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The images on this site are normally run from a bootable SD card. For OMAP boards with NAND, it is also possible to boot from a NAND image. To boot from NAND you will need to write four di...
The images on this site are normally run from a bootable SD card. For OMAP boards with NAND, it is also possible to boot from a NAND image. To boot from NAND you will need to write four di...
The images on this site are normally run from a bootable SD card. For OMAP boards with NAND, it is also possible to boot from a NAND image. To boot from NAND you will need to write four di...
The images on this site are normally run from a bootable SD card. For OMAP boards with NAND, it is also possible to boot from a NAND image. To boot from NAND you will need to write four di...
The OMAP3 hardware architecture contains a wealth of power management features. Unfortunately mainline Linux support for these features has been quite limited until recently.
This article ...
Embedded systems sometimes require a simple numeric display. This article illustrates how to interface a Sparkfun 7-Segment Serial Display to the expansion signals of an Overo. Of cours...
Each OMAP development board contains a number of LEDs that are software controllable. They are typically connected to a GPIO pin on the OMAP or PMIC companion chip.
The kernels available on th...
The Gumstix Pinto-TH (and its sibling Thumbo) are wonderful devices for prototyping. They are DIP style breakout boards that can be used with any of the Overo processor modules (COMs).
The...
Beagle, Overo, and Panda all have push buttons that are connected to GPIO pins. Overo has 2 buttons, Beagle and Panda each have a single button.
The kernels for these boards implement the kernel g...
One usually interacts with GNOME NetworkManager via the GUI interface. There are occasions when a command line interface would be quite useful. The nmcli command is the proper tool for those occ...
The GNOME image distributed from this site requires the user to login at boot.
Requiring a login is good for security, but often becomes burdensome during development when reboots are a routine occu...
The following tests were performed on a Panda system running the GNOME r12 image from this site. The root file system was ext3 on a 4GB TOPRAM microSD card.
LTP
The Linux™ Test Project is a...
The following tests were performed on a Gumstix Overo Fire/Tobi system running the GNOME r12 image from this site. The root file system was ext3 on a 4GB Trancend microSD card.
LTP
The Linu...
Daily GNOME image builds are now available for all versions of Beagle, Overo, and Panda.
OMAP3 builds are based on Linux version 2.6.36 and GNOME version 2.30.
OMAP4 builds are based on ...
The following tests were performed on a Gumstix Overo Fire/Tobi system running the OMAP3 r11 Gnome image from this site. The root file system was ext3 on an 8GB Class 6 Trancend microSD card.
LTP ...
The beta r11 Gnome image for Beagleboard and Overo is available in the Downloads section. The image provides Gnome version 2.28 and Linux version 2.6.32
The image includes:
Basic sy...
The OMAP4 images on this site will automatically set the display resolution to match your monitor.
Unfortunately this capability isn't yet available for the OMAP3 images. The simplest method to cu...
The OMAP4 images on this site will automatically set the display resolution to match your monitor.
Unfortunately this capability isn't yet available for the OMAP3 images. The simplest method to cu...
Thanks to Graeme Gregory (also known as XorA), you can now use a script to automate the tedious process of creating a bootable SD/microSD card:
#! /bin/sh # mkcard.sh v0.6 # (c) Copyright 2009 Graem...
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