If you don’t already, you should know about The Qt Company’s enterprise device creation offering, a Qt-optimized pre-built software stack that lets you immediately get started with prototyping on a real device for embedded Linux and Android development. If you…
1280×800 displays
We recently started offering a couple of new 1280×800 LCD panels with capacitive touch and have been behind in describing how to integrate them with our Nitrogen6X, Nitrogen6X-SOM, and BD-SL-i.MX6 (formerly SABRE Lite) boards. The displays both have a resolution…
U-Boot display support for i.MX6
In our continuing efforts to improve the “out of the box experience” for users of the SABRE Lite and Nitrogen6X boards, we finally have display support for U-Boot: We also have autodetection, so you won’t have to go through all…
Auto-configuration of displays for i.MX6 using a U-Boot script
In the earlier blog post describing the new display support in U-Boot we described how U-Boot can natively access displays connected to a SABRE Lite or Nitrogen6X board. We’ve got you covered though (at least for our current Linux kernels)….
i.MX6Q Android Release 13.4 – Beta
This is just a quick note describing the new Android release (R13.4 – Beta) from Freescale. We’ve just pulled down the sources and are happy to report that the images just work on both Sabre Lite and Nitrogen6X. I had…
Android on i.MX6 (Sabre Lite and Nitrogen6X)
N.B. This image is obsolete. Please refer to the latest Jellybean image for the latest image. Another great userspace on i.MX6 is Android, and Freescale has delivered once again. For the impatient Linux user: To kick the tires on Android…
Debian Squeeze on i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 with dual monitors
Named after the aliens in the Toy Story series of movies, the latest release of Debian is a very slick piece of work. Nicely done, folks! We recently had a customer request to put together a dual-monitor configuration for an…
Revisiting LTIB on i.MX5x (this time with Java)
We’ve recently been hearing from customers that they’d like to use the Nitrogen i.MX51 board as a Java platform, and have customers using both Ubuntu and Debian to develop their applications in Java. Each of those userland environments has merit,…
Tweaking Froyo for Nitrogen Part 1: touch support
If you walked through the steps from the previous post, you’ll now have a semi-working Froyo release. You should see the Android desktop, but if you’re running on a 7″ Chi Mei panel, you’ll have some issues with the touch…
Debian in more depth: adding touch support
There are two options for touchscreen support in X-Windows: xserver-xorg-input-evtouch – Touchscreen-Driver for X.Org/XFree86 server xserver-xorg-input-tslib – tslib touchscreen driver for X.Org/XFree86 server The first uses the input event layer of Linux to read directly from touchscreen devices. The second…
