Topic: Sick alpha chumby
I have an alpha chumby that has become sick.
I'm suspecting the bend sensor has something to do with it.
Here's what happens:
the chumb boots. I can see the chumby come up and I can hear the sound. Then the control panel comes up. But I can't press any of the buttons. After a few seconds (10-20) the screen goes blue and it says "authorizing...". Just after that I'm able to press buttons (for example, the settings button), but only for a second or two. After that I'm back to the mode where i'm locked out.
It behaves as if the bend sensor was constantly pressed. The sensitivity of the sensor is all the way down (if I'm fast enough after the window of time during which I can press buttons I can get to the sensor settings).
I've tried disconnecting the connector to the bend sensor, but that does not help: if I do that, I get a black screen after the 'authorizing...' screen.
The network is working since I can get to the HTTP server. But since I can't get to the info screen, I can't do the magic tap to enable SSH.
Any help? Can this be fixed?