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I am a little bit confused by all the version and Kernel numbering in Balbes version of Armbian.
Can someone please tell me the difference between Balbes Armbian
version 5.2rc7 and version 5.1.15
Is one a permanent version and the other, more of a temporary one.
If you update what version do you get?
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On 7/2/2019 at 3:33 PM, balbes150 said:
New image ver 5.90
I have downloaded and installed Armbian_5.90_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_next_5.2.0-rc7-next-20190701_desktop.
It works great on my Mecool km8 s912 1GB.
Video performance is excellent.
Is the 5.2 Kernel using Hardware Video decoding?
Is Zram working? Swap on HTOP shows no Swap memory?
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I installed Armbian_5.89_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_disco_dev_5.2.0-rc4_desktop_20190621 on my Mecool s912 I gb. It booted but the desktop environment will not load programs from the pull down menu.
USB sound card worked.
Video playback was very poor.
Networking ethernet worked.
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22 hours ago, balbes150 said:
I received an Ugoos AM6 sample yesterday.
My goal is full launch and support for Armbian and LibreELEC. First impressions are very positive.
Fantastic News RE UGOOS AM6
Can you do some benchmarks against the RK3399.
I have the NanoPI M4 RK3399 2GB and am curious about buying a s922x board but if the CPU improvement is less than 10 to 20% then I can not see the point.
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1 hour ago, sivanoff said:
Lima for mali-450 and panfrost for mali-820 DRM drivers already accepted to upcoming kernel 5.2. And with newest mesa it should finally work to view hw decoded videos on amlogic chips with mainline kernel.
This is good news. Kernel 5.2is coming out as the next iteration.. So this should be working on s912 boards very very soon?
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4 hours ago, balbes150 said:
New image ver 5.82 S9xxx and Odroid N2
Can any one tell me the compelling reasons to create a new sd boot disk for my s912 Mecool with the new 5.82 S9xxx Armbian Bionic.
Also what is the difference between Next version and default..
Thanks
Seasalt.
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53 minutes ago, Petee said:
Hopefully soon will find one with a Gb NIC, 4Gb of RAM, USB 3.0, 64Gb eMMC built in for $60 USD.
I agree, I think the N2 s922x is about $70. But I already have a M4 RK3399 and I do not see any compelling reason to buy another early in development board.
I have been very happy with my s912 $28 Mecool KM8 1gb ram boards running Babes Armbian . I find they are a lot of fun and am able to do one computer task well but are a bit slow on two tasks or Web surfing useless.
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5 hours ago, AndrewDB said:
I have also experienced that, it's the kernel random generator that requires a source of entropy to initialize the driver. There are a number of workarounds , google for it.
The delay before Login in babes s912 Armbian has only appeared in the last few weeks.
Why was the source of en-trophy Ok before and now delayed?
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I have updated my s912 Mecool Km8 to the latest Babes Ubuntu version.
It all works very very well. Including Video playback.
But there is one small new problem. When I boot up there is a inordinate delay before the login screen appears.
It could be minutes before the login screen appears. It may appear faster if you click the mouse or keyboard. Is any one having a similar problem?
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10 hours ago, balbes150 said:
Uploaded to the website alpha versions of images (Armbian and LibreELEC) with kernel 5.1.0-rc1 for Odroid N2.
You have uploaded Armbian s912 5.78.
What are the benefits / improvements over Armbian 5.77?
It appears the Kernel has gone from 5.0 to 5.1?
Does that mean better Video driver performance?
P.S. 5.77 s912 runs great on my Mecool s912 TV box. I use it as my main TV / projector player now utilizing VLC.
Thanks for the great work.
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Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 4.19.2-aml-s9xxx
System load: 0.40 0.43 0.28 Up time: 17 min
Memory usage: 71 % of 836MB Zram usage: 2 % of 2466Mb IP: 192.168.6.105
CPU temp: 45°C
Usage of /: 35% of 29G[ 0 security updates available, 9 updates total: apt upgrade ]
Last check: 2019-03-20 06:5022 minutes ago, lanefu said:run armbian-config -> system -> freeze
thanks.
This is what ssh login says.
Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 4.19.2-aml-s9xxx
System load: 0.40 0.43 0.28 Up time: 17 min
Memory usage: 71 % of 836MB Zram usage: 2 % of 2466Mb IP: 192.168.6.105
CPU temp: 45°C
Usage of /: 35% of 29G[ 0 security updates available, 9 updates total: apt upgrade ]
Last check: 2019-03-20 06:50How do i upgrade to a later s912 armbian?
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"Sudo apt-get update" will upgrade my apps but will it upgrade the Kernel to the latest version in this case Kernel 5.0.
If not is there a command that will do a Operating System update and upgrade to the latest linux Kernel?
If there is not a command to update the Armbian s912 Armbian Kernel, do I have to download the latest s912 Armbian and start from scratch and reinstall all my apps again?
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20 minutes ago, AndrewDB said:
check adding "cma=64" to the command line and see what happens.
nothing happened. HTOP astayed at 836M Ram. 314M in use.
I tried adding
cma=64M as well.
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10 minutes ago, AndrewDB said:
Probably you could get some RAM back by passing the kernel some command line parameters, check adding "cma=64" to the command line and see what happens.
Interesting read.
So since Corelec and Armbian Oleg's s912 show approx 812mb ram available then they possibly both pre-use about the same amount of Ram.
If I type cma=64 into a terminal Oleg's armbian s912 should / could allocate a smaller amount of reserved ram?
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3 minutes ago, AndrewDB said:
Check the beginning of the output of the dmesg command, you'll see how the kernel allocates RAM, it actually reserves those 180MB for various purposes.
Can we steel some of that ram memory back? 812 is not enough to run a basic web page browser. It just chokes but an extra 50k Ram might just be enough to get over the ram shortage.
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Just now, AndrewDB said:
In the meantime though, I'll be very happy with my $25 S912 Km8-P TV boxes. Just can't beat that low cost!
I could not agree more. On bang for buck no argument.
But when I bought mine only the Mecool km8p 1gb ram version was available.
I wish I had the 2gb version.
My KM8p one gb version shows up as only having approximately 812mb of Ram in htop? Not 1gb as I see on my 1gb orange pi's with zram running.
are you seeing on you km8p the same amount of 812mb ram?
Oleg made zram ram compression work and that has been a godsend.
Have you any idea where the missing 180mb of Ram is being used. If it is allocated to video I want it back.
When I run Corelec it says from memory about 812mb ram available as well.
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2 hours ago, AndrewDB said:
Khadas has released a new version of their S912 Vim2:
Ridiculously expensive when the s922x hard kernel for $63 has been announced and shipping next month.
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11 hours ago, balbes150 said:
New image 5.76 kernel 5.0 .
What are the benefits of Kernel 5.0 vs the earlier 4.20 Kernel releases for s912 Armbian users?
I am on limited internet and have 3 KM8p Mecool 912 happily running Armbian 5.67 Kernel 4.19. So my feeling is I should wait a while until Kernel 5.0 matures BUT if there is a compelling reason or benefit to upgrade to Kernel 5.0 I will do it.
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On 2/22/2019 at 12:14 AM, AndrewDB said:
performance per dollar - almost three times better than the second place!
Thanks for the great Benchmarks.
Its always a delight to find out I managed to get the best bang per buck with my rapidly evolving collection of arm boards.
The Mecool KM8 s912 is clearly a stand out Corelec Kodi player in terms of Bang per buck.
I think the s922x for $65 will eat the s912-Armbian market once it is released as the Hard Kernel N2.
One of the things I did not understand about Arm chip boards being used as Linux computers. Is the HUGE delay between the hardware being in-effect "released in a unfinished state" and the time it takes for the software to catch up.
i.e. no VPU driver for s912 was solved in Corelec Kodi by rapping the android VPU driver etc.
Orange Pi PC2 did not have a Hardware Video driver solved by a massive reverse engineering project.
The s912 was said to have 2.0ghz cores but it turned out to be 1.5ghz etc.
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On 2/23/2019 at 12:06 AM, amirul said:
Thinking of swapping a bigger heatsink in because I would really like to avoid active cooling.
My thinking and experimenting on this is is..
Yes ..Passive cooling is a novel idea but these chips start to "cripple their performance if they get hottish"
A simple $5 raspberry Pi Fan soldered in will provide enough cooling to KNOCK 10 degree's to 15 degree's Celsius off the temperature of the CPU close to full load. 70 degree Celsius will go to 55 Celsius.
It will mean that you can play a HEVC x265 movie in "software" mode, with CPU utilization at 80-90% if you have to.
PS If you are using the s912 board for Amateur Radio or Software defined Radio the fan directly soldered to the s912 TV will cause a slight hum and may need a small capacitor to quieten it.
I have 3, KM8 Mecool s912. Two with fans one without.
One is running a dedicated Corelec version of Kodi and I run it fan-less but I suspect occasionally it gets too hot and the HEVC video slightly stutters. I can live with this as I do not want a fan noise whilst watching a video on Kodi.
The other 2 Mecool KM8 I run Oleg's S912 Armbian..this is simply amazing with a fan I can run my software defined radio software at 3.2 MHz FULL bandwidth (cpu utilization 70-80%) on a 5 volt low powered device at about 55degree Celsius. it is simply amazing.
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On 2/21/2019 at 6:46 AM, AndrewDB said:
Seasalt, I am not sure what you mean by overwriting itself, could you please provide some more details?
I tried to get the Armbian s912 image to write to the KM8p Mecool 1gb/8gb flash memory.
I used the utility i found in Armbian settings.
It is a control line interface app.
It gave me an option to write the image to Flash memory.
After writing the image, I could then look at the 8GB FLASH using GPARTED and see that the flash memory was now partitioned differently.
Now I have 3 KM8 Mecool's and they were all bought separately. They seem to have different Android images on the flash memory.
To cut a long story it appears that on rebooting the KM8 i had written the Armbian image to flash on, it would reboot and go back or reinstall android and then boot.
In the end i gave up on installing Armbian to the flash and just installed the same Android 7 image on all three km8's.
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6 hours ago, AndrewDB said:
Mecool Km8-P S912 1G/8G, booting from an SD card right now but I intend to flash Armbian on the eMMC later.
I could not get the flash memory on my Mecool to stop some how over writing itself with the internal Android image.
I used the Armbian utility to write the armbian image to the 8gb flash.
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46 minutes ago, Carlos.latour said:
try the q200.dtb
try q201
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4 minutes ago, Carlos.latour said:
mind doing an 'uname -a' ?
(it would appear that ,either I'm way off, or the driver for the eth is compiled in the kernel and not as a module.)
thx
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Linux aml 4.19.2-aml-s9xxx #12 SMP PREEMPT MON DEC 14...MSK 2018 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
NanoPI M4
in Rockchip
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Scroll to the VERY bottom of The NanoPi M4 software choices page. Focal 5.4 version of Armbian is there for Nano Pi M4.