LXDE makes more sense, thank you. While the newer version of Debian will run the LCD doesn't work even if I copy the .dtbs from the original and update the uEnv.txt file to load them. This has been my reason for not updating it, yet. I will have to pull the unit apart and see if I can what chips are on the LCD to figure out how to drive it. It appears to be using the LCD pins on the GPIO.
Don Kiser - AC2EV 585-613-1035 On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:32 PM Dennis Lee Bieber < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:03:40 -0800 (PST), in > gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user Don Kiser > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >*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. > > > Jessie is old enough that the graphical desktop was probably LXDE, > not > LXQT. > > >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. > > > > Stretch is pretty old too. Current OS is based on Buster (Debian > 10.x). > > So DON'T overwrite (flash) the eMMC -- run an SD card image > directly > until you verify that it does what you want. THEN convert the card to a > flasher to update the eMMC. > > Note: depending upon just how old that Jessie image is, you may > have to > use the boot-select button when applying power to the board. I believe it > was sometime late in the Jessie period that u-Boot was modified to > automatically switch to the SD card. Also take note of the fact that Jessie > is still in the "Linux kernel loads device tree overlays" -- for some time > now, it is u-boot that loads the overlays, so updating the eMMC by some > means that doesn't update the u-boot will cause problems. > > > > -- > Dennis L Bieber > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/NR4J-ijMXZM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/psqo3g1jdil5f525m4e48ggl0r6hr6anl6%404ax.com > . > -- 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/CAC6886MYSkQkybL_T8qy%2BuECef7k2cEsV5rdZFWv1sqHNZMuNQ%40mail.gmail.com.
