MiniMX S905 - Ubuntu 16.04 64bits (with kodi and X) on sdcard

[Koxx]

what did you change exactly ?
I don't see the difference :/

[Koxx]

balbes150 : any idea why the second usb port isn't usable (on the side of the box) ?

[balbes150]

setenv mbpp "24"

setenv bootargs ........... m_bpp=${mbpp}
Must be a single variable.

Try it in a script to specify

fatload usb 1 ........

This is just a guess. That would tell for sure - you need to connect the UART and see what is happening there.
Maybe your device does not have time to recognize the second USB port.

[Koxx]

oh yes!
I missed the '_'
Mate desktop looks better now

[envagyok]

New kernel,gpu drivers,etc. from amlogic:

[DoItYourself]

An interesting article from CNX: How to Run Ubuntu 16.04 Aarch64 (64-bit ARM) Cloud Images on Your Intel/AMD Linux Computer with QEMU

Read more: http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/05/...#ixzz48GXpqKGO

[Koxx]

It seems Mali X11 is approching !
On odroid forums, they managed to get something working. They still need few weeks to solve remaining issues !

[Nofan Tasi]

It seems Mali X11 is approching !
On odroid forums, they managed to get something working. They still need few weeks to solve remaining issues !

... cool!
By the way: what is the recipe to make an amlogic box boot from external sdcard (or usbstick)?
I am maintaining a gentoo in a chroot on an usbstick, hoping, one day to boot something 100% natively built on the box itself.

[Koxx]

check balbes150 post, It will enlight you

[int0x13]

Ok thank. Here is a bug report that i wrote:

Bug report:

Firefox is starting with v1. I've checked a youtube video with HD, it's crashing the whole window manager (X server) with a 1080P video.
I tried rhythmbox to playback an audio CD and then i had a problem with the window manager (Mate), Caja process is eating 100% cpu, so as Xorg process.
The bug is described here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=145959

I tried Kodi (v16 rc pre-installed) and i tried to index a whole HDD with movies and after some time, it's just freeze. You can ping the mini Mx but you can enter any command
on the shell because it's totally frozen. I've tried 2 times and same things after some movies indexing (it starts to index and list some new movies before it starts bugging).

When i exit from Kodi, i have a black screen and i cant do anything except killing the X server and restart it from SSH.
I had the process called "yep" that took 100% of CPU.

Some random crash of the X server with return to the text interface.

@ Koxx, did you see my bug report?

[Koxx]

yes, but sorry, I can't solve those issues.
All I can do is configure the hardware boot and drivers.
For apps, it depends if they have been fully ported for arm/arm64.
Also, we are still waiting for the X11 drivers.

[int0x13]

Ok, thank you Koxx. No problem. I had a more problematic issue those days. The system becomes laggy, you have a 100% cpu issue like this:

top - 09:08:37 up 1 day, 23:07,  1 user,  load average: 19,16, 18,22, 16,50
Tasks: 168 total,   5 running, 153 sleeping,   0 stopped,  10 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0,1 us, 27,2 sy,  0,0 ni,  3,5 id, 69,2 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,  0,0 st
KiB Mem :   796912 total,    53332 free,   690648 used,    52932 buff/cache
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used.    57556 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
   38 root      20   0       0      0      0 R 100,0  0,0 925:56.67 kswapd0

root@odroid64:~/perso# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            778         674          51          19          52          55
Swap:             0           0           0

I guess to has to do with the swap or the lack of swap.
Uptime reports a very high load (anormal), when idle and you cant use the command line (it takes 20s to display one letter).
Any idea?

[balbes150]

An interesting article from CNX: How to Run Ubuntu 16.04 Aarch64 (64-bit ARM) Cloud Images on Your Intel/AMD Linux Computer with QEMU

Read more: http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/05/...#ixzz48GXpqKGO

There used compiling kernels for A57.

[balbes150]

Ok, thank you Koxx. No problem. I had a more problematic issue those days. The system becomes laggy, you have a 100% cpu issue like this:

top - 09:08:37 up 1 day, 23:07, 1 user, load average: 19,16, 18,22, 16,50
Tasks: 168 total, 5 running, 153 sleeping, 0 stopped, 10 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0,1 us, 27,2 sy, 0,0 ni, 3,5 id, 69,2 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem : 796912 total, 53332 free, 690648 used, 52932 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used. 57556 avail Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
38 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100,0 0,0 925:56.67 kswapd0

root@odroid64:~/perso# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 778 674 51 19 52 55
Swap: 0 0 0

I guess to has to do with the swap or the lack of swap.
Uptime reports a very high load (anormal), when idle and you cant use the command line (it takes 20s to display one letter).
Any idea?

You have a computer with Linux ?Connect the card to the computer. Using gparted, reduce the last partition. On the resulting empty space, create a swap partition on the card. Add to fstab on the map a line to mount the swap.

[int0x13]

You have a computer with Linux ?Connect the card to the computer. Using gparted, reduce the last partition. On the resulting empty space, create a swap partition on the card. Add to fstab on the map a line to mount the swap.

Ok i will try this. I have the same problem right now and my "kswapd0" process is eating all my CPU.