So I updated the firmware following the instructions in that post, but then I lost hdmi output, meaning that when I connect the display and turn on the board I get a black screen, I do not even get the u-boot output, absolutely nothing.
I got a usb a to a cable and tried flashing it with pyamlboot following these instructions.
And again I got no hdmi output at all. So I looked up the code and noticed that all the firmware is coming from loverpi.com.
Since the board was shipped with 2019.04 firmware, I tried all the 2019 versions starting from r5, again no hdmi, until I got to u-boot-2019-04-r1.bin. This is the only u-boot version that has hdmi working on my board.
Since all boards are supposed to ship with the latest firmware, is it possible that I just got a lemon?
This is probably not something to do with the board. What is the make and model of your monitor? Are you able to dump the EDID and upload it somewhere?
Not really, none of the images in distro.libre.computer boot and I don’t think I can do it from the UEFI shell (Ubuntu is the only one that starts booting but gets stuck in processing init). I’ll try some of the older ones in share.loverpi.
The first monitor uses a non-standard frequency. We do have the Waveshare 1920 x 480 one being look at in our labs which shows no video.
For the second one, do you have the 512MB or 1GB La Frite? The 512MB may not have enough RAM to handle a 4K framebuffer when it tries to enumerate and would fail to show any video output. The 1GB one should work but only in DMT mode at 30 FPS. It was designed to be a 1080P device so you may need to limit the output resolution to 1920 x 1080.
This makes sense, I do have a 512MB board. Since I plan to use the waveshare lcd I think I might need to do some customization to u-boot since the hdmi out works on the 2019.04 version but sadly the newer images are unable to boot under that version.
Hello I’ve been looking at some ways to build a uboot binary to test on my end as well and have a question. Why is the spi dts in boot.libre.computer different from the aml-s805x dts in mainline linux?