I’ve built Zynthian ver 3. When I feed it power I see nothing on the display screen.
When I connect an HDMI monitor I see “something” is booting … but text, as in typical boot sequences, all goes by quickly, it’s impossible to see exactly what’s happening. I can see a few failure messages (but can’t tell what)
then the boot process reaches a point where there’s only a cursor but no way to enter cmds, exit, etc.
i pulled aruk-3 from zynthian box and put in a card with rasberrian buster (from the pi site). everything starts up fine and that os seems fine … but of course it doesn’t interface to the zynthian box.
what’s next? i downloaded aruk-3 through safari on mac osx but i’m waiting for it another copy of it to download through curl.
all help and suggestions appreciated. meanwhile, i’ve double and tripled checked all connections on the zynthian box and dont’ see any problems (yet) of my own making …
what’s the next step? (thanks in advance!)
(in fact, I’m writing this from the pi that’s installed in my zynthian box … but it’s running raspberrian buster and not aruk-3.)
Please, re-burn Aruk RC-3 in the SD and try again. First boot takes longer. You have to wait until the Zynthian-UI is shown. You should see a white screen with the “Zynthian” logo several times during the process.
Hi, have checked and double checked and made sure the right pins are in the right places and flashed a lot of cards but absolutely no luck or joy! The screen on the Zynthian remains totally inactive.
I can disassemble everything and begin again if you think that’s the best way forward. But I’m pretty certain I followed every instruction (double checked everything before making connections … but who knows …?)§
Just tried one last time with an Aruk-3 card in a RPB attached to an HDMI monitor. It goes all the way to login and password but the screen is flashing on and off such that it’s impossible to enter root and raspberry (or pi and raspberry)
I just booted with full zynthian (complete kit) AND with attached HDMI monitor. Nothing.
Then I booted with Zynthian monitor detached but the box still connected to HDMI. I get a flow of boot up things happening on the HDMI screen but the process stops shortly after a failure notice with something to do with WIFI. But I’m getting no further than that.
I’m thinking I should
Reflash Aruk-RC3 (have done this several times already)
Try Buster-RC1
Isolate computing block and try with HDMI monitor?
It’s always possible that I made a wiring mistake somewhere but I’ve gone over that and matched things to pictures and PIN numbers on the board (where possible). So I’m fairly confident about what I put together.
All guidance appreciated greatly! (No stopping until I get this thing to work!!
I connected an Ethernet cable from my computer to the Zynthian Box. Success with webconf through ssh (and finding out that I’m zynthian.local and putting that into a web browser.
Next, I enabled wii (entered credentials and then set it to “on”, rather than “wifi host” or “off.”
If you could guide me to the next step please (thanks in advance!!!)
In my paranoid state after spending a lot of time in the wrong rabbit holes I thought NVM was “not very … “
Ok. I’m still not seeing anything on the Zynthian screen. But I’m guessing my next step is to go through more documentation and make sure that all is set correctly in Webconf? For example, I saw somewhere that wiring should be set to “dummies!””
In any case, are the next steps to now work my way through webconf settings and make sure all are as they should be?
if you have an official kit, you just have to select the correct kit.
You cannot change wiring, audio or display.
You select the Custom kit, if you want to make changes in that area.
Next step is showing us the Log, which can be seen in the webconf as well
And here’s a log printout in normal mode (non-debug)
Restarting UI in normal mode
– Logs begin at Thu 2016-11-03 17:16:42 GMT. –
Oct 31 13:57:11 zynthian startx[13371]: xinit: connection to X server lost
Oct 31 13:57:11 zynthian systemd[1]: Stopping Zynthian User Interface…
Oct 31 13:57:11 zynthian startx[13371]: [1B blob data]
Oct 31 13:57:11 zynthian startx[13371]: waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
Oct 31 13:57:12 zynthian startx[13371]: xinit: unexpected signal 15
Oct 31 13:57:12 zynthian systemd[1]: zynthian.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 31 13:57:12 zynthian systemd[1]: Stopped Zynthian User Interface.
Oct 31 13:57:12 zynthian systemd[1]: zynthian.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 31 13:57:12 zynthian systemd[1]: zynthian.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Oct 31 14:01:42 zynthian systemd[1]: Started Zynthian User Interface.
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: X.Org X Server 1.19.2
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Release Date: 2017-03-02
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.41-v7+ armv7l Raspbian
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Current Operating System: Linux zynthian 4.19.42-v7+ #1219 SMP Tue May 14 21:20:58 BST 2019 armv7l
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Kernel command line: coherent_pool=1M 8250.nr_uarts=1 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3ec00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x40000000 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Build Date: 18 October 2017 04:55:30PM
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: xorg-server 2:1.19.2-1+rpt1+deb9u2 (https://www.debian.org/support)
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: to make sure that you have the latest version.
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: Markers: (–) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: (==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time: Thu Oct 31 14:01:43 2019
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: (==) Using config directory: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d”
Oct 31 14:01:43 zynthian startx[15482]: (==) Using system config directory “/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d”
Oct 31 14:01:45 zynthian startx[15482]: libjackpeak registering as ‘jackpeak’.
Oct 31 14:01:45 zynthian startx[15482]: libjackpeak created input ports
