Is my X15 toast?

Andy Laberge

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Jan 27, 2020, 2:00:56 PM1/27/20

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My X15 isn't functioning properly.

The power indicator light comes on but when pushing the start button the running LED comes on for just a second, then goes out.

HDMI fails to effect the monitor screen stays "no signal present"

I have looked for trouble shooting blogs but they deal with boot issues, mine never gets to boot territory it seems.

I have several SD images I have tried to no avail.

Any tips appreciated even if it's to verify that it's toast.

Thank you,

Andy

Jason Kridner

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Jan 27, 2020, 2:45:46 PM1/27/20

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If a valid image isn't booted fairly quickly, the board will shutdown. Do you have a serial log? Can you try booting from a microSD with a fresh image?

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Andy Laberge

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Jan 27, 2020, 10:29:27 PM1/27/20

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I did try a couple of fresh images... but no luck

I was lucky enough to have the FTDI serial cable.

Using minicom on Ubuntu I got this:

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U-Boot SPL 2017.01-00360-gc604741cb3 (Aug 11 2017 - 15:47:09)
DRA752-GP ES2.0
Trying to boot from MMC1

** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for loading the env **
Using default environment

U-Boot 2017.01-00360-gc604741cb3 (Aug 11 2017 - 15:47:09 -0500), Build: jenkins2

CPU : DRA752-GP ES2.0
Model: TI AM5728 BeagleBoard-X15
Board: BeagleBoard X15 REV C.00
DRAM: 2 GiB

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On Monday, January 27, 2020 at 11:45:46 AM UTC-8, Jason Kridner wrote:

If a valid image isn't booted fairly quickly, the board will shutdown. Do you have a serial log? Can you try booting from a microSD with a fresh image?

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 2:00 PM Andy Laberge <laber...@gmail.com> wrote:

My X15 isn't functioning properly.

The power indicator light comes on but when pushing the start button the running LED comes on for just a second, then goes out.
HDMI fails to effect the monitor screen stays "no signal present"

I have looked for trouble shooting blogs but they deal with boot issues, mine never gets to boot territory it seems.
I have several SD images I have tried to no avail.

Any tips appreciated even if it's to verify that it's toast.

Thank you,
Andy

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Jason Kridner

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Jan 29, 2020, 2:55:05 PM1/29/20

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Well, that's enough to let you know your board isn't fried.

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nguyenn...@gmail.com

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Dec 1, 2020, 10:16:58 AM12/1/20

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Hi, i just got my x15 recently, and it got the same booting problem as yours. May I ask if your x15 works yet, and if so, how do you solve it. Thanks alot.

Vào lúc 02:00:56 UTC+7 ngày Thứ Ba, 28 tháng 1, 2020, laberg...@gmail.com đã viết:

何海宇MHE

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Jan 1, 2021, 1:24:34 PM1/1/21

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AFAIK, also the SPI never work on the Beagleboard-x15 on Linux. Though, one need the SPI to configure the expansion board.

Jason Kridner

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Jan 3, 2021, 9:14:41 AM1/3/21

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How is the SPI used for expansion board configuration?

What SD card images have you tried to reflash it?

https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/am57xx-eMMC-flasher-debian-10.3-iot-armhf-2020-04-06-4gb.img.xz

???

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Iron Man

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Jan 14, 2021, 10:45:50 AM1/14/21

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Hi,

I tried, inside /opt/source/dtb-4.14-ti and built the dtb files :

./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15.dtb

./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-gssi.dtb

./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-revc.dtb

./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-revb1.dtb

which one should get loaded by the kernel in order to activate the Spi ? And how to do it ? By editing the uEnv.txt or can we just load it by Capemgr ?

Thanks for your hints

Jason Kridner

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Jan 14, 2021, 10:47:31 AM1/14/21

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On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10:45:50 AM UTC-5 Iron Man wrote:

Hi,

I tried, inside /opt/source/dtb-4.14-ti and built the dtb files :

./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15.dtb
./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-gssi.dtb
./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-revc.dtb
./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-revb1.dtb

which one should get loaded by the kernel in order to activate the Spi ? And how to do it ? By editing the uEnv.txt or can we just load it by Capemgr ?

You'd need to use uEnv.txt (u-boot) as Capemgr has been moved to u-boot. I'm not sure if anyone has provided a sample overlay for SPI access on X15. Have you googled for it?

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Jan 14, 2021, 11:02:40 AM1/14/21

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Please provide sample overlay for SPI access on X15.

Thanks !

Le jeu. 14 janv. 2021 à 16:47, Jason Kridner <jkri...@gmail.com> a écrit :

On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10:45:50 AM UTC-5 Iron Man wrote:
Hi,

I tried, inside /opt/source/dtb-4.14-ti and built the dtb files :

./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15.dtb
./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-gssi.dtb
./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-revc.dtb
./src/arm/am57xx-beagle-x15-revb1.dtb

which one should get loaded by the kernel in order to activate the Spi ? And how to do it ? By editing the uEnv.txt or can we just load it by Capemgr ?

You'd need to use uEnv.txt (u-boot) as Capemgr has been moved.. Have you googled for it?

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