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Getting familiar with Beagle Board

pragnya lakshmi
Prodigy 150 points


Hello sir,

I installed the latest angstrom demo image on beagleboard rev C4 using
SD card. Logged in as root. Pico projector is connected to HDMI port
and shows the login screen. I have a serial port connected with tera
term pro . I can play the included BigBunny movie on pico projector.

I am very much interested in learning different things using this beagle board with linux os. Could you please tell me what are all the simple things that can be done to get familiar with the beagle board and linux on it.

Thanking you.

Pragnya.

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    TI__Expert 5215 points

    Pragnya,

    If you haven't done so already, definitely take advantage of BeagleBoard.org. This site hosts a collection of community projects, how-to guides, videos, and an IRC - supported by community memebers and active TI employees. I would recommend checking out the Beagle Board for Beginners page, and then progressing to the move advanced wiki. You can also check out videos and community registered projects. Also check out sites such as Openismus, and utilizie the online angstrom builder for customizing your own Linux OS on Narcissus. Hope this helps. Good luck!

  • 0 in reply to Michael Risley
    Prodigy 150 points

    hello sir,

    thank you for the quick reply.

    and sorry for the delay in verifying your answer.

    Sir, I would like to connect keyboard and mouse to the beagle board and also want to use USB thumb drive and I2C. All these things to work on beagle board we need to install the drivers.I have downloaded the drivers from http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleSourceCode .(I have got powered USB hub and 5V power supply).

    Now I would like to know how we these drivers on the board. All the drivers contain C files. how we compile them on the board ? or do we need to compile them using gcc in the host system and then put them on to the SD card to boot. Please let me know in detail the procedure to install different drivers to work on different applications.

    thank you.

    pragnya.

  • 0 in reply to pragnya lakshmi
    TI__Expert 5215 points

    Pragnya,

    The sources you linked seem to be outdated. Regardless, with sources such as these, you will need to compile these on a linux box using the arm-gcc. For SD card boot, you wil require:

    • MLO - (xloader), first low level booter
    • u-boot - primary booter
    • uImage - the kernel

    on the first partition of your SD card. The second & last partition will be for your linux file system. Check out the sources here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard#Code. I recommend starting off with some pre-built images first, to learn how to partition & load the SD card correctly.

    Also, check out the first two presentations on this page. The first has some basic setup info. The second goes through an I2C example.