Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

leledumbo

Hello Loboris,

You make my PLUS alive, I was about to bury it when I found out that the official software support sucks. Now it just misses the GPU driver, which is nice compared to official images. With install_to_emmc script, I can reuse my sd card for something else and makes the emmc usable.

One thing that bugs me is that `install_to_emmc btrfs` doesn't seem to work well on my PLUS (`install_to_emmc` only works fine). There are many problems but the main one is due to the btrfs partition being mounted read only, that makes lightdm, logs and some other services failed to start. Upon looking at /etc/fstab, it's marked as ext4 partition, is this correct or wrong?

EDIT:
I see that desktop scripts are updated a day after the images, will try the latest install_to_emmc script. The diff looks correct.

raid3868

Hi leledumbo

I m sure the install_to_emmc btrfs work, nothing is wrong , cause i using now.

OrangePiPlus

admin@MyOrangePI+:~$ mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
me,size=380808k,nr_inodes=95202,mode=755)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on / type btrfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,ssd,space_cache)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/boot type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=continue)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=102716k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1001)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1001)

loboris

Niarbagem replied at 2015-9-1 11:33
Does new image (debian jessie mini) will work with monitor (1080p 50Hz) or tv (1080p 50hz) or tv (a ...

Memory is shared with gpu.
You have ~1003MB memory available (on boards with 1GB RAM).
I don't think it is possible to disable gpu memory usage.
If you need more memory there is (will be) Orange PI-PLUS2 with 2GB of memory.
You can select monitor resolution copying the desired script.bin.* to script.bin (hdmi)
You can use hdmi->vga adapter to connect to VGA monitor.
install_to_emmc always uses the  whole eMMC.

loboris

leledumbo replied at 2015-9-1 12:48
Hello Loboris,

You make my PLUS alive, I was about to bury it when I found out that the official so ...

It will work with new script. Sorry for the bug in the old script.
@raid3868
I looks like you also used the old install_to_emmc script. Please replace the line which mounts / in fstab with:

1. /dev/mmcblk0p2  /  btrfs subvolid=0,noatime,nodiratime,compress=lzo  0 1

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that way linux partition will be mounted with compress option.
It is fast (maybe faster than without it on slow drives) and saves lot of space.

loboris

Install scripts updated:

• added option to install_lxde_desktop to install Lubuntu core package, so you can get real Lubuntu look (without it pure LXDE is installed). Can be used only on Ubuntu distribution.

• 1. sudo install_lxde_desktop lubuntu

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• added script to install x2goserver

• 1. sudo install_x2goserver

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• Download desktop_scripts.tar.gz, unpack to /usr/local/bin.
  

leledumbo

loboris replied at 2015-9-1 20:12
It will work with new script. Sorry for the bug in the old script.
@raid3868
I looks like you also  ...

Tested and working

Niarbagem

loboris replied at 2015-9-1 20:09
Memory is shared with gpu.
You have ~1003MB memory available (on boards with 1GB RAM).
I don't thi ...

Ok, now i have the same ( 1027372kB).

I have seen you had been told about OrangePi Plus 2, but i haven't found any information about it.

What is it?

loboris

Niarbagem replied at 2015-9-1 13:51
Ok, now i have the same ( 1027372kB).

I have seen you had been told about OrangePi Plus 2, but i ...

I've got OrangePI PLUS2 from Steven, it is upgraded OPI-PLUS with 2GB of RAM, it is realy great, I hope the price won't be too high.

Niarbagem

loboris replied at 2015-9-1 21:03
I've got OrangePI PLUS2 from Steven, it is upgraded OPI-PLUS with 2GB of RAM, it is realy great, I ...

Only RAM upgrade or something more?
May be there will be some information how to make it? )
Reflow RAM chips only? Chips model? )

loboris

Niarbagem replied at 2015-9-1 14:43
Only RAM upgrade or something more?
May be there will be some information how to make it? )
Reflow ...

It is new design, board layout is completely different, ~5mm wider...
I'm not shure if I'm allowed to post the picture before Steven announce it.