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14 hours ago, 朱涛 said:
@balbes150 Hey, balbes150. I'm trying to running a freepbx server on the TV box, however the freepbx seem only support debian Jessie. Can you release a download link armbian Jessie for the S905x cpu? Thanks a lot!
Don't know if it will work but perhaps you can get the Odroid C2 image to run on your tv-box: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=138&t=19403
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Just now, chessplayer said:
Thanks for your always quick replies, but unfortunately, that was not the case, I already tried. Meanwhile, I have flashed Armbian 5.44 with the 3.14 kernel and used a device tree available from CoreELEC (gxl_p281_2g.dtb - see the attachment) with that - and it booted!
I would rather use the 4.16 kernel, but I will try this now anyway and see what goes. Again, great work you are doing here, thanks!
On the other hand, if there is someone who converts dtbs from one kernel version to another, that would be great ...
Cheers,
chessplayer
You could always try to update the kernel, some posts back there is a link to Balbes150's build tools at Github, it allows you to build the kernel and modules packages for a newer kernel which you can install in a running Armbian. I tried it and the updated kernel installed on 3.14 without a hitch, but uname still reports version 3.14, so that is something of a mystery I haven't figured out yet.
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Just now, chessplayer said:
Ok, next question after Armbian is doing just fine on my Nexbox A95, I am now trying to run Armbian 5.44 on my Mecool M8S Pro W and, as the name suggests, this is an S905W box (of type 2+16). As expected, the dtb for the Nexbox did not work, so I tried some others as well. However, based on what was written in this post on the (mostly German) kodinerds forum, what I would need is a dtb with p281 in the name (in the post, the 1 and 8 seem to be transposed). None of those seem to be available, however, in the dtb folders that come with Armbian.
Does anyone know where I could find those?
Cheers,
chessplayer
Based on the fact that it is a 905W cpu I think you could try the dtb's with 212 in the name, you might be in luck
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Sorry I can't be of any help with that, I run all my tv and tuner related stuff on a windows pc. Balbes150 is the developer and probably knows but he has not been active here for a while...
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19 minutes ago, chessplayer said:
Hi guys,
I am excited to see Armbian (which I run on a cubietruck) has come to the Amlogic devices as well - thanks for that.
Now, I already have my boxes running LibreELEC (kszaq) from NAND and I can boot CoreELEC from SD card. So I thought I will flash a card with Armbian and then put the dtb from my CoreELEC card to the boot partition of the new card and see what happens.
Unfortunately, not a lot is happening. My Nexbox A95X, e.g., is stuck at its boot screen, while my THL box just gives me a black screen. So, this does not work. What should I do instead to be able to boot Armbian after LibreELEC is already installed on the box?
Sorry if this has been asked before, but reading through 58 pages seems a bit cumbersome ...
Any help would be appreciated!
Cheers,
chessplayer
You need to find the correct dtb (which is not always easy), I don't know that box, do you know the model number of the box's board? Otherwise it is cut and try with all the dtb's in the BOOT partition of the Armbian sdcard.
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11 hours ago, shippy said:
1. As the uber philosopher Chuck D said: Don't believe the hype !
2. On another topic, what is the difference between Armbian and OSMC for S905* Android Box devices?
Isn't OSMC built for Pi types not Android Box type boards? Does it run lighter than Armbian?
Here is an OSMC distro hack for all S905/X/D (W uncertain) Android Boxes:
If you want to install server/ OpenWrt packages along with Kodi, which will have better performance (assuming OSMC can run on S905* boxes)?
I have never heard of OSMC, I tried your links but can't read the language. I also tried the download links (rc4 and 1.0) and get only "not found". However from the forum titles is seems to me to be Android based images which is not of interest.
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@balbes150 I have build kernel 4.18 using your script and installed the packages on my Armbian system but uname -sr still reports 3.14, why oh why???
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6 hours ago, shippy said:
Quite confusing ! I thought that you should be able to run Android ARM image via snaps on top of Armbian per what Anbox.io apparently says.
Didn't realize you need both OS images compliant as Anbox images !
No that is not the case, Anbox emulates ARM inside but Anbox itself does not run om ARM processors, only x86/64. If you could get your hands on the source code (which I strongly doubt) you could compile it for ARM thou......
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Obviously there is a problem with I/O on the mmc, perhaps not fully supported by the current kernel. Have you tried other images?
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Just now, damienq said:
If by internal partition you mean the the emmc blocks, then yes. This is the output of "fdisk -l"
Disk /dev/sda: 116.9 GiB, 125460021248 bytes, 245039104 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x2bba5da7Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 8192 270335 262144 128M e W95 FAT16 (LBA) //// This is the usb stick used to boot
/dev/sda2 270336 242588703 242318368 115.6G 83 Linux
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 14.6 GiB, 15634268160 bytes, 30535680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/mmcblk0boot1: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/mmcblk0boot0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Yes I get the same from fdisk on my box, but GPARTED does not see the partitions and therfore Linux does not either. SO, does gparted see the partitions on emmc?
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Just now, damienq said:
Greetings. I have two issues, and I would be equally grateful if either could be solved:
1) I have a T95Z Plus with an s912. I'm running Balbes150's Ubuntu Server 16.04 kernel 4.9. After boot, the system is able to recognize the emmc, and /dev/data exists, but when I run the install.sh script, when it gets to "copy USR", it starts to hit a bunch of segmentation faults and a few bus errors, and eventually the system freezes up and I have to reboot. I'm using the gml_q200_2g.dtb from the dtb folder.
2) I have an X96 Mini with an s905W, running the same image as above. The system cannot at all recognize the emmc, and /dev/data does not exist. The output of "fdisk -l", "lsblk", and "ls -al /dev/block" all only recognize the boot device (my usb drive). I'm using gmx_231_1g.dtb from the dtb folder. I'm aware that it isn't the correct dtb file, but strangely it is the only one that will boot. I have extracted the dtb from firmware but it didn't work.
Bonus Issue) On the T95Z Plus (the first one), right from boot, the video output stops, and does not come back. I used an hdmi to dvi adapter on my monitor. It isn't a big issue because I'm able to ssh to it, but if anyone has a solution it would be appreciated.
To address your last issue first, I have also experienced some images where video output never comes back after screen is turned off due to timeout. It seems to be a general issue with newer kernels.
Now on 905x boxes the install.sh script does not work and there is no way to install to mmc. Period. On S912 it should work, are you able to access the internal partitions? Does Gparted see them without reporting errors?
Extracting dtb from Android firmware does not work either.
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13 hours ago, shippy said:
Well the FAQ on the https://anbox.io says it does support ARM- it was originally built using a phone:
"Android image for every device?
No. Anbox does not need a specific Android image for every device as it is specifically built in a device independent way. Anbox will ship with a single Android image per architecture (amd64, armhf, arm64) and no device specifc modifications are required."
So what do you think now? Does this Anbox- Armbian combo make sense now???
I think you misread, it is the Android image that is for ARM (among others), if you try to download Anbox for arm linux you'll find that it does not exist.
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Just now, glambert said:
Hello,
I bought a tvbox mxq pro+ (s905x 2g/16g) and would like to use it a small server for iot with a small linux distro.
I install armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_server_20180601.img on a sdcard
I copy gxl_p212_2g.dtb on /boot/dtb.img
I set dualboot on android
And i boot linux on sdcard
Network is ok and i see linux booting on hdmi display.
As sdcard is not the in term of reliability, i tried to install linux on emmc.
And there i need your knowhow.
On linux from sdcard i log on root and lunch install.sh
No error display , but the box don't start on linux just the logo
I read install.sh and view that it load a different linux image than /boot on sdcard I modify install.sh with the /boot image
But nothing work.
I try to connect the serial port to my PC but i just collect garbage character (seems to be a speed issue but impossible to find the right on)
i read hundred of post to get there so if you could give me some valuable tricks to finish my projet
Thanks
The thing is that the install.sh doesn't work. It bricks the box so for all practical purposes it is impossible to install armbian to emmc. You need to download a complete image of the box's original firmware and flash it using a pc. Google "flashing china tv box" and you'll find download link and instructions.
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Just now, hanguofu said:
arch ( ARM or ARM64 ) problem :
Hi , All :
I installed Armbian_5.41.1_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180421.img at the SD card for my s905x TV box and it seems O.K.
Now I tried to cross compile an application at my Ubuntu PC for this lovely device. The first problem I encountered is the choice of arch.
I worked out a 32-bit arm application ( target arch : ARM) with the cross compile tool . The generated binary is :
hello-world : ELF 32-bit LSB exou crosscompile, why bother with intecutable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, not stripped
Unfortunately , I did not find the needed interpreter at the tv box . The only interpreter I found at the img at the SD card is :/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 -> aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
Does it mean that the img is for ARM64 arch ? Is there a ld-linux-armhf interpreter at the image ?
If you cross compile, why bother with an interpreter, why not compile for arm64 and run it natively?
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Just now, Gee said:
Hello, i have a S912 Box and Kodi dosnt run under latest armbian debian.
Now i want to buy a S905X Box couse of better driver support. Is it possible to start Kodi 18 (self compiled) under "Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_4.16.1_server_20180515" sucessful?
I would guess that you need an image with a graphic desktop to run Kodi, server images have only text UI.
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28 minutes ago, shippy said:
So I understand that @balbes150 doesn't approve of proot/chroot Linux over Android, which likely defeats the purpose of a (powerful) Linux OS.
1. Now given the popularity of Android apps, and the facts of Linux server stability plus all features we love, how about Android over Armbian?
This should be a better idea, if feasible:
From the Anbox FAQ- +Open GL/ES drivers should be available in Armbian):
" In contrast to Google's (Chrome) implementation, Anbox doesn't allow any direct access to hardware devices. For example it bridges Open GL ES to the host. In Chrome OS the container gets access to the host kernel side of the graphic subsystem to allow fast rendering. In our case, we decided against this to keep an easy way to port Anbox to different platforms. All a host operating system needs to provide is a Open GL / Open GL ES compatible driver to provide proper integration with the graphics subsystem. Other hardware devices like WiFi or Bluetooth will be abstracted in the future via a dedicated APIs between the container and the host."
2. I ask this because some Android Box vendors seem to be doing Android + OpenWrt/Debian, and I just wonder what the applications are:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/12/26/whats-the-best-android-tv-box-2017-2018-edition/
I looked into Anbox a little while ago, it turns it does not support ARM processors (yet). Strange if you ask me since the majority of Android apps (and Android itself) was originally build for ARM...
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On 6/28/2018 at 9:06 AM, balbes150 said:
@balbes150 I have tested your script undr Ubuntu 16.4 running in a Virtualbox, they only build server images, and when I choose other options than the default the image gets _DIRTY in the name. What's going on??
Correction: It does actually build desktop images but the name "server" persists....
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@balbes150 Can Armbian run on tv-boxes with RK3328 (and RK3329) CPU?
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1 hour ago, b35 said:
I was considering buying RK3328, but:
1. For some reason, I could not quickly find the linux images under it.
2. Tanix TX92 I already have and I know exactly what images on it work.
3. The performance of the c912 processor seems higher + mali 820 vs. 450 at RK3328. and 8 core vs. 4.
Now I've already ordered the Tanix TX92 3 / 32GB. I'm waiting for the order for the tests.Please report back when you have tested, I find this very interesting, and may
condider buying one of those too
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7 hours ago, b35 said:
before I increased the swap on the laptop (there were 4GB of RAM and 2GB of swap), always the same problem as soon as the swap + RAM ended up freezing and you had to restart the laptop by losing data. IntelliJ IDEA + Tomcat + Chromium require a lot of memory.
Potential opportunities, performance s912 I really like, and the cost of TV box 2 / 16GB is very affordable 55 $. And a lot of developed and supported OS Armbian.
It's strange that by default the swap is off at all in images. I read in another thread, the view that "if memory ends, it means to change the device." But the tasks are different, and the alternative s912 for cost and performance do not know
It seemed to me that once the SSD is faster, then it's worth downloading from SSD. Thanks for the idea!)) I'll be bothered to run from the SD card and connect the SSD.
You can actually get this box with USB3 and 4G RAM / 32G ROM: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Tanix-TX28-TV-Box-Andriod-7-1-Bluetooth-4-1-RK3328-4GB-RAM-32GB-ROM-2/32866412814.html?spm=2114.search0604.3.107.410331eaOMDe4C&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_5722916_10152_10151_10065_10344_5722816_10068_10342_10343_10340_10341_5722616_10696_10084_10083_10618_10307_5722716_10059_100031_10103_524_10624_5722516_10623_10622_10621_10620,searchweb201603_35,ppcSwitch_5&algo_expid=4960432f-0f9d-46d9-bce7-aae502c11025-14&algo_pvid=4960432f-0f9d-46d9-bce7-aae502c11025&priceBeautifyAB=0
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Just now, b35 said:
It seemed to me that once the SSD is faster, then it's worth downloading from SSD. Thanks for the idea!)) I'll be bothered to run from the SD card and connect the SSD.
The problem is that there is no SATA interface so any sda device has to go through the USB, and most of the boxes don't have USB3, only USB2, with the speed limitations implied. Still, having only /home on a ssd is not painfully slow
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Just now, b35 said:
Hello!
There is a TV box Tanix T92 2 / 16GB.
I really want to use it in replacing the PC.
I looked through a lot of images of Armbian, without any problems run 5.37 (both with SD card and USB flash drive).- Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_xfce_20171226
- Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20171226
But there are the following problems:
1. 2GB is not enough. And without swap as soon as RAM is filled to 1.6 GB, then the Armbian ceases to respond to the mouse and keyboard, all applications freeze. I tried to solve the problem with the swap and the zRam (while unsuccessful, I still understand. On a laptop with Ubuntu 18 everything turned out, on TV box not.).
2. I want to run the system from the disk SSD. But the TV box does not start loading Linux from the SSD . I do not understand the problem in the TV box or in the USB-SATA-adapter (from an external disk) or in your Armbian image this is not foreseen?1. I haven't tried to make a swap partition but the thought has crossed my mind...
2. I have successfully booted and run Armbian from a SSD, it is swow however. Much faster to run from a fast SD card and if you need more space you could put /home on a ssd and automount it during boot, that is what I'm planning to do.
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On 6/28/2018 at 9:42 AM, Reddwarf said:
THANKS!
@balbes150 Re: script on Github. Can your script be modified to run on an ARM computer under Armbian?
ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)
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Whould you mind sharing with us what the solution was?