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<Tonymac32> Lima will work as long as the device tree has the GPU nodes set so the driver loads
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<NamelessIdiot> Hi everyone, it's my first time here joining this discord... I'm fairly new to Armbian.
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<NamelessIdiot> I've just bought a NanoPC-T6 and I found there is a WIP build of Armbian for NanoPC-T6 on the homepage but I did not find any instruction to have it installed to the SBC.
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<NamelessIdiot> I tried flashing the .img to an SD Card using dd but it was not booting up. I want to have it installed to the eMMC (or to an NVME sometime soon). Hope to have some help here, greatly appreciated!
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<NamelessIdiot> The one found on this site, is there any other ones available?
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<Tonymac32> there are 2 different images shown there
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<Tonymac32> I would also strongly reccomend against installing testing images to eMMC
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<Tonymac32> for SD creation I use Balena Etcher, I don't know if that's still the recommended "official" way here.
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<NamelessIdiot> I used the one listed as "Armbian 23.5 Bookworm Kernel 6.5, Size: 725Mb, Release date: Aug 8, 2023", I just wanna test things out, not for serious usage ATM. That said, I tried using USBImager and dd, both did not work as the machine keep flashing the Red LED twice in a row then turned off.
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<Tonymac32> let me see what we've got going on
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<Tonymac32> yeah it didn't boot for me either. I'll have to check it out
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<Tonymac32> that was one of my dev images
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<NamelessIdiot> Thanks a lot, I'll check it out after work!
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<Tonymac32> hmmm if you can use the UART that might be how this is talking to the universe for now.
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<Werner> USBimager is a great tool for this task but etcher is fine as well
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<Tonymac32> *Werner does not sleep*
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<Werner> Werner never sleeps, he just waits.
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<Tonymac32> ooooof I just realized I set the T6 to need me to hit the power button 😄 😄 😄
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<Tonymac32> un moment
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<Tonymac32> ok yeah you can use ssh into the board
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<NamelessIdiot> I know it's super experimental right now but is there a way to flash this dev image to eMMC for testing?
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<Tonymac32> let me take a look.
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<Tonymac32> So I was able to boot the file from the Armbian download page now that I'm not being dumb
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<Tonymac32> yeah I just armbian-installed to eMMC
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<NamelessIdiot> Meaning after booting to armbian on the sdcard, just run armbian-installed?
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<NamelessIdiot> One stupid question, after flashing the image to an SDcard and trying to boot from it, did yours LED flash red several times then stopped with a black screen? Did you have to wait long?
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<NamelessIdiot> Meaning after booting to armbian on the sdcard, just run armbian-install?
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<speakertomeat> Hello all.
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<speakertomeat> Question for armbian users on orangepi, are there any methods to specify/lock in a static display resolution for the hdmi during boot? I guess I'm asking, is there anything that'll work inside armbianEnv.txt if this is the right method?
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<lanefu> there's a variable you can use in armbianEnv.txt called `extraboardargs=` where you can stack extra kernel arguments
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<lanefu> finding the correct argument is hard... depends if it honors the generic video= args or if you need to use stuff specific for the DRM driver
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<speakertomeat> Hmm ok
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<speakertomeat> So, hunting source trees
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<lanefu> possibly docs.kernel.org as well
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<lanefu> which image are yuo using
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<speakertomeat> Jammy, 23.05.1
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<speakertomeat> And, using the panfrost drm module it seems
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<lanefu> k.. so yeah you can probably look at hte params in docs.kernel.org and maybe win
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<lanefu> wait is it -edge -current or -legacy
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<speakertomeat> Since this is an afaik officially supported board, I guess code should be somewhere in https://github.com/armbian ?
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<lanefu> i could be wrong, but i'd start with above
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<speakertomeat> Ok, thanks
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<Tonymac32> it should keep flashing. What are the specs on your T6?
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<NamelessIdiot> Yeah, tks for the response. Actually I've just realized this myself and was able to ssh to it... That said, now having trouble trying armbian-install using option boot from eMMC, data in eMMC... It always end up not booting from the eMMC afterwards if I remove the SD Card
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<NamelessIdiot> Mine is a 16GB RAM version
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<Tonymac32> mine is 8 GB. It won't boot once you've flashed it? Can you try the Armbian download again?
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<Tonymac32> it is newer
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<NamelessIdiot> Yes I'm using the one from Armbian page, I don't have HDMI output so I'm not sure what's the current state. After flashing the image, I was able to ssh into it, but after running armbian-install, eventhough it said successfully installed, I was never able to login back into it by ssh so I assumed it's not booting...
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<lanefu> Is t6 using the vendor uboot and vFAT /boot?
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<lanefu> Friend of mine was having similar issues booting from nvme on opi5 and rock5b
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<lanefu> Fstab gets slightly borked
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<Tonymac32> it might not have the same IP after reboot, the MAC isn't fixed