supply. But not both at the same time. Gerald On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Dai the...@andrewdai.co wrote: I might be wrong but I think you should use the USB port for peripherals ... get a (powered) USB hub for keyboard/mouse

Re: [beagleboard] Need 16 GPIOs Next to each other on P8

2014-03-02 Thread Gerald Coley
As is indicated in the System Reference Manual, you can use the LCD pins as GPIO pins. Provided, you don't interfere with their settings during power up as they are also the boot pins. Gerald On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:32 PM, mharris...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to configure BBB P8

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-02-28 Thread Gerald Coley
That is up to you if you want to rip parts off. I am not recommending it. Gerald On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:33 AM, chandle...@gmail.com wrote: Should C24 and C30 be removed from A5A BBBs that begin experencing strange Ethernet problems? I have two A5As that have both decided to keep their

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB Hardware Modifications

2014-02-28 Thread Gerald Coley
Redesigned board will be a lot more expensive. Unless of course you are building and ordering parts in blocks of 100,000 units. Also, 2gb DDR3 does not exist. You may be able to do SDRAM, but again quantity is the key to all of this. A cape, that may be the way to go. Gerald On Fri, Feb 28,

Re: [beagleboard] Replace single port usb with twin USB

2014-02-28 Thread Gerald Coley
There is only one USB interface on the processor. USB is a point to point interface. The connector on the Jameco site is a dual USB connector supporting two separate independent USB interface. It will not work. The processor only has one USB interface, The only way to do what you want is to use

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Android running on BBB with Linux 3.8

2014-02-28 Thread Gerald Coley
BBB does not ship with HW support for OTG. Gerald On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Delgado Terán warm...@gmail.comwrote: I'm currently having a lot of problems here. If I use Andrew's pre-built image I get support of the LCD3 Rev. A2 with the BBB Rev. A6A but no support to

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-27 Thread Gerald Coley
26 week times is not true. That is what the computer systems spits out to show when the WHOLE PO is filled! We are shipping daily as you can clearly see!! Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Venkat Bommakanti achar...@gmail.comwrote: Just got an email alert - 26 week backorder time !

Re: [beagleboard] project: Documentation for BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black

2014-02-27 Thread Gerald Coley
http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Gerald On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Benke László benkelac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I am Laszlo Benke, from Hungary, Budapest. I would like to participate in GSOC 2014. My mayor is electrical engineer (M.Sc.). I design basic circuits, I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-27 Thread Gerald Coley
, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: 26 week times is not true. That is what the computer systems spits out to show when the WHOLE PO is filled! We are shipping daily as you can clearly see!! Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Venkat Bommakanti achar

Re: [beagleboard] Wired boot problem

2014-02-27 Thread Gerald Coley
The factory image does enable HDMI by default. Sounds like it does not like your monitor. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_HDMI For flashing questions http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:Updating_The_Software Gerald On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:25 AM, walter harms wha...@bfs.de

Re: [beagleboard] What supplies the VADC pin on P9?

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
It comes from the TPS65217C. Just check the schematic. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:42 AM, c...@isbd.net wrote: Is the VADC pin on P9 fed from the TPS65217C power controller - either the VDD_1V8 rail or the VRTC rail? If it doesn't come from one of these where does it come from? --

Re: [beagleboard] LCD3 Schematic Question

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
DNI means there is nothing there. No connection at all. As to the other questions, you might try contacting the supplier of the board and the folks that designed it. Gerald On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:42 PM, markusbrow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I plan on creating a customer version of

Re: [beagleboard] How about remove the EEPROM from bb white?

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
It cannot. You would need to modify UBoot to ignore the EEPROM. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:24 AM, ymc123...@gmail.com wrote: I have already follow http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone#BeagleBone-LinuxKernelboot the bone. I find there is an eeprom on the board, after some

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
and anticipated date. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: We are already working on all of this. Plan is in place. Gerald On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, rh_ richard_hubb...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:53:37 -0600 Gerald Coley ger

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black won't power on, did I do something wrong? :(

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
A schematic would be helpful/ You can send to to me direct if you like. Craters are definitely not good. It does sound like a IO stress issue. The LED acting the way it sounds means the PMIC is seeing excess current and shutting down. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:48 AM,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: What supplies the VADC pin on P9?

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
PDF works great. Just search on the signal name and use the zoom function. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:58 AM, c...@isbd.net wrote: Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: ISO-8859-1, 35 lines --] Gerald On Wed, Feb 26

Re: [beagleboard] Issue with P8, P9 Connectors not fitting on the BeagleBoneBlack (BBB) PCB

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
Well. Uh. I have no idea what your design looks like. But, the code you are using looks for the EEPROM. Do you have one? If you do. is it programmed? Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:25 AM, lee.s...@bibby-scientific.com wrote: I can now confirm that my PCB supplier has now successfully

Re: [beagleboard] BBB does not power on

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
There is not an easy or even a hard way to override the current detection in the PMIC.. Most likely the processor has been popped. Your best bet is an RMA. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Pariyan Shah pariyans...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I am using Beaglebone black. It does not boot if I

Re: [beagleboard] Issue with P8, P9 Connectors not fitting on the BeagleBoneBlack (BBB) PCB

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
Did you look at the System Reference Manual? Yes, it can boot from the SD if you remove the eMMC. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM, lee.s...@bibby-scientific.com wrote: My design is a cut down version of BBB. The HDMI IC is not fitted and the eMMC is not fitted. Will the BBB boot

Re: [beagleboard] Getting a virgin BBB to boot first time

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
Might I suggest that you register so your posts go through sooner? I suggest read the System Reference Manual. Yes you can remove the eMMC and boot from SD providing you did not mess up the boot pins.. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:27 AM, lee.s...@bibby-scientific.com wrote: I have now

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone does not turn on

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
No. You only option is an RMA. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Pariyan Shah pariyans...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I am using Beaglebone black. It does not boot if I power it up using the miniUSB or adapter. The power led just flashes for a moment and then it goes off. If I press the

Re: [beagleboard] Beagleboard dead after short

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
Sure. Just do the RMA thing. Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, R. Lemos rsle...@gmail.com wrote: Accidentally I've shorted the 1.8V pin (on expansion header) to ground pin. The board stopped working immediately (audio play was going on and was suddenly cut). I quickly (about 2 sec)

Re: [beagleboard] Accidentally connected 5V jack with wrong polarity

2014-02-26 Thread Gerald Coley
We can replace the PMIC which should fix the issue. You would need to request an RMA. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Gerald On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:51 PM, danielp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I accidentally connected the 5V jack with the outside positive. Now I've changed

Re: [beagleboard] Manufacturing and PCB assembly of the Beaglebone Black

2014-02-25 Thread Gerald Coley
You can contact me direct. Gerald On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Joey Wilson doughywil...@gmail.comwrote: Gerald, Thanks for your reply. What is the best way to contact you directly? Is there a phone number I could give you a quick call? Thank you, Joey On Thursday, February 20,

Re: [beagleboard] .dat file for PinMux Utility

2014-02-24 Thread Gerald Coley
I have never used that utility. So, I have no file. Gerald On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@beagleboard.orgwrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:18 AM, John Tobias john.tobias...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Gerald, I was trying to find the PinMux Utility .dat file for the BBB

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI support for 1600:900 @60Hz -No Audio Needed -How do I provide full video bandwidth Pls. Advise

2014-02-24 Thread Gerald Coley
The framer does not set the resolution. It is all a function of the kernel and the DRM interface.. Gerald On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:43 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Nick, To disable teh HDMI audio you would do that via uEnv.txt on the boot partition. In the file you add .

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-24 Thread Gerald Coley
through it as quickly as we can. It is going to take time. All the tricks are being employed to get boards out.. Gerald On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:57 PM, rh_ richard_hubb...@lavabit.com wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:33:12 -0600 Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: eMMC for one

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone black

2014-02-24 Thread Gerald Coley
There is only one interface, so whatever you send to one is sent to the other. The issue would be to find a resolution and timing that both the LCD and the monitor would like. That will be tough to do. Gerald On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:53 AM, sana sanatanama...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-24 Thread Gerald Coley
understand 40,000 units/week of the latter are being produced in the UK alone. I hope your plan includes the ability to produce 20,000 to 40,000 units/week. Best to do it right once. Anil On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.orgwrote: Replacing with a larger part

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone does not turn on

2014-02-24 Thread Gerald Coley
No voltage can be applied to any pin when the board is not powered. Looking at your schematic, I would say that it is designed to blow up the processor unless the 12V supply come sup after the 3,3V and goes down before the 3.3V rail.. Gerald On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Andrey

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