Hi @snake2903,
next to my X96 Max+ (S905X3, Mali G31) I have Manjaro Arm XFCE also running on my X96mini which is based on S905W/Mali 450 as well (boots with meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb).
If you don’t hear sound via HDMI using your Tanix TX 3 you might try the following:
“sudo pacman -S kvim2-firmware” seems to return error on not being able to locate the mirrors. All the mirrors sites return error 404.
My system had a kernel panic (GTKPro) during updates and corrupted the USB Drive so have to reburn image. For your info, the Manjaro_Arm_Xfce_Vim3_201127 image (from Tripole) still does not have “NetworkManager” and “Sound” enabled or the “brcm driver for GT King Pro”.
Tried to perform CLI "sudo pacman -S kvim2-firmware` but somehow all the mirror sites return error. So have resort to manually copying files.
Managed to have network connection after manually the correct brcm drivers and sound by “chmod a+x /usr/bin/g12_sound.sh”.
Sorry but can you share the dtb name you use in vim kernel?
Let’s figure one thing at a time.
First we can sort the boot process on mainline kernel then we look into sound.
from chewitt’s 5.9.y branch. The same one I described in post #413 which includes the links to download it.
(N.B.: In that post I named it meson-sm1-x96-air-4g-kernel59.dtb to make clear it is the one from the 5.9.y branch and not the one from the 5.10.y branch which I experimented with before).
Thanks for the tips. Somehow the image did have kvim2-firmware or the required wifi drivers. For the time being after copying the following drivers to /lib/firmware/brcm/
BCM4356A2.hcd,
brcmfmac4536-sdio.bin,
brcmfmac4356-sdio.clm_blob,
brcmfmac4356-sdio.txt
and “systemctl start NetworkManager.service” (somehow NetworkManager did not startup from first boot after re-burn image) and “systemctl enable NetworkManager.service --now”. I have Ethernet and Wifi working.
Other than wifi dirvers what else is in the kvim2-firmare?
Did a system update using Package Manager and was successful now is with linux-vim 5.9.8-2 (updated from linux-vim 5.9.8-1).
Typing frm Vim2 S912 running 5.10.1-1 but this is linux-vim
Next I will try linux-5.10.1 now.
Sorry Wifi is soo damn confusing made me work on the image 3 times coz S912/S922x have mixed wifi chips
I finally ended up doing this so any amlogic tv box users can get the wifi working out of the box. sudo pacman -S kvim1-firmware kvim2-firmware ap6398s-firmware
Cause these 3 packages have AP firmwares which are commonly used in amlogic boards.
@JFL If you’re using boot with extlinux then you should be able to boot on 5.10 without any issues only those who are on old boot method used with uEnv.ini will not be able to boot.
I will update all the boot packages soon.
Update: Package uploaded to unstable for new bootloader boot-vim3-2020.09-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz with this you can boot 5.10
I have 5.10.1 (mainline) up and running on my X96mini (S905W / Mali 450) but I am not able to boot it when using my X96Max+ (S905X3 / G31). Will try more .dtb’s now …
Anyway, @spikerguy many thanks for keeping up the good work!
I forgot to mention that I had to redo the procedure after reboot because sound was off again. To fix that problem you first have to turn sound on as described before and than open a terminal and type sudo alsactl store to make the changes permanent.
Its in unstable so please be patient and update fully or else it will break the system.
Unstable have boot-vim3-2020-09 which have chainloader and can not 5.10 without any issue.
5.10 is also in unstable so users will recieve it once it is available in stable.
Did you try the s905x3-s922x version and changed it to u-boot.ext ?
What do you do with these tv boxes? :o
Do you see uboot on hdmi output? Can you share details of where it gets stuck?
Just downloaded and burn new Manjaro-ARM-VIM3-XFCE-20.12 on Beelink GT King Pro. Boot up with no issue. Kernel is linux-vim 5.9.8-2.
Just notice that the VIM3-XFCE-20.12 image size seems to be quite a bit larger than normal (941MB vs 839MB) and the u-boot still uses the uEnv.ini instead of the newer extlinux.conf method.
Thanks for the great work and support. Wish Manjaro Team and you A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.
in the 5.10.1-1 linux-vim