Asus Tinker Board

[Snille]

Hi again. Tried another OS called Armbian. I like the “looks” better to start with. So if you are going to use you Tinker Board for something else then being a MM. Maybe it’s a nicer alternative then TinkerOS. But for MM, it’s not. The over all CPU usage is even higher then on the RPi3… Tough, it seems to be X that’s hogging most of the CPU… It’s running XFCE instead of LXDE so, maybe that’s the reason…

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[A Former User]

@Snille Have you find tvservice equivalent? I cannot find how to turn on/off display programmatically on TB.
Will tvservice building work?

[ranger33]

could use a hand as there doesn’t seem to be much support in the community which is odd!

Got one today, loaded a fresh sd card with a fresh install of their newest os and i can’t get it to boot! It swirls around and around for a while loading different things but eventually just crashing:/ Anyone else have this issue? Power supply?

[A Former User]

@ranger33 maybe. Over 2.5A is recommended.

[Snille]

@Sean Oh, I missed your comment. I have not clue. :) Have not yet tested the turn off stuff. :)

[A Former User]

@Snille I currently use xset. it works well.

[jasondreher]

Sean, how do you use xset for turning the display on and off? I have set up my tinker board and all works great but the display. I tried to set up a crontab scheduled job with python script but I cannot get it to work. I have a script with “xset dpms force off” in it and it works through cmd window, but I cannot get it to work on a schedule.

[A Former User]

@jasondreher
Well, I didn’t try like that, but I think it is related to your python script. How about using shell script for xset dpms force off?

[yep_DD]

have you guys also experienced problems with OpenGL? I used the standard MagicMirror install script and did not compile it from scratch:

everything works just fine, but ht pm2_error.log shows this and I assume performance could be increased by solving that

libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
libGL error: unable to load driver: rockchip_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: rockchip

[Cr4z33]

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