Easiest way to try Linux

[xpanda]

I do not own a Tronsmart MK908II. Typically kernels are board/dongle dependent. I develop for devices I own. YMMV with anything else. I provide source and instructions to enable anyone interested to tailor to specific devices. I want to be helpful but sometimes help becomes requests and sometimes requests become demands. So simply I'm happy (and only able) to help with what I've published which also represents the best devices available today.

Thanks for the answer. I am happy with the sdcard image you have published because it was the first one with which I could run a linux with working wifi on my tronsmart mk908ii. I was just wondering why the same kernel image does not work when it is flashed to NAND. A funny thing is that linux images from radxa look not much sensitive to devices even thought they are missing wifi. Thank you again for your awesome works.

[cbull]

CX-919 Working

Hi Linuxium,
Thanks so much for your hard work.

I have a CX-919 and just tried your "Rikomagic MK802IV New (AP6210)" image and it works a treat.

I was using a good quality sandisk SD card and it boots straight to Linux every time, is really fast and Wifi works perfectly.

A while ago I was playing around with Picuntu with my older iMito MX1 and although it worked, it took a while to load. I'm impressed how much faster a Quad core processor is compared with Dual Core.

[Pike of the Lake]

Has anyone got usb ethernet working with these?

[testuser0]

Hm, thanks. i can run ur kernel on my mk802IV .... but i have Problems with MALI/UMP Driver. Mali gets loaded. Ump too. but if i try to load the disp_ump module i'll get an unknown Symbol error "disp_get_ump_secure_id".. any idea?

another question is:
i build the kernel with the rkwifi builtin.
Why do i have to load the module which is included in picuntu?

[ani1nonly]

use of thumb drive instead of micro sd card

Dear brother I want to know that can I use usb thumb drive instead of micro sd card for booting your provided Linux image on my mk809III.

[liltitiz]

That looks promising ! How is video playback? would it be possible to run xbmc from linux?

[itsme4sure]

First of all, This is amazing, linuxium you are awesome.

I've tried dd-ing on my Ubuntu-box, didn't work but I think its a matter of my faulty sd-reader. With Disk imager it works 100% on a samsung class 10 -32 GB card. Works like a charme, except mali.

edit: I forgot to mention, its a Minix x7

I've copy-pasted your line from the first post and i also changed permissions to 666 e.g. 777, restarted lightdm but rendering is still software. This is what glmark2-es2 says:

linuxium@LINUXIUMONE:~$ glmark2-es2 
Error: eglInitialize() failed with error: 12291
Segmentation fault

and glx2gears:

linuxium@LINUXIUMONE:~$ es2gears
EGLUT: failed to initialize EGL display

lsmod:

linuxium@LINUXIUMONE:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
mali_drm                5312  1 
drm                   138016  2 mali_drm
mali                  125540  0 
ump                    26364  3 mali
fbcon                  34343  71 
font                    4890  1 fbcon
bitblit                 3744  1 fbcon
softcursor               888  1 bitblit
wlan                  476671  0

after some googling i assume its a missing disp_ump module.

What to do?

edit2: got it. I missed a reboot and changes to dev are not permanent, so i added user linuxium to group video to prevent chmod 666 /dev/dri/card0

sudo usermod -a -G video linuxium

but what is the proper way to change permissions for /dev/mali? its in group root and an initscript with chmod 777 /dev/mali does not look right to me.

edit3: i'tried to set color depth to 24bit in xorg.conf to test xbmc, but I only get some fancy colors, looks like a rainbow in a blizzard or so. maybe someone with more skill than me could write a postinstallation script for setting up mali and rise the color depth? I would really appreciate that.

@liltitiz: If mali works, you will get hardware accelerated 2d/3d but no hardware video-decompressing. This is about licensing issues for the video-codecs. But the Quadcores we are talking about are powerful enough to decode even 1080p in software. So XBMC's UI will be accelerated but no HW-decoding

[taki]

Which sd card compatiple full read/write speed

I used 8 gb sd card class 10 work very. but slow works for me. I want to buy new sd card for linuxium minix7 img. whic sd card full compability my minix mmc slot. Sandisk extreme pro 32 gb sdhc class 10 ush II 280mb/s or Sandisk extreme pro 32 gb sdhc class 10 ush I 96 mb/s

[taki]

other issue how compile media driver

• I compiled and add tvheadend on minixbuntu. work perfectly. I need your help. I try to compile dvb media driver on minixbuntu. need build config (File not found: /lib/modules/3.0.36+/build/.config) file here is terminal log. if i compile desktop pc. linuxium which toolchain I need. indeed possiple and very easy compiling on minix ubuntu but some file missing minix buntu.

root@LINUXIUMONE:/home/linuxium# cd media_build
root@LINUXIUMONE:/home/linuxium/media_build# ./build
Checking if the needed tools for Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS are available
Needed package dependencies are met.

************************************************** **********
* This script will download the latest tarball and build it*
* Assuming that your kernel is compatible with the latest *
* drivers. If not, you'll need to add some extra backports,*
* ./backports/<kernel> directory. *
* It will also update this tree to be sure that all compat *
* bits are there, to avoid compilation failures *
************************************************** **********
************************************************** **********
* All drivers and build system are under GPLv2 License *
* Firmware files are under the license terms found at: *
* http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/ *
* Please abort in the next 5 secs if you don't agree with *
* the license *
************************************************** **********

Not aborted. It means that the licence was agreed. Proceeding...

****************************
Updating the building system
****************************
warning: expected SRV RR, found RR type 1
From git://linuxtv.org/media_build
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.
make: Entering directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/linux'
wget http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers...ST.tar.bz2.md5 -O linux-media.tar.bz2.md5.tmp
--2014-08-25 17:35:44-- http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers...ST.tar.bz2.md5
Resolving linuxtv.org (linuxtv.org)... 130.149.80.248
Connecting to linuxtv.org (linuxtv.org)|130.149.80.248|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 101 [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: `linux-media.tar.bz2.md5.tmp'

100%[======================================>] 101 --.-K/s in 0s

2014-08-25 17:35:45 (2.54 MB/s) - `linux-media.tar.bz2.md5.tmp' saved [101/101]

make: Leaving directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/linux'
make: Entering directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/linux'
tar xfj linux-media.tar.bz2
rm -f .patches_applied .linked_dir .git_log.md5
make: Leaving directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/linux'
************************************************** ********
* Downloading firmwares from linuxtv.org. *
************************************************** ********
dvb-fe-bcm3510-01.fw
dvb-fe-or51132-qam.fw
dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw
dvb-fe-or51211.fw
dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw
dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261a
dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261b
dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261c
dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261d
dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261f
dvb-ttpci-01.fw-2622
dvb-usb-avertv-a800-02.fw
dvb-usb-bluebird-01.fw
dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw
dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw
dvb-usb-dibusb-6.0.0.8.fw
dvb-usb-dtt200u-01.fw
dvb-usb-terratec-h5-drxk.fw
dvb-usb-terratec-h7-az6007.fw
dvb-usb-terratec-h7-drxk.fw
dvb-usb-umt-010-02.fw
dvb-usb-vp702x-01.fw
dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw
dvb-usb-wt220u-01.fw
dvb-usb-wt220u-02.fw
v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw
v4l-cx23418-apu.fw
v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
v4l-cx23418-dig.fw
v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
v4l-cx23885-enc.fw
v4l-cx25840.fw
******************
* Start building *
******************
make -C /home/linuxium/media_build/v4l allyesconfig
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/v4l'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/linux'
Applying patches for kernel 3.0.36+
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/api_version.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/pr_fmt.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/drx39xxj.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.11_dev_groups.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.10_fw_driver_probe.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.9_pfn_warning.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.9_drxj_warnings.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.8_config_of.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.6_pci_error_handlers.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.6_i2c_add_mux_adapter.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.4_i2c_add_mux_adapter.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.2_devnode_uses_mode_t.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.2_alloc_ordered_workqueue.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.1_no_export_h.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.1_no_dma_buf_h.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v3.1_no_pm_qos.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/no_atomic_include.patch
patch -s -f -N -p1 -i ../backports/v4l2-compat-timespec.patch
Patched drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
Patched drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c
Patched drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/linux'
./scripts/make_kconfig.pl /lib/modules/3.0.36+/build /lib/modules/3.0.36+/build 1
Preparing to compile for kernel version 3.0.36
File not found: /lib/modules/3.0.36+/build/.config at ./scripts/make_kconfig.pl line 33, <IN> line 4.
make[1]: *** [allyesconfig] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/linuxium/media_build/v4l'
make: *** [allyesconfig] Error 2
can't select all drivers at ./build line 490.
root@LINUXIUMONE:/home/linuxium/media_build#

[taki]

I used 8 gb sd card class 10 work very. but slow works for me. I want to buy new sd card for linuxium minix7 img. whic sd card full compability my minix mmc slot. Sandisk extreme pro 32 gb sdhc class 10 ush II 280mb/s or Sandisk extreme pro 32 gb sdhc class 10 ush I 96 mb/s

I tested clas4 and clas 10 card. may be uhs 1 and 2 most performance

USED PROGRAM H2testw v1.4
TOSHIBA CLAS 4 8GB
Warning: Only 300 of 7403 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 3.02 MByte/s
Reading speed: 15.0 MByte/s
------------------------------------------------------------
SANDISK CLAS 10 32 GB
Warning: Only 300 of 30428 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 7.72 MByte/s
Reading speed: 30.2 MByte/s

[MarkyMan]

cdc-acm Modul

Hi,

sorry for my bad English.

at first i have flash the Image to my Cloudnetgo CR9 ( MK803III ). But i need the cdc-acm Modul, my CUL USB Stick is not detected.

Is it Possible to after installed it???

THX!!!

[taki]

all dvb modul rk3188 ubuntu 12.04 linuxium

tested that is work
you can use dvb stick (dvbt/s/c) only find your modul later load insmod

stock kernel mdoules

http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/12457709/file.html

V4L-DVB Device Drivers

http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/58904745/file.html

s2-liplianin-v39

http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/27829348/file.html

[ani1nonly]

Hi,

I have this working on my old MK809, however my audio stopped working after a couple of reboots ? I am guessing this is an Alsa mixer issue (not dug into it too deep yet) . . . ?
Also how do I go about installing this to NAND, as I think the older NAND images are not up to date with kernel etc. ?

Thanks !

HI DEAR
I M ALSO FACING SAME PROBLEM. DO YOU FOUND ANY SOLUTION? IF YES PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
THANKS

[xpanda]

Change of wlan0 mac address

Thanks for the awesome work!
BTW, is there any way to change the mac address of wlan0 on the level of image files such as replacing or modifying a parameter file? I am wondering if it is hard-coded at the time of kernel compile. I am running linux on the two different different devices, UGOOS UM2 and Tronsmart MK908II, and allocate fixed ip addresses based on their MAC addresses from a router. Two devices have the same MAC address for wlan0. I found a way spoofing ip in linux, but want to know if there is a simple way as mentioned above.

[grzmrc]

Anyone is able to run 3d rendering on minix x7?