5.10.4-sunxi64 pine64 board with goodix 7" mipi-dsi LCD touchscreen.

 

The LCD output is working fine across reboots after enabling the dt overlay using armbian-config.

 

For the touchscreen, I have added "goodix" to /etc/modules and the digitizer works fine from all cold boots:

~$ dmesg | grep -i goodix
[    5.836601] Goodix-TS 1-005d: supply VDDIO not found, using dummy regulator
[    5.843605] Goodix-TS 1-005d: ID k}\xfa, version: 7b6f
[    5.866815] input: Goodix Capacitive TouchScreen as /devices/platform/soc/1c2ac00.i2c/i2c-1/1-005d/input/input5

 

but a reboot leads to either:

[    5.856172] Goodix-TS 1-005d: supply VDDIO not found, using dummy regulator
[    5.856668] Goodix-TS 1-005d: i2c test failed attempt 1: -6
[    5.886780] Goodix-TS 1-005d: ID k}\xfa, version: 7b6f
[    5.909817] input: Goodix Capacitive TouchScreen as /devices/platform/soc/1c2ac00.i2c/i2c-1/1-005d/input/input5

and the screen works

 

or:

$ dmesg | grep -i goodix
[    5.862909] Goodix-TS 1-005d: supply VDDIO not found, using dummy regulator
[    5.864033] Goodix-TS 1-005d: i2c test failed attempt 1: -6
[    5.889397] Goodix-TS 1-005d: i2c test failed attempt 2: -6
[    5.925072] Goodix-TS 1-005d: I2C communication failure: -6

 

a double reboot works.

 

It looks like the i2c bus is not being completely reset in time, but that multiple connection attempts  sometimes succeed.

 

Can anyone suggest a workaround, to force a reset, add more i2c test iterations or provide more time to load from reboot?

 

BR.

 

 

Thank for doing this! I actually just tried the Armbian Buster and followed the instructrions,  the touchscreen is recognized but the pointer is mapped only on the left upper corner and not on the entire screen. Can you please help me to fix this problem?

Hi I just installed the armbian and I can get the lcd to work. I don't see the problem you are reporting however  the mapping of the touchscreen is confined to the left top corner. How can I fix this? Thanks a lot for any help you may provide!

 

Hi There, I think I have made some progress

 

This is what I did:

0) Attach a mouse and keyboard so you can type command while the Desktop is running.

 

1)Open a termonal and type:

   sudo apt-get install libts-bin

 

2) Calibrate with this command:
 
   sudo ts_calibrate

 

3) Put these lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-touch.conf

 

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Goodix Capacitive TouchScreen"
    Driver "tslib"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    MatchProduct "goodix"
EndSection

 

4) Reboot 

 

Now the position is correct but I miss the click

Actually to fix this, after step 2 I remove the 99-touch.conf file and added instead this file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf with this content:

 

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
    MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event0"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
    MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event1"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
    MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event2"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

 

It seems that there are multiple devices and you need to disable some of them to make this reliably work.

 

PLease let me know if this works for you, I hope this may help other people struggling with this!

 

I actually found a solution for calibration here: 

 

But now I have the same problem!

 

Last thing I forgot to mention, you need to have this process running:

 

ts_uinput -d 

 

I have added it in /etc/rc.local

 

Now everything works on every reboot!

Hi Lucapinello,

 

Thank you for the tip to make sure ts_uinput -d is running.   For me, the problem with reboot seems to be at a lower level (at goodix module load and before tslib gets loaded).

 

 I am trying to work out how to unload the goodix module before reboot, as a manual removal of the module leads to a working reboot, but am having some trouble writing a systemd service that runs early, before reboot

 

BR.

This is resolved now.  After reading https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=216901 I created the following systemd service file:

 

Unit]
Description=unload the goodix driver ahead of reboots to allow it to properly load again when the system restarts

[Service]
ExecStop=/sbin/rmmod goodix
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

 

System now comes up with working touchscreen every time:)                                                                                                                                                  ~                                                                                                                                                     ~