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On Jan 29, 2016 5:28 PM, "Wally Bkg" <wb666...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've been using the Jessie testing images, but they've all been broken for BoneScript.
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> I'm helping a non-programmer friend get started with a project idea and I'm 99.9% sure that BoneScript and Node-Red is about the best starting point for what he wants to
Add of this Sunday, node red will be installed by default..
Till then, as root..
https://gist.github.com/RobertCNelson/74ca34c860e522071317
accomplish. Having a reliable USB gadget is a must for this as I don't want to add Linux-Windows network setup into the mix at the very start. Eventually he's going to want WiFi so reliable USB functions is a must.
Not much has changed in the gadget driver since 3.8.13.. Just lots of fixes in the musb driver..
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> The other problem I've had with the testing images is that apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade has killed a couple of working systems, while its not hard to do, it still wastes several hours to reformat an SD card and start over :(
update/upgrade shouldn't break anything, kernel didn't get auto updated.. We need more info..
Regards,
On Jan 29, 2016 5:28 PM, "Wally Bkg" <wb666...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using the Jessie testing images, but they've all been broken for BoneScript.
>
> I'm helping a non-programmer friend get started with a project idea and I'm 99.9% sure that BoneScript and Node-Red is about the best starting point for what he wants to accomplish. Having a reliable USB gadget is a must for this as I don't want to add Linux-Windows network setup into the mix at the very start. Eventually he's going to want WiFi so reliable USB functions is a must.
>
> The other problem I've had with the testing images is that apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade has killed a couple of working systems, while its not hard to do, it still wastes several hours to reformat an SD card and start over :(
PS, use bmaptool, only takes 5 mins on a 4gb image..
Regards,
On Jan 30, 2016 1:36 PM, "Wally Bkg" <wb666...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Great! I'll be among the first to download Sunday's new Jessie image! Do you know if the BoneScript PWM is now working?
Bonescript is still only written for 3.8, it needs to be ported to the 4.1 config-pin interface.
> Most of my hours wasted is re-installing and re-configuring the non-standard stuff I use, so I'm not sure how bmaptool (which I assume is a "better" SD card burner) would buy me much. I start dd and do something else -- the dd is always done by the time I get back to it :)
bmaptool does things like skipping writing zero's which dd has to write. For each img.xz on the file server there is a matching .bmap file.
> I know apt-get upgrade shouldn't break anything, but I'd been using a Jessie testing image (I think 8.1 from about April or May 2015) on both my BBW and BBB I upgraded them both (after skipping several other image releases) before rebooting either, and neither would allow a login afterwards -- no X on the BBB and no ssh on both. I could recover my files from the SD cards so it wasn't a total loss. I posted a message about it shortly after it happened, but I think my Google Groups filters (which I find less than helpful) put it where nobody seemed to notice it.
From may 2015, there was a very big upgrade in lxqt, I tried to minimize the issue (upstream changed there c++ namespace in 0.10.0) I put out a note to this usergroup on how to upgrade with out the desktop breaking..
> I've come to the conclusion I've a hardware USB issue with my A5A BBB, it sometimes works, more often not :(
Regards,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Wally Bkg <wb666...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So you are saying I will still need to stay with the 7.9 image series for
> BoneScript for the foreseeable future?
or install the 3.8.x based kernel on jessie.
> Can I get to 8.3 2016-01-24 from 8.2 2015-12-06 with apt-get updates and
> installs? or should I download the new image and start over?
Yes/No
Yes, you will get the same packages..
No, you will not get the "extra" packages/things i added to "2016-01-24"...
> I think the "top level" beaglebone.localhost web page needs some serious
> updating as the link:
> http://192.168.7.2/bone101/Support/BoneScript/updates/
> is still talking about Angstrom.
That repo is right here:
https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-getting-started
go ahead fork it and submit pull requests.
Angstrom is dead, it's maintainer left for a job at linaro, NO ONE has
stepped up since the fall of 2013 to pick up maintenance.