FBTFT problem on NanoPi Neo Air with Armbian

[Nazar Gerasymchuk]

My problem is that each time I try to do anything related to LCD over frame buffer I got next error:

ioctl FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device

 

LCDs (ili9341, st7735s) I'm able to test behave exactly the same way -- every time lighted up white screen, but nothing more.

I have NanoPi Neo Air with Armbian (5.59 Nanopiair Debian stretch 4.14.65) on it. All packages in system already updated to latest available versions. Problem remains as on stable kernel, same on nightly build.

Currently I have:

$ uname -a && cat /etc/issue
Linux nanopiair 4.14.74-sunxi #330 SMP Mon Oct 8 00:57:54 CEST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 9 \n \l

I'm successfully loading SPI:

$ grep spi /boot/armbianEnv.txt
overlays=spi-spidev usbhost1 usbhost2
param_spidev_spi_bus=0
param_spidev_spi_cs=0

Here is the way I'm trying to load fbtft_device (e.g. Waveshare 1.44 which is st7735s):

modprobe fbtft_device name=fb_st7735r speed=16000000 busnum=0 cs=0 gpios=reset:1,dc:201,led:200,cs:67 custom=1 fps=60 bgr=1 custom=1 verbose=3 width=128 height=128

Wiring was already rechecked for few times already.

 

As a result I can see in dmesg:

[  171.665158] fbtft: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[  171.670433] fbtft_device: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[  171.671639] spidev spi0.0: spidev spi0.0 1000kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[  171.671746] spidev spi0.0: Deleting spi0.0
[  171.672721] fbtft_device: GPIOS used by 'fb_st7735r':
[  171.672735] fbtft_device: 'reset' = GPIO1
[  171.672739] fbtft_device: 'dc' = GPIO201
[  171.672743] fbtft_device: 'led' = GPIO200
[  171.672749] fbtft_device: 'cs' = GPIO67
[  171.672765] spi spi0.0: fb_st7735r spi0.0 16000kHz 8 bits mode=0x00
[  171.684388] fb_st7735r: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[  172.603112] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 16x16
[  172.603392] graphics fb0: fb_st7735r frame buffer, 128x128, 32 KiB video memory, 4 KiB buffer memory, fps=100, spi0.0 at 16 MHz

And there is /dev/fb0.

But unfortunately next actions can't draw anything on screen:

sudo head --bytes 153600 /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0
yes | head --bytes 76800 > /dev/fb0

The only way to get at least some error is to run (from user of from sudo):

$ fbset -i -v
ioctl FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device

 

I'll appreciate any help. Thanks.

 

Edited October 10, 2018 by Nazar Gerasymchuk