"Next X86" dev (Kernel/ Hardware/ Debian stretch/buster)

Volumio Development Development talks
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There is a new version in the pipeline, might take a week or so because it will be published.

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The last dev image has been canceled as it started to interfere with our work for Debian stretch.
There will be no more dev/test images for the time being.
Our next test build will be one based on stretch, but we have not set a date for it yet.
There are some tricky issues which still need to be solved before we can start thinking of a public alpha release.

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Thanks Gé, I got my Haswell NUC working with 2.416

Haswell NUC (D54250WYK - i5 4250U CPU)
Image written to SATA SSD over a USB adapter and then plugged the SSD straight into the SATA port on the NUC to boot.

No graphics were shown on any of the x86 builds (release or dev), so I changed the minimum graphics memory aperture size (I think that’s what they call it in BIOS), from 512MB to 32MB. After that the latest dev build volumio-2.416-2018-07-08-x86.img worked fine. I’ve not tried the others or the current x86 release image again because it’s now indexing ~600GB of music.

A great result - thank you!

As a side note I was also trying to get this working on an O2 Joggler recently. Those are pretty fun devices that would be absolutely perfect for Volumio: x86, 7" touchscreen, built-in speakers (or USB DAC). Only problem is they require a custom bootloader. They have a Xubuntu build for the Joggler so I managed to get the old version of Volumio working on that by first following this guide: http://typingoutloud.org/raspberry-pi-installing-volumio-pibang/ and then making further modifications.

I tried very hard to shoe-horn Volumio2 into that Xubuntu image but had real problems getting Volumio core (Node.js) to work.

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could you point me to more info on this joggler thing? It might be interesting to see what the custom bootloader is all about…

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After suspend wifi wlan0 dont work (dont get ip on wifi network and hotspot also dont work)
Acpi mode S3.
Eth0 after suspend work fine.
That i can do to bring up wifi after suspend ?

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Pls. first open a terminal (ctrl-alt F1) and show me the manual way using “systemctl”, check the results:

sudo systemctl suspend
Then wake up your system and post the results of

ifconfig -a
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No guarantee that the following will work, but it it worth a try.
Can’t confirm the issue myself (yet), as in my case (with a driver rt2800pci on an older HP Pavilon notebook) it all works out-of-the-box.
When I find the time this weekend, I’ll try on another system too.

To continue the analysis, you first need to find out what your driver module is called.

sudo apt-get install lshw
sudo lshw -C network

Look for the string “driver=” in the wlan section.

Do a suspend, wake up and check whether the driver is in the list of loaded modules:

lsmod .
Depending the result, do either A OR B

A. In case your driver module does not show
do

dmesg

and post the last 50-100 lines here (or a screenshot from what is visible to you (smartphone picture is ok too)
Then:

cd /etc/pm
sudo mkdir config.d
cd config
sudo nano conf

Insert the following line

SUSPEND_MODULES="<name of your driver>"

Now save (ctrl-o then ctrl-x) and retry
Interesting is the result of lsmod, does it show the driver now and did wlan get an ip address?

B. In case your driver did show:

sudo touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/wakenet.sh
sudo chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/wakenet.sh
sudo nano /etc/pm/sleep.d/wakenet.sh

Insert the following lines:

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
thaw|resume)
nmcli nm sleep false
pkill -f wpa_supplicant
;;
*)
;;
esac
exit $?

Then save (ctrl-o then ctrl-x) and retry.
Please post the results.

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Hi,

Could you advice which HW to buy to run image for X86?
I tried on 2 different NUCs and it wont work. (image stops on second screen - the same as others have)

I know that it is not possible to do something which work on all X86 hardware, so please advice dedicated or tested platform (mainboard, NUC part number etc.)

thank you
Piotr

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Hi is there any update on the next version based on stretch? I know you are hard at work on myvolumio integration so just keep up the good work I don’t care how long it takes just really curious how things are progressing. Thanks!

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The stretch port is nearly finished, unfortunately there was an issue due to a piece of depricated software which held us up.
A workaround is being implemented right now, after that we will start a beta program.

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Im using latest dev build version 2.394 and i have random small pops in music playback (is better with upsampling enabled to 762k) , DSD playback using DOP is horrible, big dropouts . TOP shows only 10 percent of CPU usage usage by playback, no problem with processing power. I have mini PC with Atom X4, stable version of Volumio is OK but without my wifi card (realtek 8723bs) support. Where is the problem? I know there is the dev stage but do you have change mpd version?

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@martinp: I’m sorry, there is no (more) support for dev versions based on Debian jessie, I made that clear in the opening post.
These DEV versions were built to test new hardware and sw support, nothing more.
Reports like yours are still welcome but please understand I cannot do anything with them at the moment.
Support will be offered as soon as beta’s are released, then we will also look into your DAC issues.

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Lattepanda 2/32 work fine on version 2.394.
Bott from emmc , sd card work as storage.
Use usb DAC.

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When the new betta version will appear ?

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very soon, the work is nearly done. It needs some thorough testing before we can release it as beta.
So, hopefully by the end of the month, but don’t take that as a guarantee!

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looking forward to testing the new image! :wink:

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I’ve got an Intel NUC sitting here, ready for testing!

It is a NUC7i5BNH https://ark.intel.com/products/95067/Intel-NUC-Kit-NUC7i5BNH

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OK, here is an alpha version to play with:
volumio-2.529-2019-01-14-x86

It is alpha because I have a request regarding the use of internal and external drives.
This version does not automount these drives yet (for indexing any music present).
I would like you to help us by testing this feature, to enable the automount handler, edit /volumio/.env and change NODE_MOUNT_HANDLER from ‘false’ to ‘true’

Any feedback from this alpha version, especially the automount, is very very welcome!
This is the last step before a first beta can be released.

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I download volumio-2.529-2019-01-14-x86. hmm… it takes 4 ~ 5 hours to complete.

Anyway, my h/w are NUC6i5SYK and Questyle CMA400i(USB DAC)
( ark.intel.com/products/89188/In … -NUC6i5SYK )

I flashed volumio image to USB memory and booting from it and works well.

ethernet and wifi driver works well! and music plays normally(MP3, FLAC, DSD, I need more time to test DSD file)

hmm…I don’t know exactly what should be test ^^;

Thanks for new x86 volumio version.

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I check it on lattepanda .
No wifi module rtl8723bs on previous version it work fine.
SD card not detect via df -h.