PINE64 - Armbian

A64 Euler FAN Support on Armbian

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:57:43 +0000

Hello, i'm searching for a Way to connect my 3 Pin Fan to the Euler Pins or other.

The PI2 Pins are not useable.

Greetings

Breacher

PINE64 PA642GB Armbian - no Microphone plug

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:19:38 +0000

Hello,
I bought a PINE64 PA642GB and flashed it with Armbian (Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)). I need the Pine64 for the BirdNET project https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi.

The Pine64 is so interesting precisely because the microphone input is also on the 3.5mm jack plug. Does this still have to be activated?

Many thanks for your help!

Code:
pine64:~/BirdNET-Pi$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: sun50ia64audio [sun50i-a64-audio], device 0: 1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0 [1c22c00.dai-sun8i-codec-aif1 sun8i-codec-aif1-0]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: sun9ihdmi [sun9i-hdmi], device 0: SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [SUN9I-HDMI PCM i2s-hifi-0]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

pine64:~/BirdNET-Pi$ dmesg -l emerg,alert,crit,err

[    5.947028] systemd[1]: Failed to start Armbian leds state.

[23913.041622] jack: irq plug-in

[23913.071802] jack: irq plug-out

[23913.088880] jack: irq plug-in

[24525.223341] jack: irq plug-out

[24525.233585] jack: irq plug-in

[24525.248714] jack: irq plug-out

[24525.286315] jack: irq plug-in

[24525.421086] jack: irq plug-out

[24525.522538] jack: plug-out reported

Armbian 22.02 Release Announcement

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:04:32 +0000

https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbia...ouncement/

Pine A64+ audio POT not recognized

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:00:27 +0000

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get the Pine64 audio POT board to work with Armbian Focal but without success.

I know it is working with Volumio but I want it to work with Armbian. I've been reading about device trees and overlays but I am lost. Has anyone instructions for a working setup?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Joost

MIPI DSI command mode support on 5.10 kernel??

Wed, 26 May 2021 03:32:46 +0000

I have looked up relevant information on Google.
Since 5.6, pine a64 already supports dsi in the kernel mainline.And the Feiyang FY07024DI26A30-D 7inch MIPI-DSI LCD Panel driver and dts already released.
But the 7inch LCD above is a video mode panel. I can not found any information about the command mode panel.
Is pine a64 mipi-dsi supports command mode in the kernel mainline?
Is possible to use a command mode dsi panel with pine a64？
Any help is appreciated!!

DisplayLink with Pine64

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:22:57 +0000

I've got a DisplayLink-based (DL-41xx) USB display working with my Pine64, although very slowly (glxgears 1fps...)
The key part is updating to Debian unstable (to get the DRI driver), and cross-compile a libevdi.so using the source provided in /opt/displaylink. I used evdi-dkms from the repo.
Sadly, due to the poor performance, it seems like that it's not very practical to use...

Unable to find ZWave module?

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:48:36 +0000

Hi,

I have a A64 1GB Board with the ZWave Plus IO Card which is running Armbian Focal by default. I'm trying to get see if the ZWave module is working and to test this I installed openzwave and libopenzwave from the apt repo's.

After rebooting, I tried to verify that the ZWave module is working by running "sudo MinOZW /dev/ttyS2" but I get the following error:

Code:
2021-01-07 18:45:36.260 Warning, Failed - Network Key Not Set

2021-01-07 18:45:36.261 Info, mgr,     Added driver for controller /dev/ttyS2

2021-01-07 18:45:36.261 Info,   Opening controller /dev/ttyS2

2021-01-07 18:45:36.261 Info, Trying to open serial port /dev/ttyS2 (attempt 1)

2021-01-07 18:45:36.261 Error, ERROR: Failed to set serial port parameters

2021-01-07 18:45:36.261 Error, ERROR: Failed to open serial port /dev/ttyS2

2021-01-07 18:45:36.262 Warning, WARNING: Failed to init the controller (attempt 0)

I also tried ttyS3/S4/S5 but those error out as well. MinOZW is able to open ttyS0 but then I get a different set of errors, which I suspect is because ttyS0 is Console? Can someone let me know how to determine whether my ZWave module is working?

sudden ethernet failure

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:12:59 +0000

Hardware: Pine64 A64 512MB
OS: Armbian Buster 20.02.1 (kernel 5.4)

After months of running steady through multiple reboots and sudden power failures, all my boards suddenly lost eth0; all simultaneously; all while powered on and otherwise running without issue. No, I was not logged in and doing things with the system at the time. My router alerted me when the connections dropped out.

Things I tried (and failed):

different ports on ethernet switch
power cycling (hard reboot)
hook up monitor and keyboard and investigate

Investigation discovered no eth0 device. dmesg reports no driver.

lshw is not present on system so I cannot probe hardware and maybe get driver working with modprobe.

So I reflashed the OS and ... no network. dmesg reports no driver.

So I flashed a differnt OS -- Armbian Bionic 20.05.2 (kernel 5.4) -- and ... no network. dmesg output below.

Code:
dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: IRQ eth_wake_irq not found

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: IRQ eth_lpi not found

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: PTP uses main clock

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: 1c30000.ethernet supply phy-io not found, using dummy regulator

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Current syscon value is not the default 2001 (expect 0)

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: No HW DMA feature register supported

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: COE Type 2

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: TX Checksum insertion supported

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Normal descriptors

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Chain mode enabled

...

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: EMAC reset timeout

dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: stmmac_dvr_remove: removing driver

dwmac-sun8i: probe of 1c30000.ethernet failed with error -14

Any ideas or assistance appreciated.

Software Updates in Armbian

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:34:14 +0000

When I first ran the Pine64+, using Debian, I had a couple of distribution supplied shell scripts that I would execute when updating the software.

/usr/local/sbin/pine64_update_uboot.sh;
/usr/local/sbin/pine64_update_kernel.sh;

Those scripts don't seem to be supplied with Armbian.

Is there a different way in Armbian that boot and the kernel get updated?

Thanks

CVBruce

Using flashrom on PineA64(+)

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:47:10 +0000

Hey guys, wasn't sure exactly where to post this, but I suppose it is an Armbian on PineA64(+) issue?

I'm trying to use my PINEA64 as a chip flasher to install coreboot on the ROM chip of my Thinkpad X220, as of these guides:

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/11/1...pberry-pi/

https://karlcordes.com/coreboot-x220/

These guides use a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian however. I'm using the PineA64+ with 2GB RAM with Armbian buster (Linux 5.4.43-sunxi64)

Although flashrom successfully recognises the chip

Code:
sudo flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0

flashrom  on Linux 5.4.43-sunxi64 (aarch64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).

Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405" (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi.

Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405D" (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi.

Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E" (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi.

Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6436E/MX25L6445E/MX25L6465E/MX25L6473E" (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi.

Multiple flash chip definitions match the detected chip(s): "MX25L6405", "MX25L6405D", "MX25L6406E/MX25L6408E", "MX25L6436E/MX25L6445E/MX25L6465E/MX25L6473E"

Please specify which chip definition to use with the -c  option.

It fails to read:

Code:
sudo flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0 -c MX25L6405 -r read01.bin

flashrom  on Linux 5.4.43-sunxi64 (aarch64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns).

Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405" (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi.

Reading flash... linux_spi_send_command: ioctl: Connection timed out

Read operation failed!

FAILED.

I initially added this to /boot/armbianEnv.txt to get the SPI interface to work. (previously there was no /dev/spidev0.0 )

Code:
overlays=spi-spidev

param_spidev_spi_bus=0

The guide stated to do:

Code:
sudo modprobe spi_bcm2835

Which does not exist, so I loaded every module beginning with 'spi' into /etc/modules just to be sure.

I'm using the pinout here to connect the PI-2 interface: http://files.pine64.org/doc/Pine%20A64%2...160119.pdf

I don't really know where to go next in terms of troubleshooting.

Last night I disconnected all the jumpers and set it up again today from scratch with a totally different set of jumpers. I would imagine bad pinout\connections would stop it from recognising the chips also?

I'm using the Debian packaged version of flashrom, I didn't build it from source, in case that's relevant (as I'm having issues getting svn to work)

EDIT: Success! As soon as I posted this thread, I was like "Hmm, maybe I should actually try compiling flashrom from source, that'd be pretty dumb if that was the problem". Compiling flashrom from source fixed the problem and I have got successful reads.

For anyone reading googling this what I did was

Quote:
Code:
sudo mkdir flashrom && cd flashrom sudo git clone https://github.com/flashrom/flashrom.git cd flashrom sudo make sudo make install

I got a heap of errors but it worked fine.

Docker on prebuilt image

Tue, 05 May 2020 19:14:53 +0000

I noticed that Docker is pre-installed in the current pre-built Armbian image for the A64. Is this just a nice-to-have or is it necessary for some part of the release to function properly?

I ask this question because the desktop is a bit sluggish and I'm looking for daemons that might not actually be necessary in my use case to try and get back a bit more performance.

Video player on Debian buster

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:30:27 +0000

I want to know if I can have a video player for H264 working on my Debian Buster (from armbian.com).

I've tested mpv with the command:

Code:
mpv --vo=vdpau --hwdec=vdpau --hwdec-codecs=all video.mp4

but I got this error:

Code:
[vo/vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11:1

Error opening/initializing the selected video out (--vo) device.

I've installed the Cedrus/libvdpau-sunxi library from here:

sunxi

Even with VLC I cannot play H264 video properly.

ffmpeg for x264 encoding

Sun, 05 May 2019 05:31:55 +0000

I'm working on use my Pine64 RevB (2016) with 2Gb RAM, and armbian distro installed, for x264 encodings.

I'm using this command:

Code:
ffmpeg -i video_in.mkv \

-loglevel error -stats -an -vcodec libx264 -b:v 3500k -preset:v slow -profile:v high -tune:v film \

-aspect 16:9 -vf scale=w=1280:h=720 -threads 1 -cpu-used 1 -f rawvideo -passlogfile \

video_out.mkv -pass 1 -y /dev/null

using the 2-pass encoding method. In this case, I got 2.7 fps on analysis. If I use:

Code:
-threads 3 -cpu-used 1

i got about 4.5 fps.
I've found another ffmpeg compiled for AllWinner H3 processor. May I use this?
The configuration of my ffmpeg is:

Code:
ffmpeg version 2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers

  built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 20160609

  configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.16.04.1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg \

--toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/aarch64-linux-gnu \

--cc=cc --cxx=g++ --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg \

--disable-decoder=libschroedinger --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa \

--enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite \

--enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm \

--enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse \

--enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr \

--enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis \

--enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi \

--enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzmq \

--enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libopencv

  libavutil      54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100

  libavcodec     56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100

  libavformat    56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101

  libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100

  libavfilter     5. 40.101 /  5. 40.101

  libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0

  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101

  libswresample   1.  2.101 /  1.  2.101

  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100

I wish in your help. You are my last hope.

HDMI output while monitor off

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 20:10:59 +0000

Hey folks...

Having a pine64 as a "intelligent" display using a HDMI TV but in "portrait"

Everything works fine... I mean, I can boot and rotate fbcon on the right orientation and I can also do the same thing in XFCE.

The issue is... the monitor itself shutdown while not in use with a timer switch and when that happen, the config on pine64 revert to a default resolution "1024x768" and back to landscape.

How to force the output to always be 1920x1080 in portrait ?

Disappearing Ethernet port

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:07:05 +0000

I was stoked to see the release of Armbian-Bionic for Pine A64+ and installed it on a card a couple of days ago. It all runs well except for one problem: when the system boots, the hard-wired Ethernet port doesn't work.

The system sees it as eth0. ethtool even reports "Link detected: yes". But there are no flashing LEDs, and no data actually gets transmitted.

Sometimes when I boot it up, neither of the Ethernet LEDs will light up at all. Sometimes when I boot it up, the left LED will flash once, then nothing. And very rarely, through no pattern I've been able to discern, the system will boot, both lights will flash, and all works beautifully.

I didn't keep an accurate count, but I'd say out of 30 boots yesterday (and by that, I mean I powered it off, then back on again), the Ethernet port only worked about 5 of those times. The rest, it was dead---no lights, but, as I said, the system claimed everything was OK.

I've been running this same Pine with longsleep 3.10.105 without these problems. I've rebooted it three times this morning just to test, and all three times, the Ethernet port was live and worked fine.

Any ideas? Has anyone else seen this issue? I've love to upgrade the kernel I'm running on the Pine, but not if I can't reliably count on the networking.

I have not yet tried Armbian-Stretch.

Thanks!