How do I even turn that thing on?

[ryo]

I got the Manjaro ARM image as shown on the Wiki, wrote it to the SD card, but doesn't seem to boot up at all.

Code:

$ [font=monospace][color=#000000]sudo dd if=Manjaro-ARM-minimal-quartz64-bsp-20210830.img of=/dev/sde[/color][/font]
[font=monospace][color=#000000][sudo] 〇〇 の[/color][font=monospace][color=#000000]パスワード:[/color][/font][/font]
[font=monospace][font=monospace][color=#000000][font=monospace][color=#000000]3282944+0 レコード入力[/color][/font][/color][/font][/font]
[font=monospace][font=monospace][color=#000000][font=monospace][color=#000000][color=#000000][font=monospace]3282944+0 レコード出力[/font][/color][/color][/font][/color][/font][/font]
[font=monospace][color=#000000]1680867328 bytes (1.7 GB, 1.6 GiB) copied, 341.033 s, 4.9 MB/s[/color][/font]
[font=monospace][color=#000000][/color][/font]
[font=monospace][color=#000000][font=monospace][color=#000000]$ lsblk [/color]
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
...
sde      8:64   1  14.4G  0 disk  
├─sde1   8:65   1     7M  0 part  
├─sde2   8:66   1 213.6M  0 part  
└─sde3   8:67   1   1.3G  0 part[/font][/color][/font]
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Lights are turning on, but nothing on screen, no sound or heat coming from the board, power button does absolutely nothing etc.

[Alho]

If you read the wiki, you will see, that there is no videodriver for the Quartz64 board yet. You can only access it through a serial cable to the debug console.

[ryo]

If you read the wiki, you will see, that there is no videodriver for the Quartz64 board yet. You can only access it through a serial cable to the debug console.

There's no mention of it on the Wiki from what I can see.
I could buy a serial cable from the Pine store, but I think that would take another month for it to arrive, so perhaps I'll just browse a local electronics store for one.
Alternatively I can live with doing everything over SSH (I actually prefer it anyway) if the current Manjaro image even has it enabled by default.

[lot378]

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64_Development

Says video output needs porting (rockchipdrm/VOP-v2) on red background.

Below, under "Needs Testing" GPU — need a VOP-v2 DRM driver to get display output.

That page is linked from main Quartz64 wiki page.

[ryo]

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64_Development

Says video output needs porting (rockchipdrm/VOP-v2) on red background.

That page is linked from main Quartz64 wiki page.

When Alho said "read the wiki", I assumed he meant the main page for Quartz64.
But alright, I might try to see if I can get it working in case it's still waiting on the TODO list, though pretty certain I'd not get it to work before anyone else does as I have 0 hardware or driver programming experience.

[CounterPillow]

You should be able to easily find a 1.5 mbaud capable uart usb to serial adapter locally. It needs to be able to operate at 3.3V. Personally, I use a CH340G based one.

The Manjaro image should provide ssh access in its first time setup thing, so you can ssh into the board even without an UART adapter. I still strongly recommend you get one though for u-boot output and general debugging.

I'll add a note to the main wiki page that details that there's no video output yet

[ryo]

So I managed to purchase a serial USB thing from Amazon (not really identical to the Woodpicker, this one has a few more pins).
The problem is this:
https://video.076.ne.jp/w/9uYyN89abqg4nRDNUHhnwR

Any way to ANALyze this problem (at least, if it is a problem at all)?

[ryo]

So I managed to purchase a serial USB thing from Amazon (not really identical to the Woodpicker, this one has a few more pins).
The problem is this:
https://video.076.ne.jp/w/9uYyN89abqg4nRDNUHhnwR

Any way to ANALyze this problem (at least, if it is a problem at all)?

So I ASSume nobody knows.

[bosi564]

So I managed to purchase a serial USB thing from Amazon (not really identical to the Woodpicker, this one has a few more pins).
The problem is this:
https://video.076.ne.jp/w/9uYyN89abqg4nRDNUHhnwR

Any way to ANALyze this problem (at least, if it is a problem at all)?

So I ASSume nobody knows.

It's similar to RockPro64: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCKPro64#S....28UART.29 and from artictle there's a link to actual instructions: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6387

It works, but you should read the instructions carefully.

The things I missed were the following:
- DON'T attach all the wires before boot. One of the wires (for sending data) is attached last.
- The connection is described from the point of view of the Quartz64 computer, so refer to https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64#GP...Model_A.29

Otherwise the computer works. I ran the Manjaro setup using the serial console and after setting ssh I ran some tests to see if it works. Mine seems  like a good candidate for a miniserver so far

[CounterPillow]

The things I missed were the following:
- DON'T attach all the wires before boot. One of the wires (for sending data) is attached last.

This was specific to some ROCKPro64s with some UART adapters, and I've not seen this issue appear at all on Quartz64, so is not really required.

If there's no UART output, the first thing to try is to swap the RXD/TXD pins around. Some adapters label them the other way around, sometimes mistakes happen, etc. I've personally spent half an hour debugging swapped cables once.

The problem Manjaro has right now (I've heard) is that it doesn't work on eMMC. This is unfortunate, but the Quartz64 CI image works on eMMC, personally I needed to fiddle with the Debian installer though to get it to partition the disk right.