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If someone wants to use this deb, you do: sudo apt-remove --purge chromium wget https://apt.armbian.com/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/chromium_69.0.3497.93-1~deb9u1_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i chromium_69.0.3497.93-1~deb9u1_armhf.deb

It worked Igor thanks. I'm not actually using the instance of the os beyond some basic testing of an idea and posted this for others having problems. If it is upstream hopefully it will fix itself.

Oh cool. thanks.

Did you see I put this up Igor?

http://ix.io/1rgm

Ok I'll send later. It's an opipc.

It was after I did that. I can do it again later. There was no chromium-browser in the repositories btw.

Hi Igor. I think I found another inadvertenttant bug in the build since the desktop was unseparated out. The new build is calling chromium instead of chromium-browser, and it's breaking. It brings up a brief pink screen. When you call it from a window it calls this image below. Otherwise it is installing desktop on the H3 just fine.

Yea I guess it's really rtfm. Can't believe I found an actual bug instead of just purely doing something wrong. That's new. Thanks Igor.

This was on opi plus btw. I haven't tried the cubie again.

Yea I'm pretty sure that's it Igor. I just re-burned the card and made sure to reboot after setting up my user, then ran the apt update/upgrade that is in armbian-config as the user, then rebooted and installed the desktop as the user. Got a perfect penguin. I'm thinking maybe put a message in after you create a user, or just force a reboot.

So that worked, but I didn't end up with the regular old penguin desktop. I got the debian swirl desktop. And when it was installing the screen went black and gave me this weird white "can't find anything" message. I have a feeling that it has something to do with the new approach to the installation workflow. It used to reboot after you entered the new user, then it would come back on with the desktop (if you installed the desktop). Now if you want to install the desktop as a user, you have to reboot or su to that user. But if you sudo, you create things as root anyway. So I have no idea. I'm going to reburn the card and try it again I think.

Oh it's on stretch btw. Just fyi, burning xenial to the same card same board resulted in the normal flawlesstissitude. But I'm trying to install NextCloudPi and it only works with stretch.

Hi guys. Igor if you are reading this, I'm Paul H. on the facebook Opi board. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up that I think something is breaking with the recent builds. I did a standard download install on an opi plus (eos) and got nodm errors when I went to install the desktop. Then on second run it sent me into a menu to select lightdm or nodm, and I've never seen that menu before. That installed some stuff when I selected nodm, but then failed. Subsequent apt-get installs gave me nodm errors. The desktop is not booting at all. So then I decided to move to a cubietruck and did the same thing, except it boots into the desktop and asks for password. Then I went to install gnome-terminal, which is mandatory because your terminal doesn't scroll, and I got the same nodm errors. Turns out gnome-terminal did install and I can use it though. I've installed Armbian like 100 times and I have a 1234 tattoo on the insides of my eyelids, so I don't think this is any of the standard sd card psu problems. But I don't have time today to dig into other boards to see if something similar is happening. This is the line of errors I got from apt get install. You can see the white terminal screen working behind it.

Thanks for answering so quickly Balbes. So I have to install Kodi for it to work? I am using mpv as a video screensaver with xscreensaver. Not using it as a media player.

The ubuntu mate image works a little better with the video, but when I play a true fullscreen file it is doing the same start/stop.

Hi. I'm sorry to ask what is probably an answered question, but there are 47 pages of material here and I can't find a specific answer to my problem. In installed the current debian/xfce image from here: https://yadi.sk/d/5_32km_EsCV2A/ARMBIAN/mali-6/5.41_20180304 There are a lot of images here, so it is tough to figure out which is the right one. I did the su and ./install.sh and I running on the emmc now. It works perfectly. I added the wifi line to my modules file and it worked. And when I click the two sample videos, they play in tiny windows nicely. Larger window videos don't play well at all. They hitch up and eventually crash the system. I had a similar problem on an rpi, and I had to manually compile mpv with hardware acceleration. But I can't find that this chip has that. I am trying to duplicate on an s905x TV box what I was able to do on an Opi H3 with Armbian.

Yea I don't know why Etcher all of a sudden stopped working on me. I may have been this copy of win10. When I first found it I used it exclusively, then all of a sudden I started getting do you want to format this drive after it was done. Then the cards couldn't be ripped back into images to copy to other machines. I even tried windows dd to copy them to an image. But as I said, win32diskimage 1.0 doesn't work on this windows either. I had to try .9, which works. Could just be an oddity in the chip.

I know this was a month ago but I just figured out a problem I was having with dd and it might apply. I was using of=/dev/sda1 instead of just /dev/sda and when I fixed it, it worked. Etcher is a complete waste of time and most likely is corrupting the partitions on your disks. I don't know why the parrots keep telling people to use that piece of garbage. On windows, win32diskimager is the only thing that works. I use .9 because 1.0 doesn't render correctly on my windows 10.

Igor replied in the opi board. I have no idea how to switch from analog to HDMI. It is very simple and it works. I just checked on latest Ubuntu desktop image with legacy kernel. Click to audio settings/icon in upper right corner and switch "Default sink" to sndhdmi analogue stereo I tested playing this video http://samplemedia.linaro.org/H2 ... fps_7200K_short.MP4

Lol I didn't give any information and my methods have failed. Just tried to burn a fresh image for the opipc and same issue, sound through headphones but not through hdmi. Fortunately the TV has an 1/8" audio in. It looks like on the retrorangepi image they used some fancy software footwork to get the hdmi to work.

I fished through my box o stuff and found a couple of realtek dongles. They so far are working with no config issues at all on a fresh armbian opi pc image. Still have no hdmi sound, but I've spent enough time on this wifi issue and abandoning the ralink dongles. Looking around, that driver has been nothing but trouble.

Thanks. But didn't work. I also tried copying the asound.conf from the HDMI sound working image from retrorangepi and that didn't work either. They have this whole dmixer thing going on there, and I did an apt-cache search on dmixer and got nothing. Wish I could get the dongle to work on the other image at least. It's like a circle. One does one thing I want and the other one does the other thing, but ner the two shall meet.

Ok thankyou for the reply. I did do an update linux headers thing as part of several attempts at solutions here and on other boards.

Hi All. As you may have read at my HDMI post, I have tried two different OpiPC images, the default one here, and the current RetrorangePi. On the first one, I used this tutorial: and it worked perfectly, well almost. I got some errors because the usbids isn't on here, nor is modprobe. But it worked. Then I tried the retro image and went back to do the same process, but no matter what I do I can't see to get rid of error messages. I've tried to put ARCH=ARM and arm. I've tried TARGET=LINUX. None of the tips out there seem to work. pi@RetrOrangePi:/usr/src/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913$ sudo make ARCH=arm make -C tools make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913/tools' gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913/tools' /usr/src/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913/tools/bin2h cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /usr/src/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913/os/linux/Makefile make -C /lib/modules/3.4.113-RetrOrangePi--sun8i/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/DPO_MT7601U_LinuxSTA_3.0.0.4_20130913/os/linux modules make[1]: Entering directory '/lib/modules/3.4.113-RetrOrangePi--sun8i/build' make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'modules'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory '/lib/modules/3.4.113-RetrOrangePi--sun8i/build' Makefile:394: recipe for target 'LINUX' failed make: *** [LINUX] Error 2 I've tried untarring the file in different places. Just doesn't seem to work at all. Can anyone help? /var/log/armhwinfo.log has been uploaded to http://sprunge.us/BJOR