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Title: Damaged Olinuxino-Micro?
Post by: lordlothar on December 18, 2012, 12:03:28 AM
Hello,

I just received my A13-olinuxino-micro and I have already encountered some problems. I used 5V/1A power adapter to power it on and as soon I connected it to the power, it started smelling like burnt plastic and it began to smoke! I immediately removed it from power to prevent further damage to the board.I can see that U7 (SY8008C(AA)C) is a bit inflated, but the board powers on and the login screen appears! Could it be something on top of it, like glue, that was burnt?

Also, when I connect a keyboard to USB-HOST will it work immediately or do i have to enable drivers first?

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Damaged Olinuxino-Micro?
Post by: jeroends on December 20, 2012, 12:41:05 PM
Hello,
I just booted the micro also for the first time. Also some probs are rising.
When booting up with no usb devices attached everything boots (almost) fine. When connecting for ex a usb keyboard, a port change is detected, but that's it:
ehci_irq: port change detect                                                   
[   31.130000] ehci_irq: port change detect                                                     
ehci_irq: port change detect                                                                   
[   31.290000] ehci_irq: port change detect                                                     
The port change to OHCI now!                                                                   
[   31.350000] The port change to OHCI now


Disconnecting the keyboard and do a reboot through the serial console, but then halts at the detection of the serial ports. Power the board and of and everything boots up again.
<6>Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled                                     
[uart]: failed to get uart2's used information                                                 
[uart]: failed to get uart3's used information                                                 
[uart]: used uart info.: 0x02                                                                   
<6>sunxi-uart.1: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c28400 (irq = 2) is a U6_16550A

At last, after a powerup with an usb keyboard (or hub or ...) attached, it gives me an error at the sw.ohci and halts with the population of /dev
<4>sw-ohci sw-ohci.1: Unlink after no-IRQ?  Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ.         
[    6.360000] sw-ohci sw-ohci.1: Unlink after no-IRQ?  Controller is probably using the wrong I
RQ.
...snap...
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd<30>udevd[119]: starting version 175               
[    8.630000] udevd[119]: starting version 175                                                 
.                                                                                               
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.                                                 
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...


good news: no burned smells  ;)

ps: just noticed an other rarity: when extracting the power from the board, the power led seems to lite up a bit, when disconnecting the serial convertor (the one sold here), the power led goes off. Maybe this is causing the problem at reboot untill serial port detection ...
Title: Re: Damaged Olinuxino-Micro?
Post by: olimex on December 20, 2012, 05:33:34 PM
the smoke will appear if you apply more than 5V or reversed voltage :)

note that USB host is only HIGH SPEED, if you want to attach HID low speed devices to it you have to do this via hub which supports lo/hi speed

interesting feature is that A13 USB-OTG supports HID devices like mouses, keyboards etc but to connect them you will need this adapter: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Components/Misc/USB-MINI-2-USB-HOST/
Title: Re: Damaged Olinuxino-Micro?
Post by: jeroends on December 20, 2012, 06:08:50 PM
That did indeed the trick  :)
Keyboard is now recognized through the hub.
For the halt at serial port: I've let the board on for a little while longer and it booted up further.
Now I've just have to wait for my usb to ethernet convertor and we 're of to go  :)
Title: Re: Damaged Olinuxino-Micro?
Post by: lordlothar on December 21, 2012, 12:23:20 AM
Thanks for the replies! Strange thing is I double-checked me power supply and I am quite sure I connected it the correct way and it is 5V/1A...

Anyway, now it seems to boot fine, the only problem is that tty1 (the vga terminal) hangs after ~10 minutes, even if I restart its process, it remains unresponsive.

Any solution to this?