Hello, I've installed the Debian prebuilt image into NanoPi-2. Bootup Linux login as root user and do nothing, about after 30 minutes the board will hang, touch the CPU and I see that it is very hot. What happened to the board ? Did FriendlyARM run the test before release for production ? Do we need heat sink for the S5P4418 ? Best Regards
Can you reboot right after a hang and have it running again? Hot, can you hold your finger on it (<65C)?
Hi Davef, I think the temperature is over 70 degree, couldn't hold finger longer than 1s, because the chip is very hot. And not able to reboot right after CPU hang, wait a minutes to let the CPU's temperature slow down, press reset button and the board is able to boot up again. NanoPi-2 PCB is small, I think CPU heat sink is not enough, if we run heavy software, or set CPU speed to 1400000 the board will hang quickly.Temporally I set CPU speed 800000 to avoid CPU over heat issue. Best Regards
Henry, I asked on their other forum if cpufrequtils was in the kernel. How did you set CPU speed? Mine arrive in a week or two and I will try a small stick-on heatsink. I do not need max speed. Does going down to 800000 (800MHz?) make a big difference? I had two NanoPC-T1s, one ran hot the other quite cool. I say "had" because the hot one finally died.
Hi I've used the following commands to slow down the CPU speed: echo userspace > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo 800000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq Available frequencies : cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies 1400000 1200000 1000000 800000 700000 600000 500000 400000 Yes, after going down to 800MHz, CPU temperature is lower than before the board runs normally. If you have NanoPi2, you can try. Best Regards
Henry, Thank you for the details. I will make the change when they arrive.
Henry, The latest Debian image seems to be running at 400MHz and on "interactive" for the governor. Attached is a picture of the heatsink that I put on. The two inductors at the bottom edge of the heatsink stick up far enough that the heatsink has to be placed like so. Also, the adhesive pad contacts the two chips on the right hand side. I estimate that on idle it is running maybe 50C. I am measuring about 2W going into the 5V power supply, but have not measured the actually DC current draw. Regards, davef
Here is how to REALLY heatsink the CPU! http://magazine.odroid.com/201601 What a beautiful job.
Henry, Tried your commands, preceded with sudo and I get : Permission denied I haven't experienced that little problem before. Just how did you do it? Thanks.
I am aware that Debian and Ubuntu handle sudo differently, but the command: whoami says root and sudo whoami comes up with quite a complex list of woes. Shouldn't: whoami say fa ? Is the file /etc/sudoers setup correctly?
Ignore previous post. After reflashing the Debian image: whoami says fa and sudo whoami says root Somehow files called sudo and whoami ended up in /etc/sudoers.d in the non-working rootfs. Still can't change the CPU frequency.
Hello ,
Can you do some experiments as my method , I do some change for my
board , and after doing the modify , my board work perfectly .
You can modify nanopi2's resistance of R452, which influence of voltage
is VDD_ARM , it's resistace is /100k/1% , but you need to modify the
resistance as /115k/1% . Hope that I can help you .
My boards came with the new value for R452. My VDD_ARM_AP is sitting at 1.281Volts. Everything else that I have tested works properly. My only experience echo'ing stuff to /sys/ was on the mini2440 to control the backlight ... years ago. There is either something I don't know about accessing files in /sys/ or /sys/ is not setup so that it works with sudo.
Hi Davef, Try login with root user & password = fa
Was sorted, see http://www.friendlyarm.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=56 However, you are correct!
The link doesn't tell you how to do it: To get to root: su fa to get back: sudo login fa fa
Hi Davef, How have you tried running Linux on NanoPi 2 ? Does the CPU hang like my board ? I've also tried with Android and encountered the same problem. I'm very disappointed and intend to use another board.
Oh, I have misread jjm's post above. After changing R452 the board seems to be better than before. Thank you very much.
Henry, It runs well. Used a small stick-on heatsink. Couldn't extract any information out of Samsung re heatsinking app notes. The NanoPC-T2 looks like a good solution :)
Hi Davef, Thank you very much. After changing R452 my board runs well too. NanoPC-T2 seems to be better, I'll purchase one. Best Regards
i'm using nanopc-t2, have no idea where is R452 is located. can help?
Firstly, the problem was identified on the NanoPi 2. Secondly, a modification to bootargs was possibly the real solution to the problem, not changing R452. Get your NanpPC-T2 up and running, then post any specific problems you encounter.
I have the same problem on CPU is over temperature and hang after running for 1 to 2 hours. i'm using android, it will restart, sometime it able to boot back but sometime it will hang on starting. any post or link for modification on bootargs?
Over-temperature on a NanoPC-T2. That is a bit disappointing. I'd hope the heatsink would have sorted that issue out. The bootargs modification is to add a rootwait. Check out the thread(s) on the new forum.
Hello,
Maybe you need add one Pure Aluminum Heat Sink to the
board:http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_i...