nylonatathep Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 A very thank you to TonyMac32 and the great Armbian comunity! I've compiled the desktop image with no special options (just select the target) and everything is running very nice. The CPU clock is set to max 1.5 GHz, slightly overclocked but it runs without headsink around 50-60 °C on high loads the temperatur rise up to around 65-68 °C in my case. OpenGL (glxgears) and Gles2 (es2gears) runs fine, even the WebGL in Chromium is supported. Video is not HW accelerated in included mpv and Chromium, I think there are any patches needed, but its ok at the moment. I have only one problem, there is no audio. Only the DummyOutput is present. aplay -l says no soundcards found... dmesg has no message related to "sound" or "audio". USB soundcard works pretty well but is not that great experiene Can someone give me a hint to get sound working? load missing modules etc.? For easy testing, the image i compiled can be downloaded here (7zip file): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xl-4_R1aolxJMZFqlZdb0voNxOxbJ4PC regards 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 10 hours ago, nylonatathep said: problem, there is no audio. Welcome to "wip" images! 😉. I have not taken a look at the device tree yet, that was my goal for tonight/tomorrow. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nylonatathep Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 I know the wip status but I was so impressed that nearly everything is working that I tested The same problem with sound was on libre's first release image and was fixed on second but they don't write a changelog or someting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 On 8/17/2019 at 6:56 AM, nylonatathep said: I was so impressed that nearly everything is working that I tested Thanks goes to @Neil Armstrong and BayLibre, they've been handling mainlining Amlogic. I simply curate any additional patches and keep things playing nice with the build system. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Added nightly minimal images (root ≈ 500 Mb in size) for La Frite.https://dl.armbian.com/lafrite/ 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Let me know if anyone experiences HDMI issues, my 2 monitors are somehow always problematic, but the u-boot video drivers appear to have some quirks to them just plain angers my hardware. My Waveshare 7" HDMI works fine other than some technicolor effects on the handoff from U-boot to the kernel. With my 4K the board appears to be trying to jump 4k60 and the monitor simply rejects it outright, the HDMI-DVI adapter just doesn't like to work randomly, it seems to stem from U-boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ning Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 I don't know S805X, but S905X (khadas VIM1) doesn't work well with some HDMI TVs, eg Samsung TVs. My 4K Samsung TV, S905X failed to set to 4K mode, TV shows unsupported mode, this issue happens on legacy buildroot kernel, and mainline kernel, but not on Android kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constantius Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 A 32 bit image would be suitable for la frite. Well, that's how the sever minimal option remains. But what of this server - none ... Rather, I will wait for 32 bit raspbian from lover pi but I do not expect miracles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 10 hours ago, constantius said: A 32 bit image would be suitable for la frite Possibly, but making a 32-bit image for a 64-bit SoC is covered for those willing to do it themselves elsewhere in the forums. I see no real advantages. 13 hours ago, ning said: I don't know S805X, but S905X (khadas VIM1) doesn't work well with some HDMI TVs, eg Samsung TVs. S805X is to the S905X what the H2+ is to the H3. both are Meson GXL's. Interesting, my 4K monitor is a Samsung, and it is 4K that appears to be the tripping point. Perhaps a discussion with @Neil Armstrong may be helpful, although I've bothered him with these sort of issues before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanrhum Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 The WIP image, on a usb key, works well on two 1080p screens (Sony TV and Samsung monitor). There are only strange images and colors between the integrated bootloader and the kernel starting like on your 7" screen. As a server image, it seems to work well and after install armbian-config, I was able to configure the board as easily as other sbcs supported by armbian. I suppose that simply halting the board is not possible since it reboots when you ask for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ning Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 4 hours ago, TonyMac32 said: Possibly, but making a 32-bit image for a 64-bit SoC is covered for those willing to do it themselves elsewhere in the forums. I see no real advantages. S805X is to the S905X what the H2+ is to the H3. both are Meson GXL's. Interesting, my 4K monitor is a Samsung, and it is 4K that appears to be the tripping point. Perhaps a discussion with @Neil Armstrong may be helpful, although I've bothered him with these sort of issues before. from amlogic maillist, 4K support is still under develop, right? https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/65469/ https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/58725/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 17 hours ago, ning said: from amlogic maillist, 4K support is still under develop, right? I would say yes, but BayLibre is also involved in the u-boot/kernel support of the Libre Computer boards, so I would guess all the current WIP is baked in. As far as it goes though, I set the resolution to 1024x768 and pluged it into my 4K screen and had no problem. Jumped it to 1080p, also no worry. Tried 4K and it failed. The bootloader started in 4k successfully a few times, so my assumption is it is attempting to use the recommended resolution it gets back from the monitor, only something is going wrong a lot of the time, whether it is the HDMI support itself *or* it is the clock source/divider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ning Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 6 minutes ago, TonyMac32 said: BayLibre is also involved in the u-boot/kernel support of the Libre Computer boards may I ask the relationship between BayLibre and Amlogic, I barely see engineers from Amlogic submit patches to Kernel community 8 minutes ago, TonyMac32 said: Jumped it to 1080p, also no worry. Tried 4K and it failed. same as you. Only 4K failed. If you want to dicuss with @Neil Armstrong , my another 1080P Samsung TV, has issue with 1080P mode, for all kernels (Android, legacy, mainline), image is larger than screen, other modes works fine. other HDMI screen works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 10 minutes ago, ning said: my another 1080P Samsung TV, has issue with 1080P mode dump the EDID for all involved, that will probably be helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Armstrong Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 S805X doesn’t support 4K, even if it works some time, it’s not stable enough to consider functional, I sent fixes to Da for that, but he’s still testing them. any (binary) edid dump would help ! and for 4K development, the hdmi2 yuv420 4k60 mode is only used on Cheap 4K TVs, workout this patchset you’ll have 4k30 just fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ning Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 7 hours ago, Neil Armstrong said: S805X doesn’t support 4K, how about S905X? For Android OS shipped with Khadas VIM1 it supports 4K60, but its framebuffer size is 1080P in this mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 On 8/23/2019 at 9:33 AM, ning said: how about S905X? For Android OS shipped with Khadas VIM1 it supports 4K60, but its framebuffer size is 1080P in this mode. I will double check this, but my "Le Potato" board seems to have no trouble with 4K screens (I don't often test this feature, it's my main monitor, I don't have a second test monitor so the test is a little disruptive of my work flow) [edit[ It took it a long time to bring up the desktop on this 5.3 RC kernel, but Le Potato: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djismgaming Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 installing armbian-config and the full desktop on top of the minimal image runs like a champ on this La Frite! Thanks so much guys for this awesome work (in progress :D) and temperatures around 15C (on idle, ~60C on LibreComputer current desktop images) less than with the desktop images direct from LibreComputer, WOW! Even overclocked to 1.5GHz! You guys rock for a nightly image! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acwell Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 (edited) Set up my La Frite earlier this week as a unifi controller - it was impressively easy. Maybe 15-20 minutes total including updating the bootloader etc. I donated a few Euro, since I really appreciate this project making it so easy to get Debian/Ubuntu onto ARM hardware like this. Everything has been working quite well. Only issue I noticed is the readme describes writing the image to an SD card, which this device doesn't have (maybe its just generic instructions?). Either way, booting in USB disk mode from uboot and dd'ing the image to eMMC works just fine. Edited November 9, 2019 by acwell clarification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuti Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 On 9/4/2019 at 2:51 PM, djismgaming said: installing armbian-config and the full desktop on top of the minimal image runs like a champ on this La Frite! Thanks so much guys for this awesome work (in progress :D) and temperatures around 15C (on idle, ~60C on LibreComputer current desktop images) less than with the desktop images direct from LibreComputer, WOW! Even overclocked to 1.5GHz! You guys rock for a nightly image! Hi @djismgaming how you did you manage to move armbian to the eMMC? Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djismgaming Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 On 11/13/2019 at 10:28 AM, manuti said: Hi @djismgaming how you did you manage to move armbian to the eMMC? Thanks Technically I flashed the image directly to the La Frite eMMC with etcher on a Debian 10 laptop via USB2. Using the bundled USB male to male cable. Upon bootup, I press (a bunch of times) Esc on the keyboard connected to La Frite, then after ~3 seconds (start pressing from turning ON the La Frite) I press down 5 times, then Enter and it appears on linux as "Linux UMS" a 8GB drive you can flash to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuti Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 4 hours ago, djismgaming said: Technically I flashed the image directly to the La Frite eMMC with etcher on a Debian 10 laptop via USB... Thanks. One more question. In which USB port you attach the keyboard and in which the male to male USB cable? Kind regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djismgaming Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 25 minutes ago, manuti said: Thanks. One more question. In which USB port you attach the keyboard and in which the male to male USB cable? Kind regards. No problem here to help any way I can. I used keyboard in right USB port and USB cable on left USB port. Looking at the board with CPU in the UP position and USBs towards me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuti Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 11 hours ago, djismgaming said: No problem here to help any way I can. Thanks a million! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuti Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 The La Frite reboot every time I try to boot in eMMC mode USB. Any way to 'dd' the image on the eMMC? I can see the eMMC module from Armbian using lsblk command. I can't see eMMC install in armbian-config or use nand-sata-install because the system must run from SD card. Any idea to move armbian to the eMMC? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuti Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 On 11/17/2019 at 12:37 AM, manuti said: The La Frite reboot every time I try to boot in eMMC mode USB. Any way to 'dd' the image on the eMMC? Solved: finally found a way. With keyboard attached (black cable in the below picture) to the further USB port from GPIO and USB male to male (light blue in the below picture) in the closest USB to GPIO and with additional power feeding from the micro USB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Just built/tested desktop Bionic for this board, flashed to eMMC and from USB, added topic in "Bring-up" to move it to "Supported". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djismgaming Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 This is awesome! Thanks for your hard work! Amazing performance and support! Thanks again! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevals_zgb Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 I've been trying for 2 days now to install Armbian on Le Frite... Can you help me guys please. I attached keyboard to the further USB port from GPIO and USB male to male in the closest USB to GPIO and HDMI to TV. But I cant get boot menu . I am pressing Esc but nothing but nothing happens. I only get this shown in the picture https://prnt.sc/rdg3ck What a problem this can be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanrhum Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 12 hours ago, Nevals_zgb said: What a problem this can be? What is your install media (emmc or usb)? I tested armbian with one of the latest image (1 ou 2 weeks ago) and it worked using an usb key. Have you updated the spi-nor firmware? Have you tried several usb keys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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