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**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 8, 2018 at 10:13 PM

Try

Code

dmesg | paste

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 8, 2018 at 10:11 PM

dmesg is a command that prints the kernel log. I think 'dmesg | paste' should return a url to a pastebin sort of site with the content.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 8, 2018 at 9:59 PM

Iceman-NL

Interesting. So you got the clock, but the box hung? Can you SSH into it? Maybe get dmesg out of it?

I assume that you are using 8.90.5?

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 8, 2018 at 9:37 PM

Iceman-NL

Please check the DTB I added in the previous post. I rebuilt it from the latest 8.90.5 2g DTB.

Also, I can't see any links in your posts.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 8, 2018 at 9:24 PM

Iceman-NL

But it works fine with the gxm_q200_2g.dtb?

Edit: Could you try this DTB? I rebuilt it with the gxm_q200_2g.dtb from 8.90.5 as base.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 8, 2018 at 9:06 PM

Iceman-NL

Hi, try this DTB please.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 7, 2018 at 10:45 PM

chessplayer

Thanks, I got it.

Looks like a bunch of these newer Android boxes use a different kernel, which has a built in VFD driver, and so they don't have a useful display configuration in the device tree.

I'm trying to figure out whether it's possible to decompile the kernel or some other way to grab that data, but so far no luck.

It is possible that we'd have to somehow request the kernel sources from the manufacturers (or at least their patches with the VFD configurations) to be able to add support for these displays.

**The Coolest**

antaril

older versions are in the archive folder.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 7, 2018 at 6:50 PM

chessplayer

I see. It has an identical display to a box I have Abox A1 Max (or A95X R2).
If you manage to get a hold of the stock rom/firmware for the box let me know, and I'll see if I can extract the info out of it.
I'm coming up empty.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 7, 2018 at 6:16 PM

chessplayer

What is the exact model of your box?

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 9:46 PM

Quote from Marciano

Yes i know but that is the problem i can't find anyware stockfrimaware for x96 Pro Xnano

Maybe try looking for a box that looks identical to the xnano. Many Chinese boxes are rebranded, so there is a chance another box could fit the bill.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 9:35 PM

Marciano

I'm downloading one firmware now to check it. But really you need the fw of your exact box to check for the configuration of the driver.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 5:15 PM

Marciano

Thanks, but is this the xnano version?

I'll take a look at it later today.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 1:29 PM

Marciano

Looks like they are using this driver\service in the X96 Pro Xnano, but the configuration must be hardcoded in the vfd driver, they are not using the DTB for the configuration.

If I could get my hands on the binary (should be something with 'vfd' in the name), perhaps I could find something out from that.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 11:58 AM

Marciano

Do you happen to have the original ROM/Firmware?

I am looking at a M9 Pro ROM, but looks like it uses a completely different controller.

Perhaps if I had the rom I could find something, but as always no promises.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 2:20 AM

Marciano

Well sadly nothing useful there either.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 1:16 AM

Marciano

You can try giving this DTB a shot. Digging through some (albeit pretty old) source code, I found this potential configuration.

Might work, might not, no guarantees.

If the display lights up but doesn't look right, it can be sorted out, if it doesn't light up at all, then there's not much else to do.

Although a dmesg log could provide some details, if it doesn't work.

**The Coolest** · LED (VFD) Displays in LibreELEC **The Coolest** March 6, 2018 at 1:02 AM

Oh well, was worth a shot I guess.