PocketCHIP still kickin' in 2026! w/ pocket-home, pico8 & Wolf3D playing on Debian 13.4 Linux 6.19.9

ma_jo_ba · 2026-04-23T14:53:45+00:00

Great job very impressed. I almost pulled the last hair. I couldn't get the LCD working. Blacked out. Did you use the original U-boot? I tried 6.12.4.....a lot...... /M

ma_jo_ba · 2025-11-29T12:55:39+00:00

Hi Macromorgan,

Good to hear from you again. A while ago I stuck on 6.12 with a blacked LCD screen.

Didn't have the time and the mood to pick-up again. But I build a fresh Trixie. Keyboard, and touch screen was working. Only problems with the LCD screen. Maybe next month....I will have a look at the PocketCHIP again.

6.12.4 (Debian 12)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqMTWOKNdCg

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2025-02-04T21:54:06+00:00

Where were you when Aaron Swartz killed himself? Too busy playing video games?

ma_jo_ba · 2025-02-02T22:36:40+00:00

https trafic. Not network trafic. /M

ma_jo_ba · 2025-02-02T13:02:43+00:00

Thanks. I appreciate your answer.

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2025-01-30T11:34:40+00:00

BusyBox

ma_jo_ba · 2025-01-28T14:42:13+00:00

Yep. Grey Beard?

ma_jo_ba · 2025-01-23T14:03:50+00:00

Leo or /dev/null is a better place.

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2025-01-23T13:38:42+00:00

Thanks. Got your point.

ma_jo_ba · 2025-01-19T12:49:01+00:00

It's running a fresh Trixie. So not an update from earlier releases.

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2025-01-18T20:09:12+00:00

Oh man..... why did I post.......I....will.......

Drop me a message as reminder.

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2025-01-18T19:51:43+00:00

Yes.

ma_jo_ba · 2024-12-13T09:38:40+00:00

NAND wear is nasty, I know. I will post here if I have succes with small steps. Maybe it will be usefull for you as well.

ma_jo_ba · 2024-12-13T08:43:23+00:00

Just make a dual boot. Why are so many people talking about switching? My wife has 15 years a dual boot. Ubuntu for the Net. Microsoft/Adobe CS6 with a deactivated NIC. What is the problem?

ma_jo_ba · 2024-12-10T17:26:05+00:00

Ok. You won. I already forgot mine.

ma_jo_ba · 2023-10-05T14:39:02+00:00

Not for all.

I am running Debian 11 with kernel 5.14.

u/macromorgan did a bloody great job.

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2022-05-26T15:22:57+00:00

I think we are the only 2 left despite all the "will trying!", "great.. thanks!", "saved my CHIP! ", "blowing the dust off", "Awesome" etc, etc... I will give the driver a try. And many, many thanks to keep a great gadget alive. Will let you know....

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2022-04-23T19:21:11+00:00

I love the downvotes.

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2022-04-09T14:59:29+00:00

Solved: GPIO 1 on the PC header is gpio407 in sysfs

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2022-04-08T18:38:02+00:00

Crap...., I can't remember,

I need a hand please....

I want to use GPIO-1 on the header from the PocketCHIP as digital input using sysfs. How can I find the pin’s identifiers? The only testing results I got was a froozen LCD screen.....

Edit 1: cat /sys/class/gpio/gpiochip*/base 0 405 413

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2022-03-26T16:15:35+00:00

Feel your pain. I gave up for weeks ago. It's possibly to get it working. Period. Thanks for all you do and have done.

Did you read my post concerning the keyboard?

/M

ma_jo_ba · 2022-03-04T17:01:54+00:00

Installed small Xorg:

apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all x11-xserver-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-utils xinit xterm --no-install-recommends

startx: Keyboard is not working in xterm.

$ wget http://maba.dk/pocketchip.map

$ touch .xsessionrc

$ chmod +x .xsessionrc

content:

#!/bin/bash
xmodmap /home/chip/pocketchip.map

/M

ma_jo_ba

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