Armbian images are now available for Rock 5b!

#102

Hi, one question:
in armbian-config I selected defreeze a couple of hours ago, there was nothing new after an apt update.

Now I made a new apt update and it showed

Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease
Hit:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]
Get:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease [99.8 kB]
Get:5 http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt jammy InRelease [36.0 kB]
Get:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates/main armhf Packages [657 kB]
Get:8 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates/main arm64 Packages [882 kB]
Get:9 http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt jammy/main arm64 Packages [655 kB]
Get:10 http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt jammy/jammy-desktop armhf Packages [16.4 kB]
Get:11 http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt jammy/main armhf Packages [374 kB]
Get:12 http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt jammy/jammy-utils armhf Packages [36.6 kB]
Get:13 http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt jammy/jammy-utils arm64 Packages [37.9 kB]
Get:14 http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt jammy/jammy-desktop arm64 Packages [63.1 kB]
Fetched 3,082 kB in 2s (1,671 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Listing... Done
armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b/jammy 22.11.2 arm64 [upgradable from: 22.11.2]

And so I did an apt upgrade

Since then I’m getting a
No end-user support: built from trunk
message.

Why is that, what does it mean, what am I risking, how do I revert it?
Is this a result from defreezing those upgrades?

I have not selected nightlies and am not intending to use some beta-track if it should exist.

Where can I find more information on what armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b changed?

Thank you for your help.

#103

Anyone else than me unable to get higher resolution than 1080p using hdmi cable?

I’ve tried so many solutions by now.
5210 x 1440 is what I need.

#104

Is in-browser hardware accelerated video decoding supported at this stage? While it says enabled in Chromium under about:gpu, in reality YouTube seems running off CPU. Developer Tools - Media confirms hardware decoding is disabled. Also, YouTube fails at playing x264/265 even with all the libs installed

#105

This feature does not work under Linux and this will not be changed as I assume nobody is supporting development of any kind?

By downloading and examining the content of the package? By digging into project GitHub commits? Nothing is hidden.

#106

The only way to get this working is to get the patched chromium from rockchip. The official Debian image from radxa included that version and can be used to play youtube videos.

#107

The HDMI clock is limited by default to only allow 1080p. There’s a dts on the linked post that makes it so that 2160p is available on both HDMI ports, and there are also dtb overlays included to make one of the HDMI ports (your choice) capable of 4320p. One of them should enable the widescreen resolution you’re after.

#108

Thanks I will try this later. Does this patched version of Chromium have any specific dependencies? I am using mesa-panfork mali driver, or should I switch back to libmali from Radxa? There’s a bunch of customized packages under https://github.com/radxa/debos-radxa/tree/main/rootfs/packages/arm64. I am using Armbian with GL (ES) working yet no HW YouTube and no Vulkan

#109

I “think” you should be fine if the v4l2 and mpp library is working for you(you can do hardware decode using other software like mpv). The patched chromium is using an v4l2 mpp plugin to do the hardware decoding, for that to work you probably need libv4l installed and there should be a bunch of related debs over there, just search for ‘v4l’ in radxa repo and you will find a few. Please note that hardware decoding of AV1 and HEVC will not be supported by (this version of) chromium and a lot of youtube videos are using av1 already.

#110

To sum up what you will need to perform hardware decoding using chromium from scratch:

  • Rockchip’s mpp library for the userspace api to access rockchip’s media processing blocks. Look for packages contains librockchip-mpp, librockchip-vpu and rockchip-mpp.

  • Rockchip’s libv4l as a v4l2 plugin so that chromium can use it to access the mpp library. Look for packages contains libv4l and v4l2. You probably need v4l-utils as well.

  • The patched chromium itself. You could find an x11 version in radxa repo.

#111

If you’re running Armbian Jammy, you can also simply use the PPA with all the multimedia packages and the patched Chromium (you need to specify its version explicitly though, as it’s a tad older than the current).

#112

HI ,
Any idea how to get the gstreamer mppvideodec , mpph265enc plugins ? are the available or needs to be built from source?
Thanks

#113

This is what I did

#114

OK I will have to play with that tonight. I think YouTube’s software/CPU rendered even with Radxa patched version. I am not sure how to ‘force’ Chromium to using v4l2 mpp for YouTube? I think it defaults to AV1 indeed. Thanks

#115

Anybody managed getting Steam up and running? I got box64, box86 and wine64 (over box64) working by following https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming. Yet I got nowhere with Steam

#116

With latest image - installation to NVME drive (boot from SPI) just works OOB via standard armbian-install utility

Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs            1609740    9808   1599932   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p1 122485704 2040448 114177184   2% /
tmpfs            8048688       0   8048688   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120       4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            8048688       0   8048688   0% /tmp
/dev/zram1         47960    2548     41828   6% /var/log
tmpfs            1609736       0   1609736   0% /run/user/0
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#117

still can’t boot from nvme (with bootloader on spi) on armbian bullseye CLI 09.12 version.
The UART logs is here https://pastebin.com/h3pSXyyC

#118

I used this image
https://redirect.armbian.com/rock-5b/Jammy_legacy attached formatted nvme drive, boot from SD card, execute armbian-install, choose nvme install / spi boot … waited, power off, remove SD card, it worked. What is wrong with your device, no idea.

#119

Thank you dear.

I have tried the dts file in the thread you linked and it does not work I’m afraid.
Following the steps exactly as described:
compiling dts to dtbo using dtc -O dtb -o rk3588-add-hdptxphy_hdmi_clk.dtbo rk3588-add-hdptxphy_hdmi_clk.dts
Copy dtbo file to /boot/overlay-user/
Adding line: user_overlays=rk3588-add-hdptxphy_hdmi_clk.dtbo in armbianEnv.txt

Still cannot select higher than 1080p in gnome.

Also tried the rock-5b-hdmi1-8k.dtbo overlay.

#120

I placed the overlay as /boot/overlay-user/hdmi.dtbo.

Then added:

user_overlays=hdmi

to /boot/armbianEnv.txt.

I had tried it as /boot/overlay-user/rk3588-add-hdptxphy_hdmi_clk.dtbo but Armbian didn’t want to deal with it; not sure why. I didn’t see any reason to be concerned, changing it to /boot/overlay-user/hdmi.dtbo did the job just as well.

For the 8k item:

overlays=hdmi1-8k

is what arbmianEnv.txt is after.

#121

Erazed my nvme drive (that was used in a windows machine in the past), created partitions and executed armbian-install and voila, it boots without an SD-card!

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