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xaviermiller Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 8711 Location: ~Brussels - Belgique
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:50 pm Post subject: Pandaboard questions |
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Hello,
I just received a Pandaboard and managed to install Gentoo thanks to armin76's Gentoo documentation.
I have still some questions:
1. Is it possible to boot directly from a USB disk drive? For now, I use a small SD card with U-Boot and the kernel, with the root on /dev/sda1
2. What CFLAGS can I use? I don't know if those in the generic armv7l could be m re adapted to the OMAP4 processor (-march=native?)
3. I see the .config provided by armin76 don't use modules. Can I use modules for drivers not necessary for the boot process?
4. I use a DVI display with a HDMI->DVI adapter and the screen resolution is really low (640x480 or so). Is it possible to have a higher resolution? (this quesiton is less important because my Pandaboard will be headless).
Thanks in advance for your help. _________________ Kind regards,
Xavier Miller |
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robm n00b
Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Boston
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've just got a pandaboard as well and maybe I can help a bit.
1. The USB disk performance is so bad due to a kernel bug that the sdcard is actually faster for me. Looks like the solution has been identified recently, at least.
2. For CFLAGS, I'm using
Code: | -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp |
The hardfp ABI apparently reduces binary size and increases performance, but binary blob drivers compiled with softfp (like the PowerVR graphics driver) will fail because the ABIs can't be mixed. Supposedly TI is going to release hardfp versions at some point. But, I can't get hardware accelerated video to work anyway, so I might try a hardfp system rebuild.
3. I've compiled to allow modules and they do work.
4. I'm using a straight HDMI connection and it does 1920x1080 just fine. Maybe X can't get the EDID codes through the HDMI-DVI adapter so maybe try modelines in the xorg.conf? |
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xaviermiller Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 8711 Location: ~Brussels - Belgique
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
- USB: I have quite slow SD cards, so I prefer staying on USB for the moment.
- CFLAGs : I will use XORG drivers, so I won't have any blob, except the firmware for the Wifi card
And I don't have sound, I don't find a simple .config working for the moment. At least vanilla "make omap2plus_defconfig" or configs provided by armin76 and gr3h0und don't have sound support.
I downloaded the documentation and will try to activate all needed modules. Once I will have the smaller working .config, I will post it. _________________ Kind regards,
Xavier Miller |
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robm n00b
Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Boston
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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I've only been able to get sound over the HDMI connection, which won't work for you since you're using the HDMI-DVI adapter. This is what my hardware config shows: Code: | aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 0: Multimedia null-codec-dai-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 2: Voice null-codec-dai-2 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 3: Tone Playback null-codec-dai-3 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 4: VIB-DL null-codec-dai-4 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 5: MODEM null-codec-dai-5 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 6: Multimedia null-codec-dai-6 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 7: Multimedia FM Digital-7 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 8: Headset Playback twl6040-dl1-8 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 10: HS Playback twl6040-dl1-10 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 12: HF Playback twl6040-dl2-12 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 13: Vibra twl6040-vib-13 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 14: BT Bluetooth-14 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 15: FM FM Digital-15 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SDP4430 [SDP4430], device 16: MODEM MODEM-16 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PandaHDMI [PandaHDMI], device 0: HDMI omap4-hdmi-audio-codec-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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Using the following ~/.asoundrc: Code: | defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 0
| sound works over HDMI. But, changing the .asoundrc to anything using card 0, say: Code: | defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 8 | to try to output over the analog audio out produces: Code: | mplayer test.wav
MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
Playing test.wav.
Audio only file format detected.
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Invalid argument
DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
| and dmesg reports Code: | asoc: no valid backend routes for PCM: SDP4430 Media |
Here's my log and here's my kernel .config, although it's still mostly without modules. |
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xaviermiller Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 8711 Location: ~Brussels - Belgique
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you, Rob!
I will take a look on your braindump and config and if I succeed to have audio on jacks, I will give my .config _________________ Kind regards,
Xavier Miller |
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