[Resolved]Updating Firmware causes Console to stop working

[Damon1974]

I had my raspberry pi working in console mode. (Touchscreen still broke as per previous post)

After upgrading the firmware, the display no longer has output.

Here was the last command I ran before rebooting. I have tested this 3 times now. New build for Raspbian. Get it working via commands on this site. Upgrade firmware, no screen output.

Here were the last commands I ran:

pi@rasp-temp ~ $ sudo rpi-update
*** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom
*** Performing self-update
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 7635 100 7635 0 0 20638 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 29030
*** Relaunching after update
*** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom
*** Downloading specific firmware revision (this will take a few minutes)
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 168 0 168 0 0 433 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 563
100 22.9M 100 22.9M 0 0 389k 0 0:01:00 0:01:00 –:–:– 296k
*** Updating firmware
*** Updating kernel modules
*** depmod 3.12.30+
*** Updating VideoCore libraries
*** Using HardFP libraries
*** Updating SDK
*** Running ldconfig
*** Storing current firmware revision
*** Deleting downloaded files
*** Syncing changes to disk
*** If no errors appeared, your firmware was successfully updated to 11bfdffaca95e630b1fed0a8992fee880c17c26d
*** A reboot is needed to activate the new firmware

REBOOTED. No screen output.

Any ideas on how to get the screen back?

– Damon Downing

[Mark Williams]

Damon
You need re-install the drivers.
Use this command

sudo REPO_URI=https://github.com/notro/rpi-firmware rpi-update

Mark --OzzMaker.com --

[Damon1974]

That did fix it. I guess I will have to save this command for any future updates that are required for the firmware.

Thanks for your help with this. Now I will focus back on the touchscreen issue.

– Damon Downing

[Damon1974]

Please mark this thread as resolved. I appreciate your help.

– Damon Downing

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