[Solved]image-test.gif: loading FAILED

[Dezorian]

Hi,

I’m using the PiScreen, and have using it successfully a couple of months back. This time, i’ve wanting to use it again and updated the rpi software using sudo rpi-update.
The light goes on, and i see the black screen.
But when i want to load the test image, the following message appears upon the screen:
“image-test.gif: loading FAILED” any idea what can be wrong?

Thanks in advance.

This is my dmesg:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.1.12+ (dc4@dc4-XPS13-9333) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140303 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1+bzr2650 – Linaro GCC 2014.03) ) #824 PREEMPT Wed Oct 28 16:39:49 GMT 2015
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [410fb767] revision 7 (ARMv7), cr=00c5387d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine model: Raspberry Pi Model B Plus Rev 1.2
[ 0.000000] cma: Reserved 8 MiB at 0x17800000
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 98304
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c088be7c, node_mem_map d7493000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 864 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 98304 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 97440
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: dma.dmachans=0x7f35 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416 bcm2708.boardrev=0x10 bcm2708.serial=0xce7f8e35 smsc95xx.macaddr=B8:27:EB:7F:8E:35 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 bcm2708.disk_led_gpio=47 bcm2708.disk_led_active_low=0 sdhci-bcm2708.emmc_clock_freq=250000000 vc_mem.mem_base=0x1ec00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x20000000 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 371544K/393216K available (6128K kernel code, 489K rwdata, 1780K rodata, 352K init, 720K bss, 13480K reserved, 8192K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 – 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xffc00000 – 0xfff00000 (3072 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xd8800000 – 0xff000000 ( 616 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 – 0xd8000000 ( 384 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 – 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 – 0xc07c1540 (7910 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc07c2000 – 0xc081a000 ( 352 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc081a000 – 0xc08947e4 ( 490 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc08947e4 – 0xc0948980 ( 721 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] Additional per-CPU info printed with stalls.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:522
[ 0.000000] clocksource stc: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1911260446275 ns
[ 0.000014] sched_clock: 32 bits at 1000kHz, resolution 1000ns, wraps every 2147483647500ns
[ 0.000055] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 1000ns
[ 0.000336] Console: colour dummy device 80×30
[ 0.001766] console [tty1] enabled
[ 0.001832] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 2.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=10000)
[ 0.001931] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.002303] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.002383] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.003464] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[ 0.003562] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.003636] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.003703] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.003766] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 0.003886] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.004016] ftrace: allocating 19784 entries in 59 pages
[ 0.111996] Setting up static identity map for 0x81c0 – 0x81f8
[ 0.114784] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.125463] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 1 part 20 variant b rev 5
[ 0.125908] clocksource jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.127932] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.128833] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.134408] DMA: preallocated 4096 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.135937] bcm2708.uart_clock = 3000000
[ 0.141554] hw-breakpoint: found 6 breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.141735] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
[ 0.141937] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[ 0.142249] 20201000.uart: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x20201000 (irq = 83, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
[ 0.529692] console [ttyAMA0] enabled
[ 0.534065] bcm2835-mbox 2000b880.mailbox: mailbox enabled
[ 0.602225] bcm2708-dmaengine 20007000.dma: DMA legacy API manager at f2007000, dmachans=0xf35
[ 0.611111] bcm2708-dmaengine 20007000.dma: Initialized 7 DMA channels (+ 1 legacy)
[ 0.619630] bcm2708-dmaengine 20007000.dma: Load BCM2835 DMA engine driver
[ 0.626630] bcm2708-dmaengine 20007000.dma: dma_debug:0
[ 0.632827] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.637058] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.642715] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.648309] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.654344] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2015-11-01 14:49
[ 0.690115] Switched to clocksource stc
[ 0.741050] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 0.744370] CacheFiles: Loaded
[ 0.763641] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.769546] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.777007] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.783643] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 0.790189] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.796090] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.802827] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.807831] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.813950] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.818698] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.823480] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.831328] hw perfevents: enabled with armv6_1176 PMU driver, 3 counters available
[ 0.840574] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.862872] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[ 0.867259] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.876860] FS-Cache: Netfs ‘nfs’ registered for caching
[ 0.883946] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 0.889137] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 0.893506] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 0.901585] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252)
[ 0.909512] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.913710] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.919318] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 0.925826] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA memory 57c00000
[ 0.931183] BCM2708FB: allocated DMA channel 0 @ f2007000
[ 0.941967] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 82×26
[ 0.953367] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 0 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.963171] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver
[ 0.968888] vc-cma: vc_cma_base = 0x00000000
[ 0.975438] vc-cma: vc_cma_size = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[ 0.982614] vc-cma: vc_cma_initial = 0x00000000 (0 MiB)
[ 0.989973] vc-mem: phys_addr:0x00000000 mem_base=0x1ec00000 mem_size:0x20000000(512 MiB)
[ 1.021354] brd: module loaded
[ 1.035396] loop: module loaded
[ 1.041434] vchiq: vchiq_init_state: slot_zero = 0xd7c80000, is_master = 0
[ 1.052178] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
[ 1.060328] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 1.067856] dwc_otg: version 3.00a 10-AUG-2012 (platform bus)
[ 1.275568] Core Release: 2.80a
[ 1.280391] Setting default values for core params
[ 1.286738] Finished setting default values for core params
[ 1.494120] Using Buffer DMA mode
[ 1.499003] Periodic Transfer Interrupt Enhancement – disabled
[ 1.506459] Multiprocessor Interrupt Enhancement – disabled
[ 1.513700] OTG VER PARAM: 0, OTG VER FLAG: 0
[ 1.519647] Dedicated Tx FIFOs mode
[ 1.525237] WARN::dwc_otg_hcd_init:1047: FIQ DMA bounce buffers: virt = 0xd7c14000 dma = 0x57c14000 len=9024
[ 1.538476] FIQ FSM acceleration enabled for :
[ 1.538476] Non-periodic Split Transactions
[ 1.538476] Periodic Split Transactions
[ 1.538476] High-Speed Isochronous Endpoints
[ 1.561675] dwc_otg: Microframe scheduler enabled
[ 1.561801] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:412: FIQ on core 0 at 0xc0422818
[ 1.569384] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:413: FIQ ASM at 0xc0422af0 length 36
[ 1.577303] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:438: MPHI regs_base at 0xd8896000
[ 1.585031] dwc_otg 20980000.usb: DWC OTG Controller
[ 1.591722] dwc_otg 20980000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 1.600796] dwc_otg 20980000.usb: irq 32, io mem 0x00000000
[ 1.608017] Init: Port Power? op_state=1
[ 1.613552] Init: Power Port (0)
[ 1.618706] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 1.627199] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.636082] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[ 1.642426] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.1.12+ dwc_otg_hcd
[ 1.649757] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 20980000.usb
[ 1.657058] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.662668] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.668756] dwc_otg: FIQ enabled
[ 1.668780] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[ 1.668793] dwc_otg: FIQ split-transaction FSM enabled
[ 1.668857] Module dwc_common_port init
[ 1.669427] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.677611] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.685969] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=700000 max=900000
[ 1.692892] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.700814] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 1.707398] mmc-bcm2835 20300000.mmc: mmc_debug:0 mmc_debug2:0
[ 1.714945] mmc-bcm2835 20300000.mmc: DMA channels allocated
[ 1.760760] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 1.768840] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 1.778168] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[ 1.791077] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.798276] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.805292] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 1.813431] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.820815] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 1.833366] registered taskstats version 1
[ 1.839381] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
[ 1.845813] [vc_sm_connected_init]: start
[ 1.852457] [vc_sm_connected_init]: end – returning 0
[ 1.861422] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2…
[ 1.868484] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501
[ 1.882296] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[ 1.912175] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 0001
[ 1.930253] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 00000 29.8 GiB
[ 1.941186] mmcblk0: p1 p2
[ 1.996200] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 2.007795] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
[ 2.017498] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 2.023774] Freeing unused kernel memory: 352K (c07c2000 – c081a000)
[ 2.080316] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[ 2.088873] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101
[ 2.300848] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9514
[ 2.309525] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.320814] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.326710] hub 1-1:1.0: 5 ports detected
[ 2.620362] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[ 2.731069] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00
[ 2.740036] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.769927] smsc95xx v1.0.4
[ 2.849328] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register ‘smsc95xx’ at usb-20980000.usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:7f:8e:35
[ 3.738671] udevd[159]: starting version 175
[ 5.252667] gpiomem-bcm2835 20200000.gpiomem: Initialised: Registers at 0x20200000
[ 5.356477] spi spi0.1: setting up native-CS1 as GPIO 7
[ 5.390637] spi spi0.0: setting up native-CS0 as GPIO 8
[ 7.338553] ads7846 spi0.1: touchscreen, irq 411
[ 7.353645] input: ADS7846 Touchscreen as /devices/platform/soc/20204000.spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.1/input/input0
[ 7.368432] fbtft: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 7.422337] fb_ili9486: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 7.454021] fbtft_of_value: regwidth = 16
[ 7.477780] fbtft_of_value: buswidth = 8
[ 7.497968] fbtft_of_value: debug = 0
[ 7.505553] fbtft_of_value: rotate = 90
[ 7.511477] fbtft_of_value: fps = 30
[ 8.074990] graphics fb1: fb_ili9486 frame buffer, 480×320, 300 KiB video memory, 4 KiB DMA buffer memory, fps=33, spi0.0 at 16 MHz
[ 10.721566] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 11.271867] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 12.230693] flexfb: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 12.382036] fbtft_device: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 12.400263] fbtft_device: SPI devices registered:
[ 12.406943] fbtft_device: ads7846 spi0.1 2000kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 12.415398] fbtft_device: ili9486 spi0.0 16000kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 12.423931] fbtft_device: ‘fb’ Platform devices registered:
[ 12.431455] fbtft_device: soc:fb id=-1 pdata? no
[ 12.438336] fbtft_device: Deleting spi0.0
[ 12.449698] spi spi0.0: setting up native-CS0 as GPIO 8
[ 12.470577] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_request_gpios: ‘reset’ = GPIO25
[ 12.478478] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_request_gpios: ‘dc’ = GPIO24
[ 12.500462] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_request_gpios: ‘led’ = GPIO22
[ 12.508073] flexfb spi0.0: flexfb_verify_gpios_dc()
[ 12.528951] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_init_display()
[ 12.536903] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_reset()
[ 12.662556] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0xB0) 0x00
[ 12.669055] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0x11)
[ 12.675072] flexfb spi0.0: init: mdelay(250)
[ 12.930599] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0x3A) 0x55
[ 12.936904] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0x36) 0x28
[ 12.943206] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0xC2) 0x44
[ 12.949356] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0xC5) 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
[ 12.956974] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0xE0) 0x0F 0x1F 0x1C 0x0C 0x0F 0x08 0x48 0x98 0x37 0x0A 0x13 0x04 0x11 0x0D 0x00
[ 12.974525] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0xE1) 0x0F 0x32 0x2E 0x0B 0x0D 0x05 0x47 0x75 0x37 0x06 0x10 0x03 0x24 0x20 0x00
[ 13.004314] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0xE2) 0x0F 0x32 0x2E 0x0B 0x0D 0x05 0x47 0x75 0x37 0x06 0x10 0x03 0x24 0x20 0x00
[ 13.018265] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0x11)
[ 13.024344] flexfb spi0.0: init: write(0x29)
[ 13.127884] flexfb spi0.0: Display update: 3072 kB/s (97.620 ms), fps=0 (0.000 ms)
[ 13.138516] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_register_backlight()
[ 13.148945] graphics fb1: flexfb frame buffer, 480×320, 300 KiB video memory, 4 KiB DMA buffer memory, fps=20, spi0.0 at 32 MHz
[ 13.168865] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_backlight_update_status: polarity=1, power=0, fb_blank=0
[ 13.180752] fbtft_device: GPIOS used by ‘flexfb’:
[ 13.187358] fbtft_device: ‘reset’ = GPIO25
[ 13.193630] fbtft_device: ‘dc’ = GPIO24
[ 13.199542] fbtft_device: ‘led’ = GPIO22
[ 13.205662] fbtft_device: SPI devices registered:
[ 13.212338] fbtft_device: ads7846 spi0.1 2000kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 13.220782] fbtft_device: flexfb spi0.0 32000kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[ 15.020271] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[ 22.410913] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn’t capable of remote wakeup
[ 23.951800] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1
[ 29.948407] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap. Priority:-1 extents:2 across:2134012k SSFS
[ 34.892659] uart-pl011 20201000.uart: no DMA platform data
[ 2327.255328] flexfb spi0.0: fbtft_backlight_update_status: polarity=1, power=0, fb_blank=0

[Mark Williams]

Everything looks good in the dmesg output.

Are you trying to use ‘fbi’ to show the image?
maybe download it again.
What is the command line statement you are using to show the image?

Mark --OzzMaker.com --

[Dezorian]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I just used

sudo fbi -noverbose -T 1 -a -d /dev/fb1 image-test.gif

I’ll try to download ‘fbi’ again. Is there any way to get details error messaging from fbi loading?

[Dezorian]

found the problem. It does not work through tightvnc console window. Only through ssh. Got it working now! (And updated+upgraded all the packages while trying to figure it out 😉

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