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JRiver Media Center 21.0.90 for Debian (Wheezy) ARM
mwillems:
--- Quote from: newbluesman on April 15, 2016, 06:54:16 pm ---It's not the entire screen that's white - it's only the MC window. If I maximize it, the entire screen is white but otherwise, only the MC portion is affected. The rest of the display is black with the BB logo and taskbar normal, and all other GUIs display and work fine.
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By "all white window" I meant the MC window. If MC only displays as a solid white window, that's the clear sign that the color depth is wrong. Most programs don't insist on 32 bit color depth, so will display normally when it's not present, but JRiver is not one of them.
newbluesman:
--- Quote from: mwillems on April 15, 2016, 07:15:00 pm ---By "all white window" I meant the MC window. If MC only displays as a solid white window, that's the clear sign that the color depth is wrong. Most programs don't insist on 32 bit color depth, so will display normally when it's not present, but JRiver is not one of them.
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Hmmmm - I put several hours into this over the weekend, and there's no relevant config.txt file on my BBB running the latest Debian Jessie per Beagleboard.org . But I did find a relevant file with a different name in X11 defining a default bit depth of 16. I changed that to 32 and thought I'd bricked my 'bone. But I was able to get it going again with the internal boot switch and a reflash. So I went through the whole routine again of downloading and installing MC21 after reinstalling Debian, but now I'm getting "no more room on device" errors at several lines during the MC install. So it appears that so much manipulation over the life of the 'bone has left its little memory choking on useless stuff. I did have MC up and running on it last year, but like an idiot I decided to try Ubuntu. I should have quit while I was ahead.
Reflashing does not remove all previous files from the eMMC, and I cannot find any information at all on how to clear out everything in the eMMC and start fresh. As it appears that I'm not sophisticated enough to know what I can safely delete piecemeal, I'm going to leave MPD on it for now until I learn how to get the 'bone back to its original state (if that's possible). Thanks!!
newbluesman:
--- Quote from: newbluesman on April 18, 2016, 11:17:43 am ---Reflashing does not remove all previous files from the eMMC
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It turns out that I was wrong about this - the old files were being cleared. The problem is that the latest Debian images for the BeagleBone Black fill almost all of the eMMC, so there's simply no room for MC there. You have to expand the file system on a uSD card that's large enough to hold everything you want to put on it and run from that. With fast cards, this is not a functional problem (although I did my best to avoid it, thinking it was a compromise).
So the bottom line is that running MC on a Beaglebone Black seems best done by booting and running entirely from the uSD card rather than flashing the eMMC with the latest OS images. I suppose I could also expand the file system on the card, boot from the eMMC and run MC from the card. But at this point, I'm tired of playing with it and just want to listen to music. Of course, I also want to try Void Linux...............
bob:
--- Quote from: newbluesman on April 20, 2016, 09:00:46 am ---.
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Of course, I also want to try Void Linux...............
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Glutton for punishment? ;)
newbluesman:
--- Quote from: bob on April 21, 2016, 10:27:42 am ---Glutton for punishment? ;)
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Well........perhaps I was a bit too optimistic. If I am a glutton for punishment (and you appear to be more correct about that than I was willing to consider), my current device seems more than up to the task. Last night, I put a fresh Jessie image on a 64G card, booted the 'bone right up, expanded the file system on the card to its full size, and installed JRMC21. The MC window still opens as a white patch, although it does have the blue strip across the top now. So I went into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the default depth from 16 to 24 in the "screen" section, resulting in brick city once again. A web search reveals many such posts, so it's not just me or my device. It appears that changing that value really messes something up.
Yet another fresh image on a fully reformatted card brought everything back to life with a white MC window once again. I haven't yet left it open and looked on my main MC PC or JRemote to see if the 'bone's instance is working. If it is, I'm fine running headless and will leave it alone. That's tonight's entertainment. ;)
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