NTSC

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 […]

BeagleBox: DSS2/TV-out success!

Wed December 01, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / DSS2 / mplayer / NTSC / omap / S-Video / TV-out / Video

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I fiddled with the u-boot env variables tonight to try and resolve the S-Video problem. One trick from the BeagleBoard mailing list said to set omapfb.mode=tv:ntsc and omapdss.def_disp=tv. I tried this but found that if I tried to run the boot manually to pick up these changes to the bootargs […]

BeagleBox: which u-boot am I fiddling with?

Tue October 19, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / NTSC / omapfb / S-Video / sd card (updated 5306 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 […]