Armbian + KODI (Ubuntu\Debian) for SD & USB & eMMC

balbes150 · February 13, 2019, 2:24pm

Build together a new image specifically designed to work with MALI.

Order of use. To perform the initial startup Armbian as usual. After checking the system.

Download a specially created version of the media script.

Unpack.
Log in to the resulting directory and run the media script as ROOT.
After the script is finished.
Be sure to reboot the system with the new kernel.
Check and fix references to libMali libraries as described in the previous post.
Run commands as ROOT.

depmod
modprobe mali

To check the operation of the MPV with the regime of HW.
If the sound doesn’t work. Run the command as ROOT

update-initramfs -v -c -k uname -r

and reboot the system.

Tommy21 · February 13, 2019, 3:28pm

@balbes150 illegal option -r when running command update-initramfs -v -c -k uname -r

balbes150 · February 13, 2019, 4:05pm

See the description of this command on the Internet. Special characters are not displayed here.

kkkkk · February 13, 2019, 5:23pm

ok so I copied Armbian_5.73_Aml-s912_Ubuntu_bionic_next_5.0.0-rc4-next-20190130-g02495e76d-dirty.img file to SD card and renamed it to Khadas-emmc.img
Booted to VIM2 from another armbian on SD

mount /dev/sda1 /ddbr

and ran ddbr restore as I said before.
And no magic happened - system doesn’t boot anymore.

Can you please tell me - how to get fdisk partitioned system on eMMC?

balbes150 · February 13, 2019, 7:01pm

Why would you do that ? You violated every instruction. You recorded the image from Sd card to eMMC. Where did you see such a recommendation ? Utility DDBR is intended solely for the backup with the eMMC and then restoring from the backup.

Recovery via M-register. If you are going to create your own partitions, then from the beginning correctly install the system in eMMC with the transition to u-boot-2018 (Strictly according to the instructions in this topic). You check that the system normally started from eMMC. After that, start the system from the SD card and carefully (using GPARTED) redistribute the partitions created during the installation (reduce the last partition and create your new additional ones).

numbqq · February 14, 2019, 6:53am

Hello @balbes150,

Why you need to revet the kernel to 4.19 ? Does 4.20 have some issues with mali?

balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 7:13am

This version of Mali only works with kernel 4.19 (and with certain patches for this kernel).

balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 8:25am

New version

numbqq · February 14, 2019, 8:56am

Hello Oleg,

Could you please send me the 4.19.21 kernel deb packages for testing ?

Thanks.

kkkkk · February 14, 2019, 9:13am

ok so…
according to this instruction Armbian + KODI (Ubuntu\Debian) for SD & USB & eMMC
I’ve downloaded u-boot-2018.img
booted to my old and stable armbian sd i don’t wanna touch
in instruction it is said i need to dd uboot to mmcblk1 (sd card) - I don’t want to ruin it so what I did (and failed):

I made new bootable sd with Armbian_5.75_Aml-s912_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.20.5_20190211.img using “burn card maker” from https://dl.khadas.com/Tools/
booted to working sd and repartitioned new sd with my needs.
mounted sda1 and edited uEnv.ini to boot root from new partition (sda3)
unmounted sda1
dd if=u-boot-2018.img of=/dev/sda (instead of mmcblk1 witch is my working sd)
dd if=u-boot-2018.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 (it’s doesn’t work anyway so why not)
poweroff and replaced old SD with new SD with armbian 5.75
and booting freeze at this point:

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balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 9:38am

I can send. But they do not module Mali.ko. I’m currently working on the integration of Mali in the source code the kernel source.

balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 9:48am

Quote from the forum Armbian.

To install in the eMMC with uboot-2018, you need to first rename one of the existing files on the media " Sxxx-uboot.img " to “ uboot.img ” (select the option for your model). After renaming the file “uboot.img”, to install Armbian in eMMC, you need to run the script “ /root/install-2018.sh ”.

p/s/
I wonder why You make up your steps instead of just following the instructions ?

numbqq · February 14, 2019, 10:09am

Hello Oleg,

I just tested your latest image Armbian_5.75_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_4.19.21_desktop_20190214.img and install media script, glmark2-es2 and mpv work well, but I can’t open Chromium web browser, it stucks.
If execute it in command line I found some errors.

Unable to revert mtime: /usr/local/share/fonts
[2821:2821:0214/100237.917050:ERROR:gl_surface_egl.cc(336)] eglChooseConfig failed with error EGL_BAD_ATTRIBUTE
[2821:2821:0214/100237.922833:ERROR:gl_surface_egl.cc(336)] eglChooseConfig failed with error EGL_BAD_ATTRIBUTE
[2821:2821:0214/100237.923985:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(364)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[2780:2780:0214/100238.261334:ERROR:x11_input_method_context_impl_gtk.cc(144)] Not implemented reached in virtual void libgtkui::X11InputMethodContextImplGtk::SetSurroundingText(const base::string16 &, const gfx::Range &)
[2821:2821:0214/100238.496363:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.510963:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.518842:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.552954:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.568570:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.589042:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.618748:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.632883:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.657986:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.687092:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.714420:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.720949:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.747974:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.754484:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.781004:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.787984:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.814975:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.827632:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.847922:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.
[2821:2821:0214/100238.854870:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(310)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to make context current.

Do you have this issue?

If I delete /etc/chromium-browser/default then I can open Chromium web browser well, but no HW accel.

balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 11:56am

I checked at myself the regular browser, video works is accelerated in YouTube on a full screen (I don’t put options Chrome from a media script). What browser are you trying ?

kkkkk · February 14, 2019, 12:45pm

because I can’t find clear step-by-step instructions. And everything is strange

I created SD card with Armbian_5.73_Aml-s912_Ubuntu_bionic_next_5.0.0-rc4-next-20190130-g02495e76d-dirty.img

It booted and showed me

Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.73 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.9.40

not 5.0.0 But ok…

I copied /boot/S912-uboot.img to /boot/uboot.img
Ran as you told me:

./install-2018.sh

rebooted - uboot still 2015 and system booted to old khadas ubuntu I’ve installed before
plugged in SD card again and booted to Armbian
/boot is mounted with mmcblk1p1 but all files from it disappeared
I don’t understand… All I need is a fdisk partitioned emmc with kernel 5.x on one vim2 and kernel 4.x on another vim2. And I can’t get it for two days. What instruction I need to follow? Please help me…

balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 1:23pm

The manual is written for use when eMMC is FULL firmware Android. You have Ubuntu in eMMC, this is a completely different installation procedure. Either install the standard Android firmware (which comes from the factory) into eMMC or use another installation procedure.

kkkkk · February 14, 2019, 2:19pm

Ok.

I’ve opened new vim2 from the factory.
dd if=./Armbian_5.73_Aml-s912_Ubuntu_bionic_next_5.0.0-rc4-next-20190130-g02495e76d-dirty.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=8m
Booted to Vim2 and entered run update to boot from SD
And got kernel panic on boot - reset doesn’t help. With Khadas ubuntu on emmc it was booting.
Ok moving to 5.75 dd if=./Armbian_5.75_Aml-s912_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.20.5_20190211.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=8m
Booted to Linux aml 4.20.5-aml-s912
cp /boot/s912-uboot.img /boot/uboot.img
./install-2018.sh - finished without errors
rebooting to EMMC - and it booted ok… phew…

Can you please tell me why your image 5.0.0-rc4 shows kernel 4.9.40? Do you have an image with 5.x kernel?

balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 2:32pm

Write in detail what "run update"means. The image must be written by programs, not by the "dd"utility. This has been discussed many times in the Armbian forum - do not use “dd”. Writing through “dd” caused a lot of problems.
What reset doesn’t help ?

I have no images with core 4.9.40. Where do you get this core, I do not know.

balbes150 · February 14, 2019, 5:04pm

a screenshot from running on a VIM2 Armbian with core 5.0

numbqq · February 15, 2019, 1:20am

I use the regular browser from your armbian image, and install media script with option System & MPV.

When I remove /etc/chromium-browser/default from media script, I can play 1080P video on youtube.