Erica

I should report that I successfully installed bookworm on the vim3 pro by wiping emmc and spi with my old version of krescue. I still have no answer without krescue. I installed minimal, then xorg and xmonad. No dm or desktop. It seems stable, but with xorg it only runs a while before there is a run away process and it locks up and overheats. It could be anything, but i run a barebones xmonad, emacs setup. Still running on sdcard. Fully updated.

Thank you. It would be good to clarify those instructions. I read through the thread that I started in june and its not clear to me that a solution was found. If I get a vim 4 I'll let you know if the screen works. We did get the nanopc t4 working with it's screen last year so i know its possible.

Ah. Yea those are no longer valid instructions as krescue no longen exists and khadas is against its use even if you can find it. I have it, but the instructions didnt work in June so they are less likely to work now.. I'm hoping that because vim 4 is in a higher support tier that it will all work. Although I know that linux support for embedded displays is terrible and almost non existant.

Ok, i do have one, but not a vim4. I have a vim 3. But armbian doesnt install on a vim3 as far as i can tell. No applicable or verified instructions exist for installing it there. I would like a working vim board with armbian. So maybe a vim4 is my only choice. I have not seen the screen work outside of android that came with it. On an edge V or vim 3 with any mainline distro. But it is expected to work? I will have to buy a vim4 to try.

Ive tried both armbian downloads, and the original manjaro. None do anything. I end up in android only the krecover Image has actually booted from sd. Im doing something wrong but i dont know what.

I just did find a krecovery image and booted into that. Flashing armbian again to another sdcard, the image seems fine. Ill try manjaro next. Id rather have armbian.

I had tried, but when it didnt work I read the directions for the board which say to get krescue still. I still have manjaro running on my other board from june. So i never did get armbian on my other vim3.

I tried going to the bootloader from there but it just hangs with the khadas logo.

Not so far. Power button reset button trick takes me to android recovery. That menu doesnt seem helpful.

I am wondering if the ts1050 or some other embedded screen is working with the vim4 at this time?

I just realized i asked this in june and there is still no resolution. Sorry. Erica

I was going to install armbian on a new vim 3 board but it seems that krescue no longer exists. Is there another way to install armbian to a vim 3? Does the vim 4 have the same problem?

Ok, I've been through a lot kernels and had various problems. None them worked for various reasons. Im now at 6.2.0-rc8 and for whatever reason I can build the modules now, and our solution works out of the box. Make install in my armbian-boot-edp-overlay repository, then make install in @iamdrq's panel-edp-friendlyelec repo. Reboot. The ts1050 edp panel should work.

So the solution that @iamdrq and I have no longer works. I've tried armbian 22 with kernel 5.19, The device driver does not compile because of missing structure elements. I tried 6.1.30 and 6.11 kernels with Armbian 23.5. The device driver builds. All result in a hung startup. With the 6.0.0, 6.0.19 and 6.2 kernels it is impossible as the infrastructure does not exist to build the device driver. Or I have not figured out how to get it. Linux headers is not enough. I have been installing them with armbian config. Originally it worked with kernel 6.0. I am unsure of the terminal version, so I tried 0 and 19. 6.0.0 uses Linux-headers-edge-media and 6.0.19 uses current-media. Neither have a build directory in modules. Making it impossible to build the panel driver. I am travelling and do not have access to my sdcard collection or my archived downloads so I cannot pursue this line of investigation further. I did of course forget to bring my backup. So this computer is a bit of an anchor which requires an external monitor. If anyone knows how to get the modules build directory for kernels 6.x.x that would at least allow me to try them. Only the 6.1 Kernels seem to have that with the Linux headers and they hang on boot with the dtb overlay and device driver for the ts1050. Thank you for any insight.

So I'm I expecting something to work that I shouldn't? Is this release somehow incomplete?