I haven't had time to further troubleshoot this problem, sorry.
The stick I'm using is some random stick I picked up cheap on amazon from
china.
rtl_test identifies as:
Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 0001
Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM
Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
lsusb identifies as:
I'm attempting to use a RTL-SDR stick on my BBB, but too many samples are
being dropped to be stable. When running the test program rtl_test, a
typical output is like this:
Sampling at 2048000 S/s.
Reporting PPM error measurement every 10 seconds...
Press ^C after a few minutes.
Reading samples