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to: BOB PROHASKA
from: CHRIS GREEN
date: 2020-09-19 10:24:00
subject: Re: status lights on Pi4

bob prohaska  wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:
> > bob prohaska  wrote:
> >> Just got a Pi4 with 8GB of RAM up and running. It's an impressive
> >> upgrade from a 3b+....
> >>
> >> It looks as if the logic of the green status LED has been inverted:
> >> On the 3b+ the LED was off when idle, flashing when active. The 4
> >> seems to idle with the green LED on, it blinks off when active.
> >>
> >> Is that the whole story? I poked around a little on the Web and
> >> didn't find any mention, except for flash codes that signal POST
> >> failures.
> >
> > Look in the file /boot/overlays/README. Well I might as well just
> > copy the potentially relevent bits here, but I may have missed some:
> >
>
> Thanks for the (highly) abbreviated excerpt! The entire file is a
> lot to plough through.
>
> Is there a command to read back what's actually in use? I've not
> modified the defaults in any intentional way, but it does seem
> that the behavior I see is inverted compared to other observations.
>
> Thanks for writing!
>
Are you sure there isn't actually some task running that's making the
green LED light up?  Try running top and see if there's something that
might be doing it.

--
Chris Green
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