Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

giaur500

meadrocks replied at 2015-10-6 05:25
I'm running lubuntu / LXDE img file on a OPi-PC board, installed the experimental kernel. Boots just ...

Sorry, which kernel do you mean? I would like to test it too. I need to setup my dvb-t usb tuner (based on ite9135 chip), I hope appropriate drivers will be present in newer kernel. How do you think?

Nickco43

I tryed all 3 versions of your imgs and all three of them get to the login screen but after I login it goes to a black screen with text up top a green [OK] in it.

loboris

UPDATED kernel sources package kernel_3.4.9.tar.xz

UPDATED test kernel (scriptbin_kernel_test.tar.gz)

• 1-wire is now fully functional
  

To test 1-wire you have to load the following modules:
wire
w1-sunxi
w1-gpio
w1-therm ( if testing Dallas DS18B20 digital thermometer )

Defalut 1-wire port is PA20, you can change it by adding module param when loading w1-sunxi module:

1. sudo modprobe w1-sunxi gpio=nn

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For nn values see OPI_GPIO.txt file.

jacer

It will be more thrilled if you get the HW playback working. The windows and animations are laggy when resize or move around. I know it could be an impossible mission.

jacer

It will be more thrilled if you get the HW playback working. The windows and animations are laggy when resize or move around. I know it could be an impossible mission.

atta2k15

Is it possible to use
http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:c1_lcdshield



on orange pi plus 2?
If possible, what config for script.fex and other config is needed to make it working?

loboris

jacer replied at 2015-10-7 18:26
It will be more thrilled if you get the HW playback working. The windows and animations are laggy wh ...

It depends on what are you using the board for. I've never been able to understand why would someone use the board with exposed GPIOs mostly as media center.
And windows manipulation (desktop experience) in Mate and XFCE is on OPI better than on most similar boards (on Lubuntu it is little laggy).

loboris

atta2k15 replied at 2015-10-7 18:36
Is it possible to use
http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:c1_lcdshield

It is probably possible, but it requires porting the drivers ...

chillman90

loboris replied at 2015-10-8 02:11
It depends on what are you using the board for. I've never been able to understand why would someo ...

Many people are using the Raspberry Pi as a media center. You can configure really much as you wish, it is not power-hungry, it's quite cheap and it can handle lots of formats.  
I don't think there is a comparible media center that you can get for this price. I'm using one myself. Playing music/videos or showing pictures from a hard drive, streaming music or videos and using airplay - all this is possible.

And if those small computers are able to replace a whole powerful computer for example just to watch videos or for office or for one's grandparents to have the possibility to browse the web and/or to use office tools it's cheaper to use one of those.

Additionally, I'm not the only one who is using sbcs for retro-gaming and with the gpios it's possible to build your own handheld. There are multiple such projects on kickstarter.

So users are very glad that developers like you work hard for us to achieve this.
Thank you very much for your work and images. I hope I could - maybe - show you why a working mali-driver is wanted by the community.

Sitheek

chillman90 replied at 2015-10-8 05:36
Many people are using the Raspberry Pi as a media center. You can configure really much as you wis ...

Yes that is true. But i think such cheap boards like Orange Pi2 or Radxa Rock Lite suffer from poor support because manufacturers do not have enough money to invest in professional developer team working on linux kernels

Mayby we should croudfound someone to prepare for us working drivers for mali400 ?

@loboris: everything you achieved so far, you did it for free?

@zhao_steven: you should say something, people need you ....