Long time no talk. A little update from my experience, my meles are still working nicely, more than six months uptime now. Only one on 32 is dead. Nand failure it seems... (not surprising, like any ssd manufacturer, 3%) but i still have spares. I never received my Pi, ordered in july, RScomponent recontacted me in december to know if i still wanted to get one... what a joke. I was surprby guillaume - Allwinner A10
$ uptime 00:31:07 up 63 days, 6:28, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.15, 0.15 $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 513000 332648 180352 0 89476 119636 -/+ buffers/cache: 123536 389464 Swap: 0 0 0 not one node failure since the first launch on the 32 i'm running.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
I'm running nginx but it's static files only. Just check if it's not 'cached' memory (it's the FS caching memory so it's not a problem, in fact it's better like this ;-). Take one apache process (ps auxww or a top) and 'RSS' (resident). It's the real memory your process is using. Depending on the code you run on it, you should recycle yourby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Yep, like a sd, appear as a mmcblk. More easier than nand (and faster (and is upgradeable)).by guillaume - Allwinner A10
You're right, it seems to be a really really good platform. Need a eMMC to make it fun (25$)... and a wifi adapter. You have the perfect killer micro platform for $120 with the latest exynos. Just missing a little sata plug ;-) http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/main.phpby guillaume - Allwinner A10
'PasswordAuthentication no' and "UsePAM no" means you will use priv/pub key to connect. It is recommanded in all possible way. Check the openssh documentation about it. You have to generate priv/pub key on your client (with ssh-keygen under linux) and put the content of the pub key in the remote server under your account in: "~/.ssh/authorized_keys" And thatby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Did you generate private/public key for a user ? (as user, 'ssh-keygen') To save your distrib ! If you installed it on the nand, you have to boot from the mmc and mount your nand from the mmc: # mount /dev/nandb /mnt/ # cd /mnt/etc/ssh # <edit you sshd_config and rollback to UsePAM yes> If you worked on the mmc, just mount your mmc from any linux: # mount /dev/<Mby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Oh no i got it. Ubuntu and i don't know what seems to set the lowest cpufreq. cat /proc/cpuinfo # and look at bogomips. do a: cpufreq-set -g performance to set it back to max.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
Yes GPU is useless for server. On my cluster, i even removed the vga connector to have the case a bit open for cpu temp.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
The ubuntu has less ram (allocated for Mali) and stupid services like networkmanager. Perhaps you could first drop these useless ubuntu services. If it's still slower, it's probably the ram crunch from gfx drivers... This will mean simply that building a non-headless debian version will make it as slow as you find the ubuntu (i don't get the same impression ;-)by guillaume - Allwinner A10
Hi, I have put two images online, fully running: - Ubuntu 12.10, 3.0.42+, latest Mali drv, xorg - base install with a simple fluxbox - Debian Wheezy, 3.042+, headless, full network stack (memory limit: you can always overwrite kernel cmdline with mem=1024M in the boot.cmd) (MMC size: you can always resize the second partition) Is there anything else? Regards,by guillaume - Allwinner A10
The latest version -t0 is reported to work on all mele (VersA/B/C) with mali. I will need to return to Amery this kernel problem.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
Thank you for your offer, you are very kind. It's on my 3Gbps bgp network ... on a 1Gbps server. These files are insignificant in term of bandwidth. But if you want to duplicate them, i can push a mirror list. Regards,by guillaume - Allwinner A10
ciquta Wrote: > :°°( > > i still have a working installation on a SD card, > can i use pimp_my_mele to have it bootable from > the nand? Yes, take the TGZ from http://guillaumeplayground.net/pimp-my-mele/ Untar, type make and follow the instructions. Bye.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
ciquta Wrote: > Thanks, but i still need a little WM anyway. > > I installed fluxbox from ssh... now what? how to > output to VGA? Sorry you can't. The kernel is not including any video/framebuffer driver. Mali takes 64Mo of ram. That's why. It's a shrink kernel (with all the network stack) dedicated to a headless server. You can recompile you own kernel and iby guillaume - Allwinner A10
It's because it's a Headless version (like the title said) ;-) It's a pure network server version... kernel tuned for it. Under linux, you can export display to your ssh client for GFX apps but you will not get any Xorg running on it. With it, you have all the mele memory available to network like hell !by guillaume - Allwinner A10
Quotegnexus When I tried the 3.0.42, posted here by me, last night on a tablet I noticed that video output was not working. There are some changes in 3.0.42 framebuffer configs compared to the earlier versions. If there is changes, did you reverse them ? This version is working on my mele(s) and i will have to get a VersA/B back from my production to try it. That's what i have plan toby guillaume - Allwinner A10
ciquta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there a way to install Debian on Mele's NAND > using the whole 4GB space (or at least leave just > space for a swap partition)? > I don't give a damn about its sort of Android, > just want to get rid of it. If you are using this image, just type PIMP_MY_MELE and choose "nand installby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Nice city Barcelona. i'm going every year for food and wine. If you like gastronomy, i have some address ;-) For the nand boot and since there's no github, it's with the good old method with the stock uboot. You are free to add it. For the contribution, i think mine was from start without a glitch and i solved my problems sadly quite alone (sata patch revealed as deep clockby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Hi, Debian wheezy armhf (aka testing), kernel 3.0.42+. HEADLESS – Full network stack (netfilter, vlan, …) – NFS server – eth – wlan http://guillaumeplayground.net/mele-a2000-headless-debian-wheezy-armhf-with-nand-install-v1/ Nand install, etc... Have fun! Bye.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
QuoteClaudio I've build the SD in the right way, and SD is not broken. I think the problem could be the kernel 3.0.42. In fact, it seems the mali driver make the ubuntu stuck for some mele versions... If you are on linux on your desktop, you can try this: $ mount -oloop,offset=15728640 /dev/YOUR_SDCARD /mnt/ edit /mnt/etc/modules and comment all modules except sun4i_gpio (the leby guillaume - Allwinner A10
JeffHoogland Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You mention you prefer Debian - do you have any > Debian ARMHF images around you'd care to share as > well? > > ~Jeff I have an armhf debian testing but it's an heavily modified and puppetized version with my internal apt server. I could prepare another debian testing headless withby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Claudio Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Image cannot run via SD on my Mele... Should work ;-) What kind of Mele do you have ? How did you inject the gunziped img on the SD ? Is your SDCard correct ? Did you try to unplug the power during 5-6 sec and retry ? (sometimes on some mele, it's failing to detect the SD and boot to android). In the Ubooby guillaume - Allwinner A10
You try ;-) wlan0 (8192cu) is working. eth0 (wemac) is working. hostapd is simply a user-land software using a bridge and managing WPA. It should work.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
yes, v1.7, v1.3 etc... it's the release i used in my kernels with: - sata clock patch i have work on (the one in amery tree) - wemac tuned (not the slow one they put in amery tree). - uboot clock patched. And working great so far on my cluster (mixed between v1.3 and v1.7): $ uptime 13:03:26 up 29 days, 19:00, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.26, 0.30 Bye.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
Finally, someone had to produce something... Ubuntu 12.10 Armhf with kernel 3.0.42+. New version with xorg working: http://guillaumeplayground.net/mele-a2000-ubuntu-12-10-armhf-base-with-nand-install-v1/ And my addon for the community: PimpMyMele. Nand install, screen output configuration and led blinking ;-) http://guillaumeplayground.net/pimp-my-mele/ I will release it separatly laby guillaume - Allwinner A10
All versions should work nicely now. The story around v1.7 is quite simple. It does not seem related to the sticker but, by side effect, to the version of the A10 (VersA,B,C). Latest version (VersC) has a problem on one of the clock making the uboot and sata corrupting the kernel stack. It was generating a kernel Oops for the uboot and was making the sata unable to discuss with the disk.by guillaume - Allwinner A10
You love me gnexus, i know it ;-) Before i return to my company full time, i just want to make sure you are not going to (re)flush this great platform for a guiness in one week. That's why i'm still here. I have played with xorg on ubuntu quantal tonight (working great). There's just a little patch around the xf86-video-mali-0.0.1. in mali_fbdev.c on pScrn init/close to manageby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Ah ! gnexus is back to work... after bitching during two days long on this forum ;-) Since your "images are the best", and you still have a mele, here is what most people want: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?6,10376 If you need pure hosting/bandwidth for images ready to be fully transfered to SD, i can provide. And read this too: QuoteI have no code experience and so “aby guillaume - Allwinner A10
Sorry, i said i will return to my normal life... i hoped to ;-) But i got a wise comment around the fact all this crap with multiple 'dd', spl, uboot, bootstrap the distrib, etc.. is just hell for 99% of the guys wanting to play with the mele under linux. And it's just true. 99% of mele owners don't give a sh** of the technical masturbation around u-boot, nand and allby guillaume - Allwinner A10