So, I was able to install Fedora on the Pinebook Pro following the blog post https://nullr0ute.com/2021/05/fedora-on-the-pinebook-pro/ The only difference is that I was unable to boot the installer from an USB stick, and I used dd to copy the content of the SD card to eMMC.
The only annoying problem that I'm facing is that I can't reboot the Pinebook. I can reboot, sure, indeed, connecting through the serial port, the system actually reboot, but the video becomes black with some horizontal lines [1]. Powering off the system, then on, the screen is ok.
What could it be?
[1] https://alciregi.fedorapeople.org/screenshot/20210630_120910.jpg (sorry for the bad quality, but you can see these lines in the center of the display).
Thanks, A.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:16 PM Alessio alciregi@posteo.net wrote:
So, I was able to install Fedora on the Pinebook Pro following the blog post https://nullr0ute.com/2021/05/fedora-on-the-pinebook-pro/ The only difference is that I was unable to boot the installer from an USB stick, and I used dd to copy the content of the SD card to eMMC.
The only annoying problem that I'm facing is that I can't reboot the Pinebook. I can reboot, sure, indeed, connecting through the serial port, the system actually reboot, but the video becomes black with some horizontal lines [1]. Powering off the system, then on, the screen is ok.
Interesting, what Fedora release did you install and what kernel version ?
Could you please share your complete boot log on the reboot where the display is blank ?
Best regards, Javier
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:21 PM Javier Martinez Canillas < javier@dowhile0.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:16 PM Alessio alciregi@posteo.net wrote:
So, I was able to install Fedora on the Pinebook Pro following the blog post https://nullr0ute.com/2021/05/fedora-on-the-pinebook-pro/ The only difference is that I was unable to boot the installer from an USB stick, and I used dd to copy the content of the SD card to eMMC.
The only annoying problem that I'm facing is that I can't reboot the Pinebook. I can reboot, sure, indeed, connecting through the serial port, the system actually reboot, but the video becomes black with some horizontal lines [1]. Powering off the system, then on, the screen is ok.
Interesting, what Fedora release did you install and what kernel version ?
Could you please share your complete boot log on the reboot where the display is blank ?
Best regards, Javier
Just in case, this happens to me as well using Manjaro since day 1. As a workaround, I always power it down then power it on again :(
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On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 12:21 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
Interesting, what Fedora release did you install and what kernel version ?
5.12.13-300.fc34.aarch64
But the same behavior was here also with previous versions.
Could you please share your complete boot log on the reboot where the display is blank ?
Is this ok? https://paste.centos.org/view/38afa05c
Thank you, A.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:37 PM Alessio alciregi@posteo.net wrote:
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 12:21 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
Interesting, what Fedora release did you install and what kernel version ?
5.12.13-300.fc34.aarch64
Thanks for the information. I tried to reproduce it on a Rockpro64 board but rebooted correctly and the video is working fine.
This is with kernel 5.13.0-58.fc35.aarch64
But the same behavior was here also with previous versions.
Could you please share your complete boot log on the reboot where the display is blank ?
Is this ok? https://paste.centos.org/view/38afa05c
Yes, this is OK. Could you please also share the boot log after a cold reboot when it is working so we can compare if there's something different ?
Best regards, Javier
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 13:41 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
Yes, this is OK. Could you please also share the boot log after a cold reboot when it is working so we can compare if there's something different ?
Ok. Thanks. https://paste.centos.org/view/5aa7a983
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 1:58 PM Alessio alciregi@posteo.net wrote:
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 13:41 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
Yes, this is OK. Could you please also share the boot log after a cold reboot when it is working so we can compare if there's something different ?
Ok. Thanks. https://paste.centos.org/view/5aa7a983
Thanks, I don't see anything noticeable different in the two boot logs.
I noticed though that you are stil using fbcon=map:1 in your kernel cmdline. Could you please try removing it ?
Because we don't need this anymore now that the rockchipdrm takes over the framebuffer, so I think that may be the case that you are trying to map the framebuffer console to an non-existent fb 1.
Best regards, Javier
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 15:33 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
Because we don't need this anymore now that the rockchipdrm takes over the framebuffer, so I think that may be the case that you are trying to map the framebuffer console to an non-existent fb 1.
Thank you. But also removing it, the issue remains.
Ciao, A.
So, I was able to install Fedora on the Pinebook Pro following the blog post https://nullr0ute.com/2021/05/fedora-on-the-pinebook-pro/ The only difference is that I was unable to boot the installer from an USB stick, and I used dd to copy the content of the SD card to eMMC.
The only annoying problem that I'm facing is that I can't reboot the Pinebook. I can reboot, sure, indeed, connecting through the serial port, the system actually reboot, but the video becomes black with some horizontal lines [1]. Powering off the system, then on, the screen is ok.
What could it be?
I've seen similar, but not quite the same issue. Basically mine gets stuck at some part of U-Boot and doesn't proceed to continue to boot.
I believe it's a bug somewhere in the firmware but I've not had time to debug it. I suspect basically some device doesn't get reset properly by the firmware on reboot and so causes issues actually booting.
It's one of the things on my todo list to investigate but I've not had the time to dig into it as yet.
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 10:15 +0000, Alessio wrote:
[...] the video becomes black with some horizontal lines [1]. Powering off the system, then on, the screen is ok.
[1] https://alciregi.fedorapeople.org/screenshot/20210630_120910.jpg
I used to see this quite frequently with my Debian install (Daniel Thompson's installer[1] and kernel[2]) To me it looks like the video readout is misconfigured and the framebuffer is smeared vertically, so the lines you see are the logo and boot spinner.
[1] https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/ [2] linux 5.7.19-30 based on tsys tree
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/danielthompson/Debian_Testin...
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 11:36 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
I believe it's a bug somewhere in the firmware but I've not had time to debug it. I suspect basically some device doesn't get reset properly by the firmware on reboot and so causes issues actually booting.
Certainly sounds like it. Like Eduardo, I worked around by forcing the system off and then booting from that state.
I only recently installed fedora 34 and I haven't seen the horizontal lines, but I also have trouble rebooting. The screen blanks, but the machine seems to hang instead of rebooting, and I have to force it off by holding down the power key for 5-10 seconds.
Cheers, Ralph
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