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 […]
              NTSC
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?
 
               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 […]