Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Dennis Cote
On Thursday, March 13, 2014 2:33:59 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: So then, here's a question for you. Where do you want to see those type of faq's listed? I can pretty much dump them anywhere, but the hard question is where... I don't know where they should be stored, but there should

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
So then, here's a question for you. Where do you want to see those type of faq's listed? I can pretty much dump them anywhere, but the hard question is where... motd or the banner for ssh, together with an instruction to use rm to get rid of the message. I've been dumping the default

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 13.03.2014 22:24, schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 13.03.2014 21:33, schrieb Robert Nelson: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:49:52 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Which brings up a fun question. What default timezone do you

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
And if some gui is supported, open an editor like gvim or similiar to show those instructions gui-users too (by using some autoexec mechanism the gui in question offers). leafpad is installed so that would be pretty easy, to show web link for help. xchat2 is even installed, ( i was feeling a

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Dennis Cote
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:58:32 AM UTC-7, Jason Kridner wrote: If you have a BeagleBone Black and are able to try out this image, it might be good to propose fixing any short-falls you see in what is provided on the image. Every time I boot, or logout of LXDE, I get a touchscreen

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Hajo Dezelski
I second that. I am one of those who just started going west into the wild. And I am still not sure which information are official and which are not. However I am now sure that I didn't grab Robert's kernel.  A pitty, for I would have speared a lot of time. All the Best Hajo --- ... indessen

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:58:32 AM UTC-7, Jason Kridner wrote: If you have a BeagleBone Black and are able to try out this image, it might be good to propose fixing any short-falls you see in what is provided on the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:58:32 AM UTC-7, Jason Kridner wrote: If you have a BeagleBone Black and are able to try out this image, it might be

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello Robert, thanks for your advice. I deleted the man pages and some other stuff. It helped. Now I have about 15 % available. Great. I noticed, that most of the non-critical packages (from: Reduce Debian) were already missing. But bare with me, I'm not a Linux Guru like you. I reformatted the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Hajo Dezelski dl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robert, thanks for your advice. I deleted the man pages and some other stuff. It helped. Now I have about 15 % available. Great. I noticed, that most of the non-critical packages (from: Reduce Debian) were already

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Hajo Dezelski dl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Robert, thanks for your advice. I deleted the man pages and some other stuff. It helped. Now I have about 15 % available. Great. I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Robert, that was a fast one. Thanks again - discussions in other groups can sometimes lead you to nowhere and you get lost. (There was written that the uEnv.txt was mandatory) So I will not use your 64 MB image. Sorry, I am happy that this one is running. Have a nice day and so long from Nowhere

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Hajo Dezelski dl1...@gmail.com wrote: Robert, that was a fast one. Thanks again - discussions in other groups can sometimes lead you to nowhere and you get lost. (There was written that the uEnv.txt was mandatory) So I will not use your 64 MB image. Sorry, I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Steve French
Robert, Thanks for your response! I have 15 BBBs and one uSD card, so I am kinda leaning toward using the eMMC on each. Robert said: Correct, to meet everyone's out of box pkg requirements, the eMMC is mostly full. If you drop opencv/python/chromium you'll gain a lot of space back.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:28 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Doesn't really make a difference for 3.8 thou, as you see.. Best to just switch to v3.13.x Robert, How do you propose that users switch to v3.13.x (by which I assume you mean the Linux kernel version)? My BBB panics

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:28 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Doesn't really make a difference for 3.8 thou, as you see.. Best to just switch to v3.13.x Robert, How do you propose that users switch to v3.13.x (by

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Steve French of Volt Vision
Dennis, I am not sure what you mean by BBB panics, but I can tell you that I have been upgrading my kernel using the new Debian eMMC flasher image. I have done it on several BBBs so far with no problem *Before the procedure:* uname -a Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar 4 22:51:47

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 12.03.2014 20:02, schrieb Robert Nelson: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:28 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Doesn't really make a difference for 3.8 thou, as you see.. Best to just switch to v3.13.x Robert, How do

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread William Hermans
He has done something wrong, or has missed a step in setting up his media. Having a serial debug cable on the board and working would clear things up in a hurry. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Steve French of Volt Vision voltvis...@gmail.com wrote: Dennis, I am not sure what you mean by

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:02:55 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: panics on every boot? Do you have any error log? I can't really help with that limited info. When I said panics like this I meant in the same way that as the user whose message you replied to. I have copied his log

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:02:55 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: panics on every boot? Do you have any error log? I can't really help with that limited info. When I said panics like this I meant in the same way

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:31:13 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: Yeah this annoyance.. What brand of microSD cards are you using? I'm using a 4GB Kingston Technology cards. Note, I have not expanded the partition to fill the card yet, I just to boot with it after copying the image.

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:02:55 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: mount the first fat partition, edit uEnv.txt remove the quiet from optargs.. save unmount.. Next using a usb-serial convert log the full serial boot log for me. Robert, The uEnv.txt file from the FAT partition in this

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-12 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 4:08:50 PM UTC-6, Dennis Cote wrote: There is a line that says: systemd=quiet init=/lib/systemd/systemd I'm not sure if you mean to remove the quiet from this line, or perhaps something else. OK, so I removed the quiet from the systemd definition and rebooted

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-11 Thread Steve French
Hello all! I have been testing the new official Debian eMMC flasher image for the BBB… *http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/* (…in particular this one Debian (BeagleBone Black - 2GB eMMC) 2014-03-04) root@vBBB5studioS:/var/lib/cloud9# uname -a Linux vBBB5studioS 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar 4

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-11 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Steve French voltvis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I have been testing the new official Debian eMMC flasher image for the BBB... http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/ (...in particular this one Debian (BeagleBone Black - 2GB eMMC) 2014-03-04)

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-11 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, this was one of the problems with BBB. I managed to install Debian with BBB-eMMc-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-02-16-2gb.img installed only Xfce (needed an graphical output) and had about 450 MB left. Beside that I had to install a swap file 128 MB I'm down to 211156. That's not a lot. Under

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-10 Thread michael . ring
I am having issues with this image and mmcqd daemon, X crahes often and I end up with an empty console on my LCD 4.3: [ 180.537526] INFO: task mmcqd/0:74 blocked for more than 60 seconds. [ 180.544275] echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. [ 180.552668]

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-10 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:55 AM, michael.r...@swisscom.com wrote: I am having issues with this image and mmcqd daemon, X crahes often and I end up with an empty console on my LCD 4.3: [ 180.537526] INFO: task mmcqd/0:74 blocked for more than 60 seconds. [ 180.544275] echo 0

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-07 Thread me
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: The latest BeagleBone Debian images are now posted at: http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/ I removed that adapter and plugged in an adapter I bought from Adafruit (and switched ra0 back to wlan0) and got the issue

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-07 Thread botheringelectrons
Hi Robert, The fix I suggested yesterday still leaves some debug dmesgs. I tried to eliminate DBG entirely. However, make with -DDBG removed from os/linux/config.mk lines 290:293 # config for STA mode ifeq ($(RT28xx_MODE),STA) --WFLAGS += -DCONFIG_STA_SUPPORT

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-07 Thread sfugarino2
Trying to run i2cdetect but keep getting: Error: Can't use SMBus Quick Write command on this bus On Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:58:32 AM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: If you have a BeagleBone Black and are able to try out this image, it might be good to propose fixing any short-falls you see

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-06 Thread Casey Atherton
I can confirm that the UWN200 (and UWN100) are working well with the fix Robert mentioned. I'm getting a solid connection with WPA2 encryption. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: The latest BeagleBone Debian images are now posted at:

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-06 Thread Jason Kridner
If you have a BeagleBone Black and are able to try out this image, it might be good to propose fixing any short-falls you see in what is provided on the image. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: The latest BeagleBone Debian images are now posted at:

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-06 Thread botheringelectrons
Jason and Robert: well done for this fine upgrade! Seems like a lot of things are really coming together very quickly. Hardware: BBB A5C; OS Version: Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar 4 22:51:47 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux Tried it last night and a lot of things are working

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-06 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:04 AM, botheringelectr...@gmail.com wrote: Jason and Robert: well done for this fine upgrade! Seems like a lot of things are really coming together very quickly. Hardware: BBB A5C; OS Version: Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone41 #1 SMP Tue Mar 4 22:51:47 UTC 2014 armv7l

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-06 Thread botheringelectrons
Hi Robert, First, thanks for the instruction to remove x11... that gets my rootfs usage down from about 83% to 69%. More room for building stuff! The Mediatek driver software has a define in os/linux/rt_linux.c line 54: - ULONG RTDebugLevel = RT_DEBUG_TRACE; +ULONG RTDebugLevel =

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-06 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM, botheringelectr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Robert, First, thanks for the instruction to remove x11... that gets my rootfs usage down from about 83% to 69%. More room for building stuff! The Mediatek driver software has a define in os/linux/rt_linux.c line 54:

[beagleboard] Re: Here is the BeagleBone Debian (beta) image you want to test

2014-03-05 Thread Robert Nelson
I use a Mac and despite the latest version of HoRNDIS fixing issues with Internet Connection Sharing, getting on the WIFI at home makes getting my BeagleBones on the network much easier, further making grabbing new packages with 'sudo apt-get install' much simpler. Drivers and firmware for

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