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dieg0

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Thanks @ pel.hu, also tested OpenElec and running on Q912, with @ balbes150 Q912_otg.dbt.

 

By the way I have the beta of day 3 and I was without the wifi. I imagine that to prove by the descent of yield that some contributed in the 905, in 912 I did not to it and noticed in no time. Not high temperatures, the Q912's body is made of metal and I guess that helps.

 

This version is installed on an external SSD OCZ 120g SATA 3 and works, the Trim function is not available, but I have done this.

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Greetings and thanks.

cba

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Hi everyone, and thanks to @balbes150 for the great work!

On my Beelink GT1 s912 2GB/32GB running ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20170302.img , I have

- ethernet: OK

- wifi: OK

- BT: not working, not even after upgrade. @Blop , can you detail the steps you've done to make hci0 appear?
 

On a side note for those interested, Docker installs fine with 

apt install docker.io

Even if docker's check-config,sh complains a bit, all ARM images I've tried work!
 

For docker-compose, these steps worked for me: 

apt-get install -qy python-pip --no-install-recommends
pip install pip --upgrade
pip install setuptools
pip install docker-compose

 

Blop

Blop

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@Igor, Hello, I didn't try to compile the whole img, only the kernel, from the gt1 itself. I never manage to make the bluetooth work with brcmfmac, but it was always ok with the patchram method I describe bellow. The wifi worked for me directly since the last img (and after apt upgrade and reboot, also the bluetooth)

Ethernet was only an issue when I tried the dtb beelink_gt1_g2.

 

@cba, Hello, I used brcm_patchram_plus in order to load the bcm4345C0.hcd. It works fine but not always at the first try (I can't explain it at the moment). Try brcm_patchram_plus --patchram /lib/firmware/bcm4345c0.hcd --enable-hci --no2bytes /dev/ttyS1. Then you can do a hciconfig hci0 up.

Igor

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@Blop


Can you make a picture of PCB or provide Ethernet and Wireless chip details & PCB version number.

Blop

Blop

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Mine is a A912, with AP6255 wifi chip (bcm43455c0_ag firmware for wifi, bcm4345c0 for bluetooth are working fine)

I didn't open the box yet and as ethernet has always been working (except with beelink_gt1_2g dtd), I didn't have a look at the chip.

 

Can't see in dmesg infos about ethernet chipset, I will have a deeper look in the logs.

 

Edit : also tried libreelec on my GT1 : without providing dtb file, all is OK, ethernet, wifi, bluetooth, but if I take beelink_gt1_2g, no more ethernet, same issue with dtb extracted from 104 beelink firmware (I will try to extract the dtd from 110 firmware that's still on emmc on my box in order to see the differences, that could be interesting  ;) )

Blop

Blop

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I cross compile it this night, will try it this evening on my gt1  (kernel drivers for T820 seems to be integrated)

Blop

Blop

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@lvmc I can't say from now, compilation on an ubuntu VM only went to the end this night (I'm in France) and I can only have access to my gt1 this evening.

 

Edit : I just have a quick second look in the build made this night before I came back to home : t82x libGLES_mali.so is part of the build for q200. So there's still hope ...

 

Nofan Tasi

Nofan Tasi

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about building the amlogic buildroot : is it as simple as say 

make  <my>_defconfig
e.g.
make mesongxb_p200_defconfig
make

Or does one have to tweak every single option in config ?

So what would be a good config for s905(x) or s912 ?

Blop

Blop

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Some news from my side ... I wasn't able to boot on the openlinux kernel (different method used but no boot at all or keeping on the first beelink logo, or black screen ... )

But ... I didn't have uart wired so ... I'm probably not seeing what the system is asking to me ...

 

@Nofan Tasi I built it with the simple make, with the q200_2g config (which is perhaps not the best config, but which should I think work ? ) build process is ok on my side with no errors, just warnings.

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Blop

Blop

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Hello,

 

Just some news from my experiments with the amlogic buildroot ...

 

As I couldn't boot (or to be exact, not seeing anything because I don't have uart wired), I had a deeper look into the code and in fact, there's nothing new regarding opengl ...

 

Nofan Tasi

Nofan Tasi

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@Blop : I built libMali.so from buildroot and tried it on gentoo arm64 (s905(x)). It worked. But as you say, there might very well be nothing new.

buvaluy

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Hello. I've installed latest ubuntu-5.26 mate on beelink gt1 2G/32G very easy for first time.

Seems like it has not gpu driver, I also have low resolution. I've installed 5.24 firmvare and libmali. Nothing is changed.

What do I have to do? Do I have to use 5.24 ubuntu instead of 5.26?

 

Lmsensor does not see any sensors also(via sensors-detect). How to fix it?

 Upd: When I login via ssh I can see CPU Temp in invite message. How to watch it else.

 

Thanks.

 

pangu

pangu

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I have Beelink GT1 s912 2GB/32GB and like to try it with  ubuntu. Do you know where can I download image file:: ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20170302.img?

Any  describe how to burn image for this box?

 

Thanks,

balbes150

balbes150

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20 hours ago, buvaluy said:

Hello. I've installed latest ubuntu-5.26 mate on beelink gt1 2G/32G very easy for first time.

Seems like it has not gpu driver, I also have low resolution. I've installed 5.24 firmvare and libmali. Nothing is changed.

What do I have to do? Do I have to use 5.24 ubuntu instead of 5.26?

 

Lmsensor does not see any sensors also(via sensors-detect). How to fix it?

 Upd: When I login via ssh I can see CPU Temp in invite message. How to watch it else.

 

1. Already have version 5.27 , it is better to try it.

2. To measure the resolution need edit file /boot/amlogics905x_init.sh. It was discussed many times, look in this thread or the topic s905\s905x.

3. to monitor temperature You can use the command "armbianmonitor -m"

 

 

mmss

mmss

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@Blop @Nofan Tasi

Hi, is possibile to use this alternative also for armbian?

 

LibreELEC

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Amlogic has not released fbdev Mali libraries. This build uses libhybris and Android gralloc Mali driver to provide OpenGL for Kodi - because of this the builds will always be experimental until proper Linux libraries are released (if ever).

 

buvaluy

buvaluy

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9 hours ago, balbes150 said:

 

1. Already have version 5.27 , it is better to try it.

2. To measure the resolution need edit file /boot/amlogics905x_init.sh. It was discussed many times, look in this thread or the topic s905\s905x.

3. to monitor temperature You can use the command "armbianmonitor -m"

 

 

Thanks.

I've just installed latest 5.27 Debian xfce.

glxinfo says 

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

On ubuntu it was something about VMware.

Looks like GUI works slow without mali gpu driver. I don't see mali in lsmod output.

Do I need install it manually?

I have 1920x1200 monitor.

 

Update. After setting up resolution it became little bit faster.

mplayer says: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_sunxi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

Thanks, balbes150.

 

 

 

 

balbes150

balbes150

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16 hours ago, buvaluy said:

On ubuntu it was something about VMware.

Looks like GUI works slow without mali gpu driver. I don't see mali in lsmod output.

Do I need install it manually?

I have 1920x1200 monitor.

From Mali T830 GPU (s912) Linux for Amlogic is not licensed , so it is not freely available.

buvaluy

buvaluy

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2 minutes ago, balbes150 said:

From Mali T830 GPU (s912) Linux for Amlogic is not licensed , so it is not freely available.

Thanks. 

Did I undertand you correctly?

It's best gpu support that I can get from this build(5.27 debian).

For s905 this build provides  gpu driver and vdpau facility.

 

Anyway thank you for build. I am gonna use it as headless server.

Blop

Blop

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On 23/03/2017 at 8:49 AM, mmss said:

@Blop @Nofan Tasi

Hi, is possibile to use this alternative also for armbian?

 

LibreELEC

 

Hello,

 

I did not have the time to try to import libhybris into an armbian image but it's surely something to try and that can work. (the libreelec image for s912 is working fine except some crashes of Kodi)

Shimon

Shimon

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Could any Alfawise H96 Pro+ users run the phoronix ramspeed benchmark? It'd be interesting to know if you could tell DDR4 versions from the DDR3 ones without opening the case :)

 

PM me if you need help running the suite.

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