From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2009-12-31 23:03:12
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Hi all... My new Overo EVM Pack arrived today, and I have a quick question - is there an image on this thing? When I connect the Overo Fire COM to the Chestnut43 board, and the LCD to the Chestnut43 board, nothing happens. The screen backlight comes on, and dims after 15 seconds or so. No splash screen ever comes up, which seems to be what should happen based on the YouTube video showing how to set up this pack. Did I luck out and get a defective pack? Is there a bootable image on the MicroSD card that came with the pack? Was this pack supposed to be useable out of the box, or were my expectations incorrect? My need for a working platform is rather urgent, so any advice/assistance would be highly appreciated. I was sincerely hoping to spend more time programming and less time getting the platform up and running. Thanks... Jamie -- Jamie C. Pole, CISSP Founder & Principal Consultant J.C. Pole & Associates, Inc. Office: 336-328-0823 Fax: 336-328-0516 Cell: 336-508-7775 Email: <mailto:jp...@jc...> jp...@jc... Toll-Free: 866.338.0901 Web: <http://www.jcpa.com> www.jcpa.com Purveyors of global threat management and intelligence/ counterintelligence services... Information Security / Information Warfare / Information Forensics Corporate Fraud Investigations / Secure Electronic Commerce & Banking Professional Tiger Team Assessment / Industrial Espionage Countermeasures Comprehensive Law Enforcement & Litigation Support Services Law Enforcement Technology Training / Counterterrorism Advisory Services Transportation Security Assessment & Planning Services 24x7 Global Emergency Response & Response Planning PGP Fingerprint: 6F18 A0E2 DF95 B0F0 A954 A333 B3C4 663E 893A D6F2 -- |
From: Trevor W. <two...@gm...> - 2009-12-31 23:12:00
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Hi, I received my pack yesterday and had roughly the same thing (I bought the Overo Wireless pack instead of the Overo EVM pack). There was an image on my flash and I was able to access it via the USB console cable: http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Getting-started/111.html But nothing showed up on the LCD. Only when I put a pre-built image on my microSD did anything show up on the lcd: http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Creating-a-bootable-microSD-card/111.html http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Downloading-pre-built-images/111.html Hope that helps. Note: the http://www.sakoman.com/feeds/omap3/glibc/images/overo/200912291414/omap3-desktop-image-overo-200912291414.tar.bz2 didn't work for me (kernel panic on bootup). Hope this helps, best regards, Trevor On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Jamie C. Pole <jp...@jc...> wrote: > Hi all... > > My new Overo EVM Pack arrived today, and I have a quick question - is there > an image on this thing? |
From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2009-12-31 23:16:46
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Trevor, thanks so much for the quick response - I'm building the cross-compiling environment now, and I will look at the links you provided. Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:12 PM To: General mailing list for gumstix users. Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... Hi, I received my pack yesterday and had roughly the same thing (I bought the Overo Wireless pack instead of the Overo EVM pack). There was an image on my flash and I was able to access it via the USB console cable: http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programmin g/Getting-started/111.html But nothing showed up on the LCD. Only when I put a pre-built image on my microSD did anything show up on the lcd: http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programmin g/Creating-a-bootable-microSD-card/111.html http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programmin g/Downloading-pre-built-images/111.html Hope that helps. Note: the http://www.sakoman.com/feeds/omap3/glibc/images/overo/200912291414/omap3-des ktop-image-overo-200912291414.tar.bz2 didn't work for me (kernel panic on bootup). Hope this helps, best regards, Trevor On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Jamie C. Pole <jp...@jc...> wrote: > Hi all... > > My new Overo EVM Pack arrived today, and I have a quick question - is there > an image on this thing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ gumstix-users mailing list gum...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |
From: Trevor W. <two...@gm...> - 2009-12-31 23:25:17
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Jamie C. Pole <jp...@jc...> wrote: > Trevor, thanks so much for the quick response - I'm building the > cross-compiling environment now, and I will look at the links you provided. You won't need a cross-compiling environment to perform the steps I mentioned in my previous email. In fact I've been trying for the last 2 days straight to create a build environment using 3 different approaches without success :-( http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Setting-up-a-build-environment/111.html http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Getting_Started If you have any success following any of those instructions and generating a build environment I'd be interested in hearing about it... :-) |
From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2009-12-31 23:33:36
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I will definitely let you know how the build environment build is working for me. So far, it looks like it's working. I'm about to try a test build just to see if I'm deluding myself. Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:25 PM To: General mailing list for gumstix users. Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Jamie C. Pole <jp...@jc...> wrote: > Trevor, thanks so much for the quick response - I'm building the > cross-compiling environment now, and I will look at the links you provided. You won't need a cross-compiling environment to perform the steps I mentioned in my previous email. In fact I've been trying for the last 2 days straight to create a build environment using 3 different approaches without success :-( http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programmin g/Setting-up-a-build-environment/111.html http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Getting_Started If you have any success following any of those instructions and generating a build environment I'd be interested in hearing about it... :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ gumstix-users mailing list gum...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |
From: Trevor W. <two...@gm...> - 2010-01-01 01:02:37
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Jamie C. Pole <jp...@jc...> wrote: > I will definitely let you know how the build environment build is working > for me. So far, it looks like it's working. I'm about to try a test build > just to see if I'm deluding myself. If you typed "bitbake <target>" and it finished without error you're definitely way ahead of me! Which instructions did you follow? What is your desktop environment? Best regards, Trevor |
From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2010-01-01 15:20:12
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Well, so far so good. I started with a clean Fedora 12 install, and added all of the modules listed on the "Setting up a build environment" (http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programmi ng/Setting-up-a-build-environment/111.html) page. I installed each with yum from the command line. My Fedora 12 environment is a VMWare VM. Before I started the process, I reset the value of mmap_min_addr to 0. Right now, I'm on the last step, which is building the test with bitbake. The builder is pulling down additional packages, so it's taking a while. That said, I haven't seen an error yet. I'll post again when bitbake finishes - one way or the other. The build is currently on task 110 out of 3201. Also, I attached a USB console program to the Chestnut43 board, and I determined that there is a working image on the device. For some reason, I'm getting NAND integrity errors - I'm looking into burning a new NAND image to see if that fixes the problems. I still can't get anything to come up on the touchscreen, even following the instructions to change u-boot to redirect output. I'm starting to believe that I have a defective component somewhere, but I'm not in geographic proximity to my troubleshooting tools, so a final determination on that will have to wait until next week. By no means am I giving up - it's just taking me more time to get this platform working than I would've liked. Still very promising for my application - I just wish that the pack was delivered with all components functioning as advertised. Wish me luck... Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:02 PM To: General mailing list for gumstix users. Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Jamie C. Pole <jp...@jc...> wrote: > I will definitely let you know how the build environment build is working > for me. So far, it looks like it's working. I'm about to try a test build > just to see if I'm deluding myself. If you typed "bitbake <target>" and it finished without error you're definitely way ahead of me! Which instructions did you follow? What is your desktop environment? Best regards, Trevor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ gumstix-users mailing list gum...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |
From: Robert L C. <coc...@sp...> - 2010-01-01 15:43:28
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That is what I'm using here, a Fedora 12 environment to build Overo images. It generally takes me several hours to compile omap3-console-image. I'm doing this on a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop with 4 Gb memory and 2 processor cores. A quad core desktop that would probably zoom through the build and conserve your time. Others on this forum have reported receiving unbootable hardware from Gumstix. Reading through the archives would be helpful. I ought to keep a tally of people reporting problems with brand new hardware and the resolutions that got said hardware running. Bob On 01/01/2010 10:18 AM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > Well, so far so good. > > I started with a clean Fedora 12 install, and added all of the modules > listed on the "Setting up a build environment" > (http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programmi > ng/Setting-up-a-build-environment/111.html) page. I installed each with yum > from the command line. My Fedora 12 environment is a VMWare VM. > > Before I started the process, I reset the value of mmap_min_addr to 0. > > Right now, I'm on the last step, which is building the test with bitbake. > The builder is pulling down additional packages, so it's taking a while. > That said, I haven't seen an error yet. > > I'll post again when bitbake finishes - one way or the other. The build is > currently on task 110 out of 3201. > > Also, I attached a USB console program to the Chestnut43 board, and I > determined that there is a working image on the device. For some reason, > I'm getting NAND integrity errors - I'm looking into burning a new NAND > image to see if that fixes the problems. I still can't get anything to come > up on the touchscreen, even following the instructions to change u-boot to > redirect output. I'm starting to believe that I have a defective component > somewhere, but I'm not in geographic proximity to my troubleshooting tools, > so a final determination on that will have to wait until next week. > > By no means am I giving up - it's just taking me more time to get this > platform working than I would've liked. Still very promising for my > application - I just wish that the pack was delivered with all components > functioning as advertised. > > Wish me luck... > > Jamie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:02 PM > To: General mailing list for gumstix users. > Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Jamie C. Pole<jp...@jc...> wrote: > >> I will definitely let you know how the build environment build is working >> for me. So far, it looks like it's working. I'm about to try a test >> > build > >> just to see if I'm deluding myself. >> > If you typed "bitbake<target>" and it finished without error you're > definitely way ahead of me! Which instructions did you follow? What is > your desktop environment? > > Best regards, > Trevor > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > |
From: Robert L C. <coc...@sp...> - 2010-01-01 03:54:27
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I'm very interested in this thread. I'm toying with getting an Overo EVM pack myself. I think you should have recieved a pack that will boot properly and be usable out of the box, however Gumstix does recommend updating the images. Let us know what you did to get the Over Fire to boot. Thanks Bob On 12/31/2009 06:02 PM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > > Hi all... > > My new Overo EVM Pack arrived today, and I have a quick question - is > there an image on this thing? > > When I connect the Overo Fire COM to the Chestnut43 board, and the LCD > to the Chestnut43 board, nothing happens. The screen backlight comes > on, and dims after 15 seconds or so. No splash screen ever comes up, > which seems to be what should happen based on the YouTube video > showing how to set up this pack. > > Did I luck out and get a defective pack? Is there a bootable image on > the MicroSD card that came with the pack? Was this pack supposed to > be useable out of the box, or were my expectations incorrect? > > My need for a working platform is rather urgent, so any > advice/assistance would be highly appreciated. I was sincerely hoping > to spend more time programming and less time getting the platform up > and running. > > Thanks... > > Jamie > > -- > > Jamie C. Pole, CISSP > > Founder & Principal Consultant > > J.C. Pole & Associates, Inc. > > Office: 336-328-0823 Fax: 336-328-0516 > > Cell: 336-508-7775 Email: jp...@jc... > <mailto:jp...@jc...> > > Toll-Free: 866.338.0901 Web: www.jcpa.com <http://www.jcpa.com> > > Purveyors of global threat management and intelligence/ > counterintelligence services... > > Information Security / Information Warfare / Information Forensics > > Corporate Fraud Investigations / Secure Electronic Commerce & Banking > > Professional Tiger Team Assessment / Industrial Espionage Countermeasures > > Comprehensive Law Enforcement & Litigation Support Services > > Law Enforcement Technology Training / Counterterrorism Advisory Services > > Transportation Security Assessment & Planning Services > > 24x7 Global Emergency Response & Response Planning > > PGP Fingerprint: 6F18 A0E2 DF95 B0F0 A954 A333 B3C4 663E 893A D6F2 > > -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > > > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |
From: Trevor W. <two...@gm...> - 2010-01-01 15:55:56
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On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jamie C. Pole <jp...@jc...> wrote: > I'll post again when bitbake finishes - one way or the other. The build is > currently on task 110 out of 3201. I've tried this a couple times. When my build gets to task 1568 (python-native_2.6.1.bb do_compile) something (my compiler?) does a segmentation fault causing the build to fail. > Also, I attached a USB console program to the Chestnut43 board, and I > determined that there is a working image on the device. For some reason, > I'm getting NAND integrity errors - I'm looking into burning a new NAND > image to see if that fixes the problems. Yes, I was getting the same thing: jffs2 warnings and notices all over the place: JFFS2 notice: (1448) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x035ed000: read 0x80ad7325, calculated 0x7d901144. I didn't try burning anything new into flash since: a) I don't want to brick my device b) I'll be using the mmc anyway so by putting an image and running it off the mmc there aren't anymore nand errors :-) Using the flash image, login and try running "ts_calibrate", then touch your touchscreen randomly in 5 places. In my case I would get output on the cmdline indicating the coordinates of where I was touching, indicating the screen and the device were seeing each other, at least for input events. > I still can't get anything to come > up on the touchscreen, even following the instructions to change u-boot to > redirect output. I'm starting to believe that I have a defective component > somewhere, but I'm not in geographic proximity to my troubleshooting tools, > so a final determination on that will have to wait until next week. When I received my device I went on the irc channel (from freenode) and met another person who was having problems with their device, similar to what you and myself have described. Yet when I queried this mailing list others assured me the image in flash should have brought something up on the screen and nobody else reported seeing nand errors. So it seems as though either people are being quiet or the orders which shipped last week seemed to have something wrong with them because that's 3 strange orders of which I'm aware. Yet prior to this, there aren't many instances of people worried about the same issues we bring up in the mail archives. To add more data points: - as far as I know the other person's device still didn't work even after using a pre-built image on the mmc - if I left my device running from the nand image, checking back on it once in a while I would sometimes see moving static in the top portion of the screen, this static was always monochrome (black & white) - trying out different console resolutions wasn't successful, I just would get different static shapes and sizes - if I left the device running long enough it would almost always eventually lock up, I'm assuming this was related to the nand errors - even though now I've got the screen working using a pre-built image, the screen coordinate system seems all messed up. Even though I've run ts_calibrate a number of times it *seems* as though a touch in the lower left corner is interpreted as a touch in the upper right corner, and so on. I can't interact with the GUI even though I've got it showing something. Maybe the hardware is fine and something else is going funny. - when I try playing a video, using mplayer, only the top, roughly half of the video appears on the lcd, the bottom is black. |
From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2010-01-01 17:03:39
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Trevor, I got results similar to yours with ts_calibrate. The Chestnut43 board seems to be taking input from the touchscreen. The test build is still progressing. Really slow, but I'm sure that's because I'm using a VM. Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:56 AM To: General mailing list for gumstix users. Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... Using the flash image, login and try running "ts_calibrate", then touch your touchscreen randomly in 5 places. In my case I would get output on the cmdline indicating the coordinates of where I was touching, indicating the screen and the device were seeing each other, at least for input events. > I still can't get anything to come > up on the touchscreen, even following the instructions to change u-boot to > redirect output. I'm starting to believe that I have a defective component > somewhere, but I'm not in geographic proximity to my troubleshooting tools, > so a final determination on that will have to wait until next week. |
From: Robert L C. <coc...@sp...> - 2010-01-01 18:01:24
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Consider increasing the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine. Bob On 01/01/2010 12:03 PM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > Trevor, I got results similar to yours with ts_calibrate. The Chestnut43 > board seems to be taking input from the touchscreen. > > The test build is still progressing. Really slow, but I'm sure that's > because I'm using a VM. > > Jamie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] > Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:56 AM > To: General mailing list for gumstix users. > Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... > > Using the flash image, login and try running "ts_calibrate", then > touch your touchscreen randomly in 5 places. In my case I would get > output on the cmdline indicating the coordinates of where I was > touching, indicating the screen and the device were seeing each other, > at least for input events. > > >> I still can't get anything to come >> up on the touchscreen, even following the instructions to change u-boot to >> redirect output. I'm starting to believe that I have a defective >> > component > >> somewhere, but I'm not in geographic proximity to my troubleshooting >> > tools, > >> so a final determination on that will have to wait until next week. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > |
From: Robert L C. <coc...@sp...> - 2010-01-01 23:44:21
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Just wondering...have you seen the bottom of this page, "A Note for LCD Users": http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Getting-started/111.html Bob On 01/01/2010 12:03 PM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > Trevor, I got results similar to yours with ts_calibrate. The Chestnut43 > board seems to be taking input from the touchscreen. > > The test build is still progressing. Really slow, but I'm sure that's > because I'm using a VM. > > Jamie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] > Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:56 AM > To: General mailing list for gumstix users. > Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... > > Using the flash image, login and try running "ts_calibrate", then > touch your touchscreen randomly in 5 places. In my case I would get > output on the cmdline indicating the coordinates of where I was > touching, indicating the screen and the device were seeing each other, > at least for input events. > > >> I still can't get anything to come >> up on the touchscreen, even following the instructions to change u-boot to >> redirect output. I'm starting to believe that I have a defective >> > component > >> somewhere, but I'm not in geographic proximity to my troubleshooting >> > tools, > >> so a final determination on that will have to wait until next week. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > |
From: Trevor W. <two...@gm...> - 2010-01-02 00:46:12
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On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Robert L Cochran <coc...@sp...> wrote: > Just wondering...have you seen the bottom of this page, "A Note for LCD > Users": > > http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Getting-started/111.html Yes :-) That's what led me to start trying out different video modes too, to no avail. |
From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2010-01-02 01:17:32
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Definitely - I've been through those steps many times. I also went through the process I would normally use to get X11 up and running, and I don't see anything that is not properly configured. Thanks for asking. ;-) Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Robert L Cochran [mailto:coc...@sp...] Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 6:44 PM To: General mailing list for gumstix users. Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... Just wondering...have you seen the bottom of this page, "A Note for LCD Users": http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programmin g/Getting-started/111.html Bob On 01/01/2010 12:03 PM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > Trevor, I got results similar to yours with ts_calibrate. The Chestnut43 > board seems to be taking input from the touchscreen. > > The test build is still progressing. Really slow, but I'm sure that's > because I'm using a VM. > > Jamie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:two...@gm...] > Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:56 AM > To: General mailing list for gumstix users. > Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Overo EVM pack... > > Using the flash image, login and try running "ts_calibrate", then > touch your touchscreen randomly in 5 places. In my case I would get > output on the cmdline indicating the coordinates of where I was > touching, indicating the screen and the device were seeing each other, > at least for input events. > > >> I still can't get anything to come >> up on the touchscreen, even following the instructions to change u-boot to >> redirect output. I'm starting to believe that I have a defective >> > component > >> somewhere, but I'm not in geographic proximity to my troubleshooting >> > tools, > >> so a final determination on that will have to wait until next week. >> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ gumstix-users mailing list gum...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |
From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2010-01-02 15:17:20
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Okay - I'm done. >From the web site, Gumstix appeared to be a mature product that I could leverage to bring my application to market very quickly. This has proven not to be the case. I sincerely appreciate the speed at which the product I ordered was shipped and delivered, but having the product in-hand does me no good when it simply doesn't work. The presence of errors in the on-board memory leads me to believe that there are QA/QC issues that need to be addressed. How was this product shipped in the first place with these errors? Why would these errors be left for the end user to deal with? I also respect the desire to employ open source development tools, but when those tools are predicated on operating systems that are at least 4 years old, the situation becomes unacceptable. Fedora 6 (2006) or Fedora 8 (2007)? The current version is 12. I need to worry about my own application, rather than solving problems with one that I purchased as an implementation platform. Also, I would like to point out that in nearly 20 years of systems integration and platform engineering, this product has the absolute worst documentation I have ever seen (or not seen, as the case may be). Please provide an RMA number, and I will return this pack to you expeditiously. I expect a full and prompt refund. At this point, I am not interested in obtaining a replacement product - I have already spent too much time trying to get this product to function as advertised. I'm going to cut my losses and go with a product I'm already familiar with. My client is smart enough to recognize memory errors during the boot process, so this product would never pass their QA/QC anyway. I would love the opportunity to discuss my experience with senior management at Gumstix - the best way to reach me is via email (jp...@jc...), but my cell phone (336-508-7775) is also available. I had the highest hopes for your product. Jamie -- Jamie C. Pole, CISSP Founder & Principal Consultant J.C. Pole & Associates, Inc. Office: 336-328-0823 Fax: 336-328-0516 Cell: 336-508-7775 Email: jp...@jc... Toll-Free: 866.338.0901 Web: www.jcpa.com Purveyors of global threat management and intelligence / counterintelligence services... Information Security / Information Warfare / Information Forensics Corporate Fraud Investigations / Secure Electronic Commerce & Banking Professional Tiger Team Assessment / Industrial Espionage Countermeasures Comprehensive Law Enforcement & Litigation Support Services Law Enforcement Technology Training / Counterterrorism Advisory Services Transportation Security Assessment & Planning Services 24x7 Global Emergency Response & Response Planning PGP Fingerprint: 6F18 A0E2 DF95 B0F0 A954 A333 B3C4 663E 893A D6F2 -- |
From: Michael R. <mc...@sa...> - 2010-01-02 16:03:15
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>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie C Pole <jp...@jc...> writes: Jamie> but when those tools are predicated on operating systems that Jamie> are at least 4 years old, the situation becomes unacceptable. Jamie> Fedora 6 (2006) or Fedora 8 (2007)? The current version is Jamie> 12. You can not ship anything on top of Fedora. People have to realize that Fedora is equivalent to Debian testing. You need to ship on RHEL, Centos, Debian STABLE, or Ubuntu Server LTS. Jamie> I had the highest hopes for your product. Thanks for the update --- you have saved me a lot of time. -- ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] mc...@sa... http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ Kyoto Plus: watch the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1ycLXQSE> then sign the petition. |
From: Jamie C. P. <jp...@jc...> - 2010-01-02 16:08:24
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I generally agree about Fedora, but our Federal client standardized on it, so we don't have much choice. They also have some RHEL, but not in the systems we are involved with. We aren't allowed to use Ubuntu at all, and they also frown on Debian. In the future, perhaps Gumstix should provide a VMWare image of a prebuilt build environment. That would save some people (but not me, because that wasn't my main problem) quite a bit of time and frustration. Jamie -----Original Message----- From: mc...@sa... [mailto:mc...@sa...] Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:03 AM To: General mailing list for gumstix users. Cc: Jamie C. Pole Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Throwing in the towel... >>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie C Pole <jp...@jc...> writes: Jamie> but when those tools are predicated on operating systems that Jamie> are at least 4 years old, the situation becomes unacceptable. Jamie> Fedora 6 (2006) or Fedora 8 (2007)? The current version is Jamie> 12. You can not ship anything on top of Fedora. People have to realize that Fedora is equivalent to Debian testing. You need to ship on RHEL, Centos, Debian STABLE, or Ubuntu Server LTS. Jamie> I had the highest hopes for your product. Thanks for the update --- you have saved me a lot of time. -- ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] mc...@sa... http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ Kyoto Plus: watch the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1ycLXQSE> then sign the petition. |
From: Alex G. <al...@al...> - 2010-01-05 03:34:35
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On 3/01/2010 3:07 AM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > In the future, perhaps Gumstix should provide a VMWare image of a prebuilt > build environment. That would save some people (but not me, because that > wasn't my main problem) quite a bit of time and frustration. > > That would have saved me a lot of time when was originally trying to get and running back early last year. The online angstrom image builder has been a life saver. http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/narcissus/ Let me not worry with the major hassles of getting the build environment setup and let me concentrate on getting our app functional (using python). Alex -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology, Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. |
From: Trevor W. <two...@gm...> - 2010-01-05 18:41:44
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Alex Gibson <al...@al...> wrote: > On 3/01/2010 3:07 AM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: >> In the future, perhaps Gumstix should provide a VMWare image of a prebuilt >> build environment. That would save some people (but not me, because that >> wasn't my main problem) quite a bit of time and frustration. >> >> > > That would have saved me a lot of time when was originally trying to get > and running back > early last year. Unfortunately that, most likely, won't be practical. Downloading the sources is is a mere 600MB. I created a VM image (VirtualBox) of a very basic debian install (no gui, just plain console), setup, and built the development environment. When I was done my VM's disk image on my host's computer was 33GB. Most people report their disk usage for the build environment is roughly 27 to 28GB. |
From: Chris M. <ch...@fo...> - 2010-01-05 18:54:57
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Out of curiosity, I don't suppose people know how compatible VM images are from one vendor to another, or I suppose one version to another? I'd be entirely willing to set something up, but knowing what format would serve as many people as possible would be good. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Trevor Woerner <two...@gm...> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Alex Gibson <al...@al...> wrote: >> On 3/01/2010 3:07 AM, Jamie C. Pole wrote: >>> In the future, perhaps Gumstix should provide a VMWare image of a prebuilt >>> build environment. That would save some people (but not me, because that >>> wasn't my main problem) quite a bit of time and frustration. >>> >>> >> >> That would have saved me a lot of time when was originally trying to get >> and running back >> early last year. > > Unfortunately that, most likely, won't be practical. > > Downloading the sources is is a mere 600MB. > > I created a VM image (VirtualBox) of a very basic debian install (no > gui, just plain console), setup, and built the development > environment. When I was done my VM's disk image on my host's computer > was 33GB. Most people report their disk usage for the build > environment is roughly 27 to 28GB. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |
From: Trevor W. <two...@gm...> - 2010-01-05 19:05:53
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Chris MacDonald <ch...@fo...> wrote: > Out of curiosity, I don't suppose people know how compatible VM images > are from one vendor to another, or I suppose one version to another? > I'd be entirely willing to set something up, but knowing what format > would serve as many people as possible would be good. I have tried running a VMware image under VirtualBox 3.1.0, it worked, except I had to append a "root=/dev/hda1" option to the bootloader (VMware had root set to /dev/sda1). So it's "doable". I have tried to get VMware to boot images from VirtualBox but wasn't successful, although, to be honest, I didn't exhaust all possibilities: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=convert+virtualbox+to+vmware&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=0&oq=convert+virtual |
From: Scott E. <sco...@gm...> - 2010-01-05 19:40:05
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If anyone would like the specs for a workstation I just built for ~$750 that can build the omap3-console-image from scratch in just over an hour, let me know. As a contractor who bills by the hour, I could never justify the delays you guys are enduring. On 1/5/10, Trevor Woerner <two...@gm...> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Chris MacDonald <ch...@fo...> > wrote: >> Out of curiosity, I don't suppose people know how compatible VM images >> are from one vendor to another, or I suppose one version to another? >> I'd be entirely willing to set something up, but knowing what format >> would serve as many people as possible would be good. > > I have tried running a VMware image under VirtualBox 3.1.0, it worked, > except I had to append a "root=/dev/hda1" option to the bootloader > (VMware had root set to /dev/sda1). So it's "doable". > > I have tried to get VMware to boot images from VirtualBox but wasn't > successful, although, to be honest, I didn't exhaust all > possibilities: > http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=convert+virtualbox+to+vmware&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=0&oq=convert+virtual > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |
From: Dave H. <dhy...@gm...> - 2010-01-05 19:48:09
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Hey Scott, On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Scott Ellis <sco...@gm...> wrote: > If anyone would like the specs for a workstation I just built for > ~$750 that can build > the omap3-console-image from scratch in just over an hour, let me know. I'd definitely be interested... I have a new Dell, but I haven't benchmarked the build times. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ |
From: Elvis D. <elv...@ma...> - 2010-01-05 20:40:34
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Hi Scott, On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Scott Ellis wrote: > If anyone would like the specs for a workstation I just built for > ~$750 that can build > the omap3-console-image from scratch in just over an hour, let me know. I'd be interested to know! Best regards, Elvis Dowson |