NicoD

Hi!! I have a radxa rockpi4 and I cant replace the kernel that comes on it (4.4? dont remember). its from the official radxa page because the two versions here didnt boot at all (red lights).
 
My main goal its to test panfrost. I am not familiar with armbian at all. I've tried utilising the defconf from radxa  (https://github.com/radxa/kernel) with
 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost/linux  fork and mainline from torvalds and none of them boot when replace the Image, the dtb (and change it on armbianenv.txt) , install the modules ande the firmware... 
 
first. how i could follow the boot process...see the console output like on raspbian?? because I am blind here.
 
thanks on advance
 
 

I haven't looked too deeply into the compatibility/resource footprint, but for some HMI environments I like tiling managers https://awesomewm.org/

If you don't like autologin in Armbian Ubuntu desktop, or if yo want to have several desktops to choose, here is how I did this.
Tested on legacy image, but I belive that same setup should work on mainline too.
 
1. Install ubuntu desktop image on MMC (I did it using Etcher)
2. Install display manager. Because of simplicity, I choose LXDM.
   sudo apt-get install lxdm
   
3. Set default session and disable nodm
   Edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
   Find line:
     session=/usr/bin/startlxde
   Replace it with:
     session=/usr/bin/startxfce4
     
   Fix for XFCE session entry from LXDM session menu:
     Open the /usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop file with a text editor.
     Find the name value and replace the space with a dash or hyphen.
     
   Disable nodm:
     sudo systemctl disable nodm
 
4. Reboot.
   
Now you should have login screen, and after login you should have XFCE4 desktop running.
 
Optionally, you can install more desktops:
 
MATE
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras indicator-application atril desktop-base engrampa mate-applets mate-media mate-notification-daemon mate-power-manager mate-screensaver mate-system-monitor mate-themes caja-gksu caja-image-converter caja-open-terminal caja-sendto caja-share caja-wallpaper dconf-editor mate-gnome-main-menu-applet mate-netspeed mate-sensors-applet mate-user-share
 
LXDE
apt-get install lxde lxde-common lxsession lxsession-logout lxlauncher
 
If you did all of this, you can choose to login in XFCE4, Mate, LXDE or OpenBox desktop.
Best regards! 
 

@JMCC The video is ready.
I don't think it will get too many views. But it can help other frustrated users
Thanks for the help.
 

Oh, I'm sorry.
Is there any reason why you would want another A20 board? It's an old SoC. Support for it is going to dwindle.
If you'd like to stay with Allwinner then an H3/H5/H6 board would have a lot longer lifetime/support.
I believe you want SATA. I don't know that many boards with sata on-board. The Orange Pi +2 has an H3 and SATA and is supported.
You could also go for an SBC with USB3 and connect your drivers over USB3-SATA. Then an H6 might be good. I like the Pine H64 model B the most. But it's still in development fase.
The RK3399's are more expensive, but bring a lot more connectivity. The NanoPi M4 for example has PCIe over GPIO's what can fit a 4 x SATA hat. It's hot 2 USB3 controllers for each 2 ports.

All I can find that's supported in Armbian with the A20 + SATA is the Olimex Lime 2 and the Cubietruck. I do not know those boards or board makers. Maybe someone else knows more about A20 boards.

Thanks, that's basically what I'm trying to achieve. I've downloaded the pre-made OMV 4 cubietruck image. It boot, usb and hdmi works. Will try others.
 
 
That's interesting but the price, 2GB RAM + SATA + BOARD is 90$ - to expensive and if try putting 4 drives which are not 2.5" that doesn't make sense at all compared to an generic x86 mobo. I've moved all of my sata drives to 2 servers (since I already have all of the components), they give more place to play around and you can host VMs. I have now 3 alwinner boards. Orange PI PC + PI ONE + PCDuino 3 Nano. The ONE is used as pi-hole and will be used as vpn gateway probably. Still makes room for the other two boards to run something less resource intensive.  =)

Hi all.
I've made a new review video about the Odroid N2.
It an amzaing beast of an SBC. But it ain't perfect for everyone.
Geetings, NicoD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylc0GjeyM8

@balbes150 Tanks for the great image.
 

@NicoD
Thanks. I have watched quite a few of your reviews. I think you should do a video on "Best boards in entry level, mid and high budget". Will help new comers a lot I feel

Just try with the default options: click "Accept", "Yes" or "OK" every time, and let it run.

The website has added images of the Server Disco
 
By the way, all the latest images for N2 now have support for direct launch from USB.

I use VM to run Windows. I don't use any native Windows since more than 12 years, I think my first VM was Windows 2000, I have a backup of that VM somewhere ...

Hi. I've only had that powering with barrel jack. With microUSB it's as stable as could be. It's the world in reverse.
I expected the cables from OPi to not be good enough. I've got 2 and both are like that. I don't know.
I havent tried with a PSU with barrel jack. Don't know if I've got one.
I've showed this behaviour in my review video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SIpXTOb9A&t=492s
 

I made several test builds and tests installs on Debian Buster and IMHO it is ready for user level/extended testing. Most interesting for us is that our modifications and things defined in armbian-config remain working. Most of them will, but some will fail ... I did install a desktop over Buster, it works, but haven't done many tests, hostapd works (but it throws out some errors that need to be examined, ...)

Ubuntu Disco is in a similar state. CLI works, desktop upgrade works, ...

How to extend this testing? Shell all nightly images only be Buster/Disco, most popular boards gets a CLI test version? Exotic ones? "Chosen" ones? Shell we unlock building but leave a mark "WIP" or something?

The connector is a mini-spox connector, I'd say I'd make you one, but I think shipping would be an issue. ;-)

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Hi all.
I've made a new video about x11vnc. With this you can control your Linux desktop from any other PC/SBC.
It even works for videos and games. Only there's no sound.
I use lightdm as display manager. If you use another display manager, change the line "After=lightdm.service" with your display manager.

Here's my video,
 
To Install
sudo apt install x11vnc To create a password file
 
x11vnc -storepasswd The service script : /lib/systemd/system/x11vnc.service
[Unit] Description="x11vnc" Requires=display-manager.service After=lightdm.service [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -auth guess -loop -forever -safer -shared -ultrafilexfer -bg -o /var/log/x11vnc.log ExecStop=/usr/bin/killall x11vnc [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Enable the service script
 
sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable x11vnc sudo systemctl start x11vnc  
greetings. NicoD

I noticed problems with zram but then it would need to wait few more days. It is strange why zram doesn't work oob while it does work on other boards by using the same build system. I checked kernel config, which seems fine and I will check and try to fix this next time, perhaps someone else will. It will be good to add a mainline kernel, no matter how good or bad support is there.
 
Advertisement + change log is WIP. Many more things has been changed/improved.
 
... but family duties cut them short  I hope to catch this up tomorrow.

5.1.y images are out, but untested.
https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi3/nightly/

Good!
https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/2bd7f8efbd165e9e3a0db1cfb9d18dad1432cc4d

Download: https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/

Cool.  2 different people reached out to HardKernel about a board for me, so I have one coming.

Official build is coming later on http://ix.io/1Ivj

Added test images 5.84 to the server with the Buster and Disco.
 
 
For vim1 VIM2 x96max Vega s95 etc models, there is remote support in all 5.84 images.

Thanks to @NicoD my sound problems are fixed, still have issues with bluetooth but that is for next weekend!

Hats off to Amazon I told them the board had died ( via their online chat ) and they refunded me in full and presumably dealt with the seller

Drivers are in development but it won't be fast.
 
 

I prepared (last weekend? - don't remember anymore) a first step towards a merge of rk3399 (currently nanopi boards) with rockchip64 (more or less all the rest) so that both can be covered fully under one boardfamily (rockchip64). Patches are adjusted and dts support for nanopis in ayufans kernel is done as well.
 
https://github.com/chwe17/build/tree/rk3399merge
 
I would happily give it into 'someone others' hands cause time in the next month might be really rare.
 
Basically it needs testing on the boards which got newly merged into rockchip64 (don't own any nanopi *4 board so I can't test it). And probably a small helper script to adjust the 'living' boards config so that they'll get updates in the future from their new boardfamily (this might be tricky and needs for sure a lot of testing, to ensure we don't break them)
 
Would be nice if someone can review it and test it on the nanopis