balbes150 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Maybe someone will be interested in this information. http://forum.khadas.com/t/armbian-kodi-ubuntu-debian-for-sd-usb-emmc/825/155?u=balbes150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgeocol Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 @balbes150 Please disregard my forum request for assistance from 04-16-2018. I was able to burn the VIM2Max DualOS to eMMC and I added U-boot. I also was able to fix my microSD socket problem and don't need to use USB for booting. Now I just need to add your latest Armbian Debian Server version that can handle S912. Could you point me to the latest and greatest? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 2 hours ago, colgeocol said: Please disregard my forum request for assistance from 04-16-2018. I was able to burn the VIM2Max DualOS to eMMC and I added U-boot. I also was able to fix my microSD socket problem and don't need to use USB for booting. Now I just need to add your latest Armbian Debian Server version that can handle S912. Could you point me to the latest and greatest? Sorry, I'm using a computer translation and I don't understand your question. Describe in detail what the problem is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgeocol Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Sorry, Could you point me to your latest Armbian Debian Server version that can support S912 and Mali-T820MP3 GPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hough Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 will there be a distro for this unit? i am using the ubuntu mate provided from the manufacturer but it doesnt take advantage of the gpu. I am getting hooked on armbian and want it on all my devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 All images Armbian can work on the VIM2 (including what is written in the subject s912). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 On 5/2/2018 at 7:25 PM, colgeocol said: Could you point me to your latest Armbian Debian Server version that can support S912 and Mali-T820MP3 GPU? There are no such options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgeocol Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 OK. I will use the S912 version. Thanks for all your hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giuseppe Ioime Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Hello, I have a beelink gt1, can you tell me which version of armbian mate I have to install? In the armbian folder on yandex I see many distro (mali, no mali, 4.9 etc etc) but I don't know which is the right one. Can someone help me? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 9 hours ago, Giuseppe Ioime said: Hello, I have a beelink gt1, can you tell me which version of armbian mate I have to install? In the armbian folder on yandex I see many distro (mali, no mali, 4.9 etc etc) but I don't know which is the right one. Can someone help me? Thanks It depends on what you want from Armbian (what functions). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giuseppe Ioime Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 2 hours ago, balbes150 said: It depends on what you want from Armbian (what functions). I want install Plex media server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanrhum Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 I'm not sure any of the proposed image has vpu software, which make plex less interesting (no transcoding). I currently use a 5.37 based image with kernel 3.14 and this functionality is not installed by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giuseppe Ioime Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 And the right dtb file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasalt Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Well done on Armbian for s912. I have a Mecool km8 S912 TV box. Previously I had installed Kodi and it worked great and played 10 Bit x265 video files. (It did though occasionally FREEZE when playing x265) Supposedly this is due to overheating.. I have now installed onto a 16mb USB flash drive Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_xfce_20180305 and to my complete astonishment my Mecool KM* s912 booted and ran Armbian. I have a few issues though. Whenever I try to run a complex high CPU program it seems to overheat and I get a BLUE screen. I can run remote desktop and have Ethernet connection. Should I have also installed a CONFIGURATION file? Should I install some sort of fan cooling? Seasalt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasalt Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 On 5/8/2018 at 6:59 PM, balbes150 said: There are no such options. Balbes Ia m running S912 Armbian latest version regularly updating, Can I change the screen resolution . 1080p on my TV makes everything small. I can not find any way of doing this. The "sudo apt-get update" command brings down 40mb of files each time is this correct? I have added a small 5volt raspberry pi fan to the S912 CPU using cable ties. It brings the idle temperature down to 39 Celsius on Armbianmonitor. Basically a 10 degree drop. I think I will do it to my 2 other Mecool s912 boards. How would you describe the s912 version of Armbian. Could it be described as experimental or stable? Thanks so much for your work. Seasalt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 3 hours ago, Seasalt said: Ia m running S912 Armbian latest version regularly updating, Can I change the screen resolution . 1080p on my TV makes everything small. I can not find any way of doing this. The "sudo apt-get update" command brings down 40mb of files each time is this correct? I have added a small 5volt raspberry pi fan to the S912 CPU using cable ties. It brings the idle temperature down to 39 Celsius on Armbianmonitor. Basically a 10 degree drop. I think I will do it to my 2 other Mecool s912 boards. How would you describe the s912 version of Armbian. Could it be described as experimental or stable? Thanks so much for your work. I don't know what exactly version it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasalt Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 46 minutes ago, balbes150 said: I don't know what exactly version it is. Hi Balbes, i installed this Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_3.14.29_xfce_20180305 3 weeks ago on my Mecool km8 S912 TV Box.and have been upgrading it using apt-get update and upgrade. Seasalt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 hour ago, balbes150 said: Can I change the screen resolution . 1080p on my TV makes everything small. I can not find any way of doing this. 4 hours ago, Seasalt said: The "sudo apt-get update" command brings down 40mb of files each time is this correct? That's okay. Packet base network reach quickly updated. But this does not mean that you need all the time to put new versions. If everything works as it should, you can not update. 4 hours ago, Seasalt said: How would you describe the s912 version of Armbian. Could it be described as experimental or stable? It's all relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgeocol Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 @balbes150, Sorry to bother you again but I have another dumb question. I downloaded and burned to a microSD card the Armbian_5.41.1_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_4.16.1_server_20180508.img. It came up great. I thought I modified all required files/scripts but the framebuffer directories are not being created. Are there other scripts that need to be modified? If yes, which ones and where? If no, what did I do wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 7 hours ago, colgeocol said: Sorry to bother you again but I have another dumb question. I downloaded and burned to a microSD card the Armbian_5.41.1_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_4.16.1_server_20180508.img. It came up great. I thought I modified all required files/scripts but the framebuffer directories are not being created. Are there other scripts that need to be modified? If yes, which ones and where? If no, what did I do wrong? What directories are you trying to create and for what ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgeocol Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 My VIM2 Max running your Armbian server needs to be able to display to a 4K UHD monitor through HDMI. What I am looking for is everything that I need to install or modify to handle framebuffer (/dev/fb0) graphics. I think the problem is how I am handling the setup. I copied the kvim2_linux.dtb to BOOT and renamed it dtb.img. This is my hdmi.sh. ----------------------- #!/bin/sh bpp=32 mode=2160p60hz for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do case ${x} in m_bpp=*) export bpp=${x#*=} ;; hdmimode=*) export mode=${x#*=} ;; esac done HPD_STATE=/sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/hpd_state DISP_CAP=/sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/disp_cap DISP_MODE=/sys/class/display/mode echo $mode > $DISP_MODE # required X and Y for 3840x2160 4K UHD export X=3840 export Y=2160 common_display_setup() { M="0 0 $(($X - 1)) $(($Y - 1))" Y_VIRT=$(($Y * 2)) fbset -fb /dev/fb0 -g $X $Y $X $Y_VIRT $bpp fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -g 32 32 32 32 echo $mode > /sys/class/display/mode echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/free_scale echo 1 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/freescale_mode echo $M > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/free_scale_axis echo $M > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/window_axis echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fb1/free_scale echo 1 > /sys/class/graphics/fb1/freescale_mode } # run this subroutine common_display_setup # Enable framebuffer device echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/blank # Blank fb1 to prevent static noise echo 1 > /sys/class/graphics/fb1/blank # Make cursor invisible echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink exit 0 ----------------------- Is my hdmi.sh okay? If not, what do you suggest I modify? Are there other scripts that I need to modify? Do I have to install some App? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMCC Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Hello. I'm trying to make some tests in the VIM2 (image Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180515.img by @balbes150), and I need to limit the available physical memory size to 1G. However, creating the file "/boot/armbianEnv.txt" and setting the parameter "mem=1G" seems not to have any effect. Is there a different way to set kernel parameters in your images? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 31 minutes ago, JMCC said: setting the parameter "mem=1G" seems not to have any effect You would do it that way: extraargs="maxcpus=4" extraargs="mem=1G" extraargs="maxcpus=1 mem=1G" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMCC Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 No way. Tried with single, double, and no quotes, and it doesn't have any effect. [EDIT: /var/log/armhwinfo.log shows the parameter as being passed to the kernel. It is the same with quotes:] Spoiler ### boot environment: extraargs=mem=1G usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u ### meminfo: MemTotal: 2754696 kB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 14 hours ago, JMCC said: I need to limit the available physical memory size to 1G. I'm not sure that will help. Change the size of the DTS file and collect the desired dtb. https://github.com/150balbes/Amlogic_s905-kernel/blob/khadas-3.14/arch/arm64/boot/dts/kvim2_multios.dts#L9 You may have to build a new u-boot with the desired memory size value. https://github.com/150balbes/u-boot/blob/Nougat-Ubuntu/board/khadas/configs/kvim2.h#L310 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMCC Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Thank you very much. Do you think the kernel parameter approach will work on a mainline kernel image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 5 hours ago, JMCC said: Thank you very much. Do you think the kernel parameter approach will work on a mainline kernel image? I don't know, I haven't tested these modes. You may need to make changes to the kernel and system configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasalt Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 On 5/15/2018 at 5:17 PM, balbes150 said: I now have the On 5/15/2018 at 5:17 PM, balbes150 said: Thanks Balbes I now have video at 720p. I am very impresed with the S912 Armbian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasalt Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 I have also added a 5volt raspberry Pi fan to the s912 chip. Using Armbian monitor I can see that adding the fan has taken the standby temperature from 53 Celsius to 37 Celsius. Also under load it still appears to be lower than 60 Celsius unlike before when it was up in the 75 range. I strongly recommend adding a small fan to the s912. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgeocol Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Balbes150, Will you create a version of your latest Armbian server that has the framebuffer directories installed? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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