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    The best SoC/devboard/TV-box for HW accelerated desktop

    in General Chat

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    Do not use a desktop that requires hw acceleration in any computer, because you want all the hw power for the applications. Xfce is light, fast, stable and freely configurable. With the Sunvell T95z Plus Amlogic S912 tv box the Xfce desktop and youtube videos works fine with help of 8 cpu cores. I have made the Debian testing Xfce distribution for my device. You can download it from here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsNzZn-luc0

     

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    Armbian for Amlogic S912

    in General Chat

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    On 17/09/2017 at 9:25 PM, immS said:

    Hi everyone, I'm sorry if my request has already been made. 

    I read all the pages and I didn't understand much. 

    I have the intention to buy the Beelink GT1 Ultimate 3GB DDR4 + 32GB or the Alfawise H96 Pro+ TV Box 3GB RAM + 64GB ROM to replace my desktop pc with a failing hard drive. I thought "well, maybe I can make a personal computer out of a cheap tv box" but reading the topic, well...it isn't as easy as I thought.

    I didn't understand a thing actually, so I thought that maybe someone would be so kind to write a step-by-step, n00b-friendly guide to install ubuntu on one of these tv boxes, because since I have limited money I don't want to make mistakes and make the box unusable. 

    My knowledge of linux is very, very limited and I currently have a laptop with Windows 10 installed so I wonder if there is a simple way of installing ubuntu on the box's memory and with working wi-fi and softwares (I don't really need the box to stream, I'd just like to use some office and image editing programs like GIMP and run a couple of Windows programs under WINE).

    Can you help me? I'm sorry again if my request is really dumb.

    Debian testing Xfce is better than ubuntu, Xfce is lighter and Debian testing is a rolling release os. Sunvel T95Z Plus is cheaper and when you use class 10 microsd card, you have dual booting system and original android is safe.Take a look of my video descriptions:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsNzZn-luc0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnYBvMQfjM

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    Armbian for Amlogic S912

    in General Chat

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    I tested yours Debian Xfce image, aplay -l list only spdif device and pulseaudio control shows only analog output.  Install wicd and xfce4-terminal instead networkmanager and xterminal. Use the xfce whisker menu. Your distro image is about 1.5 GB bigger than mine, so strip some packages. Your 86 patches are confusing, it is easier to copy whole source files from authors.  Using 200q dtb. 

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    Armbian for Amlogic S912

    in General Chat

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    10 minutes ago, balbes150 said:

    Need a new kernel + dtb. You installed a new kernel and dtb ? After installation you need to copy the new version to "dtb.img".

    I added patches to 4.13-rc1 kernel where was usb and spdif patches already. Added missing clocks and hdmi audio patches. Copied new a dtb.img file of course.  0005-clk-meson-gxbb-aoclk-Add-CEC-32k-clock.patch was missing, implementing now...

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    Image customization

    in Beginners

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    10 hours ago, alexparser said:

    This will work with old kernel 3.4.xxx?

    What order of *.sh files execution?

     

    BR,

    Armbian uses old kernels. The build process starts with the ../compile.sh file.  Packages to install is defined in the configuration.sh file.  Additional files are written in the distributions.sh file.

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    Image customization

    in Beginners

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    5 hours ago, tkaiser said:

     

    Sure. Don't try to 'edit lib/*.sh files' but use the established mechanisms:

    Do not use external hooks, only gods know how well they work If you plan to maintain your on distro for a specific device, just remove whatever unneeded code from .sh files to make them simpler and more readable.

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    Armbian for Amlogic S912

    in General Chat

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    1 hour ago, Shimon said:

    Nah, why waste so much space? The most efficient way to do it looks like that:

     

    $ zcat Whatever_image_img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M && sync

     

    For xz compressed images use xzcat obviously.

     

    What space, cp is simpler command than dd. This is more more efficient than yours:

    xzcat Debian_testing_4.13.0_xfce.img.xz > /dev/sdX

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    Armbian for Amlogic S912

    in General Chat

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    37 minutes ago, fossxplorer said:

    Copy to SD card? You mean extracting the image onto an SD card i.e using e.g dd?

    Here is what i did:

    1. I downloaded your image from that YT video link

    2. xz -d <imagename>.img.xz

    3. dd if=<imagename>.img of=/dev/sdc bs=16M oflag=direct

    5. Copied the correct dtb.img to the root of /BOOT

    4. Took the SD card out of my USB adapter and inserted into H96 Pro+

    5. Booted up to see the H96 initial image, then to loose the output on HDMI/TV.

     

     

    I mean what I wrote, use: sudo cp Debian_testing_4.13.0_xfce.img /dev/sdX. Reference:

    https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en

     

      

    # cp debian.iso /dev/sdX
# sync

     

    If you still have problems, test if you can login via ssh and ethernet LAN. Maybe your hardware differs too much from gxm-q200. You did wrote that you bought a cheap sdcard, I hope it is class 10. A slow sdcard can time out things.

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    Armbian for Amlogic S912

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    13 hours ago, fossxplorer said:

    i have 2 of these boxes and my ultimate goal is to use one as a thin client to connect to a Spice server and another as a headless server. but i've read there is no Mali driver avail.

    i could NOT boot with

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnYBvMQfjM

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I downloaded my image, I extracted it with Xarchiver, copied to sdcard with: sudo cp Debian_testing_4.13.0_xfce.img /dev/sdb. and copied plus renamed the dtb file.My image works fine with Sunvell T95Z Plus and LG 26LG3000.

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    Armbian for Amlogic S912

    in General Chat

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    8 hours ago, fossxplorer said:

    Hi,

    i've been using a whole day to get Linux working on my H96 Pro+ 3G/16G. It fails with rootfs not found when using USB stick. Currently, i got no SD card reader to test with SD card.

    The image i'm using is Unbuntu server 4.13 https://yadi.sk/d/kZHc0uQE34z5jR.

    I've been testing different version too, without luck. The DTB that works is meson-gxm-q200.dtb. Any help is highly appreciated!

    The dtb file must match with kernel you are using.  Use a high quality and fast usb memory or a class 10 microsd card.  Try with with different images and kernel 3.14 images. I have made Debian testing Xfce images for the armbian 3.14 kernel and for the 4.13 mainline kernel.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnYBvMQfjM

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    HDMI audio Banana Pi m1

    in Allwinner sunxi

    Posted

    7 hours ago, is_this_taken said:

    I have a digital receiver so absolutely no need to deal with analog audio.

    I don't use TV speakers, I use a Yamaha receiver with a proper 5.1 setup. 

    I had 5.1 setup about 10 years ago and found out that only Star Wars movies and couple of others   use space mixing. Rest of the movies just mix background music to back speakers. Space mixing is costly so that is understandable. Some games use 5.1 audio, but you play games with hifi stereo speakers just fine. A pair of B&W speakers is  one of my best invest. I am creating music with Rosegarden and great free software synths.

    https://packages.debian.org/buster/zynaddsubfx

    https://packages.debian.org/buster/fluidsynth

    http://pphidden.wixsite.com/compifont

     

    Zynaddsubfx does have many great sounding analog synths:)

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    HDMI audio Banana Pi m1

    in Allwinner sunxi

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    35 minutes ago, is_this_taken said:

    Found my problem, two, two dead HDMI cables!

    Now I have to fight the receiver, as it shuts off the HDMI input as soon as the TV is off.

    No wonder, in your receiver and in my tv, inputs are logically grouped. LG has designed my tv smartly, there is analog input grouped to a hdmi connector so I can use DAC and tv speakers.

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    HDMI audio Banana Pi m1

    in Allwinner sunxi

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    1 hour ago, is_this_taken said:

    I want to use HDMI to connect to my HIFI setup through a receiver. Don't ever plan to use the HDMI for video, just sound. 

    I'm a bit confused,  how would that DAC help me? I want a digital connection.

     

    Internet has millions of readers and a DAC helps if you just have the spdif driver available and have an amplifier with analog inputs only. Is the audio quality of the banana pi analog output poor or it is just digital hype that drives you to digital connections. For my software development/multimedia/gaming computer I have  a small low cost analog input only amp, SMSL SA-36A Pro. PC motherboards do have hifi quality analog  outputs and my pc sounds great trough my B&W DM 601S2 speakers.

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    HDMI audio Banana Pi m1

    in Allwinner sunxi

    Posted

    7 hours ago, is_this_taken said:

     

    Yes I understand that it's an undertaking.

    I can live with the legacy kernel as this BPi as long as I can get the HDMI audio working.

    I can not live with the old android based kernel.  Balbes150 3.14 kernel is slow, difficult to configure to stable and nobody support it. Hdmi audio driver is complex and takes cpu time. Spdif driver is very simple and fast and monitor speakers are crap, so that is why I want to make spdif working with the mainline kernel. My tv has 3.5mm analog audio input for the hdmi input so I can use crap speakers with the spdif DAC too. But I have an extra pair of hifi speakers and a extra hifi amp so that is the way to go.  Check if the mainline kernel has analog audio driver for your board to use better speakers.

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