[X96 Mini - Armbian Notes - Wifi and HDMI Audio]

X96_mini is from Geek Buying in 2018.

 

Great job with this latest image !
For other noobs here is my initial and latest activity.

I started over with new image
Armbian_5.98_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_disco_dev_5.4.0-rc4_desktop_20191025.img.xz
but may have forgotten something.

I had saved with dtb_name "/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb"
boot.ini

armbian_first_run.txt

uEnv.ini

extlinux/extlinux.conf

Etcher flashed
Copied above files

 

Ran armbian-config  for timezone and hostname
 

test.mp4 audio is soft and distorted from HDTV speaker.
volume control shows built in stereo and no HDMI as I see on my Ubuntu laptop.
 

dmesg has these initial lines with last one often appearing
 

root@coolx96:~# dmesg | grep audio
[    7.642965] debugfs: Directory 'c1105400.audio' with parent 'regmap' already present!
[   24.333589] hdmi-audio-codec hdmi-audio-codec.2.auto: hdmi_codec_hw_params() width 16 rate 44100 channels 2

 

Synaptic only works from terminal not menu.

I find it faster to ssh in with root and use

apt-cache search packagename

and dpkg -l | grep installed_pkgname

 

apt install, update, upgrade

 

Again great job.
Now trying to get HDMI audio to sound right.

 

 

[X96 Mini - Armbian Notes - Wifi and HDMI Audio]

The devil is in the details.

Armbian was partially working so I started over to study the process more closely !

It seems Geek Buying is NOT the same Wifi as WiFi Chip: RTL8189 on Gear Best in the X96 Mini.
iComm SV8051P is not working with Linux and actually not very good on Android 7.1.2 as delivered.

HDMI Audio on 5.4 is WIP as Linux Meson discloses.