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If I understand correctly, the only difference is that PC+ has additional eMMC and WiFi. So a system with vanilla kernel for Opi PC+ should also work on the PC. Or are there other hardware differences?

 

The page states: "serial console only, no HDMI." Does this vanilla system support Ethernet yet, so one can login via ssh after installation? My targeted use would be a tvheadend server (without local video for the moment).

chocho

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  On 8/28/2016 at 7:18 AM, Christian said:

 

 
If I understand correctly, the only difference is that PC+ has additional eMMC and WiFi. So a system with vanilla kernel for Opi PC+ should also work on the PC. Or are there other hardware differences?
 
The page states: "serial console only, no HDMI." Does this vanilla system support Ethernet yet, so one can login via ssh after installation? My targeted use would be a tvheadend server (without local video for the moment).

 

HI,

This is a img with vanilla kernel: Armbian_5.17_Orangepipc_Debian_jessie_4.7.2

(Link removed. There is a oficial Armbian beta images: http://image.armbian.com/betaimages/ )

After a year collecting dust my Orange Pi PC is finaly in biznes with tvheadend install.

And a can say it is working better then my current RPI2 setup.

OPI PC, Geniatech Mygica T230 DVB-T2, tvheadend 4.0.9-12

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Christian

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  On 9/6/2016 at 5:36 PM, chocho said:

After a year collecting dust my Orange Pi PC is finaly in biznes with tvheadend install.

And a can say it is working better then my current RPI2 setup.

OPI PC, Geniatech Mygica T230 DVB-T2, tvheadend 4.0.9-12

 

Exaclty the same hardware and use case  :)  Only that I want to use tvheadend 4.2 (for the moment the beta versions of it).

Thanks for sharing! I downloaded it. How do I install it? With dd or similar programs? I renamed it to .img and could see with 7zip that it is only one partition including /boot on it. Normally there are 2 partitions in the image files: a boot partition with FAT and a system partition with ext4.

Igor

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  On 9/13/2016 at 12:52 AM, gabrielwong1991 said:

Hi chocho, do you have an image with Xdesktop installed?

There is no video driver on Vanilla images, so no desktop for now.

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No, you don't need to attach anything except power and Ethernet. Check if you are connecting to right IP, port (default 22) and if you choose ssh protocol. There are slim chances that something is wrong on our side but I did many tests lately and I am using this method most of the time ... I would notice if something is wrong. Try another SD card - perhaps the system is corrupted.

 

Edit: You need to wait for a while.

StaLeWaR

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I tested with my Orange Pi One.

Unfortunately it does not work.

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And the system freezes

I double-checked.

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tkaiser

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  On 9/16/2016 at 1:34 PM, Igor said: 
Linux version 4.7.3-sun8i (root@build-armbian)

That's your own build of new kernel ... 

 

True, but it's confirmed to work with 4.7 in the meantime and Martin also adopted his patches for DT overlays and I2C/SPI. I'm more concerned about the gcc version shown (mine on Xenial 16.04 is 'gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0 20160609' and I'm currently building an image to test montjoie's sun8i-emac-wip-v4 branch on OPi Plus 2E)

 

@StaLeWaR: What's your build host? Xenial as recommended?

gabrielwong1991

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I followed the steps in the documentation to let it boot itself, tried changing the sd cards with no luck (chocho image)

 

It still says in putty "Connection refused" although I could ping it :/

 

Any image for orangepi pc with vanilla kernel 4.7 available that I could try?

 

thanks

StaLeWaR

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No. I used Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 x64. It is also recommended in Building Armbian Docs.

root@build-armbian:/# uname -a
Linux build-armbian 4.2.0-27-generic #32~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 15:32:26 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
chocho

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  On 9/16/2016 at 1:52 PM, gabrielwong1991 said:

I followed the steps in the documentation to let it boot itself, tried changing the sd cards with no luck (chocho image)

 

It still says in putty "Connection refused" although I could ping it :/

 

Any image for orangepi pc with vanilla kernel 4.7 available that I could try?

 

thanks

This is a new freshly compiled img: Armbian_5.20_Orangepipc_Debian_jessie_4.7.4

(Link removed. There is a oficial Armbian beta images:http://image.armbian.com/betaimages/ )

but I don't think the problem is with img

StaLeWaR

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@tkaiser - Proposes to replace the build host Xenial with new version gcc ?

I would like to build your own vanilla kernel for Orange PI One

gabrielwong1991

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Hi chocho thanks for your new image... but however i still not able to get ssh access... is it correct when i boot up the pi pc, i get the red status light flashing twice continuously?

 

I have tried setting my LAN on my window computer to obtain ip automatically, no luck. Assign IP address like 192.168.10.20, subnet 255.255.255.0, default gateway 192.168.10.1 with no luck.

 

The only place I could think of to change is all on my window computer side. Since I dont have the monitor i cant even nano into /etc/network/interfaces to check for configuration...

 

I saw in the H3 board buyer's guide, tkaiser saids "Ethernet driver for H3 was the showstopper that prevented us releasing Armbian images with kernel 4.x so far." so chocho does your image have the ethernet driver?

tkaiser

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  On 9/17/2016 at 5:13 AM, StaLeWaR said:

@tkaiser - Proposes to replace the build host Xenial with new version gcc ?

 

IIRC I never used anything other than Xenial with gcc 5.4 when dealing with sun8i. Since our build scripts now install a few Linaro toolchains you could try out whether you can at least use 5.2 instead (assuming compile.sh is located at /var/git/Armbian/):

export PATH="/var/git/Armbian/toolchains/gcc-linaro-5.2-2015.11-2-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/:$PATH"
  On 9/18/2016 at 10:58 AM, gabrielwong1991 said:

I saw in the H3 board buyer's guide, tkaiser saids "Ethernet driver for H3 was the showstopper that prevented us releasing Armbian images with kernel 4.x so far." so chocho does your image have the ethernet driver?

 

I can't answer that but Fast Ethernet on the supported H3 boards should work pretty well when using our build system. But vanilla images are still experimental and only suited for developers. Developers use the serial console since everything else is just an insane waste of time: http://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_PC#Locating_the_UART

chocho

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Yes, I have ethernet and I have ssh access to my OPI-PC

How did you burn the img to sdcard

When power on my OPI-PC I see only green LED

gabrielwong1991

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I burn it using win32diskimager, rufus with DD image checked...

 

First boot I get a green light and a red light flashing twice continously, no documentation on what two red light says so dont know what it means

zador.blood.stained

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  On 9/18/2016 at 11:46 AM, gabrielwong1991 said:

First boot I get a green light and a red light flashing twice continously, no documentation on what two red light says so dont know what it means

Green light is turned on by u-boot (AFAIK) just as an indication that u-boot/SPL was loaded (since Orange Pi H3 family doesn't have a "Power ON" indicator)

Blinking red light is controlled by "heartbeat" trigger, "load average" value can be estimated by the time between blinks, other than that it doesn't mean anything.

 

You can try to

  • Use some kind of network scanner to scan your local network for new devices
  • Check DHCP server status/logs to see if it leased an IP address to a new device

but a serial console is a must for sun8i-dev images

StaLeWaR

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Today, I have built a new image
I use Xenial with gcc 5.2 as recommended @tkaiser
But it has not given a positive result.

 

 

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tkaiser

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  On 9/19/2016 at 9:40 AM, StaLeWaR said:

Is there a way to specify in compile.sh you need to use version 4.6 kernel?

 

4.7 is known to work, I currently test with 4.8-rc6 on Orange Pi Plus 2E (but using a different github repo). IIRC I never tried the combination of mainline kernel and u-boot 2016.09 so (stab in the dark) what about trying out to set BOOTBRANCH="branch:v2016.07" in userpatches/lib.config?

 

I'm thinking of this patch here that was needed when I played around with megi's cpufreq/dvfs stuff back in April (without this patch I ended up with panics like you now and maybe the patch doesn't apply cleanly to new u-boot version?)

javito

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  On 9/6/2016 at 5:36 PM, chocho said:

HI,

This is a img with vanilla kernel: Armbian_5.17_Orangepipc_Debian_jessie_4.7.2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B79f6C0VDMzybUo1SUlIbTJ3YjA/view?usp=sharing

After a year collecting dust my Orange Pi PC is finaly in biznes with tvheadend install.

And a can say it is working better then my current RPI2 setup.

OPI PC, Geniatech Mygica T230 DVB-T2, tvheadend 4.0.9-12

HI how i do for install tvheadend?

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