cico Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Hi I tried several image but cannot boot..it is compatible for orange pi PC ? my target is BTSync. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Orange Pi PC and all other boards containing H3 chip are not supported by Armbian. I can add that this is true for any other distribution. Nevertheless there are few ROMs based on buggy 3.4.39 Android kernel which is not supported by Allwinner nor community. I recently looked upon the one and only kernel and u-boot source. All I can say is that we need a lot of work & I haven seen much motivation doing this. Not by myself nor others. Factory image build procedure is dirty and with help of some AW binaries. Building really sucks and results are also very poor. I won't say never but dunno when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cico Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 thanks for your reply ...pity that does not work. Lubuntu works very fast on it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTL Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 This would be a particularly interesting board because of its price (below tax limits here, making the price that much better). I'm not surprised if the factory docs and images are useless, though. That kind of boards is where Armbian would really shine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I don't have resources to cover nor motivation to invest into clearly deprecated kernel development. The only thing what can be done is to build yet another image with the one and only kernel. With small fixes at most. Not really worth doing it. You can see how much was done on a new AW generation in about one year to get a better picture of what's going on. New chips are already out, not to mention that there are other vendors out there ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technik007_cz Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Hi guys, the Allwinner H3 boards are cheap but there is lack of support from the manufacturer side. I bought this board on Mar. 23 2015 and I do not see major improvement. They released more linux distro's but everything contain basically same kernel in bad condition. Developing of good kernel should be on shoulders of the manufacturer not community like lot of "east" manufacturers trying to do. Compare to other boards the OrangePi on H3 is wasting of time and I thing everybody can pay $10 more and get lot of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santas Claus Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 I'm a little confused... The orange pi mini is shown prominently on the downloads page, yet this thread suggests it's not supported. Shouldn't OPI-mini be removed from the downloads page? Santas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 The orange pi mini is shown prominently on the downloads page, yet this thread suggests it's not supported. Nope, Xunlong designed a few A20 boards (Banana Pi, Lamobo R1, Orange Pi and Orange Pi Mini). These are fully supported by Armbian due to its SoC and the state of software support for the SoC. Then they started with H3 boards that are all more or less the same, the OPi PC being the first interesting one (since the H3 is made for dirt-cheap systems without that much additional components on the PCB and the OPi PC being the 1st such a design -- all other H3 based Orange Pi are bloated with additional components). We won't have Armbian support for H3 designs anytime soon. Unless mainline kernel support for H3 improves it's just a waste of efforts. In case you own already a H3 board beware that the root cause of all stability issues is most likely not the old Allwinner 3.4.39 kernel used now but insane overvolting/overclocking by the manufacturer (see post #26 here) instead. That also applies to thermal problems, that can be easily fixed the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Trying to follow the news about Mainline Kernel for H3, I've seen a lot activites from MRipard and Hans de Goede recently. Hoping this will happen soon ! Anybody know in more details what remain to be done ? https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-next https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-wip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob Gadikian Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 @martinayotte I think that right now the next big piece of the H3 support puzzle is networking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 In the mean time, networking can be workarounded using USB-Wifi dongle, such as RTL8188. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 FYI: SMP should work now without the ugly hack from two weeks ago: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/linux-sunxi/XNpJYmSeN1o/ygQM7S5mCAAJ Regarding network it seems Allwinner used a new GMAC implementation starting with H3 (and A83T/R58/H8 and A64/H64/R18 as well) therefore LABBE Corentin writes a new mainline driver from scratch. Progress unknown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electric Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 For a fee Orange Pi One no plans to release the assembly OS? The board is already possible to buy ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 What do you mean with 'a fee'? Feel free to donate at any time Regarding Orange Pi One please read these two threads: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/617-wip-support-for-the-upcoming-orange-pi-one/ http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/504-quick-review-of-orange-pi-pc/?p=3758 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiras Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 hi, i am running h3 based opi plus armbian on plus2 and ethernet works well.i am stuck here and lost hours for building the desktop environment, please help. startx returns with command not found error.could you please advice me how to work start desktop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 i am running h3 based opi plus armbian on plus2 and ethernet works well. i am stuck here and lost hours for building the desktop environment, please help. You could grab the latest available Jessie image for the Plus (untested since Igor's not in the lab this week) from here http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/617-wip-orange-pi-one-support-for-the-upcoming-orange-pi-one/?p=5476 and if's not already coming up with a desktop then follow the steps outlined in our documentation to add a normal user and upgrade to a desktop environement: apt-get -y install xorg lightdm xfce4 tango-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme reboot and report then back in the aforementioned thread. Please also have a look in our new H3 Mini FAQ in the meantime. I would also suspect that you have to adjust /boot/boot.cmd so that it reads setenv bootargs "console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 cgroup-enable=memory swapaccount=1 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=32 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=1" (use mkimage afterwards as outlined in the documentation -- link above) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 i am running h3 based opi plus armbian on plus2 and ethernet works well. Is that the internal PHY now working under the mainline kernel or are you using a USB dongle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Sinoviop's H3 board: https://www.facebook.com/sinovoipbpi/?fref=ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Smart move since they get superiour software support out of the box since Armbian's H3 image for Orange Pi Plus should work already or just needs minor modifications. But at least they managed to use a crappy DC-IN solution so customers will suffer from problems (the so called 'SinoVoip experience' ) GBit Ethernet using RTL8211, AP6212 for WiFi/BT. Hmm... if they would use a barrel plug for DC-IN (already prepared on the PCB), would drop AP6212 and eMMC and sell this for a competitive price this would be the most interesting H3 board so far for me. Even if one USB host port isn't exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatahata Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Hi all . i use orange pi PC . and see youtube very smoothly -> shot by camera the following video in front of TV >and sound comes from HDMI . cat ~/.asoundrc pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 } very nice OS i think armbian . ----- thanks tuyosi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatahata Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 using armbian , sound comes from TV without doing anything . armbian is best choice of orange pi PC . video shot : 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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