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I don't know about the Kernel, but it is still: Linux LeGuitar 3.10.37 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 16 14:33:53 CST 2016 Until now, there was the issue that you only get 1024x600 resolution. I have tested this on my Plasma TV (HDMI-HDMI): xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080 default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1920x1080 0.00* The letters are not nice on the screen and changes in the settings of TV or OpenBox made no changes. I don't know whether this is because a TV is never as good as a Monitor for PC ? Although Peter wrote that, I gave it a try HDMI-DVI cable 19" Monitor with 1280x1024 = blank screen This is sad, I guess many tinkerer have an old Monitor on their desk for things like the Guitar. I hope they fix this soon. If I do xrandr on my Linux PC, that looks much better :-) Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384 DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm 1920x1200 60.0*+ 1920x1080 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1600x1200 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Hi there, i just wanted to report my experience with Igor Pecovnik's debian 4.1.2 image - especially since he says that I2C is untested with Kernel 4.0 and above. I have a PCTV DVB-C/T2 USB Stick (Triplestick 292e) and could make it work with my Cubietruck. I had to use Igor's compile script from the project website in my ubuntu virtual machine on Windows 7 to get the kernel sources and compile the kernel with the required options (the offered SD-Card image lacks support for I2C Multiplexing). To use this stick, you have to compile the kernel with I2C Multiplexing built in, and build the i2c mux modules for the chipset (I compiled all i2c_mux drivers as modules since i didn't figure out which was the right one). The USB Stick has a multiplexer to change between the DVB-C and DVB-T2 receiver. After that I checked the DVB-frontends and chipset driver to compile as modules (especially si2168, en28xx, si2157) and now the stick works just fine. So I can confirm that the 4.1.2 kernel from Igor's project website has working I2C and I2C Multiplexing support if you compile your own kernel. All you have to do additionally after building the SD-Card image (all included in the compile script) is get the firmware for the stick (see https://tvheadend.org/boards/4/topics/13782). I use tvheadend as digital video recorder on the cubietruck, with XBMC / KODI Media Center on Windows PCs and android smartphones for programming and watching. Next steps are SMB server for backups on 3.5" S-ATA harddrive (with Cubietruck 3.5" addon board) and whatever comes into my mind I had a lot of trouble getting this TV stick to work on ARM since the old kernels (3.4.x) seem to have no option for i2c multiplexing or the chipset (at least i couldn't find it, but i'm not too familliar with linux kernel stuff), and i found a lot of forums where ppl have the same problems, so i thought this info might be useful for someone. And thanks a lot to Igor Pecovnik for the debian images and the scripts on his project website http://www.igorpecovnik.com/2013/12/24/cubietruck-debian-wheezy-sd-card-image/ Regards Markus

Allwinner video HW decoding on A10/A20 using VDPAU and GLES zero-copy support for Linux There is (unofficial) support available for video HW decoding and embedding the video zero-copy via GLES within Kodi using libvdpau-sunxi and VDPAU, i.e. unlike the kodi support from rella/empatzero/others the GLES layering (video overlays) do work completely in this implementation. Additionally my driver implementation supports DivX/XVID/MS-MPEG and has sprite support for MPEG-4 over the official libvdpau-sunxi implementation. Additionally there is HW JPEG decoding support available in Kodi too, e.g. watching photos these get decoded via the Allwinner HW. (unluckily pic thumbnails are still done via software, since HW JPEG encoding is not supported yet) There are some precoditions/"what-you-should-know" for this stream: it is still a POC although it works quite well (for me) this implementation is intended for a set-top box, i.e. it uses only the framebuffer and not X. But can probably be improved to support X and Kodi within a window as well. Mali OpenGL driver is used in version Linux-r3p0-04rel0 it has quite a lot of dependencies and requirements to/from other software it needs to be compiled by each and someone else who wants to use it, due to all of of dependencies It has been tested on Allwinner A10/A20 only (A20 has still a little problem of tearing when playing videos) The dependencies are: Sunxi-kernel kernel extension for the UMP module (add CMA support) https://github.com/mosterta/linux-sunxi/tree/ump_sunxi-3.4-it needs an updated libUMP since some extensions are necessary: https://github.com/mosterta/libump it needs a special version of libvdpau (due to extension for DivX/XVID/MPEG4 sprite support) https://github.com/mosterta/libvdpau it needs a special version of libvdpau-sunxi (due to using UMP + support for more video formats) https://github.com/mosterta/libvdpau-sunxi it needs my version of kodi sources, still based on Kodi 14.2 (Helix) https://github.com/mosterta/xbmc/tree/helix_allwinner_gles_support for HW JPEG support in Kodi, which is optionally (it requires a compiled and installed libvdpau-sunxi): https://github.com/mosterta/libcedarjpeg it needs a patched version of ffmpeg, the patch gets applied during kodi build. Kernel build: unfortunately there are different streams of the kernel depending on the board (e.g. bananapi/lemaker have their own stream). Therefore you need to apply these hashes/patches if you don't use my sunxi-3.4 kernel: https://github.com/mosterta/linux-sunxi/commit/563e0154269acffaa36ec3b678e4b35cbf7ee1c0 https://github.com/mosterta/linux-sunxi/commit/67de2b9320eeb1fe205d29a49742919c1613da68 Additionlly in the kernel .config file the following options need to be set: ---------------------------------- CONFIG_CMA=y # CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG is not set # # Default contiguous memory area size: # CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES=192 CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_SEL_MBYTES=y # CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_SEL_PERCENTAGE is not set # CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_SEL_MIN is not set # CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_SEL_MAX is not set CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT=8 CONFIG_CMA_AREAS=7 ------------------------------------ CMA size can be reduced, but it does not really hurt, since the memory is only allocated when required. libump build: this is straight forward configure; make;make install libvdpau build: DRI2 must not be used: configure --disable-dri2; make; make install libvdpau-sunxi build: make; make install will install the libs to /usr/lib and /usr/lib/vdpau libcedarJpeg build (optionally): make; make install kodi build: ./configure --config-cache --prefix=/usr/local --disable-x11 --disable-sdl --disable-xrandr --disable-joystick --disable-gl --enable-vdpau --disable-vaapi --disable-openmax --enable-neon --enable-gles --disable-mysql --disable-airplay --disable-airtunes --enable-debug --disable-optimizations --with-ffmpeg=force --with-platform=allwinner-mali Afterwards Kodi shall be able to HW decode whatever videos libvdpau-sunxi supports. Source: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=254202&pid=2199415#pid2199415 Hopefully that can help Allwinner users to get some HW Acceleration in the future.

@wildcat. Just wanted to update on this. Using the untouched image for Armbian Debian Jessie - Vanilla, on my Lamoba-R1 (with only an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrad) - I was able to get solid, stable WIFI. I was originally testing it in an environment with 20 neighbors stepping on the channels, but when I took it to where it will be used - there is no interference. It was streaming 2 HD TV's and running speed tests at once, and delivering data as fast as my ISP allows - which is as good as I could hope for. So I've got to report that the build is working well. My glitch now is that the board appears to lock up at night. LED is on in the morning, ethernet lights are flickering, but no response from a ping or SSH. Not sure if one of the cron tasks is doing it, or what but will be experimenting with that.

Hello, I was trying to add the module em28xx (PCTV 460e DVB S2 drivers) but get errors Cubietruck Vanilla 2.81 What I did: 1. make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.3-sunxi 2. add Device Drivers -> Multimedia support -> Media USB Adapters -> Empia EM28xx USB devices support -> DVB/ATSC Support for em28xx based TV cards as Module 3. "make scripts" as there was an error with the scripts 4. make modules I get the following error Is there a tutorial how to build additional modules on the cubietruck ? Could you include the module in future releases ( iirc the S2 adapter works with the legacy image out of the box so the driveres are already in there) Thanks !

Today I installed the new kernel with the new drivers and it works :-) The Stick is now available and I can look TV via TVHeadend!! Thanks a lot! But what do I have to do if the driver is not automatically included that I only have to compile?

@itsy What kernel version do you have now (output of "uname -r")? Latest mainline (vanilla) kernel should have em28xx driver # # Webcam, TV (analog/digital) USB devices # CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX=m CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX_V4L2=m CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX_ALSA=m CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX_DVB=m CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX_RC=m Did you try loading em28xx module manually?

Hello , I have setup a banana pi with armbian: Linux bananapi 4.3.3-sunxi #3 SMP Mon Dec 28 11:27:16 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux I wuld like to setup a wifi access point from a rtl wifi dongle. Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter First, I have tried with bananian and it was working perfectly. But I have also a tv adapter not working with bananian, kernel 3.4 seems not support it. With armbian vanilla, the tv adapter is supported but it seems to have an issue with the wifi dongle driver. When I start hostapd-rt, I have the following errors: drv->ifindex=5 l2_sock_recv==l2_sock_xmit=0x0x766b0 ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Invalid argument Could not set interface to mode(3)! Could not set interface to master mode! rtl871xdrv driver initialization failed. wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED wlan0: AP-DISABLED hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started Do you have already ssen this issue? I have seen that it is possible to build a driver provided by realtek. Do you think it culd solve it? I could try it but I need help how to do it. I supose I need to follow this page: http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/and include the realtek driver? Thank you

Hi guys, I have a cubietruck and I've tried to compile a new kernel (4.x - wheezy, jessie, or trusty) according to this how-to. Unfortunately the kernel-compilation fails for me. (It works with 3.4.x but not with 4.x) I need a 4.x Kernel due to the I2C MUX which Azrael mentioned above. In addition to that I need EM28xxx-driver for my PCTV 520e-USB-Stick. I hope you can help me. Thank you! Here is my output-log of the kernel-compilation: root@ubuntu:/home/m# ./compile.sh Already up-to-date. [ o.k. ] Dependencies check [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Building [ Armbian 4.70 Cubietruck Debian jessie next ] [ o.k. ] Synching clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] source downloading [ @host ] [ o.k. ] ... updating [ u-boot ] remote: Counting objects: 508, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (52/52), done. remote: Total 418 (delta 360), reused 418 (delta 360) Receiving objects: 100% (418/418), 46.60 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (360/360), completed with 83 local objects. From git://git.denx.de/u-boot f84c2b66..7868031 master -> origin/master [ o.k. ] ... updating [ linux-mainline ] [ o.k. ] ... updating [ sunxi-tools ] [ o.k. ] ... updating [ rt8192cu ] [ o.k. ] ... updating [ fbtft-drivers ] [ o.k. ] ... updating [ sunxi-display-changer ] [ o.k. ] Compiling sunxi tools [ @host & target ] [ o.k. ] Cleaning [ /home/m/sources/u-boot ] [ o.k. ] Removing [ /home/m/output/debs/linux-u-boot-next-cubietruck_4.70_armhf. deb ] [ o.k. ] Cleaning [ /home/m/sources/linux-mainline ] error: pathspec 'v4.3.3 (EOL)' did not match any file(s) known to git. [ o.k. ] Patching [ kernel 4.4.0rc6 ] [ o.k. ] ... compiler bug [ reverting patch ] [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... sun4i: spi: Allow transfers larger than FIFO size [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... fix BRCMFMAC AP mode Banana & CT [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... deb packaging fix [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... Banana M2 support, LEDs [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... Cubieboard2 double SD version [ kernel ] [ warn ] ... Allwinner A10/A20 CAN Controller support already applied [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... adding Lamobo R1 [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... adding Bananapi M2 A31s [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... adding Bananapi M1 Plus [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] ... adding Bananapi R1 [ kernel ] [ o.k. ] Patching [ u-boot v2015.10 ] [ o.k. ] ... Add Lamobo R1 [ u-boot ] [ o.k. ] ... Add AW SOM [ u-boot ] [ o.k. ] ... Add Armbian boot splash [ u-boot ] [ o.k. ] Patching [ other sources ] [ o.k. ] Compiling uboot. Please wait. [ 2015.10 ] [ o.k. ] Target directory [ /home/m/output/debs/ ] [ o.k. ] Building deb [ linux-u-boot-next-cubietruck_4.70_armhf.deb ] [ o.k. ] Compiling kernel [ @host ] HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/bin2c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf scripts/kconfig/mconf Kconfig configuration written to .config *** End of the configuration. *** Execute 'make' to start the build or try 'make help'. HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig # # configuration written to .config # Armbian building script, http://www.armbian.com | Author: Igor Pecovnik qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x Compiling DTB ccache ... x xqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqx x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a10s-mk802.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a10s-olinuxino-micro.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a10s-r7-tv-dongle.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a10s-wobo-i5.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-hsg-h702.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-inet-98v-rev2.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino-micro.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-q8-tablet.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-utoo-p66.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-r8-chip.dtb x x DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dtb x x ERROR (duplicate_node_names): Duplicate node name /soc@01c00000/pinctrl@01c2 x x ERROR: Input tree has errors, aborting (use -f to force output) x x make[1]: *** [arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dtb] Error 2 x x make: *** [dtbs] Error 2 x mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj [ error ] DTBs was not build [ @host ] root@ubuntu:/home/m#

Okay daft question time! I set up the Banana Pi as a Shairport server and all was working really well, but when I rebooted, I've lost any way of connecting, as the SSH server isn't starting. I have network connectivity, as I ping the IP address from another machine on the network. Thinking I could check the boot sequence, I hooked the Banana Pi up to the TV HDMI input, but that simply says "Unrecognised Signal", so any tips on how to gain access?

Hello, with 3.4. kernel I could use my csi-cam on my R1: #5.0 Mega Pixel Banana PI Camera Module for Android #and Linux. OV5640 chipset, CSI connector #Price: US $24.00 / piece from aliexpress sudo modprobe ov5640 sudo modprobe sun4i_csi0 #video stream #mplayer tv:// #snapshot mplayer tv:// -vo png -frames 1 Now I switched to armbian 4.7 with 4.2.6 to use new wifi-usb-drivers but I saw that those modules are not supported in the new kernel. :-( Source of drivers: https://github.com/LeMaker/linux-sunxi/tree/lemaker-3.4/drivers/media/video/sun4i_csi https://github.com/LeMaker/linux-sunxi/blob/lemaker-3.4/drivers/media/video/sun4i_csi/device/ov5640.c Did anyone got this to work with 4.x-kernel? Is there a chance that it will/could be integrated in mainline-based Armbian? regards

Might apply to the quad-core i.MX6 devices, especially the Hummingboard with lots of RAM and mSATA SSD (at a price where I would already consider setting up an ESXi whitebox on x86 to virtualize everything ) The i.MX6 has its own drawbacks too (Ethernet speed limitation ~400 Mbits/sec and SATA 90-100 MB/s -- but if your application is somewhat network or I/O bound then it will outperm any RPi 2 easily). If you're ready for an adventure I would get a cheap TV box based on Amlogic's S905 and DIY Linux: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/12/06/how-to-run-headless-linux-on-amlogic-s905-devices-such-as-mini-mx-or-k1-plus/ The S905 is also Cortex-A53 but can be clocked higher than A64 and they ship with more recent u-boot/kernel (but I doubt we will ever see mainline kernel on the S905, something that might happen with the A64 next year)

I actually did a search on the forum for these and found nothing, so now I'm asking for the help. Of coarse it could be I didn't know what I was looking at or understood it. I'm running a Cubie 2 with the desktop Armdian 1. Unable to copy and paste from or to termal 2. unable to add user (I did install lightdm) or go to a login screen 3. Unable to get the audio to go to the HDMI port so it will play thru the TV/Monitor 4 No package manager, is it possible to install one? I tried an apt-get install synaptic and got no where. 5. Unable to install ElectricSheep or the Xscreensaver (got partway in installing xsreensaver) Thanks Dave C

Hello, I own OrangePI board and want to repurpose it as mediacenter and computer conected to TV however multimediacenter distributions as OSMC, OpenELEC dont support OrangePi, so i decided to use ubuntu desktop enviroment from ARMBIAN according to download page it should support some level of HW acceleration for video playback So my question is - would I be able to install KODI (formerly XBMC) and use it on ubutnu desktop enviroment with working video acceleration within KODI (similar to RaspberryPi and OSMC or OpenELEC) ?? Or is there any other way to use KODI on OrangePi ? Maybe on android designed for OrangePi ? Tkanks for answers

Hi, I tried to download CLI-ubuntu and Desktop-Debian archives, then i did like described in manual: sudo dd if=Armbian_4.5_Cubox-i_Debian_jessie_3.14.54_desktop.raw of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1048576 or sudo dd if=Armbian_4.5_Cubox-i_Ubuntu_trusty_3.14.54.raw of=/dev/disk2s1 bs=1048576 When i try to use that on my cubox i-pro - nothing happend: TV connected via hdmi and i see only black window I had ubuntu 12 installation on the same sd-card, i have backup of it and i can restore from backup (everything works fine). But how i can use the new one kernel, created here? Ps. sd-card: 4Gb, cubox-i pro, mac os.

Hi Petr, 3 devices at the moment, multicasting a movie to an Apple TV while I made the measurements, and 2 simultaneous devices in the last couple of days without any hitches. For me it is far much better, I never had a wifi connection without stalling to a halt on the client side for more than 2-3 minutes. I will do more extensive tests next week.

When I choose mainline and wheezy, I have other options later: Device Drivers --> I2C-Support --> Multiplexer I2C Chip Support: There are 5 Options and Autoselect ancillary drivers (tubers, sensors, i2c, frontends) [*] is under Device Drivers --> Multimedia Support Edit: Now i have a file Armbian_4.4_Bananapi_Debian_wheezy_4.2.1.zip in /output/images which is only 300MB. When I unzip this file, I have 3 files: imagewriter.exe, Armbian_4.4_Bananapi_Debian_wheezy_4.2.1.raw an armbian.txt. I can unzip the raw file to 0.img. This file is only 900MB. When I write this image on a sd card, the banana pi does not start with it. When I want to open the sdcard in the explorer, it comes a message, that I have to format the card. What is wrong? Edit: It works!!! Edit: I installed tvheadend. There I can choose the Silicon Labs Si2168 under TV Adapter. When I choose the DVB Network, it search the muxes. But it does not find any services. Does somebody has any idea?

Hi, Meanwhile I decided to try upgrading to vanilla Jessie. I couldn't boot it due to the following: U-Boot 2011.09-rc1-00000-gf75abad-dirty (Oct 21 2013 - 18:44:22) Allwinner Technology CPU: SUNXI Family Board: A20-Cubietruck DRAM: 1 GiB NAND: NB1 : enter NFB_Init [NAND] nand driver( version: 0x2, 0x12, data: 20130526 [NAND] set nand_good_block_ratio 870 NB1 : nand phy init ok PHY_PageReadSpare : too much ecc err,bank 0 block 25f,page 0 NB1 : init ok 3480 MiB Using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial --------fastboot partitions-------- -total partitions:2- -name- -start- -size- bootloader : 8000 8000 rootfs : 10000 6bc000 ----------------------------------- no misc partition is found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 1 \0x08\0x08\0x08 0 Failed to mount ext2 filesystem... ** Unrecognized f ilesystem type ** reading /uEnv.txt 277 bytes read ## Warning: defaulting to text format Failed to mount ext2 filesystem... ** Unrecognized filesystem type ** reading /script.bin 52252 bytes read Failed to mount ext2 filesystem... ** Unrecognized filesystem type ** reading uImage 5411152 bytes read ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 48000000 ... Image Name: Linux kernel Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 5411088 Bytes = 5.2 MiB Load Address: 40008000 Entry Point: 40008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Loading Kernel Image ... OK OK Using machid 0x10bb from environment Starting kernel ... Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 = 0x000010bb). Available machine support: ID (hex)\0x09NAME ffffffff\0x09Generic DT based system ffffffff\0x09Allwinner sun9i Family ffffffff\0x09Allwinner sun8i Family ffffffff\0x09Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family ffffffff\0x09Allwinner sun6i (A31) Family ffffffff\0x09Allwinner A1X (Device Tree) Please check your kernel config and/or bootloader. So I tried Legacy Jessie, but I had issues to install OpenMediaVault on top of it so I eventually rolled back to Legacy wheezy again. This time after all this acrobatics my uEnv.txt works and I got the desired FB buffer size. I didn't have a chance yet to try the HDMI display, because my TV is overtaken by my kid watching movies. I will update later for the status of the HDMI. Thanks Igor! Martin

Hi, I have the following issue: I installed Armbian 4.3 Debian (wheezy) 3.4.108 for Micro. My device is A20-Olimex-Olinuxino Micro with nand. I installed it to boot from NAND and store the rootfs on SATA /dev/sda1. When I powered it up with HDMI connected to the TV and micro sdcard plugged in, I see the red armbian logo shows up, but then display turns off and nothing. If I login with ssh I see that /boot is mounted to NAND and rootfs is indeed in /dev/sda1. If I boot without micro sdcard plugged I don't see any display output on the TV, but still the device boots up and the mounts seems the same, /boot on /dev/nand1 and /dev/sda1 is the rootfs. Perfect so I wanted to enable HDMI output and tried with a10disp as in documentation, but got the following: root@micro:/boot# a10disp changehdmimodeforce 4 sunxi disp kernel module version is 1.0 Cannot change HDMI mode because HDMI is not enabled. root@micro:/boot# a10disp switchtohdmiforce 4 sunxi disp kernel module version is 1.0 Cannot change HDMI mode because LCD is not enabled. root@micro:/boot# a10disp enablehdmi 4 sunxi disp kernel module version is 1.0 Reported framebuffer size is too small to fit mode (2.93 MB available; 7.03 MB required). Increase the default framebuffer size allocated at boot, or if you don't need double buffering (used by Mali and video acceleration) use the --nodoublebuffer option. I assume the framebuffer size is variable: sunxi_fb_mem_reserve Here is how my cmdline looks like: root@micro:/boot# cat /proc/cmdline console=tty1 root=/dev/sda1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1920x1080p60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=1 So following the documentation I tried to edit the boot.cmd and uEnv.txt files as follow: root@micro:/boot# cat boot.cmd setenv bootargs console=tty0 root=/dev/sda1 rootwait panic=10 disp.screen0_output_mode=1280x720p60 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=128 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 consoleblank=0 script=script.bin kernel=uImage root@micro:/boot# cat uEnv.txt console=tty1 nand_root=/dev/sda1 rootwait extraargs=rootfstype=ext4 disp.screen0_output_mode=1280x720p60 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=128 sunxi_no_mali_mem_reserve panic=10 consoleblank=0 script=script.bin kernel=uImage root@micro:/boot# mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr Image Name: Created: Sat Sep 19 12:50:46 2015 Image Type: ARM Linux Script (uncompressed) Data Size: 271 Bytes = 0.26 kB = 0.00 MB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Contents: Image 0: 263 Bytes = 0.26 kB = 0.00 MB When I reboot I get the same cmdline so it seems my changes are not applied I wonder where they are really taken from? Yet the HDMI display shows nothing. The dmesg log can be found here. Thanks! Martin

You can include minidlna, a media server software fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. I use it to watch my downloaded films on my smart tv. sudo apt-get install minidlna

Finally I am able to use the DVB-C part of the Astrometa DVB stick (MN88472) with Banana Pi. I made a kernel 4.2.0 wheezy image with Igor's script. In the kernel config I enabled almost everything in - Device Drivers -> I2C - Device Drivers -> Multimedia support - Device Drivers -> Staging drivers -> Multimedia Here you can find the .config file and my image for download. After you started the banana: # If you use the image linked above then # (dvb-apps libdigest-sha-perl make gcc git patch patchutils libproc-processtable-perl) are already installed. # apt-get install dvb-apps libdigest-sha-perl make gcc git patch patchutils libproc-processtable-perl apt-get install w-scan cd /lib/firmware wget http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/MN88472/02/3fbb92e59bd20acedcaa82cfb37b0be3/dvb-demod-mn88472-02.fw reboot # Connect astrometa device AFTER(!!!) boot is complete, system ready # Use scan with the "initial-tuning-data-file" of your TV provider # Mine is the hungarian Digikabel. Check yours in /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c/ or make one for yourself scan -A2 -f1 /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c/hu-Digikabel # or you can use w-scan to find DVB-C transponders for you with this command: w_scan -f c # if you can't find any transponder, try disconnect and reconnect the stick, and run scan or w_scan again Cheers Thanks again for you Igor!

Now I tried to build kernel only (for Banana pi), and it seems there is a syntax error: Error: arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3-nano.dts:146.22-23 syntax error FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree Here is the end of the process: (complete output here) CC lib/int_sqrt.o CC lib/ioremap.o CC lib/irq_regs.o CC lib/is_single_threaded.o CC lib/klist.o CC lib/kobject.o CC lib/kobject_uevent.o CC lib/md5.o CC lib/plist.o CC lib/proportions.o CC lib/radix-tree.o CC lib/ratelimit.o CC lib/rbtree.o CC lib/seq_buf.o CC lib/sha1.o CC lib/show_mem.o CC lib/string.o CC lib/timerqueue.o CC lib/vsprintf.o AR lib/lib.a CC [M] lib/ts_kmp.o CC [M] lib/ts_bm.o CC [M] lib/ts_fsm.o LINK vmlinux LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.o GEN .version CHK include/generated/compile.h UPD include/generated/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o KSYM .tmp_kallsyms1.o KSYM .tmp_kallsyms2.o LD vmlinux SORTEX vmlinux SYSMAP System.map OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready LDS arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.o GZIP arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.o AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.o CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/string.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/hyp-stub.S AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/hyp-stub.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_rw.c SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt.h SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/libfdt.h SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/libfdt_internal.h CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_rw.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_ro.c CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_ro.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_wip.c CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_wip.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt.c CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt.o CC arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/lib1funcs.S AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/lib1funcs.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/ashldi3.S AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/ashldi3.o SHIPPED arch/arm/boot/compressed/bswapsdi2.S AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/bswapsdi2.o LD arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-a1000.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-ba10-tvbox.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-cubieboard.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-mini-xplus.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-hackberry.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-inet97fv2.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-olinuxino-lime.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-pcduino.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a10s-olinuxino-micro.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a10s-r7-tv-dongle.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-hsg-h702.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-olinuxino-micro.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-colombus.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-hummingbird.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-m9.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3-nano.dtb Error: arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3-nano.dts:146.22-23 syntax error FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree make[1]: *** [arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3-nano.dtb] Error 1 make: *** [dtbs] Error 2 CHK include/config/kernel.release UPD include/config/kernel.release make KBUILD_SRC= CHK include/config/kernel.release CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h UPD include/generated/utsrelease.h make[3]: `include/generated/mach-types.h` is up to date. CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o CC kernel/sys.o CC kernel/module.o CHK kernel/config_data.h LD kernel/built-in.o CC drivers/base/firmware_class.o LD drivers/base/built-in.o LD drivers/built-in.o LINK vmlinux LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.o GEN .version CHK include/generated/compile.h UPD include/generated/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o KSYM .tmp_kallsyms1.o KSYM .tmp_kallsyms2.o LD vmlinux SORTEX vmlinux SYSMAP System.map OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready GZIP arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o LD arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready DTC arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3-nano.dtb Error: arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3-nano.dts:146.22-23 syntax error FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree make[3]: *** [arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3-nano.dtb] Error 1 make[2]: *** [dtbs] Error 2 make[1]: *** [deb-pkg] Error 2 make: *** [deb-pkg] Error 2 mv: cannot stat ‘*.deb’: No such file or directory [ o.k. ] Kernel building done [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Target directory [ /root/output/debs/ ] [ o.k. ] File name: linux-image-next-sunxi_4.3_armhf.deb [ 3.19.4 ] [ ok ] Runtime 54 min root@ubuntu:~#

I am using your build script to create the 4.1 kernel but I get prompted for 400 things to answer, is there a way to accept all as modular or 'y' so I get the most hardware possible? I am trying to test if the USB TV Tuner will work with this kernel on the Lemaker Banana Pi.

Hi, I was about to try this on my cubietruck : nsteinmetz@or-azur:~$ sudo apt install linux-dtb-next-sunxi linux-image-next-sunxi linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi linux-headers-next-sunxi linux-image-next-sunxi linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck linux-u-boot-cubietruck-next But I have as result : Selecting previously unselected package linux-dtb-next-sunxi. (Reading database ... 48345 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../linux-dtb-next-sunxi_4.2_armhf.deb ... Unpacking linux-dtb-next-sunxi (4.2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-dtb-next-sunxi_4.2_armhf.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/boot/dtb/sun5i-a10s-r7-tv-dongle.dtb', which is also in package linux-dtb-4.1.2-cubietruck 4.0 Selecting previously unselected package linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi. Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_4.2_armhf.deb ... Unpacking linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi (4.2) ... Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-next-sunxi. Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-next-sunxi_4.2_armhf.deb ... Unpacking linux-headers-next-sunxi (4.2) ... Selecting previously unselected package linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck. Preparing to unpack .../linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck_4.2_armhf.deb ... Unpacking linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck (4.2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck_4.2_armhf.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/bash.bashrc.custom', which is also in package linux-jessie-root-cubietruck 4.2 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So what's the best way to use mainline kernel (if adapted) ? Thanks, Nicolas

I am using the debian jessie image with kernel 4.1.2 and tvheadend from git, works good so far, haven't noticed any problems yet... Good to hear they are all working now. A short report would be good since a lot of ppl seem to have problems with these dvb sticks. I have spent some time watching live-tv now with android smartphones (kodi), but have not tested the recording and timeshift feature yet. I need an additional harddrive for that first