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    Unifi Controller for DSM

    in Third Party Packages

    Posted · Edited by ideasman69

    5 hours ago, pigr8 said:

    i used docker in the past, i just prefer a standalone spk

    really? compatibility, portability, upgradability - it's the future man

     

    the only apps i have on my xpeonology box are video station (for tuner support and hardware transcoding drivers) and docker. i've got 13 dockers running which remain perfectly intact after a reinstall or clean upgrade of DSM. only way to go IMO

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    1 hour ago, roadx said:

    1.- install and stays with DSM 6.1.7 on ds3615xs, w Jun's BL v1.02b (...! and never update/upgrade to 6.2!); (I read that is much stable...)

    go this one matey. nothing really new in 6.2 and saves you accidently upgrading to 6.2.1 (which won't work with your realtek NICs.

     

    once you're on 6.1.7, just set your update settings to this:

     

    image.thumb.png.badd2434d135187ab7fe66555d8ed6a0.png

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    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    On 12/13/2018 at 9:35 AM, Profiler64 said:

    Hey i found a guy who solved the Asrock itx i915 freezing problem. He added some lines in the grub file. I dont.know how to add these lines exactly so maybe someone can try this.

    Forum Topic

    It would be nice when someone can try this, thanks.

    not worth it man.. while you might get the GPU driver to load, it doesn't help the the kernel version being incompatible with these boards. the overall system is super slow to boot and not worth using (imo :))

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted · Edited by ideasman69

    you can always use Jun's Loader v1.03b DS3615xs to get to 6.2 but you'll need an intel NIC to get to 6.2.1

     

    just no hardware transcoding

     

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    5 hours ago, hannibal1969 said:

    Any positive update on the J3455 AsRock ? Thx

    Nah, just get another board :)

     

    There's an compatibility problem with Linux kernel 4.4.57 and these boards. I think the best hope is that DSM 7 runs on a newer kernel and Jun can perform his magic

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    5 hours ago, fa2k said:

     

    well, seems my J3455-M is not as same as I thought. the three pci-e slots and the graphics card can be assigned without loosing network connectivity.

     

    Ah ok. Yeah I didn't try esx on the j4455-m. It only has 2 sata ports which isn't enough for me and I was trying to avoid extra cards :)

     

    If you can run esx and passthrough the GPU, the -m model might be the best pick of the three. Maybe I'll give it a shot!

     

     

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    10 hours ago, fa2k said:

    for J3455 you can try to install vmware esxi, then use 1.04b loader and set the energy control on esxi to high performance. 

    you can passthrough the graphics card or other stuff on pci-e slot.

     

    the installation with realtek nics can be done with a custom iso, like descripted here: https://advanxer.com/blog/2017/10/adding-realtek-8168811184118118-based-nics-to-esxi-6-5/

    nah this doesn't work. the GPU is in the same IOMMU group as the network card - so once you assign the GPU to a VM and boot it, you lose all network connectivity.

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    On 11/9/2018 at 6:26 PM, ideasman69 said:

    Back to the Asrock boards:

     

    J3455B-ITX: works

    J3455-M: works

    J3455-ITX: i915 driver fails which explains why /dev/dri is missing

     

    I spent a tiny bit more time on these boards and found something interesting. I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and it ran perfectly fine - fast to boot and responsive. However, after purposely downgrading the kernel to 4.4.57 (matching the kernel version of 1.04b / DSM 6.2) - these boards take ages to load and feel sluggish. So i reckon as soon as the kernel is upgraded, we might be in luck (maybe excluding the last board in my list above due to the i915 driver crashing).

     

    On another note - i picked up a gigabyte B85M-HD3G / i5 4570S / 8GB DDR second hand for $100 and it rocks using the 1.04b bootloader. Super quick and full hardware acceleration (for h264). Thanks again Jun :)

    saa7164 module

    in Software Modding

    Posted

    Hi guys,

     

    I'm a bit out of my depth here but I'm really hoping I can get a couple of HVR-2200 tuners working in DSM6.1 or DSM6.2. I'm currently running Jun's DS918+ loader which is kernel 4.4.57(+?) so figured I'd load up ubuntu on another machine, install the same kernel version and copy the saa7164.so file from it over to DSM. 


    Of course it didn't work but how does one go about compiling a version of the saa7164 driver into DSM? 

     

    I noticed that there's already another similar module but the sizes are way different: 

    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   30579 Oct 27 00:14 saa7115.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  223582 Dec  9 12:41 saa7164.ko

    and trying to force load it: 

    sh-4.3# insmod saa7164.ko
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module saa7164.ko: Invalid module format

    Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! Or even better, if someone would be able to compile a version for me that would be awesome!

     

    Thanks :)
     

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    hey guys. i know we need a haswell or newer for the 918+ boot loader but what about the GPU, does it need to be kaby lake or skylake for hardware transcoding to work?

    DSM 6.x.x Loader (with MBR partition Table)

    in Member Tweaked Loaders

    Posted · Edited by ideasman69

    1 hour ago, Fabry815 said:

    Hi, you are able to convert the last loader availlable 1.04b

     

    why do you need an MBR version of this loader? It only works on 4th gen intel Core processors (and newer) anyway - and surely they all have UEFI BIOSs. 

     

    I'm using the current loader in CSM / BIOS mode and it works fine

    J3455-ITX new BIOS finally released

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, deklan said:

    Do you also recommend to go back from v1.80 to v1.30 (if downgrade is possible)?

    Why do you recommend v1.30?

     

    yeah downgrade is possible. just use afudos.exe on a usb boot disk with DOS (but i have one of these as backup)

     

    1.30 was the last release before all the spectre/meltdown stuff. bios' past this gave unpredictable results in Windows 10 and lowered performance.

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    Benchmarking your synology

    in Tutorials and Guides

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, Hostilian said:

    916MB/s for 4 drives in RAID5? Are they SSDs?

    If not, it sounds VERY high (for 4 disks) for Read and ridiculously high for Write for RAID5.

     

    nah just standard drives but this high speed burst is due to the inbuilt cache on each of the drives. using a 10GB file gives a real world result: 

    sh-4.3# sudo dd bs=1M count=10240 if=/dev/zero of=/volume1/backups/test.file
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 44.0262 s, 244 MB/s

    using a smaller test like 256MB basically only writes to the cache: 

    sh-4.3# sudo dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=/volume1/backups/test.file
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.278405 s, 964 MB/s

     

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    Just now, Olegin said:

    Disable C-states for CPU in the BIOS and try again with 1.04b.

    Done that dude. I've tested basically every combination of bios setting, bios version, drives and everything on three different j3455 model boards. 

     

    C states is the first thing I disable

     

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    if you have one of the Asrock J3455 boards - check out these disk performance benchmark results comparing the 3615 and 918+ boot loaders using the same hardware and same 4 drive RAID5 volume:

     

    1.0.4b 918+ / DSM 6.2.1:

    On 11/10/2018 at 11:15 PM, ideasman69 said:

    with 4 drives in RAID5 on the J3455B-ITX:

    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.00778 s, 153 MB/s

     

    with 4 drives in RAID5 on the J3455M:

    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.98305 s, 135 MB/s

     

    1.0.2b 3615 / DSM 6.1.7:

    Just now, ideasman69 said:

    with the same hardware and same 4 drive RAID5 volume but using the 1.02b 3615 bootloader and DSM 6.1.7:

    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.17239 s, 916 MB/s

     

    why is it so slow? who knows! maybe these boards just suck.

     

    Benchmarking your synology

    in Tutorials and Guides

    Posted · Edited by ideasman69

    On 11/10/2018 at 11:15 PM, ideasman69 said:

    with 4 drives in RAID5 on the J3455B-ITX:

    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.00778 s, 153 MB/s

     

    with 4 drives in RAID5 on the J3455M:

    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.98305 s, 135 MB/s

     

    with the same hardware and same 4 drive RAID5 volume but using the 1.02b 3615 bootloader and DSM 6.1.7:

    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.17239 s, 916 MB/s

     

    results speak for themselves 😉

    J3455-ITX new BIOS finally released

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted · Edited by ideasman69

    It's not worth it - there's nothing new this bios really provides.

     

    In fact - the exact same bios was release back in june for the j3455M. they've just finally got around to updating it for the other j3455 model boards. 

     

    http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3455M/?cat=Download&os=BIOS

     

    from testing each of the versions on 3 different models with a handful of operating systems - v1.30 is the one i recommend :91_thumbsup:

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