I’ve been having a multitude of issues getting set up with my Colibri imx8x system on module. Thus far I’ve been able to power on the device, set up a Torizon Cloud application account and link it to the device, and attempted to install a demo application. Now whenever I turn on the device, my display only shows up blank (capacitive touch display, also from Toradex).
I also initially attempted working through the quickstart guide and got through flashing the OS onto the board, but got stuck at SSHing into the board: following the steps in the guide only resulted in a blank terminal with nothing showing up (used PuTTY as my SSH client).
I also noticed after making an account in the cloud application that, for some reason, my device reported no bootloader or OS installed. At this point, my plan to try to put the device in recovery mode to reflash the OS.
Does anyone have any adivce on this topic?
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To address display issues with the Colibri iMX8X, it’s important to configure the display using the correct device tree overlay. For the Capacitive Touch Display 10.1" LVDS, you should use the overlay colibri-imx8x_panel-cap-touch-10inch-lvds_overlay.dtbo, starting from version 6.2.0. You can find more details on setting up displays with Torizon in the Toradex documentation.
If you’re experiencing SSH connectivity issues, ensure that both your host and target devices are connected to the same network before attempting to access via SSH. More information on this can be found in the Toradex quickstart guide.
Before considering recovery mode, I suggest trying the following steps:
- Verify your display connections and confirm that you’re using a supported display. Refer to the display setup guide for assistance.
- Test a basic container to ensure system functionality by running:
docker run hello-world
This can help verify that your system is operating correctly. More details are available in the quickstart guide.
If these steps do not resolve the issue, reflashing the OS might be necessary. To provide more specific guidance, it would be helpful to know:
- The exact display model you are using
- The version of Torizon OS installed
- Any error messages you are encountering in the cloud application
Feel free to provide more details if you need further assistance.
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Toradex AI Assistant
Can you expand more on how to test a container?
Could you please provide more details about your setup to help us better understand the issue?
- Module details, including the hardware revision
- Carrier board you’re using
- Exact model of the “capacitive touch display from Toradex”
- Did the display work during the Toradex Easy Installer stage?
- Torizon OS release version
- Were you able to access the debug UART?
Module details: NXP i.MX 8X Computer on Module - Colibri iMX8QXP - Arm Cortex A35
Carrier board: Aster Carrier Board
Capacitive touch display: Capacitive Touch Display - 7 inch
Yes, the display did work for the Easy Installer stage, as well as pairing the device with a TorizonCloud account. It stopped working after I installed a demo application.
As per the quick start guide, I selected the Torizon OS easy pairing from the easy installer. I’m not sure exactly what version. In my TorizonCloud account, it shows
kirkstone/colibri-imx8x/torizon/torizon-core-docker/monthly as the installed package and
6.8.0-devel-202409+build.26 as the version
Lastly, we tried various means of troubleshooting connection, not sure if we tried the Debug but I can try it again.
As shown on that page, the Colibri iMX8X module comes in four variants, and each variant may have its own hardware revision.
For effective troubleshooting, it’s important to know the exact module version you are using.
Could you please clarify what exactly you did to install the demo application, and which application it is?
The Aster carrier board provides debug UART access via the Serial-to-USB converter on the X4 micro USB connector. You can configure your terminal program as described here to capture the boot log and see where the boot process fails.
If needed, you can put the module into recovery mode, then load the Toradex Easy Installer over USB OTG, and reinstall the OS from scratch.
I have the QuadXPlus 2GB WiFi/Bluetooth IT (based on the sticker on my colibri)
After installing the flash OS, I connected the board to my home network, which brought up the screen (on the touch display) to pair my device with a TorizonCloud account. After successfully creating an account and pairing my device, this brought up the next screen prompt, which said to test my device with a demo application. For some reason, the demo application is no longer showing up in my TorizonCloud account under the device’s packages, but I believe it was the Weston Desktop environment demo package.
Also, for reference I am now able to open a terminal connection with PuTTY using the serial Debug port.
Glad to hear you managed to get it working. Now, would you mind to share the boot log here so we can try to identify the root cause of the issue?
