OFFICIAL Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for all Boards

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:46 am

Guys.. Here it is..

Official Lubuntu 14.04 LTS for all our boards.

Server and Desktop versions for X/X2/U2/U3/XU/XU3

All those images does now use the odroid-utility script instead of the old kernel-update.

For X/X2/U2/U3 owners:
Image is based on Memeka work. It has XBMC installed as well snappy so you can play your 1080p videos.
XBMC 13.1 is installed as provided by memeka .deb

Downloads: http://odroid.in/ubuntu_14.04lts/

For C1 owners:
http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id= ... nux_ubuntu

Note that most of the things made / commented on memeka thread applies here.

Note for X/X2/U2/U3 users:
If you experience any slow performance moving windows follow this instructions:

harry123 wrote:ok, my own update to enable metacity, which (for me) runs much smoother:

menu/settings/Default applications for LXSession --> Core applications --> Windows manager --> "metacity"

That's all!

Changelog:

20150224: ODROID-X/X2/U2/U3
- Updated to 14.04.2
- Updated Mali GPU drivers to r5p0
- WebGL support
- Kodi
http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id= ... e_20150224

- 20141023 (XU3)
Updated OS
Updated Kernel
Update XBMC with working version for XU3 (testing version)

- 20140809 (u2/u3)
Removed Hibernate/Suspend from the Logout Menu
Updated XBMC
Updated GStreamer
Updated Snappy player
Fixed the issue where internationalization wasn't working.
Updated kernel
Updated to Ubuntu 14.04.1

- 20140814
Fixed issue that prevented GUI showing.
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Enjoy.

suriyan · Unread post by **suriyan** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:51 am

Awesome mdrjr!

pws · Unread post by **pws** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:44 am

Thank you.

However there appears to be odd interaction between the "HDMI Configuration" set using the Odroid-Utility, and that set using the "Monitor Setting" preference panel, or I'm at least I'm confused on when to use which; especially when attempting to set the display to use 720x1280 being my personal preference.

Previously using Xubunutu 13.10, the use of the Odroid-Utility seems to be necessary to set to 720x1280, so that both the booting and widows used this resolution, but now the Odroid-Utility settings seem to have a different effect on the booting display, and an odd interaction with the Monitor Settings preference (possibly mixing-up the selection between EDID and NO-EDID when selecting 720 vs 1080 resolutions, as I need to select different monitor adaptation modes to property show 1080 vs 720 resolution selections for some reason which I don't recall being necessary before?)

What is the proper use of these two settings? I.e. when should I select 720 vs 1080 using the Odroid-Utility, vs selecting these resolutions within the Monitor Settings preference panel?

(And could you please verify the selection of EDID modes are consistent between both 720 and 1080 display resolution settings when using your Odroid-Utility.)

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:05 am

There's nothing odd here. You just don't understand why odroid-utility does that.
ODROID Utility exists to help people with non-standard monitors or people that needs a specific resolution set a boot.

venkatbo · Unread post by **venkatbo** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:34 am

... edited out ...
Was looking for an invalid upgrade path by mistake.

pws · Unread post by **pws** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:33 am

mdrjr wrote:There's nothing odd here. You just don't understand why odroid-utility does that.
ODROID Utility exists to help people with non-standard monitors or people that needs a specific resolution set a boot.

OK. Specifically how are the two different?

- Does one do something the other doesn't?
- Is one's settings prioritized over the other?
- Which parameters does one set the other doesn't?

(How specifically should they best be used together?)

stangri · Unread post by **stangri** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:26 pm

Thanks for the 14.04 image!

mdrjr wrote:Note that most of the things made / commented on memeka thread applies here.

Can you please elaborate on that? I remember reading the memeka's image would not work properly without editing resolv.conf -- is it applicable to the official image? Are there any post-install actions required to get it working?
Also, the 13.10 official images booted into a menu offering to resize the partition before first Ubuntu launch, has this functionality been kept in this image?

UPDATE: I'll reply to my own questions. There's an ODROID Utility link on the desktop of the odroid user (which actually calls /usr/local/bin/root-utility.sh if you need to run it over ssh connection) and which is used to expand rootfs partition, set hostname, etc.

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:04 pm

pws wrote:
mdrjr wrote:There's nothing odd here. You just don't understand why odroid-utility does that.
ODROID Utility exists to help people with non-standard monitors or people that needs a specific resolution set a boot.
OK. Specifically how are the two different?

- Does one do something the other doesn't?
- Is one's settings prioritized over the other?
- Which parameters does one set the other doesn't?

(How specifically should they best be used together?)

1. Yes.
2. Yes. odroid-utility takes priority.
3. odroid-utility configures the HDMI at boot and doesn't wait for a valid edid (expect when a edid boot.scr is used).

They shouldn't be used together. You should only use odroid-utility to change resolution if you can't change on the guy or is stuck with 1024x768.

stangri wrote:Thanks for the 14.04 image!
mdrjr wrote:Note that most of the things made / commented on memeka thread applies here.
Can you please elaborate on that? I remember reading the memeka's image would not work properly without editing resolv.conf -- is it applicable to the official image? Are there any post-install actions required to get it working?
Also, the 13.10 official images booted into a menu offering to resize the partition before first Ubuntu launch, has this functionality been kept in this image?

UPDATE: I'll reply to my own questions. There's an ODROID Utility link on the desktop of the odroid user (which actually calls /usr/local/bin/root-utility.sh if you need to run it over ssh connection) and which is used to expand rootfs partition, set hostname, etc.

Nope. The resolvconf issue is fixed on this image. Its reverted to stock Lubuntu looks.
And yes.. There's a odroid-utility icon on the desktop that you can do everything that you did with the old tool

hansi9990 · Unread post by **hansi9990** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:38 pm

But contrary to the description 12.3 Frodo is xbmc installed.

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:47 pm

hansi9990 wrote:But contrary to the description 12.3 Frodo is xbmc installed.

Sorry but no! Its 13.1...
Double-check whatever your are doing.

harry123 · Unread post by **harry123** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:32 am

Image works pretty great so far. Quick check compared to "Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Dev Center 18/05/2014 U2/U3"
- more standard apps (settings, package manager etc.)
- better non-english language support (e.g. German)
- similar cpu usage: ~2-8%, without heavy load
- similar ram usage: ~200 MB
- temparature: 60 Celsius, without heavy load

The only very annoying thing I noticed is the speed of which windows can be moved around on the desktop using the mouse. This lags pretty bad.

Any clues on that?

memeka · Unread post by **memeka** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:51 am

install and use metacity instead of openbox

harry123 · Unread post by **harry123** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:38 am

How does installation of metacity work?

sudo apt-get install metacity (already there)
metacity --replace

alone is not enough...?

harry123 · Unread post by **harry123** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:17 am

ok, my own update to enable metacity, which (for me) runs much smoother:

menu/settings/Default applications for LXSession --> Core applications --> Wondows manager --> "metacity"

That's all!

vivek · Unread post by **vivek** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:24 am

I am a nOOb. please advice...
Is it now safe to upgrade to 14.04 LTS through software updater?
or do I have to flash the 14.04 LTS image?

please point out towards the upgrade method from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS.

Best wishes

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:26 am

vivek wrote:I am a nOOb. please advice...
Is it now safe to upgrade to 14.04 LTS through software updater?
or do I have to flash the 14.04 LTS image?

please point out towards the upgrade method from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS.

Best wishes

Flash the new image.

luksol · Unread post by **luksol** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:56 am

HI, can I have a quick update about performance? I remember reading recently one of the other posts on different thread that there is limitation to bitrate, with h264 displaying up to 20Mbps? I've got few 'monsters' in my collection that are uncompressed blurays and I was wondering it they also will be handled by decoder?

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:04 am

luksol wrote:HI, can I have a quick update about performance? I remember reading recently one of the other posts on different thread that there is limitation to bitrate, with h264 displaying up to 20Mbps? I've got few 'monsters' in my collection that are uncompressed blurays and I was wondering it they also will be handled by decoder?

Nope.. If it exceeds 20Mbps it won't play. That's the hardware limitation.

jrsmile · Unread post by **jrsmile** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:15 am

hi there, i had some problems getting it to work with my tv set, it always says resolution not supportet.
i had a look into the odroid utility and came to the part in hdmi.sh where it copies the different settings into boot.scr.

i could not find any other files then boot.scr in there so the statement in hdmi.sh:
case "$1" in
"1") cp $BASE/boot-auto_edid.scr $BASE/boot.scr ;;
"2") cp $BASE/boot-1080p-edid.scr $BASE/boot.scr ;;
"3") cp $BASE/boot-1080p-noedid.scr $BASE/boot.scr ;;
"4") cp $BASE/boot-720p-edid.scr $BASE/boot.scr ;;
"5") cp $BASE/boot-720p-noedid.scr $BASE/boot.scr ;;
"6") cp $BASE/boot-1024x768-noedid.scr $BASE/boot.scr ;;

always results in keeping the old config, are theese files missing in this image (checked /boot and /media/boot) , or do i have to do a first time setup or someting to generate them?

Best Regards,
JR.

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:57 am

There's a menu on the "kernel update part" that allows you do update your .scr's

It will install all the needed SCRs.

pws · Unread post by **pws** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:48 am

mdrjr wrote:There's a menu on the "kernel update part" that allows you do update your .scr's
It will install all the needed SCRs.

It might be nice to include instructions with future releases, especially when requiring magic incantations to work as intended. (On a more positive note, so far so good otherwise, with an exception that x11vnc presently shuts down 50%-80% of the time within about 10 seconds after being seemingly properly initialized after a reboot, which I presume is due so some race condition associated with either the windowing or communication systems apparently not present on 13.10, but still trying to figure out exactly why.)

rapidrogo · Unread post by **rapidrogo** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:09 am

Thanks memeka and mdrjr for this image, working well here.

Changed to metacity as advised above and the gui is much smoother, used the same method as harry123.

XBMC is also going good, I'm still amazed by the power of the U3, if my wife gets comfortable using Ubuntu it may replace her PC.

stangri · Unread post by **stangri** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:50 am

pws wrote:
mdrjr wrote:There's a menu on the "kernel update part" that allows you do update your .scr's
It will install all the needed SCRs.
It might be nice to include instructions with future releases, especially when requiring magic incantations to work as intended. (On a more positive note, so far so good otherwise, with an exception that x11vnc presently shuts down 50%-80% of the time within about 10 seconds after being seemingly properly initialized after a reboot, which I presume is due so some race condition associated with either the windowing or communication systems apparently not present on 13.10, but still trying to figure out exactly why.)

Wow, that's weird, x11vnc is rock-solid for me. That was the first thing I've installed and I'm running it on a headless box tho.

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:13 am

Same for me.. my IPTV camera runs on a U3 with this image. I'm using X11VNC and headless.

pws · Unread post by **pws** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:33 am

As others have found x11vnc to be stable, I'll assume something went wrong in the process, and will begin over with a bare image; thanks for the heads up.

elfhelm · Unread post by **elfhelm** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:45 pm

After 4 months of waiting for a hw driver and a week ago saying that you can't give an eta for it, i sold mine yesterday because it was useless for my project. Now you give me the driver and an email announcing it. This is just perfect. I'll settle with the miniITX board that I got for the money. Good luck in the future, odroid!

Unread post by **odroid** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:21 pm

elfhelm wrote:After 4 months of waiting for a hw driver and a week ago saying that you can't give an eta for it, i sold mine yesterday because it was useless for my project. Now you give me the driver and an email announcing it. This is just perfect. I'll settle with the miniITX board that I got for the money. Good luck in the future, odroid!

ODROID-XU still using the Android 3D accelerator blobs.
No X11 native acceleration yet.
I want to clarify it even it is our shame..

jorricks · Unread post by **jorricks** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:25 pm

Nice! I'll test it! Hopefully it doesn't lock up all the time now..

curtisnewton · Unread post by **curtisnewton** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:40 pm

so Xubuntu is not supported anymore ? why Lubuntu ?

bird12358 · Unread post by **bird12358** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:36 pm

I read that sentence on your email:
Mali GPU r4p0 drivers + armsoc driver + patched Xorg server
Can we use the Mali GPU with OpenCL now on ODROID U2 ou X2?

memeka · Unread post by **memeka** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:51 pm

bird12358 wrote:I read that sentence on your email:
Mali GPU r4p0 drivers + armsoc driver + patched Xorg server
Can we use the Mali GPU with OpenCL now on ODROID U2 ou X2?

Mali on the U2/U3/X2 is not OpenCL compatible - nothing will make OpenCL work on it.

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:59 pm

curtisnewton wrote:so Xubuntu is not supported anymore ? why Lubuntu ?

Eh.. xfwm is bugged on 14.04.
And LXDE is looking way better atm.

freeomega · Unread post by **freeomega** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:27 am

Awesome work!

Which Lubuntu image would be for the ODROID-XU that has with XBMC Gotham 13.1 in it?

Would it be the lubuntu-14.04lts-desktop-armhf-odroidx_20140612.img.xz?

Thank you very much.

Vespucci187 · Unread post by **Vespucci187** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:38 am

harry123 wrote:Image works pretty great so far. Quick check compared to "Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Dev Center 18/05/2014 U2/U3"
- more standard apps (settings, package manager etc.)
- better non-english language support (e.g. German)
- similar cpu usage: ~2-8%, without heavy load
- similar ram usage: ~200 MB
- temparature: 60 Celsius, without heavy load

The only very annoying thing I noticed is the speed of which windows can be moved around on the desktop using the mouse. This lags pretty bad.

Any clues on that?

Maybe first post is edited after your remark, but it says in the first post hahahah

Vespucci187 · Unread post by **Vespucci187** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:58 am

freeomega wrote:Awesome work!

Which Lubuntu image would be for the ODROID-XU that has with XBMC Gotham 13.1 in it?

Would it be the lubuntu-14.04lts-desktop-armhf-odroidx_20140612.img.xz?

Thank you very much.

If you have a good network connection, you can go command line in your lubuntu and follow these instructions upon the xbmc site to get 13.1 you want, check the link.

It is quite easy and worth a try... i guess

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=In ... _for_Linux

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:10 am

ODROID-XU doesn't have it.

hansi9990 · Unread post by **hansi9990** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:15 am

mdrjr wrote:
hansi9990 wrote:But contrary to the description 12.3 Frodo is xbmc installed.
Sorry but no! Its 13.1...
Double-check whatever your are doing.

Okay ,I have now tried it a second time and now xbmc 13.1 works.
I'm absolutely sure it was the first time the version 12 but here I had first used the "system updater" and then switched the language to German, could it be that the System Updater downgrade to xbmc 12?

Unread post by **mdrjr** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:17 am

hansi9990 wrote:
mdrjr wrote:
hansi9990 wrote:But contrary to the description 12.3 Frodo is xbmc installed.
Sorry but no! Its 13.1...
Double-check whatever your are doing.
Okay ,I have now tried it a second time and now xbmc 13.1 works.
I'm absolutely sure it was the first time the version 12 but here I had first used the "system updater" and then switched the language to German, could it be that the System Updater downgrade to xbmc 12?

Probably....

apt-mark hold xbmc

should fix it.

hansi9990 · Unread post by **hansi9990** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:46 am

I thought so, almost

jsilves · Unread post by **jsilves** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:12 am

I have used imagewriter to flash xubuntu (xubuntu-14.04-lts-desktop-armhf_odroidxu_20140604.img) to my SSD, but it doesn't work. I use exactly the same software and equipment that I use with the ubuntu 12 that works properly (ubuntu-12.04.3-lts-desktop-armhf_odroidxu_20140103.img). any idea?
But the worse thing is that I do not know what to do to work with my eMMC (with 12.04 or 14.04!). I try the recovery_emmc but it install android and runs. I have read that then, you can use dd to pass the image to the eMMC, but how? it has 4 partitions and I don't know to which. Also, usually I use dd to pass the .img to the device, but what I have to pass to boot and what to rootfs?

jsilves · Unread post by **jsilves** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:23 am

Ups .......... I do not what happend, but I do the same process with imagewriter to the eMMC, and now it works ...... (with the 12.04 I mean). I tried it before and doesn't work with the eMMC. Maybe recovery_eMMC is needed before, and later you can use imagewriter?

freeomega · Unread post by **freeomega** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:28 am

mdrjr wrote:ODROID-XU doesn't have it.

Does this means that there is no lubuntu desktop image for the odroid-xu?

If yes, then I would change the first post of this thread, as it is misleading...

Thanks

mkkyah · Unread post by **mkkyah** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:29 am

Thanks, great release.
XBMC is faster than Android versions and playback is smooth. There is only subtitles issue, it's finding subtitles but there is an error when downloading, probably the issue described on the first post of memeka: "due to the code changes to enable FIMC, subtitles are not being displayed"
Is there a chance in near future to have subtitles working?

memeka · Unread post by **memeka** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:20 am

in XBMC subtitles are working. just install more sources, opensubtitles works best for me.
the subtitles issue was about snappy player.

silverman · Unread post by **silverman** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:27 am

sorry guys, but the XU image is not working. I used dd to write to an SD card (tried both images for XU), but my XU ite board stays on the red LED.
Is anyone else having this problem or am I doing something wrong?

mkkyah · Unread post by **mkkyah** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:28 am

memeka wrote:in XBMC subtitles are working. just install more sources, opensubtitles works best for me.
the subtitles issue was about snappy player.

I did use my existing userdata folder, maybe something related to that. I have 5 sources for subtitles and opensubtitles is default one. It gives a script error when downloading. Maybe uninstalling, reinstalling them helps.

Further tests:
-Installed Libreoffice, working very well.
- Both of the browsers are chopy with youtube.

mkkyah · Unread post by **mkkyah** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:53 am

@memeka
Subtitles are working and they are searching and downloading fast. It was a "custom subtitle folder" setting, carried from Android with userdata folder.

hansi9990 · Unread post by **hansi9990** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:14 am

Sorry, wrong posting. Don't kow why but I can't delete.

harry123 · Unread post by **harry123** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:40 am

@mkkyah: which libreoffice repo did you use? Anything for 4.2.4 (I use ppa:canonical-libreoffice-builds/archive-staging)

Pitrek · Unread post by **Pitrek** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:04 am

I can't start this system on my odroid-u2.
System not loading.

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