After obtaining a new Beagleboard from Kevin, we decided to experiment with Ubuntu 10.10 following the instruction that can be found here. Because we suspected a bad power supply, the Beagleboard is powered through its mini USB port this time around.
We downloaded the Texas Instruments OMAP3 preinstalled netbook image here. With the SD card inserted in our Linux PC, we then ran the following command to write the image onto the SD card.
Due to a known bug, two update files needed to be copied onto the SD card partition.
$ cd /media/6B57-ED78
$ wget http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/maverick/xM/ulmage -O ulmage
$ cd /media/87e09b0b-4ba6-4476-920b-2bb4445e9ae8/boot
$ wget http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/maverick/xM/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-omap
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| Beagleboard + Ubuntu 10.10 |
We immediately followed the same procedures as previously on a Linux PC to set up Kinect with the Beagleboard. The results were as expected when we ran our modified glview-demo code.
However, the response time was not very promising, approximately half a second between physical input to display output. This prompted us to reconsider running Android again seeing how fast other applications performed.
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