[beagleboard] How do i start fresh with linux??

2014-11-19 Thread earless
Ive been experimenting with debian adding s/w changing configurations etc. I want to undo all that and start my beaglebone like when it was fresh out the box. How do i do that? also whats the term for doing this what do you call it??? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss

Re: [beagleboard] How do i start fresh with linux??

2014-11-19 Thread earless
So all the files and software, etc. is stored on the eMMC chip on the BB? Does it take the role of the hard drive on a PC? On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:47:52 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:46 PM, earless > > wrote: > > Ive been experim

[beagleboard] expand rootfs to sd card.

2014-11-23 Thread earless
Can i expand the rootfs to an sd card if im booting from the emmc or can i only do this if im booting from the sd card? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe

Re: [beagleboard] expand rootfs to sd card.

2014-11-23 Thread earless
o remount > part of the file system on the system its self while it is running. > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:46 PM, earless > > wrote: > >> Can i expand the rootfs to an sd card if im booting from the emmc or >> can i only do this if im booting from

Re: [beagleboard] expand rootfs to sd card.

2014-11-23 Thread earless
y the whole of /home to the new media - then unmount. >4. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the changes- Pointing to the new media. > > A quick google search would yield tons of accurate results. As in step by > step how to's. > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:49 PM, earless > >

Re: [beagleboard] expand rootfs to sd card.

2014-11-23 Thread earless
I was installing the qt widget library using wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/qwt/qwt/6.1.0/qwt-6.1.0.tar .bz2 I tried to build and install it on the eMMC. On Sunday, November 23, 2014 4:53:00 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:47 PM, earless >

Re: [beagleboard] expand rootfs to sd card.

2014-11-23 Thread earless
yeah i have 4gb on eMMC but its not enough to build all the qt stuff. On Sunday, November 23, 2014 5:22:29 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:13 PM, earless > > wrote: > > I was installing the qt widget library using > > wget > > h

Re: [beagleboard] expand rootfs to sd card.

2014-11-23 Thread earless
I booted from an sdcard and ran the following commands grow the partition to the entire size of the sdcard(16GB) sudo cd /opt/scripts/tools sudo git pull sudo ./grow_partition.sh sudo shutdown -r now after reboot i ran df -h but the rootfs shows its size as 1.6G and im using 1.5G. I was expect

Re: [beagleboard] expand rootfs to sd card.

2014-11-24 Thread earless
thanks, works now. On Sunday, November 23, 2014 9:14:56 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:52 PM, earless > > wrote: > > I booted from an sdcard and ran the following commands grow the > partition to > > the entire size of the sdcard(1

[beagleboard] tslib not working.

2014-11-24 Thread earless
I built Qt4 from source with tslib support using -qt-mouse-tslib in the configuration options. I am able to run qt applications just fine but the touch screen isn't working. How do i make sure i have tslib installed? I tried apt-get install tslib-bin and get the error "Unable to locate package

[beagleboard] Re: tslib not working.

2014-11-24 Thread earless
also when i trun ts-calibrate i get "command not found". Does this mean i dont have tslib installed? On Monday, November 24, 2014 9:33:34 PM UTC-5, earless wrote: > > I built Qt4 from source with tslib support using -qt-mouse-tslib in the > configuration options.

[beagleboard] How to build ffmpeg for arm

2014-12-10 Thread earless
I have an arm cross compiler on my ubuntu machine and tried to build ffmeg libraries for arm but got the following error cd ffmpeg-2.5 ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf Unknown option "--host=arm-linux-gnueabihf" I did read the ./configure --help file and there is an option "--arch=ARCH"