Getting started with the BPI-M4 Berry

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M4 Berry/BPI-M4 Zero(H618)
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Hi. I’m just getting started with the BPI M4 Berry.

I tried the Android image and now I’m using Ubuntu, which successfully installed to the eMMC but with very little space left.

On the Android side, the hardware acceleration seems to work fine. I was able to play video full screen, at least on YouTube but it’s annoying to use Android.

On the Ubuntu side, I see little acceleration. It cannot play videos full-screen and relative simple rendering takes most of the CPU (e.g. glmark2).

The documentation says to use “bananapi-config” but that doesn’t seem to exist. I found “armbian-config”.

Is it a known issue that the Ubuntu image has no sound output?

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h618 does not support hardware acceleration under Linux, so loading is very slow

In addition, the command bananapi-config changed back to armbian-config, and we will update the usage documentation soon

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Thanks for clarifying about bananapi-config.

Linux doesn’t seem very useful without GPU support. Should the audio work?

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The voice is working properly. If it is played through headphones, you can refer to this command

aplay -D hw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav

If it is HDMI, you can refer to this command

aplay -D hw:1,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav

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Thank you. I will try that.