04-15-2025, 09:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-15-2025, 09:37 PM by matthewmkr.)
(04-15-2025, 01:29 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: What OS are you using?
With NetBSD the display works. In the highest resolution only the left two thirds of the display work, but it works.
With DietPi I can not get it to work.
There is nothing at all on a new SD card purchased from the Pine store.
Do not do anything with the SPI ROM until you get everything working.
The NetBSD image from armbsd.org works. The DietPi image from the DietPi website works. There are others that work; but I cannot say which because I haven't tried them. To make your own bootable image you need the idbloader, U-Boot, and an operating system partition. They have to be flashed at exact locations on the card.
I was trying latest armbian. I tried minimal and gnome desktop. I got more out of it in that it crashes after 'Starting kernel ...' with a video glitch. Sometimes it will try to boot again and sometimes just black screen. It also doesn't spin up the fan, although it did start to once. It almost feels like a power issue. I'm using a 3A 12 volt supply. I got a 5A around here somewhere but I'm not trying to power anything other than boot. I even disconnected the keyboard, mouse and network....
(04-15-2025, 09:27 PM)matthewmkr Wrote:(04-15-2025, 01:29 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: What OS are you using?
With NetBSD the display works. In the highest resolution only the left two thirds of the display work, but it works.
With DietPi I can not get it to work.
There is nothing at all on a new SD card purchased from the Pine store.
Do not do anything with the SPI ROM until you get everything working.
The NetBSD image from armbsd.org works. The DietPi image from the DietPi website works. There are others that work; but I cannot say which because I haven't tried them. To make your own bootable image you need the idbloader, U-Boot, and an operating system partition. They have to be flashed at exact locations on the card.
I was trying latest armbian. I tried minimal and gnome desktop. I got more out of it in that it crashes after 'Starting kernel ...' with a video glitch. Sometimes it will try to boot again and sometimes just black screen. It also doesn't spin up the fan, although it did start to once. It almost feels like a power issue. I'm using a 3A 12 volt supply. I got a 5A around here somewhere but I'm not trying to power anything other than boot. I even disconnected the keyboard, mouse and network....
video of behavior: https://youtu.be/YTCo-n7YSuY