A10 Users Manual

[jaj]

Hi,
I've recently taken delivery of an A10 board along with a debian sd card.  I've inserted the debian sd card into the A10 and connected it to a monitor and power supply.  This is as far as I get, a red light comes on to indicate the board is getting power but it doesn't boot and at no point is there any video output.  Do I need to set any jumpers to bood off sd?  How can I tell if the board is even trying to access the sd card, is there an led that should be flashing?  Can I power the board via the usb-otg port ( I have an A10S which runs off the usb-otg port but again will not boot off an sd card and locks up while booting android from internal memory about 60% of the time )?

I see there is a users manual for the A10S, A13 and A20 but nothing for the A10.

Regards
James Johnston

[Lurch]

The LIME has just been released, so they probably need a few more days to finish the manual.
I have a developer version, and when it boots, a green LED goes on to show that it is booting / running.
The board should be powered with a 5V @2A supply - weak supply may be an issue.
The easiest way, in my opinion, to see what is going on is to attach an RS232-USB converter to UART0 (115200 baud) so that you can see the boot messages and/or errors during boot.

[kbro]

Are you sure about RS232 on UART0?  My A10s and A20 board both have debug UARTs that appear to be wired up the same way, and they need a serial adapter that uses TTL 3.3V levels, not RS232 5V.  I know because I made that very mistake :-)

[Lurch]

I meant TTL (3,3V) level converter.  In hindsight, the label RS232 is, of course, misleading.
Sorry.

[olimex]

for the moment please use our WIKI info https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A10-OLinuXino-LIME
if there is something else to be add please let me know