DSS2

Today I finally brought X up on the BeagleBoard! The configuration is not ideal and there is much work to be done to stabilize and optimize it, but at least X is running. Here is how I get it done with BeagleBox. What to build to get X running with […]

BeagleBox: X is working, stability and optimization still to ...

Sun February 13, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / X11 tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / cvs / DSS2 / getty / git / inittab / kernel / matchbox / neon / NOR / omapfb / sourceforge / surf / X11 / xorg / xterm

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)

Tonight I built the linux-omap-dss2 repo (master branch) from gitorious.org and tried it. This is the repo from the guy working on the OMAP DSS2 support in the kernel. And viola! S-Video output is once again working! BeagleBox now defaults to mainline u-boot (2010.09, at least) an this branch of […]