New BeagleBone Getting Started Guide

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I've put together a new getting started guide for the BeagleBone to add to the mix.

The focus is on getting a development system up and running. I tried to include some of the whys behind the how-tos.

http://www.lvr.com/beaglebone.htm

Jan Axelson
www.Lvr.com

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Hi Jan;

I checked out your link. Looks great.
Very useful.

I have a question: You mentioned Lilliput USB terminals; is there a Linux
driver or do you even need one ??

Thanks;

Bill

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Hi Jan;

I checked out your link. Looks great.
Very useful.

I have a question: You mentioned Lilliput USB terminals; is there a Linux
driver or do you even need one ??

I got it working on the -xM with Ubuntu with some help from:

http://mulchman.org/blog/?p=90

Jan Axelson
www.Lvr.com

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Thanks Jan.
I take it nobody has done this on "the Bone" ??

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I think (haven't tried it yet, though I do have the DisplayLink USB
monitor) you have to enable the DisplayLink framebuffer driver in the
kernel and then use the fbdev X.org driver to utilize it. See the HELP
for the DisplayLink driver configuration.

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Thanks Jan.
I take it nobody has done this on "the Bone" ??

I'm guessing the Lilliput would work on the 'bone with Ubuntu following the instructions on the page I linked to. I ran into problems when I tried the same on the -xM with Angstrom, but it was a while ago.

Jan Axelson
www.Lvr.com

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OK

If I decide to give it a go, I'll post things to the list ...

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I have a Lilliput 7" USB working on a Beaglebone A4 under Ubuntu 12.04.
I initially had a problem which if memory servers me right was fixed when I installed xserver-xorg-video-fbdev.

root@bone:~# dpkg -l|grep fbdev
ii xserver-xfbdev 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.8 Linux framebuffer device tiny X server
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.2-4ubuntu2 X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
root@bone:~# dpkg -l|grep DisplayLink
ii xserver-xorg-video-displaylink 0.3-0ubuntu10 X driver for DisplayLink devices
Regards
Sid.

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I have a Lilliput 7" USB working on a Beaglebone A4 under Ubuntu 12.04.
I initially had a problem which if memory servers me right was fixed when I installed xserver-xorg-video-fbdev.

root@bone:~# dpkg -l|grep fbdev
ii xserver-xfbdev 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.8 Linux framebuffer device tiny X server
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.2-4ubuntu2 X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
root@bone:~# dpkg -l|grep DisplayLink
ii xserver-xorg-video-displaylink 0.3-0ubuntu10
                      X driver for DisplayLink devices
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Hello Jan;

Thanks for the great tutorial !
However I did hit one speed bump ...

I followed your link: http://www.lvr.com/eclipse2.htm about how to use
Eclipse to Cross-Compile.
Unfortunately, the "Install New Software" tab results are different now :frowning:

So I followed the "Download from Browser" link instead.
What I'm not sure of is what directory to Un-tar the file to ??
Is it automatic ?

Any thoughts or suggestions on this ?

Thanks;

Bill