| radv | PTI | 16:07 |
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| radv | I have a pine phone. I bought it because I have an N900 and wanted a new device to run maemo. I have never been able to boot maemo (or anything) from a MicroSD card in the pine phone. any thought would be useful. | 16:07 |
| radv | the pine phoe forums have not been useful. | 16:08 |
| humpelstilzchen[ | How did you install the pinephone distributions on the SD? | 16:09 |
| radv | i tried using dd to create the image, but the device doesnt recognize the sd card at all. eventually i used balenaEtcher from a pc runnning windows 11 | 16:14 |
| radv | i'm fairly sure it's a device hardware problem, not a problem with the maemo image...still thought someone here might be able to put me on some useful path | 16:16 |
| humpelstilzchen[ | Maybe try a different sd card? | 16:17 |
| radv | i have | 16:18 |
| humpelstilzchen[ | ok, what exact dd command have you used? | 16:19 |
| radv | most reciently I did not use any because the device doesn't know there's a cardin the slot. | 16:20 |
| radv | lsblk only gives me results for he emmc | 16:21 |
| buZz | radv: hey, got it working yet? :D | 17:56 |
| buZz | radv: maybe your dipswitches inside the pinephone have the SD slot disabled? not sure if thats possible | 17:57 |
| buZz | but some of those dipswitches dis/enable specific hardware | 17:57 |
| buZz | radv: lsblk will -always- just list devices it sees :P if there's no card (or no valid partition!!) on the device, it wont be visible in lsblk | 17:58 |
| buZz | try a ls /dev/mmc* to see if mmc0(?) is the only device it sees (regardless of partitions, those would be mmc0p1 etc) | 17:59 |
| radv | ls /dev/mmc* shows only the mmcblk2 i.e. the emmc storage | 18:13 |
| radv | this thing abut dipswitches is new information | 18:14 |
| bencoh | you can also check /sys/bus/mmc/devices/ | 18:15 |
| bencoh | and find /sys/devices -iname mmc_host | 18:16 |
| buZz | radv: there are dipswitches under the battery lid | 18:18 |
| buZz | https://wiki.pine64.org/images/e/e1/Pinephone_pogo.png , doesnt seem to toggle SD slot though | 18:19 |
| radv | oh, those...i dont think theres on for the microsd card. | 18:19 |
| buZz | radv: did you read dmesg? it might tell you about if it saw any other mmc device | 18:19 |
| buZz | radv: wouldnt hurt to confirm they are all on , though ;) | 18:19 |
| radv | true | 18:19 |
| radv | ls /sys/bus/mmc/devices returns mmc1:0001 and mmc2:0001 | 18:22 |
| buZz | so, it does see it | 18:22 |
| buZz | radv: its possible that whatever kernel you are currently running just lacks support for SD cards ;) | 18:23 |
| buZz | iirc i did need to flash something onto the pinephone before i could boot | 18:23 |
| radv | hum. i'm skeptical | 18:23 |
| radv | even so wouldnt it read the sdcard first oon startup? | 18:24 |
| buZz | only if written correctly | 18:24 |
| radv | hum | 18:24 |
| radv | okay | 18:24 |
| buZz | if you write the .img file to a -partition- , it wont work ;) | 18:24 |
| radv | well this is something | 18:24 |
| buZz | > Do not use partition numbers, or it won't boot. For example: sdd, not sdds1 or sddp1; mmcblk0, not mmcblk0p1. In most cases with SD cards, your computer might read the SD card as mmcblk0 or something similar. | 18:25 |
| buZz | from https://leste.maemo.org/PinePhone#Installation | 18:25 |
| radv | yeah i know that. | 18:25 |
| buZz | alright, you didnt answer the dd command question :P | 18:25 |
| radv | i guess i shuld check with the Arch Linux folks about | 18:26 |
| buZz | why? arch doesnt even support ARM | 18:26 |
| radv | thats what i have running right now | 18:26 |
| buZz | you mean alarm? thats not arch, its a forked distro | 18:26 |
| buZz | by 1 person mostly | 18:27 |
| buZz | writing the SD card is something you do on a different machine though, usually | 18:27 |
| radv | which doesnt reognize the card with lsblk or fdisk but shows it in the /sys/bus/mmc/devices file | 18:27 |
| radv | yeah, i mean alarm | 18:27 |
| buZz | i would just assume alarm very iffy, its a mess of a distro | 18:28 |
| buZz | why cant you use a normal PC to write the SD card? | 18:28 |
| radv | i did...i mean one with windows | 18:31 |
| radv | i used balenaEtcher | 18:32 |
| radv | that wouldnt cause the problem, would it? | 18:32 |
| buZz | i never had any success with etcher or windows | 18:34 |
| radv | maybe etchers creating a partition a few blocks away from what the device can read... | 18:38 |
| buZz | maybe etcher is a website ;) | 18:39 |
| radv | i guess ive got to figure out how to write to the sd card using the pine phone and a archlike system that cant see the card | 18:40 |
| buZz | what does dmesg say when you insert a SD card -while booted- on the pinephone with alarm? | 18:40 |
| radv | i'd downloaded some balenaetcher softwware | 18:41 |
| radv | geesh my typings ugly with this keyboard | 18:41 |
| radv | ...hang on... | 18:41 |
| radv | well while the card is in, withoutremoving and reinserting...its saying "no support for cards volts" about something | 18:43 |
| radv | sunxi mmc 1c0f000.mmc | 18:44 |
| radv | it's refrencing an SDIO card | 18:45 |
| radv | battery fell out | 18:50 |
| radv | i do not get the voltage error when the card is not in the slot | 18:53 |
| radv | grumble...now the keyboards not working...ill be back later. thanks for working with me | 18:56 |
| buZz | sounds like the kernel isnt setting up voltages correctly | 18:56 |
| radv | i can't see if there've been any comments here in he last hour. | 19:55 |
| radv | other then this Arch fork I'm using now I had some problems with the microsd card reader when I had Manjaro on the device, but I had may other problems with that system. | 20:00 |
| buZz | 18:56:42 < buZz> sounds like the kernel isnt setting up voltages correctly | 20:04 |
| buZz | radv: try a external USB sdcard thingy then? | 20:04 |
| radv | I'd try installing Maemo Leste on the emmc, but on the wiki for the pine phone, under installation I'm reading "Note: currently not working" | 20:05 |
| radv | yeah, ive thought about the external usb, but it makes the device less portable | 20:06 |
| buZz | radv: you need it a single time | 20:10 |
| buZz | just to make the SD card | 20:10 |
| buZz | the -kernel- sets up voltages for devices | 20:10 |
| buZz | seemingly the kernel that alarm ships for PP is crap and doesnt do it correctly | 20:10 |
| Wizzup | alarm = arch arm? | 20:39 |
| Wizzup | uvos: so I have the module blacklisted and still get the same problem | 21:21 |
| sunshavi | radv: sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: send stop command failed? | 21:51 |
| radv | alarm ... Arch Linux ARM | 22:05 |
| radv | im sorry sunshavi i'm not sure what your suggesting. there are enorous holes in my tech. knowledge. | 22:07 |
| radv | " | 22:17 |
| radv | [ 209.734402] sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: no support for card's volts | 22:17 |
| radv | [ 209.734469] mmc0: error -22 whilst initialising SDIO card" | 22:17 |
| radv | it repeats many times | 22:17 |
| sicelo | taking my SIM out of D4 for the first time in almost two months ... has worked quite well really | 22:42 |
| sicelo | only removing it temporarily because (1) i need to do some USSD stuff, and (2) i need to use the data package on my android phone | 22:42 |
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