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This is a gravedigging post of gizmo2

Anygo1998 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:22:21 GMT

不知道gizmo2的BIOS有没有其他功能，比如设置默认内存大小的功能，我的板子开机后，可用内存只有750M左右，我怀疑核心显卡占用了200M以上的内存作为显存。另外，我在安装 archliux 时遇到问题，总是遇到挂载 uuid *date 问题

Can the Gizmo 2 Explorer Board be used in place of Arduino Uno?

monkeyman_stones — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:27:56 GMT

I recently purchased an XYZPrinting da Vinci 2.0 Duo 3D printer and had to replace the cartridges multiple times already at an unreasonable price ($78) for what is only 300G of filament (versus $15 for Inland PLA & ABS 1KG rolls from Micro Center).

I have discovered multiple pages for the resetting of the cartridges and the use of aftermarket filament by way of an Arduino Uno R3. But I own 2 Gizmo 2's with Explorer Boards and it seems likely that they can be used in place of an Arduino Uno. But I have no idea how...

Does anyone know how to use the Gizmo 2 and Explorer Board in place of an Arduino Uno R3 for resetting XYZ Printing cartridges?

Thanks for the help,

David

What is the pin size of holes in Explorer Board?

monkeyman_stones — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:45:01 GMT

I own 2 GizmoSphere Gizmo2 Explorer Boards, but I have never been able to use them as I've never found pins which fit into the holes. In addition all of the pdf's about the Explorer Board, Gizmo2 and Gizmo 1 do not state what the size is. I've tried for 3 years to put my Gizmo 2 and Explorer Boards to use but have never been able to due to the lack of information about the pin size required.

What is the pin size for the holes of the GizmoSphere Gizmo Explorer Board?

Thank you for your help,

David

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how to make a bios.rom for gizmo 2

edwardalick — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 02:33:29 GMT

I get a board of Gizmo 2 form element. I want to build a bios.rom for booting. But I failed many times.

my method is that：

1 I get the source code of coreboot

2 under the "coreboot",make menuconfig->mainborad->gizmosphere,gizmo 2

3 Deivces->Graphics initialization (Run VGA Option ROMs)

4 payload->Add a payload (SeaBIOS) ,SeaBIOS version (1.10.2)

5 make

I get the "coreboot.rom",and I dowmload it to the Gizmo 2,the Monitor is no picture,I don't know the bios is start-up or not?

Please help meadminChristyZtech_contentharn zaras123 jimXOliver

Can Gizmo 2 use GX-420CA and 2GB chips w/o issues?

monkeyman_stones — Sun, 28 May 2017 18:25:24 GMT

I own a pair of GizmoSphere Gizmo 2 SBC's and with the first I also bought an AMD GX-420CA 4-Core, 2Ghz processor and more recently I purchased 5 (but only need 4 of them) Micron MT41K256M16HA-125E DDR3 RAM chips. I'd like to install them all, but I want to make certain that I will not have an issue after having made such changes.

I know that GizmoSphere had intended to install 2GB of RAM chips from the start (but for $ savings did not), but I've seen no evidence that the 4-Core AMD GX-420CA 2Ghz processor had been intended, yet it's power usage is close enough to the AMD GX-210HA they did use that it should be fine so long as I don't overdo the use of the additional PCI slots through the High Speed Connector.

1) So, will the GizmoSphere Gizmo 2 work just fine and display all of the RAM of the 2GB RAM chips, or "No!"

2) Will the GizmoSphere Gizmo 2 work fine with the AMD GX-420CA, or is it too power hungry (or otherwise) to allow function of the SBC?

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Minimal Debian Install On Gizmo2

Former Member — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:23:14 GMT

During a recent move my Gizmo2 got a bit damaged, Ive just finished fixing it up and all runs smoothly. Remembering the biggest problem with the Gizmo was the lack of memory, the Ubuntu image Ive been using takes up around 450MB of the 750MB available to the system (I think the other 250MB is used for graphics share) so this leaves only a small amount for applications.

Im planning to try and create a minimal Debian install running LXDE desktop, on my office computer I have this setup and the memory footprint hangs out at around 188MB which would create a significant saving for applications on Gizmo.

Fingers crossed it should be straight forward, if so I'll update my experience here once I get it up and running.

----------FIRST EDIT------------------------

So I managed to install Debian as above using the standard installer with a slight modification to the boot command line and have a graphical desktop, altogether it runs in a memory footprint of around 233MB which is a significant saving of resources. I'm going to have another try tomorrow and see if I can shave some more off by quitting the installer and forcing just the very basics (the installer puts in lots of unneeded stuff), also some things like dragging a selection box seem to be a bit laggy so on my next try I'll attempt to install the fglrx graphics driver from an earlier blog post to speed up the graphical systems, provided they're compatible with Debian Jessie this should should create a significant performance increase.

Once I settle on a final system I'll post a guide showing how I got there

Windows 7 / Windows 10 / Linux experiences on Gizmo2

Former Member — Sat, 28 May 2016 05:52:45 GMT

On my Gizmo2 I've installed a variety of operating systems. Some work better than others, but I'll try my best to explain what I've been able to (and not been able to) do over the past year:

I'm using my Gizmo2 with a 128gb SSD with the PCIe detect pin taped over.

1. Windows 7:

Works. Works quite well, actually. Main limitation is RAM, 1GB really hamstrings you on what you can do. Runs out of RAM when doing Windows Updates, runs out of RAM when doing anything other than nothing. The only way to make it usable is to replace the shell with whatever I want to use. I have AMD's drivers installed, everything in device manager works EXCEPT for HDMI audio output and Realtek audio output. Can't seem to figure it out. Have tried every combination of AMD HDMI audio driver and Reaktek driver available, down to tracking down other boards with the same embedded APU. My first inclination was to try to use it as a Steam Link - basically streaming real-time video gaming over the network. Works quite well but the very slow GPU makes the Big Picture mode very very slow. No audio over HDMI also kills that possibility.

2. Windows 10:

Pretty much the same as Windows 7 except with even less available RAM.

3. Linux (Linux Mint):

Complete lack of GPU acceleration makes it very very slow. Audio over HDMI works in Linux. Not sure what GPU module the pre-flashed Linux distro is using but I couldn't find an open-source module that works as well.

I've attempted to contact my element14 rep that provided the review sample, as well as the Gizmo2 hardware engineers and AMD and no one has been of any help.

Using the Gizmo2 GPIO ports under Windows

Former Member — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:16:19 GMT

I'm running Windows Embedded Standard 7 32-bit on the Gizmo2. I need to be able to communicate with the GPIO ports on the low speed connector.

Has anyone found a way to do this?

Gizmo 2 Boot failed: could not read the boot disk?

Former Member — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:04:17 GMT

I haven't been able to boot up my Gizmo 2 board. I keep getting this error, despite following the start-up guide. Board has been kept in an ESD-safe environment and the SD card seems properly installed.

It's also saying SeaBIOS at the top, but the user manual says they're using SageBIOS. Did I get sent a prototype board?

Thanks

Gizmo 2 details?

Former Member — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:22:28 GMT

Hello dudes,

I have a question about the Gizmo 2.

This details are important for me to buy single-board-computer:

• Playing MPEG-2 transport streams

• Playing of MP4-files with h.264 encoding

• Video reception through multicast

• Fullscreen-Browser with AJAX- and javascript-support

Does Gizmo 2 support these details?

NO, which single-board-computer of your portfolio supports these details?

Have a nice day!

Patrick

Mounting mSATA in Gizmo 2? (or mPCIe)

amigabill — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 01:55:06 GMT

Hi All,

I have a Gizmo 2 board, and I have a full-length mSATA card. The Gizmo has the mPCIe slot for the mSATA card, and there are holes in the PCB lining up with the mSATA screwholes. But, there are no screws, and there are no threads to screw into. So I can push the mSATA card into the slot, but there's nothing to hold it in place. It wiggles and falls out. Same for the screwholes at the half-card locations. Big PCB holes, but no threaded implants.

Is there a kit for this? Should it have been included in my Gizmo 2 package?

If no kit particular to this, what do I need to create what I need? What size standoffs, what size screws, and how do I get screw threads to put the screws into?

Gizmo Linux development?

amigabill — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 05:53:27 GMT

The GizmoSphere website has links to Timesys for Linux, and they have a 30 day IDE eval available. I haven't quite figured out what it costs when that 30 days runs out.

Are there other Linux distros available for Gizmo at this point? What are recommendations for something requiring a simple GUI and touchscreen?

Any other programming environment/IDE recommended? Or is that really irrelevant, and a matter of user preference on your coding machine, nothing to do with your target?

I'm interested in wxWidgets. Is it possible to get wx into this thing?

I'm workign on an embedded systems project this fall for my MS program, and I'm interested in Gizmo so would like to use it instead of Rpi. I'll also have a coupld Arduino Unos involved.

On the Gizmo, I'll need modest graphics and touchscreen, a uart for an Xbee module, and wifi networkign via a USB dongle. Any pointers on what to be reading up on for my small application to access these features?

I have a Gizmo 2 and the Explorer board, and I do have a smartprobe + software from a Gizmo 1 kit to assist.

I aprpeciate any pointers to helpful resources!

GIZMO 2 no sound (Linux)

Former Member — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 12:45:31 GMT

I get no sound on Linux Ubuntu 14.04 when plugging in a small speaker from the standard audio jack. But some noise is heard.

Also, when using a program using OpenAL for audio I get this error:

Thats all the info I can give. No error messages from the OS. Just no sound. Please tell me what else I can provide as info.

USB powered speakers OK to use?

Former Member — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:18:23 GMT

I'm going to use a better PSU anyway, but I'd like to know if using USB powered speakers which can draw around <500 mA is okay for the board itself?

Gizmo2 connecting peripherals: searching issues solution

balearicdynamics — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:53:58 GMT

The scenario

I am working on a project where I need to "evolve" several Gizmo2 board to make them specialised for some tasks. In short words the rules are the following

Desk unit : This is the most simple model; it will include a series of peripheral devices, a small case (fit back to a HDMI monitor) and an internal 60 Gb SSD disk with the entire system onboard. The provided application will be web based and the operating system will be Ununtu 14 LT, this means the entire system is 100% open source. The Gizmo2 is connected to a 1Gb switch and is part of an independent node of a local network.
Server unit: This is a single gizmo2 module that will be setup in a small expandable cluster. It should host a ssd internal disk for Linux operating system and a 500 Gb or 1 Tb external HDD for databa storage

All the machines are on the same LAN with 1Gb network

The Server unit will be clustered if needed with other self-balancing network devices

The machine external HDD machines will use the two USB3 Gizmo2 as dual raid hdd storage. USB3 has almost the same access speed than the SATA bus.

The machine will use eventually the external HDD connected to the on-board second sata port.

The machine is powered by a 4000 mA power supply giving the extra-power needed for the attached peripherals.

The second SATA connector and the SATA 5V power cables

Inside this scenario (if needed images are also available) I experience some issues that seems very probably hardware-dependent. What I need is some good check advices to verify for sure the issues causes.

Need to use components

The external parts that should be used are the following (for various kind of settings:

External 500 Gb 2.5" HDD (5V)

For now it is used a 1Tb 5" 12V + 5V HDD externally powered that will be replaced in the definitive configuration with the specific hardware. The difference in this case is meaningless Two disks will be connected to the USB3 via a SATA to USB3 converter that reaches a comparable speed. The following image shows the HDD connected in this way with an external powered dock.

mPCIe board with Parallel + serial interface

This is a micro PCIe board that has the same connector as the micro SATA. The board should be installed in the Gizmo2 bottom connector; as explained in the documentation the system will recognise automatically if the connector is used for mPCIe or mSATA with SSD drive connected.

32Gb microSD with linux boot only for emergency recovery

It has been used a class10 microSD card, 32 Gb. Both tests with Ubuntu and Debian installation has completed successfully but it is not possible to boot. Debian just stops on the black and white screen with the Booting from Hard Disk message while Ubuntu shows the grub and every try to start reboot the system.

SSD disk starting from the secondary SATA

The secondary SATA should host the operating system when the primary SSD connector (on the back side of the Gizmo2) is used as microPCI instead of microSATA The image below shows the board mounted on the mSATA to SATA adapter board.

Experienced issues

The following are the blocking issues found during some days of tests.

Installing the OS on the microSD : all the installation process works fine with Ubuntu only, then at the end of process it is required the first reboot. The system boots and the only thing shown on the screen is "Booting from HD" then the system does not goes ahead.
Installing the OS on the external HDD (both Debian and Ubutu): same as 1)
The only way until now I was able to install Linux Ubuntu 14 was on the internal SSD (120 Gb) that boot fine after installation without any issue.

Problems with the two SATA ports

The second SATA port is on the board (thanks again to for her precious previous tests and shared knowledge !!!) and it is not populated. As the documentation explain it is a second port, we should expect that it can work with the first one connected. Instead:

A. With a 120Gb SSD on the first mSATA and any kind of SSD or HDD connected to the second SATA port as explained above none of the two disks are saw at boot time (only the micro SD if present).

B. With the mPCIe adapter (Serial + Parallel) in the primary port and the HDD on the SATA port, it is saw but does not work correctly. Instead with the SSD connected to the SATA (second port) it is not saw at all at boot time.

C. As the SSD or MPICEe boards are removed from the bottom connector, the SATA disk is saw correctly. Only the HDD can be connected and the operating system installed as well.

D. Only if the 120 Gb SSD is connected to the bottom port can be formatted and the operating system installed correctly.

Problems with OS booting

The same Linux OS has been installed with success on the external HDD (via the second SATA connection and external power), the microSD and the SSD (connected on the bottom connector). The only installation version that boots correctly is when the ssd is in its place and nothing else is connected to the system. The only accepted second HDD is when it is connected to the USB3 via the SATA to USB3 dock.

After booting from the Ubuntu desktop surprisingly all the linux installations on the three different media are virtually identical, despite that does not boot or boot partially, as shown in the images below:

The only possible bootable configuration

The only possible bootable configuration is from the SSD on the bottom connector with the external HDD connected to the USB3 port.

I hope that someone has some new idea to solve the problem, suggestions etc.

Thanks in advance. Enrico

I got Win 7 Home to install

bud3333 — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:21:39 GMT

I just installed Win 7 Home Premium 32-bit on my Gizmo - 2 . I installed with DVD in a LG Slim Portable DVD Writer plugged in USB - 2. I also had to

have my mouse and keyboard in a USB - 2 also. Could not get anything installed threw USB - 3 . I installed it on a ADATA mSATA 64 GB . I also got a

no drive error message the first time. I rebooted and tried again and got the same error but this time i got the back button somehow and when it went back, it went to

the installing screen. It loads up to Win 7 now.

Walt

speaker?

Former Member — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:04:43 GMT

I want to put Gizmo in a special case and add a speaker there as well for sound. Any requirements for speakers which need to be connected to Gizmo, or recommendations on this?

setting up Ubuntu for embedded use (Gizmo2 as Media Player)

Former Member — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:22:22 GMT

I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 on Gizmo 2 which is meant to sit inside a custom device case, run an OpenGL program (powered by the Panda3D library) and send video to a pico projector (based on this project: http://makezine.com/2011/09/19/pico-...rical-display/ )

For this I'll need to do few things:

1) Not start the desktop, but run the OpenGL program on startup which is the only program which should ever be running. How can I set up this?

2) Would be nice to disable the Ubuntu boot logo, or even better, control when the projector starts receiving HDMI signal. I'm sure the first thing is possible. But is the second possible to do? I'd like the projector to start displaying something after the OpenGL program has started. Otherwise I would probably need to add a mechanical shutter to block the projection for some time which isn't ideal...

3) Disable any kind of OS or included program notifications. The device needs Ubuntu just to start running the Panda3D library program, any interference might result in not working properly. This includes any "OS has restarted after some unexpected crash" or similar messages. How can all this be disabled?

I had originally asked this to ubuntu users but haven't gotten a response. Some people here seem to be using Ubuntu and is not unlikely they needed to do this too so I'm hoping some help from here.

Ubuntu Linux?

Former Member — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:42:42 GMT

If I don't find a solution on installing Windows 7, I'll have to try something else as I have a deadline. Has anyone tried Ubuntu Linux?

Gimzo 2 custom On/Off button?

Former Member — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:12:41 GMT

Ideally I'd want to modify the BIOS to autostart without pressing any button. But if nobody ends up knowing how to do that, I'd like to at least have a custom proper button on my device's case for turning the Gizmo on. I've read one of the pin pairs can be used, but which ones?

Windows 7 installation issues

Former Member — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 14:01:36 GMT

I've tried installing Windows 7 from an SD card, but theres a menu during the installation where it asks to specify location of drivers. What am I supposed to do there? Gizmosphere does not provide drivers for Windows.

buttons for a device powered by Gizmo 2?

Former Member — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 07:29:10 GMT

For a device I’m building which is powered by a Gizmo 2 I need two buttons (left and right, for choosing a media file).

How can I add buttons to Gizmo? Are there pins usable for that, or should I use something like an Arduino (Nano) connected to the Gizmo via USB?

Windows 7 embedded

Former Member — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 07:21:51 GMT

I can't find any mention of this on the internet.

Has anyone actually installed Windows 7 on the GIZMO 2?

How smooth was it? What's the boot up time?

I just want to use embedded version to change the startup screen.

Gizmo 2 and OpenCL?

Former Member — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:04:32 GMT

Hi Gizmo2 users! I bought a Gizmo2 a couple of months ago and all I've been doing so far is just testing it out. This community has been a great help. Especially in installing an OS and SSD.

Now one of the main reasons I purchased the Gizmo2 was because it is supposed to have support of OpenCL 1.2. I was hoping I could somehow make use of this feature, but it has proven difficult. I'm no expert on the subject of OpenCL, but from my understanding, you could use it to speed up / accelerate programs by offloading computations to the Gpu instead of having the cpu alone do it http://www.gizmosphere.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/GizmoOpenCLOpenCV.pdf.

My question is: How do I get the OpenCL to work on the Gizmo2? I've tried installing the Catalyst driver from AMD (which contains the OpenCL runtime) and tried to run some of the sdk samples, but I can't say I've experienced any real performance gain (in terms of speed) from using the OpenCL. Does anybody have this working? Are there special instructions to get OpenCL setup?

I've seen the post by lucie tozer "Gizmo on Fire" where she mentions that there is observed performance increase in the graphics by installing custom packages for the driver. Are graphics performance the ONLY benefit of this GPU? I was really hoping I could us the GPU to do general purpose computations (not for graphics) by using OpenCL. Would I have to install the driver a similar way lucie did? Do I have to use a specific OS?

It's been cited several times that Gizmo2 can achieve 85 GFLOPS performance. I would assume this is coming from the GPU. How? How can I reproduce that benchmark? I'm not sure if this benchmark is achieved with or without the presence of OpenCL.

Ultimately, I'd like to use OpenCL to accelerate OpenCV and be able to do some parallel processing, but so far I can't seem to get OpenCL to work as a standalone. Please help element14 gizmo2 users. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gizmo2 + SSD

balearicdynamics — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 06:20:44 GMT

Hi to all,

I have to install Windows 8.1 embedded on a Gizmo2 and ater many tries I have found the right way to do it. Unfortunately I discovered that Windows8.1 ( ) can't be installed on devices that are not connected to the mSATA device; no USB hard disk, uSD etc. So the solution is to add a SSD (as in the technical specifications) to the bottom of the Gizmo2 where there is the mSATA connector.

The following image shows finally the W8.1 embedded setup starting from the USB Stick (a crap adapter )

My doubt is how the connector on the SSD (not set as external but as internal device, obvious) should be to fit on this board. I have sent the images of the connector to my Chinese provider as follows

And as he sent me the image of the mSATA SSD (with two options, 60 and 120 Gb) shown below.

Can someone tell me if the mSATA connector on this SSD is the right one? I need to be 100% sure before starting the order and shipping to Spain.

, I know that you have already set something similar on your Gizmo2, what do you think?

Thank you in advance. Enrico