Install Ubuntu on BeagleBoard XM

[hmartiro]

Goal is to get ubuntu 12.04 on the 32GB sd card.

[hmartiro]

Booting from the Ubuntu SD gives a "Format not supported" error on the tv. Based on Google it seems like the problem is that Ubuntu is providing either too high a resolution or too high a refresh rate or the TV to handle. It's likely that Ubuntu boots just fine, but we can't see it cause I'm using a crappy TV for a monitor.

Does anyone know where we can get a screen to use (preferably meant as a monitor not a tv)? We should try to avoid buying one..

@boleary134 @PayneTrain @Hughzie @towlett

[PayneTrain]

we have a ton of comp screens in the ELE lab we could try pluggin into, some of them are really nice...I'll be down here until 6pm studying if you want to drop by I can try to hook it up with you

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Hayk Martirosyan notifications@github.comwrote:

Booting from the Ubuntu SD gives a "Format not supported" error on the tv. Based on Google it seems like the problem is that Ubuntu is providing either too high a resolution or too high a refresh rate or the TV to handle. It's likely that Ubuntu boots just fine, but we can't see it cause I'm using a crappy TV for a monitor.

Does anyone know where we can get a screen to use (preferably meant as a monitor not a tv)? We should try to avoid buying one..

@boleary134 https://github.com/boleary134 @PayneTrainhttps://github.com/PayneTrain @Hughzie https://github.com/Hughzie @towletthttps://github.com/towlett

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[Hughzie]

There's my desktop monitor, but I'd like to keep that in my room... We could at least use it to confirm the problem

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Hayk Martirosyan notifications@github.comwrote:

Booting from the Ubuntu SD gives a "Format not supported" error on the tv. Based on Google it seems like the problem is that Ubuntu is providing either too high a resolution or too high a refresh rate or the TV to handle. It's likely that Ubuntu boots just fine, but we can't see it cause I'm using a crappy TV for a monitor.

Does anyone know where we can get a screen to use (preferably meant as a monitor not a tv)? We should try to avoid buying one..

@boleary134 https://github.com/boleary134 @PayneTrainhttps://github.com/PayneTrain @Hughzie https://github.com/Hughzie @towletthttps://github.com/towlett

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[PayneTrain]

We've confirmed that its the TV cuz it works in the ELE's nice TV (because we have nice stuff...)

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Hughzie notifications@github.com wrote:

There's my desktop monitor, but I'd like to keep that in my room... We could at least use it to confirm the problem

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Hayk Martirosyan notifications@github.comwrote:

Booting from the Ubuntu SD gives a "Format not supported" error on the tv. Based on Google it seems like the problem is that Ubuntu is providing either too high a resolution or too high a refresh rate or the TV to handle. It's likely that Ubuntu boots just fine, but we can't see it cause I'm using a crappy TV for a monitor.

Does anyone know where we can get a screen to use (preferably meant as a monitor not a tv)? We should try to avoid buying one..

@boleary134 https://github.com/boleary134 @PayneTrain< https://github.com/PayneTrain> @Hughzie https://github.com/Hughzie @towlett< https://github.com/towlett>

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[Hughzie]

Cool, y'all watch a lot of TV. I'm guessing, based on last night, that you guys have nice cots in your lab, too. So that you can sleep 12 hours a day and then watch TV.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:47 PM, PayneTrain notifications@github.comwrote:

We've confirmed that its the TV cuz it works in the ELE's nice TV (because we have nice stuff...)

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Hughzie notifications@github.com wrote:

There's my desktop monitor, but I'd like to keep that in my room... We could at least use it to confirm the problem

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Hayk Martirosyan notifications@github.comwrote:

Booting from the Ubuntu SD gives a "Format not supported" error on the tv. Based on Google it seems like the problem is that Ubuntu is providing either too high a resolution or too high a refresh rate or the TV to handle. It's likely that Ubuntu boots just fine, but we can't see it cause I'm using a crappy TV for a monitor.

Does anyone know where we can get a screen to use (preferably meant as a monitor not a tv)? We should try to avoid buying one..

@boleary134 https://github.com/boleary134 @PayneTrain< https://github.com/PayneTrain> @Hughzie https://github.com/Hughzie @towlett< https://github.com/towlett>

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https://github.com/hmartiro/project-thesis/issues/25#issuecomment-10300285>.

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[hmartiro]

I'm gonna take the CPU to the room for now, we can use our TV as well. In the long run, we're gonna need a monitor in the shop that takes HDMI. We could just buy one, or is that abusing our budget :+1:

[boleary134]

We should probably talk to Nosenchuckles or Jo Ann before buying one. On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Hayk Martirosyan wrote:

I'm gonna take the CPU to the room for now, we can use our TV as
well. In the long run, we're gonna need a monitor in the shop that
takes HDMI. We could just buy one, or is that abusing our budget

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[hmartiro]

I used tom's bedroom TV to install ubuntu 12, ARM command-line. I need it to connect to the internet in order to install a GUI, so I plugged it into ethernet. Princeton seems to be filtering out the connection, so I subscribed its MAC address to dormnet.

[hmartiro]

done.

[hmartiro]

Ubuntu 12.04 installed with LXDE desktop, seems to run quite fast. way faster than unity, and faster than xfce as well.