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I am using both the i2c-0 and i2c-1 busses on my raspberry pi compute module 3.

I can use i2c-1 no problem. Full comms, can probe the line and see good signals, get good signals back and the good old i2cdetect -y 1 command gives the expected response for the addresses used.

I then set up i2c-0. The raspi-config is already enabled (from the i2c-1 bus) and the /etc/modules file already has the line i2c-dev. I then create the required file at /dev/i2c-0. But then when I attempt i2cdetec -y 1 gives the error:

Error: Could not get the adaptor functionality matrix: Inappropriate ioct1 for device

Have I forgotten some important step in setting up the i2c bus? Or have I missed something important in the datasheet which stops me using i2c-0 bus?

EDIT: This is on a Raspberry Pi compute module 3 (standard, not the lite version) and we're running Raspbian Stretch.

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    "I then create the required file at /dev/i2c-0" -> Do not do that. /dev is an in-memory filesystem interface to the kernel. Let it create and delete nodes there appropriately, you doing it will not magically make them functional.
    – goldilocks ♦
    Commented Jan 8, 2019 at 15:38
  • @goldilocks Indeed you are correct, i'd mis-remembered the previous set up for the first i2c bus
    – Puffafish
    Commented Jan 8, 2019 at 16:09

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After searching around I have found the problem.

Simple solution is that the config menu only enabled i2c-1 bus, not the i2c busses in general.

Opening the file /boot/config.txt and then adding the line dtparam=i2c_vc=on, performing a reboot, starts up the i2c-0 bus! And all is good.

(Adding that line created the /dev/i2c-0 file, so I didn't need to create it)

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  • That's pretty awesome, I never knew this!
    – stevieb
    Commented Jan 8, 2019 at 20:39

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