FWIW: I had to delete my other post, but after some offline discussion, I'm OK to proceed. I have NO support from the manufacturer.
*Unit 1: *Bbeaglebone Black with HDMI - can install a new OS and good to go *Unit 2:* Seeed Studio Beaglebone Green Industrial with custom LCD/Touchsreeen *UNIT 2:* Device has a modified Debian Jessie OS. By design it starts Qtopia?. The board is a Beagleboard Green from Seeed Studio so no HDMI. I tried installing lxqt but apt doesn't know where to find it. At this point I've got CLI/SSH access to the device (root to boot, to boot). I don't have the original Beagleboard webserver files, that's gone. In place is a custom HMI. I'm free to do whatever I want to it. I'd like to get a GUI on it, it is a touchscreen LCD, since the default GUI only starts a VNC session. Since I don't know what's special about getting the LCD working (*.dtb) , I'm happy to stay with the OS that's on it and working with the LCD and OS that's there. While I understand that the Beaglebone runs Debian I'm not sure what is needed to get to more a "default install" with GUI via LCD and possibly webserver. My concern is that overwriting it the OS with a new one (bone-debian-9.9-lxqt-armhf-2019-08-03-4gb.img.gz) will lose what makes the LCD work. I tried this didn't work well, had to dd a different unit to get this one working again. *Call to Action:* Get lxqt? GUI running on LCD, probably can't run Doom Get the default webserver (Cloud 9) running Play around with GPIO, make a light blink, Hello World, watermelon *End Goal:* 1. Halloween decoration: "Zombie containment field breached" on HMI (cool graphics), flashing red light, GPIO to trigger some sparky/arcy devices. Pump to pump liquid through tubes. 2. Home automation 3. take over the world 4. Play Doom on a touchscreen *YOU:* Suggestions, tips, tricks. etc. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/63a88f95-33a6-4fdd-bee0-fb7d86dfd2dan%40googlegroups.com.
