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BeagleBone Black is a community-supported development platform for developers and hobbyists.

BeagleBone Black is a community-supported development platform for developers and hobbyists. Boot Linux in under 10 seconds and get started on development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable.

Information from : http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black

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Qt5 VideoOverview example does not work. Any solution?

I am stuck for a month with a video example given in Qt Video Overview. I tried that code, but I only get a blank square (QWidget). I am using GStreamer0.10 for media playback over Qt5. I also played video with gst-launch-0.10 command and it works…
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How to add i2c devices on the Beaglebone Black using device tree overlays?

Why should I read this? If you have a Beaglebone Black (BBB) and you want to wire up your own devices to it (not capes), you might already have heard about the device tree. In my case I wanted to connect a RTC device to the I2C bus on the BBB. There…
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Duplicating identical BeagleBone Black setups

After having set-up and customized my "master" BeagleBone Black (BBB) with applications etc. on the on-board eMMC, I want to duplicate it on other BBB boards. What is the best way to duplicate the BBB? My understanding of options: SD-Card:…
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dd a compressed *.xz image into a partition

I'm trying to copy a compressed image into a partition inside a Beaglebone. Usually, it is a 2 step process: xz -d console.img.xz # console.img is created dd if=console.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p3 Is there a way, I can do it in a single step without…
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Unable to Flash eMMC from SD Card BeagleBone Black

I am working on BeagleBone Black and Debian running on it. I want to flash latest Debian image on my board. To do so I have downloaded a latest Debian image from link:BeagleBone Image and prepared an SD card using WinDisk image writer. As per…
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cv2.VideoCapture.open() always returns FALSE

I am trying to access a Logitech c310 webcam on my beaglebone. It always returns false for any device ID, I am not sure why. I use the following code. >>> import cv2, numpy as np >>> cam = cv2.VideoCapture(0) >>> cam.open(0) False The camera does…
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Trying to run a cross-compiled executable on target device fails with: No such file or directory

I've got caught in the not-so-sunny world of cross-compilation. I'm trying to compile a simple hello world application for my BeagleBone Black (which runs a TI Cortex-A8 processor). First of all, I compiled and ran successfully the hello world…
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How can I set the size of the default font loaded by PIL so it fits on my 8x8 matrix?

I am working on displaying text on an 8x8 matrix display and I don't have a .ttf file handy that I know of on my BeagleBone. According to an example here, I should be able to say font = ImageFont.load_default() instead of loading a .ttf, but, this…
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cc1: error: bad value (armv5) for -march= switch

I am compiling u-boot for beagle bone black as per the steps mentioned on this link http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-Bootloader:U-Boot and getting the following error. cc1: error: bad value (armv5) for -march=…
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/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found

I am trying to compile a program to put on a BeagleBone black, but im getting this error when running the program on my board: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found I made sure that i cross compiled for ARM (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc). On my…
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write: no buffer space available socket-can/linux-can

I'm running a program with two CAN channels (using TowerTech CAN Cape TT3201). The two channels are can0 (500k) and can1 (125k). The can0 channels works perfectly but can1 runs a write:No buffer space available error. I'm using…
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Why do you need a Programmable Real Time Unit (PRU) while you can have an RTOS?

The beaglebone Black processor includes two independent Programmable Real Time Units (PRUs). Hobbyists and professionals are excited about possible use of these units for real-time applications, which is understood. However, if you can have a RTOS…
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Building gcc on BeagleBone Black fails

Problem I am trying to build a cross compiler on a BeagleBone Black to compile from ARM to x86. The intent of this is to use the low power consuming BeagleBone Black that I had on hand as a build server. It can already compile for windows through…
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Turn USB power off/on with BeagleBone Black kernel >= 3.8

I need to: turn off -> sleep some seconds -> turn on the USB power of beaglebone black to be able to hardware-reset a device that is connected to USB (Huawei E220 Modem) Already tried soft-reset (with unbind/bind and with authorize 0/1), but…
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What "compatible" key to use in device tree?

I'm trying to write a device tree overlay to recognize a SPI-based enc28j60 module to my BeagleBone Black. This module doesn't show up in /kernel-dev/Documentation/devicetree/bindings but there does exist a driver for it in the kernel. Does the lack…
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