amirul Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 https://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_1667603.html RK3399 4GB ram Anyone had any luck running Armbian on this?
hexdump Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 it does not work out of the box with the magicsee dtb - it boots, but can't find the sd card, so some dtb adaption is most probably required - but it at least seems to have connection points for a serial console, so it should be possible to get it working with some effort ... i did just a simple boot test - its not my box
amirul Posted July 13, 2019 Author Posted July 13, 2019 48 minutes ago, hexdump said: it does not work out of the box with the magicsee dtb - it boots, but can't find the sd card, so some dtb adaption is most probably required - but it at least seems to have connection points for a serial console, so it should be possible to get it working with some effort ... i did just a simple boot test - its not my box perhaps with the sd card & usb stick it will boot, like the T9
hexdump Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 i think for rk3399 maybe simply using a rock-pi 4 or nanopi m4 can sometimes be even cheaper than those $100+ rk3399 tv boxes i guess and they will most probably less troublesome ...
amirul Posted July 13, 2019 Author Posted July 13, 2019 33 minutes ago, hexdump said: i think for rk3399 maybe simply using a rock-pi 4 or nanopi m4 can sometimes be even cheaper than those $100+ rk3399 tv boxes i guess and they will most probably less troublesome ... I got my Magicsee-N6-Max for $82.99 on AliExpress runs Armbian 5.91 like a champ so far. Only thing that doesn't work is bluetooth
hexdump Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 for that price its fine, but for the 117+ euro from the link above the advantage of the tv box for linux use slowly goes away
amirul Posted July 14, 2019 Author Posted July 14, 2019 The reason I'm asking is this https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/bCPG1Et2 Might be a typo or a mistake but if we can confirm Armbian works on it, I'm willing to put in an order
hexdump Posted August 7, 2019 Posted August 7, 2019 there seems to be a dtb for this box in mainline now ... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-hugsun-x99.dts
qstaq Posted August 7, 2019 Posted August 7, 2019 It works fine with @balbes150 h96max dtb Im using one as a nextcloud server. Even wireless and bluetooth work if you copy the firmware from /usr/lib/firmware/rkwifi to /usr/lib/firmware/bcrm I havent figured out booting from eMMC yet so I have u-boot / kernel on an SD card and the root fs on the eMMC. Or you can just boot and run direct from SD. Im using a 256GB SATA SSD on the USB C port and a 12TB hard disk on the USB 3 A port. Performance is pretty good Try @balbes150 RK3399 Armbian 5.91 TV Box image, it works great. The only issue I found was that there was no display on HDMI initially, the console was set to go to a serial debug port that doesn't exist on that device. After you write the SD card image, mount the boot partition first and modify the extlinux.conf file and add "console=tty1" to get a tty over HDMI and "console=ttyFIQ0,1500000n8" to get a serial console on the debug port. My extlinux.conf file for the X99 is: LABEL Armbian LINUX /Image INITRD /uInitrd FDT /rk3399-h96max.dtb APPEND root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootflags=data=writeback rw console=tty1 console=ttyFIQ0,1500000n8 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 DTB that Im using attached rk3399-h96max.dtb
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