volodya327 Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Guidol, Balbes150, thanks for your answers. It helps me.
clarkss12 Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 I can not get this new "Armbian_5.34_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_4.9.40_mate_20171112" or "Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_4.9.76_mate_20180219.img" to install on my MiniM8S2. The older version works great. I have tried to extract the dtb image for my box and renamed it to dtb.img and placed it on the root of my microSD card. Checking the microSD card that works, it does NOT have a dtb.img in the root of the microSD card. I tried holding the reset button, and that did not work. Tried using "reboot update" from termial (Android). still did not work. Not sure what else to try.. thanks
manuti Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 14 hours ago, balbes150 said: To check the operation of full-screen video from Linux, I am looking for users who have TV box models with s905X \ s912 and the ability to connect the UART console. Added the ability to manage via SSH (console UART is not required). Better way. You can count on me to try with S905X in MXQ Pro and pro plus. 1
balbes150 Posted February 21, 2018 Author Posted February 21, 2018 10 hours ago, clarkss12 said: Not sure what else to try.. For the new 4.9 kernel, you can only use dtb files from an image (from the /dtb directory). Any of firmware with Android 7 (it uses a kernel 4.9). Dtb files from kernel 3.14 are not compatible with kernel 4.9. 7 hours ago, manuti said: Better way. You can count on me to try with S905X in MXQ Pro and pro plus. Thank you for offering me help. But I had already decided this question.
chpasha Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Hello everybody, I have an Amlogic s905 Box with 1gb ram (Model MX Plus - they say it is a full clone of Tronsmart Vega95 Pro). I tried two images (installed to nand) - ubuntu server 3.14 and now debian server with same kernel (ARMBIAN 5.37 3.14.29) - unfortunately I experience the same issue with both installations, at some point of time (maybe after a couple of days) - one of processes starts to use all cpu time so the box becomes unresponsive (I can ping it, but cannot ssh-in anymore) - only reboot helps. Yesterday I left it in the such state for a whole night, in the morning it still was pingable but I could not ssh-in, even stopping some services via remote ssh command didn't work - so the system cannot recover. Both systems were relatively clean - openvpn, transmission-daemon, docker with couple of images (tvheadend, acestream) - nothing that would cause problems on libreelec (I must confess, that I run libreelec on different box, so there is still chance that it would also make problems on this one). I've got a couple of "hang-ups" even while compiling some docker image. I don't exactly know what process causes the problems since I cannot log-in anymore when it happens, so will have to setup some kind of monitoring (but like I said - there are only few of them). Did anybody experience similar problems? Any ideas how to fix or at least find the root cause of this?
chpasha Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 I've found a topic which seems to deal with similar issue but I'm not sure I can follow the workaround steps described in that one like downgrading the kernel and/or upgrading to some nightlies because we use some custom builds, don't we?
balbes150 Posted February 21, 2018 Author Posted February 21, 2018 2 hours ago, chpasha said: Did anybody experience similar problems? Any ideas how to fix or at least find the root cause of this? You set the normal cooling system (radiator + fan+modification of the housing for access of air) ?
chpasha Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 33 minutes ago, balbes150 said: You set the normal cooling system (radiator + fan+modification of the housing for access of air) ? no, I didn't modify anything. It doesn't look like overheating issue to me - it happens instantly and after reboot cpu temperature is very low (37-40 C). Can I ask you to upload a couple of older images of debian server (with armbian below 5.37)? I would like to try them - it really looks like software issue, especially after reading the topic with similar symptoms
balbes150 Posted February 21, 2018 Author Posted February 21, 2018 16 minutes ago, chpasha said: no, I didn't modify anything. It doesn't look like overheating issue to me - it happens instantly and after reboot cpu temperature is very low (37-40 C). Can I ask you to upload a couple of older images of debian server (with armbian below 5.37)? I would like to try them - it really looks like software issue, especially after reading the topic with similar symptoms I don't keep old images (of too many). Maybe someone of the users has them. Or you can try to install an older kernel from the options. https://yadi.sk/d/LBA4bXk_32RGZ6
chpasha Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 2 minutes ago, balbes150 said: Or you can try to install an older kernel from the options. that would be great. just do dpkg -i *.deb right? And I need only firmware-aml, linux-dtb, linux-image from the archive or anything else? what about linux-u-boot-amlogic-s905x and linux-stretch-root-amlogic-s905x - shoud I leave them as-is at version 5.37?
balbes150 Posted February 21, 2018 Author Posted February 21, 2018 Use only *image.deb and * dtb.deb. Package firmware is used for Wi-Fi (if it does not work with the current batch firmware 5.41)
chpasha Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 2 minutes ago, balbes150 said: Use only *image.deb and * dtb.deb. Package firmware is used for Wi-Fi (if it does not work with the current batch firmware 5.41) thank you, I will try and report the results in a week (should be enough to reproduce the problem, seems to happen not more than once in three days)
chpasha Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 Hello guys, I've tried to read the topic, but there are too many pages and the older instructions seem to be outdated (at least current s905_autoscript looks very different from those) - is it possible to free reserved memory for the true headless mode in current debian/ubuntu distros? what is suggested steps to achieve this and is the distribution stable if it is done?
windumasta Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 For a khadas Vi, when I try to install armbian on nand I get this trougth Uart Spoiler Spoiler Also in outpu from ssh I get Spoiler
balbes150 Posted February 22, 2018 Author Posted February 22, 2018 On 22.02.2018 at 3:55 PM, chpasha said: is it possible to free reserved memory for the true headless mode in current debian/ubuntu distros? what is suggested steps to achieve this and is the distribution stable if it is done? To reduce the size of memory reservations, you need to change the dtb file and the kernel configuration. On 22.02.2018 at 7:42 PM, windumasta said: For a khadas Vi, when I try to install armbian on nand I get this trougth Uart What exact image of Armbian do you use ? What version of the firmware in the eMMC ? What exact model and what dtb file is used ?
windumasta Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, balbes150 said: What exact image of Armbian do you use ? What version of the firmware in the eMMC ? What exact model and what dtb file is used ? I'm trying with Armbian_5.34_S9xxx_Debian_stretch_4.9.40_server_20171112.img
chpasha Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 Hi there, I'm having problems trying to boot ubuntu s905 image on my mxq pro plus 2gb/16Gb/s905 - the box won't boot neither from sd nor from usb, it skips them and boots into Android inspite of multiboot being already applied - Libreelec installation boots without problems from SD on this box. My MX Plus box (1gb/8Gb/S905) doesn't have problems with booting from any of those media sources. I tried this distro and dtb images from it (I tried mxqplus, tronsmart meta and dtb from libreelec) without success. Do I miss something?
Eddy_T Posted March 1, 2018 Posted March 1, 2018 On 5/6/2016 at 3:59 AM, balbes150 said: After verification of the selected module, if everything is working correctly, you can add it to the autorun list (add string name of the module in the file /etc/modules). Can you please be more specific?
doc_bravn Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 Spoiler Поддерживается ли Armbian для Amlogic S905X аппаратное декодирование видео H264 и H265 HEVC в Kodi? Is Armbian supported for Amlogic S905X hardware decoding of H264 video and H265 HEVC video in Kodi?
balbes150 Posted March 2, 2018 Author Posted March 2, 2018 On 28.02.2018 at 6:37 PM, chpasha said: I'm having problems trying to boot ubuntu s905 image on my mxq pro plus 2gb/16Gb/s905 - the box won't boot neither from sd nor from usb, it skips them and boots into Android inspite of multiboot being already applied - Libreelec installation boots without problems from SD on this box. My MX Plus box (1gb/8Gb/S905) doesn't have problems with booting from any of those media sources. I tried this distro and dtb images from it (I tried mxqplus, tronsmart meta and dtb from libreelec) without success. Do I miss something? Activate your universal multiboot (using the image of Arabian). Now you use the old multiboot (from the image LE), it can only run images LE. On 01.03.2018 at 3:48 AM, Eddy_T said: On 06.05.2016 at 12:59 PM, balbes150 said: After verification of the selected module, if everything is working correctly, you can add it to the autorun list (add string name of the module in the file /etc/modules). Can you please be more specific? sudo cat dhd >> /etc/modules or sudo cat wifi_dummy >> /etc/modules 31 minutes ago, doc_bravn said: Is Armbian supported for Amlogic S905X hardware decoding of H264 video and H265 HEVC video in Kodi? yes
chpasha Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 4 hours ago, balbes150 said: Activate your universal multiboot (using the image of Arabian). Now you use the old multiboot (from the image LE), it can only run images LE. thank you, I'll give it a try. I also have a problem installing the system to the emmc - /dev/boot and /dev/data do not exist (I did flash a fresh android rom to emmc before trying this) /usr/sbin/fw_setenv initargs "root=/dev/data rootflags=data=writeback rw console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 mac=\${mac}" fails as well with message Cannot parse config file '/etc/fw_env.config': Invalid argument Can this be a problem with dtb-s for the last 905 ubuntu build with kernel 3.14.79? Installation to the emmc DID work on the previous ubuntu and debian builds with kernel 3.14.29 - so it is not about my box having some exotic emmc structure (actually it is a full clone of vega s95 pro)
balbes150 Posted March 2, 2018 Author Posted March 2, 2018 2 hours ago, chpasha said: thank you, I'll give it a try. I also have a problem installing the system to the emmc - /dev/boot and /dev/data do not exist (I did flash a fresh android rom to emmc before trying this) /usr/sbin/fw_setenv initargs "root=/dev/data rootflags=data=writeback rw console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 mac=\${mac}" fails as well with message Cannot parse config file '/etc/fw_env.config': Invalid argument Can this be a problem with dtb-s for the last 905 ubuntu build with kernel 3.14.79? Installation to the emmc DID work on the previous ubuntu and debian builds with kernel 3.14.29 - so it is not about my box having some exotic emmc structure (actually it is a full clone of vega s95 pro) Use the version 3.14.29.
chpasha Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, balbes150 said: Use the version 3.14.29. I could, but the problem is that I've already installed, configured and tested everything on a usb stick, hoping to move the system to emmc after that - repeating all of this would be really a last resort for me...unless there is an easy way to downgrade to 3.14.29
chpasha Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 13 hours ago, balbes150 said: Activate your universal multiboot (using the image of Arabian). Now you use the old multiboot (from the image LE), it can only run images LE. that did the job, besides that I noticed that my box seems to boot from usb only on usb-port 1 but I didn't investigate further. regarding installation to emmc I used older deb files from yandex disc to downgrade and used one of older dtbs - that did help
balbes150 Posted March 3, 2018 Author Posted March 3, 2018 The test version of the KODI-17.6 (for s905\s905x). Important warning. This version is built on Ubuntu, so when you try to install on Debian libraries may not be suitable and you will have to manually install the necessary packages and create the necessary links to these libraries. In the future, I hope to build a deb version of the package for Debian as well. The order of installing the new version on the previous images. 1. To remove all packages with for version 17.3 names that start in aml-* (amremote, mali, kodi). 2. Remove the package "libasound2-plugins" with all its dependencies (**this is important**). Corrected. This item does not need to perform. 3. Restart the system. 4. Install a set of new packages at this link (aml-remote aml-codec aml-mali6 aml-kodi). https://yadi.sk/d/NoKnDPJL3SxzbK 5. Restart the system. After these steps, you can test the new version of KODI-17.6. Please note-this is a test version and there may be errors. You can go back to the previous version of KODI-17.3 (remove the new packages and install old versions of packages). Update Armband images for s9xxx 20180303 . In the image with Ubuntu Mate now uses a new version of KODI 17.6 (for s905\s905x). https://yadi.sk/d/7iYtTCRh3SyBZT 1
balbes150 Posted March 4, 2018 Author Posted March 4, 2018 Added new package KODI-17.6 Debian. Installation order. Remove all packages starting with "aml -*". Download and install the command "dpkg -i " new packages (aml-amremote_5.41_arm64.deb aml-codec_5.41_arm64.deb aml-mali6_5.41_arm64.deb). To install the aml-kodi-debian package, use the command apt install -f /full_patch/aml-kodi-debian_5.41_arm64.deb to install all the dependencies.
DeterminedOpier Posted March 4, 2018 Posted March 4, 2018 Hi. I'm sorry to ask what is probably an answered question, but there are 47 pages of material here and I can't find a specific answer to my problem. In installed the current debian/xfce image from here: https://yadi.sk/d/5_32km_EsCV2A/ARMBIAN/mali-6/5.41_20180304 There are a lot of images here, so it is tough to figure out which is the right one. I did the su and ./install.sh and I running on the emmc now. It works perfectly. I added the wifi line to my modules file and it worked. And when I click the two sample videos, they play in tiny windows nicely. Larger window videos don't play well at all. They hitch up and eventually crash the system. I had a similar problem on an rpi, and I had to manually compile mpv with hardware acceleration. But I can't find that this chip has that. I am trying to duplicate on an s905x TV box what I was able to do on an Opi H3 with Armbian.
DeterminedOpier Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 The ubuntu mate image works a little better with the video, but when I play a true fullscreen file it is doing the same start/stop.
balbes150 Posted March 5, 2018 Author Posted March 5, 2018 Update image Armbian 3.14 20180305 Updated the KODI-17.6 package for Ubuntu and added the KODI-17.6 package for Debian. Now these packages can be installed on any system (Server, ICEWM MATE\XFCE etc). If install KODI-17.3, remove all old packages starting with “aml -*”. Download and install the command "dpkg -i " new packages (aml-amremote_5.41_arm64.deb aml-codec_5.41_arm64.deb aml-mali6_5.41_arm64.deb). To install the new version KODI-17.6 aml-kodi-debian\ubuntu package, use the command for Debian apt install -f /full_patch/aml-kodi-debian_5.41_arm64.deb for Ubuntu apt install -f /full_patch/aml-kodi-ubuntu_5.41_arm64.deb to install all the dependencies. 1
DeterminedOpier Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 Thanks for answering so quickly Balbes. So I have to install Kodi for it to work? I am using mpv as a video screensaver with xscreensaver. Not using it as a media player.
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