@Spikerguy,
I’ve been running Ubuntu focal with lima on kvim1 for few days, i did use android on it for the last few months, there are some bugs Ubuntu related, there are some with lima like Chromium not working, but overall it looks like amlogic s905/x has the best Linux support within amlogic soc’s.
thank you for providing Manjaro ARM Images for the VIM1. I’ve tried to boot this image here (https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/storage/vim1/kde-plasma/20.04/), but it doesn’t seem to contain a boot loader (the buildtin EMMC is empty at this time), the console output shows:
Hello @umiddelb
Thank you for trying Manjaro.
Manjaro images for vim’s need Android in enmc to boot.
We do not provide any bootloader as of now but once i get time to built mainline uboot for vims and they turn out to be fine then will release new images with mainline uboot.
Until you you will need to use Android on emmc and then not from sd card, after booting you can update the boot-vim1 package and get /boot/install-aml-emmc.sh which you can run from root. This will install manjaro on emmc by using Android uboot and the boot scripts we have…
Or you may wait for few days until I release another vim1 image with lima support having hw acceleration.
I’m using Manjaro on my PineBookPro for quite a while now and I’m very happy with it.
Khadas provides several firmware versions for the SD card (https://dl.khadas.com/Firmware/VIM1/U-boot/), but they don’t boot the Manjaro rootfs without further tweaking (e.g. the addresses for the kernel image and dtb differ).
This sounds very promising, I’ll give it a try for sure.
The Manjaro ARM project is proud to announce the first release for the Khadas Vim1 - Basic SBC !
These images are running the 5.6.2-2 kernel. Can be upgraded to 5.7.0-rc3
How to install:
Download the image/xz file from the download location. Verify that the download completed successfully.
After that, install Etcher (sudo pacman -S etcher if on Manjaro) and burn the to an SD card (8 GB or larger).
Enable Multi-boot on the Vim1 by following steps mentioned here. With this it should recognize the SD card as a bootable device and boot from it.
Features:
New packages from upstream and Manjaro ARM.
Manjaro now uses a branch based repo structure. Meaning you can now switch between arm-stable , arm-testing and arm-unstable branches by editing /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf .
XFCE 4.14
KDE Plasma 5.18
Lima for GPU - HW Acceralation
BT/Audio - Works and tested in Vim1 - V14 - Basic.
Known Issues
Fan does not work on v14
HW Acceleration is a bit slow.
Wifi driver not added yet on Vim1 . (Will upload a new wifi firmware package for vim1 later)
eMMC flash script for Vim1
It’s a script for supported Amlogic SBC designed to flash Manjaro ARM to the built-in eMMC module, so you don’t have to fiddle with DD and/or take out the eMMc module yourself.
Right now script for the Vim1 is available in the boot partition of the image. Filename is install-aml-emmc.sh , to flash Manjaro on eMMC.
Users will need official latest Android image on the eMMC while booting Manjaro from Sd-Card and running this script using root access.
Thanks to @balbes150 for this emmc install script.
To flash Manjaro on eMMC:
Download the image of your choice.
Flash it to an SD card.
Boot the SD card on the device.
Follow the instructions on the screen.
Login to the desktop.
Open Terminal with root access and run ./boot/install-aml-emmc.sh
First Time setup
This release sports the First Time setup for all images, also via SSH. This means that at first boot, you will be asked about the following:
keyboard layout
username
additional user groups (optional)
full name
password for that username
password for root
timezone
locale
hostname
Then the setup script will set these settings and reboot to the login screen.
Need to add Firmware file to the correct location. I have a package somewhere. Let me search for it.
Problem is the package I made was for Vim1 V12 and after replacement I now have Vim1V14 which have a different upgraded wifi chip.
Can you share which Vim1 Version do you use? and also which edition ?
Finally I was able restore the Android bootloader on the internal emmc storage.
The sd card image boots Manjaro happily, but the two USB2-A receptacles don’t seem to work. So I cannot connect something like a keyboard or a mouse to test the desktop environment. They don’t show up even if I left them connected during reboot (which helped to overcome this issue on other AML based devices).
I am not sure about this, as usb seem to work fine on the images provided.
Maybe it is something to do with kbi? Idk just a guess. @Frank@numbqq any advice on this?