There's a new Ångström demo image for beagleboard available 
It includes e17 as window manager, the abiword word processor, thegnumeric spreadsheet application, a NEON accelerated mplayer and the popular NEON accelerated omapfbplay which gives you fullscreen 720p decoding.
But the biggest addition is that the DSP accelerated gstreamer and SGX 3D demos are now included. To use the DSP, you need to add 'mem=99M@0x80000000 mem=128M@0x88000000' to bootargs, 3D works without any tweaking.
The http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard directory should contain all the files you need.
See the XorAs page ( http://www.xora.org.uk/2009/09/06/improved-omap3-card-formatter/ ) on how to setup your SD card to use all this goodness.
regards,
Koen
is this equivalent to what one gets when bitbaking a
beagleboard-demo-image?
rday
No, this one is generated with narcissus with some more options (e.g. more gstreamer plugins, DSP tools, SGX stuff). The beagleboard-demo-image in OE doesn't include any of those restricted components.
regards,
Koen
Koen Kooi wrote:
There's a new �ngstr�m demo image for beagleboard available 
is this equivalent to what one gets when bitbaking a beagleboard-demo-image?
No, this one is generated with narcissus with some more options (e.g. more gstreamer plugins, DSP tools, SGX stuff).
The beagleboard-demo-image in OE doesn't include any of those restricted components.
how restricted are they, given that they are distributed in the abovementioned image?
So, how would one go about building such an image locally?
(not using the narcissus interface, just OE)??
Basically, add 'libgles-omap3-x11demos gstreamer-ti gst-plugins-good-meta gst-plugins-base-meta' to beagleboard demo image in OE in the org.openembedded.dev branch.
regards,
Koen
Dear Koen,
I need to rebuild the kernel to run this demo at my board. Can you explain me how to do this to get uImage-2.6.32-r67+gitr227037c2b6c28a632e0bffd2681445a61c7f84bc-beagleboard.bin?
regards,
Max
2010/3/19 Koen Kooi <koen@beagleboard.org>
Dear Koen,
I need to rebuild the kernel to run this demo at my board. Can you explain me how to do this to get uImage-2.6.32-r67+gitr227037c2b6c28a632e0bffd2681445a61c7f84bc-beagleboard.bin?
Sure, build the kernel using this branch: http://gitorious.org/angstrom/openembedded/commits/ti/staging
That should have gotten merged into .dev weeks ago, but internal testing in TI has hit some non-technical roadblocks.
regards,
Koen
They are restricted downloads. See the respective licenses of the sgx and dsp components for the exact terms.
regards,
Koen
Posted on the blog too...thanks for the update. Been running it since
morning, a few issues & some good things straight out-of-the-box :
* The system is noticeably slower/less responsive than the previous
stable demo image somehow.
* Wireless (belkin) works out of the box yay !
* Abiword doesn't work. libwv-1.2 libray issue (missing file error)
* The Applications menu (by left clicking on the desktop) isn't
populated ? Had to use terminal to launch programs.
* Sound & video (fullscreen) work out of the box. However in the
previous image it was posiible to use alsamixer to just increase the
PCM levels to increase volume...but this time around alsamixer is
filled with quite a few options...couldn't make sense out of them.
Probable related with the Pulsaudio update.
Anyway, I am enjoying it so far !
Posted on the blog too...thanks for the update. Been running it since
morning, a few issues & some good things straight out-of-the-box :
* The system is noticeably slower/less responsive than the previous
stable demo image somehow.
We're still experimenting with various kernel options. I think we need to tweak scheduling, since microbenchmarks of seperate components show similar or better performance, but the overall experience seems slower.
* Wireless (belkin) works out of the box yay !
* Abiword doesn't work. libwv-1.2 libray issue (missing file error)
'opkg update ; opkg install abiword' should fix that, thanks for reporting!
* The Applications menu (by left clicking on the desktop) isn't
populated ? Had to use terminal to launch programs.
'opkg update ; opkg install e-wm-menu' or 'opkg update ; opkg install gnome-menus' should install a proper xdg applications.menu.
* Sound & video (fullscreen) work out of the box. However in the
previous image it was posiible to use alsamixer to just increase the
PCM levels to increase volume...but this time around alsamixer is
filled with quite a few options...couldn't make sense out of them.
Probable related with the Pulsaudio update.
Actually it's the alsa SoC kernel driver that got changed
regards,
Koen
This fails - can't find '/ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin' on any
of the listed download sites.
ERROR: '/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-cgt6x-native_6.1.9.bb' failed
That's one of the restricted component, you need to download it from the TI website using your myTI login. Check the recipes/ti directory in OE where to get those from. If you're building from the ti/staging branch a lot of those restricted components are now downloadable without registration, but codegen is still restricted.
regards,
Koen
I followed the directions there (downloaded the various pieces
and put into my downloads directory), but it's still trying to
fetch them from non-existent places.
/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-cgt6x-native_6.1.9.bb, do_fetch)
NOTE: fetch http://install.source.dir.local/ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin
NOTE: fetch http://mirrors.openembedded.org//ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin
NOTE: fetch http://sources.openembedded.org//ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin
NOTE: fetch http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/sources/ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin
NOTE: Task failed: Fetch failed: http://install.source.dir.local/ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
ERROR: Build of /local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-cgt6x-native_6.1.9.bb do_fetch failed
ERROR: Task 9614 (/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-cgt6x-native_6.1.9.bb, do_fetch) failed
In my local.conf, I have:
# Where to store sources
DL_DIR ?= "/work/misc/Poky/sources"
And the files are there:
[gary@thor Angstrom_BeagleBoard]$ ls /work/misc/Poky/sources/ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin -l
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gary develop 77383796 Mar 21 15:46 /work/misc/Poky/sources/ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.9_setup_linux_x86.bin
Note: this process seemed to work fine for one of the other pieces, at least these
got through the download:
NOTE: 1: /local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-xdais-native_6.23.bb, do_populate_staging (4263)
NOTE: 2: /local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-xdctools-native_3.15.01.59.bb, do_unpack (3949)
NOTE: 3: /local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-linuxutils_2.25.01.06.bb, do_compile (3958)
What's the difference? I did notice that the URL in the recipe for the
one that fails (ti-cgt6x-native) mentions a totally bogus path, but the
others use a real ti.com path. Perhaps this explains it?
Also, this fails:
ERROR: '/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/openembedded/recipes/ti/ti-codecs-omap3530_1.01.bb' failed
version cs1omap3530_setuplinux_1_00_01-42.bin seems to be no longer available.
The attached patch moves to cs1omap3530_setuplinux_1_00_01-44.bin which is current.
codec.patch (1.09 KB)
i tried the rfs…i was able too boot but not able to login as my keyboard and usb r not detected…i havent updated the uimage i had used the old uimage,mlo and uboot.bin…is my problem due to this old images?? also i havin same issue with ubuntu 9.10 on beagle board i am able to boot up till the login screen but not able to login via keyboard also usb is not detected…kindly provide me a solution asap as its really important to showcase it…
can i have link for latest MLO, uboot.bin and uimage…which supports usb keyboard and mouse for both angstorm n ubuntu
Try looking in the same directory as the demo image