No graphic screen after installing PocketDesk

[Miamistax]

Reboot after install has me locked in terminal asking for pocketDESK login and password, then tells me "The programs included with the Debian GNU/linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. chip@PocketDESK:~$

Great. Now what?

[durrendal]

I ran into the same problem, ultimately I re-flashed my chip. I believe it has something to do with device drivers for armsoc, which you can grab a xorg-xserver-armsoc package for through apt-get. But trying to go this route just cause the system to complain that /dev/console is an inappropriate IOCTL device for X.

It probably comes down to missing a very specific device driver, but it wasn't worth the headache to continue to troubleshoot when you can just drop the chip into FEL mode, reflash, and try again.

[oscarvalenzuelab]

well, same happened to me. I installed armsoc using apt and the device died, no screen after booting. The owner of the project should include a warning or double check about the versions of the packages.

[v1nc]

Because I ran into the same problem today, here is how I fixed it without re-flashing: Change /etc/X11/xorg.conf to the following:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/xorg/modules/"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"VGA"
	Option		"PreferredMode"	"1024x768_60.00"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"HDMI"
	Option		"PreferredMode"	"1280x720_60.00"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Composite"
	Option		"PreferredMode"	"NTSC10"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Allwinner sun4i DRM"
	Driver		"armsoc"
	Option		"Monitor-Composite-0"	"Composite"
	Option		"Monitor-VGA-0"		"VGA"
	Option		"Monitor-HDMI-A-0"	"HDMI"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Screen0"
	Device		"Card0"
EndSection


Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Card0"
	Driver		"modesetting"
EndSection

After rebooting it should work again.