NicoD

@NicoD Hello, no bothering at all, I'm happy to help!
 
That pull request adds the libreelec patches to rockchip64 branch that provide several fixes and multimedia enhancements to mainline kernel so it is possible to use an "almost" mainline ffmpeg/gstreamer for h.264/hevc/vp8/vp9 hardware decoding, DRM fixes, support for 10-bit HDR videos, more DRM planes, etc... etc...
 
There was an old thread where I provided a ready-to-go mpv executable with hardware acceleration on mainline kernel, but should be rebuilt for recent distros since it is quite old now. It could be a nice idea to try mainline kernel with wayland based desktop environment.
 
I may build an Opi800 image with kernel 5.19 from that branch, maybe with a fully-fledged KDE, rebuild ffmpeg/mpv and give instructions for a cutting edge test if you think it is reasonable

LE OPiRK3399 version =! LE OPi-800   
but there is no LAN yet and you need to manually add firmware and module settings to enable WiFi (USB WiFi should work), I hope to release LE next week with the correction of these bugs.

Where did you find that image? Try buster server 5.10
Should work. Haven't tried in a long time.
 

This was Linux 5.18.5-media and there was no wifi at all here. It was Sid I tried.
The problem is that sometimes HDMI audio isn't there to choose from. Doesn't happen that often. But sometimes it's not there and I have to reboot to have hdmi-audio back. It might be because I'm using a Elgato 4K60 HDMI capture box. I do have issue's with that thing not always working.
 
Thank you, I'll test a more recent Ubuntu with 5.18. The Sid I tested was the oldest I could find. So there might be the problem. I tried Sid because I had seen great improvements in supertuxkart on BPiM5 with Bullseye. Didn't see that on Sid here.
I will test it again, and also test on my old pentium to see if it's normal there. I didn't try having only VGA running.
 
I will wait for those before making the video. Now my 5.19.16 Jammy xfce4 image is almost perfect. Everything is running that I want to run. Only the HDMI audio that isn't always there. But that's a minor issue.
I'll also try to build a Buster image from your build script to see if I can use the Media Framework on it. I do miss the perfect video playback on it.
Thank you for the input. Helps a lot. I'll wait at least a day before making the video. Normally I was gonna make it today. Cheers.

Check the version with kernel 5.18.
 
If you configure which device to use by default (for example, through the Volume Control plug-in), I have not seen any problems with switching audio and output to HDMI on all cores.
 
Have you checked all the images since 5.18 ? There is a difference in them. And it's better to use Ubuntu for tests.
 
I didn't see any problems with the VGA color. Have you tried running with VGA only ?
 
The new 6.0.6 images (with Wi-Fi) are still in the build process and will be available on the site only tomorrow.
 

@F3x
Power consumption radxa zero
wifi on + cpu idle          : 0.3A
wifi on + cpu maxed out     : 0.6A

OPi800(RK3399
idle        0.55A @ 5.25V
Maxed out   1.55A @ 5.2V

Khadas Edge2(RK3588S)
Idle              12V 0.18A   2.16W
Maxed out         12V 0.65A   7.8W

Banana Pi M5 (S905x3)
hdmi + wifi + keyboard - Idle                        0.45A (0.08A for wifi)
hdmi + wifi + keyboard - maxed out                   0.75A
no hdmi no wifi no keyboard - idle                   0.2A
no hdmi no wifi no keyboard - maxed out              0.63A

RPi400
No wifi/on-board sd-card reader idle               0.45A
Wifi-on-board sd-card reader idle 2Ghz ov 6        0.5A
Wifi-on-board sd-card reader maxed out 2Ghz ov 6   1.3A
Wifi-USB3SD idle 2Ghz ov 6                         0.75A-0.9A
Wifi-USB3SD idle 1.8Ghz                            0.75A-0.9A
Wifi-on-board sd-card reader idle 1.8Ghz           0.5A
Wifi-on-board sd-card reader maxed out 1.8Ghz      1.1A
Wifi-USB3SD maxed out 1.8Ghz                       1.3A

Khadas VIM4 (A311D2)
Idle             3W
Maxed out       7.5W (with fan)

If you want any more. See my review videos. https://www.youtube.com/c/NicoDsSBCs/videos

Hi. The kernel itself works well with all functions on RK3399 (has patches from LE). For the 1920x1080 video mode, 3399 features are quite enough for full-screen video in Armbian. For full-screen 4k video playback on Armbian there is not enough ffmpeg\HW decoder, but for such modes (4k video), I prefer to use a specialized distribution - LibreELEC, which works great for these purposes.
 
If  build the latest versions of ffmpeg\mpv\kodi using patches from LE, all HW 4k functions will work in Armbian. I remember that @JMCC was building a test version of these components using the 5.10 kernel and everything worked fine.
 
VGA does not work on it yet. All functions work on the first version of images with the 5.18.5 kernel (in fact, this is the "legacy" kernel from OPI)
 
 

In celebration of Armbian's new Partnership program, we would like to welcome SinoVoip as Armbians first Platinum Partner!
 
To celebrate our partnership, SinoVoip and Armbian are coming together to giveaway of two single board computers!  A Banana Pi M5 and an BananaPi M2 Pro will be raffled off!
 
 
We will have a giveaway for the Banana Pi M5 open to everyone!  To enter you need to sign-up  to the Armbian Forum and wait one day (24 hours) to pass the bot check and then you can enter the contest!
 
Banana Pi M5

 
 
For our community members we will be giving away the Banana Pi M2 Pro, to enter the raffle all you have to do is have been a Armbian forum member for the last 30 day and go to the link and enter!
 
Banana Pi M2 PRO

 
These giveaways will run for the next 30 days with the contests ending on November 20th, 2022 where we will pull one winner from each contest!
 
Get your free raffle ticket and enter to win today!
 
*Prizes will be fulfilled and sent directly by SinoVoip once a winner is chosen and their address received. Be sure you are able to receive parcels from China. Armbian and SinoVoip will not  be responsible for any customs  duties or additional fees associated with delivery or import of  the prize.
 
Also, check out @NicoDnew YouTube video on the Banana Pi M5:
 
 

https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge/blob/master/articles/Quick_Preview_of_ROCK_5B.md#important-insights-and-suggested-optimisations
 
BTW: The device is called Rock 5B as such congratulations on the subforum name...

Many of us are using Armbian not just on ARM single board computers but also on servers (bare metal & virtual). We use our builds since we trust it more then Debian, Ubuntu, not to mention other distributions that are recklessly updating and one ends up as an OS tester and not OS user. Personally I use Armbian Jammy on Ryzen 9 workstation with great success. My primary use case is development / productivity. For the road I used to have 13" Dell notebook which recently suddenly died. It was out of warranty so I had to get something new. After some testings of various devices I settled with 12th Gen Intel i5-1240P powered Lenovo. Then I tried many general purpose distros to see how well they work and all had some (minor) troubles ... 

We are having UEFI images (common image) since some time, but UEFI nor desktops were fine tuned nor ready for such performance daily driver desktop usage. We were close, but not close enough to just run it. Past two weeks we have been lifting general UEFI support, fixed many bugs and what came out is "Armbian ultimate developers desktop build".
 

 
- improved support in GRUB (armbian wallpaper) & HiDPI GRUB support
- all preinstalled applications are normal apt packages
- current 5.15.y kernel, Jammy userland (5.19.y has some strange issues)
- snapd is not installed (user can install it)
- HiDPI support (automated adjustments on big screen resolutions)
- NVIDIA graphics acceleration with proprietary driver (x86 only)
- Intel graphics acceleration also works out of the box
- preinstalled Google Chrome (x86 only)
- preinstalled Microsoft Visual Studio Code (x86 only)
- ZFS 2.1.5 ready (apt install zfsutils-linux zfs-dkms)
- face unlock works perfectly fine on this laptop
- installation to SSD drive to dual boot with Windows 10/11 is supported Armbian classical way by transferring actual live image to the prepared partition via nand-sata-install. All you need to do is prepare spare space on your drive, Windows 10/11 or Linux, UEFI support (most if not all hardware for past 10 years has it).
 
I have tweaked images (XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon) a bit to my personal needs, but making changes is welcome.
 
Nice to have: disk encryption within nand-sata-install, small bug fixing, additional DEs. Currently we have CLI, XFCE, Gnome and Cinnamon. Others are too buggy.
 
https://www.armbian.com/uefi-x86/
https://www.armbian.com/uefi-arm64/
 
Please report where it works and how (well)!

https://www.inovato.com/article/building-armbian

Your information is already outdated .
Now there is a fully finished device that can be used as a full-fledged replacement for PC. Firefly Station M3 (rk3588s). This is a fully finished and ready-to-use device, you do not need to assemble anything manually, as from a designer. Today I tested it with Armbian to play fullscreen video. In 1080p mode - everything works without problems, including youtube. Details are in the topic about Station M3 on the forum.
 
DE works even in 4K mode quickly (especially if used as NVMe or SATA media, which are supported in M3)
 
 
ps I would not advise contacting any AML-based models.
 
 

Here all other Armbian related videos.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

And lots of review videos on my channel. So subscribe if you're interested.
Greetings, NicoD

https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/sources/families/include/meson64_common.inc#L20
This is the default for Meson64.  No one added the actual top speeds for the Vims apparently
 
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/sources/families/meson-g12a.conf#L5
 
is the override for the Meson G12A.  G12B needs something similar in here: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/sources/families/meson-g12b.conf

In this video I show how to use armbian-gaming.
 

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.
 

Hi all.

Werner has made a video where he presents himself and talks about how he got into using Linux, SBCs and Armbian.
A very interesting video.
 

This is a serie of video's. Igor and Lanefu also have made a video like that.
You can find the other video's here.
https://www.armbian.com/authors/

If you're willing to make a video like this. I am willing to edit and help out.
Greetings, NicoD

Hi all.

Werner has made a video where he presents himself and talks about how he got into using Linux, SBCs and Armbian.
A very interesting video.
 

This is a serie of video's. Igor and Lanefu also have made a video like that.
You can find the other video's here.
https://www.armbian.com/authors/

If you're willing to make a video like this. I am willing to edit and help out.
Greetings, NicoD

Hi all.

Werner has made a video where he presents himself and talks about how he got into using Linux, SBCs and Armbian.
A very interesting video.
 

This is a serie of video's. Igor and Lanefu also have made a video like that.
You can find the other video's here.
https://www.armbian.com/authors/

If you're willing to make a video like this. I am willing to edit and help out.
Greetings, NicoD

FriendlyELEC’s family of NanoPi router SBCs and gateways will soon be extended with the NanoPi R5S board equipped with a Rockchip RK3568 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor, and providing three Ethernet ports (2x 2.5Gbps, 1x 1 Gbps), plus support for M.2 NVMe SSD storage. The company has not published any information publicly, but a post on Weibo social network reveals additional details with the single board computer being equipped with 2GB LPDDR4X, 8GB eMMC flash, two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI video output, and more. NanoPi R5S preliminary specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568B2 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ up to 2.0 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 MP2 GPU, 0.8 TOPS AI accelerator (RK3568B2 comes in a “plastic package” instead of the “metal-can type package” found on RK3568, but the features are the same) System Memory – 2GB LPDDR4 Storage 8GB eMMC flash for OS Key M socket for M.2 2280 NVMe SSD support Optional SPI [...]
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Release is not just freezing the code and generating images. Its a time when we pull together stronger, agree and deal with common goals and ideas. Things we are dealing with are complicated. Linux is complex, our framework is getting there too and only together we can deal with all this.
 
I started on freezing the kernel version. There is also some breakage, some related to our patches, some not. But since we have to freeze it sooner or later, perhaps now its the right time.
 
This brings a few good things at once:
temporally release people that are working close with maintaining kernel code @going@jock@balbes150@amazingfate myself ... this can bring more resources on trying to match with / merge armbian-next. @rpardiniworked for moths on this. Lets review the code and help sorting out bugs. Again. IMHO it is possible to merge, but if code remain unstable by the code freeze date (2022-05-14), we are merging after new images are generated. asking @Contributor/Maintainer board maintainers to engage in images building and testing (currently still from master branch) and bug reporting as earlier as possible (once PR 3736 gets merged) reproducible build framework in release branch. Which is most important long term consequence. Additionally, we would like to finish u-boot upgrade on Rockchip and release major forum refactoring @TonyMac32 @piter75 @balbes150
 
Happy Workers' Day!

Here my review video of the Tanix TX6 TV-Box. I show Android and how to install Armbian onto it.
Greetings,
NicoD

Hi all.
I made a new video where I explain all the basics of working with Armbian xfce4.
This for the absolute beginners that come from Windows. But a more advanced user can maybe also learn a few things from it.
Here is the video.
Greetings,
NicoD

I wasn't sure where to put this...but this thread seemed closest. Armbian wallpaper / artwork rendered in Blender 3.1 with procedural text and materials.
 

Hi all.
I made a new video where I explain all the basics of working with Armbian xfce4.
This for the absolute beginners that come from Windows. But a more advanced user can maybe also learn a few things from it.
Here is the video.
Greetings,
NicoD