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Work with ROCK Pi N10 Ubuntu

Introduction to ROCK Pi N10 Ubuntu

ROCK Pi N10 Ubuntu server is an easy to use system. While working with ROCK Pi N10 Ubuntu Server, you will find it do well on playing music, Internet, BT, AI and so on.

ROCK Pi N10 Ubuntu server uses systemd to manage system.

Command prepended by $ means the command may be executed by an unprivileged user. And command prepended by # means the command may be executed by an privileged user. But the symbol, $ or #, is not part of the command.

Access from the Host PC/Laptop

Option 1: Serial console

Check Serial Console

Option 2: SSH

SSH server is enabled on port 22 of ROCK Pi N10 default image.

Please use angryip to find your board IP address.

 $ ping ip-of-device
 $ ssh rock@ip-of-device

Ubuntu Default User Account

Non-root User:

 User Name : rock
 Password  : rock

Install and update necessary packages

Add Radxa APT, see Radxa APT.

Install packages;

 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install -y rockchip-overlay
 $ sudo apt-get install -y linux-4.4-rock-pi-n10-latest

Network Connection

There are two methods for network connection. One is Ethernet and the other is WIFI.

Ethernet Connection

You can use a network cable (one end connected to the external network port or route) to connect your ROCK Pi N10 to the network. The ROCK Pi N10 will automatically configure the network for your surfing on the Internet.

To test the Ethernet, we need to follow the steps:

Switch to super user mode by command

 $ sudo su

Check whether the Ethernet is normal by command, ifconfig, which would show us a network card, eth0, and the Ethernet IP address. Also, use tool, ping, to connect to a normal domain.

 $ ifconfig
 $ ping www.baidu.com

If failed to connect to a normal domain. , try

 $ sudo dhclient eth0

WIFI Connection

When there is not a network cable for your ROCK Pi N10 the WIFI connection is another good choice. ROCK Pi N10 supports 2.4G/5G WIFI wireless network.

To test the WIFI performance, we need to follow the steps:

Switch to super user mode

 $ sudo su

Open the WIFI

 $ nmcli r wifi on

Scan WIFI

 $ nmcli dev wifi

Connect to WIFI network

 $ nmcli dev wifi connect "wifi_name" password "wifi_password"

Test WIFI perpormance by tool iperf.

BT

Check BT service

 $ systemctl status bluetooth

Run BT service if the BT service is inactive.

 $ systemctl start bluetooth

Check BT device

 $ hciconfig
 hci0:   Type: Primary  Bus: UART
         BD Address: 87:0D:F3:A1:02:B9  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
         UP RUNNING 
         RX bytes:1086 acl:0 sco:0 events:55 errors:0
         TX bytes:2829 acl:0 sco:0 commands:55 errors:0

NPU

Related package: rockchip-npu

Use root user mode

 $ sudo su

Update package

 # apt-get install -y rockchip-npu

Init NPU GPIO

 # npu_powerctrl -i

Power up NPU

 # npu_powerctrl -o

Scan NPU

 # lsusb
 [  839.258118] usb 8-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2207, idProduct=1808

Upgrade NPU firmware

 # npu-image.sh

More details about NPU: NPU Booting Process.

Common Hardware Interfaces, I2C, PWM, SPI, UART, etc

The ROCK Pi N10 system images use configuration file /boot/uEnv.txt.

Warning: Remember there is only one line including item "overlays=" in file /boot/uEnv.txt.

For more details about device tree overlays, see Device Tree Overlays and ROCK Pi N10 Libmraa.

I2C

To enable I2C-2 (/dev/i2c-2), add item "rk3399pro-i2c2" to the "overlays=" line.

 overlays=rk3399pro-i2c2

To enable I2C-6 (/dev/i2c-66), add item "rk3399pro-i2c6" to the "overlays=" line.

 overlays=rk3399pro-i2c6

To enable I2C-7 (/dev/i2c-7), add item "rk3399pro-i2c7" to the "overlays=" line.

 overlays=rk3399pro-i2c7

PWM

To enable PWM0, add item "rk39999pro-pwm0" to the "overlays=" line.

 overlays=rk3399pro-pwm0

To enable PWM1, add item "rk3399pro-pwm1" to the "overlays=" line.

 overlays=rk3399pro-pwm1

SPI

To enable SPI1, add item "rk339pro-spi-spidev" to the "overlays=" line.

 overlays=rk3399pro-spi-spidev
 param_spidev_spi_bus=1
 param_spidev_spi_cs=0
 param_spidev_max_freq=10000000

UART

To set ttyS4 as common serial communication devices, add these items "rk3399pro-uart4" to the "overlays=" line. The device /dev/ttyS4 is available.

 overlays=rk3399pro-uart4

IR Remote Control

See IR Remote Control.

OpenGL ES

Install glmark2

 $ sudo apt update
 $ sudo apt install -y git gcc g++ libpng-dev libjpeg-dev pkg-config libx11-dev libdrm-dev libgbm-dev libgbm1 libudev-dev
 $ mkdir -p /home/rock/work
 $ cd /homne/rock/work
 $ git clone https://github.com/glmark2/glmark2.git
 $ ./waf configure --with-flavors=drm-glesv2
 $ ./waf build -j 4
 $ ./waf install

Install mali packages

 $ sudo apt install -y rockchip-mali-midgard14=1.6-2
 $ sudo apt install -y rockchip-mali-midgard-dev=1.6-2

Test OpenGL via glmark2-es2-drm

 # glmark2-es2-drm

Storage device

uSD Card: /dev/mmcblk1
eMMC: /dev/mmcblk2
NVME M.2 SDD: /dev/nvme0n1

Boot device order

uSD - > eMMC

Changelogs

2021.03.25

rockpin10a_ubuntu_bionic_server_arm64_20210125_2048-gpt.img / rockpin10bc_ubuntu_bionic_server_arm64_20210125_2038-gpt.img

U-Boot version: 2017.09-2692-gdf20631bd8
Kernel version: 4.4.167-16-rockchip-gd6ee13d61c6d
Use new Radxa APT public key.

2020.07.10

rockpin10a_ubuntu_bionic_minimal_arm64_20200710_0321-gpt.img / rockpin10bc_ubuntu_bionic_minimal_arm64_20200710_0341-gpt.img

U-boot version: 2017.09-2692-gdf20631bd8
Kernel version: 4.4.167-14-rockchip-g53bdb2fa44e8

2020.03.06

rockpin10a_ubuntu_bionic_minimal_arm64_20200306_0432-gpt.img / rockpin10bc_ubuntu_bionic_minimal_arm64_20200306_0432-gpt.img

U-boot version: 2017.09-2689-g7bc6514356
Kernel version: 4.4.167-8-rockchip-g1175e66f8e9a
systemd version: 237
System partitions: boot and rootfs
Default serial console: UART2
Default non-root user: rock (password: rock)
Hostname: rockpin10
Support SSH by default.
Resize root filesystem to fit available disk space for the first boot
Automatically load Bluetooth firmware after system startup.