Embedded OS with GUI for Beagleboard

hi
i m doing my final year project on video compression using omap3530
i have a beagleboard with console Angstrom
i have cross-compiled opencv on it also my code are ready for video
compression
the only problem i m facing is to display images and video for that i
need a GUI
i tried narcissus but failed
please tell me if i could get a GUI on present console or help me
finding out a os which will get me a nice GUI
thank you in advance.

Hi,

Narcissus has variety of GUI, just the the option as X11 in “User Environment Selection”… It has variety of GUI consols like GNOME, Enligtment, Matchbox and so on…

Bye

thank you for your reply
i have tried that but the problem is that i m unable to find u-boot, bin and uImage files

Hi,

Extract that .tar file and you will find those file in a directory “boot”

Also while customizing
Select Platform specific packages:Bootloader Files (x-load/u-boot/scripts)

Bye

you can use xterm to open applications without using or ınstalling a gui. I run it ubuntu maverick but I dont know if it works for angstrom

Angstrom is just another distribution. I am running Ubuntu Natty on a -XM with a 16GB micro-SD card.

I changed to Ubuntu because there were some much needed applications that were very difficult to impossible to build and install on Angstrom.

I find Ubuntu to be more flexible as you have access to all the same software that's available on x86 platforms. With such a rich offering, most things are just an "apt-get install" away. It's straight Ubuntu you are dealing with, you approach it in exactly the same way as if it were Ubuntu on x86 based hardware.
root@g3vbv:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04"

root@g3vbv:~# uname -a
Linux g3vbv 2.6.39-rc7-d5 #1 SMP Thu May 12 08:47:36 UTC 2011 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
Regards
Sid.

I used narcissus console image and customized it to have a basic X screen
On beagleboard I did following:

opkg install these packages:
xinit
xserver-xorg
xterm
xf86-input-mouse
xf86-input-keyboard
twm
xserver-common
xf86-input-evdev

maybe some are missing or unrelated

and on xterm, type xinit to start X screen then type twm& to have a
title bar so that you move the window. mouse should be over the xterm
for it to be activated.
I don't know how to start twm automatically after xinit

Nurp

LIke?

Building quisk and the latest sdr-shell implementations.
There were some problems with wxPython and others which I shall have to check back in my posts going back quite a while.
Regards
Sid.

Hi Sid,

I changed to Ubuntu because there were some much needed applications that
were very difficult to impossible to build and install on Angstrom.

LIke?

Building quisk and the latest sdr-shell implementations.

I want to do some SDR with BB, that would be great if you can let me
know about the activity on projects such as DttSP and sdr-shell.
The last update for DttSP on sourceforge seems to be 2005, should I
start with GNU radio?
Thanks fro any hint in this direction

Some earlier posts to this group

koen@dominion:/OE/angstrom-v2011/build/tmp-angstrom-v2011/deploy/eglibc$ dpkg-deb -c ipk/armv7a/jack-examples_0.118.0-r3.9_armv7a.ipk | grep connect
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 5924 2011-05-12 00:13 ./usr/bin/jack_connect
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 5924 2011-05-12 00:13 ./usr/bin/jack_disconnect

so jack-connect has been there all along

OK, at the time only 0.116 was available.
Regards
Sid.

In 0.116 it was in the jack-examples package as well

In that case I missed it and no one responded to my posts on jack, wxGTK or wxPython at the time.
Regards
Sid.