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Videos work ok with MPV player on H6(it works otb with recent kernel), there's no hdmi audio so some usb soundcard could cover that part. Opi3 has bunch of ram so your Armbian and DE should run smooth. There's no gpu accel in browsers but cpu can handle YT videos if there's ram. I don't know if that audio out port works, i have opi lite 2 that hasn't have it. You could gain at least extra 1GB of zram if your ram gets filled with 2GB version, so around 3GB of fast RAM memory what should be fine.(I wouldn't recommend 1GB ram version for DE, in theory it could work but some of the ram is used by the GPU and it gets filled fast with multimedia in browsers) There's up to date info if you haven't come across it https://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_3 and this https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

@jernej , at least 1920x1080 works in CLI now thanks to you. There's more screen realestate i guess.

@jernej@Igor I've bumped opi lite 2 to Kernel 5.13 I've removed extraargs=drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=HDMI-A-1:edid/1920x1080.bin video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60 from the /boot/armbianEnv.txt Screen resolution works on boot, it's 1900x1080, lightdm asks for password and after that i get blank screen. Second boot i see u-boot stuff but it doesn't ask for password and screen is blank when it should start DE. Audio doesn't work, HDMI audio gets detected: root@orangepilite2:~# aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: sun9ihdmi [sun9i-hdmi], device 0: SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ...but there's no sound and some apps using audio are crashing. Jack also starts and all that, all looks fine but no sound.

I've tried on a TV and dell monitor with the same result. In either case i can only guess where the issue is,maybe the H6 soc isn't receiving EDID, forcing the resolution works. @jernej FYI, LE detects all fine as it should be, even resolutions above HD on the same board using the same TV and dell monitor.

I don't have luck with 1920x1080 on opi lite 2 as well on kernel 5.10.x Hirsute and Buster. The best it offers is 1024x768. I tried xfce and kde plasma, and i guess it's the same resolution in CLI mode. Have anyone had any luck? @jernej , you seem like a man who could know more about this. Edit: Comment from @Fenn in this thread below helped me to bump up resolution to 1920x1080 on opi lite 2 by adding next line in the /boot/armbianEnv.txt extraargs=drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=HDMI-A-1:edid/1920x1080.bin video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60

If you encounter this error install usb-modeswitch and reboot. sudo apt install usb-modeswitch sudo reboot

Delete the topic then. I'll try to update everything soon...

armbianmonitor -u http://ix.io/2QRq root@orangepilite2:~# modinfo batman-adv filename: /lib/modules/5.9.8-sunxi64/updates/net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko alias: net-pf-16-proto-16-family-batadv alias: rtnl-link-batadv version: 2021.0-6-gaaea6445 description: B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced author: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>, Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> license: GPL srcversion: DA82A36C3D3A87C56A9C2A4 depends: bridge,cfg80211 name: batman_adv vermagic: 5.9.8-sunxi64 SMP mod_unload aarch64

Linux orangepilite2 5.9.8-sunxi64 #ifb SMP Fri Nov 20 20:38:13 EST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux After trying to load batman-adv module i get the error Segmentation fault. This is the dmesg output of the error that occurs: [ 952.114742] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff800026beb000 [ 952.122734] Mem abort info: [ 952.125603] ESR = 0x96000006 [ 952.128674] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 952.134042] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 952.137123] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 952.140328] Data abort info: [ 952.143261] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006 [ 952.147150] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 952.150165] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000041308000 [ 952.156920] [ffff800026beb000] pgd=0000000077fff003, p4d=0000000077fff003, pud=0000000077ffe003, pmd=0000000000000000 [ 952.167593] Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] SMP [ 952.172482] Modules linked in: batman_adv(OE+) fuse algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep bridge r8152 88x2bu(OE) snd_soc_hdmi_codec dw_hdmi_i2s_audio dw_hdmi_cec hci_uart btqca btrtl btsdio btbcm brcmfmac btintel bluetooth brcmutil cfg80211 ecdh_generic rfkill ecc sunxi_cedrus(C) videobuf2_dma_contig v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videodev panfrost gpu_sched sun8i_ce mc crypto_engine display_connector cpufreq_dt uas i2c_mv64xxx [ 952.213199] CPU: 2 PID: 3177 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G C OE 5.9.8-sunxi64 #ifb [ 952.221463] Hardware name: OrangePi Lite2 (DT) [ 952.225911] pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO BTYPE=--) [ 952.231530] pc : batadv_hard_if_event+0x220/0x7a8 [batman_adv] [ 952.237393] lr : batadv_hard_if_event+0x20c/0x7a8 [batman_adv] [ 952.243225] sp : ffff80001150ba50 [ 952.246540] x29: ffff80001150ba50 x28: ffff80001150bdc0 [ 952.251854] x27: 0000000000000100 x26: ffff8000100e38c8 [ 952.257167] x25: 0000000000000003 x24: 0000000000000000 [ 952.262479] x23: ffff800011495048 x22: 0000000000000001 [ 952.267792] x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffff0000348f5000 [ 952.273105] x19: 0000000000000005 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 952.278418] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 [ 952.283730] x15: 0000005138b2fcae x14: 000000000000015b [ 952.289044] x13: 0000000000000130 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 952.294355] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000001 [ 952.299667] x9 : 000000000000015e x8 : ffff000037d962c0 [ 952.304979] x7 : ffff000034c65d80 x6 : 0000000000000000 [ 952.310291] x5 : ffff800010ff62c0 x4 : ffff80000939c888 [ 952.315604] x3 : ffff0000348f5000 x2 : 0000000000000000 [ 952.320917] x1 : ffff800026beb000 x0 : ffff800026beb000 [ 952.326230] Call trace: [ 952.328723] batadv_hard_if_event+0x220/0x7a8 [batman_adv] [ 952.334219] call_netdevice_register_net_notifiers+0x58/0x108 [ 952.339963] register_netdevice_notifier+0x94/0x130 [ 952.344846] batadv_init+0xf4/0x130 [batman_adv] [ 952.349459] do_one_initcall+0x54/0x1b8 [ 952.353290] do_init_module+0x54/0x200 [ 952.357032] load_module+0x1f88/0x2550 [ 952.360775] __do_sys_finit_module+0xb4/0x120 [ 952.365125] __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x20/0x30 [ 952.369650] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x6c/0x168 [ 952.374433] do_el0_svc+0x24/0x90 [ 952.377743] el0_sync_handler+0x90/0x198 [ 952.381659] el0_sync+0x158/0x180 [ 952.384974] Code: 54fff6c1 d538d081 f9425e80 8b010000 (885f7c03) [ 952.391061] ---[ end trace 468e2b20acac28b8 ]---

@papahippo I guess bluetooth is still not working on orangepi lite 2. Check out this https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ and https://github.com/armbian/build

Amazing! Nice review @NicoD!

@Igor , in a nutshell, to be safe it would work, I have to find source code for the hostapd 2.6, put your patches in that project and compile it? Does that patched hostapd 2.6 already exists so that I can skip all the hassle of compiling I'm not familiar with, like a *.deb file?

Thanks guys! @sfx2000, are you suggesting me to go with hostapd v2.10-devel and it would work? @Werner, here's the armbianmonitor -u http://ix.io/2x61 root@orangepilite2:~# hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Line 9: unknown configuration item 'noscan ' 1 errors found in configuration file '/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' Failed to set up interface with /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to initialize interface

One guess less to the solution.

@Werner, there are many files that seem to be associated with many SBC's. By guess I went to see how big are files associated with opi lite 2 and this is what I got: Linux 5.7.15 root@orangepilite2:/boot/dtb/allwinner# ls -lah|grep lite -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36K kol 17 10:32 sun50i-h6-orangepi-lite2.dtb Linux 5.8.6 root@orangepilite2:/media/586/boot/dtb/allwinner# ls -lah | grep lite -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37K ruj 4 08:52 sun50i-h6-orangepi-lite2.dtb Is there maybe a need to compare those two files after modifying them with dtc tool?