Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

giacomo892 · Published in 2015-11-7 01:07:18

PeterPan replied at 2015-11-6 20:11
Loboris, thank you for your work on Debian8 images!

I have using the Raspberry Pi for some years. L ...

Loboris kernel has such drivers.. But simply they aren't loaded by the system.. This is the issue I've reported some posts ago.
I'm waiting for a kind Loboris answer.

loboris · Published in 2015-11-7 01:13:27

etopi replied at 2015-11-6 16:09
OK, so I just need to try a different OS. Does Lubuntu count as Ubuntu? Below is your original l ...

Firmware loading should work in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and Debian (Jessie & Wheezy)
Lubuntu is Ubuntu with LXDE desktop (and some Ubuntu modification), but the image uploaded is 15.05 (Vivid).
You can download the minimal Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and install LXDE (Lubuntu) desktop yourself (see the 1st post).
Maybe I should upload Ubuntu Trusty with full desktop. It is older, but firmware loading works, and it is faster.

loboris · Published in 2015-11-7 01:19:04

giacomo892 replied at 2015-11-6 18:07
Loboris kernel has such drivers.. But simply they aren't loaded by the system.. This is the issue ...

Sorry, I don't have any experience with dvb-t drivers, so I can't help you.
Related to firmware loading, see the previous reply.

etopi · Published in 2015-11-7 01:44:42

loboris replied at 2015-11-7 01:13
Firmware loading should work in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and Debian (Jessie & Wheezy)
Lubuntu is Ubun ...

Thanks for the fast reply. I'm going to try this Distro first.

OrangePI_Jessie_Xfce.img Debian 8 with XFCE Desktop

I also have Fedora and Kali. I might try Fedora as well, but I don't think Kali is actually what I'm looking for at the moment. If you could do a Ubuntu Trusty that would be awesome, but I'm sure you're ridiculously busy alread so no worries either way.

Thanks again.

etopi · Published in 2015-11-7 02:53:57

Debian Jessie wouldn't recognize my keyboard.  It wasn't a USB issue because I switched my mouse and keyboard around and still didn't work.  The mouse worked fine.  Not sure why this is, but didn't have time to play with it.

Moved on to Fedora.  Keyboard worked fine this time, but when I tried to run fs_resize it said command not found.  Again, not sure why this is, but didn't have time to play with it.

Plugged in my USB wifi and got the same results as I did on Ubuntu found in post #906 in this thread.  I'm guessing I have to blacklist the default driver and load the 8192cu.ko module, but I didn't have a chance to test it.

I'm taking off for the weekend.  I'll give it a try on Monday and report back.

giacomo892 · Published in 2015-11-7 03:17:34

loboris replied at 2015-11-7 01:19
Sorry, I don't have any experience with dvb-t drivers, so I can't help you.
Related to firmware lo ...

Thanks for your reply.

Firmware loading IMHO is another issue. That DVB-T dongles doesen't need any firmware just the kernel module the load and "manage" the device.
As I said, the lobo1 kernel has all the modules but when you plug the dongle nothing happens.. just a line in dmesg. If I manually load the modules (they load) but nothing more happens... Do you have any idea why we have all ingredients but nothing happens?
btw i'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 7/8 all with the same issue. So i'm commencing to think that this is a kernel issue. Or it is too old.. or simply bugged. Can you try with your experience to compile a sunxi-next mainline kernel for our OrangePI-PC?

PeterPan · Published in 2015-11-7 05:31:09

giacomo892 replied at 2015-11-7 01:07
Loboris kernel has such drivers.. But simply they aren't loaded by the system.. This is the issue ...

The kernel has some dvb-t drivers, that's right. But the rtl2832U is still missing.

giacomo892 · Published in 2015-11-7 18:47:17

PeterPan replied at 2015-11-7 05:31
The kernel has some dvb-t drivers, that's right. But the rtl2832U is still missing.

Ok... so we can wait if loboris can enable them in the kernel configuration...
Isn't the rtl2832xxu the one we need? That one is there.

sdlm · Published in 2015-11-7 19:49:58

Hi all!
I want use hardware acelerated video rendering on my Orange-Plus, but ..

> es2_info
EGL_VERSION: 1.4 (DRI2)
EGL_VENDOR: Mesa Project
EGL_EXTENSIONS:
EGL_MESA_configless_context, EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context
EGL_CLIENT_APIS: OpenGL OpenGL_ES OpenGL_ES2 OpenGL_ES3
GL_VERSION: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 10.3.2
GL_RENDERER: Software Rasterizer
GL_EXTENSIONS: ...

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I think, row "GL_RENDERER: Software Rasterizer" - it's not so good.
Kernel modules with Mali drivers enabled:

> cat /etc/modules
ump
mali
mali_drm
8189es

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I'll try compile User Spase Blob from here. But .. I recive:

> make config
rm -f config.mk
make config.mk
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/sunxi-mali'
make -f Makefile.config
make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/sunxi-mali'
ABI="armhf" (Detected)
VERSION="UNKNOWN" (Detected)
Makefile.config:57: Unknown/unhandled Mali Version "UNKNOWN"
Makefile.config:58: Use VERSION=(r2p4,r3p0,r3p1,r3p2-01rel1) instead
Makefile.config:59: *** Unknown/unhandled Mali Version "UNKNOWN". Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/sunxi-mali'
Makefile:12: recipe for target 'config.mk' failed
make[1]: *** [config.mk] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/sunxi-mali'
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'config' failed
make: *** [config] Error 2

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Becouse in file .. function MALI_GET_API_VERSION return api_version.version eq 401 .. but expected value from 8 to 23 accotiated with .. driver api versions .. from r2p2 to r3p2-01rel3.

So, how I can get hardware acelerated video ?
Where I can get User Spase Blob (for Mali driver) for api version 401 ?
I don\t want to compile kernel (with mali driver with api version less than r3p2-01rel3) .. I'am newbe in that.

Sory for my english.

wellwei · Published in 2015-11-7 23:58:47

giacomo892 replied at 2015-11-7 18:47
Ok... so we can wait if loboris can enable them in the kernel configuration...
Isn't the rtl2832x ...

in my opinion just apt-get install gqrx gnuradio or so on