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3 hours ago, Seasalt said:
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?
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.
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14 hours ago, teridotoji said:
X96 max 4G/32G boot the latest image 5.78 but could not detect EMMC, please take a look the picture
It boot OK with original android image or XTM ATV MOD image.
How I can install on EMMC?
Try a different kernel version (earlier/later).
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5 hours ago, sekarpdkt said:
As it is struck with MECOOL logo and not booting, how can I do it?
Your box is bricked. See how to unbrick on Freaktab website. or google "how to unbrick my Amlogic tv box".
Also, please don't post off-topic anymore in this thread, since at this point this has nothing to do with Armbian.
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1 hour ago, sekarpdkt said:
I have mecool M8s Pro W (S905W). I run
5. open the app "Update&Backup"
6. click on "Select" local update and chose the file on the removable media (aml_update.zip) aml_autoscript.zip
7. start "Update"with the latest firmware of this thread. After that box is struck at MECOOL boot logo. Any help or clue?
Try to flash the Android firmware to a different (preferably earlier) version.
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4 hours ago, petrkalos said:
Thanks for the suggestions but I would prefer to use Oleg's precompiled kernel and drivers,
Then just copy the kernel, initrd and modules from any of Oleg's images that fits your needs.
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51 minutes ago, pel.hu said:
but cannot get any VNC server work on it.
That is completely unrelated to Armbian. In your case, I would suggest trying an Ubuntu desktop image, it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to get a VNC server working on it. Firefox should be working out of the box and Chrom(ium) is an extra 3-minutes install.
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1 hour ago, petrkalos said:
I am running Bionic from eMMC and I suppose Armbian/Ubuntu upgrades are just fine by doing "apt upgrade"/"dpkg -i balbe's.dpkgs" yet kernel remains unchanged.
To give you an example I was trying to upgrade from balbes 5.76 -> 5.78, installed the dpkgs but /boot partition remained unchanged hence it was still booting with the old kernel.
So you want to update the kernel? The way I do that is that I compile and install a kernel I download from Oleg's (balbes150) repository on GitHub. This has the advantage that I can configure the kernel to fit exactly my needs. Depending on your hardware you can also download, configure, compile and install an unpatched mainline kernel from kernel.org. Either way, you get exactly the kernel version you want with exactly the options you need.
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If the kernel you already have installed and booting from eMMC is working fine, there is no reason to update.
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1 hour ago, petrkalos said:
Have anyone found a way to upgrade to a new release?
Are you trying to upgrade to a new Armbian release, a new Debian/Ubuntu release, or to a new kernel? Because these are three different things. And obviously there is a way to upgrade each of these.
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25 minutes ago, Peyton said:
I don't use WiFi nor BT at all. Only ethernet. Will try with a different power supply. Thanks.
I checked pihole, since it's the main difference between your setup and mine (I assume you are using Armbian Ubuntu 18.04 in server mode). Pihole by default is setup to do both IPV4 and IPV6 blocking, but if you are running your internal net on IPV4 I suggest you completely disable IPV6 in the kernel of your km8p box, and disable IPV6 blocking in pihole, that will eliminate one possible source of crashes. Pi hole should continue to work just fine.
To disable IPV6 in the Linux kernel, just type the following commands:
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
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10 hours ago, Peyton said:
Hi there, i have a question regarding the stability of my tv box. I actually use a km8p as a pihole box and every week it crashed and i have to hard reboot it to make it works again. Can someone give me a hint to see where logs can help knows where could be the problem?
I was on 5.1 kernel when i got the prob so i reinstall the box from scratch with previous build in 4.20.5 and both got the problem.
Last kern.log is just :
Apr 11 04:01:29 localhost kernel: [ 92.903423] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
Thanks.
Are you using the WiFi or ethernet to connect to the net? Also try a different power brick if you have one, you could have received a bad one.
andrew@km8p1:~$ uptime
22:12:51 up 23 daysandrew@km8p2:~$ uptime
22:13:38 up 47 days
andrew@km8p3:~/Development/Armbian-NG$ uptime
22:14:01 up 47 days
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Just a weekly update on the progress on Armbian-NG, as of April 10 2019:
- I pushed version 0.05 yesterday.
- The public repository now holds a total of 482 lines of Python code and 102 lines of documentation (in markdown format).
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Almost all the new code is the TUI (terminal user interface), which tries to copycat as much as possible Armbian's ncurses-based dialogues using a Python library called npyscreen. This took me longer to program than I expected because I was held back by a
bug"undocumented feature" in npyscreen...
I estimate the TUI code is 80% completed now.
- I also wrote some "internal documentation" (notes) for my personal reference, which I have not uploaded to the repository. But if anybody wants to contribute, this is available, just PM me.
- After the past week's effort into programming the TUI for Armbian-NG, I have renewed respect and appreciation for the amazing programming work done by Igor in writing Armbian. It truly is a wonder! If I am able to do 10% of what Igor did I will be proud already!
- Over the next week I intend to let the TUI code settle down a little bit and work mainly on the kernel downloading and compilation steps.
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21 hours ago, amirul said:
let's try NEXT...no magicsee-n6-max.dtb in the image?
NEXT uses 5.1 mainline kernel which does not have dtb for any TV box, I believe. You'll have to write your own dts (device tree source) file, and compile it to a dtb.
Or you can send a MagicSee N6 Max to Oleg and ask him to write one!
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19 hours ago, AxelFoley said:
@AndrewDB .... looks like you may be correct it was power all along but it looks like its a kernel issue with the PCIe Power Management ?
Well, I think the one conclusion one can draw here is that it's a bad idea to rely on experimental hardware with a not fully debugged kernel for real, serious development work. As chwe wrote, perhaps a more "conservative" approach would yield better results?
Unfortunately I am of the humble opinion that by the time you get your cluster to function reliably and are able to begin using for development work, the rk3399 will be considered obsolete, and you will have invested a lot of time, energy and moolah in essentially what will have become a paperweight.
Still, I hope you can sort it out asap. Best of luck!
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7 hours ago, chwe said:
I would go for a more 'conservative' approach.
@AxelFoley I agree with chwe. Btw I too have an armbian cluster for development purposes, 100% stable, 5 nodes, 32 x A53 cores. Total cost was around $100. PM me if you need more info.
andrew@andrew-ThinkPad-T420:~$ ssh andrew@192.168.51.24 ____ ___ _ ____ / ___|/ _ \/ |___ \ \___ \ (_) | | __) | ___) \__, | |/ __/ |____/ /_/|_|_____| Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.75 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 4.20.5-aml-s912 System load: 0.00 0.00 0.00 Up time: 41 days Memory usage: 17 % of 837MB Zram usage: 7 % of 418Mb IP: 192.168.51.24 CPU temp: 40°C Usage of /: 49% of 15G [ General system configuration (beta): armbian-config ] andrew@km8p2:~$ -
18 hours ago, AxelFoley said:
Disabling the HW Acceleration stopped error messages being displayed in stdout.
That's one problem solved, then.
18 hours ago, AxelFoley said:However the rockpro64 still locked up with a HW freeze loading the Armbian forum.
HW freeze without kernel messages and no ssh access = power supply problem with 99% probability, the other 1% is some other hardware problems.
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41 minutes ago, Xavier31 said:
I am trying Armbian on NanoPi K2.
Wrong forum. You want to post here: https://forum.armbian.com/forum/16-amlogic-s905x/
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17 hours ago, AxelFoley said:
libGL error: unable to load driver: rockchip_dri.so
This is all you need to know, actually. As I wrote before, this is a problem with hardware acceleration being used by Chromium. You can turn it off in advanced settings.
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3 hours ago, Petee said:
How come I cannot utilize the dtb.img file from coreelectric in Armbian?
Because it's from a different kernel. Check the kernel version used in Coreelec, it's probably the old kernel 3.14.something from Amlogic and it's using the proprietary ARM GPU drivers. Armbian uses mainline kernel 5.02 with different dtb's. And as I wrote before, ARM is not supporting Linux X Window graphics on newer kernels on the drivers for the T8XX GPU's.
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8 hours ago, amirul said:
MXQ Pro 4k s905x
If there is no Update&Backup in android, how else do you update u-boot?
Many ways to do that.
1. Root the device, install TWRP, and install the zip thingy from TWRP.
2. Or use adb in developer mode.
3. Or solder a serial USB UART thingy, interrupt u-boot, and at the u-boot command prompt update u-boot manually.
4. Etc.
There are many ways to skin this cat but the simplest one is the recommended update & backup in Android. I am surprised your box does not have it.
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You forgot to mention which version of Armbian you have tested.
Also, FYI, in the S912 the ARM T820 GPU does not do video decoding, it's the Amlogic VPU that handles video decoding.
There are no drivers for the T820 GPU. ARM does not release the closed-source drivers and the open-source, reverse-engineered drivers are still WIP (work-in-progress).
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On 4/4/2019 at 1:55 PM, harrybarnes said:
I have recently installed armbian on odroid c2. -The burning the armbian image using etcher.io was surprisingly easy and agreeable
-gui bringup with a default desktop was agreeable too.
-the kernel version is more recent 4.14+
-the support for mali gpu seemed to announced on this version BUT the responsiveness from the web browser, the responsiveness from the media players was choppy.
When I installed the archlinux again:
-followed the archlinuxarm.org wiki steps for odroid c2. Sure it wasn't like etcher two step download and burn, but the number of steps was reasonable, under twenty roughly. -the bootup was faster -the gui desktop setup took a few more commands: pacman -S xorg-drivers xorg-apps xorg lxde-gtk3 emacs firefox -the kernel is older 3.14.79, but is responsive and the firefox is responsive along with the media player.
I am a little bit skeptical of such comparisons.
First, you don't say which flavor of armbian you have tested. Ambian Ubuntu or Armbian Debian? and which Ubuntu/Debian release? What desktop was used (Gnome, KDE, Mate, Xfce?)? You do realize that Armbian is a work that combines well-known distributions with unsupported hardware and does the amazing job of integrating these into a very easily installed (as you noticed) and useful OS?
Also, if you just scratch the surface of kernel development you'll realize how problematic outdated vendor kernels are compared to mainline. But then again, you should use whatever suits you best, and if that means using Arch Linux ARM with an outdated kernel, so be it.
By the way you can use Armbian's kernels with Arch Linux ARM too, it's just a matter of installing them.
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There are many possible reasons for that.