Hello,

 

I'm trying to get a opi+2e to output something on my HDMI TV without success.

 

The TV is a 10yo Thomson intuiva 27LB130S5 (1280x720, should be capable of 720p / 1080i)

 

I tried android on eMMC, worked OK.

 

Installed Armbian_5.14_Orangepiplus2e_Debian_jessie_3.4.112_desktop on a microsd.

 

During install there was some console output to the display (a bit mangled), and after

the reboot, nothing.

 

I got SSH over eth access.

 

I disabled nodm service, rebooted to have FB console only (easier to debug, or so I thought)

 

Still nothing.

 

Tried h3disp on a few resolutions (-m 6, 5, 4, 2) with a reboot between each one.

 

None gave me anything

 

Any idea how to make this work (FB console then also X11)

 

Thanks

You have any device attached to USB? Some can cause u-boot to stop booting. 

I had none for most of the tests, and now I have a usb keyboard with touchpad, but the board is booting fine (each time) since I can login through SSH... Only nothing on the screen.

 

I suspect the resolution is different from during the initial boot...

BTW can h3disp -c have any relevance wrt this problem ?

 

The TV is deemed HD Ready : Digital input HDCP + 16:9 + YUV + 720 lines min. + 720p/1080i

 

Edit: that TV only shows something on HDMI if there was signal at TV start time, it also has no way to resize picture, neither automatic nor manual.

 

How could I "port" a modeline (or whatever it is called today) from a x86_64 laptop connected to this TV (which is able to properly display something on it, probably with some help from EDID) and use it with the opi+2e ?

We are putting out a new kernel this week. It will have more options regarding display output. If you want to go deeper, check this patch:

 

https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/patch/kernel/sun8i-default/z-0003-add-additional-video-modes.patch

I built an image from git today, looks like there are already some more options in h3disp. Testing some of those now...

Argh this TV is crap, I couldn't get any good HDMI resolution even with a x86_64 laptop...

 

It works with VGA@1024x768 (laptop), but not overt that, but even then, get-edid failed.

 

I am really wondering how android get it to work, though.

 

Case closed, I won't waste any more time on this PoS...