SPI on = Black Screen

uConsole
1

Probably something silly I’m missing but I don’t mind looking the part.

Both the older dragon os and the current rex(stock) Trixie with just aiov2_ctl (with recent update) if I go into raspi-config (sudo) and turn on SPI in interfaces, the screen goes black and I cannot get it back. Plug it into monitor and I can only get monitor out. Tried Wayland and tried the “screen blanking” with no luck.

What I was trying to do is setup pyMC_Repeater and skipped the first SPI steps the first time but service failed to start. Tried including the SPI steps and I’m here now. It’s actually why I tried both images because dragon gets wonky with how where things are installed.

I'm stuck, and my frustration is winning
2

I haven’t gotten around to fixing this on my own uConsole, but I might start here:

3

I have a package called clockworkpi-backlight in my repo that will solve the problem with spi fully enabled.

1 Like
4

@Rex the king himself! By any chance, have you tried pymc_repeater by rightup?

I can never seem to get past step one. I have clockworkpi-backlight installed through apt but dtparam=spi=on in /boot/firmware/config.txt that shows up at the very bottom doesn’t seem to take and when I turn it on through raspi-config, black screen, I reboot, spi is on in the config, but not in raspi-config.

Cm5lite 16 64.

HG aioV2 with expansion board and carrier

5

add this to you config.txt located in /boot/firmware
CM5 add this to the pi5 section dtoverlay=spi0-0cs
add this to the all section dtoverlay=spi1-1cs
add this to the all section dtparam=spi=on

let me know if that fixes it.

6

I’ll try it now! 20char

1 Like
7

That seemed to do it! Got dang scholar and a saint, I tell ya! Seriously appreciate you.

2 Likes
8

Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it. Feel free to reach out anytime.

1 Like
9

image
image1395×619 52.2 KB

Yesterday i put them in. did an update && full-upgrade and now they vanished. anyway to make them stick?

(and yes. i bought 6 coffees so i could at least be in 3rd place, lol.)

1 Like
10

That’s weird they shouldn’t have been removed. Just put them back in and monitor and see if they get removed again maybe try to record what gets updated that might have caused it. I updated this morning and all my settings are still there.

11

Thanks for the coffee by the way I really appreciate it!