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EdNekebno
Cannot find sysfs_software_spi.so
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/DGTCentaurMods/game/menu.py", line 40, in
You get this when the pi cannot communicate with the epaper. Which version of the centaur board do you have? 1 or 2. Also which version of DGTCentaurMods are you trying to run?
I'm trying to run the Crystal Edition version 1. I succeeded once, but after updating the Raspberry PI OS to the latest version, I've been encountering this error. I've also tried versions 1.3.2 and 1.3.3, but the issue persists.
It worked with this version:
Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Legacy) Release date: May 3rd, 2023 System: 32-bit Kernel version: 5.10 Debian version: 10 (buster)
I just couldn't get Bluetooth to work, so I updated to Debian 11.
The file indeed doesn't exist:
harry88pl@harry:/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DGTCentaurMods/display $ dir -l total 96 -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1749 Oct 5 16:10 cchandler.py -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4868 Oct 5 16:10 chromecast.py -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 3864 Oct 5 16:10 epaper_driver.py -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 22620 Oct 5 16:10 epaperDriver.so -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 22607 Oct 5 16:10 epaper.py -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 12538 Oct 5 16:10 epd2in9d.py -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4987 Oct 5 16:10 epdconfig.py -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 61 Oct 5 16:10 init.py drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 22:32 _
However, I'm not 100% certain if I have version 1, as the only information I can find on the PCB is that it's from December 2019, and there's no further detail.
I found that file here:
But simply adding it to the directory causes different errors because it's a 64-bit file.
Okay, that makes sense already. Debian doesn't have the right drivers in it. We haven't yet found a way for it not to be Raspbian 32 bit. What was wrong with the bluetooth?
Everything was working, you could play on Lichess and run DGT Centaur. However, the bluetoothctl command didn't display anything; it just got stuck, and the only thing that worked was pressing CTRL+C to cancel it.
Here's proof that it worked because the display still shows the last image:
https://imageupload.io/QaAs3fDX8PIaMzp
Yes, it worked on this Debian version:
Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Legacy) Release date: May 3rd, 2023 System: 32-bit Kernel version: 5.10 Debian version: 10 (Buster)
And the Wi-Fi was also functioning. I installed everything through SSH, including DGTMods.
I performed the updates as outlined in this guide:
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/upgrade-raspberry-pi-os-to-bullseye-from-buster
Now, I will be reinstalling Debian 10, at least to have Bluetooth working again. Previously, before deciding to go for Debian 11, I tried everything to get Bluetooth running on Debian 10, but unfortunately, nothing seemed to help. However, I'll give it another try.
I only don't understand what the different DGT version has to do with this file. I understand if there was a connection problem, but in this case, the file is definitely missing, as can be seen in the error message. Perhaps it depends on the firmware version of the Raspberry Pi itself? Because I also updated the firmware. Is there any way to obtain this "epaper" from the original image of DGTCentaur?
Perhaps could try: sudo systemctl disable hciuart.service sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service
possibly check it isn't disabled in /boot/config.txt .
For the error - the waveshare file used falls back to assuming you have a raspberry pi in specific circumstances. Then the message can be somewhat deceptive because it's looking for that for a jetson nano. let me check...
It uses the existence of /sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpiomem-bcm2835 to determine if it's a raspberry pi or not. You won't get the same error message on 1.3.2 though as it's a different driver. But it indicates where the problem is I guess.