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50 minutes ago, zanfi said:
Right, but... I should see some boot on screen I believe...or am I wrong?
I do not see anything at all, that's why I believe I'm doing something wrong.
Cheers.
It depends what you mean by screen. It you mean a terminal program listening on the uart port, yes you should see something, if you are expecting to see something via the HDMI port then no. HDMI is initialized late in the process and depends on most things working/configured properly to see anything.
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I am still not able to use the u-boot-fix described above to address the hdmi color issues. I have a TX3 s905x3 box using the meson-sm1-sei610.dtb. When I boot from the SD card with the patch applied (boot.ini, s905_autoscript, u-boot.ext) the boot fails and I am left with a green screen. In attempting to figure this out myself, I have captured console logs from both a successful boot without the patch and the failed boot with the patch (see attached). Any ideas why this is not working for me? I have tried booting from both usb and sdcard and both are failing with the patch applied.
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I tested the fix for the color issue and it wasn't successful for my box (TX3 x905x3). Using Armbian_19.11.3_Rk3399-tv_bionic_dev_5.4.1_20191208.img with the downloaded u-boot.ext the box fails to boot. If I remove the u-boot.ext file the box boots but with the faulty colors.
Earlier in this thread it was mentioned the option of installing a newer u-boot to solve the color problem. Are there relatively simple instructions on how to build a mainline u-boot and install it on an amlogic tv box? I am assuming you need to replace the shipped u-boot on mmc?
In looking at the mainline u-boot tree, it looks like support for the s905x3 (sm1) has only recently been included, so my thinking is I would likely want to try the latest: v2020.01-rc4.
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I noticed that the Build_Armbian git tree had a new set of changes merged in a couple of days ago. I tried it out last night and there is one issue that I have seen so far. I did a build of 'Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_bionic_current_5.4.0.img and the debs and img are missing the dtb files. I will copy the dtb's from another build to further test, but wanted to let you know of this issue. I noticed a lot of code restructuring in this set of build changes, and since it hasn't been announced yet, I suspect I am trying things before they are ready.
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16 hours ago, Sergey2k said:
What image do you use? Where I can download it?
You need a 5.4+ kernel, the latest that I can find is at: https://yadi.sk/d/pHxaRAs-tZiei/OLD/5.99/dev
I am running with: Armbian_5.99_Aml-g12_Debian_buster_dev_5.4.0-rc6_20191110.img
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I have a new TX3 box with the s905x3 chip and that box boots with the meson-sm1-sei610.dtb file. It works fine as a server (i.e. boots, wired ethernet, usb working). No wifi or bluetooth. I did also try to install a desktop build and the hdmi output isn't correct, colors are messed up, and sound isn't working.
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I just received a new TX3 box with the s905x3 chipset. I was able to successfully install Armbian_5.99_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_5.4.0-rc6_20191110.img using the meson-sm1-sei610.dtb
The box boots with HDMI and ethernet working. No WIFI or Bluetooth.
I was able to install on both an SD card and internal mmc.
I haven't yet tried running a GUI desktop.
I also tried using the dtb from 5.4 in a 5.3 environment and that does not boot. So it would appear that 5.4 is the first kernel version that supports the s905x3 chipset.
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H96 Max X2 (with S905X2 cpu) 4GB Ram ad 32GB Emmc
I purchased this box thinking I was getting an X96 Max (the naming of all these different boxes is very confusing). But it turns out that it works well with current builds of balbes150's Armbian. It works with the meson-g12a-x96-max-rmii.dtb. It works well installed to eMMC. The wifi does not work, and I haven't tried bluetooth or hdmi audio.
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3 hours ago, Reddwarf said:
I would appreciate some tip about what and where to look. I have done exactly as described, not changed any config and still it does not work.
I did a build last night of Armbian_5.91_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_disco_default_5.2.0.img without any problems. So it isn't that case that as you said "the script for building Armbial is obviously useless," because it works fine for me. So there is something in your environment that is causing a failure as balbes150 stated. Have you tried building on a different host?
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22 hours ago, trulyliu said:
I have installed 5.80 on EMMC, how can I update it to the latest version without reinstall?
You will need to build the .deb files from source in order to upgrade. I have been doing this for the last couple of months and things seem stable enough for this work fairly smoothly. You will need to use the build environment fork from balbes150's git repository (https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian). It is quite simple to do a build from source if you have an intel based machine running Ubuntu18.04. (Note there is one mistake in the instructions, when is says to "cd build" after "git clone https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian", it should say "cd Build-Armbian")
Once you have built the .debs you can use apt to upgrade them in your installation. Look at what packages you have installed and upgrade to the newer versions you have built.
I would recommend doing a image backup before you attempt the upgrade until you are comfortable with the process. To make a backup, burn an Armbian image to SD or USB, boot from it and run the 'ddbr' command to backup the eMMC. Then you will have a backup image to restore from if something goes wrong during an upgrade.
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19 hours ago, anonymox said:
Hey, I'm using TX3 mini type A (2019 edition - new hardware). I can't install Armbian to eMMC
I think you have run into the same issue I recently did. I have purchased four TX3 mini boxes (2G/16G) over time from different vendors. Two of the boxes work perfectly (i.e. I can install to the built in eMMC. However on the other two boxes, I can not. The two boxes that can't install to eMMC, do work in all other ways. So I can run armbian from the SD card if I want.
In attempting to diagnose the problem, I noticed that the kernel wasn't detecting the internal storage at boot time. So I opened up the cases of a box that worked and a box that didn't and discovered a difference. The two boxes have different storage chips (the chips are actually located in different locations on the board as well). In googling the part markings on the chips, it appears that the box that works correctly has an eMMC memory chip installed, and the box that doesn't has a NAND chip installed. I recall reading somewhere that there isn't currently support in these kernels for nand storage. So it would seem that some manufacturers in order to cut costs are installing nand storage on some of the TX3 mini's. I don't know how to tell at ordering time, what type of storage might be used and therefore I no longer am purchasing the TX3 mini's for my purposes. I really like the boxes and if I could be assured of getting boxes with eMMC I would use them for a number of projects.
M8S Pro - Amlogic S912 - no bootloader
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There are scripts in /root for installing to internal storage