NicoD

The answer to @NicoD question. The latest universal images include all the necessary files to enable color correction on g12. Additionally, I downloaded the patch files to run from the SD card and from USB media.
 
https://yadi.sk/d/34zrTk5iEsfqhg

I've included the files to make the color look correct as attachment to this message. Just unpack and copy to the boot partition. 

@balbes150 I couldn't find them in your downloads either. I still had them on an SBC.

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Here my review video about the X96Air. Not my best work. I rushed it a bit too much and forgot to mention many things. Like the boot.ini files to adjust the wrong color. I also couldn't make my PS3 controller to work in Android. I forgot to mention the transfer speeds.... 
X96Air ------ | Clock S/C | B/C | Blender | 7z S/C | 7Z B/C | glxgears | CPUMiner | SBCBench Armbian Buster 1.91Ghz 37m36s 1775 7.1 http://ix.io/2481 Armbian Bionic 1.91Ghz 42m07 1739 6.5 http://ix.io/2490 Temperatures ------------ Idle 55C 86C maxed out after +30 minutes. No throttling. Transfer speeds --------------- Armbian Buster 5.4.1 On-Board sd-card reader read : 20MB/s write : 17MB/s SSD over USB3 read : 378.7MB/s write : 290.7MB/s Armbian Bionic 5.4.1 On-Board sd-card reader read : 23MB/s SSD over USB3 read : 402.8MB/s write : 365.8MB/s  
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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  

This website might be useful in this context: https://linuxjourney.com/

Here my video where I show how to download and install everything. And some gameplay.
Again thank you to @balbes150 for the images.
 

It has gotten a lot easier to use Panfrost now.
Download one of @balbes150 5.x Bionic images for your device. 
The panfrost module is already added, all that needs to be done is installing the mesa drivers. For that I made a script. 
Download the file here in attachment and unpack it. 
Go into the folder Panfrost
 
cd Panfrost sudo ./installPanfrost.sh Install all for best results.

Panfrost has improved a lot on 5.4. Many games now work normally, some still have some smaller problems. It has become usable.
Greetings, NicoD

Edit : Script update. You now can upgrade the mesa and drm drivers after installation
Update 2 : Also Lima support now. 
 
 
 
 
 
installPanfrost.sh

I don't know where to write it, but if there is someone looking for MC1 at discount price, there is a big sale going on.
I took 5 of them to build a h.264 encoding farm.

It has gotten a lot easier to use Panfrost now.
Download one of @balbes150 5.x Bionic images for your device. 
The panfrost module is already added, all that needs to be done is installing the mesa drivers. For that I made a script. 
Download the file here in attachment and unpack it. 
Go into the folder Panfrost
 
cd Panfrost sudo ./installPanfrost.sh Install all for best results.

Panfrost has improved a lot on 5.4. Many games now work normally, some still have some smaller problems. It has become usable.
Greetings, NicoD

Edit : Script update. You now can upgrade the mesa and drm drivers after installation
Update 2 : Also Lima support now. 
 
 
 
 
 
installPanfrost.sh

Here my video where I show how to download and install everything. And some gameplay.
Again thank you to @balbes150 for the images.
 

It remains to add the ffmpeg build script with HW,  and build  MPV and KODI with full-screen video (source code with patches can be taken in LE).  

It has gotten a lot easier to use Panfrost now.
Download one of @balbes150 5.x Bionic images for your device. 
The panfrost module is already added, all that needs to be done is installing the mesa drivers. For that I made a script. 
Download the file here in attachment and unpack it. 
Go into the folder Panfrost
 
cd Panfrost sudo ./installPanfrost.sh Install all for best results.

Panfrost has improved a lot on 5.4. Many games now work normally, some still have some smaller problems. It has become usable.
Greetings, NicoD

Edit : Script update. You now can upgrade the mesa and drm drivers after installation
Update 2 : Also Lima support now. 
 
 
 
 
 
installPanfrost.sh

Here the script for it. Should work on a clean Bionic build with panfrost module.
I've included meson since there were issues with newer versions, but we needed a newer one than default in the repo. 

I haven't tried it myself. I just build everything and wrote the script in between. So please let me know if anyone finds a problem somewhere.
Unpack on clean Bionic 5.x 
 
 
cd Panfrost sudo ./installPanfrost.sh  
Edit : Script has been tested. There was a mistake that I repaired and reuploaded the file. This should work now.
Panfrost.tar.gz

LIMA and Panfrost are included as modules in all kernel 5 images.
If you're going to experiment, you need a mesa-20 , there's a lot of add-ons out there

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

Good news. Managed to find a way to work around the color issue on G12 platform + kernel =>5.4  with corrupted AML u-boot. You need to download and copy all the files from this directory to the media. New versions 20191208 already have some of the necessary files, you only need to add one  file u-boot.ext
 
Additional file download and copying (u-boot.ext) only need if your device screen color is not correct.
 
https://yadi.sk/d/MC2brPBu5bmW2Q

You can "thank" AML for this.

They broke the u-boot. They put a bunch of crap in it that works exclusively with their old and crappy 4.9 core. For the color to work correctly with the 5.4 kernel, you either need the old u-boot-2015 (from the firmware, before AML broke it) or use u-boot-2019 (removing u-boot-2015 completely).
 
 
Offtopic. The behavior of AML lately has been increasingly frustrating for me. They do not pay any attention to the development of support for their chips in the main core (this work is done by third-party developers). Instead of helping, their new patches create a bunch of problems for the main kernel. I am waiting for the release of new Rockchip chips (or other platform options other than AML), and I hope to completely switch to using them for my development (minimizing support for AML, limiting myself to the chip models I already have).

If you give me two extra hours in a day (that would have me was not 24 hours and 26, and better 30 hours in a day), I will be able to spend their on waging detailed descriptions all changes and anything.

thanks for the video, very informative.  I also didn't know there was a working LE image, very happy to have this as well.

I got mine few days ago, but "time still the missing ingredient" ...
Maybe I will take a look later when I get change...

A lot of credit goes also to you
Once again thanks for testing the images since the beginning.
 
As for the slow boot it plaques now all rk3399 boards.
I am tempted to bring the following hack to Armbian: https://gitlab.collabora.com/rockpi/linux/commit/ea2fb5589b4cd92728a6139ee5043945d3e10173
I am using it for weeks now in my builds and don't regret it ;-)

Great job, @piter75!
 
"current" buster desktop works well for me. The debug ttl console too.
Performance are much better than default friendlyelec 4.4.y kernel's ones, although not overall better than those of the ddr3 version 1 nanopi m4 (see https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/10/28/nanopi-m4v2-kit-review-part-2-friendlycore-desktop/):
Memory performance (big.LITTLE cores measured individually):
memcpy: 1880.5 MB/s (0.6%)
memset: 8430.7 MB/s (0.6%)
memcpy: 3729.4 MB/s
memset: 8492.3 MB/s (1.0%)
Complete sbc-bech results here: http://ix.io/23eC
 
Both sd card read and write speeds are good: 70MB/s with a sandisk 32GB extreme pro card
 
Stability also looks good, but requires more time to be tested.
As soon I'll be able to run some panfrost benchmarks, I'll update. By the way, desktop experience is smooth and stable and sound works too, but lack of acceleration is limiting when watching videos, although the 5.4 kernel improved speed over the 4.4.y is evident.
 
The only "small" issue I have found so far, is that boot is a bit slow. And for about 30 seconds I do not see any activity, neither on the serial console, nor on hdmi. Perhaps because of  "printk: bootconsole [uart8250] disabled" ?
 
I'm going to do some usb storage tests, before considering this board ready for replacing the raspberry pi4 I use at the moment as my home nextcloud server.

add new image 20191130 kernel 5.4 (Buster and Bionic)

If necessary, I can share links to source and working images where HW runs on RK33xx (LIMA and Panfrost) with kernel 5.

Let's see if I get a chance to look at it. Thanks!