MiQi with Debian8 (Jessie)

[benn]

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Great! It seems you have put 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p7' on a new line. ''root=/dev/mmcblk0p7' should be added at tail of 'earlyprintk console=ttyS2,115200n8 rw'

[nitroshift]

@Benn,

Can you upload the image based on kernel 4.4? Thanks.

nitroshift

[benn]

There is no prebuilt image based on kernel 4.4 because of the new u-boot.
For those who want the prebuilt image wll need to wait our official release

[benn]

The ALL-IN-ONE firmware image can not support upstream u-boot, which make it very important to support ddr freq switching support on linux-4.4. So we will not have such a image util the ddr freq switching function works.

[no_bk]

Awaiting for your release rom of Debian8, it will be better if there is USB Bluetooth support.

[maurer]

does miqi supports kodi 16+ 1080p hw video decoding?
what about wake-on-lan?
those 2 are only questions preventing me to buy one.

thanks

[benn]

On linux 4.4, hw video decoding is ok. It use libvdpau library. We have no plan to support kodi currently.

[maurer]

it's a pity - i think you'll lose some potential buyers by not supporting kodi - as always - your call

[benn]

I am uploading a prebuilt firmware to http://down.mqmaker.com/MiQi/images/debian-release/
The firmware can only be upgrade with upgrade_tool.

We only need 2 commands

sudo upgrade_tool db rk3288_boot.bin
sudo upgrade_tool wl 0 miqi_debian_fw.img

[benn]

The uploading is very slow. We can down it 3 hour later

[benn]

UPDATE:

We've built the debian(jessie) firmware, and It can be download at here
Please look at the reame file here

The firmware does not support rockchip windows upgrade tool at the moment.
You can update it on linux only

[stas2z]

a little tip how to fix miqi ethernet address easily to prevent random ip address retrieving from DHCP

just use nano or vi with sudo and add following lines to the /etc/rc.local

ip link set dev eth0 down
ip link set dev eth0 address 00:00:22:22:44:44
if [ $(/etc/init.d/network-manager status | grep -c active) -eq 1 ]; then /etc/init.d/network-manager restart; fi

where 00:00:22:22:44:44 is an address you wanna fix for MiQi

[stas2z]

@benn

do you know the way how to scale HDMI output to fit TV?
My TV shows 6% less of desktop in the 1080p mode and i did scaling with fbdev driver using framebuffer sysfs scale variable (smth like echo 94>/sys/devices/platform/display-subsystem/graphics/fb0/scale)

but now with glamor (libglamoregl.so) driver i can't find how to do this, so i temporary stucked at 720p mod which fits TV screen well

[benn]

maybe xrandr command

[stas2z]

xrandr said "Can't open display"

[peba]

[email protected]:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 4096 x 4096
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm
1920x1080 60.00*+
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.88
1400x1050 59.95
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x960 60.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.08 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00
720x400 70.08

xrandr -s 0 /* set the resolution to the first entry of the table

[stas2z]

@peba
ok, seems like it doesn't work in ssh session

will try to do this when my daughter will finish watching "test cartoon"

[peba]

Should work with ssh -X hostname or IP addr. /* X forwarding
I think when you use xrandr in this case, the resolution on the host where the X server runs will change.

[stas2z]

ssh -X

yep, it's working, thanks) never did it before im a user in case of xwindow prefer console

[benn]

i have another 3288 board with lvds and hdmi. with xrandr support dual screen