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Release Note of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (v2.0)
Summary
Release Date | 2017-05-10 | |
Release Type | Test |
File name : ubuntu-16.04.2-mate-odroid-xu4-20170510.img.xz
XU3 OS image is fully compatible with XU4.
Download from below servers
- Official US West Coast: http://odroid.in/ubuntu_16.04lts
- Official US East Coast: http://east.us.odroid.in/ubuntu_16.04lts (Thanks to David Beauchamp @ ArchLinuxARM)
- Official EU Germany: http://de.eu.odroid.in/ubuntu_16.04lts
- Official Korea Mirror: http://dn.odroid.com/5422/ODROID-XU3/Ubuntu/
New features
- Ubuntu 16.04.2
- Updated Mali GPU driver to the latest r17p0
- Linux Kernel LTS 4.9.27
- The Auto Resize feature has changed!!!
- Once everything is done, the power will turn off!
- Please press the power button again.
Known issues and tips
- Kodi is slow on 1080p movies
- Tons of issues undocumented.
- To enable Auto-login, edit /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file like this.
[SeatDefaults] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter autologin-user=odroid
Access Credentials
Username | Password | ||
root | odroid | ||
odroid | odroid |
How to Update system and kernel software. Don't forget dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo reboot
Linux Kernel
This guide is only for the NATIVE BUILD. Run it on the board.
For Kernel and DTB
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardkernel/linux -b odroidxu4-4.9.y $ cd linux $ make odroidxu3_defconfig $ make -j9 $ sudo make modules_install $ sudo cp -f arch/arm/boot/zImage /media/boot $ sudo cp -f arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3.dtb /media/boot $ sudo cp -f arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu4.dtb /media/boot $ sudo cp -f arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3-lite.dtb /media/boot
For RAMDISK (Optional)
sudo cp .config /boot/config-`make kernelrelease` sudo update-initramfs -c -k `make kernelrelease` sudo mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n uInitrd -d /boot/initrd.img-`make kernelrelease` /boot/uInitrd-`make kernelrelease` sudo cp /boot/uInitrd-`make kernelrelease` /media/boot/uInitrd