Have you had success connecting any other Adafruit boards?
Dave
MATRIX M4 NOT CONNECTING TO UBUNTU
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Re: MATRIX M4 NOT CONNECTING TO UBUNTU
This is my first board.dastels wrote:Have you had success connecting any other Adafruit boards?
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Re: MATRIX M4 NOT CONNECTING TO UBUNTU
Does your laptop have other ports to try? Do you have a powered hub to try? Have you tried connecting just the MatrixPortal without any connection to the matrix (especially the power connection.
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Re: MATRIX M4 NOT CONNECTING TO UBUNTU
Using a dock seems to work. Thank you!dastels wrote:Does your laptop have other ports to try? Do you have a powered hub to try? Have you tried connecting just the MatrixPortal without any connection to the matrix (especially the power connection.
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Re: MATRIX M4 NOT CONNECTING TO UBUNTU
Cool. The laptop port doesn't seem to be able to provide enough current to power up the board.
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