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regarding dts files, are the uboot and kernel dts files meant to be identical ? useful link about dts to/from dtb compiler. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21670967/how-to-compile-dts-linux-device-tree-source-files-to-dtb

I have ordered the Vontar H618 as it hardware is similar to transpeed most are using. I am new armbian and have much to learn, so using Vontar should be easier then Tanix Tx6. @rafman what is the monitor software on your desktop?

firepower@tanix-tx6s-axp313:~$ dmesg | grep -i bluetooth [ 11.946450] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 [ 11.946611] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family [ 11.946621] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 11.946642] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 11.946650] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 11.946681] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 12.099653] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3 [ 12.099681] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered [ 12.099686] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol BCSP registered [ 12.099793] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol LL registered [ 12.099802] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol ATH3K registered [ 12.099840] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Three-wire (H5) registered [ 12.100025] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Intel registered [ 12.100275] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Broadcom registered [ 12.100338] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol QCA registered [ 12.100344] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol AG6XX registered [ 12.100373] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Marvell registered [ 41.324215] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 41.324250] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 41.324272] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

Transpeed 8k618-t & Vontar H618 Wifi: HK6334Q Clock: 37.4 MHz Tanix Tx6s & Tx6 Wifi: SP6330-X0 Clock: 26.0 MHz Tanix TX68 Wifi: AW869A Clock: No Osc

What is the wifi chip used in the Vontar H618 ? Its on sale again and I can buy for good price.

starting from git clone https://github.com/augin/linux_openvfd i did this. it not problem i was just testing , my image is still not fully working so just playing around with it trying to learn more about armbian. but breaking it has given more info about cinnamon problem which i want to fix. as first fix was more by brute force purge and reinstall cinnamon which is not needed but uninstal and reinstall menu applet. I need to check android DTS and compare with my Armbian DTS , think some gpio / uarts need fixing for ethernet and Bluettoth but im noob so lots to learn. Also need faster SD card as one i have are slow. I gone back to testing miniarch image also, and ethernet does work with it.

I started following you instructions for openvfd. clone git and changed the kernel and reboot. but i dont have ethernet and it kept trying to connect and time out. ended up reloading image on SDCARD. lol think i found the reason why cinnamon fails to load menu. cinnamon app does not exist zero size. xfce4-about.desktop think i will reload image again and work out exactley th problem with cinnamon

@MMorales Your LED Display work is really cool and nerdy 🤯😎🤓

I got wifi working by making link > file in /lib/firmware/brcm brcmfmac4330-sdio.tanix,tx6s.bin > brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin brcmfmac4330-sdio.tanix,tx6s.txt > brcmfmac-ap6330-sdio.txt Also have Cinnamon Desktop/Menu now working after purge and reinstall of cinnamon. Still need to get BlueTooth and Ethernet working. Thanks @Nick A

My image boots to desktop but no App Menu only have show desktop,file manager, firefox and terminal in Panel. No Lan, No Wifi, (no BT), All USB ports work U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P77f7-Ha9af-V52fc-Bda0a-R448a (Sep 30 2024 - 23:38:12 +0700) DRAM: 4096 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 NOTICE: BL31: v2.10.2(debug):armbian NOTICE: BL31: Built : 23:37:10, Sep 30 2024 NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner H616 SoC (1823) NOTICE: BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0x4a0aeb40, model: Tanix TX6s (axp313) INFO: ARM GICv2 driver initialized INFO: Configuring SPC Controller INFO: PMIC: Probing AXP305 on RSB ERROR: RSB: set run-time address: 0x10003 INFO: Could not init RSB: -65539 INFO: BL31: Platform setup done INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for erratum 855873 was applied INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for erratum 1530924 was applied INFO: PSCI: Suspend is unavailable INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x4a000000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 INFO: Changed devicetree. ns16550_serial serial@5000000: pinctrl_select_state_full: uclass_get_device_by_phandle_id: err=-19 U-Boot 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P77f7-Ha9af-V52fc-Bda0a-R448a (Sep 30 2024 - 23:38:12 +0700) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H616 (SUN50I) Model: Tanix TX6s (axp313) DRAM: 4 GiB Core: 55 devices, 20 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@30090a0 MMC: mmc@4020000: 0, mmc@4021000: 3, mmc@4022000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial@5000000 Out: serial@5000000 Err: serial@5000000 No USB device found Net: apply fix for AC300 ephy bb version bug ... using AC300 emac1 ephy default config ... eth0: ethernet@5030000 starting USB... No working controllers found Autoboot in 1 seconds, press <Space> to stop switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3245 bytes read in 4 ms (792 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 4fc00000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc 204 bytes read in 7 ms (28.3 KiB/s) 37032 bytes read in 12 ms (2.9 MiB/s) Working FDT set to 4fa00000 Failed to load '/boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-h616-fixup.scr' 18045081 bytes read in 748 ms (23 MiB/s) 23918600 bytes read in 992 ms (23 MiB/s) Moving Image from 0x40080000 to 0x40200000, end=41970000 ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 4ff00000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 18045017 Bytes = 17.2 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 4fa00000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x4fa00000 Working FDT set to 4fa00000 Loading Ramdisk to 48eca000, end 49fff859 ... OK Loading Device Tree to 0000000048e58000, end 0000000048ec9fff ... OK Working FDT set to 48e58000 Starting kernel ... Armbian-unofficial 24.11.0-trunk Noble ttyS0 tanix-tx6s-axp313 login:

I switched to ubuntu noble build as it doesnt let me download debian bookworm. Latest patch files from @Nick A has compiled successfully.😁 🥳 Thank you very much for you help @Nick A could not have dont it with out you help and knowledge. 😘 Armbian-unofficial_24.11.0-trunk_Tanix-tx6s-axp313_noble_edge_6.9.12_cinnamon_desktop.img will test tomorrow 1am now. 😴

🌱] Getting sources from Git [ debootstrap-debian-devel master ] remote: Forbidden, spammer fatal: unable to access 'https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 [🌿] Fetching updates from remote repository [ debootstrap-debian-devel master ] [🔨] remote: Forbidden, spammer [🔨] fatal: unable to access 'https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 [🚸] improved_git try 1 failed, retrying in 10 seconds [ git fetch --recurse-submodules=no --no-tags https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap.git master ] [🔨] remote: Forbidden, spammer Am i a baddy for trying to compile too many times?

Ok, thanks for tip. Good news the HDMI to DVI cable i ordered arrived and works with my Dell monitor. will make testing it easier doing next to my PC on same monitor.

Yes i see that, i deleted my build folder and going to redo from start. Now i have some idea what to do, hopefully get it right. update: still same error 🌱] Building package, this might take a while.. [ linux-u-boot-tanix_tx6s_axp313-edge_2024.01-S866c-Pab8d-Ha9af-V5b56-Bda0a-R448a_arm64.deb ] [🔨] dpkg-deb: error: package name has characters that aren't lowercase alphanums or '-+.' compile is doing this it no anything i typed. all my edits are lowercase. and this is from last nights compile linux-u-boot-tanix_tx6s_axp313-edge_2024.01-S866c-P7589-Ha9af-V5b56-Bda0a-R448a_arm64.deb its from script or compile. search build folder for content S866c-Pab8d-Ha9af-V5b56-Bda0a-R448a auto.conf CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-armbian-2024.01-S866c-Pab8d-Ha9af-V5b56-Bda0a-R448a" looks like generated by armbian 🌱] Getting ORAS manifest [ ORAS manifest from ghcr.io/armbian/os/uboot-tanix_tx6s_axp313-edge:2024.01-S866c-Pab8d-Ha9af-V5b56-Bda0a-R448a ] Error response from registry: failed to fetch the content of "ghcr.io/armbian/os/uboot-tanix_tx6s_axp313-edge:2024.01-S866c-Pab8d-Ha9af-V5b56-Bda0a-R448a": GET "https://ghcr.io/v2/armbian/os/uboot-tanix_tx6s_axp313-edge/manifests/2024.01-S866c-Pab8d-Ha9af-V5b56-Bda0a-R448a": denied: requested access to the resource is denied

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Using Transend 8k618 image i can get to armbian desktop. No Wifi, BT, Lan. USB is working mouse and keyboard. This is good progress and I learning. Thank for all your advice and tips. Tanix TX6 with Transpeed 8K618-T.txt @Nick A is helping me create the correct image.

Connected serial debug using putty, Serial: dev/ttyUSB0 Speed: 115200 baud here is my android booting Tanix Tx6.txt I can boot with sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s-axp313.dtb and get serial debug info.

Belena Etcher Uncompresses the image then writes image then verifies image. I switched to just clicking on compressed image and use linux default restore image using Disks. I now try using extracted image and usb image writer. this does not work I am using Linux Mint but can also boot win10. I check out rufus too. i also have many other on my win10 drive. thanks for your help update: using Rufus to burn image to sdcard gives same result black screen on tv and led clock blank Do i need press any buttons inside box ? what should i expect to see if it works ? Checking my ram spec it is DDR3L so will need boot loader "board-h616.tanix_tx6s_lpddr3" RAM: K4B4G0446D-BYK0 DDR3L-1600 (11-11-11) https://image.semiconductor.samsung.com/resources/data-sheet/DS_K4B4G0846D_BY_M_Rev1_3-0.pdf I confident my SDCard image is ok and not the issue I need to learn how to change boot loader

I tried booting with Tanix Tx6 images burned with balenaEtcher-linux-x64. micro sdcard has boot and root partitions I get nothing black screen on LG TV and clock LED blank. Do i need to copy dts file or edit file ? never done this before.

Revieved my Tanix TX6 H616 4GB + 32GB PCB: CS_H616_TX6S_B4_V4.4A RAM: K4B4G0446D EMMC: E32GDSAA1ABE00 WIFI: SP6330-X0 PMIC: AXP313A LED IC: FD650B-S Work OK and specs are correct, No display on my monitor but works on my LG TV. I have ordered a new HDMI to DVI cable to replace my HDMI to DVI adapter, and ordered a HDMI to DP adapter. hopefully can get my monitor to work with HDMI. I added Rx Tx Gnd 5V connector for serial coms. There is also EMMC/CLK and GND test points on bottom of PCB. To open use a guitar pick or spudger to prise bottom case off. Comparing the PCB with the Tanix TX68 i posted previously , seem identical PCB part number just different cpu and wifi and emmc used.

tested with two hdmi cables, same result also cable worked with MXQpro4k TV box ok. ordered a Tanix TX6 to replace the Vontar So far MXQpro4k was fake returned. Vontar H618 was faulty returned waiting for Tanix TX6s and Tanix TX6 dont think Tanix TX6s will ship, it all COD so no loss if not ship

The Vontar H618 arrived, but fault HDMI black screen with intermittent flash of screen, tested on Dell Monitor and LG TV. Could not even check setting or install hardware info app 😢. Also got a wireless gyro air mouse remote which was not an air mouse. 🤬 Double disappointment. returning both for refund.

Clock LED Display Info http://nskhuman.ru/allwinner/fd650manual.php?np=1 driver http://nskhuman.ru/allwinner/fd650_c.txt Driver.txt

Sandisk SDINADF4-16G data sheet 16GB eMMC eMMC 5.1 https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/669/SanDisk_10092017_iNAND-Family-Brochure-for-M_C_022-1217148.pdf

I have ordered two TV boxes to run armbian Vontar H618 and Tanix TXs6 H616. Both 4GB ram + 64GB emmc.