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    Which PC, Mac or Raspberry allows me to virtualize Armbian image?

    in General Chat

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    13 hours ago, Sigma7 said:

    want to virtualize Armbian images created for TV Box

    What exactly do you mean by this?  If you are looking to run the exact image you deploy to a SBC in a virtual environment, you can't really do that.  If you are looking to run an armbian build that has the same linux kernel and user space environment as an SBC/TV Box build, that you should be able to do.  A virtualized environment is really a specific virtualized set of hardware which will be different than the hardware for any specific SBC/TV Box.  So the low level uboot and hardware environment (i.e. dtb files) will be different between the SBC build and the virtual environment build.  But from that level up (kernel and user space) everything can be the same.  Armbian has a build target for the QEMU environment (Virtual QEMU) and automated builds for that here: https://github.com/armbian/community/releases

     

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    Allwinner H6

    in Allwinner CPU Boxes

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    54 minutes ago, MBB said:

    Currently, our plan was to keep updating our patches (and add other boxes such as the work being done by @jock), but if there is interest in making this a CSC build, I am more than happy to discuss how you'd like us to proceed.  It is certainly our intent to handle all support and not place any burden on Armbian folks.  Is there a good way to discuss in real time?  You can reach me here:  mike at inovato.com.  I am US West Coast.

    @MBB I would recommend that reach out to @Igor via irc or discord for that discussion.

     

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    Allwinner H6

    in Allwinner CPU Boxes

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    On 8/16/2022 at 12:13 AM, MBB said:

    For anyone wanting to build from mainline, we have posted an article with our patches.  These include AC200 Ethernet and XR819 wifi support in kernel 5.15.y.  For edge builds, AC200 Ethernet is supported.  To support the XR819, we'll have to create more patches for the changes in kernel 5.19.  The link is https://www.inovato.com/article/building-armbian.

    @MBB Are you working to get your patches submitted back to base Armbian?  The reason I'm asking is given your current instructions (pull armbian source, apply your zip of patches) you will run into problems over time as the armbian codebase changes, since you aren't tied to a specific git commit or label.  Also long term where do your end users turn for software support?  Armbian certainly isn't setup to provide end user support for projects like this.  Just wondering about how you envision long term support working as it relates to the armbian code you are building on top of.

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    Efforts to improve video performance on meson64 based TV boxes

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    On 8/10/2022 at 5:31 AM, youns said:

    @lgranie thakns for the efforts

    i have x96 with s905w and would like to use hardware decode only for H264 720p videos (sw decoding was bad for my cpu)

    i'm using balbes Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop

    thank you

    As this thread describes the balbes150 builds are not capable of hardware accellerated video.  lgranie was using newer kernels to experiment. 

     

    Also as the TV Box FAQ mentions, do not expect to be successful using TV Boxes with video - generally only expect good performance for non-gui (i.e. server) use cases.

     

    Finally, please don't post the same question in multiple threads as you did yesterday.

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    help with program corrupting.

    in Beginners

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    17 minutes ago, mikolp123 said: 
    Failed to load '/boot/dtb/overlay/-fixup.scr'

    From your failure log, this line would indicate that one of the dtb overlays can't be read.  Can you verify that this file exists and is not corrupted on the sd card of the failure case.

     

    The most likely cause in my opinion is a poor quality sd card.  Making sure you have a high quality sd card is one of the first things to check in situations like this.

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    Armbian 22.05 Jammy XFCE on S905X3 F3 Air box

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    1 hour ago, RMG said:

    4) copy the files from /Boot to FAT drive and place the boot.ext file from old release which worked for you earlier.

    What do you mean by "place the boot.ext file from old release"?

     

    I think you are leaving out some important steps/information in your post.  If someone read this starting with a new box, I don't think your steps work to get a running Armbian.  But you don't indicate what needs to be done.

     

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    what is this device???

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    My only suggestion is to get the box back to an original android firmware.  You say that you have tried hundreds of things, so you probably don't have the original firmware or you would have tried that already.  If you can't get the box back to working with android firmware, there is no way to move forward with armbian.

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    Can't write to emmc

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    My only thoughts would be to try to use the amlogic tools to reflash an original android firmware.  If that can be done, then the emmc is still at some level writeable.  If that works, then you could start over the process of installing armbian.  If reinstalling the original firmware fails, I think it may be a hardware issue.

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    H3 1GB RAM 8GB NAND, Armbian working, but cannot install to Nand

    in Allwinner CPU Boxes

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    Please read: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first/

     

     

    Note that TV Boxes are not supported by Armbian

    Note that there is no one in the forums who works with allwinner based TV boxes

    Note that you have used a build designed for different hardware and have it mostly working, that itself is amazing.

     

    You should think of this forum as a place to post your experiences on what you can get working, not a place to expect support.

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    Magicsee N5 Plus : Block map file is too short

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    I must say you are persistent in trying.  I hope you view this as a learning opportunity and not a source of frustration.

     

    Since you have now acquired the skills necessary to properly debug, I think it is time to start over from the beginning and take this step by step slowly.

     

    So I am going to ask that you reflash the original android firmware to get back to a known state for the box.

     

    Then with an sd card prepared with the armbian build from the instructions on this site enable multiboot.

     

    Then reboot to attempt to run armbian.

     

    At that point don't do anything more, but reply back with the console output you are getting from the serial connection, report what you see on the screen for output, and also attach the extlinux.conf file you used and which uboot file.

     

    I want to see the state of your box at this point before recommending what to do next.

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    S905 failed to boot from emmc

    in General Chat

    Posted

    6 hours ago, d51x said:

    Recently I find out there is armbian ophub with new kernels - Armbian 22.08.0-trunk Bullseye with Linux 5.15.55

     

    @d51x Note that these ophub builds have nothing to do with armbian.  The authors do not participate in these forums or in armbian development.  They are using the armbian name under false pretenses.  There are some developers in the armbian community who feel their work is being used without proper credit and strongly discourages anyone from using the ophub builds.

    I'm just providing information to allow individuals the ability to make an informed choice before they dive into the ophub builds.

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