armbian, quite nice!

[Jean-Philippe Theroux]

ok i successfully installed the os, i'll come back later with more feedback.

 

at the moment everything seems to work but this:

 

some midi devices are just ignored when some are working (i guess it must be driver related) because i think the midi device that isn't working is so old (pre 2000 i believe) i dont think midi device was class compliant at time time (i.e.: i need a driver on OS X for it)

 

that is ok, my nice yamaha keyboard and my drums works.

 

nice....

 

bluetooth support seems to be broken, i can list devices, but not connect to them. i havent tested with my ad2p compatible devices yet.

 

the devices are: microsoft 6000 bluetooth keyboard and a nexxtech usb 3.0 mouse.

 

impossible to pair.

 

but the rest seems just awesome.

 

oh and i tried to recompile kernel so i can remove console=tty1 in boot.cmd so i get i silent boot, 

tried to cross compile the thing using unbutu 16.04 in a vm, mounted my sd, . script aborted, it's looking for u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin

 

where do i fetch that file, or what im am doing wrong?

 

jean-philippe

 

and how do i insert the boot.bmp image at boot, would be convenient to know so i can do it in the first kernel compilation

 

thank you again armbian.

 

 

 

[Jean-Philippe Theroux]

further investigation shows that both my m-audio external card:

 

a m-box first gen (the beige and blue one)

and a frasttrack

 

are both recognized but the m-box plays really nice till it starts to output garbage sound after 10 secs of playing whatever. so it's not a lmms issue.

 

and the fastback, well seems to work... intermittently.

 

they're both usb powered.... is it possible that the board dosent supply enough voltage for all that's plugged on it?

 

just a guess like that, i might be really wrong, or maybe the set sample rates are just too high for the orange pi plus

 

 

let me know your thoughts.

 

jean-philippe

[Igor]

some midi devices are just ignored when some are working

 

Last time I was doing something with MIDI was in late 80' so I am not sure I can be much of a help.

 

This area is special in any case, so self build kernel is what you need to make some advance. You can try to enable possible missing features or back port drivers from more recent kernels. We can only assist you to bring the script, the compilation part into proper action (BTW: this should work out of the box). Whenever you run into a problem, build logs are needed to understand what's going on.

 

I guess Bluetooth is broken by design since it's proprietary. Most of people here does not care if BT works and we only try to make it work if it's on board and that basics works: HID and sending files. I read Bluetooth is buggy in area of audio connection since people tried to play music over it, but I think this part is fixable.

 

Boot logo is not available with the boot loader we use. Not yet.