armbi Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Hi, which image and which dtb file needs for this box can me send a download link? Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 On 3/5/2018 at 9:19 PM, armbi said: Hi, which image and which dtb file needs for this box can me send a download link? Thanks! I used kvim2_android.dtb with same box I try almost all dbts and only a few dont boot image used: Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180225.img.xz if you cant boot in armbian press reset on power boot, like 10 sec after you will see linux booting I discover this trick the hard way, after flash a firmware and discover my armbian dont boot anymore any question feel free to ask, I have lost a free hours with one of that, maybe I can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armbi Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Thank you for your answer. I would need a downloadlink to Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180225.img.xz Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armbi Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Hi, i probe this image Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180307.img Dont work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 1 hour ago, armbi said: Hi, i probe this image Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180307.img Dont work for me. Can you explain what is "Don't work". Can be many things. What do you mean? It won't boot? If so read above posts, in one of them I mention a tip about boot it for first time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odin Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 On 3/3/2018 at 4:56 AM, koakh said: Fix Boot Wifi with some hacks and a Init.d Script The Problem : Cant boot with Wifi Kernel Module Thanks koakh, works great for my h96 pro+ wifi (qca9377), now it works on bootup. - also if anyone has any ideas on my next problem let me know, I am using Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180307.img (mali6), and overall it works great, is it possible to get hardware accelerated video to work or videos to play better fullscreen, I tried several software smplayer, vlc, xine (a little better then others),mpv and all are pretty laggy (unwatchable), window mode they play ok , kodi crashes the display. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Thanks @odin For your next problem I only use armbian for my headless servers projects (armbian server version). I never install it with window manager. Maybe one day. Good luck @odin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odin Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 @balbes150 do you have plans to add the qca9377 driver + other modules to some of the other distros like opensuse ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armbi Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 OK. I found the file. The box boots without dtb.img (I could not found kvim2_android.dtb). Next problems: remote control does not work. I can only switch the box on by cable out and cable in. Ideas??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armbi Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 On 13.3.2018 at 6:03 PM, armbi said: OK. I found the file. The box boots without dtb.img (I could not found kvim2_android.dtb). Next problems: remote control does not work. I can only switch the box on by cable out and cable in. Ideas??? Nobody here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeycop Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) On 3.3.2018 at 3:33 PM, koakh said: If someone have interest in headless server say, I can create a topic from start to finish. Or I can upload the finish image version, no problem (AlfaWise H96 Pro+) Hi koakh, my goal is to replace my raspb3 (webserver and other services)with the same box as you (H96 Pro+) Could you please post a (if possible) short version what you did to run Armbian on your H96 box? (DTB and Armbian version) (Wifi is not so important for me) Did you manage to install armbian on the internal storage? I think the sd-reader is slower than the raspb3 one. (tested with samsung evo) So I wanted to get armbian running on the internal storage. thanks for your time Edited March 21, 2018 by Jeycop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Jeycop said: Hi koakh, my goal is to replace my raspb3 (webserver and other services)with the same box as you (H96 Pro+) Could you please post a (if possible) short version what you did to run Armbian on your H96 box? (DTB and Armbian version) (Wifi is not so important for me) Did you manage to install armbian on the internal storage? I think the sd-reader is slower than the raspb3 one. (tested with samsung evo) So I wanted to get armbian running on the internal storage. thanks for your time Hello First I must tell that I stopped at my last requirement step, that is using the eMMC, I started but when I used the scripts it gives problems, like restore the Partitions to a lower size partition (1gb), I use the sdcard version, until I have spare time or any help, I lost a few hours with this setup now. Right now I dont have my notes, I'm on phone, but I answear your questions ASAP About version and dtb I already post here in this topic, please scroll...and how to boot armbian too, use the reset when boot first time. After first armbian boot is not need to use the reset anymore. If I can help, just ask....no problem its a pleasure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeycop Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 On 21.3.2018 at 2:19 PM, koakh said: Hello First I must tell that I stopped at my last requirement step, that is using the eMMC, I started but when I used the scripts it gives problems, like restore the Partitions to a lower size partition (1gb), I use the sdcard version, until I have spare time or any help, I lost a few hours with this setup now. Right now I dont have my notes, I'm on phone, but I answear your questions ASAP About version and dtb I already post here in this topic, please scroll...and how to boot armbian too, use the reset when boot first time. After first armbian boot is not need to use the reset anymore. If I can help, just ask....no problem its a pleasure Thank you. I got it to work on my internal. (H96 Pro+ (Plus) green mainboard with LDDR3 produced in 2017) I used this version "Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img.xz" LINK Installed it directly over original Firmware with "./install.sh" -script without any problems. Important for me was to use Rufus to burn the image to a sdcard and to run it without any dtb-file in main directory on the sdcard. To start from sdcard I pressed the reset-button for few seconds right after I plugged in the power cable. I was just wondering about the download, because it's under "5.41_KODI-17.6" but I don't need any kodi on this box. So do I have to clean it up at first, so no storage and performance waste on these additional installations? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 4 hours ago, Jeycop said: Thank you. I got it to work on my internal. (H96 Pro+ (Plus) green mainboard with LDDR3 produced in 2017) I used this version "Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img.xz" LINK Installed it directly over original Firmware with "./install.sh" -script without any problems. Important for me was to use Rufus to burn the image to a sdcard and to run it without any dtb-file in main directory on the sdcard. To start from sdcard I pressed the reset-button for few seconds right after I plugged in the power cable. I was just wondering about the download, because it's under "5.41_KODI-17.6" but I don't need any kodi on this box. So do I have to clean it up at first, so no storage and performance waste on these additional installations? Hello @Jeycop First Sorry I forget that you request something in the past, and I forget what is it, I think is related with my notes, only today I received the mail from forum and I remember that When I repply I was on phone and far from my laptop/notes move on.... Note: I Note here your version is 20180305 and mine is 20180225 Glad to know you flashed your eMMC with Armbian, great achievement, I try it in past but always I have this error dd: error writing '/dev/system': No space left on device it seeems that it requires a 2.0 GiB partion and mine is 1.0 GiB I try to repartition the partition to increase size but without success Maybe I try with the same image 20180305 and using rufus, I use "disks" or "dd" in linux to flash the image not rufus I belive is more about with that image that you flashed that is diferent maybe that image has diferent partition sizes or a diferent install.sh script (maybe) I will try for sure and I will check the size of partitions and install.sh script to check diferences My Notes from the PAST TRY to use eMMC Using Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180225.img.xz > Not its diferent from youre like I note in above Notes ```shell $ ./install.sh Start copy system for DATA partition. Formatting DATA partition... umount: /dev/data: not mounted /dev/data contains a ext4 file system last mounted on /data on Thu Jan 1 00:00:14 2015 e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) /dev/data: clean, 11/1721760 files, 152081/6883328 blocks done. Copying ROOTFS. Copy BIN Copy BOOT Create DEV Copy ETC Copy HOME Copy LIB Create MEDIA Create MNT Copy OPT Create PROC Copy ROOT Create RUN Copy SBIN Copy SELINUX Copy SRV Create SYS Create TMP Copy USR Copy VAR Copy fstab ******************************************* Done copy ROOTFS ******************************************* Writing new kernel image... 65536+0 records in 65536+0 records out 33554432 bytes (34 MB, 32 MiB) copied, 0.621699 s, 54.0 MB/s writing boot image config in bootimg.cfg extracting kernel in zImage extracting ramdisk in initrd.img reading kernel from /boot/zImage Writing Boot Image /dev/boot reading ramdisk from /boot/initrd.img-3.14.29 Writing Boot Image /dev/boot done. Writing new dtb ... done. Write env bootargs ******************************************* Complete copy OS to eMMC parted DATA ******************************************* ``` Used the DD command to create image of `/dev/boot` and `/dev/system` Create a mount point to house images ```shell $ sudo nano fstab //192.168.1.1/root /mnt/koakhserver cifs username=${USER},password=${PASSWORD},_netdev,noauto 0 0 sudo mkdir /mnt/koakhserver sudo mount /mnt/koakhserver ``` ```shell $ sudo dd if=/dev/boot of=/mnt/koakhserver/mnt/1tbdisk2/devices/microcomputers/boot.img bs=1024k status=progress 65536+0 records in 65536+0 records out 33554432 bytes (34 MB, 32 MiB) copied, 4.60886 s, 7.3 MB/s $ sudo dd if=/dev/system of=/mnt/koakhserver/mnt/1tbdisk2/devices/microcomputers/system.img bs=1024k status=progress 2124414976 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 51.0174 s, 41.6 MB/s 2048+0 records in 2048+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 52.4382 s, 41.0 MB/s ``` Restart the system from the SD card and restore the `/dev/boot` and `/dev/system` partitions from the created copies ```shell $ sudo mount /mnt/koakhserver/ $ sudo dd if=/mnt/koakhserver/mnt/1tbdisk2/devices/microcomputers/boot.img of=/dev/boot bs=1024k status=progress $ dd if=/mnt/koakhserver/mnt/1tbdisk2/devices/microcomputers/system.img of=/dev/system bs=1024k status=progress $ dd if=/mnt/trekstor/system.img of=/dev/system bs=1024k status=progress 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 112.024 s, 9.6 MB/s dd: error writing '/dev/system': No space left on device 1025+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 113.171 s, 9.5 MB/s ``` Thanks for yout feedback @jeycop It seems that was "easy" for you, you just 1) Flash image with Rufus 2) Boot and flash eMMC with install.sh 3) Backup Partitions before reboot 4) Reboot with SdCard 5) Restore Backup Partitions 6) Remove SDCard and it boots from eMMC can you confirm the aboves steps (thanks in advance) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeycop Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 44 minutes ago, koakh said: Thanks for yout feedback @jeycop It seems that was "easy" for you, you just 1) Flash image with Rufus 2) Boot and flash eMMC with install.sh 3) Backup Partitions before reboot 4) Reboot with SdCard 5) Restore Backup Partitions 6) Remove SDCard and it boots from eMMC can you confirm the aboves steps (thanks in advance) Yes, for me it was very easy ^^ H96Pro+ has 2 different versions. One with LDDR3 and one with DDR4, maybe thats the difference. I opened the case and there are 2 USB extra inside but no hole in case. Now I have 4x USB ;P 1.) if you changed something on internal EMMC storage -> flash official Firmware (mine was from 12-2017) // I think it's important, so Armbian can read the correct DeviceTree? 2.) Burn image "Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img" with Rufus to SDCard (LINK) (Choose at Rufus the 'DD' image) 3.) Plug SDcard into Box 4.) Plug power cable into Box while holding reset button pressed 5.) See Armbian booting up 6.) Set username and password 7.) reboot 8.) login 9.) start "./install.sh" and wait for finish (5-7 minutes) 10.) shutdown and remove power cable 11.) remove SDcard 12.) plug power cable in Box, now you should see Armbian booting up without SDCard -> finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 27 minutes ago, Jeycop said: Yes, for me it was very easy ^^ H96Pro+ has 2 different versions. One with LDDR3 and one with DDR4, maybe thats the difference. I opened the case and there are 2 USB extra inside but no hole in case. Now I have 4x USB ;P 1.) if you changed something on internal EMMC storage -> flash official Firmware (mine was from 12-2017) // I think it's important, so Armbian can read the correct DeviceTree? 2.) Burn image "Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img" with Rufus to SDCard (LINK) 3.) Plug SDcard into Box 4.) Plug power cable into Box while holding reset button pressed 5.) See Armbian booting up 6.) Set username and password 7.) reboot 8.) login 9.) start "./install.sh" and wait for finish (5-7 minutes) 10.) shutdown and remove power cable 11.) remove SDcard 12.) plug power cable in Box, now you should see Armbian booting up without SDCard -> finished I think the trick is related with the firmware 1.) if you changed something on internal EMMC storage -> flash official Firmware (mine was from 12-2017) // I think it's important, so Armbian can read the correct DeviceTree? In the past I lost original my firmware, and after a few hours try and failling and searching for a firmware/tools that works I found and use this one New H96 Pro Plus 7.1.2 firmware download By EBox https://www.entertainmentbox.com/new-h96-pro-plus-tv-box-android-7-1-2-custom-firmware-download/ AlfaWise H96 PRO+ 3 32Gb LPDDR3 Download SCV4 BLUE (LPDDR3) PCB IMG: DOWNLOAD HERE BLUE PCB SCV4 IMG 7.1.2 MD5: 67D22C782DDCA083F297B98DA406ADE3 This is the version I used NOW, can you confirm that is the same as yours from above pictures... I post other pics too like boot faillure on boot with half restored /system from eMMC and my blue board version It seems your firmware is diferent from mine Can you confirm please, and the board is the same? thanks @Jeycop PS: I only have time to do something tomorrow, currently Im working and dont have alfawise box here only access to my laptop/notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I note that you dont backup/restore your partitions! You just use install.sh and nothing more! I read and have some guide tips from @balbes150 (I think so) to 1) install.sh 2) dont reboot, and backup partitions 3) boot from SD and restore partitions (Fail here) 4) boot from emmc I never try boot after install.sh like you do, maybe it works without steps 2,3, and 4 too I note that you comment about remove kody, why you dont flash headless server. I burn headless server and its awsome,very clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 13 hours ago, Jeycop said: Thank you. I got it to work on my internal. (H96 Pro+ (Plus) green mainboard with LDDR3 produced in 2017) I used this version "Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img.xz" LINK Installed it directly over original Firmware with "./install.sh" -script without any problems. Important for me was to use Rufus to burn the image to a sdcard and to run it without any dtb-file in main directory on the sdcard. To start from sdcard I pressed the reset-button for few seconds right after I plugged in the power cable. I was just wondering about the download, because it's under "5.41_KODI-17.6" but I don't need any kodi on this box. So do I have to clean it up at first, so no storage and performance waste on these additional installations? Flashed in eMMC at first with Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img.xz but without backup and restore like sugested......... Damn why I not try that LOL Thanks @Jeycop Its lightning fast running eMMC and a lots more space 25GB Free is more than enough simply awsome I setup the whole setup, that contains 4 docker microservice containers, webapi. mqttserver, mongo, and nodejs/aurelia spa running and with a load average of 1.06 top - 19:32:17 up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 1.09, 1.50, 1.26 Tasks: 162 total, 2 running, 160 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.5 us, 0.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 2815116 total, 846868 free, 989084 used, 979164 buff/cache KiB Swap: 1407520 total, 1319976 free, 87544 used. 1758744 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4377 999 20 0 936044 49136 12252 S 1.3 1.7 0:17.40 mongod 5411 mario 20 0 7484 1764 1192 R 1.0 0.1 0:00.19 top 4378 root 20 0 4624736 445216 12608 S 0.7 15.8 4:10.79 java 2600 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:02.63 kworker/3:2 3461 root 20 0 1029888 28788 15004 S 0.3 1.0 0:09.37 dockerd 3680 root 20 0 946616 8888 4592 S 0.3 0.3 0:04.32 containerd 4420 root 20 0 4761960 375840 12632 S 0.3 13.4 3:43.67 java 4975 root -2 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.69 ksdioirqd/sdio 1 root 20 0 155872 5712 2408 S 0.0 0.2 0:10.92 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 ksoftirqd/0 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.73 rcu_preempt 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_sched 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh 10 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 migration/1 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1 14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H 15 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I Create a small post Alfawise H96 Pro+ Headless setup.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeycop Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 2 hours ago, koakh said: Flashed in eMMC at first with Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img.xz but without backup and restore like sugested......... Damn why I not try that LOL Nice to read you made it. at my 16gb I have 11GB free space. EMMC speed is ~ 60MByte/s. thats 4x faster than Raspb3B, I really like it. I'm just a beginner at Linux, so I try to learn more about it. Even I have chosen the Kodi download, I can't find Kodi on it ^^ Minecraft runs fine (installed to test speed) And I used it the hole day as SSH proxy for my smartphone -> really stable. Now I try mumble server and a website with apache and mysql. But ^^ Lan speed is really slow ~ 15MByte/s.. PS: Awesome Thread for setup, thanks !!! hm docker, didn't hear about it, I start reading about it now^^ Did you do a wifi speedtest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 36 minutes ago, Jeycop said: Nice to read you made it. PS: Awesome Thread for setup, thanks !!! hm docker, didn't hear about it, I start reading about it now^^ Did you do a wifi speedtest?Now I try mumble server and a website with apache and mysql. and dont know docker! welcome docker is the best thing that appens to IT after Linux (my humble opinion) you have many containers already setup waiting.........with mysql, php, lamp etc just choose install docker from my post and follow some good tutorials, and you are learning good stuff man (again my opinion) thanks to all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aniel Arias Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 hello so i have been trying to run Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_4.14.11_mate_2018 0323.img on my Mecool KM8 P Android Mini TV Box and i got it to boot up but i cant use the mouse or keyboard, please any help will be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatugazuhati Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 On 3/29/2018 at 8:11 PM, koakh said: Flashed in eMMC at first with Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180305.img.xz but without backup and restore like sugested......... Damn why I not try that LOL Thanks @Jeycop Its lightning fast running eMMC and a lots more space 25GB Free is more than enough simply awsome I setup the whole setup, that contains 4 docker microservice containers, webapi. mqttserver, mongo, and nodejs/aurelia spa running and with a load average of 1.06 top - 19:32:17 up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 1.09, 1.50, 1.26 Tasks: 162 total, 2 running, 160 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.5 us, 0.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 2815116 total, 846868 free, 989084 used, 979164 buff/cache KiB Swap: 1407520 total, 1319976 free, 87544 used. 1758744 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4377 999 20 0 936044 49136 12252 S 1.3 1.7 0:17.40 mongod 5411 mario 20 0 7484 1764 1192 R 1.0 0.1 0:00.19 top 4378 root 20 0 4624736 445216 12608 S 0.7 15.8 4:10.79 java 2600 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:02.63 kworker/3:2 3461 root 20 0 1029888 28788 15004 S 0.3 1.0 0:09.37 dockerd 3680 root 20 0 946616 8888 4592 S 0.3 0.3 0:04.32 containerd 4420 root 20 0 4761960 375840 12632 S 0.3 13.4 3:43.67 java 4975 root -2 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.69 ksdioirqd/sdio 1 root 20 0 155872 5712 2408 S 0.0 0.2 0:10.92 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 ksoftirqd/0 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.73 rcu_preempt 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_sched 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh 10 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 migration/1 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1 14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H 15 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2 Did you noticed that also in a clean install at system in idle we always have a system load that never goes under 1 caused by vdec-core in uninterruptible sleep? This is a kernel related problem appeared in last versions and I have reported it here. Do you have some idea about what do to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GneeChee Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Hello to all ... been lurking for a while - first post - I'm glad I found this place - kudos to all for the hard work that's been done here. I believe I might have the same problem as Aniel Arias ... I am trying to load Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_4.14.11_mate_20180323.img I get to the initial (root) login and my (USB) keyboard is non-functional. I should mention that I'm using meson-gxm-q200.dtb - the only one I've found so far that will work for me. Amlogic S912, Quad, A53, 2G/16G, dual wifi, 1G ether, 2 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0, 1 USB OTG, micro SD ... odd brand device .. "U2C" ... anything else you need to know? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aniel Arias Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 ohh thank god im not the only one, and yes meson-gxbb-p201.dtb is the only one is working for me (have tested few other but no luck), please need some advise on what to do next since i have depleted all my research and expend almost 2 days on this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koakh Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 39 minutes ago, fatugazuhati said: Did you noticed that also in a clean install at system in idle we always have a system load that never goes under 1 caused by vdec-core in uninterruptible sleep? This is a kernel related problem appeared in last versions and I have reported it here. Do you have some idea about what do to? I dont know about this idle problem. But when I push system and use more resources, like push docker containers for eg, I have all cores and CPU at higher levels. But I will watch this idle for higher values..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 10 hours ago, GneeChee said: I'm using meson-gxm-q200.dtb - the only one I've found so far that will work for me. This dtb file does not contain support for USB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GneeChee Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 44 minutes ago, balbes150 said: This dtb file does not contain support for USB. Well poop, that kinda sux ... but I do appreciate the reply and info. I think I've tried just about all the other dtb's, and most of them don't even start loading for me. If they do load, they freeze at various points. I'm not using this android tv box for anything other than something to play with. I'd like to wipe Android entirely and install Armbian internally - but I'm not sure where to start. (I know, I know ... always start with a complete backup ... haha) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatugazuhati Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 20 hours ago, koakh said: I dont know about this idle problem. But when I push system and use more resources, like push docker containers for eg, I have all cores and CPU at higher levels. But I will watch this idle for higher values..... It is a kernel process and you can check the problem in this way: ps aux | grep " D" root 2534 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 14:29 0:03 [vdec-core] root 6948 0.0 0.0 4312 648 pts/0 S+ 15:59 0:00 grep D @balbes150, if can help in dmesg I have this: dmesg | grep vdec [ 5.735325] codec:get gate vdec control ok ffffffc09319c000 [ 5.739991] codec:vdec_request_irq ffffffc00184efa8, vsync [ 5.861875] codec:used fix clk for vdec clk source! Instead using the kernel from Jessie with wich this problem isn't present in dmesg I have this: dmesg | grep vdec [ 5.657064] codec:get gate vdec control ok ffffffc0b3816500 [ 5.661865] codec:used fix clk for vdec clk source! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GneeChee Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 On 12/4/2016 at 4:42 PM, lvmc said: adb pull /dev/block/boot boot.img wget -c http://www.enck.org/tools/split_bootimg_pl.txt -O split_bootimg.pl chmod a+x split_bootimg.pl split_bootimg.pl boot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 lvmc staff 32M Dec 4 19:28 boot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 lvmc staff 7.0M Dec 4 20:08 boot.img-kernel -rw-r--r-- 1 lvmc staff 898K Dec 4 20:08 boot.img-ramdisk.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 lvmc staff 82K Dec 4 20:08 boot.img-second.gz I realize this is an old thread ... but what does it mean if I do the above steps to split the boot image, but no "boot.img-second.gz" file gets generated? (The other 3 boot.img files seem to be generated properly). TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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