NicoD

I tried both DEV and NEXT on the M4V2. Both boot after a while. Both don't have wifi working. No on-board, and none of my usb wifi dongles work. Also my 7" display doesn't work, so I can't connect it to ethernet.
USB ports do work. I tried an ssd and it mounted normally.  I've used the nanopi m4.dtb. I'll see if another dtb's gives more succes.

With the RockPi NEXT everything seems to work well. Wifi works. Even 5Ghz. Can't see anything wrong. 
On my own dev 5.3 RC4(also 5.4) it also takes that long to boot. But I can choose to clock to 1.5Ghz/2Ghz while yours only goes to 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz. (with armbian-config cpu tool)
I'd like to see 1.5/2Ghz back as an option. It's stable, better performance, but leave 1.4Ghz/1.8Ghz as default so people can choose to clock higher. 

Now burning DEV for the rockPi. I guess it'll work well, I'll see if other dtb files can make usb wifi work for the m4v2. 
EDIT:
DEV indeed works as well on the RockPi4. 
I tried different dtb files on the m4v2. Only neo4 boots with display. T4 boots without display. rockpi didn't boot, khadas v didn't boot...
EDIT 2:
ZRam ain't working on rockpi4. I guess it'll be the same on the others? 

@NicoD  can you try running on M4v2 and on PockPi4 image for rk3399-tv ?
 
I'm primarily interested in running the DEV and NEXT variants (with kernel 5.x).
 
https://yadi.sk/d/HLVJ8FlLHEQpUQ

not Igor but I can help here..
 
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/259a0bf5fe3bc9a20709597e43f18421aa3ae4ed/config/sources/rockchip64.conf#L8-L9
 
The Rockpi uses ayufans u-boot which is not upstream (it's based on rockchips u-boot). The former nanopis are supported by upstream u-boot (DDR3 or normal DDR4 should be supported for RK3399 iirc). There were a few attempts so that upstream u-boot can handle lpddr4 but the last I heard is that it's not stable yet (someone from the forum was involved but I don't remember the name.. ).
 
Patch in the defconfig and the DT into ayufans u-boot should be an easy task (I'm confident that friendlyarms is based on the same one.. so not much to patch around).
 
unfortunate I would happily dive in (if there's still a spare one)..

Yes, I know. Waiting for hardware to arrive ... it seems it was sent to a wrong destination  

Looks good! Only thing missing for my linux noobs is a simple tar overview for extracting and creating archives and a simple grep overview
 
Can I win the hat this time please?

No idea. I'll see if I can recreate this with Buster 5.95.
I don't think it's a problem in the meaning of "problem". Just a small bug in either htop or Buster.
I rarely use htop. So others will know more about that.

Agree with you. I'll see the htop source code. Thanks!
 
 
You're right. my htoprc file is same as yours. when I delete and recreate the file it works properly. It might be bug in Armbian customized htop.

Have the same issue with my XU4.
 
I have a workaround for this. Remove all files in /home/[username]/.config/htop and replace it with the files from /root/.config/htop. 
Then all cores are labeled with "big." and ".LITTLE" as usual. But as soon as you change the configuration (for example toggle "Tree" with F5), everything is broken again.
 

A deeper inspection shows, that it has something to do with the file /home/[username]/.config/htop/htoprc.
The config parameter "right_meters" is set incorrectly.
 
For my XU4 the proper params are:
right_meters=Hostname Tasks LoadAverage Uptime CpuFreq(1) CpuFreq(2) CpuFreq(3) CpuFreq(4) CpuFreq(5) CpuFreq(6) CpuFreq(7) CpuFreq(8)
 
HTOP shows the wrong labels when the params are:
right_meters=Hostname Tasks LoadAverage Uptime CpuFreq CpuFreq CpuFreq CpuFreq CpuFreq CpuFreq CpuFreq CpuFreq

Hi all. For a new video I've made a list with my most used/useful terminal commands.
Please let me know what I've missed, or which commands you use most.
 
Useful Linux commands for Ubuntu/Debian --------------------------------------- Update/Install -------------- sudo apt update Update repolists sudo apt upgrade Upgrade system/programs sudo apt autoremove Remove obsolete programs sudo apt install programName Install program sudo apt remove programName Remove program sudo aptitude install When having issue's with apt, aptitude can help to solve this sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade Update and upgrade together/You can run multiple commands with && sudo dpkg -i packageName.deb Install .deb file Root user --------- sudo passwd Change root password su Super User/Enter root user Debug/Monitor ------------- dmesg Shows debug messages uname -a Shows basic system information env Shows the environment information htop Hardware monitor Switch terminal --------------- ctrl + ALT + F4 (F1 - F6) Open new terminal 4 ctrl + ALT + F1 Go back to terminal 1 ctrl + ALT + F7 Go back to desktop Reboot/Shutdown --------------- sudo reboot Reboot sudo shutdown now Shutdown CPU Tools --------- cpufreq-set -g performance Set governor to performance cpufreq-set -u 2Ghz Set max frequency for all cores cpufreq-set -c 0-1 -u 1.8Ghz Set max frequency for specific cores lscpu | grep MHz Show cpu frequency taskset -c 3 programName Use a specific core for an application Files/Directories ----------------- nano /home/fileToRemove.txt Create a txt file with Nano. You could use any other texteditor. touch filename Create an empty file, no matter what kind cat /home/fileToRemove.txt Shows the content of a file cp /home/fileToRemove.txt /home/copy.txt Copy file find /home/ -iname "*.txt" Search files that end with .txt comm /home/fileToRemove.txt /home/copy.txt Compare files rm /home/fileToRemove.txt Remove file mv /home/copy.txt ~/Documents/ Move file mkdir /home/directoryToGoTo/ Create directory cd /home/directoryToGoTo/ Go to directory ls List directory ls -l Gives more information about every file/directory ls -l filename.txt Gives file information pwd Show current working directory cd .. Go to the above directory rmdir /home/directoryToGoTo/ Remove directory wget http://www.website.com/file.txt Download file Zip/Tar/GunZip -------------- zip myzip file1 file2 file3 Create zip file unzip myzip.zip Unzip file tar xvf filename.tar gunzip filename_tar.gz Mount drives/USB Devices ------------ lsusb List USB devices lsblb List attached drives mount /mount/mountedDisk /dev/sda2 Mount drive sudo chmod -R 777 /mount/mountedDisk Give user read/write permissions df -a List all filesystems Swap file/ZRam -------------- sudo apt install zram-config Install zram script sudo fallocate -l 8G /swapfile Allocate 8GB for swapfile sudo chmod 600 /swapfile Give the correct rights for the swapfile sudo mkswap /swapfile Make it a swapfile sudo swapon /swapfile Turn on the swapfile sudo nano /etc/fstab Open fstab and add the line ... |_ /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 Wifi ---- sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces and write: auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid {ssid} wpa-psk {password} OR nmcli device wifi rescan Scan for available wifi networks nmcli device wifi list Show available wifi networks nmcli device wifi connect SSID-Name password wireless-password Connect wifi ip a Show ip ifconfig iwconfig Change Keyboard Layout ---------------------- sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration Set keyboard layout Add display resolution ---------------------- cvt 2560 1440 60 Select the display resolution you want # 2560x1440 59.96 Hz (CVT 3.69M9) hsync: 89.52 kHz; pclk: 312.25 MHz Modeline "2560x1440_60.00" 312.25 2560 2752 3024 3488 1440 1443 1448 1493 -hsync +vsync xrandr --newmode "2560x1440_60.00" 312.25 2560 2752 3024 3488 1440 1443 1448 1493 -hsync +vsync Add resolution, everything after Modeline from cvt is copied after newmode xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 2560x1440_60.00 Add the new resolution to your display xrandr --newmode "2560x1440_60.00" 312.25 2560 2752 3024 3488 1440 1443 1448 1493 -hsync +vsync && xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 2560x1440_60.00 Others ------ reset Clear terminal shift + page up Scroll up shift + page down Scroll down tab Autocomplete ctrl + c Quit for many programs date Show date/time cal Show calender Funny commands -------------- sl First need to install "sudo apt install sl", then try it out. It's great :) sl -alF cmatrix fortune/fortune-mod cowsay figlet toilet ponysay inxi cat /dev/urandom :(){ :|:& };: Endless loop (useful to test CPU maximized temperatures) Armbian ------- sudo armbianmonitor -m sudo armbian-config change cpu settings sudo nano /etc/default/cpufrequtils Made by NicoD  

Pimp your bash. To be fair I copied some from the link at the bottom:
 
A few commands are needed quite often and to reduce typing a little bit, voila: To create the file nano ~/.bash_aliases ############################ # my personal Aliases list # ############################ # to create the file nano ~/.bash_aliases # **** DIRECTORY LISTING in human-readable units **** alias ll="ls -lhAF" alias ..="cd .." alias ...="cd ../../../" alias back="cd $OLDPWD" alias lsmount="mount |column -t" # * Disk Space Usage in human-readable units, including filesystem type * alias dfh="df -Tha --total" alias df="df -h --exclude=squashfs" # * ALL files in a directory listed, according their size * alias du="du -ach | sort -h" # * listing process table in detail * alias psa="ps auxf" alias dmesg="dmesg --human" # * How to really CLEAR the terminal * alias clr='printf "\033c"' alias h="history" # reload bash config alias reload="source ~/.bashrc" Now execute . ~/.bashrc in your terminal (there should be a space between the . and ~/.bashrc )  
https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4    |   http://smlr.us/
 

1080p display
xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync &&  xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 1920x1080_60.00 && xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080_60.00
720p display
xrandr --newmode "1280x720_60.00" 74.50 1280 1344 1472 1664 720 723 728 748 -hsync +vsync && xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 1280x720_60.00 && xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1280x720_60.00
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-configure-your-monitors-with-xrandr-in-linux
 
You can add the line to armbianEnv.txt if I remember well.

New image 5.96_20190920

I'd like to, and I started working on a script that would compile the latest versions of the software for a specific distro. Let's see if I can find some time to finish it.

Yes, sadly I didn't even had time to get to the conference this year  To at least   Two kids, wife, cat, full time job + full time project + "customers" daring to demand attention or solution on my expense sounds like mission impossible.
 
 
Anyone can make a presentation. In fact there were many presentations related to Armbian, but its hard to collect videos or track them. Some were made on local conferences in native languages ... Also @NicoD is making regular videos on various things related to Armbian.
 
I used to be an active Toastmaster.org for many years. There, one could learn presentation techniques within dry-run speeches, with competitions, etc. One could also learn how many weeks/months before you have to start working to deliver 30-45m speech properly. Conference ended past weekend and I should start to prepare today for 2020 .. if. This little time (and energy) I have now. For current I started with preparations two months before ... its a lot of stuff and you have to come out with something that is quality made and interesting enough to get peoples attention. You have to think over and over, change. Drop something, add something. Change and practice, practice, practice ...  
 
@chwe Thanks for helping me out 

Freshly from the not official Armbian studios:
 
Armbian
the last 2 years
 
I would assume that even on a conference those topics wouldn't be presented:
it's a special use case, and the question comes up on a weekly to monthly repetition pattern.
that's simply user-side stuff, mostly unrelated to armbian as a project, but as a NAS example, OMV is quite common under armbian users cause the ARM maintainer of OMV is @tkaiser.
 
that's what changelogs are for.
 
I assume the major reason the video is on the page is not that we have a video but because it's a side-product of the conference. So chances to get a new video are rather low, except there would be a new talk about the project in another conference. And for such a talk I would propose other topics, like how to engage people to contribute or how to deal with different opinions etc.
 
But luckily for you, most of your questions can be answered with the search engine. and with text to speech it might feel like a video.

Panfrost instructions Armbian
 
!!!! I made a script that does all this, check a few posts later for the script !!!!!  
This tutorial explains how to build an Armbian image with panfrost. And what else you need to make it work.
These are early drivers. Many things don't work yet. Only OpenGL 2.1 works now.
 
You need to build an image with kernel 5.2 or later.
For this you need an x86 pc with Ubuntu 18.04 or a virtual Ubuntu 18.04 x86 image.

First install git, then clone the build folder from Armbian, and enter the build directory.
 
apt-get -y -qq install git git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build Now run the script with EXPERT=yes so you can choose to build a dev image.
sudo ./compile EXPERT=yes Choose "Full OS image for flashing" Then "Show a kernel configuration menu before compilation" Choose your board. If it's not in the regular list, look in "Show SCS/WIP/EOS/TVB". Choose Development version kernel configuration -> device drivers -> graphic drivers -> panfrost  
Let it run until it's finished. The image will be in the /build/output/images
Burn it to an SD-card/eMMC/...
 
Now we need to install all the needed software
sudo apt install flex bison python3-mako libwayland-egl-backend-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxshmfence-dev libxrandr-dev libwayland-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-dri3-dev x11proto-present-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev libexpat1-dev libudev-dev gettext glmark2 glmark2-es2 mesa-utils xutils-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev ninja-build bc python-pip flex bison cmake git valgrind llvm llvm-8-dev python3-pip pkg-config zlib1g-dev wayland-protocols Download and install meson
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/meson/meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb Download and install mesa DRM
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm cd drm meson build --prefix=/usr ninja -C build sudo -E ninja -C build install cd .. Download and install mesa graphics
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa cd mesa meson -Ddri-drivers= -Dvulkan-drivers= -Dgallium-drivers=panfrost,kmsro -Dlibunwind=false -Dprefix=/usr build/ ninja -C build/ sudo ninja -C build/ install REBOOT
 
Optionally, update sdl (recommended)
git clone https://github.com/SDL-mirror/SDL.git cd SDL mkdir build cd build cmake ../ make -j6 sudo make install REBOOT
 
Only thing that works ok with it is supertuxkart, to install it.
sudo apt install supertuxkart
 
Panfrost - Linux games working from repo
SuperTuxKart - Works well
ExtremeTuxRacer - lots of glitches
AssaultCube - lots of glitches
 
Instructions by Salvador Liébana & NicoD

You could use balbes150 his N2 Buster image. This is with kernel 5.2. But almost everything works as it should.
Otherwise you could build a Buster image yourself if you've got an x86 pc.
https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/

Meanwhile, we had a big review of a single-board PC, the M4 is in the review. And its characteristics are not even bad, compared to competitors.
 

Hi all.
I've made a new video about how to build your own Armbian image with the Armbian build script.
I also show how to set up virtualbox with a Ubuntu 18.04 image.
Here's the video.
Greetings, NicoD

Panfrost instructions Armbian
 
!!!! I made a script that does all this, check a few posts later for the script !!!!!  
This tutorial explains how to build an Armbian image with panfrost. And what else you need to make it work.
These are early drivers. Many things don't work yet. Only OpenGL 2.1 works now.
 
You need to build an image with kernel 5.2 or later.
For this you need an x86 pc with Ubuntu 18.04 or a virtual Ubuntu 18.04 x86 image.

First install git, then clone the build folder from Armbian, and enter the build directory.
 
apt-get -y -qq install git git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build Now run the script with EXPERT=yes so you can choose to build a dev image.
sudo ./compile EXPERT=yes Choose "Full OS image for flashing" Then "Show a kernel configuration menu before compilation" Choose your board. If it's not in the regular list, look in "Show SCS/WIP/EOS/TVB". Choose Development version kernel configuration -> device drivers -> graphic drivers -> panfrost  
Let it run until it's finished. The image will be in the /build/output/images
Burn it to an SD-card/eMMC/...
 
Now we need to install all the needed software
sudo apt install flex bison python3-mako libwayland-egl-backend-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxshmfence-dev libxrandr-dev libwayland-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-dri3-dev x11proto-present-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev libexpat1-dev libudev-dev gettext glmark2 glmark2-es2 mesa-utils xutils-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev ninja-build bc python-pip flex bison cmake git valgrind llvm llvm-8-dev python3-pip pkg-config zlib1g-dev wayland-protocols Download and install meson
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/meson/meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb Download and install mesa DRM
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm cd drm meson build --prefix=/usr ninja -C build sudo -E ninja -C build install cd .. Download and install mesa graphics
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa cd mesa meson -Ddri-drivers= -Dvulkan-drivers= -Dgallium-drivers=panfrost,kmsro -Dlibunwind=false -Dprefix=/usr build/ ninja -C build/ sudo ninja -C build/ install REBOOT
 
Optionally, update sdl (recommended)
git clone https://github.com/SDL-mirror/SDL.git cd SDL mkdir build cd build cmake ../ make -j6 sudo make install REBOOT
 
Only thing that works ok with it is supertuxkart, to install it.
sudo apt install supertuxkart
 
Panfrost - Linux games working from repo
SuperTuxKart - Works well
ExtremeTuxRacer - lots of glitches
AssaultCube - lots of glitches
 
Instructions by Salvador Liébana & NicoD

Kodi with KMS/DRM/GBM backend only
Tried MPV, but it didn't seem to work . Looks like MPV is not supported http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus#Player_Support
we're tweaking the sources and scripts to release a new RetrOrangePi version , so hopefully a working tutorial will be available soon

Awesome !
 

I try not to aim at the total noobs with my videos. I expect people who watch my videos to know what an SBC is, and how to write an image to an SD-card.
I think ETA-Prime is better for you. He's a noob explaining to other noobs Try to learn from him Then later on maybe again watch one of my videos again
No hard feelings, just messing a bit.

Panfrost instructions Armbian
 
!!!! I made a script that does all this, check a few posts later for the script !!!!!  
This tutorial explains how to build an Armbian image with panfrost. And what else you need to make it work.
These are early drivers. Many things don't work yet. Only OpenGL 2.1 works now.
 
You need to build an image with kernel 5.2 or later.
For this you need an x86 pc with Ubuntu 18.04 or a virtual Ubuntu 18.04 x86 image.

First install git, then clone the build folder from Armbian, and enter the build directory.
 
apt-get -y -qq install git git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armbian/build cd build Now run the script with EXPERT=yes so you can choose to build a dev image.
sudo ./compile EXPERT=yes Choose "Full OS image for flashing" Then "Show a kernel configuration menu before compilation" Choose your board. If it's not in the regular list, look in "Show SCS/WIP/EOS/TVB". Choose Development version kernel configuration -> device drivers -> graphic drivers -> panfrost  
Let it run until it's finished. The image will be in the /build/output/images
Burn it to an SD-card/eMMC/...
 
Now we need to install all the needed software
sudo apt install flex bison python3-mako libwayland-egl-backend-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxshmfence-dev libxrandr-dev libwayland-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-dri3-dev x11proto-present-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev libexpat1-dev libudev-dev gettext glmark2 glmark2-es2 mesa-utils xutils-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev ninja-build bc python-pip flex bison cmake git valgrind llvm llvm-8-dev python3-pip pkg-config zlib1g-dev wayland-protocols Download and install meson
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/meson/meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb Download and install mesa DRM
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm cd drm meson build --prefix=/usr ninja -C build sudo -E ninja -C build install cd .. Download and install mesa graphics
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa cd mesa meson -Ddri-drivers= -Dvulkan-drivers= -Dgallium-drivers=panfrost,kmsro -Dlibunwind=false -Dprefix=/usr build/ ninja -C build/ sudo ninja -C build/ install REBOOT
 
Optionally, update sdl (recommended)
git clone https://github.com/SDL-mirror/SDL.git cd SDL mkdir build cd build cmake ../ make -j6 sudo make install REBOOT
 
Only thing that works ok with it is supertuxkart, to install it.
sudo apt install supertuxkart
 
Panfrost - Linux games working from repo
SuperTuxKart - Works well
ExtremeTuxRacer - lots of glitches
AssaultCube - lots of glitches
 
Instructions by Salvador Liébana & NicoD