debian: test images (2014-01-16)

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Thanks for everyone who tested 2014-01-10... So here we go, round two...

First, for tracking please report all bugs to:
http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/debian-image-releases

Fixes:
3.8.13-bone35 -> 3.8.13-bone36
* uvc camera backport
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8ca5d2d8e58df7235b77ed435e63c484e123fede
* config sync with last Angstrom, missing a few modules, thumb2 enabled..

lxde: autostart of screensaver disabled (pegged cpu to 100%)
/opt/scripts/ now a git repo, easier to pull in board tweaks for
bootup scripts..
* including a kernel update script under /opt/scripts/tools/update_kernel.sh
Chromium updated to 32.0.1700.76 with webrtc enabled.
4gb image, dropped from 3750Mb to 3700Mb, should work with more 4GB cards.
/var/lib/cloud9/node_modules/bonescript/ nodejs dependicy now installed

Know Issues:
wicd: can only handle eth0 or wlan0, not both at the same time..

Questions? Should we switch to connman?

To test:
apt-get remove wicd-* --purge
apt-get install connman
(no good gui with connman)

Does your "cape" work?

Does your wifi adapter work? Are we missing it's firmware?

So go forward and test the first "beta" release. There are 3 files on
the web server, depending on what you want to do. Using the same
standard procedure found here:
http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Updating_The_Software

http://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-01-16/

7cda65ef9971d8d770a84c00b8863c1e
BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.3-2014-01-16-2gb.img.xz
c84011db191151986d14fe73e43f5f4d bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-16-4gb.img.xz
05ed49c8fe4555081f83f5be61b2b75b debian-7.3-lxde-armhf-2014-01-16.tar.xz

An eMMC "flasher" which can be installed to any 2GB or greater microSD
card. [BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.3-2014-01-16-2gb.img.xz]

http://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-01-16/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.3-2014-01-16-2gb.img.xz

It takes about 10-15 Minutes to dd microSD (2GB), 15 minutes to flash
eMMC (look for full 4 LED's)

4GB standalone image that can be flashed to any 4GB or greater.
[bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-16-4gb.img.xz]

http://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-01-16/bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-16-4gb.img.xz

It takes about 20-30 Minutes to dd microSD (4GB)

Finally one of my classic "setup_sdcard.sh".
[debian-7.3-console-armhf-2014-01-16.tar.xz]

http://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-01-16/debian-7.3-console-armhf-2014-01-16.tar.xz

Note for users who use my classic "setup_sdcard.sh" script, here is
the magic options to get the beaglebone project files + systemd.

sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot bone
--beagleboard.org-production --enable-systemd

To "rebuild"
git clone git://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder.git
cd image-builder
git checkout bb.org-v2014.01.16 -b tmp
./beagleboard.org_image.sh

Go Test!

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Doh! <cough>

http://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-01-16/debian-7.3-lxde-armhf-2014-01-16.tar.xz

I'll get this form letter correct one of these weeks...

Regards,

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Hi Robert,

Thanks for the updated images. I have tried them on Beaglebone black (eMMC-flasher) and white (SD card) and both seem to run fine.

Questions? Should we switch to connman?

To test:
apt-get remove wicd-* --purge
apt-get install connman
(no good gui with connman)

I prefer connman but as long as it is so easy to replace wicd with connman I really don’t mind.

Does your “cape” work?

My LCD3 Rev A2 cape works on Beaglebone Black (didn’t try on white).

My audio cape Rev A works (recognized, didn’t try to play or record audio) on both Beaglebone black and white but I noticed that HDMI audio disappears from proc/asound/cards when this cape is mounted. This might be normal.

DVI-D with Audio cape doesn’t work on either Beaglebone black or white. To be honest I’m not exactly sure if the cape works as I have got it second hand and never tried it before.

Alex

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Robert,

I tried this new build on a BBB with good success. I used the setup_sdcard.sh approach on an 8GB SD card. WiFi works with a cheapo Rosewill USB dongle:

[ 15.015308] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
[ 15.015468] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu

I am using the 3.13 kernel:

Linux markbbb 3.13.0-rc8-bone4 #1 SMP Tue Jan 14 16:22:05 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux

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Hello i’ve also flashed my BBB with the lastest Debian image and everything is working fine.

My LCD4 Cape from 4D Systems works “almost” fine, seems to have a glitch in the touchscreen “click”, it’s probably callibration.

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Robert,

I tried this new build on a BBB with good success. I used the
setup_sdcard.sh approach on an 8GB SD card. WiFi works with a cheapo
Rosewill USB dongle:

[ 15.015308] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
[ 15.015468] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu

I am using the 3.13 kernel:

Linux markbbb 3.13.0-rc8-bone4 #1 SMP Tue Jan 14 16:22:05 UTC 2014 armv7l
GNU/Linux

I have an I2C 8x8 LED matrix scrolling continuously, so i2c is good.

Running headless so no report on HDMI.

A couple small requests/suggestions:

* Add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the default PATH

Are you thinking system-wide or just the first user?

As i'm looking at /etc/profile

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
  PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH

Thinking of using sed to change...

from:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
to:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"

* Enable the EXTRA_GROUPS options in /etc/adduser.conf and add i2c to the
EXTRA_GROUPS

Sounds good, added:

* Add a way to identify the build version (or tell me how). I see
/etc/os-release but it does not have a RCN build identifier in it

I can't really touch /etc/os-release, as any stable update might blow
that away...

But i set it up similar to Angstrom:

debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /etc/dogtag
BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-01-16

Regards,

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I think all the dvd-d's have a bad eeprom setup, as neither of my 2
auto-detect either..

Really need to set something up for them..

Regards,

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Yeah, right now there is no calibration going on. I'm working on that
this week, i just have the lcd3/lcd4 (and a newer lcd7 being shiped)

With the 4D Systems, what is the output of:

xinput --list

Regards,

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Hi Robert,

many thanks for your work!

I used the “setup_sdcard.sh” with “/rootfs/wheezy/debian-7.3-console-armhf-2014-01-17.tar.xz” and the boot time is reduced very much compared to the 2014-01-10 package (now only about 10 seconds including Ethernet with systemd).

One thing: The “gadget”-drivers are not automatically loaded. I only can bring up everything with executing “/boot/uboot/tools/scripts/beaglebone-black-g-ether-load.sh” but I have to do this after every start up.
How can I enable this by default?

Best regards,
Michael

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Hi Robert,

many thanks for your work!

I used the "setup_sdcard.sh" with
"/rootfs/wheezy/debian-7.3-console-armhf-2014-01-17.tar.xz" and the boot
time is reduced very much compared to the 2014-01-10 package (now only about
10 seconds including Ethernet with systemd).

Isn't systemd awesome for that! :wink:

One thing: The "gadget"-drivers are not automatically loaded. I only can
bring up everything with executing
"/boot/uboot/tools/scripts/beaglebone-black-g-ether-load.sh" but I have to
do this after every start up.
How can I enable this by default?

Sorry the "2014-01-17" release is broken, so it became an un-release,
i'm waiting for my v3.13.0 release for the beagle/beagle-xm to finish
before i push out a good "2014-01-20/21"..

It's easy to fix via, just

sudo mkdir -p /opt/scripts/
sudo chown -R debian:debian /opt/scripts/
git clone git://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts /opt/scripts/

I made the mistake of using "https://" in the git clone, this broke
both wheezy/jessie due to a missing ca certificate..

Regards,

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Hi Robert,

thanks for the quick response. I will give it a try.

I made the mistake of using “https://” in the git clone, this broke both wheezy/jessie due to a missing ca certificate…

I “fixed” this temporary by adding “–no-check-certificate” behind the “wget” commands in the script…

Best regards,
Michael

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An even better fix is to add "ca-certificates" by default. :wink: Then it
just works...

Regards,

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Hello Robert,

Actually i am getting this on my BBB

[ 35.411609] gen_ndis_query_resp: RNDIS_OID_GEN_RCV_NO_BUFFER
[ 35.415247] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096
[ 35.415517] gadget: rndis req21.00 v0000 i0000 l36
[ 35.419242] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096
[ 35.419537] gadget: rndis req21.00 v0000 i0000 l36
[ 35.424241] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096
[ 35.424513] gadget: rndis req21.00 v0000 i0000 l36
[ 35.424593] gen_ndis_query_resp: RNDIS_OID_GEN_RCV_NO_BUFFER
[ 35.427242] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096
[ 35.427597] gadget: rndis req21.00 v0000 i0000 l36
[ 35.431237] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096
[…]
[ 218.851550] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096
[ 226.351896] gadget: rndis req21.00 v0000 i0000 l12
[ 226.355432] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096
[ 233.852707] gadget: rndis req21.00 v0000 i0000 l12
[ 233.855267] gadget: rndis reqa1.01 v0000 i0000 l4096

My output for the xinput --list is this:
Unable to connect to X server

I saw Mika’s thread here on BB Groups and he played a little bit with the touchscreen device driver, in order to play with it myself in your debian distro what should i do? What are you using to build Debian? Yocto? Buildroot? Could you give me a light? Hehe

Thanks so much for your effort.

Cheers

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Also i’ve tried to run a QT5 Application on my BBB with the debian 16-01 image and i get this on dmesg:

[ 1443.245075] idr_remove called for id=154920 which is not allocated.
[ 1443.245197] [] (unwind_backtrace+0x1/0x8a) from [] (idr_remove+0xc5/0x120)
[ 1443.245275] [] (idr_remove+0xc5/0x120) from [] (drm_ctxbitmap_free+0x1b/0x24)
[ 1443.245334] [] (drm_ctxbitmap_free+0x1b/0x24) from [] (drm_rmctx+0x31/0xa0)
[ 1443.245389] [] (drm_rmctx+0x31/0xa0) from [] (drm_ioctl+0x1d9/0x28a)
[ 1443.245655] [] (drm_ioctl+0x1d9/0x28a) from [] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x3b9/0x402)
[ 1443.245716] [] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x3b9/0x402) from [] (sys_ioctl+0x33/0x44)
[ 1443.245777] [] (sys_ioctl+0x33/0x44) from [] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x46)

Is it related to the image?

cheers

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Yes. Definitely! I need both WLAN and ETH, also connman seems more established. Finally, connman has better dbus integration for interface configuration.

Please switch!

-W.

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Does the version of connman (1.15) we have in the repo right now work
for the dual wlan/eth situation?

apt-get remove wicd-* --purge
apt-get install connman
reboot

Regards,

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> * Add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the default PATH

Are you thinking system-wide or just the first user?

As i'm looking at /etc/profile

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
  PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH

Thinking of using sed to change...

from:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
to:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"

I would make it system-wide. Given this is for embedded systems, I think
any user is going to want access to the "if*" and "iw*" commands as well as
i2c utilities (IMHO)

> * Enable the EXTRA_GROUPS options in /etc/adduser.conf and add i2c to the
> EXTRA_GROUPS

Sounds good, added:

bb.org: Enable the EXTRA_GROUPS options in /etc/adduser.conf and add … · beagleboard/image-builder@47a74f6 · GitHub

Thanks!

On a related note, it would be convenient if the spidev devices were in the
same
or similar group.

> * Add a way to identify the build version (or tell me how). I see
> /etc/os-release but it does not have a RCN build identifier in it

I can't really touch /etc/os-release, as any stable update might blow
that away...

But i set it up similar to Angstrom:

debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /etc/dogtag
BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-01-16

Ooops, missed that one in my grep'ing around - just what I was looking for.
Thanks.

Mark

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Thanks Robert, I just booted it for the first time and so far so good. I see that there’s still no ioctl for RS485 mode on the UARTs though. Is there a reason RS485 support isn’t enabled on the BB kernel builds?

-Alex

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There is no module for "rs485" you need to call the omap-serial driver
with the proper ioctls

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt?id=refs/tags/v3.8.13

Regards,

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Looks like you can enable it on boot time too..
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt?id=refs/tags/v3.8.13#n28

Regards,