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Aug 22 03:56:29 <hiredman> I've got a beagleboard with a uvc webcam plugged in, but I cannot seem to capture any images, does anyone have a command line that has worked for them?
Aug 22 03:56:54 <hiredman> I've been trying various gst-launch invocations
Aug 22 03:59:28 <hiredman> ah, just found a mailing list post saying I need a powered usb hub between the camera and the beaglebone
Aug 22 04:03:02 <hiredman> ls
Aug 22 04:14:56 <n00b> @hiredman did it work with the external powered hub ?
Aug 22 04:15:36 <hiredman> n00b: I don't have one to try with yet
Aug 22 06:28:45 <_av500_> prpplague: pong
Aug 22 06:35:22 <mranostay> how is it 11:30...
Aug 22 06:39:50 <mranostay> at least i have my BDI of unknown origin working with the bone :)
Aug 22 11:10:37 <forti> dsa
Aug 22 11:10:44 <av500> rsa
Aug 22 11:12:43 <ogra_> usa
Aug 22 11:13:25 <mru> tsa
Aug 22 11:41:25 <RITRedbeard> :(
Aug 22 12:47:18 <av500> nice: http://blog.boxysean.com/2012/08/22/beaglebone-outputting-dmx/
Aug 22 12:55:38 <LetoThe2nd> oh yes, sweet
Aug 22 14:02:01 <av500> mru: elce?
Aug 22 14:04:05 <mru> I hope so
Aug 22 14:04:13 <mru> need to clear it with the bosses first
Aug 22 14:04:34 <mru> at least if the company is to pay
Aug 22 14:40:48 <joelagnel> koen, are you aware of any work being done to move setting of disp pll clock in lcdc to the da8xx fb driver?
Aug 22 15:03:30 <jsabeaudry> Is lein2 still being hold off because clojars is not ready?
Aug 22 15:03:45 <jsabeaudry> oops wrong channel my bad
Aug 22 15:04:04 <av500> we forgive
Aug 22 15:09:01 <mranostay> av500: since when?
Aug 22 15:10:31 <LetoThe2nd> mranostay: didn't you get the memo?
Aug 22 16:33:27 <koen> joelagnel: I'm not aware of any work being done
Aug 22 16:33:40 <koen> joelagnel: I haven't seem patches appear on the linux-fbdev list
Aug 22 16:34:43 <koen> joelagnel: btw, do you have a public tree for hdmi support based on a recent angstrom kernel somewhere?
Aug 22 17:15:08 <ohad> Hello
Aug 22 17:15:50 <ohad> Can someone assist me? I've be searching the net for a couple of hours how to mount an Angstrom image on the SD card
Aug 22 17:16:56 <thurbad> if it's an img use dd
Aug 22 17:17:52 <ohad> I've downloaded dd, and an image (I'm not sure it is the right one, but I'm assuming it is)
Aug 22 17:18:09 <mranostay> is it Friday?
Aug 22 17:19:36 <ohad> according to the manual on dd i need to supply some parameters (byte size,seek,skip) which i dont know them
Aug 22 17:21:41 <jsabeaudry> ohad, I'm pretty sure the default values will do, make a backup in case
Aug 22 17:22:44 <thurbad> default bs will probably be slow, I use bs=512kB
Aug 22 17:23:15 <thurbad> other than that if= and of= are all you need to supply
Aug 22 17:23:16 <ohad> and what is the switch for the img filename, and switch for the outputdrive?
Aug 22 17:23:24 <ohad> oh
Aug 22 17:26:35 <ohad> It keeps crashing, i've tried: dd if=angstrom-demo-20080917.img of=f: bs=512   (*f: is the SD card i want to mound it on)
Aug 22 17:26:53 <thurbad> f: ?
Aug 22 17:27:24 <thurbad> should be something in the /dev/sdX  range
Aug 22 17:27:35 <thurbad> are you running in cygwin or something?
Aug 22 17:27:36 <ohad> i'm working under windows, i'm using dd for windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd)
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Aug 22 17:41:14 <ohad> thurbad: I've tried through cywgin, but got an error(/cywgin/f is a directory)
Aug 22 17:42:31 <thurbad> yeah cygwin/f is a mounted location, you'd want the /dev/ entry if there is one
Aug 22 17:42:54 <ohad> nope, there isn't
Aug 22 17:43:36 <ohad> is there away to do it under windows?
Aug 22 17:43:57 <thurbad> not that I know of
Aug 22 17:44:28 <thurbad> I'd really advise using a virtual machine with linux as the guest os
Aug 22 17:44:31 <_av500_> use an image writer
Aug 22 17:44:34 <_av500_> ubuntu has one
Aug 22 17:44:36 <_av500_> for windows
Aug 22 17:44:39 <_av500_> google that
Aug 22 17:44:47 <thurbad> ah... or that :P
Aug 22 17:45:00 <ohad> ok, i'll install vmware and ubuntu
Aug 22 17:45:03 <thurbad> I'd still suggest the vm route long term though
Aug 22 17:45:08 <_av500_> ohad: what did you download?
Aug 22 17:45:19 <_av500_> just to make sure you are not using the wrong file anyway
Aug 22 17:45:35 <ohad> i've downloaded dd for  windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd)
Aug 22 17:45:40 <_av500_> no
Aug 22 17:45:42 <_av500_> the image
Aug 22 17:46:00 <_av500_> google ubuntu image writer
Aug 22 17:46:05 <_av500_> and use that instead of dd
Aug 22 17:46:14 <_av500_> ogra_: link?
Aug 22 17:46:44 <ohad> I messed up the SD card on my BB, and i'm trying to fix it. I'm trying to mount the angstrom image on it with very little success.
Aug 22 17:47:02 <ogra_> usb-imagewriter you mean ?
Aug 22 17:47:11 <_av500_> probably
Aug 22 17:48:17 <ohad> I'm using windows...
Aug 22 17:48:27 <ohad> do you think this(http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) can help?
Aug 22 17:48:48 <ogra_> oh, windows ... one se
Aug 22 17:48:49 <ogra_> c
Aug 22 17:49:05 <ogra_> in other notes http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/delivering-compiz-and-unity-on-the-next-wave-of-embedded-form-factors/
Aug 22 17:49:07 <ogra_> YAY
Aug 22 17:49:43 <ogra_> ohad, https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download
Aug 22 17:55:58 <ohad> can you also suggest which image to use? currently i'm using this (http://s3.amazonaws.com/beagle/angstrom-demo-20080917.img.gz)
Aug 22 17:57:43 <ohad> That didnt work, still no respons from the BB
Aug 22 17:58:09 <ogra_> you might need to unzip it for the win32imagewriter thingie
Aug 22 17:58:26 <ogra_> i neither use windows nor angstrom so i cantz help much
Aug 22 17:59:01 <ohad> Ok, thanks any way
Aug 22 17:59:15 <ohad> goodbye
Aug 22 18:02:55 <mru> unhelpful ubuntu people...
Aug 22 18:03:08 <ogra_> hahaha
Aug 22 18:03:17 <ogra_> mru, go, take over !
Aug 22 18:36:25 <mranostay> av500: trough of disillusionment :)
Aug 22 18:43:50 <mru> that's where I've been living the last few years
Aug 22 19:03:00 <mranostay> i'm think i've just entered it
Aug 22 19:03:15 <mranostay> disillusionment pays well at least
Aug 22 19:23:16 <cmndrKeen> Hello! Anyone knows how to mount the Angstom image on an SD card for BBXM? I'm working under windows/cygwin
Aug 22 19:27:19 <jsabeaudry> cmndrKeen, what type of file do you have?
Aug 22 19:28:44 <ohad> jsabeaudry: (cmndrKeen=ohad, i was dissconnected). I've downloaded the image from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/builder/
Aug 22 19:29:09 <jsabeaudry> ohad, https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer
Aug 22 19:29:27 <jsabeaudry> ohad, its the last time i paste that link however
Aug 22 19:30:33 <_av500_> mranostay: a want a web app that randomly assigns buzzwords to that curve
Aug 22 19:36:39 <ohad> jsabeaudry: I've already tried that, The angstrom distribution comes as a gz file, not img.
Aug 22 19:37:48 <jsabeaudry> ohad, use 7zip to extract it
Aug 22 19:38:45 <ohad> and burn the tar file?
Aug 22 19:39:00 <jsabeaudry> no extract the tar file too
Aug 22 19:39:45 <ohad> inside the tar file there are system files(/usr,/bin,etc)
Aug 22 19:40:44 <_av500_> ohad: the angstrom image is a file system
Aug 22 19:40:48 <_av500_> so do not use dd
Aug 22 19:40:56 <_av500_> you need to mount and copy
Aug 22 19:41:39 <_av500_> instructions are there
Aug 22 19:41:46 <_av500_> so get a linux in a VM
Aug 22 19:41:52 <_av500_> get linux
Aug 22 19:41:58 <_av500_> in any form :)
Aug 22 19:42:08 <mru> plz give exact steps
Aug 22 19:42:17 <jsabeaudry> ohad, install Virtual Box or VMWare Player, install ubuntu on that and follow the "To the Beagleboard Beginnner" instructions here http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/
Aug 22 19:42:21 <_av500_> not me
Aug 22 19:42:27 <_av500_> Im going to sleep for once
Aug 22 19:43:11 <Bwib> Hey hey, I'm new here, but has anyone got any ideas on writing a simple program which integrates an accelerometer (ADXL335) and a pressure/temperature sensor (BMP085) on the beaglebone?
Aug 22 19:45:06 <_av500_> simple is in the eye of the implementer
Aug 22 19:45:42 <ohad2> jsabeaudry,_av500_ I gave up, and will install VMware... thanks
Aug 22 19:47:11 <Bwib> simplicity is best. :3
Aug 22 19:47:17 <jsabeaudry> Bwib, yes that would be interesting to stick that in the exhaust pipe and correlate accelerations with the temperature and pressure there
Aug 22 19:48:22 <Bwib> oh sweet, that's actually not a bad idea. Although I think it gets really hot and gassy in an exhaust pipe >.<
Aug 22 19:49:27 <jsabeaudry> is that a problem?
Aug 22 19:51:47 <Bwib> Apart from me needing to buy some long wires and a new breadboard to test with (and to borrow my parents car), no! =D
Aug 22 19:51:51 <jsabeaudry> Bwib, Here is another one for you, tie it to a weather balloon and track the pressure and temperature as it rises (track the rise by integrating the accelerometer)
Aug 22 19:52:50 <Bwib> interesting enough, as a geography major, I can tell you that there's a relatively simple equation that links pressure and altitude, so rise can be tracked that way
Aug 22 19:53:11 <Bwib> thanks for the great ideas
Aug 22 19:53:33 <jsabeaudry> Bwib, go mesure the perssure, temperature and turbulence at the bottom of a nearby river
Aug 22 19:53:35 <mranostay> i assume low altitudes have more error using that?
Aug 22 19:54:29 <jsabeaudry> so many things to measure, so little students
Aug 22 19:54:47 <Bwib> indeed, however, it's not a very accurate as there's many other factors which influence pressure
Aug 22 19:55:06 <mranostay> Bwib: temp is one i bet
Aug 22 19:55:11 <Bwib> indeed
Aug 22 19:55:28 <Bwib> colder = higher pressure
Aug 22 19:55:39 <Bwib> (as cold air is more dense)
Aug 22 19:56:03 <mranostay> makes sense
Aug 22 19:57:28 <jsabeaudry> Bwib, verify that pV=nRT is still true in a high speed centrifugal device (mesure the centrifugal force with the accelerometer)
Aug 22 19:58:42 <Bwib> four great ideas, thanks so much
Aug 22 19:59:11 <jsabeaudry> Bwib, it has been a pleasure
Aug 22 19:59:25 <Bwib> my high speed centrifugal device may have to be a bucket, however. >.<
Aug 22 19:59:40 <Bwib> (attached to a long piece of rope, of course.)
Aug 22 20:01:05 <jsabeaudry> Construction of said device is left as an exercise to the reader.
Aug 22 20:01:59 <Bwib> bucket and rope it is!
Aug 22 20:50:03 <djlewis> phoop!
Aug 22 20:54:42 <mru> phoop indeed
Aug 22 21:17:03 <mranostay> watch where you are flinging that
Aug 22 21:27:05 * mru flings bottle tops at mranostay 
Aug 22 21:27:30 <mranostay> well i never!
Aug 22 22:41:49 <hiredman> what is the best way to capture frames from a uvc webcam on a beagle bone
Aug 22 23:17:55 <hiredman> anyone grabbing frames from a uvc webcam on a bealgebone/board? how are you doing that?
Aug 22 23:22:25 <rcn-ee> hiredman, fswebcam works...
Aug 22 23:23:37 <hiredman> rcn-ee: did you build that yourself? (I don't see it in opkg on my bone)
Aug 22 23:26:01 <rcn-ee> it's in debian. ;) ... https://github.com/fsphil/fswebcam
Aug 22 23:27:23 <hiredman> so is it a good idea to not run angstrom?
Aug 22 23:27:38 <rcn-ee> why not? just build it.. ;)
Aug 22 23:29:27 <hiredman> I guess I will
Aug 22 23:46:14 <mranostay> prpplague: hi purple
Aug 22 23:52:13 <prpplague> mranostay: greeetings
Aug 22 23:53:22 <mranostay> with an extra e!
Aug 23 02:06:45 <BeagleBone> Is here anyone familiar with USB driver?
Aug 23 02:08:50 <BeagleBone> I want to connect my beaglebone to PC. There will be a block of memory (8 Mbyte) on the board which also can be accessed by PC.
Aug 23 02:09:48 <mranostay> er
Aug 23 02:10:16 <BeagleBone> I build the kernel with gadget driver.
Aug 23 02:11:31 <BeagleBone> After the board boot, windows XP will pop up a dialog "Unknown devices".
Aug 23 02:12:27 <BeagleBone> I didn't know whether I have to write a driver for Windows system.
Aug 23 02:12:36 <BeagleBone> Could anyone help me?
Aug 23 02:12:42 <BeagleBone> Thanks so much
Aug 23 02:13:36 <thurbad> is there an XP driver for the ftdi stuff on the bone?
Aug 23 02:14:53 <thurbad> maybe http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm
Aug 23 02:16:07 <BeagleBone> no
Aug 23 02:16:55 <BeagleBone> Do you mean that I have to install a FTDI driver on the bone first?
Aug 23 02:17:54 <thurbad> dunno, I don't have a beaglebone myself.. but if its not finding a driver that's what I'd try
Aug 23 02:18:16 <thurbad> on the windows machine
Aug 23 02:19:10 <thurbad> http://beagleboard.org/static/beaglebone/latest/README.htm
Aug 23 02:19:46 <thurbad> looks like there's drivers there
Aug 23 02:20:18 <Riastradh> Did anyone figure out who's responsible for renewing the beaglebone.org domain registration?
Aug 23 02:22:01 <BeagleBone> When I use the original Angstrom kernel, I installed the FTDI drivers on Windows. Windows can recognize beaglebone and I can use eclipse on ubuntu to write some small program.
Aug 23 02:26:27 <BeagleBone> I want to use the Gadgetfs for real time data transmission from beaglebone to PC. It seems unsuccessful.
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