NicoD

You do have a way to power your HDD do you? Or is it an SSD?
A sata adapter only powers 2.5" devices. If it's 3.5" HDD then you need 12V. 
I would advice not to boot from HDD. If something goes wrong with the image on an sd-card then you just replace the sd-card without loosing anything from the HDD. 
Do use a good sd-card. Hard drives also aren't super fast, so no real speed benifit in using that. 
 

@MinhIt is not GPU hw acc but VPU you need.
Are you using the @amazingfate multimedia ppa?
 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa #Panfork GPU ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia #Multimedia ppa for VPU acceleration sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install mali-g610-firmware rockchip-multimedia-config I suspect you might need gstreamer. That's included. My knowledge ain't great in these things, so maybe amazingfate or someone else can add to it.

GPU drivers have nothing to do with Armbian. Armbian can only show how to use them. We are not driver developers.
It is expected that the blob Rockchip driver runs way better than the open-source panfrost/panfork drivers. Panfrost might improve in time. N2/N2+/VIM3 at first also performed worse than RK3399 but after time it now outperforms RK3399 by a lot.
Both drivers are very useful to me.
You can use the blob by running in x11 and run your program with "malirun programname"
Not everything will work, but for example PS2 emulation works perfect like that.

Video playback has nothing to do with GPU drivers but VPU drivers. For that there is the multimedia ppa from AmazingFate. 

@BasThere are user built images from @monkaBlyat for the Mekotronics boards.
It has wayland GPU blob + panfork GPU driver + VPU acceleration + box64/86 and wine preïnstalled.
All info and links in the description of this video.
 

GPU drivers have nothing to do with Armbian. Armbian can only show how to use them. We are not driver developers.
It is expected that the blob Rockchip driver runs way better than the open-source panfrost/panfork drivers. Panfrost might improve in time. N2/N2+/VIM3 at first also performed worse than RK3399 but after time it now outperforms RK3399 by a lot.
Both drivers are very useful to me.
You can use the blob by running in x11 and run your program with "malirun programname"
Not everything will work, but for example PS2 emulation works perfect like that.

Video playback has nothing to do with GPU drivers but VPU drivers. For that there is the multimedia ppa from AmazingFate. 

Ok. I'll wait till things are fixed.
I did just test install to NVMe and boot from sd and it indeed didn't work as it should. Couldn't boot into x anymore. Install to eMMC does work. 
I'm already very happy to have this. I can have the same setup on my trip as I've got on my main desktop at home with the Mekotronics mini.
With a 1TB NVMe for movies. That's great
I was really let down by the FE images for it. Seems there's degression. The old R6S image was better than the new R6C Ubuntu. Big thank you!

@NicoD i think you should make a video after we get stable images. Currently something is broken 

Added to Armbian build system https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/fd6a6dec66839b8ceeea22fc3792a9fce1df9fde

Thanks to @Efe Çetin
 
 
Lets keep it in WIP section for awhile until we don't do more testings. I found out armbian-install doesn't work well so this needs to be fixes, perhaps something else ...

Download:

https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r6s/
(unofficial WIP support)

Someone asked in a different thread how I got Dolphin to run so thought I'd start a thread so not to pollute the other one.
Basically it wasn't that hard especially if youve done some git'hubbing before.
 
I think I followed the 'Ubuntu' instructions here.
Make sure you get the dependencies and do all the steps correctly.
It should build without problems if you do.  (remember you have a lot of cores on Opi5 so can use 'make -j6' or even higher)
 
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/wiki/Building-for-Linux
 
 
You then want to set a config flag to make Dolphin use GLES instead of big brother OpenGL.
(you probably want to run it at least once to generate the config files)
 
nano ~/.config/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini
add a line:
PreferGLES = True
 
But when running one of the more common games I got a shader compilation error.
I hacked around that and also reported it on the Dolpin bug report site and it should be fixed soon when the 'PR' gets accepted.
In the meantime you can read here what to do,
 
https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13198#
 
 
Note that in my youtube video I get a good fps but later on in the game when you get to the first village the transparencies in the central square bonfire completely kills fps.
The same happens in Metroid Prime when you have the large bluish holo walls in view.
Mario Kart runs pretty well most of the time. Mario Sunshine as well at least in the plaza area I have't tried further.
 
 
Cheers and Good Luck!
 
 

Interview with @rpardini.
 

Interview with @rpardini.
 

Hi all.
I'm working on a script that can install different Linux gaming tools like Box86, Box64, PPSSPP, ...
For now it can only install box86 and box64. There is also an issue installing wine, so this doesn't work either.
 
https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming
 
Download and unzip and run script : sudo /bin/bash ./armbian-gaming.sh When ready I'll make a video about it and give more info.
 
I've tested it on the PineBookPro with Hirsute.
With the Odroid N2+ you need to activate panfrost, install dependecies for N2+, and then install box86. Tho it didn't work as it should.
If "install box86" gives a build error, try the dependencies for N2+ and try "install box86" again.
 
Please let me know your experiences on other systems.
 

@NicoDVersion 20230219. No manual copying of dtb is needed anymore, all support is included in u-boot, i.e. after writing the image to USB\SD, you can use it immediately. The installation on eMMC has been checked.
 
ps All the necessary changes will automatically get into the official relise version, you can build your own version of the images  

@balbes150I already made the video. I did say in it the sollution for eMMC install is in this thread.
 
 

@balbes150Wifi works.
I'm starting to make the video about your Armbian image on Khadas Edge2. Good work. It's a great experience.

@NicoDVersion 20230211 Armbian for khadas edge2 - added support for HW 3D . The result of gnome3+wayland+arm-blob gave about 3800 parrots. For details on how to install HW and testing, see this topic.
 
 

Alpha version of Armbian for Khades EDGE 2 (rk3588s).
Launch. Download, unpack, burn to USB media (you can use an SD card if there is an additional module with a card reader for an SD card). Connect to any USB port on EDGE 2 and turn on the power. The system starts automatically. It would be interesting to run tests on this version. I pay attention - there is no 3D acceleration yet, general performance tests for the Armbian image are interesting. Wi-Fi is not working yet,  need to use USB-LAN, this will be fixed in future versions.
 
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/QMgdvGqF3jpgJw

You don't have to justify yourself @NicoD, it was just in case this was possible for you. 🤷‍♂️
Maybe I'll bump into someone else involved in Armbian, you never know who one could meet when in FOSDEM. 😉
 

I'd like to go but finances ain't there. Have to save for a cycling trip in a few months, and investing in computer gear for kids.
Tho just going one afternoon is possible. But I've got to sit 2 hours on the train to get in Brussels, and then go from station to the expo, and 2 hours back. So would be a very boring day. And for just being there a few hours I don't feel it's worth it.
If I would go I'd rather stay the night in Brussels on Saturday and leave Sunday evening. And have my recording gear with me to make video's. Next year I can plan it if others promise to go. Enjoy your time in Brussels. I hope the weather will be good.

1. Checking the progress of Armbian-next
 
Video:
https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/vq04OFykxpw7nGp8wJxKME7w8uNf1kMrwHRLldQLTCLJCT-zsZY8KP76aCknhBfN.JyvzRmfR9qulexM2
 
Slides:
https://github.com/rpardini/armbian-build/blob/extensions/README.armbian-next.slides.md#update-feb-1st-armbian-next---general-changes

Armbian Next Jira:
https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1451
 
2. Moving development related topics to GitHub

Summed here:
https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1529
 
3. Questions around upcoming release
 
Today is the code freeze. Actions:
 
notify maintainers and prepare them to be ready on testings in two weeks from now notify developers: their code gets into release log only if exists in Jira. Minimum requirement is Jira issue or Jira story with Name, short description and field "Fix versions" set to 23.02 that code freeze is a milestone when we change our focus into code stabilisation and fixing bugs. It is not expected to drop existing work in progress at once but gradually close it. in the code freeze period, there is additional restriction on code merge: pull requests approval from 1 person to 2 persons  
@Contributor/Maintainer

After two years of taking place exclusively online, FOSDEM 2023 is back in Brussels, Belgium with thousands expected to attend the 2023 version of the “Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting” both onsite and online. FOSDEM 2023 will take place on February 4-5 with 776 speakers, 762 events, and 63 tracks. As usual, I’ve made my own little virtual schedule below mostly with sessions from the Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom, but also other devrooms including “Open Media”, “FOSS Educational Programming Languages devroom”, “RISC-V”, and others. FOSDEM Day 1 – Saturday February 4, 2023 10:30 – 10:55 – GStreamer State of the Union 2023 by Olivier Crête GStreamer is a popular multimedia framework making it possible to create a large variety of applications dealing with audio and video. Since the last FOSDEM, it has received a lot of new features: its RTP & WebRTC stack has greatly improved, Rust [...]
The post FOSDEM 2023 schedule – Open-source Embedded, Mobile, IoT, Arm, RISC-V, etc… projects appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News.
View the full article

That was very infomative.
Can't add much to the discussion. I agree that forum used to be a lot better and more important. Because of the use of Discord, irc, Jira... there is more fragmentation.

We used to use the forum also to chat between devs/users/mederators. Now that is done on discord, irc or github. So the fun is out of the forum.
Nothing of what is said on discord is of value in the future. While what is said on the forum keeps its value and is easy to find.

Github is good for bugreports and discussion on how to go ahead. But it is a developers tool and not for regular users.
Discord is good to chat. It added features we didn't have on the forum like being able to do voice chats or video chat. But it takes away the focus from the forum for many.

I don't check the forum as much as I used to. Only see if there is anything interesting in the notifications. But I miss a lot because I'm not present as much. And what happens on the forum isn't communicated much about on discord.

Maybe a discord/irc room where forum posts can be seen. Just the titles would be enough to sparkle curiosity.

For me there is too much to have to keep up with. I've got my YT channel, reddit, facebook groups, forum, discord, twitter, ...
Quality decreases when too much is going on. Nobody can keep up with it maybe except Igor. (he seems to see it al )

Watched at 1.25x.