@jack Latest releases have 4B and 4C+.
Or is the one linked at https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/downloads the latest one?
(rockpi4c_debian_buster_xfce4_arm64_20210824_0245-gpt.img.gz)
Looking for the latest for 4C with wif i/ bt and gpu acceleration.
Thanks.
C has been deprecated in favor for C+.
new hardware versions are a normal in industry…
4C was released in 2020 with multiple accessories for it and only 1 single release of the OS for it with multiple issues.
a 4C+ still won’t fix the issue of no GPU accelerated OS for it. Releasing hardware with the intent to run a GUI based OS with no GPU support is almost pointless.
Thank you for this will provide feedback if Bluetooth is working.
@RadxaYuntian the armbian image has issues adding detecting HDMI resolutions automatically and adding custom resolutions doesn’t really work with that image. (tried 2 different resolutions with 2 different lcds)… Armbian is fine but not my cup of tea. (Bluetooth worked great)
For those who want to stick to Debian or Ubuntu which runs great (and detects resolution correctly).Using the ubuntu server image with the old 4.4 kernel… can you guys just compile the same server ubuntu image with a kernel 5.1 or 5.2?
With a newer kernel we can just add GPU (panfrost) drivers @stuartiannaylor.
There are a lot of Pi 4C in customers hands, please link a ubuntu server image with a newer kernel.
Armbian is open source software and provides pretty solid build framework that produces easy to maintain and stable software. Most of the maintainership burden and expenses are on Armbian developers. You can sleep well even you don’t support them. Even you will use some other modern OS its highly possible you will be using their work.
You can use this framework and fix your specific low level problem … and rebuild image in no time. Where is the problem?
Debian or Ubuntu has nothing to do with detecting screen resolutions. Low level software that is not part of Debian.org or Ubuntu.com does. I think this should be well known to most of the people that uses those boards by now.
You can assemble Armbian with a stock 4.4. kernel and detection will work the same, so you can say Armbian doesn’t work. It works exactly the same. But I see that is not what you want. If you want to have the same functionality in modern kernel, read this:
DIY or hire someone. Then send a patch. You have the problem - stop begging people to fix problems you have.
On a side think about wonderful work Armbian provides for you. How much burden was already taken away so you don’t need to throws hundreds of thousands on your own.
You don’t need to add anything. Enabled by default for some time.
5.15.y and 5.18.y for c, links for a and b are in description
https://www.armbian.com/rockpi4/
If some feature is missing, anyone can fix this for you … Its not Armbian problem, its your problem. Remember - open source, free software, …
But its the same as Ubuntu. Just better.
@RadxaYuntian I tried the latest image on https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-pi-4c/releases
https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-pi-4c/releases/tag/20230501-0057
I Have 4C v 1.2.
Burned to SD and no boot with KDE version and with the CLI one, displayed cli login but could not register any keyboard keys when typing.
@jack Can you please point link to an actual working image for 4C v1.2 with a recent kernel.
Currently we do not officially support Ubuntu, due to missing vendor packages from Rockchip. They are only available to Debian. This means Ubuntu Desktop is unlikely to work.
If you keyboard is not working, please check if you plug it to the OTG port, which is the top USB 3 port.
I meant this image.
https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-pi-4c/releases/download/20230314-1308/rock-pi-4c_ubuntu_jammy_kde_b22.img.xz
If’s its not working for 4C maybe you should not have it available for download until its working.
I will try the Debian one and give you troubleshooting details have you tested these releases for 4C v1.2?
They are marked as pre-release, so untested.
Ubuntu jammy dosent boot, Debian images does but GPU drivers not included, desktop running on llvmpipe.
Is there no interest in getting gpu support on the products you are selling?
GPU driver is included, which is ARM Mali driver. However, this driver does not support OpenGL, which is why the desktop fallback to software rendering.
We plan to enable panfrost later, which will support OpenGL. But that will be a major breaking change that we need to validate carefully.