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Wheezy doesn't work! [Fixed] #102

Closed leonheller closed 12 years ago

leonheller commented 12 years ago

I hoped that Wheezy would solve the keyboard problem I;m getting with the earlier Debian release (kernel panic). It doesn't, however. I get a screenful then

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is displayed, and that's it.

If the keyboard is unplugged, I get the Raspi-config screen.

It won't even start to boot with a mouse plugged in.

KenT2 commented 12 years ago

Leon looked at your thread on the forum. The symptoms do give the feel of a power problem, though not your power supply.

If the new keyboard doesn't work I would try a different SD card and use Wheezy on it, Class 4 seems more likely to work than Class 10. The next port of call is to investigate the polyfuses, some seem to have a high resistance. There is a long thread about this on the Farnell website.

Its not really a Wheezy problem as such as its the RPi firmware that gets you to the rasp-config screen, asb just imports that into his build.

popcornmix commented 12 years ago

@leonheller Can you replace kernel.img from your sdcard with this one: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot

There has been a fix for keyboards that return more data than they should.

leonheller commented 12 years ago

I think that I am using a Class 4 SD card (Kingston SDHC Video 4 GB).

I've already tried that file that is supposed to fix the keyboard problem, it makes things worse!

All three kernels behaving differently seems to imply a software problem.

If the Trust keyboard doesn't work, I'll just return the board to RS for a replacement. I don't see why I should fix the fuses.

leonheller commented 12 years ago

The Trust keyboard has arrived, and that works OK.

I did some shopping in Asda, and checked to see if they had any of the £5 keyboards that are also supposed to work. They had some in stock, so I could have saved myself some time and money.

The keyboard issue does need to be addressed, it shouldn't be difficult.

vicary commented 12 years ago

Got similar issue, boot up successfully without my USB wireless mouse. My problem seems to be the aforementioned power issue by @KenT2.

leonheller commented 12 years ago

The first keyboard only took 50 mA, so it couldn't have been a power issue.

asb commented 12 years ago

Reported fixed by original submitter. Closing.