Manjaro arm on Amlogic Tv box?

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Apparently it must be activated in the kernel to be able to launch Waydroid :slight_smile:

Hi, yes wayland is better integrated with gnome, but I really have trouble with it, I don’t like it. On kde I saw the difference Wayland vs X11 (Manjaro gnome starts directly with wayland) and it’s really smoother with.
Precisely if we change session x11 → Wayland, black screen, but if we set option to start directly with wayland it launches Plasma.

How to set option to start directly with wayland in KDE?

Hello, sorry for the response time. I am currently struggling to install armbian lol but with it I have the right processor frequencies, my 2560x1440p resolution is recognized natively, reboot and power button work fine. On the other hand I no longer have sound (fe.dai-link-0: ASoc: dpcm_fe_dai_prepare() failed (-22)) and I can not install on emmc.
In short, for wayland, install wayland-session for plasma (I don’t remember exactly the name) in pacman manager.
to test :
ctl alt f4 under kde_plasma to switch to console mode → dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
to set:
system-settings–>startup and shutdown–>desktop session–>choose wayland

Do you mean something similar to these errors:

[   60.640392] hdmi-audio-codec hdmi-audio-codec.4.auto: Not able to map channels to speakers (-22)
[   60.643564] hdmi-audio-codec hdmi-audio-codec.4.auto: ASoC: error at snd_soc_dai_hw_params on i2s-hifi: -22
[   60.653246] axg-sound-card sound: ASoC: PRE_PMU: be.dai-link-4-playback event failed: -22
[   74.648633] rfkill: input handler disabled
[   81.926431] hdmi-audio-codec hdmi-audio-codec.4.auto: Not able to map channels to speakers (-22)
[   81.929598] hdmi-audio-codec hdmi-audio-codec.4.auto: ASoC: error at snd_soc_dai_hw_params on i2s-hifi: -22
[   81.939431] axg-sound-card sound: ASoC: PRE_PMU: be.dai-link-4-playback event failed: -22

I have the above errors too but sound is available.

Thanks for the info.

I found the duct tape solution to the problem of changing RAM after bootloader upgrade (x96maxplus2, A2 modification, was 4 GB, became 1 GB). I have updated the android firmware by modificated firmware for other device (vontar x3) found on one russian forum. After that, the amount of available memory is correct

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Hello Spikerguy, in your next release could you add this patch ODROID-COMMON: gpu/drm: add new display resolution 2560x1440 · tobetter/linux@248da29 · GitHub to in the kernel and maybe a am6-plus-OC dtb like this :Overclock kernel · Issue #31 · ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian · GitHub
You are the best !

Hello
You can uselinux-odroid for tobetters kernel as i maintain that package from his source.

I cannot confirm to add oc dts as i cant maintain it regularly.

Will look into it later though to see how much time it will take.

thank you very much ! :slight_smile:
just, what do you mean by use linux-odroid please ?

It is a kernel package from tobetter source.
sudo pacman -S linux-odroid

Am6 dtb is not present in it though. Try on other device or copy the dtb.

Hello, thank you for taking your time to answer me, the only concern is that I am completely new to Linux. you mean that once in the desktop environment I have to open a terminal and enter this command ?

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Yes that is right.

Hi @spikerguy

Is linux-odroid also usable on GT King Pro on bootscript?

Overclock per my understanding from Beelink does not apply to GT King Pro Rev A model (S/N: SA9H…).

Would like to understand whether linux-odroid kernel is usable/stable on GT King Pro.

Yes. It will work.

@spikerguy
Does it also means the mainline linux kernel will also work with the bootscript boot?

Yes as long as there is dtb it will work.

Hello to all

I have the new Tanix-X4-Amlogic-S905X4-DDR-4GB-RAM-eMMC-32GB-ROM.
I’m trying to install the ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 image Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img.xz for now, I try to use 2 DBT files meson-sm1-sei610.dtb and meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb, without success booting the box …

Is there any way to boot this box ? Or a new DBT file to test?

Thank you for your support and help in advance

Hi,

following the updated wiki for amlogic TV boxes (thanks @danboid) I have installed “Manjaro-ARM-xfce-am6-plus-22.03.img.xz” to an sd-card, changed the dtb to meson-sm1-x96maxplus-vim1000m.dtb in uEnv.ini and my X96Max+ (with RTL8822CS wifi chip) boots without problem and the install process was very smooth. What a great experience - top job!

Sound works out of the box and after installing linux-khadas-headers, bc and dkms-rtl8822cs packages and running sudo modprobe 88x2cs wifi works as well and I achieve (both wired and unwired) about 120 MBits/s close to our router which has a max speed of 150 Mbit/s.

For testing purposes I have also installed linux-odroid kernel:

  • mouse is hanging/not drawn for a timespan of about 1-2 seconds. This happens about every 5-10 seconds.
  • sound works
  • wifi works
  • 2560x1080@75Hz → works well
  • 2560x1080@60Hz → screen flickers

Because of the mouse problem I have switched back to linux-khadas kernel.

With both kernels I have the following problem:
For a screen resolution of 1280x720 and resolutions below which do not have a 4:3 aspect ratio everything is displayed greenish. I saw this years ago when I was still using Armbian. This always happened when I burned an sd card and forgot to copy uboot.ext to the root partition of the sd card. Since am6-plus image does not use uboot.ext anymore I wonder if the problem is connected with the new boot loader?
I would also like to have 2560x1080 resolution in linux-khadas kernel if possible :smile:

But all in all this is a great update! Many thanks to the whole Manjaro team and @spikerguy !

P.S. @spikerguy : Could you please add bc to the list of dependencies in dkms-rtl8822cs? Thanks!

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Great. Thanks.

If not mistaken, @tobetter linux-odroid kernel have included the hardware cursor patch which seems to have issue on Xorg but works well on Wayland.

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