[GPU driver installation problem on Rock5B (Armbian Bookworm Minimal)]

JFYI, collabora started building mesa packages - see https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/pkg/mesa

That should be very convenient and easy to install in the near future.

[gptouch - change screen orientation and its touch input on gnome wayland desktops]

Basic tool to change screen orientation and its touch input on gnome wayland desktops.

Built for Gnome Wayland and displays without automatic touch input rotation after orientation change.

Sadly xrandr and xinput are things of the past in times of wayland. And since I mounted a FHD touchscreen to my rock-5b which can be rotated, this caused some trouble for me.

Mabye useful fur other people mounting displays with touch support on their SBC's in crazy spots 😛

 

Basically it's just a combination of gnome-randr.py and creating a udev rule with calibration matrix.

Fun project to test out chatGPT 😀

https://github.com/fraz0815/gptouch

[Thorium Browser - runs perfect on legacy rock5b]

Just stumbled over another chromium fork:

https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium

Forum search did not show any entries, so I thought I might share.

 

The arm64 builds (for raspberry though) works great, it even has googly sync, widevine etc, check describtion for more info.

It works out-of-the-box on legacy rock-5b jammy gnome images with liujianfeng1994 ppa enabled.

 

For installation/updates one could also use:

 

wget https://dl.thorium.rocks/debian/dists/stable/thorium.list
sudo mv thorium.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo apt update
sudo apt install thorium-browser

 

I usually like to test https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/ which also runs smooth with webgl on the rock-5b.

 

This might be a good choice, till upstream support makes it easier to find a up2date browser with gpu support.

 

 

[Armbian Desktop Wallpaper Contest]

Are AI generated (stable-diff) pictures allowed? Copyright is quite unclear afaik.

This post can be deleted and the answer maybe put in first post for better overview.

[Video game emulation on rk3588]

imho android gpu drivers are often more mature for gaming/emulation.

[Armbian 23.05 (Suni) Testings]

Rock Pi-4B - Armbian_23.05.1_Rockpi-4b_jammy_current_6.1.30_gnome_desktop.img

installed to emmc: logs 

wlan, hdmi, nvme working

 

Rock-5B - Armbian_23.05.1_Rock-5b_jammy_legacy_5.10.160_gnome_desktop.img

Took me a while to boot from SD, was using an older 23.05-trunk version.

Even 'sudo dd if=zero.img of=/dev/mtdblock0' with radxa zero.img would continue to boot happily from nvme instead of sd, changed armbianEnv.txt to sd root, updated bootloaderon mtd -> worked.

besides mtd being a mystical thing for me, almost anything worked:
installed to mtd+nvme: logs
using btrfs on nvme + mtd did not work (don't know if supported, but installer lets you pick it).
performance with panfrost ppa's enabled is absolutely stunning. 

Btw, this time for testing I used my 45W PD PSU (+ PD C<->C Cable 60W) instead of fixed 5V@4A w/o errors and activated the max 12V PD option in armbian-config just for fun.
Sensors report ed

in0:          12.00 V  (min = +12.00 V, max = +12.00 V)
curr1:         1.50 A  (max =  +1.50 A)

and had no reboots or whatsoever.

[armbian-install needs some fine tuning, when booting from sd/emmc]

Okay, somehow i got lost between the repos, next-gen and 150balbes (.

 

Thanks, let's find out out where I went wrong and what else I might pulled 🙂

[armbian-install needs some fine tuning, when booting from sd/emmc]

Currently we get 'sduuid' in form of

[[ -z $sdblkid ]] && sdblkid=$(blkid -o full /dev/mmcblk*p1)
# 3 - Extract the UUID from $sdblkid via regex:
sduuid=$(echo "$sdblkid" | sed -nE 's/^.*[[:space:]]UUID="([0-9a-zA-Z-]*)".*/\1/p')

which outputs only UUID 

78cdc7b8-0f2e-4444-ba7c-38aa26198de1

 

This is fine, as long as we use it correctly afterwards, but everytime we modifify fstab, 

echo "${sduuid}	/media/mmcboot	ext4    ${mountopts[ext4]}" >> "${TempDir}"/rootfs/etc/fstab
echo "/media/mmcboot/boot  				/boot		none	bind								0       0" >> "${TempDir}"/rootfs/etc/fstab

 

which results in

# <file system>					<mount point>	<type>	<options>							<dump>	<pass>
tmpfs						/tmp		tmpfs	defaults,nosuid							0	0
78cdc7b8-0f2e-4444-ba7c-38aa26198de1	/media/mmcboot	ext4    defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro,x-gvfs-hide	0	1
/media/mmcboot/boot  				/boot		none	bind								0       0
UUID=52f9b8a6-b6ab-4e81-a362-5c4ca041d539	/		ext4	defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro,x-gvfs-hide	0	1

Missing "UUID=" and prevents booting correctly.

 

But we cannot simply change sduuid, because on other steps it is used correctly. Maybe make clear which variable has the form of "UUID=XXXXX-XXX-XXXX" in their name, for better understanding, like

sduuid for only UUID ("blabla-bla") and sdwuuid für "UUID=blabla-bla".

Or use the lazy mode with a check before we modify fstab and add "UUID" as simple string.

 

 

Example log

Spoiler

 cat /var/log/nand-sata-install.log                                  
Sun May 14 11:31:23 PM CEST 2023: Start armbian-install.

Old UUID:  UUID=78cdc7b8-0f2e-4444-ba7c-38aa26198de1
SD UUID:   78cdc7b8-0f2e-4444-ba7c-38aa26198de1
SATA UUID: UUID=52f9b8a6-b6ab-4e81-a362-5c4ca041d539
eMMC UUID:  
Boot: $1  
Root: $2 /dev/nvme0n1p1 ext4
Usage: 4895
Dest: 44227

/etc/fstab:
UUID=78cdc7b8-0f2e-4444-ba7c-38aa26198de1 / ext4 defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0

/etc/mtab:
/dev/mmcblk1p1 / ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600 0 0
/dev/mmcblk1p1 /var/log.hdd ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600 0 0
/dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/armbian-install.CyDgPN/rootfs ext4 rw,relatime,stripe=32 0 0
/dev/zram1 /var/log ext4 rw,relatime,discard 0 0

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Trying to stop running services to minimize open files:
Stopping cron.service 

Checking again for open files:
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colord    2634          colord    6u   REG  179,1    28672 135744 /var/lib/colord/storage.db
colord    2634          colord    7u   REG  179,1    28672 135744 /var/lib/colord/storage.db
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Copying 149044 files to /dev/nvme0n1p1. Finishing transfer to disk, boot from SD/eMMC

Checking again for open files:
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Sun May 14 11:34:21 PM CEST 2023: Finished
 

 

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

Well, this isn't quite the recommendation (afaik, did something change from the 5V / 4A Type C?). 
Power Supply is absolutely critical during boot times, and even 5V/3A was not enough when running a desktop, mentioned many many times.

I also had to learn this the hard lesson 😉 Try to get 5V/4A Type C to be sure. 

 

What happened to me one time after installation was a faulty line in

/etc/fstab 

was

XXXX_EXAMPLE_UUID    /        ext4    defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro,x-gvfs-hide    0    1

instead of

UUID=XXXX_EXAMPLE_UUID    /        ext4    defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro,x-gvfs-hide    0    1

which you could check.

@balbes150

Did you compile mesa from here for kernel 6.2 builds: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost/mesa/-/tree/panfrost/v10-wip ,
I guess this was  https://gitlab.com/panfork/mesa (branch csf) used for legacy kernel?
 

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

Zitat

 bought the 12v 3a supply

 

pipi, I think you should get a correct PSU without PD with 5V and 4A, like in the picture. Then start from scratch with erasing mtd/nvme with dd.
Without this sort of PSU you will always run in possible conflicts which are hard to debug.

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

Some news about the rock5b + usb2 + uboot.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2023/04/27/radxa-rock-5b-usb20-host-in-u-boot/
 

One of the patches seems nice:
 

Zitat

Some devices share a regulator supply, when the first one will request regulator disable, the second device will have it's supply cut off before graciously shutting down. Hence there will be timeouts and other failed operations. Implement a reference counter mechanism similar with what is done in Linux, to keep track of enable and disable requests, and only disable the regulator when the last of the consumers has requested shutdown.

 

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

Thanks for your long and detailed answer, I suspected something devastating like that 😀

glmark output was just for comparison, dmesg has a lot of errors, so never thougt it would win a price (even thoug Gnome runs smooth).

 

I am willing to write a FAQ/wiki regarding Rock5B + PSU + MTD + NVME after switch to armbian-next/main is done.  

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

@balbes150

Have you seen the rebornOS (arch based) image for rock5b? It's using radxa's SPI (and erasing MTD before with zero.img) detailed here,
and then simply flashing the OS img file to nvme. This gets even grub installed, no clue if grub is really usable. 

Maybe there is something useful for your work to explore there.

 

gl2mark2-es2-wayland on gnome:

Spoiler

rock@rock5b ~> glmark2-es2-wayland
=======================================================
    glmark2 2023.01
=======================================================
    OpenGL Information
    GL_VENDOR:      Panfrost
    GL_RENDERER:    Mali-G610 (Panfrost)
    GL_VERSION:     OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 23.0.0-devel (git-120202c675)
    Surface Config: buf=32 r=8 g=8 b=8 a=8 depth=24 stencil=0 samples=0
    Surface Size:   800x600 windowed
=======================================================
[build] use-vbo=false: FPS: 2992 FrameTime: 0.334 ms
[build] use-vbo=true: FPS: 4263 FrameTime: 0.235 ms
[texture] texture-filter=nearest: FPS: 5130 FrameTime: 0.195 ms
[texture] texture-filter=linear: FPS: 5087 FrameTime: 0.197 ms
[texture] texture-filter=mipmap: FPS: 5095 FrameTime: 0.196 ms
[shading] shading=gouraud: FPS: 4111 FrameTime: 0.243 ms
[shading] shading=blinn-phong-inf: FPS: 3684 FrameTime: 0.271 ms
[shading] shading=phong: FPS: 3225 FrameTime: 0.310 ms
[shading] shading=cel: FPS: 3276 FrameTime: 0.305 ms
[bump] bump-render=high-poly: FPS: 1697 FrameTime: 0.589 ms
[bump] bump-render=normals: FPS: 4908 FrameTime: 0.204 ms
[bump] bump-render=height: FPS: 4877 FrameTime: 0.205 ms
[effect2d] kernel=0,1,0;1,-4,1;0,1,0;: FPS: 4120 FrameTime: 0.243 ms
[effect2d] kernel=1,1,1,1,1;1,1,1,1,1;1,1,1,1,1;: FPS: 1877 FrameTime: 0.533 ms
[pulsar] light=false:quads=5:texture=false: FPS: 4736 FrameTime: 0.211 ms
[desktop] blur-radius=5:effect=blur:passes=1:separable=true:windows=4: FPS: 596 FrameTime: 1.680 ms
[desktop] effect=shadow:windows=4: FPS: 1305 FrameTime: 0.766 ms
[buffer] columns=200:interleave=false:update-dispersion=0.9:update-fraction=0.5:update-method=map: FPS: 277 FrameTime: 3.612 ms
[buffer] columns=200:interleave=false:update-dispersion=0.9:update-fraction=0.5:update-method=subdata: FPS: 276 FrameTime: 3.634 ms
[buffer] columns=200:interleave=true:update-dispersion=0.9:update-fraction=0.5:update-method=map: FPS: 329 FrameTime: 3.043 ms
[ideas] speed=duration: FPS: 764 FrameTime: 1.310 ms
[jellyfish] <default>: FPS: 2616 FrameTime: 0.382 ms
[terrain] <default>: FPS: 127 FrameTime: 7.922 ms
[shadow] <default>: FPS: 1688 FrameTime: 0.593 ms
[refract] <default>: FPS: 279 FrameTime: 3.589 ms
[conditionals] fragment-steps=0:vertex-steps=0: FPS: 3871 FrameTime: 0.258 ms
[conditionals] fragment-steps=5:vertex-steps=0: FPS: 4282 FrameTime: 0.234 ms
[conditionals] fragment-steps=0:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 4815 FrameTime: 0.208 ms
[function] fragment-complexity=low:fragment-steps=5: FPS: 4749 FrameTime: 0.211 ms
[function] fragment-complexity=medium:fragment-steps=5: FPS: 4390 FrameTime: 0.228 ms
[loop] fragment-loop=false:fragment-steps=5:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 4830 FrameTime: 0.207 ms
[loop] fragment-steps=5:fragment-uniform=false:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 4843 FrameTime: 0.207 ms
[loop] fragment-steps=5:fragment-uniform=true:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 4282 FrameTime: 0.234 ms
=======================================================
                                  glmark2 Score: 3132 
=======================================================
 

 

Just wondering, can your new version "20230219 with direct support for launching from USB" launch theoretically totally different images, like rebornos?
What requirements would those other images have to include?

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

" extlinux.conf"

Thats the only thing missing now for official armbian builds (with SPI support) for the rock-5b I think: 
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/boards/rock-5b.wip

[Armbian + NVME = fail to boot]

At the moment, SPI boot is only working with builds from here:

Butt will sure be ported to armbian in future.

[Armbian images are now available for Rock 5b!]

Of course it's far from perfect, but can be used. I remember the start of rk3399 boards, that was pretty bad in comparison to today.

ARM64 and panfrost really made some serious progress.

 

JFYI, wayland progress on gnome was always more advanced than KDE's (and only choice if you wanted working wayland DE besides sway etc)

[Armbian images are now available for Rock 5b!]

When adding the ppa's for 3D accleration, there a more steps involved, which are printed out once and can be missed.
So far desktop and chromium are running great, even wayland.

Spoiler

You have to create the following udev rules to enable mpp and rga hardware acceleration:

 

KERNEL=="mpp_service", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"
KERNEL=="rga", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"
KERNEL=="system-dma32", MODE="0666", GROUP="video"
KERNEL=="system-uncached-dma32", MODE="0666", GROUP="video" RUN+="/usr/bin/chmod a+rw /dev/dma_heap"

 

To enable libv4l-rkmpp for chromium, you have to install libv4l-rkmpp, v4l-utils and chromium-browser in this ppa:

sudo apt install chromium-browser=$(apt-cache show chromium-browser|grep Version|grep rkmpp|cut -d " " -f2) chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra=$(apt-cache show chromium-browser|grep Version|grep rkmpp|cut -d " " -f2) libv4l-rkmpp, v4l-utils

 

Then run the following commands:

sudo ln -s /lib /usr/lib64
cd /usr/lib64/ && sudo ln -s aarch64-linux-gnu/libv4l2.so.0.0.0 libv4l2.so

 

And add the following lines to /etc/rc.local:

echo dec > /dev/video-dec0
chown root:video /dev/video-dec0
chmod 0660 /dev/video-dec0
echo enc > /dev/video-enc0
chown root:video /dev/video-enc0
chmod 0660 /dev/video-enc0

 

Add chrome flags "--use-gl=egl" to /etc/chromium-browser/default:

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--use-gl=egl"

 

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

Zitat

I'm just wondering which power supply do you use (with or without PD function)?

Power Supply with PD:

"ALLNET USB Ladegerät Quick Charge® PD Power Supply 45 Watt 1x Typ C**EU PLUG**"

with these outputs USB-C 5V/3A, 9V/3A, 12V/3A, 15V/3A, 20V/2,25A (45W) bought here.

Description is wrong in the shop. 

Didn't work with old random Type C <-> Type C Cable, ordered this cable which should support up to 60W and worked.

lars@rock-5b:~$ sensors
tcpm_source_psy_4_0022-i2c-4-22
Adapter: rk3x-i2c
in0:          20.00 V  (min = +20.00 V, max = +20.00 V)
curr1:         2.25 A  (max =  +2.25 A)

 

Zitat

What size of RAM do you have , is it correctly determined ?

I have the 8GB Ram Board, tools like free oder htop show 7.5 GB.

 

Zitat

How does starting the system from an SD card work after installing the system on NVMe ?

I haven't done very much testing yet, but seems to work:
Installed Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Rock-5b_jammy_legacy_5.10.110_xfce_desktop from SD to SPI and nvme partition 1 (2 partitions in total on drive). Removed SD -> everything good.

Just used Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Rock-5b_sid_legacy_5.10.110 for testing on SD, and it booted 🙂
Took a while and led was flashing and turning on/off wildly, thought it bootloops (running my boards mostly headless). but after a while it was ready and ssh'ing worked as usual.

 

Minor issues:

Kernel reports Linux 5.10.110-station-m4

motd-news.service  and speech-dispatcherd.service are failing on jammy xfce.

:edit
In total i tested about 5 power supplys which I had laying around, only one booted (5V/3A) but had lots of stability issues.

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

Installed with armbian-install to SPI+NVME and works perfectly. Thanks!

[Armbian + EFI\grub + NVMe]

Sounds great! Am I missing the download link for 20221210?
I can build myself, branch media-20221210 correct?

[Armbian images are now available for Rock 5b!]

@whitefox

I ran into same problems. When 'sensors' reports only 

in0: 5.00 V (min = +5.00 V, max = +5.00 V)
curr1: 0.00 A (max = +0.00 A)

emmc + nvme stopped working reliable together.

 

I solved most of my problems with buying an new PSU AND a certified 60W USB Type C to Type C Cable.

Random old Type C to Type C cable was unreliable. Some old non-Type C 5V/2A PSU did work, but only as long as i did not use emmc, sd + nvme at the same time, sensors reported same values 

 

Here is a incomplete list about PSU's and their possible boot options: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/5b/power_supply

 

I bought a PSU from ALLNET with: USB-C 5V/3A, 9V/3A, 12V/3A, 15V/3A, 20V/2,25A (45W)

https://shop.maker-store.de/single-board-computer/zubehoer/weiteres-zubehoer/3763/rock-pi-4-zbh.-power-adapter-pd-netzteil-45-watt-eu-plug + 

+ 60W cable

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B09YHHNNCG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&language=en_GB

 

in0:          20.00 V  (min = +20.00 V, max = +20.00 V)
curr1:         2.25 A  (max =  +2.25 A)

 

So far I am very impressed about performance vs rk3399, this is a beast 🙂

And would also consider the legacy kernel in a better state than expected.

 

[Kernel 5.19.x not working for me with media branch (rockchip64 works)]

Maybe next time something is wrong i should be able to provide UART (and learn some new stuff anyway to keep the T4 up and running) 😉

[Kernel 5.19.x not working for me with media branch (rockchip64 works)]

Version 20220926 works!

Tested Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Nanopct4_jammy_edge_6.0.0.img and Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Nanopct4_jammy_current_5.19.11:

Both boot, show no dmesg errors and emmc install (boot+system) is fine.

 

I will receive my UART device tomorrow for future debugging.

[Kernel 5.19.x not working for me with media branch (rockchip64 works)]

Okay, thank you so far.

I will report back when i have UART access

[Kernel 5.19.x not working for me with media branch (rockchip64 works)]

Same problem, uboot show no usb error on these images but also fails to boot.

 

edit: could a connected nvme drive cause this? I did not open the case und dismount it physically