Albundy

Hello i hear you balbes. I am on mobile so very bad writing here. Sorry.. I tried armbian librelec and amlogic images and modules. Amlogic works as described in the manual. Libreelec works. Balbes armbian desktop versions works after you put below files into directories and issue commands below. I have mini m8s II which has ap6212 wifi module. I will try to remember file names. The chip is bcm43438. Firmwares: /lib/firmware/brcm fw_bcm43438a0.bin fw_bcm43438a0_apsta.bin fw_bcm43438a0_p2p.bin nvram.txt nvram_ap6212.txt config.txt Modules: /lib/modules (check also /lib/modules/kernel/3.14.29/ folder..) cfg80211.ko dhd.ko Balbes kernel has setting for broadcom chips to look for directory /lib/firmware/brcm So copy original files from eMMC of your device. sudo modprobe cfg80211 sudo modprobe dhd If it does not work go to below files directories. sudo insmod cfg80211.ko sudo insmod dhd.ko Armbian Dekstop version should work after above commands. Headless is more difficult. Or I am lack of required knowledge. It requires to setup wpa_supplicant.conf & /etc/network/interfaces i belive. But never make it work reliably.. Hope this helps.. UPDATE: check this: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1237-tutorial-opi-one-wireless-success/

in debian jessy you can see the desktop but some areas are very dark. I cannot see terminal, cannot type, mouse pointer also very dark. I lost it time to time. I removed xfce and installed lxde in debian (with physical serial terminal) with below commands: sudo apt-get purge xfconf xfce4-utils xfwm4 xfce4-session thunar xfdesktop4 exo-utils xfce4-panel xfce4-terminalsudo apt-get autoremovesudo apt-get install task-lxde-desktop but there are still problems, lxde menus cannot be closed, the desktop is not refreshed, you open and close windows, but there still remaining buttons etc. very interesting.. What commands are you using to remove xfce completely? I will try ubuntu again with lxde.. I am building images from 150balbes github repository.

uInitrd was missing, I added to the BOOT partition, now booting, but scripts fails to generate uInitrd and trusty is console no desktop version.

hello, Thank you very much for the effort porting arbian to S905x. debian builds work perfectly on mini m8s ii (s905x, 2G/8G, ap6212 wifi). Ubuntu xenial has issues with display as discussed above. tried to remove xfce and installed lxde same scrumbled screen. so it might not be the window manager, may be problem with X or driver.. on the other hand Ubuntu trusty does not boot, what is the difference xenial vs trusty build process? Are aml & s905 autoscripts different?