How to install armbian in h618?

[Nick A]

My 6.10 kernel needs more work. The patches for Ethernet is broken. I think the hdmi works on my box tho. I would stick with 6.9 for now. 

Edited October 1 by Nick A

[L Jumadi]

@MMorales I maybe have same problem but not aware as I just unplug adaptor to switch off, and when stuck just replug then its normal boot.. so I guess it only happen intermittently and because some of electronic component not warmed up

Edited Wednesday at 04:02 AM by L Jumadi

[L Jumadi]

@Nick A when I try your 6.10 my HDMI works, one ethernet patches I disable because conflict with my defconfig patch but my ethernet still work. Then I patch wifi also work.. need back to 6.9 just because no header to compile openvfd :)

[firepower]

I got wifi working by making link > file in /lib/firmware/brcm

brcmfmac4330-sdio.tanix,tx6s.bin > brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin

brcmfmac4330-sdio.tanix,tx6s.txt > brcmfmac-ap6330-sdio.txt

Also have Cinnamon Desktop/Menu now working after purge and reinstall of cinnamon.

 

Still need to get BlueTooth and Ethernet working.

 

Thanks @Nick A

Edited Thursday at 03:07 AM by firepower

[MMorales]

@Nick A thanks for the info and all your work. Do you know how we can get 6.9.12 kernel headers ? 
 

[MMorales]

Some animations modifying glyphs.c in the openvfs driver.
I let this here for myself or anyone who looks for this kind of silly thing.

glyphs.hanimaciones.py

 

[firepower]

@MMorales Your LED Display work is really cool and nerdy 🤯😎🤓

[MMorales]

Tested in Transpeed 8k H618 4g 64g & Vontar 6k h618  4g 32g

@Nick A As we talk, here are the final "howto" to make it working leds display with openvfd. If you find any problem tell me.

 

First go to armbian-config to change some kernel with has his own headers available like 6.10.9 (i had problem with rebooting with 6.7.12)
configure an internet connection

unpack the attached file to root dir /
cd /linux_openvfd

cp openvfd.dts /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/                      
armbian-add-overlay /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/openvfd.dts
reboot

ln -sf /boot/System.map-$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/System.map
cd cd /linux_openvfd/driver
make -j 4
depmod -a
make modules_install
modprobe openvfd
cd ..
chmod +x OpenVFDService
cp OpenVFDService /usr/sbin/
cp openvfd.service /etc/systemd/system/openvfd.service
#apt install python3-psutil
systemctl enable openvfd.service
systemctl start openvfd.service 

After this, openvfd is working but if you want my scroll.py as a service uncomment in openvfd.service and comment the existing one.
#ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '[ `cat /proc/device-tree/openvfd/compatible` = "open,vfd" ] && /sbin/modprobe openvfd; python3 /linux_openvfd/scroll.py'

 

Correct openvfd.dts, some compiling fixes and extra glyphs for cool animations added to this file. 

linux_openvfd.zip
 

 

@Nick A Please let me know if you make a new release with kernel 6.9.12 with this working cos now i made my server but no hdmi and no ethernet in 6.10. 

 

Edited Friday at 06:47 PM by MMorales

[MMorales]

@Nick A This is a compiled version of OpenVFDService for controlling the brightness.

Usage: OpenVFDService [-t] [-dt TYPE] [-h]

	-s USER_STRING	Run OpenVFDService in custom string mode.
			Displays the USER_STRING on the screen.
	-ss SECONDARY_USER_STRING	Display a smaller secondary string
			in addtion to USER_STRING.
	-b Brightness [0-7]                       <-----------------------------
	-t		Run OpenVFDService in display test mode.
	-dm		Run OpenVFDService in display demo mode.
	-dt N		Specifies which display type to use.
	-co N...	< D HH:MM > Order of display chars.
			Valid values are 0 - 6.
			(D=dots, represented by a single char)
	-h		This text.

 

OpenVFDService_with_Brightness_control.zip

Edited Friday at 06:47 PM by MMorales

[firepower]

I started following you instructions for openvfd.  clone git and changed the kernel and reboot. but i dont have ethernet and it kept trying to connect and time out.

ended up reloading image on SDCARD.  lol

 

think i found the reason why cinnamon fails to load menu.

cinnamon app does not exist zero size.  xfce4-about.desktop

think i will reload image again and work out exactley th problem with cinnamon

 

Edited Friday at 04:40 PM by firepower

[MMorales]

@firepower my instructions dont tell u to do any git clone. only unpack the zip file.
And you have another type of machine i dont know about your environment. 
If you have kernel header installed u could follow the howto.

[firepower]

starting from git clone https://github.com/augin/linux_openvfd

 

i did this.  it not problem i was just testing , my image is still not fully working so just playing around with it trying to learn  more about armbian.

but breaking it has given more info about cinnamon problem which i want to fix. as first fix was more by brute force purge and reinstall cinnamon

which is not needed but uninstal and reinstall menu applet.

I need to check android DTS and compare with my Armbian DTS , think some gpio / uarts  need fixing for ethernet and Bluettoth

but im noob so lots to learn.

Also need faster SD card as one i have are slow.

I gone back to testing miniarch image also,  and ethernet does work with it.

 

Edited Saturday at 08:44 AM by firepower

[L Jumadi]

@MMorales better you suggest this to liberman github, so many other get benefit

Edit: Nvm, Sorry I thought you make the correction of the service

Edited Saturday at 03:51 AM by L Jumadi
wrong perception