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Quick update for other users wondering. WiFi, ethernet and UART3 works all fine for me currently. Prebuild image, no beta repository, just all stock. Image: Armbian 23.11.1 Bookworm Kernel: 6.1.63-current-sunxi64 Thank you contributors/community.

That's right, I just copied the dtb without renaming it. Sorry the wrong report. One last thing, I don't know you can fix it, but there seems to be some problems with the amlogic audio drivers. Maybe there are alternatives or fixes available? Problem Audio driver can cause kernel panic when playing a sound rapidly multiple times in a row. No audio is available after the kernel panic, or it keeps playing (loop) the audio in the sound buffers before the kernel panic. Reproduction Start up Kodi. Use the keyboard to navigate through the menu, so it plays a sound every time it selects a different menu item. Now quickly navigate through the menu. Kernel logs Setup Mini M8S II (s905x) using GXL P212 2G DTB. Using your Ubuntu Mate image. Versions 20171226, 20180305, and 20180307 are affected.

Thanks @balbes150. Tried your last images. Running 5.41 20180305 (Mate) on a s905x device (Mini M8SII) from internal storage and found the following problems: IR remote doesn't work anymore. Placed remote.conf in /boot/ and /etc/amremote without any effect. The amlogic-remotecfg service is not running, because /dev/amremote cannot be found. There are also no LIRC devices in case you've moved to LIRC for IR support. Adjusting screen resolution in /boot/hdmi.sh (1080p60hz to 720p60hz) is partially failing. Case scenario: Running 1080p out of the box without adjustments after flashing: everything works fine. Kodi and desktop environment are running in 1080p. Changing 1080p to 720p after flashing and first boot: KODI works fine and runs in 720p, desktop environment shows artifacts and seems to be running in 1080p. Changing 1080p to 720p after flashing and before first boot: everything works fine. Kodi and desktop environment are running in 720p. Same effect when running the image from SD and USB stick. //edit Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Can't get remote working on mate 20171226 either (which worked fine before). Perhaps I'm forgetting something.

Hey @balbes150. I've been using your S905 images for a while now (on a Mini M8S II). Great job and great effort, I really appreciate it. However, I do use Kszaq's LibreELEC as my main OS, as the primary job of this box was to function as media player. I'm now thinking of replacing LibreELEC with your ARMBIAN image as they provide both a good Kodi and Linux desktop experience. But before doing that, I have some questions about updates. Do you have the time to answer these? I'm sorry if the answer is already posted in this thread somewhere else. I'm having a hard time using the search function here at armbian.com. 1) What is the general procedure to update the firmware? I don't want to format every time when a new image is released. I noticed you provide kernel deb packages for ARMBIAN 5.34 on your Yandisk. Are you planning to release the kernel deb packages for upcoming releases? Other software can be updated with apt, but how about the rest of the rootfs? Does the rootfs change much between releases? Or do you recommend to wipe the rootfs and start with a clean install every update? 2) Related to question 1, how can I upgrade Kodi? I noticed Kodi was build from source in your image and isn't managed by any package manager. I assume the Kodi version in the ARMBIAN repo isn't sufficient to run on this box. Do you have any notes on building Kodi from source for this box? For example, important key differences in building and configuration. I guess Kodi must be compiled with support for the Mali GPU and there is some extra configuration needed. It would be great to get some pointers on that, or a maybe a git / build configuration to start with? 3) There are two Kodi's mentioned in the LightDM greeter session list. What is the point of that? The /usr/share/xsessions directory shows a kodi.desktop and a xmbc.desktop file. The contents of both files seems the same, only the filename differs. What's the reason for that? 4) Video seems to work smoothly in Kodi. However, when using MATE and mpv the video stutter alot when playing in non-fullscreen mode. Switching to fullscreen makes the video plays smoothly. Is this expected behaviour? Armbian 5.37 Ubuntu Mate 20171226. -- And some other more general questions -- 4) Amlogic provides 4.14 kernels, still the 3.14 kernel is still used by many projects. Is there a reason for this? Would you recommend starting experimenting with the 4.14 kernel? Or would this open a new gate to driver hell and / or stability issues? 5) Does the Mali driver supports non HD resolutions, for example 1024x768 and 1680x1050? I know the drivers supplied in your image does not, but maybe some compile option or newer version of the driver does? Thank you in advance!