NicoD

You can check here: https://forum.armbian.com/clubs/
But it will most likely be deleted again. It was just a random idea by myself and did not expect to get any proponent for it anyways.

The one saying this is the dumbest person on earth. If he is lazy then I'm santa
 
 
Indeed, since our Russian isn't good enough. 

You can use any system, this is your own business, but I delete all messages where links are given or elements are discussed (what and how it works etc) on corelec. I have good reasons for this, but I won't explain anything to anyone. If you are not satisfied with this, you not use ArmbianTV.
 
p/s/ I think this discussion can be closed.
 
 

Now you can download the latest versions of images and DEB packages from the official Armbian resource via the link. 
 
https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/

Indeed. It will just resets the zram configuration.
The armbian-zram-config is old. I think it doesn't need to be used anymore. It used to be a better config. But things have changed since then.
I'll take a look at it when I find time, but I said that a lot before  

Hi, NicoD
 
I actually enjoy your video @ youtube a lot. Thank you first.
 
According my current 5.6 kernel: Yes, the GPU clockrate is required to imposed. Or it will get really unstable if you enable panfrost.
If you have a newer kernel, you might try it without setting clockrate first. If thing went bad for you, just remember to try this.
 
I use the kernel ripped from libreELEC at https://gitlab.com/FuyuriSeiji/linux-5.6-le
I made changes into build system config to use this kernel
For the root, I use Gentoo's and emerge mesa with VIDEO_CARDS="panfrost."
And the patched of ffmpeg at https://gitlab.com/FuyuriSeiji/ffmpeg 
These enable my setup to have hardware decoding with DRMPRIME kodi. 
 
If you have ever bumped any problem, you might consider what I list here as alternative approach.
Good luck
 
 

Got me a step further Not there yet.
 
root@arm-64:~/mesa/build# apt install libdr libdri2 libdrm-exynos1 libdri2-1 libdrm-freedreno1 libdri2-dbg libdrm-nouveau2 libdri2-dev libdrm-omap1 libdrilbo libdrm-radeon1 libdrilbo-common libdrm-tegra0 libdrilbo-dev libdrm-tests libdrm libdropwizard-metrics-java libdrm2 libdr-sundown-perl libdrmaa1.0-java libdrumstick libdrmaa1.0-java-doc libdrumstick-alsa1 libdrmaa1.0-ruby libdrumstick-dev libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrumstick-file1 libdrm-common libdrumstick-rt1 libdrm-dev libdrumstick-rt-backends libdrm-etnaviv1 root@arm-64:~/mesa/build# apt install libdrm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libdrm Hahaha It's killing me.

Try doing the python stuff as root.

Never had any issues with python when playing with Panfrost AFAIR...
Try to install the module with pip3 install Mako
Maybe do a pip3 install --upgrade pip before to update the installer itself.
 
Depending on your OS the command might be different or not available at all. If necessary search apt for python3 pip and install it.

Nice board. Clean and simple.
I like this SoC a lot, very power efficient and good thermals.

What will be the price? When will it be sold?
I'd like to see wifi/BT on-board. But not everyone needs that for their tasks, I understand why not to have it.
I also like to have a barrel jack for power. Type-C is ok. But still a lot of issue's with bad cables and bad contacts.
Good luck.

Banana Pi BPI-M5 is a new generation single board computer design , use Amlogic S905X3 Quad-Core Cortex-A55 (2.0xxGHz) Processor. Mali-G31 MP2 GPU with 4 x Execution Engines (650Mhz). support 4GB LPDDR4 and 16G eMMC flash. it have 4 USB 3.0 port,1GbE LAN port.

main spec:
* Amlogic S905X3 Quad-Core Cortex-A55 (2.0xxGHz) Processor
* Mali-G31 GPU
* 4GB LPDDR4
* 16GB eMMC flash on board.
* 4 USB 3.0 port
* 1 GbE LAN por
* HDMI output
hardware interface:
 

 
more please see wiki page, we will keep update on wiki documents.
http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M5

Thanks! I will try that!

This problem should be fixed by now. At least at build stage.

XFCE is a lot more customizeable than LXDE. I think you need to do a bit more investigation.
If you want LXDE, you can easily install it yourself. "sudo apt install lubuntu-desktop"
I hate LXDE. Ain't nothing good about it except for a little less memory usage. Only for a 500MB device it's useful. But who runs a desktop on a 500MB device?

The xfce4-goodies are too good vs those of lxde.
You can make an xfce4 desktop look the way you like, MacOS, Windows or just your own flavor. No other DE is that good for that reason.

Yes both can be used at the same time.
If your configuration is set right it first will use memory, then zram. And only after that the swap file.

If you've got the 4GB model it can be good to reinstall zram-config
"sudo apt install zram-config"

It should make 2GB zram for 4GB models but only makes 1GB default.

Could someone inform me if this is all that needs to be done? 
I'm back using the H6. I've updated my install script for panfrost with an H6 install with this code added to do the above :
 
function h6 { cat <<EOT >> /etc/rc.local cd /sys/devices/platform/soc/1800000.gpu/devfreq/1800000.gpu/ echo userspace > governor echo 756000000 > max_freq echo 756000000 > min_freq EOT } Any more details about this I should know? Sorry, been a while...
If someone could try the script for me and inform if it works? Also updated meson version to meson_0.55.3-1.
Should I also include the oibaf repo? Or doesn't this work anymore?
I'll try it later, first need to do other tests. Cheers. 

Edit : Didn't work. Tried to write a simpler script, but got error:
python (3.x) mako module = 0.8.0 required to build mesa
 
#!/bin/bash sudo apt -y install python3-setuptools ninja-build wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/meson/meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb dpkg -i meson_0.55.3-1_all.deb cd ~ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa -b master cd ~/mesa mkdir build && cd build meson -Ddri-drivers= -Dvulkan-drivers= -Dgallium-drivers=lima,panfrost,kmsro -Dlibunwind=false -Dprefix=/usr ninja install I never have luck with the H6. Used PineH64 with Armbian_20.08.2_Pineh64-b_focal_current_5.8.6_desktop.img
installPanfrost.sh

You dont have to. I have the same "conflict" in my system but it does not even matter.
I even think there is an issue with the oibaf repositiory and the libs from their packages are being installed in the wrong place.
See my post above where you can find libs in /usr/lib as well as /usr/local/lib
I did glmark2 twice. In between I built the latest mesa from scratch and had a different version string which matched the latest commit. Therefore I assume the oibaf libs are (partially at least) not being used.
 
tl;dr:
apt build-dep mesa
Grab sources
Compile like described here: https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/building-panfrost-mesa.html
Restart X
Done.

We added acronyms to the forums. Commonly used abbreviation like SoC are now marked and their meaning can be highlighted by simply moving the cursor over it.
If you do have ideas for missing acronyms feel free to comment here:
 

allwinner h6 tv boxes usually do not have a voltage regulator for the cpu voltage and thus always run at full voltage even if the frequency is scaled down, so throttling is very inefficient here - in my experience they close to always need active cooling to deal with any serious load for a longer time at full cpu frequency ... i only have one board where i replaced the original heat sink with a much larger one and added fresh high quality thermal paste between it and the soc and that one can run without a fan if not in a case (i.e. good air flow) ... s905x3 is much cooler as its cores are done in a 12nm process vs. the 28nm process of the h6

Thankyou for the time you take to clarify explanations.  
 
You know, @NicoD, I think a great article/video for you would be to explain the difference between the versions of debian/ubuntu (buster, bionic, jessie, etc.), and the different versions of the kernel. What is legacy vs mainline? What does it mean when one has support and the other doesn't? (can't you just copy it over).  Why are these features, like hardware acceleration, so difficult to make work?  I would write it if I understood it, but I don't. And as you can see in this thread, smart guys like all of you don't even understand what we don't understand.  I can tell you that my methodology is to wait until someone posts a useful link and try it, because I have no idea what changing a kernel in armbian config even does, and what it would effect.  I wouldn't say it's like "explain it for the dumb people."  Because I personally wrote a book on remote web publishing in Perl for John Wiley in 1996, and gave away working software, before anyone even envisioned wordpress.  I'm sure a lot of other people who look stupid here are actually not at all.  You don't know what you don't know, and I have yet to find a good explanation of how these operating systems work now. 
 
I just asked Stephen from Opi if one of his images has hardware acceleration, and he said it did. Yet my experience with his images are that they don't even work.  So if someone did this, it would be great to explain why things work here and they don't work there, and why, if it works on an old kernel, why anyone would want to even use "mainline" where all kinds of nasty things are broken (like not being able to log into my gmail).  
 
Just an idea.  I love @NicoD's approach, even if it is usually not from the perspective of what I use pis for at all.  Two wives and six kids later, I don't have a lot of time for retro-gaming. :) 

Or meanwhile better 20.04 (Focal)
You may run into some unsatisfying QEMU messages when building particular images with Bionic. Still supported though but might break someday. At the latest when it becomes EOL in three years
 
 
 

With the Armbian build script.
https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/
 
You'll need Ubuntu 18.04 for this in your vm.
 
Please do not put duplicate messages in the forum.

Over at https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=165    7 inch capacitive touch screen LCD 800x1280 (HD702)  $ 30.- plus shipping (around $ 9.-), instead of $ 65.-
Check Matrix for supported devices.
 

20200831-dev kernel 5.9.0-rc3

N2+ or Khadas VIM3. They're the only ones that have more performance than this SoC.

I've got the NanoPC T3+ with this SoC. Single core performance isn't great. But multi-core it is amazing. Faster than the RK3399.
Here some old benchmarks. For you the CPUMiner scores are important.
 
64-bit SBC's Odroid N2+ Clock S/C | B/C | Blender | 7z S/C | 7Z B/C | CPUMiner Ubuntu Bionic 4.9 2.02Ghz 2.40Ghz 11m20s 1755 2504 14 Khadas VIM3 |SBC bench result |CPU Miner |7-zip s/c A53 |7-zip b/c A73 |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender Ubuntu 18.04.02 http://ix.io/1MFD 13.10kH/s 1577 2311 10578 42m51s Armbian@1.9S.C./1.7B.C. http://ix.io/1NRJ Odroid N2 |SBC bench result |CPU Miner |7-zip s/c A53 |7-zip b/c A73 |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender Ubuntu Bionic http://ix.io/1Brv 11.35kH/s 1564 1879 9988 50m28s NanoPC T3+ |SBC bench result |CPU Miner |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender Armbian Bionic http://ix.io/1iRJ 10.99kH/s 1290 10254 1h10m25s Arbmian Stretch http://ix.io/1qiF 8.55kH/s 1275 10149 1h13m55s Rock Pi 4B |SBC bench result |CPU Miner |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender Ubuntu http://ix.io/1uVr 9.50kH/s 1242 1818 7802 1h17m22s NanoPi M4 |SBC bench result |CPU Miner |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender Armbian bionic hz1000 http://ix.io/1nLh 10.23kH/s 1335 2005 8352 1h13m50s CONFIG_HZ=250 http://ix.io/1BLW 10.45kH/s 1335 2007 8320 1h08m28s Armbionic@1.4/1.8 hz250 1253 1828 7821 1h12m52s Armbian bionic nightly http://ix.io/1pDo 10.24kH/s 1329 1990 8292 1h13m28s Armbian stretch desktop http://ix.io/1odF 8.66kH/s 1350 1977 8400 1h14m12s Armbian stretch dsk nightly //ix.io/1pM0 8.80kH/s 1359 1993 8500 1h15m04s Armbian stretch core no fan //ix.io/1pKU 8.80-8.65kH/s 1353 1989 8461 Armbian stretch core //ix.io/1pL9 8.76kH/s 1354 1988 8456 Armbian stretch core nightly //ix.io/1pLf 8.82kH/s 1357 1994 8494 Lubuntu Bionic arm64 http://ix.io/1oGJ 9.24kH/s CPU Miner 1056 1551 6943 1h28m13s Lubuntu Bionic armhf http://ix.io/1pJ1 1111 1769 7705 2h02m54s Lubuntu Xenial armhf http://ix.io/1oCb 989 1507 6339 2h20m51s Khadas Vim2 Max |SBC bench result |CPU Miner |7-zip s/c |7-zip b/c |7-zip multi avg. of 3 |Blender Ubuntu Xenial http://ix.io/1qkA 6.86kH/s 823 1134 6682 1h14m39s 7-zip only 600% of 800% used It would be hard to make enough money to repay the devices, and power.
The Odroid N2+ is one of the most energy efficient SBCs around. When maxed out on CPUs it only consumes 6W. Most others need double of that for half the performance.

These days mining isn't done on computer hardware but on specialized hardware. So with a few SBCs you can't compete with these ASICs.
But if you use solar power then you've got the big advantage that you don't need to pay for energy costs. What's the biggest cost for ASICs. If you really want to do this, then do your research well. Else it's a probable moneypit. But at least you can enjoy the SBCs.
Greetings.