04-01-2017, 03:52 AM
Hey everyone, nice to see a forum coming together for this SBC.
Just wanted to add a few bits to this thread that might be helpful for anyone else.
First thing is I was getting random hangs as well as the desktop session restarting every now and again. Could not figure out what it was but I noticed it hung more when I was trying to do too much at once.
I remembered I had been excited and just plugged it into my Pi 3 adapter which is rated at 2.5A and I assumed it would just work fine. Obviously not, despite being a genuine RPi adapter.
I had also bought one of these from everybody's favourite rainforest-themed retailer which has a power switch and is rated to 3A. I tried that one and now the board is very stable and does not reboot. I have tried both adapters again to be sure and it's clearly something to do with the RPi one, but I cannot explain why and that certainly doesn't mean everyone will get the same results as me.
The second problem was my choice of SD card - I also bought a 32GB Lexar micro SD from the same rainforesty retailer (LSDMI32GBB1EU300A) but despite a h2testw pass and working fine in multiple other devices, including the Pi 3, it just doesn't get on with the Asus board.
The main problems are that it is always *very* slow and then suddenly will just give IO errors for a lot of directories including /var/log, /sbin, /usr etc, meaning that even 'sudo reboot' is not found. In fact 'sudo anything' no longer works. Only fix I found was power off/on - very grateful for the power switch now
. It mainly happens during 'apt-get' - the repo update works but it always falls over during dist-upgrade.
Again the same card works well in the Pi, and other cards work well in the Asus so instead of trying to figure it out I will just post the model number here and use another card.
The last thing (for now) is I didn't like not knowing what was going on during boot, so in this file:
/media/[card]/extlinux/extlinux.conf
I added 'console=tty1' so it now reads:
... console=ttyS1,115200n8 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 ...
And can now watch it boot the way it should
Now after all that has been dealt with I seem to be getting somewhere, but I have to say I'm not too impressed with the video playback, especially full-screen and youtube. I use my Pi 3 for other things and wanted to make a simple media player for the TV. Was waiting months to see if they would bring out a Pi 4 this year and it didn't seem likely, but the Pi 3 video playback is way better than this board. Am I missing something?
Thanks for reading and pologies for the long post ...
Ell.
Just wanted to add a few bits to this thread that might be helpful for anyone else.
First thing is I was getting random hangs as well as the desktop session restarting every now and again. Could not figure out what it was but I noticed it hung more when I was trying to do too much at once.
I remembered I had been excited and just plugged it into my Pi 3 adapter which is rated at 2.5A and I assumed it would just work fine. Obviously not, despite being a genuine RPi adapter.
I had also bought one of these from everybody's favourite rainforest-themed retailer which has a power switch and is rated to 3A. I tried that one and now the board is very stable and does not reboot. I have tried both adapters again to be sure and it's clearly something to do with the RPi one, but I cannot explain why and that certainly doesn't mean everyone will get the same results as me.
The second problem was my choice of SD card - I also bought a 32GB Lexar micro SD from the same rainforesty retailer (LSDMI32GBB1EU300A) but despite a h2testw pass and working fine in multiple other devices, including the Pi 3, it just doesn't get on with the Asus board.
The main problems are that it is always *very* slow and then suddenly will just give IO errors for a lot of directories including /var/log, /sbin, /usr etc, meaning that even 'sudo reboot' is not found. In fact 'sudo anything' no longer works. Only fix I found was power off/on - very grateful for the power switch now
. It mainly happens during 'apt-get' - the repo update works but it always falls over during dist-upgrade.Again the same card works well in the Pi, and other cards work well in the Asus so instead of trying to figure it out I will just post the model number here and use another card.
The last thing (for now) is I didn't like not knowing what was going on during boot, so in this file:
/media/[card]/extlinux/extlinux.conf
I added 'console=tty1' so it now reads:
... console=ttyS1,115200n8 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 ...
And can now watch it boot the way it should
Now after all that has been dealt with I seem to be getting somewhere, but I have to say I'm not too impressed with the video playback, especially full-screen and youtube. I use my Pi 3 for other things and wanted to make a simple media player for the TV. Was waiting months to see if they would bring out a Pi 4 this year and it didn't seem likely, but the Pi 3 video playback is way better than this board. Am I missing something?
Thanks for reading and pologies for the long post ...
Ell.
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