Erica

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?

Hello, I have been trying to get back to a working nanopc-t4. I'm traveling with an almost worthless computer since I accidently let armbian update itself. The next few days I have access to a TV. To get my screen to work I convert the - media - version to support dtb overlays, the build the driver and overlay. This needs the build in the modules to be present. Using uname -r gives me this path. usr/lib/modules/6.2.0-rc8-media/build I can install Linux headers through armbian-config. That does nothing for allowing make in the modules which is what I need. What am I missing and how do I get it? I have installed kernel source and headers and build essential. Thank you

There is no difference with 6.2. Whatever I broke is the same. Ive created the same full system on sdcard by installing all installed packages on the borked system. I have gotten most everything working that I need except the panel. This with 6.1.30-media. The current nanopc t4 jammy. I retrieved the Linux headers with armbian-config. At which point I discovered that My sdcard is now at 6.2.0! So like it or not, that's what I have, And it works, but no panel. Ill make another one and test the panel code with that.

So I was able to change back to 6.1.11. This has resulted in many problems. I still don't know how I got to 6.2 in the first Place, I think it was through apt. Exiting xfce or xmonad results in a blank screen. The console somehow gets managed by xmonad. It is weird. And annoying. Dbus doesn't seem to work, but I cant tell why. It is still running, but no video. I don't have a DM, I just log in and start what I want. This not very usable. I am switching to 6.2 and trying again. That was the most stable of all. But no panel. If the system works well That is an improvement.

@iamdrq I think I will upgrade to 6.2. Everything works better there even if my panel doesn't. It's not going to work on 6.1.30 anyway without Linux headers. I should have stayed at 6.2. This was a lot of work. I will post my progress. I may need some help later when you have time to look.

@iamdrq It's ok. Is it that it should work with 6.2? I can pursue that if that is the case. I may need to buy a small hdmi display in the meantime. Your readme says 6.1.x only. That is partly why I downgraded, but now I am left with no Linux headers for this kernel.

@iamdrq Current installs the headers for 6.1.11. Which doesn't work. Is it that 6.2 should work? I tried it and couldn't get the panel display back. I can just upgrade to get 6.2 but I tried that for two days. So I reinstalled the current version from downloads. I'm travelling and don't have access to my old sdcards. Currently I have a TV to connect to. Tomorrow I will not.

@iamdrq I dont know why my response didn't work..

@iamdrq Thank you. I have 6.1.30 and have not found those headers. Nor for 23.05. I accidently upgraded to 6.2 and my panel stopped working. I reapplied everything there and it still did not work. so I installed a fresh jammy to get back to 6.1.30 To try to get my panel back. Im in limbo now. No panel, 6.1.30, no linux headers to be found. Upgrading to 6.2 broke it. Im now looking for headers to manually install. Or maybe just fix it for 6.2. Do you have any ideas? Thank you.

@iamdrq I had to reinstall yesterday And I am trying to apply your driver and device tree but it fails with The uname/modules/build directory is missing. What should be in there and how do I get it?

I think I have hardware failure. The nvme has just gone away. At least as far as I can tell. Doesn't matter which image I use.

Hello, I stupidly upgraded without thinking about the possible consequences. 6.1 to 6.2. Ive had my /home on nvme. But the nvme drive is no longer recognized. I have managed to get my display back, Im not sure about my panel yet. I had restore my device tree overlay. Ive hacked around losing the nvme. But it would be good to get my nvme drive back. I've got some work to do to deal with not having that storage and what was on it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Alternatively, maybe it's not too hard to roll back to 6.1? I haven't contemplated that.

Thank you so much. I have no idea how it was so broken. I installed months ago and dont remember too much about how that went. My keyboard is happy now.

I do seem to have some problems with my locale. I've resorted to the manual method as I thought the configurator was broken. This problem seems to be with locale-gen, not the configurator as the behavior is the same. It generates locales for everything even though en_US.UTF-8 is the only line uncommented. ``` ─(15:35:%)── grep -v "^#.*" /etc/locale.gen en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 ``` It finally finished. I'll continue with the next steps again and see how it goes. My understanding is that the variant that should work is 'intl'. I tried 'qwerty-us-deadkeys with no luck, but my locales were broken.

Hello, I am attempting to set my armbian machine up to match my Arch install on my Intel box. I like to use en-us. Utf8 with the 'US intl with dead keys' variant. But I cannot find it. Im currently using the intl variant but that requires the use of altgr. And doesn't work with my keyboard or me. Is there something I need to install to get the 'with dead keys' variant which does not Require the use of altgr?

OK, well at least I haven't lost my mind! Thank you!

Yes those are the exact images I used. The vim3 link. Not vim3l. I tried the cli and xfce.

Yes those are the exact images I used. I erased the emmc with krescue to get rid of Android. I did a zcat | dd to write the images to sdcard, the same way I did manjaro. I let them sit for a very long time. Manjaro and krescue come right up. I also copied them to a usb stick as is for krescue to try to install them. Krescue says the images are unsuitable. I don't know why. I didn't try that with manjaro yet. The board is a vim 3 basic with 4g. Nothing special. Just plugged it in. Not even in a case yet.

So I've tried booting both jammy Currents from SD card. Neither work. I tried installing them to emmc with krescue and it says they are unsuitable for this board. I booted and installed manjaro from/on sdcard with no problems. I checked the Sha of both jammy images and both match up. I don't know what is going on. But manjaro boots and armbian doesn't.

Well, obviously it does boot from sdcard, but so far that's only been krescue. I'll try some other images.

I've spent the entire morning trying to boot armbian on a vim 3 basic. It won't boot from sdcard. I erased the emmc with krescue, no change except now it doesn't boot anything, except the krescue sdcard. I put the armbian image on a USB stick and tried to flash it to emmc With krescue but krescue says it's an invalid vim 3 image. I verified the Sha and I also tried using the extracted dot img file. Which isn't recognized by krescue. How do I boot an sdcard or flash the emmc When none of these things work? The only thing that boots now is the krescue sdcard. What am I doing incorrectly? What else can I try?

I find it confusing that there was a PR for this, but that it still seems to be a problem.