DSS

Over the holiday I managed to close out a few nagging issues in the builds. First, logins stopped working until I realized that I’d turned off the getty’s on tty0 and tty02. This wasn’t the complete fix, however, as Busybox was adding /etc/securetty to the rootfs and that file did […]

BeagleBox: working Xorg and eth support

Sat January 01, 2011 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged Android / angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / busybox / debian / DSS / DSS2 / fbdev / Fedora / kernel / kernel source tree / matchbox / metabuild / omap / omapfb / ubuntu / usb port / Video / wifi (updated 5234 days ago)

Trying to come to grips with the myriad of source trees from which BeagleBoard related source can be pulled, I updated the BeagleBoard build system the other day to make it easier to pull from the various archives. Technically there are four ways to get source related to BeagleBoard: A […]

BeagleBox: finding Mr. DSS2

Wed December 01, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / bootloader / DSS / DVI-D / git / HDMI / kernel / omap / S-Video / TV-out / video display (updated 5265 days ago)

All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images. I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together. I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]