[OS] Manjaro ARM Linux- Alpha - GT King Pro - Development Only - OLD

JFL

spikerguy replied at 2021-01-23 08:25
Created an video tutorial for Flashing Manjaro ARM OS on GS KIng X on SD-Card and eMMC.

How to Flas ...

Hi Spikerguy,

Good tutorial but the sound/voice is a bit soft.

spikerguy

JFL replied at 2021-01-24 22:18
Hi Spikerguy,

Good tutorial but the sound/voice is a bit soft.

Yes I didn't realise it until it was uploaded to YouTube coz the audio was high on my local test.  
I will try to get better sound in next video.

Thank you for the feedback.

gtkingpro.ac2n

Hi @spikerguy
Have you been able to make progress on this Manjaro version for GT-King Pro (as it is marked "ALPHA DEVELOPMENT ONLY") ?
Would it be possible to boot Manjaro on USB as with @darkstar's Debian? It would be much easier to use rather than having to flash the emmc, I saw your explanatory video for the installation and I admit that tearing the usb cable during the flash of a firmware is a method that I do not had not seen ...

JFL

gtkingpro.ac2n replied at 2021-04-02 22:54
Hi @spikerguy
Have you been able to make progress on this Manjaro version for GT-King Pro (as it is  ...

Yes, Manjaro-Arm can boot on USB Flash OTG Port or SD Card on GT King Pro.  https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how- ... 2x-s905x3-soc/40777.  
Edit:
FYI, Manjaro-Arm runs smoothly on GT King Pro.

gtkingpro.ac2n

JFL replied at 2021-04-06 10:42
Yes, Manjaro-Arm can boot on USB Flash OTG Port or SD Card on GT King Pro.  https://forum.manjaro.o ...

Thank you @jfl
so i tested a Manjaro yesterday ***
I flashed it on USB and I managed to start only if I only had this key to connect to USB and nothing else (big problems to come ...)
In short I was able to start, then I had a loss of hdmi signal but the startup was continued and I was able to finalize the installation via an SSH connection.
I solved the display problem by adding a line in / etc / environment and suddenly the display returns I plug my keyboard / mouse (logitech dinovo mini) into USB, it works, I connect, launch firefox, and starts typing text and suddenly nothing, "freeze"
In short it is not yet very developed the boot on USB or there is a problem with the power supply of USB ...
my gt-king pro has the s / n starting with SA9H suddenly the RAM is in DDR4 and not in LPDDR like on other gt-king pro maybe that the problem comes from there too .. maybe one needs a Special dtb for the gt-king pro SA9H, I remember having to use the dtb marked rev.a when installing Coreelec on SD card otherwise I cannot start at all ...
So much for the little feedback, I really hope to be able to have a working debian or armbian on this box but for the moment it is not yet well suited .. Really shame

JFL

gtkingpro.ac2n replied at 2021-04-07 16:14
Thank you @jfl
so i tested a Manjaro yesterday ***
I flashed it on USB and I managed to start only ...

Manjaro-Arm should work well on GT King Pro using the mainline meson-g12b-gtking-pro.dtb that come with Manjaro-Arm mainline kernel image.

Legacy dtb rev A is only for Linux legacy image.  @darkstar also had a legacy Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS images here http://forum.bee-link.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=68537&extra=page%3D2. You will need the legacy rev A dtb for this legacy image as your device serial numbers is SA9H.

spikerguy

JFL replied at 2021-04-07 17:33
Manjaro-Arm should work well on GT King Pro using the mainline meson-g12b-gtking-pro.dtb that come  ...

Is there a difference in A and B device?

Can you please share more information about the differences?

Thanks.

JFL

spikerguy replied at 2021-04-23 01:27
Is there a difference in A and B device?

Can you please share more information about the differen ...

Hi @spikerguy,

I found out there is a difference at least in legacy dtb in August last year. My GT King Pro is a Rev A (according to CoreElec anyway) and serial number starts with SA9HH.  Revision A GT King Pro also runs at a lower CPU Frequency 1,8/1.9GHz as compared to Rev B GT King Pro which I presume runs at 2.2GHz.

When i tried to used the Rev B dtb on darkstar Debian/Ubuntu kernel 4.9 built (which came with darkstar image) it does not boot.  After a few tries, darkstar suspect my device is a Rev A and he uploaded a Rev A dtb and it boot. The source is from CoreElec.

JFL

Hi To All GT King Pro user who would like to try out Manjaro,

I have been using Manjaro-Arm on GT King Pro (Revision A)  for more than 7 months now and it has been a positive experience and the support from the Manjaro Team and the Manjaro-Arm community is good.  I have tried three Manjaro-Arm-Edition, XFCE, GNOME and KDE.  All three DE runs smoothly on GT King Pro.  To avoid kernel panic on Manjaro on GT King Pro, the most stable so far is Manjaro mainline linux kernel  which is currently linux-5.14.y.  The current linux-vim  have kernel panic issue during the boot up process and also random kernel panic after successfully booting.  Have not been able to boot up with linux=aml kernel so far.

With mainline linux kernel, Manjaro is as stable as Ubuntu or Debian on GT King Pro in my experience so far.  I would like to highlight Manjaro-Arm-GNOME Edition, surprisingly uses low memory resources (less than 600MB on startup) which is lower than the typical Ubuntu Desktop Environment  (at least for those that I have installed) and on Wayland session it had been a very positive experience.  Responsive, no Panfrost visual artifacts and the mouse arrow/cursor is stable without flickering (on both the stable mesa-21.2.2-1 or mesa-git-21.3.0-devel  from the Manjaro Repo.

Oh the Manjaro-Arm-XFCE-Edition is good too.  Had limited experience on Manjaro-Arm-KDE and was not able to get KDE-Wayland to work on GT King Pro.

Would like to thank @spkerguy, @darkstar and @tripole on their guidance and got me started on Linux.

spikerguy

JFL replied at 2021-10-02 14:41
Hi To All GT King Pro user who would like to try out Manjaro,

I have been using Manjaro-Arm on GT K ...

Good to hear this.

Hopefully will give more time to these devices and prepare new image with and without mainline uboot.