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Hey, that's very nice! I am trying exactly to have it as an option for retro games. I have tried libreelec/kodi with IAGL, but not much luck there. I am trying Retroarch on itself but still am struggling... So, for me to try the retropie, do you have a compiled image? Or how would I got about it? Thanks once more!

Ok, so just like out of the blue, you burned that img, installed retroarch, and pcsx ran 60fps? Damn. Edit: if you changed anything, I'd like to know your settings. Would you share?

Hello Tommy! Did you achieve this through retroarch on linux, or through a lakka-self-compited-img...? It's been almost 2 years, lol, so I don't know if you made any progress but in any case, would you be willing to share whatever image you have working best? I am working with the k5.15 and it's been great for many things. Retroarch doesn't seem to be one of them, tho. Maybe I need to tweak it a lot and should not expect it to work great at install, tho... Thanks!

Hey man. I have not tried again... Nothing I tried worked for the box I have (it is 100% the H313 chip, yes). I tried stuff for H616 too, but I may be too noob to figure out how or what to do in this case. Still really looking forward to a solution! So, thanks for quoting me and if you know anything, let me know. I can share my knowledge/attempts with you, but again, it is very basic stuff.

Hey @TeroDada, I also have a H313 box. It seems to be a x96 something... I tried a bunch of images, it does not boot. You said that ubuntu image booted, did you do something with it? I tried to burn it into a SD card but it gives out a warning that it is not a bootable image. I tried anyway, and the box does not boot. Any help would be appreciated at this point! Thanks

My friend, should you find an asnwer for this, please let me know!!!

Hey @tommy, just read this and have also found the images you provided here, but my performance is not even close to yours. Can you tell me what sort of configuration you've made? I have toyed around the options but my games mostly crash. For example, I have tried Tekken 3 and it feels very slow. If I try to swap the video driver for anything but "gl", it will crash. Same with other options that I thought would give a result. Thanks!

Hello! Hope this message find you guys doing ok amidst the crazy times we live in. I have followed the mentioned link below, downloaded the "current 5.10 minimal", and have hit a weird wall: rk322x-config stops before setting up the wifi.Therefore, my wifi is not setting up. I have many other images (mostly if not all legacy ones) where my ssv6051p is working very well. I have installed xfce4 from armbian-config and still could not see or find it through graphical interface. On CLI I tried checking modprobe, iperf, nmtui, dmesg... It seems like it is just not there at all. So, I thought "well shit, something went down", and removed the minimal to go back to my most developed version of legacy with lubuntu and wifi is working just fine. And rk322x-config does have the full length, going over wifi settings and options for it. Any suggestions...? I have the general idea I have read about it somewhere, but looking through the topic I could not find anything I haven't tried. If this answer is somewhere, my apologies, but if you could send me its link I'd appreciate it! Best, Vitor

Hello o/ I have a Tanix tx6s and, as far as I could tell, there isn't much about it online on how to start armbian on it. I tried the general instructions for the orangepi zero 2 but the box just remains unbootable. Now, I have looked at the sunxi webpage and there is a, somewhat, set of instructions to get the bootloader and dtb properly working for this box... I doubt it but, has anyone done/tried it? And do you recommend a different approach? Thanks!

Hey guys, This may be a more "linux general question", but what I could find and try did not work, so it may be a armbian/rk3228 specific solution. On this rk3328 I am running ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, Kernel 4.4 with x11 and XFCE (sddm greeter) - rk3328. Now my question: How do I make the screen, regardless of monitor (hdmi input) to have the same resolution and aspect ratio? Say I want it to be 4:3 and 500x600. How do I force, thorugh a script, any single monitor to run with this configuration? I found some instructions on how to do this with xrandr and whatnot, but it just does not stick. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Yeah, that's exactly what I have learned. But like, I have a rk3229 which can run things but it is very slow. Best performance "fix" is to have a 800x600 resolution. I am struggling to navigate on web, watch youtube at 480p is FAR from great... The mediaframework stuff is mostly to have the accelaration for Kodi, it doesn't helped that much with regular usage. On top of it, most of google stuff won't work (no google meet and google drive is pretty slow). Nor will any video chat platform really work, even if audio only. I am trying to make it into a cheap basic computer, mostly for productivity. Anyways, I'm hoping the H313 will be better just enough that these things won't be terrible. It can be bad, but hopefully work and it's not a trash performance. But I'm prepared for the same possible outcome, lol Thanks <3

Hello! I know this is for H616 and things are on early stages... But I read somewhere that the H313 is the same chip as H616, so I am wondering: would the images and procedure for H616 work on a H313 board? I don't have one yet to test, but I am planning on getting and trying. Just wondering if someone else has done it. Thanks and best!

Hey @jock, I just lost my minimal image due to a dead sdCard. Woul you happen to have it still available...? Sorry for troubling you with it! If not, I will try to build one myself (but I'm affraid I'd hit that wall once more...)

Well, no, not at all. Here is all steps on what happened: Bought the box with android 7.1 and it booted OK; Inserted SD card with multitool and ran "restore" instead of "install" with an Armbian version that I already had "perfected" on another exactly equal box; I have installed (thoruhg "install" menu option in multitool) this same version of Armbian on another number of this exact same box, multiple times, and nothing similar has ever happened! Tried to boot the box, nothing happened; Tried to boot the box with the multitool SD card in and got that error screen; Nothing could change the results of steps 3 and 4 so far. Steps 3 and 4 happened on multiple attempts. I was never able to get back to android or start multitool again. The box is, therefore, bricked. Could this have happened because of a faulty multitool install? Could multitool have damaged something to make it "bricked"? Or is it more likely that the box is somehow faulty? I believe on the latter but have not tried investigating. I never used the rkdevelopt tool, but I will try to use it later!

I see, thanks! Well, yeah. But for that I'd need multitool to open, haha Currently, I either have no boot or boot into that "error like" screen I posted the images for. It doesn't go anywhere, no terminal, no multitool, no nothing. Just that and only that. That's why I am strongly inclined to believe something on the board (hardware) is faulty.

Hey Jock! Thanks for answering so fast! Here is what happened: android was installed (I do not remember if I used it, but I believe I did at least tested...), anyways, the only different thing I did was to install armbian through multitool using "restore" instead of "install", could that have been the issue? Then, after that, the board does not boot at all. If I try to boot it pressing the reset button with the multitool sd card I get that screen. The sd card is 100% working as I have installed and backed up and restored multiple version on multiple boxes. I have not tried anything with the rkdev tool ever, but I could try something. Regardless, I can't even revert back to android since I can't get multiool working. That's why I believe it has to be a hardware failure... Also: can, somehow, an action from multitool (restore, backup, install...) break a box/emmc? It doesn't mess with clocks or voltages, does it? Like, I suppose a energy shortage midway process could be dangerous... But, assuming everything to be normal, can multitool actions themselves break/brick the box? As always, I appreciate your guys work and efforts, thank you so much!

Hi! One of my boxes is no longer booting on android or armbian, and I'm unsure on how to proceed. If I force it to boot with the reset pressed, trying to open multitool, I get the following screen. Does it seem like it is "recoverable" or is it some hardware failure...?

Hey, here I am again! This time around I'm trying to use "leocad", but I have this weird bug going on where I cannot see the bricks, nor the tile... Has anyone experienced something similar, maybe with another CAD program...? I will be asking this on their forum as well! On the other picture you can see my terminal info about the package and its dependencies! Thanks and best!

Hello amazing people, I have a really nice version of the system running as I want it to: Armbian is a productivity suite and I can watch twitch on Kodi. I have been trying to play stuff, like emulators, and I am now having issues - which I am sure I wasn't having earlier on. While on Armbian Mednafen/Mednaffe will run some games well, some will suck. Like, even if GLRUN it will, at best, play 17fps. So, I thought: silly me, let's try the emulators through Kodi cuz Kodi twitch is smooth 1080p (while on Armbian I'm lucky if I have 360p), so the video stuff might be better in Kodi... And, well, shit. It seems like there was an update on Kodi and it is now way above 18.6 (default Kodi for mediaFramework) and it is just not possible to install things there anymore. It keeps asking for stuff, such as libretro and whatnot, which I can't install unless I upgrade, but I can't upgrade Kodi... Am I missing something here? Is there an option? Basically: I want to able to run some SNES/GBA games and that's all. Thanks o/

Hey, man. Not sure if this could be what you're looking for, but I managed to play SNES and GBA on Ubuntu legacy with Mednaffe/Mednafen. It ran just fine and well. If you try and have issues, let us know o/

Thanks @jock and @fabiobassa! Yeah, it is partially due to these limitations and also the limitations of how I am currently using Kodi that I am trying that dual boot alternative. You guys don't happen to know anything about it, do you? Even if it'd mean run android on eMMC and Linux from the sdcard, it'd still be very helpful! If things keep running as they are, I think I can turn this into a product soon enough - and then help with donations! ^^

Hi everyone, I'm doing really well on the board I have! I am sure this is a really capable board! So far I have: . Played emulator games and some old/retro games such as quake 1, 2, and doom; . Web-browesed on Firefox to almost any website (netflix doesn't work, some issues with google meet as well); . Edited photos and pdf with gimp, libreoffice draw, kolourpaint... Flawlessly!; . Draw 2d cad with librecad and will be testing leocad soon!; . When videos work, like in YouTube or twitch, I can watch them decent at 480p, very decent at 360p; . Watched 1080p on kodi (at least on twitch), but the other services (Amazon, Netflix, Disney, YouTube...) I wasn't able to try yet. Overall, this makes for a REALLY good and cheap basic desktop. But just to be sure, let me ask something: is there any way to dual boot with android + armbian? That'd be possible with, I suppose, partitioning the emmc... I am aware that there is a way to install linux in Android and then ssh into it. But that's not the same thing I'm asking about! As always, thanks a lot for the help and support here. You guys are awesome. Much love <3

HI @jock! I tried slick-greeter with icewm and that was super fast! Very nice, but not that user friendly. But, you know, consumed 120mb ram to have it up and running, so very decent choice for limited boards! Also, I figured out a solution for the kodi part on the media framework: hold on 3 packages only: xserver-xorg-video-armsoc, kodi, and kodi-bin. But the other packages don't need the hold. Tested on twitch, 1080p smooth! I am now going to test kodi and lxde... Should be faster and lighter than both xfce and lxqt! I will keep you all updated o/ Thanks for the incredible support!!!

Oh, that's very cool to know! It will be very helpful if it works this way indeed ^^ One thing I noticed but haven't looked into yet: kodi is installing without the "install from repositories option", so I can't really use it... I will try to reinstall or something. But I have encountered this error on 2 or 3 other times when I freshly installed everything... Only once, so far, I managed to install Kodi and it actually worked well (at least on twitch I could watch normally at 720p).

Hi @jock ! Thanks for all the help and ways to fix and/or bypass these issues! I took some time to replay back exactly as I was investigating it myself! And got to some findings similar to yours: the only thing I need to set as hold is the xserver-xorg-video-armsoc. The rest will update and upgrade just fine. Doing this, I am able to run some stuff. The gears are working on glxgears. I manage to play quake 1 and 2 (tho I had to add some params, LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gl4es LIBGL_GL=15 LIBGL_FB=3 LIBGL_MIPMAP=3 LIBGL_FORCENPOT=1 LIBGL_FPS=1 LIBGL_POTFRAMEBUFFER=1 LIBGL_FORCE16BITS=1 quake2) I also had to change one thing on the install media framework: allow downgrades. Some of the stuff there I had newer versions and the install would just stop. So, in order to avoid it, I allowed downgrades and then upgraded them. Some of the entries on the enxynos were right or interesting, so I merged them on the armsoc config and so far so good. All went ok! And I am still happily using the minimal image you compiled for me + lubuntu. It is working quite well! I am now with 2 errors but I think they're unrelated to any of these events: 1. For the sake of it, I decided to take a look at armbianmonitor -v and got "It appears you may have corrupt packages.", pointing to "a symptom of filesystem corruption caused by SD cards or eMMC dying", which makes that first suggestion of yours to remain true, but also that it could be "burning the OS image to the installation media went wrong", which I don't think to be the case. It also says, " The following changes from packaged state files were detected: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgbm.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-globally-managed-devices.conf" Is this an entirely new problem or may have something to do with video and whatnot? 2. There is something wrong, I think, with the rk322x-config. When I select rk3229, the wifi doesn't work. If I choose rk3228a/b, everything works. Well, after I remove the emmc from overlays, that is. So, is this a thing you've noticed before? Actually, this might not be true. I just reverted the config the wifi is not turning on again! This is what I get from dmesg | grep ssv Well, I ran a bunch of stuff from armbian-config and it is working again... Here is the last log: And my main question is: assuming I can make it all work nice and well... Can I "clone" this system and install on another box exactly equal to this one? Like, if I go to multitool and do a "backup" then try to install this on a different box, will it work? I suppose the only way would be to compile a image of my system, but using the multitool would be so much easier, haha. And hey, @Khoa Nguyen , maybe I'm mistaken and should not be giving advice as I'm very noob, but I think your overlays is still wrong. You have to remove the word "emmc" from it entirely. At least, for me, that's the only way it works...