[OS] Debian Buster (for ODROID Go Advance)

[SupaaSchnitzel]

Hi,
i have a problem. the os installs fine, but as soon as i install a desktop it just shows a black screen after the reboot. AM i doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance
Alex

[meveric]

Check the previous post.
There was an update on MESA GPU drivers, which requires me to update the GPU drivers to fix this, or you can fix manually as described in the previous post.
I'll update the GPU drivers in the next couple days.

[SupaaSchnitzel]

Thanks, that did the tricked, should have looked a bit more careful instead of just scrolling through the thread

[ThomasW69]

Now that the x11 and mate desktop is working I was wondering which VNC server I should use. Is there one available in Mate desktop and if, how can I setup it?

[meveric]

I normally prefer Vino as a VNC server, but you can use other as well.
But remember the GO2 is not that powerful of a device and VNC might not do good on it's performance.
Still let us know how it works.

[mad_ady]

The desktop resolution is low, so vnc should be fine. I prefer x11vnc because I'm old

[meveric]

x11vnc is from 2001/2002 vino from 2004 that's not that much of a difference.
Vino integrates with the OS itself in many cases. It has it's own gsettings.

Anyway here's a nice list about different VNC servers:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC/Servers

[mad_ady]

@meveric - do you know what's up with this error?

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odroid@go2-white:~/ymuse$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libgtk-3-dev : Depends: libepoxy-dev (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I'm trying to compile ymuse, a MPD frontend written in go.

On further investigation it's related to the MESA mess:

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 libepoxy-dev : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed

[meveric]

mesa should be able to be installed along side with GPU drivers from me..
Can you try to install libgl1-mesa-dev as well?
I don't provide GL1 packages, so that shouldn't affect the system.
Keep going until you get to a point where you can't complete the requirements.
Just saying it depends on libgl1-mesa-dev is not yet a show stopper..
Only if it says package not found, or conflicts with XYZ then that's where I can say what's going on.

My guess I probably already use some "buster-backports" packages and your driver depends on drivers that are already in buster-backports.
As a quick test just try apt install -t buster-backports libgtk-3-dev to see if that is already enough.
If not follow what I said above.

[mad_ady]

It doesn't like the version number:

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odroid@go2-white:~/ymuse$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libepoxy-dev libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev libdrm-dev libdrm2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libdrm2 is already the newest version (2.4.97-1+odroid1).
libdrm2 set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libdrm-dev : Depends: libdrm2 (= 2.4.97-1) but 2.4.97-1+odroid1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
odroid@go2-white:~/ymuse$ 

I managed to trick it by downloading libdr2-dev and changing the deb to depend on libdrm 2.4.97-1+odroid1 and manually installing it. Now I can go on with my compilation...

[meveric]

hmm but libdrm2-dev should be available in that version as well.
It's part of the updates I needed to do for the X11/DRM drivers from Rockchip (libdrm-rockchip1).

Can you check with apt-cache policy libdrm-dev which version it sees?

[pmprog]

If you have WLAN and LAN connected at the same time the LAN always has a higher priority.
So that could have been the issue, as the route probably preferred the LAN instead.

After seeing the last few comments here since my post about disabling LAN, I've just give it a try, and now my WiFi works. Why would it think my LAN was connected though?
Anyway, as I said, I'm finally connected now, so I can give this a bit of a spin.

Cheers

Edit: Getting to 50% of installing MATE after about 4 hours, I pretty much gave up and switched the device off.

[mad_ady]

For me installation of mate never took more than an hour

[meveric]

hmm that really depends on the quality of your SD card.
I have some crappy SD card, where it took 7hrs to install MATE (didn't really care it ran in the background).
And last time I tried it, I was using a A1 grade SanDisk SD card where it took about 15~20mins.

[mad_ady]

@meveric: How do you force audio output to headphones (I don't think there is any headphone detection) in your gaming image? I'd like to set it up as a audio output in MPD so that I can route audio to headphone jack.

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root@go2-white:~# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
jack
    JACK Audio Connection Kit
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=rockchiprk817co
    rockchip,rk817-codec,
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=rockchiprk817co
    rockchip,rk817-codec, 
    Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=rockchiprk817co,DEV=0
    rockchip,rk817-codec, 
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=rockchiprk817co,DEV=0
    rockchip,rk817-codec, 
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=rockchiprk817co,DEV=0
    rockchip,rk817-codec, 
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=rockchiprk817co,DEV=0
    rockchip,rk817-codec, 
    Hardware device with all software conversions
usbstream:CARD=rockchiprk817co
    rockchip,rk817-codec
    USB Stream Output

Edit: I was wrong - there is headphone input detection:

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Event: time 1598340631.283690, type 5 (EV_SW), code 2 (SW_HEADPHONE_INSERT), value 1
Event: time 1598340631.283690, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1598340632.887462, type 5 (EV_SW), code 2 (SW_HEADPHONE_INSERT), value 0
Event: time 1598340632.887462, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

[meveric]

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amixer -c 0 sset 'Playback Path' '<OUTPUT>'

where <OUTPUT> is either:
SPK, HP, SPK_HP or OFF

(Speaker, Headphones, Speaker + Headphones, no sound)

so for example:

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amixer -c 0 sset 'Playback Path' 'HP'

would set the output to Headphones only.

[mad_ady]

Thanks!

[stormer]

Hi,
i have a problem. the os installs fine, but as soon as i install a desktop it just shows a black screen after the reboot. AM i doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance
Alex

Hi~ Did you resoled the problem? I dont know how fix manually Any tip ? Thanks~

[mad_ady]

The fix has been discussed here: viewtopic.php?p=303167#p303167

[mad_ady]

Shameless plug for anyone wanting to control a ncurses app with the Go Advance keypad, but without having to use X11: viewtopic.php?f=193&t=40068

[macc24]

Any plans to support mainline kernel?

[meveric]

Probably not.
I'll have to check mesa support if it's fast enough.
But I don't think it's worth it as it's not a standard SBC.