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sukanime

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With dtb.img from @xXx i can boot the Armbian_5.27_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20170323.img.xz , but i got No Signal on Boot time... its gone when it ask to login.
So the Framebuffer on Boot time it make my Samsung TV out of range, so it give No Signal..... or there is something else....
To @balbes150 , i have a question:
1. I got Error when proses boot, how to disable it, can i just delete boot.bmp in BOOT Partition to disable it?
2. I Got Trash Error in Mate Desktop, this is not happening back then when i try with Armbian 5.21 - it just like these error mentioned by xXx in here -

3. Where is Auto Mount ? in Odroid Ubuntu Mate, i can auto mout when i plug flashdisk or usb harddisk?

Thanks alot for Balbes150 and xXx

balbes150

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1. The first start takes more than 5-8 minutes on a slow or large media. No signal when you start with external drives is fine. After launch and is ready, she will turn on the monitor.

2. The file "boot.bmp" have no effect (it is not yet used), you can delete it.

3. Automount in Ubuntu works.

xXx

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@sukanime

 

For the trash error in mate you need to install mate-applets package.

 

Auto mount of usb drives should be working on mate desktop out of the box ( you see the icons it in Desktop, and click - click ).

In CLI though ( no GUI ) there is no auto-mounting.

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sukanime

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  On 4/13/2017 at 2:53 PM, balbes150 said:

1. The first start takes more than 5-8 minutes on a slow or large media. No signal when you start with external drives is fine. After launch and is ready, she will turn on the monitor.

2. The file "boot.bmp" have no effect (it is not yet used), you can delete it.

3. Automount in Ubuntu works.

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1. I'am sory if i'am not clear with my question, my Problem is i have "No Signal" on the process off booting, i delete the boot.bmp but its not helping it, so how to make the process of booting to see the log of boot process ? i go to https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/

there is no info about /boot/armbianEnv.txt in Boot Folder, i try to change verbosity
what about amlogics905x_init.sh , where i can get the reference information to edit this file?
What it is Blank fb ? do this setting couse "No Signal" on My Samsung TV Screen ?

2. Yup, it doesn't have any effect.
3. Its strange, it not automounted when i plug usb harddisk Hitachi Touro 2TB with ext4 filesystem ,
but if i plug usb flashdisk it auto mounted, but it's ask to choose whats apps to open, but no CAJA filemanager to choose.

and i got new problem, playing Video with VLC.
its will make soundcard module driver tainted.

here the log when i run VLC in console to see debug info, why its asking libvdpau_sunxi.so : 

sukanime@Mini-M8S-s905:~$ vlc
VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80)
[0000000028175160] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_sunxi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_sunxi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


 

Here Module Driver Taintent log:

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Please Help me with this VLC Bug... i like to play movie with VLC.

Thanks @balbes150

sukanime

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  On 4/13/2017 at 3:55 PM, xXx said:

@sukanime

 

For the trash error in mate you need to install mate-applets package.

 

Auto mount of usb drives should be working on mate desktop out of the box ( you see the icons it in Desktop, and click - click ).

In CLI though ( no GUI ) there is no auto-mounting.

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Thanks for the reply, i already reads the solution from your post in page 25 and i do what you write in there, thanks again.
I just want to give more report about it to Balbes, so in the future release this problem will be fixed.

When i plug my Hitachi Touro 2TB, i don't have the icon.

Btw, do you have "No Signal" after Google TV Logo? or you can see the text of log progres ?
 

Shimon

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@balbes150  I think I've just discovered a bug in the booting sequence. 

 

Trying to boot from a USB disk while another USB drive is connected, ends up booting Android from eMMC. Booting from an SD card works as expected, and the USB drive can be left connected.

balbes150

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  On 4/13/2017 at 5:43 PM, sukanime said:

1. I'am sory if i'am not clear with my question, my Problem is i have "No Signal" on the process off booting,

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To get the output in the startup process - you need to rebuild the initrd script to enable activation of the monitor in the beginning of the system start (with the addition of the utility fbset part of the initrd). I tried to discuss this issue with the developers Armbian, but I was advised not to change the scripts generating the initrd, do not get the problem in the future. Maybe I'll return to this question later (I don't have time for this).

 

  On 4/13/2017 at 5:43 PM, sukanime said:

Its strange, it not automounted when i plug usb harddisk Hitachi Touro 2TB with ext4 filesystem ,

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I don't have a free USB drive with 2 TB to check.

 

  On 4/13/2017 at 5:43 PM, sukanime said:

here the log when i run VLC in console to see debug info, why its asking libvdpau_sunxi.so :

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Whenever possible I will try to check.

 

  On 4/13/2017 at 8:08 PM, Shimon said:

Trying to boot from a USB disk while another USB drive is connected, ends up booting Android from eMMC. Booting from an SD card works as expected, and the USB drive can be left connected.

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This is not a bug. It is a feature of the poll the USB ports and destination numbers in u-boot. Reversed the discs. Every model TV of the boxes in u-boot has its order assign a name to the USB. In the script add the ability to run on all ports (when connected to multiple ports), but this will increase startup time. For those who need it can advise to collect your own version of the two scripts activate and launch, with the addition of a survey of USB ports 1 , USB 2 etc (add the lines with these descriptions in both script and preactivate-multiboot with the new settings).

balbes150

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  On 4/12/2017 at 3:06 PM, umiddelb said:

I'm using mainline with some additional patches related to the ODROID-C2, but a common config for both the C2 and the KVIM (make gx_defconfig). 

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I looked at Your kernel sources, but there's a lot of changes to my branch. You can specify which patches imposed on the source ? I want to try to compare the behavior of the kernel (with the patches and without them) when working with the network.

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sukanime

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  On 4/14/2017 at 6:44 AM, balbes150 said:

1. To get the output in the startup process - you need to rebuild the initrd script to enable activation of the monitor in the beginning of the system start (with the addition of the utility fbset part of the initrd). I tried to discuss this issue with the developers Armbian, but I was advised not to change the scripts generating the initrd, do not get the problem in the future. Maybe I'll return to this question later (I don't have time for this).

 

2. I don't have a free USB drive with 2 TB to check.

 

3. Whenever possible I will try to check.

 

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1. So the problem is, Video out is turned off, Thanks for the info, i hope its will get better.
2. Never mind, lookslike the problem on Ext4 FS in my Usb Harddisk.
3. Thanks, do you think there is vdpau sunxi stuff in your Armbian.

I have new problem, i want to make the Mate Desktop much better, and i want to install the Desktop Manager.
After i check the packages installed in Ubuntu Mate Odroid , i install it.
on the install process, initramfs change the /boot/initrd.img-3.14.29 

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu16) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.8) ...
ln: failed to create hard link '/boot/initrd.img-3.14.29.dpkg-bak' => '/boot/initrd.img-3.14.29': Operation not permitted
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.14.29
update-initramfs: Converting to u-boot format
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...


But after it, i got Glitches on my Desktop, i have to re install Armbian to my Samsung EVO 32GB Micro SDCard to solve it.
i have try it, two times install the packages and i will get glitches so i do two time re install Armbian.

 

and why Lightdm failed to start.... but not much info showed in console, just lightdm stopped [OK] see sysctl status lightdm.status but when i type thoose command, there no info.

 


here the packages install log:

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Shimon

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  On 4/14/2017 at 6:44 AM, balbes150 said:

or those who need it can advise to collect your own version of the two scripts activate and launch, with the addition of a survey of USB ports 1 , USB 2 etc (add the lines with these descriptions in both script and preactivate-multiboot with the new settings).

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Thanks, I completely forgot the s905_autoscript was hardcoded to query just usb 0:1

 

@sukanime 

In the interest of readability, please use the spoiler tag when pasting huge walls of log output. Look here for a neat example:

 

umiddelb

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  On 4/14/2017 at 7:58 AM, balbes150 said:

I looked at Your kernel sources, but there's a lot of changes to my branch. You can specify which patches imposed on the source ? I want to try to compare the behavior of the kernel (with the patches and without them) when working with the network.

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- I have collected some patches for the KVIM, but all of them have been merged into mainline, so no patches regarded to the KVIM.

- This is the patchset for the C2, mostly related to reliable ethernet operations, USB and cpufreq support.

- I've started to edit a common kernel config for both the ODROID-C2 and the Khadas VIM

 

That's all, the rest of the patches are related to freescale/nxp imx6 devices, like the CuBox-i and the Utilite.

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sukanime

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Hi All,

Is there anyone in here using Armbian for Desktop use with Login Manager, and fully Desktop not the Limited Mate.
I try the to make it with Login Manager lightdm but not working, any sugestion for Login Manager?
the strange thing, the way Lightdm Init to start is just like in Odroid Ubuntu Mate,
Lightdm starting sesion with user c1, Lightdm starting sesion with user c2, etc.

And is anyone have tried Update it, and I try to install alot of packages and its make Armbian Desktop usable with glitches.

I want to have a Desktop for Editing Audio, Editing Video, a working VLC, Image editing (Gimp, Inkscape, ImageMagick)
so, Is Armbian is for me or not ?

Thanks....

xXx

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@sukanime

Everything you said is working ( except login manager i believe ) but not as you would expect from an amd64 or x86 Desktop machine.

  On 4/15/2017 at 1:32 PM, sukanime said:

Is Armbian is for me or not

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So my short answer to your question would be: Why not?

You can watch videos with mpv ( not HD ), edit or create images with gimp,

create vector graphics with inkscape, watch youtube, listen to music, etc etc etc

and have all the power of linux for plenty of other uses, with minimum power consumption.

All you need to have is some patience at times.

Also these little boxes can make great thin clients ( that's my main use, but i have successfully created subtitles with subtitlekomposer using only my MiniM8S box ).

sukanime

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  On 4/15/2017 at 4:06 PM, xXx said:

@sukanime

Everything you said is working ( except login manager i believe ) but not as you would expect from an amd64 or x86 Desktop machine.

So my short answer to your question would be: Why not?

You can watch videos with mpv ( not HD ), edit or create images with gimp,

create vector graphics with inkscape, watch youtube, listen to music, etc etc etc

and have all the power of linux for plenty of other uses, with minimum power consumption.

All you need to have is some patience at times.

Also these little boxes can make great thin clients ( that's my main use, but i have successfully created subtitles with subtitlekomposer using only my MiniM8S box ).

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Thanks for the reply....
 

Actually, i already have comfortable with Odroid Ubuntu Mate from Koxx release, i think its based Odroid Ubuntu Mate v 1.2
It's have Login Manager (lightdm), i can watch video with VLC, of course MPV too, but i like VLC. even i can watch with Kodi in Mate Desktop.
Gimp, ImageMagick, Inkscape work like a charm, make DLNA Server for sharing Video, Audio and Pictures.
Installing Update will not make the system strange ( i disable apt sourcelist for Odroid, just using Ubuntu apt sourcelist)
but... for editing Audio.... Audacity stuck when initializing Soundcard with PulseAudio, so Audacity will hang.

In Armbian, i can make Audacity to work like a charm.... that what i don't understand.... Armbian use Pulse Audio doesn't it? So Why in Armbian it could initilizing Soundcard. @.@
But, VLC will make the module driver to crash.... T_T
And Installing packages from Ubuntu cause Graphics Glitches..... i dont know which packages that make the Graphics glitches...

I will try out to play with Odroid Ubuntu Mate v2.3, and i will see how the thing going on.

 

Btw, i love this Little Box, it can do all the thing i need , so right now i rarely using my laptop anymore.


Thanks a lot.....
 

etona

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You will also now find cheap (less than 100e) x86 (intel atom) boxes which will be able to have anything you want, they are basically regular PC that will run windows or linux....

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What is a diference between a intel box and android box? 

Hard disc & mmc??

Is it posibile for me to buy a external hdd, and use this hardware, like "regular pc", with normal linux mint, or ubuntu, or windows, when i must use windows for somethig..

I think about one ssd, to buy, for my documents, and when I can have some normal os with ssd, Ill buy one.

xXx

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  On 4/18/2017 at 4:33 PM, etona said:

What is a diference between a intel box and android box? 

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The hardware and the operating systems supported.

Android boxes are usually arm based and can run Android or Linux ( at least for  now ).

Intel boxes are usually atom based and can run Windows, Linux, Android and possibly others.

etona

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On "arm" devices will newer be a posibile "to install linux mint" (or ubuntu for pc, or laptop), only armbian and similar os, for "arm devices"?

sukanime

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  On 4/18/2017 at 6:16 PM, etona said:

A diference is in motherboard?

Hdd will NOT help?

 

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The diference on CPU Architecture , see here about it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_architectures

You can install Armbian, Debian for Arm, Ubuntu for Arm to HDD.
It's what i did, i install Ubuntu Mate from Odroid ( http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:c2_ubuntu_release_note_v2.3 ) to USB Harddisk. its make the system lag free.
 

 

 

  On 4/18/2017 at 6:56 PM, etona said:

On "arm" devices will newer be a posibile "to install linux mint" (or ubuntu for pc, or laptop), only armbian and similar os, for "arm devices"?

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I think, it's not possible , Linux Mint doesnt have Arm version they only have x86.
Arm Devices/SBC only for OS Based Arm.
Ex, if you have Odroid C2 SBC or Raspberry Pi 3, you can install Linux OS for Arm like Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, etc.

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Cpu...

I have a nexbox, with 2.0ghz cpu, and need 4 os, inside.

Android is part of shit, nothing work corect, becouse that isnt a mobile phone with touch screen...

Libreelec is just for kodi and kodi work like on android, 2% better.

On armbian grafic and video are....

People said this odroid is better, but on my nexbox odroid  dont work..

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  On 4/18/2017 at 6:56 PM, etona said:

On "arm" devices will newer be a posibile "to install linux mint" (or ubuntu for pc, or laptop), only armbian and similar os, for "arm devices"?

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linux mint it's debian with mate DE and testing repo... You can build you own os mint, *buntu etc. But you can't use arm tv box like x86 pc, if you need some specific option like wine etc. If armbian from balbes150 don't enough for you, image from odroid will not change situation significult.

sukanime

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  On 4/19/2017 at 6:47 PM, etona said:

Cpu...

I have a nexbox, with 2.0ghz cpu, and need 4 os, inside.

Android is part of shit, nothing work corect, becouse that isnt a mobile phone with touch screen...

Libreelec is just for kodi and kodi work like on android, 2% better.

On armbian grafic and video are....

People said this odroid is better, but on my nexbox odroid  dont work..

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What do you need to do with your Android TV Box Arm ?
For me , My Mini M8S with S905 using Odroid Ubuntu Mate image but with custom kernel is the best for me, i can install Ubuntu Mate, Xubuntu (based ubuntu odroid) and Kubuntu (based ubuntu odroid)
Install it on USB Harddisk and it will smooth, i use it for every day use, like watch video with VLC (no fullscreen), browsing the internet with Firefox and Chromium Web Browser (its have 3D acclerated), editing pictures with gimp, imagemagick and inkscape, creating Epub with Sigil, playing with Kernel Source and other apps source code And make it as DLNA server with MiniDLNA so i can watch video throug wifi and lan on DLNA Devices.

About Ubuntu Odroid, You can try my build in here http://www.freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/s905/others-ac/602739-mini-m8s-s905-ubuntu-mate-64-bit-with-x-and-kodi-and-vlc-on-sdcard
Or Koxx release in here http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/s905/beelink-ac/568654-minimx-s905-ubuntu-16-04-64bits-with-kodi-and-x-on-sdcard

balbes150

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Image update 20170421.

 

Added to the library libMali (for fbdev). Please check the Firefox browser with file playback at resolution of 1080p. I have to check we have an odd situation, tried full screen youtube videos , like playable, but only if choose the 720p (screen resolution is set to 1080p). The temperature in armbianmonitor shows about 50 Degrees. I'm not well versed in matters of videoscoralie. I'm not clear whether acceleration is working, whether this effect is from something else. For work acceleration in the video (mpv vlc etc) it is necessary to recompile with support for Mali r5p1-01rel0 . I have not yet figured out how this is done in Ubuntu (something to build the package). I would be very grateful if you could drop links to instructions on how to do it.

 

test link

 

 

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I found a video which offers a 1080p

 

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Everytime you do an image update, can I do a "apt-get update" or something like that, or do I have to burn the image onto my micorSD card again?  Right now, I download your newest image and burn it onto my microSD card using Rufus.

sukanime

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  On 4/23/2017 at 2:59 AM, thc013 said:

Cannot find the serial port

 

it is a x96 board with pcb version s905x v 1.1

 

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I cannot find it too....
but there is something make me curious, i saw two audio port jack 3,5" in the corner right bellow.
is that Audio Jack 3,5" to connect to Headphone or Eksternal Speaker?

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  On 4/23/2017 at 6:26 AM, sukanime said:

is that Audio Jack 3,5" to connect to Headphone or Eksternal Speaker?

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It's for the IR receiver which is not integrated on the board.

 

I got this box too and I can confirm that it works well with balbes150 image (just test with mate, but downloaded latest with xfce). I just modified lowest freq to 250MHz instead of 100, since I found it not very responsive for a desktop usage.

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